The Day the Angels Cried tells the story of an event that made history in the United States of America on June 22, 1980 when a gunman entered the worship services of the First Baptist Church of Daingerfield, Texas. In a matter of minutes, five people lay dead and ten others wounded with hundreds of innocent people wondering if they might be next to face the horror of death at the hand of a madman. For Larry Linam, it was a day that changed his life forever. It was during this worship service that he lost his first born child, Mary Regina Linam, his seven year old daughter. He uses the book to convey the emotions of anger, fear, hatred, and revenge that consumed his life for more than two decades while maintaining a working lifestyle to care for his family. He was living a life torn by a faith in God and a fear that justice would not be served by the courts. The events that unfold in his book as he bears his heart and soul leads the reader on a journey of a downward spiral brought about by depression, anger, and devastation as he makes attempts to exact vengeance upon the murderer of his child and upon the family of the murderer as well. The journey will also lead the reader into the joy and recovery that is found when hope is restored through faith in God and friends that never gave up on Larry Linam. He shares how finding forgiveness and giving forgiveness dispelled the darkness in his life and allowed him to tell the story to thousands and the desire to share with more that God's purpose for believers in Jesus Christ is the most important thing for anyone facing life's challenges.

A sudden cancer diagnosis finds a wife, mother of three and full time employee of the local university with an unexpected life changing decision. The reconstruction of her current job position forces her to choose to travel three weeks out of each month or return to the college classroom to complete her undergraduate degree. The many HURDLES all the way will pull at your heart strings, cry with laughter, challenging your spirit and fill your soul with joy. This memoir will take you on a journey to the core of author's true self, while understanding the importance of her family and friends. On her five year cancer anniversary, this runner in her own race will hopefully encourage you to become a better spouse, parent, child, friend and leader to all. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and the few guilty.

As I was writing about my surprise, unplanned retirement, I came to realize I needed to go back into my past in order to answer my questions about my present and to move into my future. I needed to find some peace about this latest transition. I had reached the top of the pay scale, and my principal, needing to reinforce her power status, recently pushed me into an early, unplanned retirement, which is the basis of this book. Her constant harassment tore me into pieces, but God was able to use this transition along with some of my others to reassemble the pieces and guide me into a new life. Transitions may involve an end, but they can also usher in a bright new beginning!

I hope and pray that experiencing how God and I have faced some of the disturbing transitions in my life might help you or a loved one through some of the challenges you face in life.

Rheumatic fever came at an early age and took several of his cousins and caused him to be confined to bed for many months while recovering. This confinment and curtailment caused Jack to develop his artistic talent in a more acute way. While always being a jokester, he has had a funny way of telling a yarn and he hopes you enjoy reading about some of the funny things that happened to him on the way to the forum.

Folklore has been a phenomenon based on nostalgic and autochthonous nuances conveyed with a story-telling technique with a penchant for over-playing and nationalistic pomp and circumstance, often with significant consequences for societal, poetic, and cultural areas. These papers highlight challenges that have an outreaching relationship to the regional, rhetorical, and trans-rhetorical devices and manners in Kurdish folklore, which subscribes to an ironic sense of hope all the while issuing an appeal for a largely unaccomplished nationhood, simultaneously insisting on a linguistic solidarity. In a folkloric literature that has an overarching theory of poetics - perhaps even trans-figurative cognitive poetics due to the multi-faceted nature of its application and the complexity of its linguistic structure - the relationship of man (and less frequently woman) with others takes center stage in many of the folkloric creations. Arts are not figurative representations of the real in the Kurdish world; they are the real.

Fan loyalty chronicles the journey of a young woman as she said "I am going to meet him." She did not know it at the time, but the man she was speaking about was the singer Brook Benton. She did get to meet he, and his entire family. She shares with us that amazing journey. Fan loyalty reminds us how important words are and lets us know that the words we choose create our world. It challenges us to embrace and learn from the things that unfold in our lives. The naivete of the young person, the loyalty to the sound, the love that she showed and the friendships that developed is heartfelt throughout this moving and inspirational piece. Is heartfelt throughout this moving inspirational piece. Here's what the fans have to say.... "Mr. magic, Mr. Wonderful, they don't sing like that anymore." Michael B. "I love his singing " Dorothy G. "The smoothest singer, great songwriter, the best baritone ever " Carol M. " Brook Benton, a legend" Alma W. " I love his music, his singing." Irene T. "I love it's just a matter of time and the boll weevil." Lenis G.

This book is written for those who suffer from severe and persistant mental illness. It is about the trials of a man with the illness and how he reached from poverty and despair to the heights of obtaining an MSW and LCSW. It is also written for Literary students with a specific style of writing. Students of Counseling, Social Work, Psychology, and Psychiatry will get a realistic view of what the illness is like and can do. It is an autobiographical, educational, and inspirational experience that needs told

Ron's book, "The Synergistic Life Style - How To Set Goals And Live A Balanced and Abundant Life," contains fourteen chapters covering the different areas of our lives that we should set goals and strive to achieve in: Commitment - Goals - Budget - Feedback - Problems - Spiritual - Mental - Emotional - Physical - Marriage - Children - Support Group - Financial - Work. Ron and June have taught senior high school students and beginning couples in church classes and seminars during the past 40 years. They have now followed these young people long enough to know that the teaching points contained in this book work. Ron and June have learned many of the principles shared in the book while experiences problems in their lives, which they share with the reader. They know that if you fail in one area of life, it will have a negative effect in other areas. There are so many threats to individuals and families that are trying to live an abundant life. The negative influences are greater today because of the fast pace of life, and the delivery systems for these influences on our children. The threats include: divorce - negative influence from the media - materialism - absentee fathers - alcohol and drug use by one of the parents - the availability of alcohol and drugs around schools - pornography on the internet - morality not being taught at home - medical depressiuon - and a need for both parents to work just to keep up. Each chapter includes Ron's beliefs about the things needed to live an abundant life. When you add up all of the lessons learned in each chapter, the synergistic result will be a balanced life greater than the sum of each area..

Americans remain deeply ambivalent about teenage sexuality. Many presume that such uneasiness is rooted in religion. But how exactly does religion contribute to the formation of teenagers' sexual values and actions? What difference, if any, does religion make in adolescents' sexual attitudes and behaviors? Are abstinence pledges effective? What does it mean to be "emotionally ready" for sex? Who expresses regrets about their sexual activity and why?
Tackling these and other questions, Forbidden Fruit tells the definitive story of the sexual values and practices of American teenagers, paying particular attention to how participating in organized religion shapes sexual decision-making. Merging analyses of three national surveys with stories drawn from interviews with over 250 teenagers across America, Mark Regnerus reviews how young people learn-and what they know-about sex from their parents, schools, peers and other sources. He examines what experiences teens profess to have had, and how they make sense of these experiences in light of their own identities as religious, moral, and responsible persons.
Religion can and does matter, Regnerus finds, but religious claims are often swamped by other compelling sexual scripts. Particularly interesting is the emergence of what Regnerus calls a new middle class sexual morality which has little to do with a desire for virginity but nevertheless shuns intercourse in order to avoid risks associated with pregnancy and STDs. And strikingly, evangelical teens aren't less sexually active than their non-evangelical counterparts, they just tend to feel guiltier about it. In fact, Regnerus finds that few religious teens have internalized or areeven able to articulate the sexual ethic taught by their denominations. The only-and largely ineffective-sexual message most religious teens are getting is, "Don't do it until you're married." Ultimately, Regnerus concludes, religion may influence adolescent sexual behavior, but it rarely motivates sexual decision making.

Sam served four overseas tours in the U.S. Army. He served in the Military Police during two tours of South Korea and one tour in West Germany. Once he graduated U.S. Army CID school he returned to West Germany as a Special Agent. Courtesy of the US Army he also served stateside assignments in Arizona, Texas, Alabama and Georgia. Sam observed the very best and the very worst of the US Military. While in Frankfurt West Germany Sam was Team Chief of the most productive Narcotics Investigation (Drug Suppression Team) in Europe. However, when he was told that he would be taking over more more Narcotics Investigations as a CID Team Chief, he declined and left the US Army with numerous medals and awards. Sam no longer believed our current "War on Drugs" paradigm was productive. Our "Drug War" mentality prevents Law Enforcement from doing real "Harm Reduction" and causes more damage and harm than the actual illegal drug use.

Catch the momentum of how a cracked foundation in the initial development of a life can become constructive and a lesson in how to not only survive, but come out with a testimony of Gods grace and deliverance. Every tear is turned into joy and beauty into ashes. This book is a story whose time has come to openly communicate about abuse and its affects on all involved. Just as decades ago alcohol and drugs were unthinkable topics to discuss, today they are dealt with and healing is found. So it is with the subject of abuse within the family structure. It is now okay to discuss and communicate about its origins and prevention. The "who" is not important within the content of the book. Prevention and healing are essential in order to reach ones full potential and calling in life. Healing is found in understanding, love, prayer, praise, deliverance. A spectacular ending. A must read.

The dramatic life story of an Israeli woman who falls and rises again because of one word-YES Dominiquae had been a trainer in the Israeli Army, as a young mother of two and health-store-owner she found herself battling for the life of her mentally sick husband. Life was hard she needed answers, she asked a ouija board, the spirits answered and she found herself in a hurricane of spiritual powers stronger than herself...They were trying to rule her. At the waters of the Sea of Galilee she met Him. Run for your life, He said. She ran and found herself immersed in His love She said, YES but would it work? She was Jewish and He a Christian...Or was He? Dominiquae Bierman is an Israeli Jew, a mother, a wife and a mentor of thousands. She has traveled extensively throughout many nations speaking and demonstrating the power of the loving Creator to restore the most broken of lives. She has a PhD in Religious Philosophy and a BsC in Nutrition and Health. Her books on the Jewish Roots of Christianity have been translated into many languages, and her music CD's in Hebrew, English and Spanish are sung by the young and the old alike. She is a living proof that The God of Israel is REAL

Una gua sencilla, breve y clara para realizar los "milagros" que Dios quiere seguir actuando en nuestro mundo.

No es un libro para leer, es para practicar, para propiciar y crear condiciones favorables, recordar que Cristo quiere hacerse presente para m en los dems; pero tambin quiere que yo sea su presencia para que en m le vean los otros. En mis manos pone alegras y consuelos, ayudas y esperanzas; all deposita todo su amor, y quiere que yo lo vaya sembrando a mi paso.

Y lo mismo para m, con la mayor sencillez me llegar, en manos hermanas, lo que necesito, lo que desesperadamente busco, o lo que pido suplicante en mi oracin.

All donde las seguridades humanas se desmoronan, es donde las promesas de Cristo pueden hacerse realidad. Donde intervienen el desinters, lo gratuito, Dios est pasando a nuestro lado disfrazado de prjimo, pobre, triste y desamparado.

Al lado de una multitud de hombres y mujeres sufrientes y necesitados, vamos nosotros, cada uno, acaso ms pobres y necesitados todava, pero con las manos y el corazn colmados de gracia por los dones que Dios ha puesto en ellas para que vayamos a repartirlas en su nombre.

The Learning Journey compels the reader to see their own journey through life as a climb toward consciousness and survival. This gripping true story of one person 's successful struggle to survive tragic and chaotic challenges can lead others to an examination of childhood scripts, and a recognition of their own value system based on their life experience.

Combining psychological and spiritual wisdom, June Lamb, gives guidance and inspiration for those willing to step into the classroom called life as they explore what it means to be human. The acceptance of loss as part of that classroom, and the search for finding authority in religion, medicine, higher education, and law are widely explored in her absorbing story of a life full of universal themes that will be recognized by all. She tells her personal story in conjunction with case examples drawn directly from her years of practice as a family therapist.

Religion and Sexuality in Zimbabwe highlights the complex interplay between religion and sexuality in Zimbabwe. It shows how religion both facilitates and complicates the expression of sexuality in Zimbabwe. Approaching religion from a broader perspective, this volume reviews the impact of African Indigenous Religions and Christianity in its varied forms on the construction and expression of sexuality in Zimbabwe. These contributors examine the role of indigenous beliefs, as well as interpretations of sacred texts, in the understanding of sexuality in Zimbabwe. They also address themes relating to sexual diversity and sexual and gender-based violence. Overall, this book sheds light on the ongoing relevance and strategic role of religion to contemporary discourses on human sexuality.

The time has come for a radical change in your life. It is time to 'Live Free.' The world says a life of success depends on you, but what do you say? For far too long people have depended on their performance and techniques to bring an abundant and fulfilling life, but nothing can be further from the truth. It is all about a work that has been finished for you. Begin to unveil the truth that will set the course of your life above sickness, poverty, emotional sorrows, and failures. This is that time for you.Joyner Brice o is a teacher of the Gospel of Grace of Jesus Christ in the United States and the world. He has been commissioned by God to bring back Jesus to the Church through the same radical Grace message that Paul preached in his day.In 2005, Joyner had a supernatural encounter with Jesus. It was then where the Lord corrected the way he believed and revealed His Grace in such radical way that transformed Joyner's life forever. In that revelation, Joyner was commission by God to teach the same Grace He had received from the Lord because performance based Christianity is as a cancer that is eating away every believer in Christ.To fulfill God's commission, Joyner established Joyner Brice o Ministries for the purpose of revealing Jesus to every believer in Christ, so their lives can be radically transformed. With boldness and clear understanding Bible truths, he is dedicated in helping believers in Christ discover how they can live free to reign in life through the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness. His heart desire is for the Church to perceive the new covenant of grace found in the person and the finished work of Jesus.

The LORD met me at my point of need...and gave me the words to this book that I might be set free...the more I would sit at my lap top and hear one word at a time...the freer I became...you see they are not my words but HIS. GOD so loves everyone and desires for ALL to be set free...it is easy if we will listen to HIS voice and yield our self to HIM...truly you will be amazed at the transformation that will take place as you wait on HIM to speak to you and as you receive HE will make the changes...so it is easy...truly HE is not a respecter of persons...HE will set you free if you yield to HIM everything...HE is waiting with open arms...