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"A Gift from Heaven" is a short story about the relationship dynamic between a single father and daughter. I wanted to write this book because of the journey I'm going through, being a single parent raising a daughter, I wanted to share with everyone some of the challenges I been faced with, from a father's perspective. It's not a blueprint on parenting and every day we are faced with different challenges, but hopefully by the time you finish reading...
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This is the third installment of The Adventures of Thane Johnson series. In this volume Thane and his sister, Alaina; cousin, Leo; and friends, Achilles and Thomas uncover an illegal smuggling operation involving rough, uncut diamonds, i.e., conflict diamonds, that are transiting through the port of Piraeus, Greece from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This group of five teenagers call themselves the G5 and have at various times inserted themselves...
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Focusing on educational ministries, Hastings offers a postcritical, synthetic approach to worshiping, witnessing, and wondering, grounded in scriptural ways of knowing God in Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit. Here, lives marked by worship, witness, and wonder are understood not only to be harmonious with the evolutionary endowments of perception, action, and cognition, nor as well-attested practices of corporate and personal religious...
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Thane, his friends, sister, and cousin manage to put many pieces of the museum heist of the sword of Alexander the Great together. However, Thane ends up getting kidnapped, placed on a ship with the stolen artifact and sent to Egypt, but the ship makes a stop in Chania, Greece at a naval base. Thane manages to escape the ship with the sword with the help of U.S. security personnel who discover the captain is a criminal and a kidnapper. The teens successfully...
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Does theology have any relevance to the problem of life and death? According to John Heywood Thomas the answer is an unequivocal yes. A largely personal expression of this conviction precedes the argument's exposition, which is then stated first of all quite generally--that nothing human is alien to theology's concern. Three main issues are considered: the unborn life, death as an event in life, and the possibility of global death. The issue of a...
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Since 1800, when president Daniel Sanders welcomed the first class into the "temple of knowledge," the University of Vermont has pursued a progressive mission of enlightening individuals and, through them, society. Balanced against the demands of national development, cultural change, and increased emphasis on academic specialization, UVM has graduated students who are intellectually curious, consider education to be a lifelong process, and seek to...
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General Pat Wilson has been chosen to command a desperate mission.
In this alternate timeline, the Soviet Union has nearly conquered the United States. A technology has been developed to send a modern American Army unit back in time to a critical battle of World War II. If Wilson's task force can change outcome there, the Russians will not have the resources to conquer the United States. They have enough men and material for one decisive battle....
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In this second book of "The Adventures of Thane Johnson" trilogy, Thane, his sister Alaina, cousin Leo, and friends Achilles and Thomas are off on another adventure in Greece. Thane and Leo are exploring the countryside around Delphi, Greece where they visit ancient ruins and caves. An earthquake reveals a chest with a strange device that can alter space and time, but no one is aware of its potential except its mysterious inventor. This book is filled...
9) Revelation
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The book of Revelation is perhaps the most theologically complex and literarily sophisticated -and also the most sensual -document in the New Testament. In this commentary, John Christopher Thomas's literary and exegetical analysis makes the challenging text of Revelation more accessible and easier to understand. Frank Macchia follows up with sustained theological essays on the book's most significant themes and issues, accenting especially the underappreciated...
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The Royal Institution of Great Britain is renowned the world over, first, because it is a premier arena for the advancement of new scientific and technological knowledge, and second because it highlights the advance of knowledge of all kinds. It bridges the sciences and the humanities, and as much publicity is given to advances in the arts, archaeology, architecture, drama, and literature as to the pure and applied sciences. More famous scientists...
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REMODEL YOUR LIFE FOR VICTORY, INFLUENCE, POWER, AND PROSPERITY WANT TO PUT YOUR DREAMS ON THE FAST-TRACK TO SUCCESS? Ever think there has to be more to life than your current reality? Ever wish you had a personal manual to give you direction in life? Then look no further. Your Lifeonomics will fit the bill. Join Thomas John, MD, on an incredible life-changing journey through his personal time-proven practices for immediately improving your life....
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America is in civic chaos, its politics rife with conspiracy theories and false information. Nationalism and authoritarianism are on the rise, while scientists, universities, and news organizations are viewed with increasing mistrust. Its citizens reject scientific evidence on climate change and vaccinations while embracing myths of impending apocalypse. And then there is Donald Trump, a presidential candidate who won the support of millions of conservative...
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A masterwork of science fiction that imagines the world not just how it could be, but how it should be. In Boston in the year 1887, Julian West is hypnotized and falls into a deep sleep. He awakens at the dawn of a new millennium in an America where war, crime, and inequality no longer exist. In this brave new world, goods are delivered in the blink of an eye, public kitchens ensure that no one goes hungry, and the retirement age is forty-five. It...