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A 'gospel harmony' is a private compilation of gospels. - The writer of a gospel harmony is like a disc-jockey who presents undistorted music fragments: he chooses his own order of presentation, which may differ from the composer's, but the music fragments themselves are unaltered. Intercalated quotes of the Old Testament prophesy the events described in the selected gospel fragment. Readers unacquainted with prophecies are usually disappointed: "Is this supposed to be a prophecy?" Conceded: Prophets never wrote, "- Then and there, the Messiah will do this and that." Worse, in most cases they wrote neither when, nor where, nor who. So what did they write? A treatise on that subject requires at least as many pages as covered by the prophecies themselves. Hence, the idea of this gospel harmony is to simply present those prophecies, and let the reader infer how they 'work', guided by many explanatory footnotes and nine appendices. -The latter deal with academic difficulties in typical Christian catechesis. In judging messianic prophecies, one should consider them all together. In any book, one can find a sentence that can be interpreted messianically. Finding two such sentences is more difficult. Finding hundreds of them, in a single book as is the Old Testament: - That defies all rules of statistics. Messianic prophecies have traditionally been difficult to understand. In Jesus' time, the only people who at times understood them were Scribes and Pharisees. The first reason for the enigmatic character of prophecies is the profound chasm between triumphant and ignominious ones: In some prophecies, the Messiah appears as a triumphant King, whose reign lasts forever; while in others, he appears like someone profoundly ridiculed and despised. -The second reason is related to the nature of the Messiah: Is he an ordinary human being, who suffers at the hand of his enemies and delights in friendship; or is he God, who decides on heaven and hell? A third reason is related to the authors: Most of the prophets were lone wolves, at least quite molested, and sometimes even executed for blasphemy. Are these the kind of witnesses, whose credentials one would praise? -The only exceptions are Moses and David; but Elijah, for example, had to fight against hundreds of unanimous prophets allied against him. It is quite miraculous in itself that the writings of just these prophets ended up in the Jewish biblical canon. Of all puzzles, the biblical prophecies have a special charm, which will soon captivate the reader.

CONTENTReviews the reality of a God in our creation, existence, world and universe. How God is real in our lives and how we can open ourselves to God's help and support if we truly want this. Book does not reject the written word (Bible etc.) but tries to incorporate what they contain into our reality. Encourages deep thought and reflection into our lives (What has happened in them and what they truly contain)NOTEHave you stopped to wonder what your life is all about. Why you're here and where you are going as your life is timing out. You can claim you are far too busy trying hard to reach your goals. STOP - NOW is the time to think and reflect about your soul. We are completely amazed and dazzled by discoveries made in our world and indeed our universe. We marvel at what is being discovered, invented, and achieved by our fellow man.Very little however is credited to God. His existence and presence in our world is seldom acknowledged or thought about. It's very easy to conclude that WE ARE ON OUR OWN - THERE IS NO GOD. Still we marvel at the incredible glory, beauty, majesty, awesome power and wonder of our observed world and universe. Could a God be possible? - YES. YES. Not only possible but there for us and drawing us to Him.AUTHORThe father of six children (one profoundly handicapped at birth). Ex prisoner of war-interned three and half years by the Japanese- 2nd world war. A pragmatic realist, Mechanical engineer accepting only factual, believable, prove-able information about the possible existence of a God and God's influence in and on our lives. A searcher/researcher agonizing over the meaning and purpose of our lives as we-live them. A servant to God and our fellow life travelers. Sharing his thinking about his life in the hope that this may help others struggling in their lives.

Civil War, 1861-1865, the origin of today's political, economic and social conflicts and cause of the 19th century national transformation from farm to factory, town to city, pioneer to wage slave, Bible to Darwin, honor to profit. The story of this historic pivot set in Colorado 1882. Strong characters in a vortex of political corruption, genocide, rape, drug culture (1827 Merck company formed in Germany to produce morphine and later cocaine the start of today's big pharma; the Union Army purchased 10 million morphine pills and an estimated 200,000+ addicts survived field hospitals to return home after the war), gunfighter nation (650,000+ killed in fratricidal war and the habit of killing sustained by hundred thousands of rifles and hand guns that remained in circulation after the war ), abortion, homosexuality, and abiding hope. Not to be missed!

Melanie Spenser thought her dreams had all come true. A new job that offered her the ability to pay her bills and take care of her son, a new boyfriend that was incredible, life was really coming together. However, she realizes that the crazy people at work can make life difficult, and trying to be nice in the workplace does not always end in a respectful relationship with coworkers. Somehow, she needs to maneuver the piranha-infested waters of the business world and come out the other side as a whole person. It is that or join the crazies and go down with the ship.

Jai was once a happy go lucky character butunfortunately, he was directionless.This book tells the story of Jai as a graduate andthe hedonistic lifestyle that pursued him until hecouldn't see to clearly anymore.Jai's past would hit him hard in his mind andsoul and it seemed that whatever he would do inlife there really was no help for it. He was indeedhaunted by the past and he constantly felt theneed of escapism which he did in his pursuit ofproscribed drugs drink and women.This insight into Jai's life describes the incidentsthat occurred and the emotional impact that theyhad.