John Lynch
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John Lynch was a promising young athlete, but in the spring of 1959, at the age of eleven, he was struck with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), a chronic, painful and disabling disease that today affects 300,000 children in America and makes them unable to live full-functioning, pain-free lives. Children with JRA are sometimes called Katfish, a name that derives from Kids and Teens' Families Investing Support and Hope. John sought treatment continually,...
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In the seventeenth century Bristol was the second city of England. It was the main west coast port, an internationally important entrepot and rich trading centre. Industry flourished, too, with manufacturing and processing industries like soap making and gunpowder production responsible for Bristol's considerable wealth. In consequence, control of the town became one of the chief objectives of both armies during the civil war which raged in England...
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Hauntingly told and emotionally charged, this is an immense story of consuming addiction and the betrayal of trust.
'I knew that the black dot of pain that lay in the centre of his eyes also lay in mine, and that it was a stain that no amount of washing or praying could shift. I think of my loneliness, how it coils around the centre of my being like a long thread of steel and realise that my father must have been the same, he stood on the outside...
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The Cure... for your Worst Day. Many of us stumbled into Jesus and discovered the one we'd been searching for all our lives, whether we knew it or not. He told us everything was going to be alright. He was a best friend who whispered that he loved us to the exact extent his father loved him. He saw everything we did yet refused to condemn us ever. He was an incredibly powerful and supernatural God who could actually change the outcome of our horror...
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Así lo creíamos, pero eventualmente, sin darnos cuenta, la mayoría de nosotros llevamos a nuestra nueva vida, una imágen vieja y muerta. Nos propusimos una meta altísima de esfuerzo propio y al no poder superarla, nos convencimos que venía de Dios. Leíamos su Palabra a través de nuestros filtros de vergüenza y nos sentimos caer cada vez más bajo. Comenzamos a atacarnos el uno al otro juzgando, comparando, fingiendo y dividiéndonos. Algunos...
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The Cure gives the diagnosis of this century's religious obsession with sin-management. It has poisoned the Church, obscuring the Original Good News and sending millions away-wounded, angry and cynical, from nearly any organized expression of faith. The Cure offers an authentic experience in Christ that frees some from a self-rewarded righteousness, and others from a beaten down striving for a righteousness they can never seem to attain. The Cure...
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This novel is set in the Colony of Victoria in the mid 1800's. John Williams is a London bobby who clashed with his commissioner, this together with his wife's poor health made him emigrate. Sean Hogan is a North England former farrier and then miner who has experienced the trauma of a mine collapse and seeks a change in his life. They both immigrate to the Australian Colony of Victoria to find that new life.
John joins the Victorian Colony Police...
8) The Tempest
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The war between Azania and New Persia erupts as a biochemical seed storm blows out of the Northern Waste. Basir Turani gains rank as a commander of Persian forces, but the challenges he faces are greater than ever. Suri Pahlavi is offered an opportunity to serve her country. Nasrin Avesta comes into her own, but what sacrifices is she willing to make? Farad Hashemi fights the enemy in the air and under the waves. The storm of war breaks across the...
9) Endemic
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the darkness of the Congo, a team of special operatives sent by a shadowy organization races to find the true origin of the Ebola virus. A doctor, a scientist, a bio-engineered martial artist, a voodoo priest and a cyborg… none is prepared for the true horror that awaits them.
10) Before the Storm
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In the far future, four friends fight to survive a hostile climate and war between two superpowers locked in a struggle to the death.
In the far future, human colonists have forgotten their origins. Their planet is hostile to human life, spawning continent-spanning storms of fire and destruction. Civilization clings to life, advancing in knowledge between storms and regressing when the firestorms reduce entire nations to ash.
Two nations dominate...
11) You Can't Build Skyscrapers On Swamp Lands: Foundation Principles For Success in Life and Business
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"Life is not meant to be given to you. If you want to grow your life, you must grow your person"
Like most eighteen year olds who had just graduated from high school, I thought I was ready to take on the world. I was dating and had a steady girlfriend, I had worked my way through competitive surfing as a top ranked amateur and could already dream about becoming a full-time professional. Most importantly, I had all the wisdom and guidance from my...
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Three friends enlist in WW1 and find their niche in life. One seeking to become an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer and a Pilot.
This young country boy with a mechanical aptitude, has a fascination with aviation, and ultimately achieves his ambition. Starting as an assistant to a town mechanic, he becomes a qualified mechanic. During this time, he collects as much information as possible, on the emerging Aviation Industry, while carrying out kite flying...
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Michael, convicted of a minor crime, is sent to Van Diemen's Land to serve his sentence; John (the soldier) is involved in a minor scandal that means he must resign his commission. He decides to pursue a new military career in the Colonies. Paths cross, families join and hardships are overcome. This is a story of courage, seized opportunities and new beginnings. This novel is an insight into the life and times of an Irish convict and English soldier...
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In the 1860s in the Colony of Victoria, Tabu an aborigine goes 'walkabout' after a violent tribal fight during which his brother is killed. He rescues the wife of a drover/farmer - Michael, who is an escaped convict. He hires Tabu to help him drove sheep into the mainly unexplored northern districts of Victoria to the Murray River. Only a few hardy explorers and drovers had previously been through this country when bringing stock overland from Sydney...
15) The Watchers
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The forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its tree line. Mina's is no different. Left stranded, she is forced into the dark woodland only to find a woman shouting, urging Mina to run to a concrete bunker. As the door slams behind her, the building is besieged by screams. Mina finds herself in a room with a wall of glass, and an electric light that activates at nightfall, when the Watchers come above ground. These creatures emerge...
16) The founder
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Tells the true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
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Trust is vital in our families, communities, businesses, churches, and daily life, yet many of us struggle with trusting other people and even God Himself. We may have been hurt or had our trust broken in a key area, so we choose to try to do life by ourselves. We may not understand what trust really looks like in our everyday lives. Yet trust is what frees us to enjoy the life God has intended for us.
Jesus's invitation is clear throughout the Bible:...
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As the Holocaust is memorialized worldwide through education programs and commemoration days, the common perception is that after survivors arrived and settled in their new homes they continued on a successful journey from rags to riches. While this story is comforting, a closer look at the experience of Holocaust survivors in North America shows it to be untrue. The arrival of tens of thousands of Jewish refugees was palpable in the streets of Montreal...
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Parenting begins with us, the parents. It always involves earning our children's trust. Whether we are overwhelmed at being parents, planning to be parents, reacting to our parents, or learning to stand with our kids as they now parent, we need to know there is always a way home, convinced God is in the middle of every stage of our family. Find yourself in this story as you ride along with the Clawson's on vacation. Go inside the episode as each part...