John R Spencer

If God is good, why doesn't he stop natural disasters? If God lets something awful happen to me, doesn't it prove he doesn't really care? If God is loving, how could anyone end up forever in Hell? In fact, why is there so much suffering and evil in the world at all? Real, difficult questions like these plague us. Evil erupts around us and we feel powerless. But are we? Is there nothing we can do? Are there no real answers to these questions? Yes, there are: powerful answers that will refocus, even redefine your life. Pastor and author John R. Spencer guides readers through seven hard questions about God to answers that are rooted in God's Word. John R. Spencer brings to these questions diverse experience in law enforcement, corrections, social work, teaching, and over twenty years of pastoral ministry. This book was not written from an ivory tower but from life's trenches, including deep personal tragedy.

Five Books of the New Testament bear the name John. But which John? That apparently simple question has puzzled readers and commentators since the earliest centuries of the Christian Church. Some insist they know the answer. Others are skeptical. Some writers raise deep doubts about the author of the Fourth Gospel and dismiss it as the invention of a group of well-meaning disciples who really knew little of Jesus' life, or ministry. This Gospel's long discourses, they claim, are simply lovely theological make-believe. Others wonder if the same man - or someone else - wrote the three letters of the one who calls himself the Presbyter.Then there is The Apocalypse of John, known in translations as The Book of Revelation. Did the same man write this too? In The Other John, John R. Spencer takes a fresh, comprehensive look at the actual evidence within the books themselves, and from some of the earliest writers of the Christian Church. His conclusions will surprise you.

How Far Would You Go, And How Much Is A Friendship Worth? Kenny Hamilton, a wealthy descendant of U.S. founding father Alexander Hamilton, wants to create his own little empire and hatches a wild plan to capture a Caribbean paradise, The Cayman Islands. With spectacular dive sites and a heavenly climate, the Caymans are also famous for secret bank accounts and offshore tax shelters. But none of that interests Kenny. Wanting only power and prestige, he convinces his best friend Brad and his not-quite-yet-fiancE Traci to conspire with him to take over the islands, an operation he nicknames The Grand Slam. His plan, he promises, will be a home run. But pressures build, relationships fray, and the plan begins to spin out of control. Facing more than they bargained for, the lives of Kenny's band of mercenaries are about to change radically. Their outrageous plan winds up to a feverish pitch--then slams headlong into the wall of reality.

Written by experts in the field, many of whom took part in the Galileo mission, the book reviews the basics about Io and its unique space environment. Coverage includes all subjects, where the Galilio mission has shed new light on, with some emphasis on Io's most remarkable characteristics: its active volcanism. Written primarily for planetary scientists this book will also benefit volcanologists in general and newcomers wishing to specialize in this field of research.