![]() ![]() It was an unimaginable horror.īut God had an amazing plan for one of the captured Indians, a boy named Squanto. When the trusting Wampanoag Indians came out to trade, the traders took them, imprisoned them, transported them to Spain, and sold them into slavery. ![]() Historical accounts of Squanto’s life vary, but historians believe that around 1608, more than a decade before the Pilgrims arrived, a group of English traders sailed to what is today Plymouth, Massachusetts. I’m talking about the amazing story of how God used an Indian named Squanto as a special instrument of His providence. No, I’m not talking about some revisionist, politically correct version of history. But how many of us know the Indian viewpoint? Most of us know the story of the first Thanksgiving at least we know the Pilgrim version. ![]() Years ago, on Thanksgiving, Chuck Colson told a story in a BreakPoint commentary. That’s a long way to introduce today, Thanksgiving, but it’s an important framework for understanding how God has moved and worked in human history. The history of the world is God’s redemptive history – that is, history can only be understood within the larger creative and redemptive work of God in Christ. In fact, there is no such thing as “secular” history. ![]() A Christian worldview not only points us to what is true, but it also places us, historically, within the redemptive history of God’s creation. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And one Valentine's Day they'll never forget. Stars Over Castle Hill is an alternative reality novella of the #1 international bestselling romance On Dublin Street. or is it possible that two souls are meant for one another in any reality? ![]() But what if she was thirty instead of twenty-two when they met? How would she have felt about risking her heart then?Īnd even if she was older and wiser and ready to fall madly in love, what if too much had happened to Braden to make him the man that would risk his heart to save hers? If she had never met them where might she have ended up? Joss believes no matter where life may have taken her it would have inevitably led her to Braden. When Joss is asked to write a story about how her life might have turned out if a pivotal moment in it never happened, she thinks of the day she met both Braden and Ellie Carmichael. ![]() ![]() what if she never met Braden and Ellie Carmichael on that fateful day when she was only twenty-two years old? It's a life Joss never expected to have, and one she's grateful for every day.īut. Joss and Braden Carmichael are blissfully married living in their townhouse on Dublin Street with their three beautiful children. A paperback compilation of three On Dublin Street series novellas. ![]() ![]() When Concettina is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Dominick promises to take care of Thomas after she is gone. He carries these issues into his marriage, which finally comes to a breaking point following the tragic death of his infant daughter. He continues to struggle with the ramifications of his brother’s illness and his own lost childhood. ![]() The identity of their biological father was unknown, but revealed much later in the book.ĭominick’s adulthood is even more complicated. ![]() Concettina, their mother, was a quiet, gentle, skittish woman plagued with a cleft lip and an inability to stand up to her husband. He was abusive to all of them, but his prime target was Thomas. Ray, their adoptive step-father, was a former military man with an explosive temper. They were raised in a chaotic and abusive household. Dominick is mentally typical, but Thomas is a paranoid schizophrenic. Yes, a life experience indeed!ĭominick and Thomas Birdsey are identical twins living in the fictional town of Three Rivers, Connecticut. Multi-themed and multi-generational, I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb, will take you on a rollercoaster ride that you will not want to get off. And oh, what a twisting and turning life experience within the 900 pages of an incredibly engaging novel. Oprah Winfrey nailed it – “It’s not just a book, it’s a life experience”. ![]() ![]() ![]() In need of some serious soul searching, Darby Stansfield and his girlfriend, Izzy Weber, set off for a summer.īy Ty Hutchinson | Jul 23, 2016Discover how one act of kindness can bring on a world of pain. Catherine’s Cathedral, is locking up after the late night mass when he hears a stranger’s voice call.īy Ty Hutchinson | Jul 23, 2016The world’s only consultant to the criminal underworld has just experienced his closest brush with death yet, and wonders if it’s time to quit the biz. ![]() Petersburg, right before the fall of Communism. For Blade and Angel, everyday is about.īy Ty Hutchinson | Jul 23, 2016“I have sins to confess.” “Tell me, what evil have you done?” It’s St. By Ty Hutchinson | Jul 23, 2016From the author of the wickedly funny, action-thriller, Chop Suey, comes a psychological thriller that shows you how bad your day can get when your perfect plan is perfectly wrong for you and perfectly right for someone else. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since the inside of the cell is ordered and the outside is chaotic, there is an entropy gradient across the cell wall. Life on Earth uses a cell wall composed of a lipid membrane. Life that isn't harvesting negentropy isn't alive.įor life to exist it needs a barrier between its ordered self and its chaotic environment. This isn't a property life happens to have. They must harvest negentropy from an external source in order to stay alive. Living cells are at disequilibrium with their environment. The primordial soup theory is implausible from a physics perspective due to thermodynamics. The basic idea is that organic molecules (which just means chemical compounds with carbon-hydrogen bones) formed from natural physical processes and then some of those organic molecules randomly organized themselves into RNA and then that RNA built itself a cell. The most popular theory is called "primordial soup". But we don't know how the first cells formed out of nonliving matter. We know what happened after the first cells: evolution. We know what happened before biology―that's just physics. There is a singularity at the beginning of biology. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Evernight is attacked by an evil force that seems to target her, she discovers the truth she thought she knew is only the beginning. ![]() Yet Bianca isn't the only one keeping secrets. Bianca's secrets will force her to live a life of lies. She will risk anything for the chance to see him again, even if it means coming face-to-face with the vampire hunters of Black Cross-or deceiving the powerful vampires of Evernight. They were torn apart when his true identity was revealed, forcing him to flee the school.Īlthough they may be separated, Bianca and Lucas will not give each other up. Bianca, born to two vampires, has always been told her destiny is to become one of them.īut Bianca fell in love with Lucas-a vampire hunter sworn to destroy her kind. Įvernight Academy: an exclusive boarding school for the most beautiful, dangerous students of all-vampires. The vampire in me was closer to the surface. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She goes further, arguing that the reparations demanded from Germany were not as punitive as previous historians have suggested, and can’t be seen as having led directly to WW2. In this book, Margaret MacMillan looks in depth at how the Treaty was formulated and argues that, flawed though some of its terms were, the peacemakers did as well as they could in fairly impossible circumstances. The generally accepted view is that the harsh terms meted out to Germany in the Treaty contributed to its economic collapse, creating the conditions in which Hitler and the Nazis rose to power, and thus were a major contributory cause of the Second World War. Twenty years later, the world would be plunged into another devastating war, and my father would spend six years of his youth fighting in it. On the same day, in a small town in the north of Scotland, my grandmother gave birth to her youngest son, my father, conceived while her husband was home on leave from that war. ![]() One hundred years ago today, the victors and vanquished of “the war to end all wars” gathered in Paris to sign the treaty that brought the Great War officially to an end – the Treaty of Versailles. The 28th of June 1919 is one of the very few historical dates I never forget. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pixel art at the level most people want to do it is time-consuming and there are very few shortcuts to making it. I have seen many an indie Kickstart their pixel art Metroidvania thinking they have a year to finish when in reality it's more like six years. But make no mistake, that in no way implies that it's easy to actually FINISH a game with it. The barrier to entry for pixel art is also relatively low compared to painted or 3d graphics, making it a nice option for indie game developers seeking to bring their ideas to life. ![]() In the same way we admire how a few brushstrokes from a trained hand can represent a form and evoke emotion, so do we admire how a few pixels can combine do to the same. Why? Well, nostalgia aside, it remains a fun and rewarding challenge to create vibrant artwork within such tight constraints. ![]() These days, it's still popular in games and as an artform in and of itself, despite the possibility of realistic 3d graphics. It's primarily associated with the graphics of 80s and 90s video games, where commercial artists strained against limited memory and low resolutions to create increasingly eye-catching visuals. Pixel art, also known as dot art in Japan, is a form of digital art where editing is done on the pixel level. ![]() ![]() ![]() He learned to read and became a real bookworm. Since childhood, Gaiman dreamed of being a writer he has been passionate about reading since he was four years old, according to his own statements. Since childhood, he has been inclined towards reading novels and comics. Born in Portchester, he spent his early years in Sussex, England. ![]() Neil Gaiman is an author loved by fantasy genre fans. Gaiman has several successful works, including the novels Stardust, Anansi Boys, American Gods, Coraline and The Graveyard Book, and the comic book series The Sandman. ![]() He began his career in the 80s after leaving school and working as a journalist. He is a British author of science fiction in graphic novels, novels, comics, sound theater and screenwriter. Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman was born on November 10, 1960, specifically in Portchester (England), in the bosom of a Polish Jewish family. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story of “Under the Skin” - which was adapted from a novel by Michel Faber - doesn’t amount to all that much. Dick, but in its finely calibrated formalism and vivid atmospherics, it’s pure Glazer. As a speculative piece of fantasy and warily somber mood piece, this erotically charged thriller recalls Philip K. “ Under the Skin,” Glazer’s third film, offers new evidence of that promise, even if it doesn’t entirely deliver on it. The film’s borderline genre between psychological horror and domestic melodrama, and Glazer’s clear commitment to rigorously austere composition and carefully centered framing, suggested he might be this generation’s most likely standard-bearer of the legacies of Roman Polanski and Stanley Kubrick. ![]() “Sexy Beast” was a ramped-up, hyper-verbal explosion of Britishisms and a singular, soaringly vulgar patois, which made Glazer’s sophomore effort so surprising: “ Birth,” a lamentably under-seen drama featuring a shattering performance by Nicole Kidman, contained relatively little dialogue, instead creating an atmosphere of bizarre, creeping dread by way of stately, meticulously controlled images and pristine sound design. One of the most astonishingly assured directorial debuts of the early 21st century was Jonathan Glazer’s “ Sexy Beast,” a stylishly vicious crime thriller that erased any chance of Ben Kingsley being typecast as a Gandhi figure. ![]() |
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