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Walk again in your childhood with a favorite animal friend as Pastor Blackstone remembers his boyhood and best friend: a dog named Rover and their adventures together. This series of remembrances and reminisces of a canine companion after over a half a century of time was invoked by an adulthood best friend, a cat named Eddie (highlighted in his own book--Meows from the Manse). Rover: A Boy's Best Friend is a mental stroll through memory lane when the author was much younger and the world of his family's homestead was open for exploration and expedition with a mostly black German Shepherd and Collie mix at his side. Travel with these best friends through the four seasons of nature covered in white and green and brown; through the forest paths of north Perham, a tiny agriculture community in Aroostook County, Maine; through the fields and the pastures of a 720-acre dairy and potato farm as they encounter woodland creatures of every sort and barnyard animals of every kind; through meadows and mornings and moonsets that years later form wonderful illustrations and spiritual lessons for the young man who would grow up to become a pastor for nearly a half century. You will hear from Rover himself as he barks out sermons that will stand the test of time, and homestead homilies that will rebuke and reprove as the author makes a modern application to a boyhood experience with his dog. Sit back and read and recall your own ""dog tales,"" or ""cat tales"" if that is your favorite animal, as you travel again with ""a lad and his Lassie,"" with a ""shaver"" and his Rin Tin Tin, through the early years of life when your best friend was a dog named Rover Barry Blackstone is the pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Ellsworth, Maine. This Maineaic from northern Maine has pastored four churches in forty-four years, his last one for twenty-six years. Pastor Blackstone began writing in 1988 (included in this series of devotionals is his very first memory-story) and though he is a pastor by vocation, he is a writer by avocation. This will be his tenth book published through Resource Publications.

Walk again in your childhood with a favorite animal friend as Pastor Blackstone remembers his boyhood and best friend: a dog named Rover and their adventures together. This series of remembrances and reminisces of a canine companion after over a half a century of time was invoked by an adulthood best friend, a cat named Eddie (highlighted in his own book--Meows from the Manse). Rover: A Boy's Best Friend is a mental stroll through memory lane when the author was much younger and the world of his family's homestead was open for exploration and expedition with a mostly black German Shepherd and Collie mix at his side. Travel with these best friends through the four seasons of nature covered in white and green and brown; through the forest paths of north Perham, a tiny agriculture community in Aroostook County, Maine; through the fields and the pastures of a 720-acre dairy and potato farm as they encounter woodland creatures of every sort and barnyard animals of every kind; through meadows and mornings and moonsets that years later form wonderful illustrations and spiritual lessons for the young man who would grow up to become a pastor for nearly a half century. You will hear from Rover himself as he barks out sermons that will stand the test of time, and homestead homilies that will rebuke and reprove as the author makes a modern application to a boyhood experience with his dog. Sit back and read and recall your own ""dog tales,"" or ""cat tales"" if that is your favorite animal, as you travel again with ""a lad and his Lassie,"" with a ""shaver"" and his Rin Tin Tin, through the early years of life when your best friend was a dog named Rover Barry Blackstone is the pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Ellsworth, Maine. This Maineaic from northern Maine has pastored four churches in forty-four years, his last one for twenty-six years. Pastor Blackstone began writing in 1988 (included in this series of devotionals is his very first memory-story) and though he is a pastor by vocation, he is a writer by avocation. This will be his tenth book published through Resource Publications.

Are you ready for an Alaska adventure? Travel with a pastor through central Alaska on a two-week tour of our fiftieth state. A lifelong dream to visit the land of the midnight sun, this preacher will share his spiritual insights and Biblical observations of the last frontier. Journeying with this Maine minister will be his wife of forty-five years and their first born son, who had spent his final two years of active military service stationed in Alaska with the United States Army. Experience the North Pole and fishing for grayling and rainbow trout near Fairbanks; taste for the first time Alaskan king crab; travel south with this trio to Denali National Park and witness the animal world at its finest; view Mt. McKinley from thirty-six miles; explore the Kenai Peninsula and catch the biggest rainbow trout of your life; visit old missionary friends at their airfield ranch in Chickaloon; take a plane ride over one of the greatest glaciers in the world; four-wheel through virgin forest to a glacier river; feel the spray of ice-cold waterfalls while passing through a mountain pass; share the thrill with your son of hundreds of migrating salmon bumping against your legs in a tidal stream, and pan for gold and find some nearby ancient gold dredge. Travel with the Blackstones as they experience the best of what Alaska can offer tourists as well as the explorers, and on the way learn a few spiritual lessons that might just change your life. Barry Blackstone has been preaching for over fifty years (1966-2018) and pastoring for forty-five years, with twenty-seven of those years in his current pastorate. The husband of Coleen, the father of Scott and Marnie, the father-in-law of Josue, and the grandfather of Judah and Elena, Barry's passion for recording his traveling adventures now including nine books: four to India, one each to Israel, France, Australia, Britain, and now Alaska.

Have you ever wondered what Jesus saw, heard, and did during his so-called ""silent years"" between his birth in Bethlehem, after his trip to Egypt, and before his baptism at the Jordan River? The only mentioned event in the Gospels from that time frame was being forgotten in Jerusalem by his parents at the age of twelve, as recorded by Luke. Barry Blackstone takes you on an imaginative journey, an inspiring jaunt into those days of Jesus as he remembers his own boyhood and early childhood experiences in the tiny farming village of Perham, Maine, a hamlet similar in size and nature to the Nazareth of Jesus' day. After visiting an archeological site in Nazareth in 2010, Blackstone realized the parallels between his obscure upbringing and the quiet years of the Savior in his boyhood home. It is the wish of the author that his reader might see through a morning dew, a blossoming flower, a blue sky, a gentle rain, a brilliant rainbow, a crowing rooster, a loving sister, and a father's carpenter's shop into the life of the boy Jesus. Blackstone attempts to fill in some of the gaps in the story of Jesus by sharing his barnyard memories with an application to the teaching of the adult Jesus. Can one see insights into what Jesus experienced in the lessons, parables, and teachings of his adult ministry? Barry Blackstone has just finished forty-five years in the pastorate and thirty years as a writer. This is the third book (the other two are Homestead Homilies and Rover: A Boy's Best Friend) in which he uses his boyhood experiences and childhood events to instruct his readers of spiritual things and of biblical precepts he has learned as a preacher and teacher. This will be his twelfth book published by Resource Publications.

Coming from this preacher's love of the seashore is a series of sermonettes he heard while walking along some of the world's sandy beaches. Stroll with this man as he shares his insights from days spent on seashores in the counties of Israel, India, Canada, and Australia, as well as the states of Alaska, California, Florida, New Jersey, and Maine. Listen with him as he hears surf and sea sermons, tide and tern tenets, beach and breeze benedictions, and sand and storm sermonettes. Look with him into the face of a coastal nor'easter; watch with him as sea creatures and shoreline birds play together along the sea edge; behold brilliant sunrises and amazing sunsets over distant shores with family and friends; and observe the rising and falling of the great tides, all events along a seashore that inspired these spiritual messages from the Almighty. So take off your shoes; let the sand fill the cracks between your toes; lift your eyes toward the sea; open your ears to the sound of the surf; and ""be still, and know that I am God"" (Ps 46:10). What does God want to say? Barry Blackstone is the pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in the seaside city of Ellsworth, Maine. He is the husband of Coleen and the father of Marnie, and the grandfather of Judah and Elena. His joy of writing has lasted for thirty years; this will be his thirteenth book published, and his fourth book in which he has turned common, seemingly ordinary events in his life into a short sermonette.