This is a book of nine short chapters designed to help people build strong and healthy marriages. A personality questionnaire, answer key, and personality descriptions are included. This alone is worth the price of the book. The chapters cover the basic subjects couples need in developing good marriages in one short, readable book.

Marriage That Works Is Work

Self-Help

James Rudy Gray

Relationships

Baptist Courier

It is next to impossible not to pick up and thumb through a book with the title of "Whistling At Snakes," and difficult to put it down after sampling the wit and wisdom of The Baptist Courier's late columnist, Horace Sims. The Courier published the first batch of his short essays, "Horace Sims At Large," in 1997, followed by a second compilation of his columns, "Horace Sims Still At Large," in 1998. These books, like his "At Large" pieces, achieved immediate and lasting popularity with the Courier's readers. Sims always managed to take life seriously while looking at it lightly. He could always find at least a little -- and often a lot -- that was funny. And this was so whether the egg was all over his or somebody else's face. He had no peers as a teller of sidesplitting tales. Some were even true. Asked about that, he explained, "All the stories I've written are based on real events. They tell true happenings." Then, breaking into a smile, he added, "Some of them may have been embellished for the enjoyment of the reader."

Whistling at Snakes

Humor & Entertainment

Sims, Horace

Humor

Before there was a Woman's Missionary Union, there was Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend, a determined and courageous woman who transcended the societal constraints of the antebellum South to found a missionary society that would become the model for hundreds of others to follow. Hephzibah, mistress of a large plantation on South Carolina's Edisto Island, gave birth to fifteen children. Her passion was missions, and in order to fund missions and to found a church, Hephzibah and her beloved servant Bella started a baking business. Force of character and a profound sense of justice were the hallmarks of Hephzibah's life. This is her remarkable story. Rosalie Hall Hunt is an avid historian, especially of the women who have shaped missions. She is the daughter of missionaries, and she and her husband, Bob, served for thirty years as missionaries in eight Asian countries. She is the author of "Bless God and Take Courage: The Judson History and Legacy," "We've a Story to Tell: 125 Years of WMU," and other books and articles. She speaks at churches, retreats and conferences. Hunt and her husband live in Guntersville, Alabama. "In the story of Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend, we see the true meaning of sacrificial giving and the power of one voice to change our culture and world." - Wanda Lee, Executive Director, Woman's Missionary Union, Southern Baptist Convention "The wonderful research and the intriguing way Rosalie Hall Hunt shares Hephzibah's story will encourage you in your service. May we all be found as faithful as Hephzibah." - Linda Cooper, President, Woman's Missionary Union, Southern Baptist Convention "There is no way to overestimate the importance of Hephzibah to the history of Baptist women in missions, and there is no way to really understand Hephzibah's story without the master storyteller Rosalie Hall Hunt." - Ruby Fulbright, Vice President, North American Baptist Women's Union

Her Way: The Remarkable Story of Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend

Biographies & Memoirs

Hunt, Rosalie Hall

Historical

Juanita Garrison, The Baptist Courier's cheery cooking columnist, is sharing some of her favorite recipes in a new book," Sunday Best." Garrison pored over more than a dozen years' worth of recipes submitted by Courier readers and added a few of her own for this collection. The book includes more than a hundred kitchen favorites and, in most cases, the personal stories Courier readers shared with Garrison about how the recipes came to be. "Doing the column over the years has been a pleasure because I talked to so many good-cooking Baptists," said Garrison. "I am grateful for both because I know that the recipe, whichever route it took, will be a good one. No one attaches his or her name to a dish that isn't good." William R. West Jr. has known Garrison since 1996. "As her pastor, I can tell you that she is the real thing," said West. "For our church suppers, she often prepares a dish that is going to be featured in her Sunday Dinner column in The Courier. As much as readers are sure to enjoy the recipes in this book, they will also enjoy getting to know Juanita Garrison." Lawrence Webb, a retired Anderson University professor, writer and Baptist minister who has been friends with Garrison for decades, praises the author's "gentle sense of humor" in presenting the biographies of recipe contributors. "If you don't cook - which I don't - you'll enjoy Juanita Garrison's stories of how she tracked down the contributors, with their 'true romance' life histories and even lists of their grandchildren," said Webb. In the book's foreword, Tom Garrison, the author's son, writes that meal time "was what we all looked forward to" while growing up on the Garrison's family farm. "My favorite dishes back then were the ones I still enjoy today: fresh fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, cubed steak, pork chops and gravy, homemade biscuits, green beans, squash, tomatoes and sweet corn. Of course, it helped to have great cooks like my mother and my grandmother to prepare those wonderful meals - the likes of which few people today can remember." A journalism graduate of the University of Georgia, Juanita Garrison has written a gardening column for the Anderson Independent-Mail for many years and previously published "The Little Red Book of Good Manners" and "The Garden and Field Cookbook." Some of her gardening columns were collected for publication in "The Piedmont Garden" (USC Press). She has worked as a newspaper reporter, taught public school and was a journalism instructor at Anderson College (now Anderson University). A member of Welcome Baptist Church in Anderson, South Carolina, she was married to a prominent Anderson farmer, the late T. Ed Garrison, who served for 30 years in the South Carolina House of Representatives and later in the state Senate. She still lives at Denver Downs, the family farm where she and her husband raised six "perfect" children.

Sunday Best

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Garrison, Juanita

Regional & International

Excommunicated: 11 Steps to Church Revitalization

More than forty years ago, Danny Burnley was formally disassociated — excommunicated — from his home church. His “crime”? As a young deacon, he went to the pastor and asked him to prayerfully consider holding a reconciliation service to help heal the ongoing friction that existed between the pastor and the deacons.         Dismissal from his church’s fellowship was “the worst thing and the best thing” that had ever happened to him. It was the worst thing because it was like a divorce that tore apart a family, but it was the best thing because it ignited in Burnley a God-given desire to help struggling churches, which he has been busy doing for the last four decades.         In Excommunicated: 11 Steps to Church Revitalization, Burnley offers the lessons he has learned in helping churches battle against ineffectiveness. Through his ministry, he has helped bring churches back from the brink of closure.

Religion & Spirituality

Burnley, Danny

Christian Books & Bibles

In Blessed Is the Man: A Legacy of Faith and Family Values, Donald Darnell Harper shares the spiritual values passed on to him by his parents. Their example, to him and his twelve siblings, grounded him in his faith and propelled him to professional success as a vice president with a Fortune 100 company.
 Harper grew up in the segregated South on the cusp of the Civil Rights movement. In the midst of those often trying times, his parents’ simple formula for life — faith, humility, wisdom and love — taught Harper everything he needed to know about becoming a Christ-follower and a respecter of all men. “The lessons learned while living and working together on the farm have stayed with me and continue to impact the way I live my life,” he writes.
 Blessed Is the Man is more than just a collection of stories about an African-American family in rural Alabama, but also includes “testimonies to the goodness and provision of the Almighty God,” Harper writes. “The love and grace He showed us is the same that He shows all His children.”

Blessed Is the Man: A Legacy of Faith and Family Values

Harper, Donald Darnell

Regional U.S.

Since 1965, Leonard Carter has devoted himself to studying the Tabernacle, the place where God's presence dwelled among the Israelites during their time in the wilderness. Carter's in-depth study of Scripture as well as the writings of Old Testament scholars (particularly the work of R.H. Mount, Jr.), coupled with his heartfelt desire to bring Christian believers to a deeper understanding of Jesus as revealed in the Tabernacle, has led him to write "A Journey to Christ Through the Tabernacle." "The Old and New Testaments together offer a clear revelation of God's love to us," the author writes, "revealing Jesus Christ in minute detail as found in the design, materials, colors, furnishings and worship in the Tabernacle. This intimate revelation of God's Son is designed to lead to repentance and a life committed to serving Jesus Christ our Lord. "Almighty God has revealed the story of His plan through His Holy Word, the Bible. But before the Bible was written, He gave His chosen people -- the Israelites -- the Tabernacle structure. The Tabernacle structure provided Israel with a preview that illustrates and prophesies the plan of salvation in the coming Messiah, Jesus Christ. "The Tabernacle structure is a foreshadow of better things to come -- not the exact image, but images that identify who the Messiah is. These images from the Tabernacle reveal Jesus as the Lamb of God, the Word, the Tabernacle, the Bread, the Betrayed One, the Rejected One, the Better High Priest -- and the list goes on. "My hope is that the reader's vision of the total Bible revealing a picture of Jesus Christ will be like going from a fuzzy small-screen TV to a wide-screen, high-definition television. My prayer is that the reader will see Jesus more clearly in all the Scriptures."

A Journey to Christ Through the Tabernacle

History

Carter, Leonard

World

My Own Backyard

Explore “My Own Backyard” … then discover yours.
In this autobiographical collection, Danny Nicholson explores the landscape of his own backyard through stories about his father, poems about his children, and songs about family, faith and friends.
In essence, his book reveals that his story is not his own. It transcends the boundaries of geographical locations, suggesting that life is not so much about where we are but who we are.
“Geographical boundaries separate backyards, but the memories we make in them create a sameness and familiarity that renders the distance between them non-existent,” writes the author. “Backyards are set apart by their location, but they are made of the same stuff — or, even better, we are made of the same stuff.”
Nicholson’s stories, poems, and songs of laughter and tears, darkness and light, faith and love, “inextricably link us to each other as human beings, and give us a divine reason to hope for a better tomorrow.”
“We are one story or song away from finding all things in common with every human being,” he says.
An adopted son as well as a husband, father, singer-songwriter, fundraising leader, and speaker, Nicholson is president of Connie Maxwell Children’s Home in Greenwood, S.C. He is married to his college sweetheart, Debra, and they have two grown sons who are accomplished musicians.

Literature & Fiction

Nicholson, Danny

Poetry

There is a big difference between traveling by air and flying, author Timothy Coker says. What is true in air transportation is also true in life. One enjoys the life-trip; the other stoically gets through it. One delights in the experience; the other hates it. One soars; the other merely exists. Coker's hope is that readers will start Learning to Fly!
How one travels, and whether or not one thrives, comes down to a series of choices. In Learning to Fly!, the Darlington, S.C. pastor explores the internal and external things that keep us from experiencing all God desires.

Learning to Fly

Coker, Timothy

Are you interested in Washington Baptist Church’s long-lasting history and how our church has victoriously waved the banner of Christ these 200 years? How did we come to be? Where were we first located? Who was our first pastor? What have been the major milestones in our many enduring years of serving our Lord here at Washington? What are our precious memories? These questions and others will be answered as you begin to read in this book the journey of Washington Baptist over the past two centuries.
We want you to learn about the journey taken by our church over these 200 years to become the church it is today. These are some amazing and powerful stories of pastors, lay men and women who served tirelessly and boldly in our earlier years to establish the foundation of faith on which this church has continued in His service.

In Mountain Shadows: The Story of Washington Baptist Church, Greer, SC, 1819-2019

Hines, Drew

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