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From plowing the sandy soil of Lowcountry South Carolina to treating the medical maladies of the farming families of his home county to fighting the secret war in Laos - follow the adventures of Dr. Robert Jackson, a poor farm boy turned medical doctor turned decorated Vietnam War veteran turned patient advocate. The last words he spoke to his sister Eunice were, "Sis, you fly low and slow. I'll fly high and fast!" And that he did. He flew higher than most men ever even aspire, and so fast most could not keep up. As one friend observed, "He accomplished more in forty-one years than most of us will in an entire lifetime." On Laughter-Silvered Wings records the remarkable life story of a country doctor, a family man, and an American patriot. Take a deep breath. You will be breathless just reading about his exploits.

The Jumpin' Joey has something for every reader: a studied analysis of mid-twentieth-century geopolitical and military history, a rigorous technical exposition on how to keep a "Tin Can" Navy destroyer up to speed and mission-ready, and reflections by a freshly minted naval officer learning about life and leadership on his first seagoing assignment."I reported aboard the USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. as a very young man," writes the author, "but took giant steps, along with many others, to reach manhood.""The folks I depict in this story are my heroes. Life is about providing an inheritance to society beyond what we experienced. We have crashes along the way, but we make our world a little bit better."Get to know the JPK and its men. Come aboard. Permission granted.Throughout a distinguished military career, Capt. Randolph M. Brooks, USN (Ret.), put his nuclear engineering and ocean engineering training to work aboard several US Navy ships, including the USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (DD-850), on which he served from 1970 to 1973 as Chief Engineer. In addition, he has been a project leader for overhauls and conversions of US seagoing vessels. He has taught and supervised post-graduate studies at MIT and was the Director of Submarine Design and Engineering in Washington, DC, helping to design the USS Virginia class submarine now being built. Now retired, he lives in South Carolina with his wife, Debora.

If the bottom has fallen out on you, you may feel that there is no hope on the horizon. There may be no way you can envision your life turning around or anything you could see making a difference. But don't give up, get up! When the bottom falls out on you, battle back.Author Jim Goodroe, in the story of the Korah rebellion in Numbers 16, has found buried treasure that can change your story. He calls it "redemption's greatest story never told."In the story of the Sons of Korah and the psalms they later wrote, Goodroe finds encouragement that will help you start to move forward again, put the pieces of your life back together and begin making progress.

Dorothy Urch always knew she had been adopted. Born in New York in 1911 and raised by a loving, hardworking farmer and his wife in Iowa, hers was an idyllic childhood. The days she spent as a student in a one-room schoolhouse became some of her favorite memories.Decades later, when she was in her eighties, she heard of the "Orphan Train" movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and she began to wonder if she might have been a passenger on one of those trains. She remembered a tearful goodbye with her mother and a days-long journey across the country. With that, she embarked on a second journey - this time not away from her family of origin, but backward in time toward her parents and siblings and a fuller understanding of why things might have happened the way they did. She was also on a quest to discover what became of her baby brother, Charles, who left town on a different train all those years ago, out of her life.Join Dorothy on an odyssey. Stand beside a five-year-old on the loading platform of Grand Central Station as she clutches her suitcase and gathers the courage to board a train for places and people unknown. Hold her hand as a question billows up in her, like steam from a locomotive, eclipsing all other thoughts: Why?

Imagine being transported in time and space, sitting at the feet of Lottie Moon, hearing stories from Southern Baptists' most renowned missionary. If any writer can deliver on the premise, it is Rosalie Hall Hunt, and she does so brilliantly in Lottie Moon and the Silent Bell.Hunt is today's definitive voice on historic women on mission, and in these pages she draws on a lifetime's immersion in the study of Lottie Moon's life and work. For years, Hunt has portrayed the famous missionary in a dramatic monologue she performs in churches. She also taps the serendipitous perspective of having known someone who heard "Aunt Lottie's" stories firsthand. And, if that's not enough, it also happens that Hunt grew up in Lottie's beloved China as a child of missionaries and lived in a house where Lottie once lived.What is it about Lottie that so captures the imagination? Is it the image of her, small in stature yet stalwart, facing down the challenge of sharing Jesus in a faraway land? Is it because she was especially loved by the people of her adopted China? Is it the allure of leaving behind home and family to answer God's call to be a missionary in a foreign place? For the rapt trio of young sisters gathered in Aunt Lottie's sitting room, perhaps it's the twinkle in her eye as she offers a plate of warm tea cakes. Won't you join them?

When the Clemens family lands at the airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, the father of the clan, who has longed to visit the Holy Land ever since he was a college freshman, descends the escalator, walks briskly up to the tour guide awaiting their arrival and says, "Howdy, neighbor, do you know Jesus?"To his surprise, the guide replies that, yes, Jesus is his Lord and Savior. "I believe in Yeshua Messiah," says the young man, whose name is Ezekiel ("Zeke" for short).Thus begins a special relationship between Zeke and the Clemens family (Dad and Mom, teen Thomas, twelve-year-old twins Paul and Paula, and Zoe, eight).Over the next several days, fueled by Dad's and Zeke's shared interest in the prophet Ezekiel, the Clemens parents model Deuteronomy 6:6-7 as they talk with their kids about the book of Ezekiel and how it relates to other biblical passages.Join them in this forty-day conversational devotional, and learn more about an important Old Testament prophet known mostly for speaking to a valley of dry bones but who had a lot more to say - words of judgment, instruction and promise - from God to His chosen people.Each day's entry includes an activity, discussion questions and a prayer, and there is a leader's guide at the end of the book.

God's University centers on the recorded history of Elijah and follows his journey as God develops the prophet's faith. The lessons and truths learned by Elijah can also teach us, as we apply them to our own trials and difficulties.In God's University, these teachings are presented in a format that is readily familiar to anyone who has ever studied at a college or university. May these teachings benefit all who wish to graduate from "God's university" and receive a diploma marked "Well done."Edward C. Morris is a native of New Orleans and lives in Ohio. He teaches theology in his church and is a former lay leader with the US Coast Guard Auxiliary. His educational background includes a BS in electrical engineering and an MA in theological studies.

Just as there are warning signs of an impending stroke that can devastate the human body, there are indicators that predict a sudden and catastrophic breakdown of the Body of Christ, the local church. But, as physical strokes can be prevented, so can spiritual strokes, says Dr. Danny Burnley, a pastor with a proven record of helping struggling churches come back from the brink of shutdown. If the Great Physician is allowed to regain control of the Body, then vitality can return. In Spiritual Strokes, Burnley offers a biblically sound prescription for Christians who would avoid spiritual apoplexy and "truly desire to see God show up and begin to move within their midst."

Who is Beautiful Bella? She is an eight-year-old Boxer, a beloved family pet thought to be past the age when she could bear offspring. But along comes a delightful surprise: a rambunctious pup, Duke, who changes Bella's world - and her masters' - for the better.Marion Harley invites the reader in for an intimate look at Duke's first nine weeks of life, including photos that chart his growth and development. Follow along as Duke establishes his place among the Harleys' other pets and as he prepares to say goodbye to his birth home and bring happiness to another family far away.Marion Harley is a retired elementary school assistant principal. Before becoming an educator, she was a paralegal for the Federal Government in the General Accounting Office.She is the author and illustrator of a previous book: Gorgeous Gigi: A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, and her poetry has appeared in several issues of Rhyme Time and the Aiken Standard.Hers has been a Boxer family for more than forty years. In addition to her two current Boxers, she also owns two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels.She lives in Aiken County, South Carolina, with her husband, Paul, and enjoys the time she spends with her dogs, her family, and her friends.

Whether offering a heartfelt tribute to a pet named Boomer or tackling the thorniest social and religious issues of the day, editor Rudy Gray has shared his straight-to-the-point perspective with readers of The Baptist Courier, the news magazine of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, for ten years. Drawing on wide-ranging experiences as a pastor, newspaperman, counselor, outdoorsman and family man, Gray has established his unique voice in an influential line of Courier editors that goes back more than 150 years. The Last Word, a collection of fifty columns from his decade as editor, is a fitting reflection of that voice.

Carrie Tate loved growing up in North Carolina mountain parsonages and longed to follow in her father's footsteps as an ordained minister. In the early twentieth century, even her beloved Papa could not encourage her. Carrie turned to her love of books and learning and traveled to St. Matthews in the midlands of South Carolina to teach school. There she met and married native son, Saylor Jumper. The pair raised ten children through the years of World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II.An unexpected, unwelcome move to the low-country lumber mill town of Miley seemed a disruption. As years passed, Carrie and Saylor acknowledged life in Miley as God's long-term assignment. A serious accident, fire, and war lay ahead.Today remnants of the mill remain, but the once noisy, bustling town of Miley has vanished, replaced by quiet fields and pine woods, where the wind still whispers memories of the music and mission of a family of faith.From MURPHY to MILEY is a novel of historical fiction, a family saga inspired by the author's grandparents. Carrie and Saylor Jumper lived in a fallen, sinful, war-torn world. Their steadfast faith in God undergirded, sustained, and directed their lives. As their oldest granddaughter, Jane Farmer's visits to Miley instilled in her a lifelong wish to recapture sights, sounds, smells, and people of the once-vibrant little town. It is her hope that, through the pages of this story, Miley will live again.

"I love the way you can get lost inside a poem's winding hallway," Sandra Pound writes in the first entry in this volume. "You are inside the poem until you have read it all. But after you have read it through, the poem is inside of you." In A Lifetime of Verse, Sandra takes the reader by the hand and leads the way along hallways that wind through love, marriage, children, nature, life and death, and, ultimately, God. Whether recalling her wedding day (when "Both became the byword"), or "memorizing children's laughter that bounced around the walls and halls," or inquiring of a helicopter how it goes up and down "like a giant mosquito hawk," she dives headfirst into both the ordinary and the divine and emerges with a distinctive but honest take on life. "The me inside sometimes comes out like a waterspout," she admits. And when that happens, her words find a landing place, and you find that the poem is inside of you. Sandra R. Pound, Ph.D., of South Carolina, taught high school English for more than 30 years. She and her husband, Terry, have four children and twelve grandchildren. They live in the country on a place they call Dogwood Hill, where she enjoys writing books and raising daylilies, peacocks and a few chickens. She is the author of several books, including The Angels' Greatest Message; Wade Hampton Richardson of Britton's Neck, SC; and Money: A Novel, and has written numerous magazine articles.

Pursuing the Mind of Christ uses seven biblical movements to journey into Christ's mind and, just as importantly, stay in the mind of Christ.