Coretta Scott King Award winner Ashley Bryan celebrates three favorite spirituals in this colorful and joyous picture book. This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine. Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine. Come, sing, and celebrate the power of the beloved songs “This Little Light of Mine,” “Oh, When the Saints Go Marching In,” and “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” through kaleidoscopic illustrations of color and cut paper.
When you think of the Newsboys, do you think rock and roll, gold records, concerts, and fame? Shine: Make Them Wonder What You’ve Got reveals the Newsboys in a way you have never seen them before--not just as performers but as Christians. Follow them as they travel through seasons of personal and spiritual growth, undergoing struggles that are common to all believers, experiencing faith-stretching circumstances, and seeking to live for Christ in an authentic way. Their spiritual journeys reflect a deep and growing faith that permeates their music while also transcending it. This new path challenges the limitations we’ve put on Christianity in our postmodern culture and seeks the essence of the Gospel. Shine will challenge and stretch your own spiritual expectations as you discover the dynamics of a living faith.
Readers follow the adventures of a group of children and their parents as they enjoy the warmth of a sunny summer vacation. Celebrate all the wonders of summer in this final book in Cocca-Leffler's delightful series about the seasons. Full color.
Let Them Shine is a collection of inspiring personal stories of empowerment of young children from award-winning Los Angeles principal Michael Alan Haggood, EdD. This book will help educators nurture the light in each child. Organized around twelve traits, Dr. Haggood highlights the crucial role educators play in children's lives and how their actions often have lifelong effects on the children in their care. After all, "No child can learn from you if they feel you are not interested in them." Woven into each narrative are teaching and learning strategies for parents and teachers. Readers will be asked to reflect on their own experiences as each chapter challenges them with thoughtful questions to ponder and answer to make positive, intentional changes. This book is perfect for book study groups or book clubs. All stories accurately portray adversity and are ultimately inspirational.
The world into which our children are called to bring a lifetime of light is inundated with darkness, and the parental inclination is to protect them. Though the intentions might be positive, sometimes our instructions and boundaries are motivated by fear, and can actually hinder our children from maturing in their own exciting spiritual adventures. In answering the high calling of parenting, we may find that God’s goals for our children are focused in a surprisingly different direction from what we have assumed. Let It Shine is a Scripture-based study exploring specific attitudes and practices that enable parents to encourage each child to discover and develop his or her personal, God-given purpose. Rather than hiding out in the safety and limitations of the bunkers we sometimes tend to create, our children can become adept at using their gifts and abilities as God intends.
The Shine On Series: Shine On Rise & Shine Come Rain or Shine Let It Shine Emmie is once again a quintessential good girl. Brave, Southern, and Kind. An ex-moonshiner. And finally married to Silas McDowell. Silas and Emmie McDowell have worked hard to carve out a new life together in Louisville. Emmie spends her days helping with Dr. Stone’s children’s clinic, thanks to Walter and Bo’s moonshine money. Silas spends his days defending the good people of Kentucky at his law firm. They are the picture perfect couple. When rum unexpectedly appears in Silas’s speakeasy, he is thrown back into the dark world of nightlife, liquor, and secrets. Unsure who is friend or foe, Emmie finds herself left alone in a new place. All around her, people are dropping hints about the man her husband has become in this big city. Emmie begins to wonder if her life as a newlywed has been as picture perfect as she once believed or if Silas has staged the photo to reflect what she wanted to see. Emmie attempts to be a good wife, a good friend, a good worker, but is drawn to trouble like a moth to a flame. Silas always said that she was a light in his dark world. Deep down, he wonders if he can ever offer the same light to her. Shadows always creep in when they are least expected, but at the end of the day Emmie refuses to ever let herself or those that she loves get lost in the darkness. Good or bad. Right or wrong. Emmie will always find a way to Let It Shine.
The leaves turn red, brown, and orange, then drift down from the trees. It's time to go apple picking and on hayrides at the county fair. Fall is finally here! With soft, colourful art, adorable children, and seasonal outdoor scenes, Let It Fall celebrates the beauty of autumn.
The definitive history of solar power and technology Even as concern over climate change and energy security fuel a boom in solar technology, many still think of solar as a twentieth-century wonder. Few realize that the first photovoltaic array appeared on a New York City rooftop in 1884, or that brilliant engineers in France were using solar power in the 1860s to run steam engines, or that in 1901 an ostrich farmer in Southern California used a single solar engine to irrigate three hundred acres of citrus trees. Fewer still know that Leonardo da Vinci planned to make his fortune by building half-mile-long mirrors to heat water, or that the Bronze Age Chinese used hand-size solar-concentrating mirrors to light fires the way we use matches and lighters today. With thirteen new chapters, Let It Shine is a fully revised and expanded edition of A Golden Thread, Perlin’s classic history of solar technology, detailing the past forty years of technological developments driving today’s solar renaissance. This unique and compelling compendium of humankind’s solar ideas tells the fascinating story of how our predecessors throughout time, again and again, have applied the sun to better their lives — and how we can too.
