Would you volunteer for open heart surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation treatments? Would you consider becoming severely depressed? Well don't worry, you won't have to volunteer. Unfortunately, heart disease and cancer are the leading causes of death in the United States. If you live a normal life span, the chances are better than even money that you will experience one of the above conditions. And should you ever need to be in a hospital, will you be adequately insured or will it be a trip to the poor house for you and your family? Even those who don't need to be hospitalized spend millions of dollars daily on prescription drugs, and yes, antidepressants are still listed among the top selling prescription drugs in the country. If there is a loving God, then why do so many people find themselves in these kinds of situations? Would you prefer not to be in such a situation? If your doctor informed you that by reading just five or ten minutes a day for the next 30 days you could significantly lower your risk of experiencing these types of conditions, would you follow his or her advice? What if your doctor told you that your recovery was far more likely, would you listen then? Dispensing Truth addresses these issues from a biblical basis but with the unique perspective of one who is not only an ordained minister but a community pharmacist as well. The results reveal some amazing answers. Answers that provide truth, hope, and encouragement to the troubled, to the sick, and to the dying. Discover for yourself a file of divine prescriptions that can restore and maintain good health.
Dispensing means to distribute. God dispenses Himself to you just as you may dispense food to your guests. Many readers of the Bible have realized that in the Gospel of John the Father is revealed, the Son is revealed, and the Spirit is revealed. But not many have realized that in the Gospel of John the Triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—is revealed for the dispensing of Himself into us first as life, then as life supply, and then as everything.
By the late eighteenth century, universities in England and Germany had lost their sense of purpose. The romantics then presented them with a new one, a new Idea of a university. In Germany, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and others stressed that universities must teach more effectively; in England, Coleridge and Wordsworth attached to the German Idea a desire to keep the universities part of England's national church.
Since at least the days of ancient Sparta, governments have sought to control the educational process. By influencing the education of their citizens, governments hope to produce loyal subjects. Yet everywhere, at all times, men and women of independent mind and will have resisted and opposed state education. Critics of State Education: A Reader surveys this important movement, bringing together influential historical texts of thinkers great and small. In readings from Plato’s Athens to Priestley’s Britain, George H. Smith and Marilyn Moore explore the value of liberating education from the influence and control of government.
This book questions our perceptions of China. It is argued that what is commonly understood to be 'China' is, in large part, a collage of images. These images - created and manipulated by individuals and groups within the boundaries of the Chinese state in order to pursue their own social, economic and political ambitions - have been accepted, elaborated upon, strengthened and made legitimate by European and American social scientists and by other professional commentators on China. If shaped or strongly conditioned by these images, policies towards China are likely to prove either inappropriate or dangerous.
The use of symbolism is an art, not a science. Different people use symbols in a variety of ways and each symbol can have diverse meanings, even within the same culture. Not surprisingly, determining the meaning of symbols can be difficult. This valuable reference defines the general symbolism of more than 15,000 terms, from ancient to modern, as well as specialized meanings in mythology, religion, art, literature, folklore, flower language, astrology, heraldry, numerology, and cultures the world over. From "0" to "Zu," each entry catalogs all possible connotations, listed by culture when appropriate, creating the most comprehensive symbolism dictionary available.
Tipping the Scales of Justice: How Will “We the People” Respond? Reflections based on thirteen years in Federal Bankruptcy Court and NY Supreme and NJ Superior State Courts, and the expenditure of in excess of $1.6 million: “WITHOUT TRUTH THERE CAN BE NO JUSTICE; WITHOUT JUSTICE THE TRUTH BECOMES IRRELEVANT.” Being a Nation ruled by “law”, the greatest danger to the future of America and to the preservation of our individual freedoms is from within our borders, from those who make the laws (Congress), those who enforce the laws (attorneys, judges, courts), and those who administer the laws (President and Chief Executive, commander of the US Armed Forces) governing these United States. This noble experiment of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, rather than being governed by a king or monarch who inherited or usurped such powers, staked its future on the “rule of law”, rather than “rule by birth” or “rule by might”. For America’s first 150 years, “Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Law” were used in Courts, the US Senate, and prestigious law schools to define the law and train persons therein throughout America. Blackstone taught that common law evolved from God, whose laws were absolute, and that no human laws were of any validity if contrary to the Holy Scriptures (the Bible). In 1930 “Blackstone’s Commentaries” were discontinued as the governing source documents in US Law Schools, in favor of the “Case Law” approach, whereby US Laws and the US Constitution would be interpreted in an “evolving” manner based on “trends” in prior court decisions, rather than by Almighty God’s ultimate authority as envisioned by the Founding Fathers. This book, (based upon the Author’s 13 years as a volunteer seeking to address a bondholder grievance), is written to clearly reveal the extremely dangerous and destructive legal rulings and procedures evolving from substituting human authority/judgment for God’s, resulting in a legal system which no longer seeks truth and justice as its primary objective, but simply oversees an “adversarial competition” favoring the guilty under the guise of fairness or legal necessity. The Author carefully chronicles his extended 13-year court experiences, to identify what he believes is both the root cause of our current major problems in the U.S. and the primary reason for the now diminishing prior greatness of these United States of America: REPLACING “THE BIBLE” AND “THE CONSTITUTION” AS THE BASIS OF U.S. LAW AND ORDER, WITH EVOLVING HUMAN VALUES. Just as the Israelites replaced God’s simple “Truths” with a “human” set of extensive rules and requirements to inherit Heaven (which actions led to their downfall), so the US Congress, Courts, and Presidential Administrations have created literally thousands of laws, rules, regulations, precedents, executive orders, bureaucratic pronouncements, etc. significantly weakening and clouding the God-inspired simple principles of our Founding Fathers. In Chapter 13: Summary of Lessons Learned, the Author sets forth “Five Guiding Principles” which he believes can return America to its role as God’s “light on the hill”, to share “the way” with the rest of the world. With all due respect, the Author believes the key US problem today is not the “economy” – and whether it has “cyclical” or “structural” problems – but the deterioration of the moral and character values of individual voting Americans, from thos
