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1000 tulosta hakusanalla James C. Rodkey
The owner of a prestigious art gallery is found murdered in his gallery on Canyon Road, the artistic center of old Santa Fe. Turns out Sonny Davis had been shot several times by a pistol registered to Ruby Montez, who happens to be one of Detective Fernando Lopez's oldest and best friends. When Ruby calls Fernando from the downtown police station and asks him to find the real killer, Fernando launches an investigation into the sexual entanglements of the bawdy characters who surround Sonny. What he discovers confounds him. Not only has Ruby's gun exchanged hands multiple times, absolutely everyone associated with Sonny considers him a sexual predator and wishes him dead. Everyone wanted to kill Sonny Davis.
Murder and mayhem break out after a Santa Fe photographer surreptitiously videotapes the famous Hopi Snake Dance at First Mesa. An important cultural and religious ceremony, the Hopi Snake Dance is closed to outsiders, which makes the secret videotaping a serious violation of Hopi rules and customs. Even worse, the film collective that sent the photographer wants to sell the videotape to a movie director intending to use clips of the videotape in his latest blockbuster apocalyptic movie. Making peace falls to former Santa Fe Police Detective Fernando Lopez, who attempts to bridge the cultural divide between people who consider the Snake Dance a deeply religious ceremony and those who want to monetize the sensational spectacle. Special Bonus: Includes D.H. Lawrence's famous account of a 1924 Snake Dance, "The Hopi Snake Dance," which Lopez cites in the course of his efforts to help the Hopi.
"A monumental addition to public theology" Assoc. Prof. Stuart Piggin "Grace-Based Justice is grounded and rooted in the mediation of Christ, in His unrepeatable Atonement, and in the supremacy of Christ." Dr. Armen Gakavian "a unique stream of Christian consciousness that demands studious consideration." Martin Howard "Do not dismiss this work - it uniquely raises issues and proposes solutions that the church needs to consider if it is to retain any dignity and seriousness." - Rev. (Dr.) Geoffrey Leslie The 101 Key Propositions and 95 Theses of these Introductory Statements on Grace-Based Justice represent the distillation of the key thoughts of James C. Waller in the series of unique volumes he has written on Grace-Based Justice for the 2017 commemoration of the 500th Anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation. These world-first volumes are meant to rectify a series of crucial theological and existential errors in the practice of Evangelical and Reformed Churches within mainstream Western Civilization. James Waller demonstrates how ongoing Reformation is being handcuffed by firstly the Church's inability to understand the Cross as the divinely appointed catalyst not only for personal transformation but also for systems, structures, governances, and justices. Mr. Waller draws out the crucial cognate conjunction, conjugal and co-relative connections between Grace-Based Justification and Grace-Based Justice, which were ignored and stalled at the Reformation, and have hampered Christianity and the advance of the Kingdom of God on earth ever since.
The Adventures of Sweet Pickles McGillicuddy
James C Wright
Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.
2021
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Thirteen-year-old Jennifer Nicole McGillicuddy, nicknamed Sweet Pickles, lives in the small riverside town of Anglers Cove, North Carolina-a place where most folks would assume not much ever happens. Or does it? With a natural curiosity and a talent for solving things, Sweet Pickles searches for mysteries in her sleepy little town. High on her list is the Beethoven Castle, an abandoned 1800s mansion rumored to be haunted, according to some of the townspeople who swear they've heard strange and eerie organ music coming from it around Halloween every year. She's determined to one day muster up the courage and find a way into the mansion to try and figure out who or what is behind the ghostly music. Just when she thinks that that's the only mystery in town, she learns that Thomas, one of her best friends, is being suspected of a crime she is certain he didn't commit. Along with her other bestie Deardra and their canine sidekicks, Buster and Tuck, she sets out to solve the mystery behind the unusual crime and to clear Thomas's name. Follow along with Sweet Pickles and her friends through the twists and turns as they unravel the clues in this fun-filled adventure in mystery solving.
Everywhere we turn, the Internet is there. We access it through all kinds of devices, including some small enough to fit in our ears or wear on our wrists. And what does it serve up to us? Information. But most of that is not neutral. Good and evil, right and wrong, truth and deception, knowledge and ignorance--all of it is available to us on the internet. It is just a keystroke, a swipe, a bing away. In his book A Battle at the Fingertips, James Byerley tells a fascinating, frightening, and all-too-human tale of the dark and light sides of the internet world. Enter the archives Byerley has created. Discover the battle brewing there--a battle sometimes more true-to-life than many see or would care to admit. Entertaining. Thought-provoking. Chilling. A journey you'll not forget.--William D. Watkins, award-winning author, speaker, and teacher; president of Literary Solutions A Battle at the Fingertips: The IMFish.net Archives is a Christian fiction, techno-terrorism thriller set in contemporary times about two opposing, growing, closely knit social media communities that clash inside and outside the internet. While one community wields discipleship, love, and evangelism toward online users (IMFish.net), the other aims to spread anarchy, hate, and targeted bullying, especially against the Christian institution (ATH). Subtly, throughout this collision, powerful forces of God's hand support and sustain the former community, while dark capacities (as inferred, psychological influences) infiltrate and guide the latter. As this epic battle takes shape, new truths and understandings are learned by all of the A Battle at the Fingertips characters about God's goal to marshal his loved ones (including those entrenched in evil) and about internet usage as a whole. This novel--divided into historical "archives" rather than chapters--demonstrates how evangelism, especially through the use of technology, can bring about conflict indicative of the current spiritual battle raging, developing at the fingertips of a keyboard. It suggests how God is always in control and, in the end, victorious. It shows how chaos can lead to triumph through tragedy, especially when it is truth and God's love that is used as bait in the net.A Battle at the Fingertips leaves its readers with a new understanding of four truths that all characters discover by the end of the novel: The internet is a powerful tool for ministering to the isolated and lonely. Social media members are largely made up of a society of individuals looking for a community to call their home, exactly the type of scenario Jesus looks to for the enhancement of His kingdom. In an age with diminishing front-porch gatherings and ice cream socials, people are now more isolated. These communities are providing an avenue for camaraderie, good and bad. Any attempt to make an impact within the internet will always succeed at the grassroots level, a truth the protagonists learn from mistakes they make in their vision of creating an online ministry throughout the novel. The fourth truth is the most profound. Some of the opposing evangelists and anarchists discover how similar to one another they are in their counterculture efforts. The ATH community is angry with IMFish.net because they feel oppressed by their ideals. IMFish, net member Aiden eventually convinces Howrd, the leader of ATH, that Christians are persecuted outcasts too, are not of this world at all, and are oppressed mostly due to secular culture. This is when the ministry at the grassroots level takes place, one-on-one, via "chat dialogue format," in the novel's gripping climax.
In 1920, Rocky Mountain National Park is only five years old. With the Great War finally over and the automobile readily available, many Americans are motoring to the National Parks for vacation. Ranger McIntyre's main job is to protect the wilderness from the campers and sightseers. But a body, clad only in underpants, is discovered floating beneath a waterfall. Shortly thereafter a second corpse, also clothed only in underwear, is found lying on a log beside a remote lake. Ranger McIntyre's usual duties as a park ranger do not include murder-or people in their underwear, for that matter-but he starts putting pieces of the puzzle together until they lead him to a backcountry hut and a photographer who orders him to disrobe-at gunpoint.Ranger McIntyre is drawn into an FBI investigation involving a suspect who is selling salacious photographs of nudes who appear to be very, very dead. McIntyre's interaction with the FBI agent is made even more embarrassing by the fact that the agent's secretary is the drop-dead gorgeous Violet Coteau, who looks like a flapper... and acts like an agent.
It's 1923 and Rocky Mountain National Park is scarcely eight years old. District Ranger Tim McIntyre is investigating the killing of three elk. Gala Book, eleven-year-old daughter of the local barber, has befriended one particularly huge bull elk. She decides to protect it by leading it into the backcountry of the national park. Elk are not the only endangered animals, either. While someone's killing elk to get the "whistler" ivory teeth, some Denver criminals are "harvesting" deer and elk for a political big-game supper event. Our ranger, fearing for young Gala's safety, agrees to lead the giant elk into a remote valley, only to become stranded himself. This leaves it up to his lady detective friend, Vi Coteau, to form a posse and stop the poachers. Before it's all over, McIntyre will have to engage in a deadly gun fight, and three men will be murdered.
Among Ranger McIntyre's problems is Small Delights Lodge, a resort inside Rocky Mountain National Park. Someone has taken a shot at the owner, tried to electrocute him, set a bear loose at his door, sabotaged his boat, and disabled the brakes on his car.Suspects include the virago who owns Grand Harbor Lodge, a rogue park ranger, and a mob of Chicago gangsters who want Small Delights for a prohibition speakeasy. When the situation escalates to arson and murder-and a possible romance-McIntyre finds himself longing for the old days when all he had to deal with were poachers and the occasional wounded grizzly or mountain lion.
Few folks remember that the U.S. Mint in Denver was robbed of $200,000 in 1922. One robber was found dead. The others vanished with the money. Even fewer people know that at the same time, the Lawn Lake Dam was being built in Rocky Mountain National Park. Assisted by glamourous detective Vi Coteau, Ranger Tim McIntyre investigates the murders of two workers at Lawn Lake and finds two women acting suspiciously. Also suspicious is the fact that the mint was robbed by two teams of raiders, each team with two men and two women... who needed to hide the loot and themselves. That meant eight people to share the two hundred grand-unless some of them end up dead.
With a two-week vacation so close he can feel it, Rocky Mountain National Park Ranger Tim McIntyre is torn away from fantasies about how much fly-fishing he can fit in when he's roped into using his free time for an informal investigation as a favor to a friend. That's fine with McIntyre, because the friend is FBI secretary Vi Coteau, and investigating at his sweetheart's behest makes it likely that he'll be spending time in close quarters with her. And no quarters could be closer than exploring Colorado's labyrinthine mines, where upper-crust undergraduate Richard Leup and two of his fraternity brothers have been exploring in search of that well-known buried treasure, the Dunraven Hoard. One of the boys has died during the explorations, and the other two are the most likely suspects if the death turns out to be murder and not misadventure...
City cops face prohibition bootleggers, gangster gamblers, and get complaints about this loud new "jazz" music. But up at Rocky Mountain National Park, Ranger McIntyre has nothing to do except eat breakfast, go fishing-and solve a couple of possible murders. One is an amateur mountaineer found hanging from his own rope on Flattop Mountain. The other, a geologist studying stones on Flattop, somehow ingested a poison plant. Both deaths could be accidental-except that a pair of odd-looking creatures has been seen on the mountain, creatures who appear to be adding new rocks to Flattop's ancient aboriginal stone circle. Ranger McIntyre has a further complication. Her name is Vi Coteau and she's an FBI secretary in Denver, independent as an alley cat and drop-dead gorgeous. She wants the good ranger to teach her all about backcountry camping. Why not? McIntyre was planning to go into the wilderness anyway to look for the source of the strange stones being added to the medicine circle. If he took Vi with him, it would be an adventure... in more ways than a backcountry ranger might imagine.