Bøger af Larry Jones

In ancient Babylon, the enemies of the Prophet Daniel spent fifty years trying to dig up some dirt on him without success. We don't have to work so hard to find flaws in our public figures today. These are dark times where our political elite are filled with dishonesty and corruption. They consider themselves above the law. Sitting in lifetime appointments given them by an ignorant and apathetic populace, they are no longer examples of statesmanship and integrity, but accomplished scoundrels trying not to get caught. They are driving our nation over a cliff. How did we get to such a low point? I believe that a great deal of the blame can be laid at the feet of the Church. In a nation where hundreds of churches are found in every major city, how can there be such moral rot? We simply haven't done our job. Can the free fall be stopped? Yes! Christians have the solution: the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ; the greatest news ever known to man. It is this glorious light that alone has the power to change hearts and governments. Yet we keep it largely to ourselves. We wait for someone else to spread the Good News, while our world crumbles around us. This book is a wake-up call to the Christian community. With practical methods for success, "Well Done?" exhorts Christians to return to the Great Commission of Christ: to make disciples of all men. Before it's too late.

Written by 3 Master Masons. Masonry Inside Out is a series of lectures from different perspectives to aid in the development of Brothers. Dive in to learn more about how the travels of these 3 have impacted their lives and allowed them to grow into who they are. We notice that we have a common experience around lifelong learning and growth. This is our opportunity to help you grow as we did. Travel Light.

Money is a struggle for a lot of people. Billions on the planet struggle to make enough money. Millions can't seem to dig their way out of crushing debt loads. Most are living paycheck to paycheck, trying to figure out if they will ever get ahead, financially. Are you one of those people? Well, believe it or not, I know you are capable of creating a financial turnaround. You can be the hero of your money story. You only need a guide to show you the way. With the right knowledge, the right strategy, and the determination to win, anybody can be a money hero. Will it be easy? Will it happen overnight? Will there be obstacles to overcome? No, it won't be easy. It's going to take a lot of hard work over an extended period of time. And, you will most likely have many challenges to overcome. But, the heroic money journey is worth it! Using valuable "nuggets" of financial wisdom from his money heroes - Dave Ramsey, Robert Kiyosaki, Tony Robbins, R. Nelson Nash, and Robert G. Allen - author Larry Jones dug himself out of debt TWICE for a total of $130,000 in debt repayment over nine years. Over this period, Larry has moved from negative to positive net worth. He learned how to use money to generate more money. He learned how to think and act like the wealthy. The book Heroic Personal Finances: 3 Steps To Become A Money Hero will: - Inspire you with three "big picture" steps for your journey to wealth. - Stress the importance of a long-term financial vision for your life. - Help you formulate a financial plan so that you move forward in your personal finances. - Focus your thinking on creating money systems. - Guide you to think like an entrepreneur: "You, Inc." - Explain the three types of income and which ones you should focus your time and energy on. - Coach you on two debt repayment strategies. - Encourage several bank account savings strategies. - Discuss automating your money. - Give you the "how to" on financial organization and asset protection. - Remind you to "plug up" any tax leaks. - Encourage you to take a "financial health day." This book also contains download links to a FREE workbook as well as an Excel budget spreadsheet. These are valuable tools to use as you work through these three steps to becoming a money hero.

Have you ever been confused by the scope and complexity of all of the financial information available to you? Wouldn't it be nice if there were a roadmap, a set of simple steps based on sound principles that would easily lead to financial independence? Something that you didn't need an MBA to understand? If you've ever had these feelings this book was written with you in mind. Here's a simple set of steps, using tried and true Biblical precepts, that will lead you to financial freedom.

Foreword I must have already been fifteen or sixteen by the time I was first confronted by J. D. Salinger's story "Franny", whose setting is over lunch with a boyfriend, Lane, prior to his presumably Ivy League mater's football game against Yale. When she returns to their table after recovering from an episode of dizziness and nausea, he questions her about the small book she has been carrying. She nonchalantly responds that it is titled The Way of a Pilgrim, the story of how a Russian wanderer learns the power of "praying without ceasing." The prayer in play is "The Jesus Prayer," the mantra "Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me," internalized to a point where it becomes unconscious, like a heartbeat. So essentially this is the story of a nice Jewish girl from the Upper East Side of Manhattan mesmerizing herself in a Catholic requiem which becomes a Zen koan. When after her disclosure Franny faints, Lane tends to her until she regains consciousness, postpones the weekend's events, hails a tax for her, and leaves Franny, who is still praying without ceasing. This present selection of my poems harkens back to that initial reading of Salinger's story, and to Dante's of "the love that moves the sun and other stars," through a spring semester with Paul Ruggiers, a distinguished Jesuit scholar who taught at the University of Oklahoma at the time. Admittedly, my identification with the Judeo-Christian tradition is largely incidental; had I been born somewhere other than Biblically belted Norman Oklahoma, I might well have been inclined toward Buddhism, Islam, etc. (then again there may well be something nominative going on, Jones being a derivation from John, St. John the Baptist having been the disciple to proclaim Christ, something perhaps both semiotic and symbolic). The eventual assembly of this collection evolved in what educators refer to backward design, an objective for a curriculum being determined and then strategies toward it devised. Just prior writing another of my raunchy" ditties, "Peepshow," I vowed to next subject myself to a sustained, spiritual, interrogation; "five stations," a rather apparent evocation of T. S. Eliot's "Four Quartets," followed. The collection then began to reassemble itself along the strata of that sequence. (I continue to find myself amused with the knowledge that Hunter College, my thrice-fold alma mater, declined Thomas Stearns a faculty position early in his career, a history courtesy former Hunter and Princeton professor, and John Berryman drinking buddy, James Williams). And so these were the origins of a poem of common prayer, perhaps best characterized as a collision and collusion between Eliotic apology and Whitmanic queer theory. The impact of my initial encounter with Franny Glass some fifty years hence continues to haunt me in an oddly reassuring way. Yes the possibility of the ability to pray without ceasing, to quote the close to the last line to my last poem herein, "a love poem being a prayer" that, in fact, something, or one, greater than ourselves does indeed love us. L.W.J.