The first chapter of the Epistle of James is a wealth of wisdom to be applied to the trials of life. It is wisdom that is to be applied for the purpose of becoming the complete person God intended each of us to be. As THE JAMES PRESCRIPTION unfolds, readers will learn new ways to think, feel, and behave that move systematically from the basic priorities to a new strategy for the development of virtue. These new skills include praying for wisdom and expecting to get it, the attitudes of grace, joy, and hope, simple and complex problem solving formulas, slowing down, and "The Virtue Manual."
The first chapter of the Epistle of James is a wealth of wisdom to be applied to the trials of life. It is wisdom that is to be applied for the purpos...
Presence and Truth is a comprehensive counseling system originally written to help Christian students connect their faith while studying counseling theories in graduate programs that may not be sympathetic to the integration of psychology and Christianity. It has evolved into a counseling system that is simple enough for novice people-helpers to learn the basic counseling skills of being present and telling the truth but is pervasive and flexible enough for seasoned people-helpers to use as a strategy for incorporating diverse therapeutic techniques and strategies into one over-arching...
Presence and Truth is a comprehensive counseling system originally written to help Christian students connect their faith while studying counseling th...
Putting our problem solving energy and attention into cursing ourselves, holding onto bitterness, or quickie justifications are three examples of slipping. We do not get stuck on trials because they are difficult but because our energy and attention "slips" away to something else. This is the subject of Slipping and Sliding Through Trials, a sequel to The James Prescription, which uses the trials of life as opportunities for spiritual formation and personal growth.
Putting our problem solving energy and attention into cursing ourselves, holding onto bitterness, or quickie justifications are three examples of slip...
"From Mount Carmel to Mount Horeb" begins by diagnosing the prophet Elijah as depressed; he is preoccupied with morbid thoughts and negative self-attributions, his sleep has increased and he must be forced to eat. From naming Elijah's depression it proceeds to explain his depression as a disintegration of his identity story. It traces the development of the identity story of "I am the only one" through the various high points of his life until it crashes under the broom tree in the desert. A new identity, story, found at Horeb, allows Elijah's story and life to continue.
"From Mount Carmel to Mount Horeb" begins by diagnosing the prophet Elijah as depressed; he is preoccupied with morbid thoughts and negative self-attr...
Coming of age during the Vietnam War, Mike McCurry decides to join the U.S. Army rather than be drafted or take a fl ight to Canada. He is assigned to the Army Security Agency and begins a life of covert operation as a voice interceptor.
In the late 1960s, McCurry arrives at Teufelsberg, a super-secret listening station in West Berlin. McCurry and his fellow operatives have direct access to some of the most sensitive conversations of top offi cials of the East German government's Central Committee in East Berlin. Unfortunately, McCurry's group of interpreters and analysts are supervised...
Coming of age during the Vietnam War, Mike McCurry decides to join the U.S. Army rather than be drafted or take a fl ight to Canada. He is assigned...
Coming of age during the Vietnam War, Mike McCurry decides to join the U.S. Army rather than be drafted or take a fl ight to Canada. He is assigned to the Army Security Agency and begins a life of covert operation as a voice interceptor.
In the late 1960s, McCurry arrives at Teufelsberg, a super-secret listening station in West Berlin. McCurry and his fellow operatives have direct access to some of the most sensitive conversations of top offi cials of the East German government's Central Committee in East Berlin. Unfortunately, McCurry's group of interpreters and analysts are supervised...
Coming of age during the Vietnam War, Mike McCurry decides to join the U.S. Army rather than be drafted or take a fl ight to Canada. He is assigned...
"As if Kevin Phillips's American Theocracy were being narrated by RollingStone's Matt Taibbi," Chuck Thompson's "viciously funny and thoroughly tasteless" examination of Southern secession was one of the most controversial books of the year (Washington Monthly). Chuck Thompson--dubbed "savagely funny" by the New York Times and "wickedly entertaining" by the San Francisco Chronicle--spent two years traveling the American South to determine whether, as he'd long suspected but not yet proven, the whole country might be better off letting Dixieland make...
"As if Kevin Phillips's American Theocracy were being narrated by RollingStone's Matt Taibbi," Chuck Thompson's "viciously fu...
Jasper Lilla's mother, Vernalisa, returns from Hendersonville with a nasty bite from a Black Mamba snake. Because Vernalisa is who she is the bite does not kill her, but it does put her in a coma. With Vernalisa out of the way, the balance of power in nature is threatened. The threat comes in the form of a mysterious red-headed woman who uses the opportunity to expand her dominion. If she wins all of nature will be diseased and decay. In her service is a host of crazed vermin and scavengers. The only thing standing between her and the demise of planet earth is 17-year- old Jasper Lilla, his...
Jasper Lilla's mother, Vernalisa, returns from Hendersonville with a nasty bite from a Black Mamba snake. Because Vernalisa is who she is the bite doe...
