Bøger af Edwin Scroggins

A little bit TOM SAWYER, PENROD, and 'WONDER YEARS, ' this chronological series of stand-alone stories resumes the author's 1940s boyhood memoir of rural life that now begins to demand social, institutional, and amorous skills he has not yet learned. The book recounts the boy's bumbling attempts to navigate the perilous passages of Jackson Junior High, Pasadena High School, and Rice Institute. As the years progress, his naivete and life's soul-searing sorrows leave him puzzled and wondering if God, after all, really has a plan for his life. The book's final chapters trace his search for employment and his quest to find his true love. Happily, the memoir's victorious conclusion provides a joyful answer to his questioning of God's care. Vicariously return to your own delightful childhood years--those long-ago days when life was safe and sacred, slow and serene, and virtually free from drugs, depravity, and demonized crime. Live once again in a world now gone forever.

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If you have ever longed for a secluded place in which to "get away from it all," here is the book that will tell you what is required to make your dreams come true. Whether you want to build a hideaway just for escaping your crowded city during weekends, or you want to construct a country cabin in which to retire, you need to know beforehand exactly what you will face if you decide to do it all yourself. Read this book and learn from the author's experiences. For readers with little interest in the technical details of carpentry, the author has placed an "Interlude" after each chapter, effectively turning this volume into two books. The Interludes are accounts of experiences the author and his wife, Alma, had while pursuing their cabin-building quest. These sixteen, humorous, sometimes-poignant memories and observations offer unique insights into the pleasures and perils of rural life. The Interludes, alone, are worth the price of this book.

In a unique style that combines poetic prose, pathos, and humor, this entrancing mosaic of childhood memories lyrically details the songs and sorrows, the triumphs and travails, of a boy and his identical twin brother living through the 30s and 40s on a rural homestead in South Texas. With the constant support of their loving mother, the boys struggle amid primitive living conditions to meet farm-related responsibilities and educational objectives imposed upon them by their caring but stern, disciplinarian father. The author recounts his dearest and most anguished memories as a series of events, experiences, and observations that tell the story of his life from birth to leaving home at the age of nineteen. Vicariously return to your own delightful childhood years--those long-ago days when life was safe and sacred, slow and serene, and virtually free from drugs, depravity, and demonized crime. Find yourself saying, "Yes! That is exactly what I thought and how I felt when I was a child!"

HOW FAR COULD YOU WALK BAREFOOTED? The author of Juma's Journey invites you to follow barefooted Juma on his 950-mile walk from south Tanzania's Mbeya to Arusha in the north. Hours before his mother dies, Juma promises her that he will seek out the traveling mzungu missionary and get the white man to tell him about Jesus. As it turns out, the mzungu has left Mbeya and is on his way to Arusha, so Juma must follow him if he is to keep his promise to his dead mother. On his dangerous journey, Juma is confronted by many physical and spiritual tests. You will fear for his life when he is stalked by leopards and shot at by poachers. You will worry about him when he is held hostage by robbers and when he is kidnapped by slavers. You will wonder if he is going to be chewed to pieces by a pack of bloodhounds tracking him through the forest, and you will hope someone rescues him when he lies sick and unconscious in a roadside ditch. Will he make it to Arusha? Read this book and find out!

Move over, Max Lucado and Rick Warren; here's an author who wants to challenge your dominance of devotional literature. "How else can I compete with them," says Edwin Scroggins, "unless I offer not only superior content, but also an exceptionally novel writing style? In this book, I used a style that allowed me to focus and format my subject material in a way that permits the reader to enter the narrative as a 'you-are-there' observer." To give you an up-close view of key, biblical events, the author puts you right on the stage with his sometimes fictitious, sometimes biblical actors. These characters dramatize the progression of Scriptures that trace the promise and passion of Israel's Messiah-King through the Old and New Testaments. At times poetic, at times poignant, this trip through biblical times and places unashamedly elicits emotional responses of praise to God from readers who seek inspiration for greater devotion to Christ, their own Savior-King. Read this book and be blessed.

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Are you anxious about what's going on in the world today, but you don't fully understand what the Bible says about mankind's future? Bible Prophecy in a Nutshell offers an organized, condensed, panoramic survey of God's entire plan of the ages. Here, at last, is a small, readable book that brings together all the separated Scriptures and scenarios you need to make sense of Bible prophecy. And, it is written in a lucid, you-are-there style and in an everyday language that both adults and children can understand. The book surveys numerous biblical prophecies fulfilled in the past, and it explores, explains, and enlivens six major events yet to occur: the Rapture, the Tribulation, the Second Coming, the Millennium, the Judgments, and the beginning of the Eternal State. All statements concerning prophecies are backed by Scripture references, many by key quotations from the Bible. And, each of the book's seven chapters ends with a quiz and questions for individual thought or group discussion.