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In this comprehensive book written in a humorous, down-to-earth, easy-to-understand language, you will learn why some people get ahead in life while others are either just scraping by or falling behind. The American dream will not be handed to you. It is there. You just have to grab it. You must navigate financial challenges, question preconceptions, and make life choices that increase your chances for success.

John Owen defines temptation as anything that attempts to woo the Christian heart away from God and instead towards sin and disobedience. While man's will alone does not have the power to resist, it is by learning to rely on God’s power that Christians can overcome the influence of temptation and the perils of sin.

Leaders of the Nonpartisan League questioned everything, argued constantly, and developed a political platform demanding more profits for the farmer. Sons of the Wild Jackass offers a new narrative of the leaders of the NPL and how their personal lives influenced the shape and tone of the League. The lives of the NPL's main leaders—Lemke, Langer, Townley, and Frazier—are vastly interesting, each offering striking insights into how personalities contribute to the agrarian politics of the Great Plains region.

Focusing on the theology around Christ as God and man, St. Athanasius expounds on the biblical evidence of the hypostatic union. He reflects on the entity and identity of Christ as well as his purpose on Earth and his intent for his followers.

Smoky the Cowhorse is one of the most famous and beloved horse stories told. Will James writes in 1920s cowboy vernacular and tells the life of the horse Smoky in the Western United States from his birth to eventual return to his home range. Smoky is born in the wild, captured, and trained by Clint and becomes known as the best cow horse. Then a horse thief steals Smoky and beats him repeatedly. Smoky eventually attacks and escapes from the abusive thief.

Dr. Hiram Drache and Bruce Gjovig, two experts on agriculture history and innovation and entrepreneurs, have published a book about the impact of innovative entrepreneurs in North Dakota and Northwest Minnesota during the past 150 years. This book profiles 76 successful regional entrepreneurs in 65 chapters covering the Dalrymple Bonanza farm of the 1870s to today’s technology innovators.

As noted in the Preface, "This is a book of stories (published in 1899) about the Civil War. It is not a history - only a book of stories edited for school and home use. Our aim has not been to crowd the mind with facts, but to arouse in the younger generation a lively interest in the brave men who fought in the war for the Union." You will enjoy these 42 stirring stories of soldiers, spies, generals, and everyday people - young and old. You will honor those in the past as we strive for a better future.

This second edition features 46 chapters of inspiring stories about individuals who were born in North Dakota and went on to make their mark in business across the nation and the world.

Fred Shellenberg knew many characters, delightful and otherwise. And Fred Shellenberg, a good-natured man with a dry sense of humor and love of life, is one of them. This Livingston, Montana native recounts these stories in Character in Paradise, A Yellowstone Memoir. He weaves local life and his family history and life experiences, including his military service in World War II and his years in the Alaskan frontier.

Intra Muros recounts a vision or experience of life after death given to Rebecca Ruter Springer during a severe illness. She was unconscious for only a number of days, but the vision or experience covered a period of years. She did not claim to have died or have a near death experience. On reflection, she came to understand the short book as a series of truths about heaven.

As a poor college graduate without work and up to my ears in debt, I started searching for a new way to make money so I could start living now and experience all life has to offer. Living at Zero is my six-year journey from not even being able to pay my bills each month to having millions of dollars in assets, traveling the world, and finally starting to truly live. This is a step-by-step instruction of how to take control of your finances and start living your life. I will teach you how to live the LAZ Lifestyle where you are financially free and doing what you love.

At one time or another, most Christians struggle with depression, discouragement, or despondency. When this happens, spiritual joy is the great need. William Farley has written a practical book to help flawed human beings discover and implement the secret to spiritual joy. The author contends that the gospel is the key to a life overflowing with joy. That is because a right understanding of the gospel produces the humility that motivates a life of continual thanksgiving.

This is an audiobook about marriage. It is for happy marriages, marriages that have lost their fizzle, and painful marriages on the verge of divorce. Whatever your situation, the application of this audiobook will lead to a richer, more satisfying marriage. That is because God created the original marriage of Adam and Eve in a Genesis two paradise. He united them with lofty expectations.

Every parent wants children who obey on the first command, before mom or dad raise their voice. The Bible provides a straightforward tool to get these results - appropriate discipline at an appropriate age. Biblical discipline communicates God's love, reinforces the gospel, and produces happy, well-adjusted children. William Farley made this audiobook to give parents practical tools for child discipline that really work. You and your friends will love the result.

This collection of correspondences between Calvin and Sadoleto is an excellent primary source view of the most controversial issues facing Christians at the time. The split between Reformation and Roman Catholic beliefs was growing ever larger and the consequences more severe. While Calvin writes with deep theological arguments and in defense of individuals searching for truth, Sadoleto’s pleas sound more like an emotional cry for unity, peace-keeping, and the return of the Catholic Church’s lost children.

Martin Luther, full of compassion, grief, disappointment, and frustration, turns away from his entreaties to and debates with church leaders and writes instead to the German political leaders. With extreme clarity, Luther explains in this letter the unbalanced nature and habits of the religious institution - certain at this point that the German people could only be set free from this continual and escalating religious destruction through the intervention of their government.

In this, one of Martin Luther’s most impactful works, he brings together the similarities between the exile and captivity of the Israelites and the state of the Catholic church, in their destructive servitude to the papacy. He goes through each of the seven sacraments—questioning, analyzing, and applying the Biblical understandings he had reached. He rejects many of the practices, calling out the issues of control and misrepresentation of true Christian faith and repentance.

The third of Martin Luther’s 1520 treatises, also referred to as A Treatise on Christian Liberty, this work focuses on the topics of justification and total salvation. Boldly, unmistakably, and directly contrasting the teachings of the church, Luther argued for the truth he found in studying the Bible on his own. Introducing, for the first time to many people, the argument for justification through faith alone, he knocked down the idea of being dependent on additional sacraments, penances, and works for salvation.

This collection of sermons covers the Gospel of John in an extraordinary way. Detailing the trinity, the nature of God, the person and divinity of Jesus, and the nature of man, this wealth of information provides an extensive dive into Christian theology. St. Augustine discusses the gravity of living a holy life and the impact it has on one’s relationship with Jesus. He also speaks on the role of the Holy Spirit in providing guidance and comfort and the overwhelming impact of love as the foundation of faith and key to experiencing the nearness of God.

This collection of sermons covers the Gospel of John in an extraordinary way. Detailing the trinity, the nature of God, the person and divinity of Jesus, and the nature of man, this wealth of information provides an extensive dive into Christian theology. St. Augustine discusses the gravity of living a holy life and the impact it has on one’s relationship with Jesus. He also speaks on the role of the Holy Spirit in providing guidance and comfort and the overwhelming impact of love as the foundation of faith and key to experiencing the nearness of God.