This unique biography of Ronald McClure's family of seven is written in Mr. McClure's words, revealing his spirit, his love for the simple things in nature and his adventurous perspective of life. His childlike spirit is reflected throughout his writings. Adults will enjoy reading this book and younger readers, as well. Many experiences are shared as Ronald and Carole take their five young children and leave the noisy city, to let their children grow up in the country. They grow up learning many tough lessons together, including having close encounters with the wild life of rural east Texas.Inspirational stories of tradition are shared, along with a unique blend of good wholesome living, with poems cleverly placed throughout, acquainting the reader with the Texas way of life, both of nowadays and of long ago.
Ronald McClure has written books about practical Christian living, among then being; "Angels Walking Among Us," "My Walking Stick and I," "Our Front Yard" and "Horse Tails, Dog Tails and Ronny's Tales." Mr. McClure is a 1979 graduate of East Texas Baptist University in Marshall, Texas. He and his wife of 29 years, Carole, have raised five children. Upon reading the hand written journals of Reverend John Thompson Price, Mr. McClure saw a great value in his writings and felt that they would be appreciated by many. This is the story of the life of Reverend John Thompson Price taken from his own, handwritten journals. He grew up in east Tennessee with many hardships just after the Civil War, living with his family on several different farms in the Cumberland Mountains and in the Sequatchie Valley in Wilson County, Tennessee. Red Bank, Cookeville, McMinnville, Cleveland, Chattanooga, Dayton, Sweetwater, Ocoee, Georgetown and Chestouie are just a few of the communities that he traveled to with a horse and buggy in the late 1800's and early 1900's. He later preached in Rockwall, Texas, Golden City, Missouri, and Centerview, Missouri, in the 1920's, 30's and 40's. Read of his romance and marriage to Miss Nettie Hickman from Dayton, Tennessee, and of their first church in Bel Buckle. This book includes lists of marriages performed by Reverend Price and genealogies of his family.
Tragedy and brokenness often take a person to the bottom of life to where they may then choose to look up to God for assistance and may thus be able to see the results of God moving in a particular situation. This book takes the reader from having a life-changing experience when meeting Jesus, through a tragic helicopter crash, to seeing ministering angels, to taking a trip to heaven, to a particular whirlwind and to a heavenly light lighting a dark path. Several key scriptures taken from the book of Matthew are presented as "keys to the Kingdom of Heaven," using the Geneva Bible, which until recently, had been lost from the Christian world for nearly four hundred years. The Geneva Bible, which was the Bible used by our first pilgrims in the United States had a more personal and narrower approach to the Kingdom of Heaven. Ronald McClure is a notable observer and admirer of God's handy-work in nature, of which he has written books and recorded songs about. He is the proud daddy of five grown children, of whom he always felt that God "first" called him to be a good father. Mr. McClure is a 1980 graduate of East Texas Baptist University in Marshall, Texas. While being an avid student of the Bible, Ronald has worked in agriculture, drove trucks, drilled for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, owned and operated a TV repair shop and has spent more than a decade as a security officer within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. He has written five books and has recorded three music CDs.
Finnis McClure's daughter, Wanda, sat with him, day after day, listening to him tell his life story. She recorded his story on audio tapes and then kept them stored away for some thirty years. Then, one day, she shared the recorded tapes with her nephew, Ronald McClure. Upon seeing historical value, Ronald decided to make a book from them. Finnis' story is shared as he told it to his daughter. Many of the illustrations and pictures came from a scrapbook that Finnis kept while he was in the Navy. This first printing has family pictures in the back.
God sometimes sends what we may call “circumstances” our way so that we might turn to Him. God is personable, and He deals with each of us in an individual and unique way.A near death experience sometimes reveals God's hand at work, but how do we share such an event with someone so that they can see what we have been through? Prayer and fasting brings results, but how can we share what we have seen?When the world around us falls apart and God reveals himself, how can someone else begin to understand what we have been through?We can see God working even in the little things, but how can we share what we have seen with other people? Have you ever seen a situation where you saw God's hand at work, but you had a hard time sharing the experience of what you saw with other people? Read along with the author and share some of his experiences of seeing God's hand at work - when becoming a Christian, during tragedies, after prayer and fasting and in everyday situations.
After a long hot summer day, Ronald was sitting is his front porch swing thinking about how he was going to spend his summer. Wanting to do something a little different from the norm, he was and thinking about Peter Jenkins' book, “A Walk Across America.” The barricades had been taken down out on the new loop, so that traffic could drive around the little east Texas town of Athens, for the first time in history, that day. Ronald decided to go for a walk. He walked around the loop. After that, he kept right on walking and didn't stop until twenty-six days later, after he had walked down every street in town. The history of Athens and Henderson County is intertwined into this story and unfolds as Ronald walks down street after street. This book is a walking history tour of Athens.
“What is a WOW?” you may ask. Some may call an awesome event that happens in their life, “divine intervention,” while others may simply say, “I had good luck - the timing was just right for me." My belief is that God, our heavenly Father, intervenes in our lives and in our circumstances. King David says in the Psalms, “I called on the Lord in my time of need and He heard and answered me.” Also, in Nahum 1:7 the writer says, “The Lord is good, a strong-hold in the day of trouble, and he knoweth them that trust in Him.” I hope you enjoy these WOW experiences.
Welcome to a history lesson on U.S. politics. This book is a record of the world condition at the end of the year 2012. It consists of grayscale political campaign ads and quotes from presidents and from famous people down through the history of the United States of America. Both liberal and conservative views are presented. The truth may often not be a major factor.
For a half-century - from Edward Eggleston's pioneering novel The Hoosier Schoolmaster in 1871 through the dazzling early work of Hart Crane, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s - Midwestern literature was at the center of American writing. In The Midwestern Ascendancy in American Writing, Ronald Weber illuminates the sense of lost promise that gives rise to the elegiac note struck in many Midwestern works; he also addresses the deeply divided feelings about the region revealed in the contrary desires to abandon and to celebrate. The period of Midwestern cultural ascendancy was a time of tremendous social and technological change. Midwestern writing was a reflection of these societal changes; it was American literature.
Before their relocation to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma, the Kanza Indians spent twenty-seven years on a reservation near Council Grove, Kansas, on the Santa Fe Trail. In The Darkest Period, Ronald D. Parks tells the story of those years of decline in Kanza history following the loss of the tribe’s original homeland in northeastern and central Kansas. Parks makes use of accounts by agents, missionaries, journalists, and ethnographers in crafting this tale. He addresses both the big picture—the effects of Manifest Destiny—and local particulars such as the devastating impact on the tribe of the Santa Fe Trail. The result is a story of human beings rather than historical abstractions. The Kanzas confronted powerful Euro-American forces during their last years in Kansas. Government officials and their policies, Protestant educators, predatory economic interests, and a host of continent-wide events affected the tribe profoundly. As Anglo-Americans invaded the Kanza homeland, the prairie was plowed and game disappeared. The Kanzas’ holy sites were desecrated and the tribe was increasingly confined to the reservation. During this “darkest period,” as chief Allegawaho called it in 1871, the Kanzas’ Neosho reservation population diminished by more than 60 percent. As one survivor put it, “They died of a broken heart, they died of a broken spirit.” But despite this adversity, as Parks’s narrative portrays, the Kanza people continued their relationship with the land—its weather, plants, animals, water, and landforms. Parks does not reduce the Kanzas’ story to one of hapless Indian victims traduced by the American government. For, while encroachment, disease, and environmental deterioration exerted enormous pressure on tribal cohesion, the Kanzas persisted in their struggle to exercise political autonomy while maintaining traditional social customs up to the time of removal in 1873 and beyond.
In this study, Ronald R. Rodgers examines several narratives involving religion’s historical influence on the news ethic of journalism: its decades-long opposition to the Sunday newspaper as a vehicle of modernity that challenged the tradition of the Sabbath; the parallel attempt to create an advertising-driven Christian daily newspaper; and the ways in which religion—especially the powerful Social Gospel movement—pressured the press to become a moral agent. The digital disruption of the news media today has provoked a similar search for a news ethic that reflects a new era—for instance, in the debate about jettisoning the substrate of contemporary mainstream journalism, objectivity. But, Rodgers argues, before we begin to transform journalism’s present news ethic, we need to understand its foundation and formation in the past.
Born to Run tells the stories of nine young politicians from all walks of life who enter into races at the state and local levels in Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Georgia, Nebraska, and Maine. Visit our website for sample chapters!
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