Author : Don Bowlin
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 21,58 MB
Release : 2012-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 144975192X
God's Magnificent Beanfield ...fires the imagination, inspires the faithful, and celebrates the family. If you believe true miracles are a thing of the past, Mr. Bowlin will convince you otherwise.
Author : John Nichols
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 33,77 MB
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 146685961X
The Milagro Beanfield War is the first book in John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy (“Gentle, funny, transcendent.” —The New York Times Book Review), later adapted to film by Robert Redford. Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began-though few knew it at the time-the Milagro beanfield war. But like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork war, fought more by tactical retreats than by battlefield victories. Gradually, the small farmers and sheepmen begin to rally to Joe's beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. And downstate in the capital, the Anglo water barons and power brokers huddle in urgent conference, intent on destroying that symbol before it destroys their multimillion-dollar land-development schemes. The tale of Milagro's rising is wildly comic and lovingly tender, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, gropes its way toward its own stubborn salvation.
Author : Charles Marsh
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 13,67 MB
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307390381
Winner, Christianity Today 2015 Book Award in History/Biography Shortlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography In the decades since his execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor, theologian, and anti-Hitler conspirator, has become one of the most widely read and inspiring Christian thinkers of our time. With unprecedented archival access and definitive scope, Charles Marsh captures the life of this remarkable man who searched for the goodness in his religion against the backdrop of a steadily darkening Europe. From his brilliant student days in Berlin to his transformative sojourn in America, across Harlem to the Jim Crow South, and finally once again to Germany where he was called to a ministry for the downtrodden, we follow Bonhoeffer on his search for true fellowship and observe the development of his teachings on the shared life in Christ. We witness his growing convictions and theological beliefs, culminating in his vocal denunciation of Germany’s treatment of the Jews that would put him on a crash course with Hitler. Bringing to life for the first time this complex human being—his substantial flaws, inner torment, the friendships and the faith that sustained and finally redeemed him—Strange Glory is a momentous achievement.
Author : Lesley Poling-Kempes
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 29,75 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780896724358
Just outside of Santa Fe, in the land of The Milagro Beanfield War, a group of pilgrims converge on the edge of a canyon for a last chance at life.
Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,32 MB
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0062565451
The revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human love: affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God.? In this work Lewis examines four varieties of love, as approached from the Greek language: storge, the most basic form; philia, the rarest and perhaps most insightful; eros, passionate love; and agape, the love of God, the greatest and least selfish. ?Throughout this compassionate and reasoned study, he encourages readers to open themselves to all forms of love—the key to understanding that brings us closer to God.? "There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable . . . draw nearer to God, not be trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armor. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it."? In Four Loves, C. S. Lewis explores love to help you · Strengthen your interpersonal relationships · Understand the different between needed pleasures and appreciation pleasures and need-love and gift-love · Care for the people in your life, avoid pitfalls, and improve your relationship God The Four Loves holds a mirror to our current society and leaves no doubt that our modern understanding of love is heavily misunderstood.
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Page : 828 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 1879
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Author : Dai Hankey
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 2012-07
Category : Men
ISBN : 9781905564347
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Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,10 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Agriculture
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Author : Ted Kooser
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 11,98 MB
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780803278110
In the "quietest magnificent book IUve ever read" (Jim Harrison, author of "Legends of the Fall") Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska--an area known as the Bohemian Alps--where nothing is too big or too small for his attention.
Author : Donald Newlove
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Fiction
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