Glory, Hallelujah!.


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Lift Every Voice and Sing II Accompaniment Edition


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This popular collection of 280 musical pieces from both the African American and Gospel traditions has been compiled under the supervision of the Office of Black Ministries of the Episcopal Church. It includes service music and several psalm settings in addition to the Negro spirituals, Gospel songs, and hymns.




Song of the Stars


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Song of the Stars,?written by bestselling author Sally Lloyd-Jones, takes children on the journey of Advent and the anticipation of Jesus’ arrival. All of creation comes together in this poetic and majestic telling of the Christmas story.Join every creature as they celebrate the arrival of Jesus! It’s time! It's time! Snuggle close with little ones as you read through this beautiful story about how all of creation is waiting for and celebrating the arrival of Jesus. From the woodland creatures to the depth of the sea, every creature comes together during this Advent season to share the word that Jesus is coming. Beautifully illustrated and told from the perspective of the animals and all creation,?Song of the Stars: features poetic text that is perfect for children ages 4-7 makes a great read aloud with parents and grandparents during the Christmas season is ideal for Advent and Christmas Eve story time explores the joy, excitement, and celebration of creation and the coming of Jesus inspires discussions of why Advent is observed celebrates the nativity story in a unique and touching way This sweet picture book is great for Christmas-themed story times and as an addition for your little one’s library that will be treasured for many years.




Hymns for Worship


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The Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal.


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Hot Chocolate For The Mind


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The new book, Hot Chocolate For The Mind is a collection of funny short stories and musings from Stand-Up Comedian Dwayne Perkins. Dwayne has traveled the world and luckily his sense of humor, keen observational skills, laptop and fingers were with him along the way. The native New Yorker, residing in Los Angeles and touring internationally brings inspiration and perspective to situations that would stump a lesser man. This is the book David Sedaris would've written if he was a straight Black man from Brooklyn doing stand-up in Dubai.A regular on Conan and Comedy Central, with this effort Dwayne expands his stand-up and paints pictures that keep you laughing long after you've read them. This collection of amusing musings leaves the reader with time-released comedy jewels.Just when you think you're safe you'll find yourself chuckling at the stranger in London who sprayed Dwayne with perfume while they stood in line at the pharmacy or the impromptu bake off Dwayne had with his roommate, or Dwayne's plan to become a stripper in order to better all mankind. Parallel to but more expansive than his stand-up, this book's positivity sneaks up on you. You pay for the laughs, the good vibes and inspiration are free. Some say this collection of comedy essays will make your teeth whiter. Others say it will make you grow a full inch. Dwayne hopes his anecdotes and philosophies warms your cockles while making you laugh so hard that soda comes out of your nose (drinking soda while reading this book is not recommended). It's fine time that a book left your mind in a better state than it found it in. "Hot Chocolate for the Mind" will fill you with goodness or at least help you laugh away your stress.This book won't teach you how to be a comedian but it will give you access into the inner workings of one of America's best comedic minds. "Hot Chocolate" seamlessly weaves from funny true stories to Dwayne's hilarious take on life. When you take a comic inspired by George Carlin, most compared to Bill Cosby but from the same streets as Chris Rock, you get a unique take on the world, you get stories that go down like warm pudding, you get, "Hot Chocolate For The Mind."From one of the top comedians working in America today comes one of the funniest books in a long time. Step You Should Take: 1.Click 'look inside' to get a sneak peek at this humorous book 2.See Dwayne live at some point in your amazing life3.Enjoy this excerpt about the time dominated his cousins in Connect Four: Pretty Sneaky Sis I spent most of last weekend playing Connect 4 with my 10 and 9 year old little cousins. There's no better confidence builder than pouncing on little kids. When the smoke cleared, my win-loss record was 57-2. The two losses? Well, one was dumb luck and the other should have an asterisk because my cousin put in 2 red pieces at a time. I called it cheating. She called it improvising. Well, she would have called it that if she knew that word. I rule.4. Buy Hot Chocolate for the Mind5.Explain to your friends why you're laughing through out the day6.Repeat step 4. (I kid but Step four is the most important step)7. Have a great day About the Author: Dwayne Perkins is an internationally touring stand-up comic. He resides in Los Angeles, CA but mentions his hometown of Brooklyn, NY as much as humanly possible.




Martin Luther King’s Biblical Epic


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In his final speech “I've Been to the Mountaintop,” Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his support of African American garbage workers on strike in Memphis. Although some consider this oration King's finest, it is mainly known for its concluding two minutes, wherein King compares himself to Moses and seems to predict his own assassination. But King gave an hour-long speech, and the concluding segment can only be understood in relation to the whole. King scholars generally focus on his theology, not his relation to the Bible or the circumstance of a Baptist speaking in a Pentecostal setting. Even though King cited and explicated the Bible in hundreds of speeches and sermons, Martin Luther King's Biblical Epic is the first book to analyze his approach to the Bible and its importance to his rhetoric and persuasiveness. Martin Luther King's Biblical Epic argues that King challenged dominant Christian supersessionist conceptions of Judaism in favor of a Christianity that affirms Judaism as its wellspring. In his final speech, King implicitly but strongly argues that one can grasp Jesus only by first grasping Moses and the Hebrew prophets. This book also traces the roots of King's speech to its Pentecostal setting and to the Pentecostals in his audience. In doing so, Miller puts forth the first scholarship to credit the mostly unknown, but brilliant African American architect who created the large yet compact church sanctuary, which made possible the unique connection between King and his audience on the night of his last speech.




The Battle Hymn of the Republic


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It was sung at Ronald Reagan's funeral, and adopted with new lyrics by labor radicals. John Updike quoted it in the title of one of his novels, and George W. Bush had it performed at the memorial service in the National Cathedral for victims of September 11, 2001. Perhaps no other song has held such a profoundly significant--and contradictory--place in America's history and cultural memory than the "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." In this sweeping study, John Stauffer and Benjamin Soskis show how this Civil War tune has become an anthem for cause after radically different cause. The song originated in antebellum revivalism, with the melody of the camp-meeting favorite, "Say Brothers, Will You Meet Us." Union soldiers in the Civil War then turned it into "John Brown's Body." Julia Ward Howe, uncomfortable with Brown's violence and militancy, wrote the words we know today. Using intense apocalyptic and millenarian imagery, she captured the popular enthusiasm of the time, the sense of a climactic battle between good and evil; yet she made no reference to a particular time or place, allowing it to be exported or adapted to new conflicts, including Reconstruction, sectional reconciliation, imperialism, progressive reform, labor radicalism, civil rights movements, and social conservatism. And yet the memory of the song's original role in bloody and divisive Civil War scuttled an attempt to make it the national anthem. The Daughters of the Confederacy held a contest for new lyrics, but admitted that none of the entries measured up to the power of the original. "The Battle Hymn" has long helped to express what we mean when we talk about sacrifice, about the importance of fighting--in battles both real and allegorical--for the values America represents. It conjures up and confirms some of our most profound conceptions of national identity and purpose. And yet, as Stauffer and Soskis note, the popularity of the song has not relieved it of the tensions present at its birth--tensions between unity and discord, and between the glories and the perils of righteous enthusiasm. If anything, those tensions became more profound. By following this thread through the tapestry of American history, The Battle Hymn of the Republic illuminates the fractures and contradictions that underlie the story of our nation.




You Don't Know Me


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Fourteen-year-old John creates alternative realities in his mind as he tries to deal with his mother's abusive boyfriend, his crush on a beautiful, but shallow classmate, and other problems at school.




Hymns of Grace


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A hymnal featuring the greatest hymns of church history and today.