Lessons In The Rearview Mirror

An ordained minister, Phil J. Baker is founder and CEO of Hosea 4:6 Ministries, which is dedicated to exhorting Christians to learn about the Bible, American history, church history, and current events and to become active in the political and cultural issues of America. He retired in April of 2008 after almost 30 years in the newspaper industry to pursue full-time ministry. A 1977 graduate of Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tenn., Phil has garnered numerous writing awards through the Alabama Press Association and has also been recognized for his writing by the Alabama Medical Association and the Alabama Association of School Boards. He was a 2003 finalist in the Amy Foundation national awards for religious columns. Phil and Sandra, his wife of 28 years, have two grown daughters. Katie is a graduate student at the University of Montevallo in Alabama. Shelly and her husband Michael live in Nashville, Tenn., where Michael is youth minister at Christ Church in Brentwood, and Shelly works in the Spanish ministry and tries to keep up with their 2-year-old daughter, Nadia. "Phil Baker's life is one that so many of us baby boomers can identify with. His life experiences, like ours, are both joyful and painful. Phil has the God-given gift of being able to take his "rear-view mirror" experiences and turn them into practical road maps for his own life as well as our own. Superb!" - Daniel A. Moore, nationally known sports artist and author "Lessons in the Rear View Mirror" is a powerful book that drives home the realities of the gospel. This book is great for a sit-down read or to be used as a daily devotional. Phil does an amazing job communicating the principles of scripture, in a real life way. - Keith Hodges, pastor of Liberty Church, Arab, AL

Everything I know, I learned from a Toledo Cop. This book is a very light hearted read about life lessons learned from a father's quotes, and examples. It is my hope that you get out of this book some understanding of my memories, laugh a little bit, and realize that it is always important to understand the gravity of moments when they happen. There are no guarantees in life, enjoy life while it is happening.

A rags-to-riches, gritty, and inspirational memoir by Stewart, the former wife of celebrity icons George Hamilton and Rod Stewart.

"As children we looked like the perfect, happy family. My father was a preacher but behind closed doors there were many dark secrets we kept!" This is the inspirational, true story of one son's journey overcoming child abuse, trauma, addiction and finding the courage to speak the truth about his life. From tragedy to triumph you will be taken on an experience of a lifetime. Through many self-help lessons, you will learn tools which will help you overcome your own past. You will see the healing power of love and forgiveness which can transform your own life. One boy's story will send you on a journey to confront your own past, help build your self-esteem, find your own truth about God and the strength to be your authentic self. From childhood to adulthood, you will witness a life changing transformation. This book is for anyone who has suffered obstacles or traumas to find their own true identity in the end. The stories will help you set free the secrets in your own life. This is also a story of a father who found redemption and was reunited with his children before his death. This book covers every aspect of life that anyone can relate to regardless of your background. This is an inspirational must read! Author Eddie Wike was born into a dysfunctional family full of abuse and mental illness. As the son of an alcoholic, turned-preacher he also had to overcome misguided teachings when his father transferred his drinking addiction to religious addiction. He has overcome such horrific obstacles as: child abuse, torture, verbal abuse, molestation and sexual addiction.

You may not like it that students forgot your talk on temptation, but remembered your mouse-trap object lesson . . . . . . but the fact remains that nothing brings a lesson to life more vividly and concretely--or wakes up a drowsy Sunday school class faster--than a good object lesson. In Everyday Object Lessons for Youth Groups the authors (who are youth workers and teachers of youth workers) pool their most effective 45 object lessons into a collection that’s perfect for both junior and senior high youth groups. Here are no-prep and low-prep object lessons for devotionals, Sunday school lessons, talks at camps and retreats--even for sermons. Inside you’ll find object lessons about-- Beauty (using a kiwi fruit) Regret (a mirror) Divine protection (sun block) Anger (Alka-Seltzer and 7-Up) The power of words (Popsicle sticks) Priorities (manure) Confession (hydrogen peroxide) Temptation (a mousetrap) The person of Jesus (keys) Conformity (Play-Doh) Endurance (bricks) --and 34 more quirky and attention-getting object lessons. Use them to open your lessons . . . to dramatize your talks . . . to close your Bible studies with a demonstration. However you use them, you have Bible references and provocative discussion-starting questions with each object lesson to help you take it in any direction you want. And with both a topical and a scriptural index, you can find the perfect object lesson fast.

A collection of essays that pulls the facade off family life, revealing the true and unvarnished journey of coming to grips with motherhood. Showing that not all mother's instincts kick in automatically, it includes narratives that create camaraderie among fellow moms who fear they have been endowed with the maternal warmth of Leona Helmsley.

Lessons from Fort Apache is an ethnography of Indigenous language dynamics on the Fort Apache reservation in Arizona with North American and global implications concerning language endangerment. Moving beyond a narrow focus on linguistic documentation, M. Eleanor Nevins examines how the linguistics and cultural identities of Indigenous populations are attributed with meaning against other sociocultural concerns and interests. While affirming the value of language documentation and maintenance, Nevins also provides a much-needed appraisal of the potential conflicts in authority claims and language practices between community members and the educators and scholars who research their linguistic heritage. Nevins argues that the debates surrounding the revitalization of Indigenous languages need broadening to include larger questions of social mediation, shifting cultural identities, and the politics intrinsic to the relationship between Indigenous community members and university-accredited experts such as language researchers and educators. This engaging ethnography examines these questions and investigates the language dynamics of the Fort Apache Reservation, including the unintended challenges that standardized textual models sometimes pose to local interests. Nevins reveals the community’s historical and contemporary concerns for language documentation, maintenance, and revitalization. Lessons from Fort Apache demonstrates the need for language maintenance programs and for flexibility in finding politically sustainable forms of collaboration and exchange between researchers, teachers, and those community members who base their claims to an Indigenous language in alternate terms.

In this charming and refreshingly frank memoir, the creator of Seattle's Pink Toe Truck shares heartwarming and rollicking tales that illustrate his passion for family, hard work and hilarity. Ed Lincoln invites you to jump in the passenger's seat and take a peek though the rearview mirror as he reveals surprising life lessons that have spanned the decades. This true story once again proves that fact is often more compelling than fiction. You will burst out laughing, hold back tears and maybe even dust off a few nuggets of wisdom to put in your own back pocket.