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  Mom, Dad...Can We Talk?: Helping Our Aging Parents with the Insight and Wisdom of Others (rev. ed.) Dick Edwards Crestwave Publishing Gocwpub.com ISBN: 978-1735413501; (rev. ed.) January 2021; $17.95 What can you expect when your parents draw near to their later years? Are there any waypoints that can help you navigate this period and keep it from becoming a dark time in your relationship older parents? Dick Edwards draws from decades of experience in eldercare and shares it with the reading public in this 146-page softback. The book originally surfaced in March 2009, and I wrote a review in 2013. This edition has been revised with three new, important chapters and is just as valuable as I said it was in 2013, and more! It is written for folks from all walks of life, and is a solid resource. "Mom, Dad...Can We Talk?" unfolds in eighteen short chapters that cover a number of subjects. Some chapters prepare readers for what is before them, and how it may affect them. Others...

Call Me Francis Tucket Gary Paulsen ISBN:0440412706 (ISBN13: 9780440412700) Gary Paulsen is a masterful writer! This is the second in the Francis Tucket series. It's ideal for tweens and teens, especially those who like adventure, challenges, character development, and personal growth. In these short 13 chapters readers ride along with Francis Tucket, a 14 year old who is now on his own. Moving through the prairies between Missouri and Oregon, Francis gets separated from the wagon train, becomes swallowed up in a buffalo stampede, robed by two wayfaring strangers, ends up rescuing two kids, and more. There is maturing going on, thoughtfulness, and a beautiful lack of gratuitous violence! If you need it, you can hit YouTube, find my channel, look for this book in the playlist, and listen/watch me read the whole book. I highly recommend it.

  Often, one-on-one relationships with people bring about some of the most satisfying results in Christian ministry. But there are hurdles to jump to get there. Some of the barriers are personal, others are generational or vocational. But elders and pastors of God's church should aim toward making those connections with the goal to developing disciples of Jesus. Randy Faulkner, retire Senior Pastor of Metropolitan Baptist Church (now Metropolitan Bible Church) in Oklahoma City, penned a short 146-page dossier on how he did this while he was a pastor, "Meeting the Dawn at Jimmy's Egg: How Pastors and Lay Leaders can be Disciple-Makers". The book surfaced in 2009 after years of practicing what he preached. The work is easy -to-read, chock full of real-life examples, running over with Randy's trademark graciousness and wisdom, and is set up to help. The chapters are focused on encouragement, motivation, and concepts, unfolding each and developing them in baby-steps. ...

  ( Christmas illustration 798 - Vintage Christmas Cards - Snowy Church  is a painting by Tuscan Afternoon) “Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by. I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me” (Psalm 57:1-2). We look around our big world and see troubles on the right and turmoils on the left. We implore you, O God, for all the nations of this world, to bring peace in our time, to preserve the downtrodden and demoralized, but also to raise up leaders who will seek good and not evil so that life may flourish; who will hate evil and love good and establish justice in the gate; who will let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream (from Amos 4:14-15, 24). And preserve, prosper, promote, and pilot your Church in all places, to include this congregation, and Oklahoma Capitol Hill Spanish Seventh Day...