Walking A Tightrope While Wearing Combat Boots

“Walking A Tightrope While Wearing Combat Boots†is a spiritual journey that brought a Southern Baptist preacher’s wife through 25 years of fighting the devil, while serving and growing in the Lord. Within this book are the lessons she learned so that she could grow in Him, and get to know a Living God in a personal way. Living the life and fighting the battles has produced a vessel of pure gold, fit for the Masters use. A vessel God is using to bring healing and deliverance to His people. Many of God’s children are walking this same walk. Sometimes there seems to be no relief in sight. If you are a struggling Christian, then this book is for you. Here you will learn that you too can be used mightily by God. He is seeking those who would learn to do battle with the enemy, WARRIORS VICTORIOUS!

This is an exciting story about the passionate love between Joseph and Jennie, God's warriors who were called to fight the powers of darkness. This story takes them places they never dreamed they would go. A pregnant Jennie is kidnapped, and Joseph must find her before their son becomes the next sacrifice.

There's a serial killer loose, killing the women from Bourbon street, and Joseph, a vice cop, has to find out who's behind it. Each one is killed the same way, a small knife wound to the heart, almost as if it was made with a dagger. Each of the victims had rope burns on their wrists and ankles. There was no doubt about it; these were ritualistic killings, sacrifices. Now they had Jennie, the woman Joseph loved more than life, and it was up to him to find out where their cult's headquarters was, where they held his beloved Jennie, before it was too late. A Light in Darkness is a mystery novel, but it is also a love story of the passionate love between Jennie and Joseph, a love that even the forces of darkness could not stop, as they fulfill the destiny that God had called them to. A Light in Darkness is the prequel to Embracing the Light. A Light in Darkness is the beginning. The beginning of their love, the beginning of the adventure.

This previously published book (May 2017) and international bestselling book, "Combat Boots to Internet Millionaire" was written by Jason Miller to inspire people to explore entrepreneurship. Jason has helped hundreds of people reclaim their comfort zones in life. Jason spent twenty-three years in the military, so he didn’t just start out on top. He worked most of his life in the “employee mindset” but knew there had to be a better way. Jason has had the opportunity to be mentored by some of the best in the industry, which is how he took a business from making a few hundred dollars a day to thousands of dollars a day. Think of this book as Jason’s guide to business, secrets that have worked for him to create a long-term and sustainable business on the internet. If you step outside your comfort zone, reclaim your life, and become the CEO of your own destiny, then you will truly live your most optimal lifestyle. Are you part of the 3% who will take the leap?

"In loving yet unsentimental prose, Sy Montgomery captures the richness that animals bring to the human experience. Sometimes it takes a too-smart-for-his-own-good pig to open our eyes to what most matters in life.” —John Grogan, author of Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, Sy Montgomery had always felt more comfortable with animals than with people. So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away from nourishing meals by his stronger siblings. Yet Sy had no inkling that this piglet, later named Christopher Hogwood, would not only survive but flourish—and she soon found herself engaged with her small-town community in ways she had never dreamed possible. Unexpectedly, Christopher provided this peripatetic traveler with something she had sought all her life: an anchor (eventually weighing 750 pounds) to family and home. The Good Good Pig celebrates Christopher Hogwood in all his glory, from his inauspicious infancy to hog heaven in rural New Hampshire, where his boundless zest for life and his large, loving heart made him absolute monarch over a (mostly) peaceable kingdom. At first, his domain included only Sy’s cosseted hens and her beautiful border collie, Tess. Then the neighbors began fetching Christopher home from his unauthorized jaunts, the little girls next door started giving him warm, soapy baths, and the villagers brought him delicious leftovers. His intelligence and fame increased along with his girth. He was featured in USA Today and on several National Public Radio environmental programs. On election day, some voters even wrote in Christopher’s name on their ballots. But as this enchanting book describes, Christopher Hogwood’s influence extended far beyond celebrity; for he was, as a friend said, a great big Buddha master. Sy reveals what she and others learned from this generous soul who just so happened to be a pig—lessons about self-acceptance, the meaning of family, the value of community, and the pleasures of the sweet green Earth. The Good Good Pig provides proof that with love, almost anything is possible.

This volume is part of the Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceeding (CESP) series. This series contains a collection of papers dealing with issues in both traditional ceramics (i.e., glass, whitewares, refractories, and porcelain enamel) and advanced ceramics. Topics covered in the area of advanced ceramic include bioceramics, nanomaterials, composites, solid oxide fuel cells, mechanical properties and structural design, advanced ceramic coatings, ceramic armor, porous ceramics, and more.

In Pure, Linda Kay Klein uses a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir to take us “inside religious purity culture as only one who grew up in it can” (Gloria Steinem) and reveals the devastating effects evangelical Christianity’s views on female sexuality has had on a generation of young women. In the 1990s, a “purity industry” emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity pledges, and purity balls came with a dangerous message: girls are potential sexual “stumbling blocks” for boys and men, and any expression of a girl’s sexuality could reflect the corruption of her character. This message traumatized many girls—resulting in anxiety, fear, and experiences that mimicked the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder—and trapped them in a cycle of shame. This is the sex education Linda Kay Klein grew up with. Fearing being marked a Jezebel, Klein broke up with her high school boyfriend because she thought God told her to and took pregnancy tests despite being a virgin, terrified that any sexual activity would be punished with an out-of-wedlock pregnancy. When the youth pastor of her church was convicted of sexual enticement of a twelve-year-old girl, Klein began to question purity-based sexual ethics. She contacted young women she knew, asking if they were coping with the same shame-induced issues she was. These intimate conversations developed into a twelve-year quest that took her across the country and into the lives of women raised in similar religious communities—a journey that facilitated her own healing and led her to churches that are seeking a new way to reconcile sexuality and spirituality. Pure is “a revelation... Part memoir and part journalism, Pure is a horrendous, granular, relentless, emotionally true account" (The Cut) of society’s larger subjugation of women and the role the purity industry played in maintaining it. Offering a prevailing message of resounding hope and encouragement, “Pure emboldens us to escape toxic misogyny and experience a fresh breath of freedom” (Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior and founder of Together Rising).

Colombia is at a historic crossroads as its leaders implement peace accords that will end an undeclared but bitter civil war that has raged for more than half a century. Building a nation at peace will require the input and collaboration of both Colombians and the world community. Yet relatively little is known about Colombia in the United States and abroad. This deeply informed and accessible book traces the history of Colombia thematically over the past two centuries. In twelve interlinked chapters, Michael J. LaRosa and Germán R. Mejía depart from more standard approaches by presenting a history of political, social, and cultural accomplishments within the context of Colombia’s specific geographic and economic realities. Their emphasis on cultural development, international relations, and everyday life contrasts sharply with works that brand Colombia as a failed state, focusing on its violent past or on an economy deeply dependent on narcotics. Instead, the authors emphasize Colombia’s remarkable national cohesion and endurance since the early nineteenth century wars for independence. They explore two distinct eras: the “long nineteenth century” (1780–1899) and the “ongoing twentieth century” (1899–present). Including a photo essay, detailed chronology, and resource guide, this concise yet thorough history will be an invaluable resource for all those seeking a thoughtful, definitive interpretation of the rich heritage and dynamism that have characterized Colombia past and present.