Author: Administrator
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Celebrate the Journey
Celebrate the Journey: The Presbyterian Presence in the USA chronicles the significant impact that Presbyterians have had on the American culture. Pegging the Presbyterian presence to chronological periods in the United States, beginning with the Colonial Period and continuing through the 1990’s, Celebrate the Journey lifts up key Presbyterian leaders for their contribution to both…
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Connecting Diversity in Community
American society has never been more culturally diverse and rich, yet our communities are sadly fragmented. People with unique heritages and perspectives live side by side, but seldom interact with each other in any meaningful way. In many communities, our churches physically occupy the center of a town or neighborhood, but they are not necessarily…
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Congregations Who Care
What is a parish nurse? The creation of Parish Nurse positions represents a new perspective on health ministry. It is a response to the Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly policy statement that challenges individual congregations to become communities of health and wholeness. Churches are encouraged to become ‘vigorous and conscious promoters of health in all…
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The Completion of a Memoir
June 27, 2007 at the Ogle Center (Hanover College), Hanover, Indiana.
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Celebrate What’s Right With The World
Dewitt Jones asks: Do we choose to see possibilities? do we really believe they’re there? He assures us that there is always more than one right answer. Celebrating what’s right with the world helps us recognize the possibilities and find solutions for many of the challenges before us. Celebrate What’s Right With the World provides…
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Light Our Way
Excerpt from the introduction: ‘The purpose of this resource is to inform, encourage and affirm the hundreds of thousands of disaster responders who put their personal plans and routines on hold in the event of a local or national disaster. If you are one of those who carries out one or more of the myriad…
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Heart in Focus
Do you control your money or does it control you? Imagine feeling confident in using money and living a life that is free from the trappings it brings — free from financial worry, free from debt, and free from all the demands and pressures. Imagine feeling in control of your finances with a plan for…
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Joy in Singing
From the Foreward by Jane Parker Huber ‘Language shapes our thinking. This has been stated before, and in recent years especially, has been effectively demonstrated in sociological, theological, and personal terms. Many people, however, resist the idea that words are all that significant. But, as Christians we are a people of THE WORD, and therefore,…
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Confessions of a Hoosier Christian
From the back cover ‘The purpose of this memoir is to share with my children some memories of my boyhood and young adult life, and then talk about what was going on with their father during our life together as a family in the decades of the fifties and sixties in Athens, Georgia, Ithaca, New…
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Celebrating Our Journey 1802-1991
Excerpt from the Introduction: Our history was prepared after almost 200 years of neglect, in the hope that we may stop the loss of the records of our forebearers, and as a reminder for us to be more effective in recording our history for the future. These brave settlers, who came to the wilderness that…
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The History And Character Of Calvinism
‘As Professor McNeill points out, all modern history would be unrecognizably different without Calvin… He has therefore done a great service in presenting in one volume not only an account of the life and teaching of Calvin, but a survey of Calvinism down to our own day…Not only for the general reader but scholars as…