Of this work as published by the Author, the following was the title: 'Gildas Salvianus: The Reformed Pastor, showing the nature of the Pastoral work, especially in Private Instruction and Catechizing, with an open CONFESSION of our too open SINS: Prepared for a Day of Humiliation kept at Worcester, December 4, 1655, by the Ministers of that County, who subscribed the Agreement for Catechizing and Personal Instruction at their entrance upon that work,...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I am a private detective. For the past seven years, cases involving the FLDS Church, and its pedophile prophet have consumed most of my waking hours. I live just outside of Cedar City, Utah, a stunning high-desert community of some thirty thousand residents. #2 I was unwittingly drawn into a desperate battle to bring Warren Jeffs to justice that has lasted for more...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The difference between goals and formations is that goals are about the end, while formations are about the present and who you are becoming through the practices you're doing. #2 We are the sum of our repeated practices and rituals. We are not made but formed. We are designed and primarily wired for becoming, not achieving. #3 The better and truer question is, where...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Religion can be a major barrier to world peace. It can create a slippery slope in the heart, and lead to the marginalization of others or even active oppression, abuse, or violence against them. #2 There have been several attempts to control or even ban religion in the twentieth century. Soviet Russia, Communist China, the Khmer Rouge, and Nazi Germany were...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 A gentleman knows that incessant use of his cell phone can only make it clear that he values the person on the other end of the telephone conversation far more than the people present with him. A gentleman's telephone calls are still his personal affair. #2 When he is behind the wheel of a vehicle, any type, he should not be using his phone. When he is in a church...

The Prophetic Parables of Matthew 13 is a message of meditation based on the Bible and written by Arthur Walkington Pink (1 April 1886 — 15 July 1952) was an English Bible teacher who sparked a renewed interest in the exposition of Calvinism or Reformed Theology. Little known in his own lifetime, Pink became "one of the most influential evangelical authors in the second half of the twentieth century." Arthur Walkington Pink was born in Nottingham,...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 When we come to God confessing our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We must allow God to wipe our slate clean by confessing our sins and receiving a new start. #2 The road to Rome is long, and it is full of wrong turns and dead ends. But it is also the only way to reach God. Follow Jesus as the only way...

Are you happy? is a message of meditation based on the Bible and written by John Charles Ryle (10 May 1816 — 10 June 1900) was an English evangelical Anglican bishop. He was the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The Odyssey is an epic about the return home, nostos, of Odysseus, the king of Ithaca. It is narrated in the first person by Odysseus, and it describes his various traumas and narrow escapes from characters such as the Lotus-Eaters, the Cyclops, and Circe. #2 The nekuia is the name given to Odyssey 11, which describes Odysseus's journey to Hades. It is not a necromancy-like...

Wide and diversified is the work belonging to the Church of Christ. In the household of God, there is no pillow for the indolent. The term, 'an idle Christian', involves a contradiction. It has scarcely more meaning than a rayless suna waveless oceana noiseless waterfalla rose without perfume. In this community, each member has his appointed place. "We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has before ordained that...