Douglas Grey has written a gospel, or revelation, concerning his friends and their relation to all that is, was and will be. He was moved to write this down in the mid-nineties after the death of one of his friends. He was never moved to do anything with it. The manuscript is short and will not take much time to read. It is left to the reader to decide if publishing it was worth the effort.

Challenging religious dogma and common precepts of science, Salvatore Scordato exchanges the mysteries of God for the road of logical conclusions. He imparts that our most wished for dreams and fantasies are nothing more than memories recalled and history repeated. This engaging interpretation of the first five books of the Bible asserts that by coupling modern knowledge to the events of the Old Testament (as seen through the eyes of ancient man), we begin to comprehend the parallels of past occurrences with today's scientific and technological advancements. This brave study dares to pull back the curtain to reveal the man who created the wizard. Inspired by the eternal questions, who is God and what is the meaning of life, The Exegesis establishes an exciting new theory of our creation.

You Don't Know the Half of It invites you see into the world of teenage pregnancy, domestic violence, Alzheimer's Disease, and many of life's relationship dynamics - friendship, love, interracial relationships, and sibling rivalry to name a few; all through which God shows up and ultimately gets all the glory.

Dive in head first and join this mother and her daughters who resemble only in appearance as they teach us that just when we think we've got it all figured out, we don't know the half.

Sara has been in an abusive relationship for years. After building up enough courage, she decides to take her three daughters and assumes refuge with her Aunt Niva out in the country. At her aunt's, Sara finds protection from her husband, but she encounters another predicament. Does her aunt worship the devil?

Sara escapes from a world of abuse just to enter one full of spells and witchcraft. Will Sara overcome the evil power that wishes to control her life or will she be consumed into an existence containing wickedness and incantations.?

In a small northern California town, a family of five are being attacked by Demon forces. The father and mother, who have always lived a life serving God, try hard to understand what has gotten into their son, Philip Jr. He rebels all authority, staying out late at night and using the Ouija Board for power and gain. While their daughter Danielle, fights hard trying to stay on top of her failing finances. Her marriage is on the rocks, and the Demon spirits are pulling her away from God and all that she has been brought up to believe in.

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Coming Soon: Bird's Nest on the Ground, P. Calder Weller's second novel.

Elimelech of Tarichiae, in the time of Tiberius Caesar, seeks blood revenge against a Roman for the death of his parents. He looks to a day of reckoning, a day when a messiah will come, and with flaming sword drive out the tyrant from Galilee. He cannot be as a thorn in the side of the Roman and so endanger the innocent - have them die as shepards had upon the cross. He will slay "the last Roman" of them all.

He would marry his foster sister, but her father, for the sake of righteousness, will not permit it.

As an insurrectionist he will forget her. With the sicarria he risks his life in Beth-Shan ... again in the prison of Machaerus. But he cannot forget, even as an innkeeper's daughter beckons from the stairway.

Then to Jerusalem ... the crucifixion ... his meeting with "the last Roman of them all."

All is not violence, hatred and strife. There are scenes that are gentle, moments of peace, the flowering of Estraelon, the streets of Beth-Shan, the affection of Sarah, her dreams and her faith, the baptism of Jesus at the hands of John.

This "Smoky Mountain Version" (SMV) of the Gospel of Mark is about getting the "Word" out- hillbilly style.

It begins with John Bob the Baptizer appearing on Rich Mountain in Townsend Tennessee of the Great Smoky Mountains. In these mountains, located in the southern region of Appalachia with popular culture "knowing" these parts as "hillbilly country", John Bob begins with a baptism of preparation because God is "about to do somethin' special in these parts". John Bob is only preparing the way however.

Jesus arrives from Newport, Tennessee and comes to be baptized by John Bob.

The good news of God is now off and running-running as fast as "swelled and muddy river water".

This Jesus, however, is distinctly Wesleyan and Appalachian in this version. He calls people to acknowledge and accept the offer of God's justifying freedom as an experienced love and to participate in the challenge of God's sanctifying freedom that transforms both the individual and the world. God's freedom begins by "freeing" the person to "be" simply. Furthermore, God transforms the individual into one of God's loving "hillbillies". God redeems and reconstitutes the community for the purpose of nurture, care and challenge- with a hillbilly flavor.

Using the style of "Jack Tales", a storytelling technique of Appalachia, the SMV appropriates a Wesleyan demonstration of God's present, saving and transforming grace in the Jesus of Mark's Gospel.

What's Going On Here?

So You Want to Know, Eh?

Everybody does. Knowledge is power. But information is not knowledge, not before we put our brains to work on it first. Common sense is what we call it when it is used by the man in the street. More learned people can use scientific ways to test information. Common sense requires people to ask questions.

We have just undergone an Information Explosion. Our Age now is known as the Information Age. So now especially we need to be very careful. Our establishment news media are being used widely for propaganda purposes, to promote immoral, anti-social conduct unfit for animals, much less for human beings. Besides, there is promoted in our society, even in our government, behavior that is unfit for our country, unconstitutional, pro-Marxist, profascist, dictatorial with legislators failing to do their duty while judges are making the laws. Education and communications industries have been developed to meet the demand for information, but even they are controlled and tainted with serious error.

Actually, what people seek are looking for is truth.
This what the human mind was created for.
Overwhelmed by clever propaganda disguised as information or news, it's harder and harder for people to arrive at the truth in any area.

Truth is a Right and a Privilege

You have a right to Truth because your Creator gave you a mind that seeks the truth. In this book What's Going On Here? you have the great privilege of getting a full and truthful answer to your question. You can be assured of that because I have asked the right questions and have the training to do so scientifically, questions such as:

Is the person giving you the information in a position to know? What are his sources? Have they been checked? Has the information been tested? Is the person smart enough not to be deceived? Would your source of information have a motive for deceiving others? Are the statements that are being made logical? Do they follow from the the premises upon which they are based?

As the author of this book, I have done all that, having prepared for basic and documented research by formal studies. I am now 92 years of age, have spent 70 years of life serving the material and spiritual needs of people, local and universal as far as able. I have done it for the love of God and of my brothers and sisters in the human family. At this age I am not far from the moment when I will be called to give an account of my stewardship. I am not about to lead anybody astray. If I can bring a little more Truth and Joy into the world that will be my joy.

Mysteries Without End

The present book What's Going On Here? answers the immediate inquiry. Then it opens up minds to a new world of Mysteries and Miracles. The central Truth it explains in simple language is the Mystery of the Catholic Mass. The Catholic Church itself is a mystery. How this institution could survive and maintain its identity through almost 2000 years of history in spite of periodic scandals and storms is certainly a mystery. There is no other institution in the world that has done so. Nor is there is any other institution in the world whose Founder died such a shameful death on a cross and rose from the death with a glorified body. We can begin to understand this mystery if we remember the words of her Founder "And know that I am with you always, even to the end of the world"

The Catholic Church is not perfect and never will be this side of eternity. Jesus came to welcome and save sinners. The Church is here to do the same. Much of our culture and media promote and revel in moral slime. The purpose of this book is to raise peoples' minds to the sublime.

So Take Note of William Shakespeare's words in his play, Julius Caesar:

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at its flood leads to fortune
Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries."

This book could be your tide.

Chosen to bring the Lord's healing power, in answer to prayer, Peter, Cindy, and Kim face a variety of situations. All the while trying to mature to adulthood. Always balancing the relationship between themselves and their families and new-found friends and of course each other. Learning the likes and dislikes of one another, the joys and sorrows and problems. They form a strong bond even when problems and authorities try to tear them apart. Moving constantly towards a finish which is surprising.

That's My Testimony is a collaboration of inspirational short stories. Women have many issues that they deal with in life. Some they share and a lot they don't. There are experiences they are too ashamed to mention. That's My Testimony removes the mask and unveils topics that are taboo. These stories will intrigue the reader and grip their soul through its intimate details. They share the abuse, heartache, and infidelity that women tend to hide or block out of their memory. Although these characters are fictional, their stories are real. They are compilations of different people's lives. Not only do these characters expose their skeletons, they also reveal how these traumatic episodes wooed them to a tender-loving God. These women are survivors and have purposed to fulfill their destiny at any cost.

Many of the greatest stories in the Bible leave us yearning for more details. This author has written a story involving the family from the Bethlehem Inn during the year before the birth of Jesus.

Jesus' birth brings about a dramatic change in the inkeeper's life, who is perhaps the first convert to Jesus.

The year before Jesus is born in Bethlehem, Zaham the innkeeper hires a traveling builder to convert a feed storage room at the back of the inn to a secret room for his valuables.

The oldest son, Jubal, is a traveling courier who comes upon a young woman alone at night on the road north of Bethsaida. her name is Kerith and she is the only member of an extended family to escape abduction by a band of Roman army deserters. This entire group travels by horseback east into the unknown toward Babylon, eventually bound for Egypt. Jubal and Kerith fall in love, marry and walk home to Bethlehem. They find lodging with a couple in Nazareth (Joseph and Mary), for two night.

At home in Bethlehem Kerith is popular with all except Jubal's parents. by winter, Jubal reckons the band holding Kerith's family may cross the salt sea to the south heading west. he makes an excuse for business to leave home and travels south to the wells at Punon, the area's main water source south of the salt sea. He learns a band resembling the one he seeks passed by four days before. Jubal pursues the group on a camel and finally catches up to them days later at dusk. he attacks the enemy by cutting loose their tethered mounts and frightens them into stampeding over the camp of sleeping men. he frees Kerith's parents and the three of them and the camel begin walking north for Bethlehem.

When Joseph and Mary arrive in Bethlehem for the census, Zaham refuses to even talk about a room for them. Kerith takes them to an animal shelter in a cave behind her house because her own house is full of travelers, some of whom are ill. Kerith makes them as comfortable as possible and calls in a midwife. The angel who first talked to Mary, then Joseph, appears to them and assures them all will be well and Jesus is born at that time.

Meanwhile, Zaham had a bad day because of a promise by Johannan the census taker to reward him with extra money and a gold piece for the use of his secret room was cancelled due to a disagreement with a courtesan. She leaves Johanan abruptly, and Johanan leaves Bethlehem for Jerusalem. Zaham is beside himself with anger and self-pity. Sleepless, he decides to murder his family, commit suicide, and end everyone's misery at once. the angel appears to Zaham in his bedroom. He shows him the error of his ways and points out how all the things that he dislikes are actually projects that needed to be accomplished, including the secret room, for the safety of the holy family. Zaham finally sees the light and commits himself and his family to the well-being of Jesus' early years.

Elaine thought she had accepted her life as an adopted child. Now, on the verge of college graduation and her twenty-fi rst birthday, she's not so sure. A recurring dream from her childhood has returned. Who is the old man in the dream and why does it seem so important to fi nd him?

Despite her mother's pleas, Elaine begins a search that leads her from Boston, Massachusetts to Independence, Missouri.

Alone for the first time in her life, Elaine is faced with choices she wouldn't have imagined. What is she really searching for, and will she be willing to accept what she finds? Love, faith and family will all be tested as she searches for the Missing Pieces.

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Riddle Of The Ages is the story of a young woman drawn by a trail of ancient, gold coins, to Mount Arrat, the site of Noah's Ark, where she finds romance, adventure, and spiritual awakening.

All the so-called "higher religions" are having a hard time coming to terms with "modernism", especially with the "truths" discovered by the scientific method. This applies even to Christianity which in some ways has been both the initiator and the long-term opponent of modernism with which it has been battling for longer than the other religions.

I believe that the central problem is a failure to recognise that science and religion use language in very different ways. Science (and to some extent philosophy also) attempts to arrive at the truth about the world by vigourously logical methods founded upon experimental testing: a step-by-step procedure that hopefully approaches truth evermore closely. Religion, on the other hand, though it may have some very specific material and historical aspects, is ultimately concerned to express and come to terms with truths that probably lie beyond the horizons of human understanding. Even where there may be some sort of divine revelation of religious truth, this is inevitably expressed in the form of finite metaphor, poetry and myth.

Above all I think that this means that religious language has to use a mythological method for conveying its ultimate truths. This is especially obvious in those areas of human concern which the theologians call "eschatological", that is the supposed truths about life after death and the final End and Destiny of Everything. If religions make the mistake of trying to reply to the challenges of science using prosaic, matter-of-fact language, they end up compromising their deepest truths which cannot be expressed in this way. What is needed, instead, is a readiness to use insightful, imaginative and even speculative language: the vehicle of mythopoeic thought in fact.

This little book is just an attempt to suggest some outlines of a possible way of expressing the classical truths of the Christian faith in a contemporary, mythological manner. I do not claim "divine revelation" for these ideas but I do hope that many will be encouraged to engage in a dynamic dialogue over them - even believers in other religions: Reality is ultimately Unitary.