Why do so many ministries fall to the tricks of the enemy? What if you could see the warning signs before destruction hits your ministry?

T. D. Nelson shares personal stories of her experiences in large and small ministries who were rising to great heights, but they were brought down by ignoring the subtle moves of the enemy which over time destroyed the progress, reputation, and impact of each ministry.

You will learn that:

� There is nothing new under the sun

� The enemy will find your weakness

� The tricks of the enemy can be discerned

� A good defense can read and thwart the enemy's plays

God is pouring His Spirit on this generation, and ministries are being birthed on an ongoing basis. It is heart breaking to see these ministries fade away especially as the enemy�s kingdom continues to advance on the youth and the world as a whole. Jesus said, "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves" (Matthew 10:16). If you are a part of a ministry that is in its beginning stages, or one that is making an impact for the Kingdom of God, you will find that learning how to read the plays of the enemy can protect your ministry from unnecessary attacks.

Why do so many ministries fall to the tricks of the enemy? What if you could see the warning signs before destruction hits your ministry?

T. D. Nelson shares personal stories of her experiences in large and small ministries who were rising to great heights, but they were brought down by ignoring the subtle moves of the enemy which over time destroyed the progress, reputation, and impact of each ministry.

You will learn that:

� There is nothing new under the sun

� The enemy will find your weakness

� The tricks of the enemy can be discerned

� A good defense can read and thwart the enemy's plays

God is pouring His Spirit on this generation, and ministries are being birthed on an ongoing basis. It is heart breaking to see these ministries fade away especially as the enemy�s kingdom continues to advance on the youth and the world as a whole. Jesus said, "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves" (Matthew 10:16). If you are a part of a ministry that is in its beginning stages, or one that is making an impact for the Kingdom of God, you will find that learning how to read the plays of the enemy can protect your ministry from unnecessary attacks.

Why do so many ministries fall to the tricks of the enemy? What if you could see the warning signs before destruction hits your ministry?

T. D. Nelson shares personal stories of her experiences in large and small ministries who were rising to great heights, but they were brought down by ignoring the subtle moves of the enemy which over time destroyed the progress, reputation, and impact of each ministry.

You will learn that:

� There is nothing new under the sun

� The enemy will find your weakness

� The tricks of the enemy can be discerned

� A good defense can read and thwart the enemy's plays

God is pouring His Spirit on this generation, and ministries are being birthed on an ongoing basis. It is heart breaking to see these ministries fade away especially as the enemy�s kingdom continues to advance on the youth and the world as a whole. Jesus said, "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves" (Matthew 10:16). If you are a part of a ministry that is in its beginning stages, or one that is making an impact for the Kingdom of God, you will find that learning how to read the plays of the enemy can protect your ministry from unnecessary attacks.

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Thomas Aquinas, in his philosophy of religion, said that man is a religious being (homo religiosus). By this he meant that man is a being that naturally stretches to the beyond, to the unknown outside of himself. He yearns and reaches out for an infinite peace, joy, and happiness. He does all within his power to grasp an endless happiness, a joy that knows no end. This has been his instinctive, conscious, and unconscious aspiration. He tends to pursue and grab that which captures his attention and wins his admiration. Many a time, he ends up grabbing a shadow, an illusion of real happiness, an illusion of the source of true and lasting happiness. When he grabs that shadow, he settles to worship it as the ultimate source of an infinite happiness. It will not be long before he discovers that it is all a mirage. This ultimate joy and happiness is not found within man’s immediate environment, because whatever he clings to seems to fail in providing such ultimate joy, peace, and happiness, which men, by nature, tend to yearn and long for. Man has always interpreted peace, joy, happiness, and their sources differently. Thus, his beliefs and objects of worship, devotion, and dedication vary one from another—hence the reason for different world religions and creeds today (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, atheism, etc.). To say that man is a religious being implies that naturally man always believes in and worships something. Hence, there can never be an atheist in the real sense of it. Not to believe is to believe. For example, not to believe in the existence of God is to believe that God does not exist. Even though some people do not believe in the existence of a personal God or god, they still believe in something, which could be anything—money, freedom, wealth, riches, power,beauty, achievement, talent, name it. Just as our ancient fathers believed in carved idols as gods and worshipped them, so do people in the modern time hold on tenaciously to all kinds of idols in the form of money, beauty, wealth, riches, power, achievement, talent, etc., and worship them as gods and hope that someday these might give them an endless peace and happiness, which have been the ultimate end of man’s endeavor or pursuit on earth. This false hope of man’s longing to achieve endless peace and happiness from material possessions or natural endowment explains itself in some ancient cultures whereby the dead are buried along with some of their possessions, including gold, money, slaves, etc. The fact that people of outstanding talents, riches, and wealth have committed suicide has put a big question mark to this erroneous ideology that happiness could be achieved through material possession. What was wrong in the lives of those affluent and talented people who killed themselves contrary to all instincts of self-preservation? What was missing in their lives that none of their material acquisitions or achievements could satiate or afford? Man longs for lasting happiness. He has the capacity to conceive and yearn for infinite happiness. Hence, he does not want to be happy today and sad tomorrow. But how would he achieve that joy or happiness that has no end, which has always remained man’s unrealized dream? No branch of discipline or knowledge has been able to provide an answer and a remedy to man’s natural longing for endless joy, lasting peace, and happiness, but religion. Religion has an answer, a remedy, and a hope. In this book, I will demonstrate how religion provides an answer, a remedy, and a hope for man’s ultimate search and yearning for lasting peace and happiness in his life and in the society in which he lives. I will explore the idea that man is a spiritual as well as a religious being. I will also delve into how his natural endowment with freedom, intellect, and will enables him to express his religiosity. I will further demonstrate how the misinterpretation and misapplication of the idea of the separation of state and church, or religion, has impacted adversely man’s free expression of his religiosity and spirituality in the United States of America, and most importantly how it has adversely affected moral and religious education of our children and youth in the public elementary and high schools. I will explore different controversies and debates that are related to theabolition or establishment of religious and moral education in the public schools. The past opinions of those who have debated on the issues of abolition or establishment of religion in the public schools shall be reviewed, and the strengths and weaknesses of their arguments will be weighed and evaluated. This book will further expose and deliberate on the devastating effects of lack of religious and moral education among our children and the youth in the public elementary and high schools. These devastating effects of lack of religious and moral education of our children in the public schools reach their climax in the colleges and universities, which finally blossom in society as the students graduate out into the community. I will discuss the exigency and importance of religion in the American public schools in relation to the education of the young who constitute the foundation and the hope of the future of society. The American government has abolished religion in all its forms in the American public schools. This makes it possible for children to pass from elementary through high school to college without having anything to do with religion in their formal education. The government did this either because they have discovered that it is useless, irrelevant, and of no purpose, and that children can always do well in their education and in their lives without religious education, or that they cannot afford its funding or put up with the differences that could arise from different religions, which could lure the government into an excessive entanglement with religion. How true and cogent is any of the above listed fears and anxieties of the government as a reason for the abolition of religion in the public schools? Most importantly, I will explore new ideas and possibilities on how religious and moral education of our growing children and youth could be restored back to public schools without the government having to fund religion or involve itself in an excessive entanglement with religion; without infringing on the freedom of others who might not like to involve themselves in the affairs of religion or in the affairs of a particular religion other than their own; without the practice of public prayer, the observance of a moment of silence, etc., in an assembly of mixed students of diverse religious orientations; without the coercion of a student, a teacher, an administrator, or others into the practice of religion against their will; and without the school having to formulate prayer for students of mixed faith traditions.

Thomas Aquinas, in his philosophy of religion, said that man is a religious being (homo religiosus). By this he meant that man is a being that naturally stretches to the beyond, to the unknown outside of himself. He yearns and reaches out for an infinite peace, joy, and happiness. He does all within his power to grasp an endless happiness, a joy that knows no end. This has been his instinctive, conscious, and unconscious aspiration. He tends to pursue and grab that which captures his attention and wins his admiration. Many a time, he ends up grabbing a shadow, an illusion of real happiness, an illusion of the source of true and lasting happiness. When he grabs that shadow, he settles to worship it as the ultimate source of an infinite happiness. It will not be long before he discovers that it is all a mirage. This ultimate joy and happiness is not found within man’s immediate environment, because whatever he clings to seems to fail in providing such ultimate joy, peace, and happiness, which men, by nature, tend to yearn and long for. Man has always interpreted peace, joy, happiness, and their sources differently. Thus, his beliefs and objects of worship, devotion, and dedication vary one from another—hence the reason for different world religions and creeds today (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, atheism, etc.). To say that man is a religious being implies that naturally man always believes in and worships something. Hence, there can never be an atheist in the real sense of it. Not to believe is to believe. For example, not to believe in the existence of God is to believe that God does not exist. Even though some people do not believe in the existence of a personal God or god, they still believe in something, which could be anything—money, freedom, wealth, riches, power,beauty, achievement, talent, name it. Just as our ancient fathers believed in carved idols as gods and worshipped them, so do people in the modern time hold on tenaciously to all kinds of idols in the form of money, beauty, wealth, riches, power, achievement, talent, etc., and worship them as gods and hope that someday these might give them an endless peace and happiness, which have been the ultimate end of man’s endeavor or pursuit on earth. This false hope of man’s longing to achieve endless peace and happiness from material possessions or natural endowment explains itself in some ancient cultures whereby the dead are buried along with some of their possessions, including gold, money, slaves, etc. The fact that people of outstanding talents, riches, and wealth have committed suicide has put a big question mark to this erroneous ideology that happiness could be achieved through material possession. What was wrong in the lives of those affluent and talented people who killed themselves contrary to all instincts of self-preservation? What was missing in their lives that none of their material acquisitions or achievements could satiate or afford? Man longs for lasting happiness. He has the capacity to conceive and yearn for infinite happiness. Hence, he does not want to be happy today and sad tomorrow. But how would he achieve that joy or happiness that has no end, which has always remained man’s unrealized dream? No branch of discipline or knowledge has been able to provide an answer and a remedy to man’s natural longing for endless joy, lasting peace, and happiness, but religion. Religion has an answer, a remedy, and a hope. In this book, I will demonstrate how religion provides an answer, a remedy, and a hope for man’s ultimate search and yearning for lasting peace and happiness in his life and in the society in which he lives. I will explore the idea that man is a spiritual as well as a religious being. I will also delve into how his natural endowment with freedom, intellect, and will enables him to express his religiosity. I will further demonstrate how the misinterpretation and misapplication of the idea of the separation of state and church, or religion, has impacted adversely man’s free expression of his religiosity and spirituality in the United States of America, and most importantly how it has adversely affected moral and religious education of our children and youth in the public elementary and high schools. I will explore different controversies and debates that are related to theabolition or establishment of religious and moral education in the public schools. The past opinions of those who have debated on the issues of abolition or establishment of religion in the public schools shall be reviewed, and the strengths and weaknesses of their arguments will be weighed and evaluated. This book will further expose and deliberate on the devastating effects of lack of religious and moral education among our children and the youth in the public elementary and high schools. These devastating effects of lack of religious and moral education of our children in the public schools reach their climax in the colleges and universities, which finally blossom in society as the students graduate out into the community. I will discuss the exigency and importance of religion in the American public schools in relation to the education of the young who constitute the foundation and the hope of the future of society. The American government has abolished religion in all its forms in the American public schools. This makes it possible for children to pass from elementary through high school to college without having anything to do with religion in their formal education. The government did this either because they have discovered that it is useless, irrelevant, and of no purpose, and that children can always do well in their education and in their lives without religious education, or that they cannot afford its funding or put up with the differences that could arise from different religions, which could lure the government into an excessive entanglement with religion. How true and cogent is any of the above listed fears and anxieties of the government as a reason for the abolition of religion in the public schools? Most importantly, I will explore new ideas and possibilities on how religious and moral education of our growing children and youth could be restored back to public schools without the government having to fund religion or involve itself in an excessive entanglement with religion; without infringing on the freedom of others who might not like to involve themselves in the affairs of religion or in the affairs of a particular religion other than their own; without the practice of public prayer, the observance of a moment of silence, etc., in an assembly of mixed students of diverse religious orientations; without the coercion of a student, a teacher, an administrator, or others into the practice of religion against their will; and without the school having to formulate prayer for students of mixed faith traditions.

Thomas Aquinas, in his philosophy of religion, said that man is a religious being (homo religiosus). By this he meant that man is a being that naturally stretches to the beyond, to the unknown outside of himself. He yearns and reaches out for an infinite peace, joy, and happiness. He does all within his power to grasp an endless happiness, a joy that knows no end. This has been his instinctive, conscious, and unconscious aspiration. He tends to pursue and grab that which captures his attention and wins his admiration. Many a time, he ends up grabbing a shadow, an illusion of real happiness, an illusion of the source of true and lasting happiness. When he grabs that shadow, he settles to worship it as the ultimate source of an infinite happiness. It will not be long before he discovers that it is all a mirage. This ultimate joy and happiness is not found within man’s immediate environment, because whatever he clings to seems to fail in providing such ultimate joy, peace, and happiness, which men, by nature, tend to yearn and long for. Man has always interpreted peace, joy, happiness, and their sources differently. Thus, his beliefs and objects of worship, devotion, and dedication vary one from another—hence the reason for different world religions and creeds today (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, atheism, etc.). To say that man is a religious being implies that naturally man always believes in and worships something. Hence, there can never be an atheist in the real sense of it. Not to believe is to believe. For example, not to believe in the existence of God is to believe that God does not exist. Even though some people do not believe in the existence of a personal God or god, they still believe in something, which could be anything—money, freedom, wealth, riches, power,beauty, achievement, talent, name it. Just as our ancient fathers believed in carved idols as gods and worshipped them, so do people in the modern time hold on tenaciously to all kinds of idols in the form of money, beauty, wealth, riches, power, achievement, talent, etc., and worship them as gods and hope that someday these might give them an endless peace and happiness, which have been the ultimate end of man’s endeavor or pursuit on earth. This false hope of man’s longing to achieve endless peace and happiness from material possessions or natural endowment explains itself in some ancient cultures whereby the dead are buried along with some of their possessions, including gold, money, slaves, etc. The fact that people of outstanding talents, riches, and wealth have committed suicide has put a big question mark to this erroneous ideology that happiness could be achieved through material possession. What was wrong in the lives of those affluent and talented people who killed themselves contrary to all instincts of self-preservation? What was missing in their lives that none of their material acquisitions or achievements could satiate or afford? Man longs for lasting happiness. He has the capacity to conceive and yearn for infinite happiness. Hence, he does not want to be happy today and sad tomorrow. But how would he achieve that joy or happiness that has no end, which has always remained man’s unrealized dream? No branch of discipline or knowledge has been able to provide an answer and a remedy to man’s natural longing for endless joy, lasting peace, and happiness, but religion. Religion has an answer, a remedy, and a hope. In this book, I will demonstrate how religion provides an answer, a remedy, and a hope for man’s ultimate search and yearning for lasting peace and happiness in his life and in the society in which he lives. I will explore the idea that man is a spiritual as well as a religious being. I will also delve into how his natural endowment with freedom, intellect, and will enables him to express his religiosity. I will further demonstrate how the misinterpretation and misapplication of the idea of the separation of state and church, or religion, has impacted adversely man’s free expression of his religiosity and spirituality in the United States of America, and most importantly how it has adversely affected moral and religious education of our children and youth in the public elementary and high schools. I will explore different controversies and debates that are related to theabolition or establishment of religious and moral education in the public schools. The past opinions of those who have debated on the issues of abolition or establishment of religion in the public schools shall be reviewed, and the strengths and weaknesses of their arguments will be weighed and evaluated. This book will further expose and deliberate on the devastating effects of lack of religious and moral education among our children and the youth in the public elementary and high schools. These devastating effects of lack of religious and moral education of our children in the public schools reach their climax in the colleges and universities, which finally blossom in society as the students graduate out into the community. I will discuss the exigency and importance of religion in the American public schools in relation to the education of the young who constitute the foundation and the hope of the future of society. The American government has abolished religion in all its forms in the American public schools. This makes it possible for children to pass from elementary through high school to college without having anything to do with religion in their formal education. The government did this either because they have discovered that it is useless, irrelevant, and of no purpose, and that children can always do well in their education and in their lives without religious education, or that they cannot afford its funding or put up with the differences that could arise from different religions, which could lure the government into an excessive entanglement with religion. How true and cogent is any of the above listed fears and anxieties of the government as a reason for the abolition of religion in the public schools? Most importantly, I will explore new ideas and possibilities on how religious and moral education of our growing children and youth could be restored back to public schools without the government having to fund religion or involve itself in an excessive entanglement with religion; without infringing on the freedom of others who might not like to involve themselves in the affairs of religion or in the affairs of a particular religion other than their own; without the practice of public prayer, the observance of a moment of silence, etc., in an assembly of mixed students of diverse religious orientations; without the coercion of a student, a teacher, an administrator, or others into the practice of religion against their will; and without the school having to formulate prayer for students of mixed faith traditions.

Bible Mnemonics is book that explores the richness of God’s word and illustrates aneffective simple system for memorizing scripture that will empower those who hungerand thirst after God’s Holy Word to mentally store large volumes of biblical texts withlongevity, accuracy and ease of information retrieval. This system will guide the readerin laying a sure foundation of biblical knowledge for the basing of all future analyticallearning, meditation and life application which will ensure maturity in those believerswho consistently apply its practices.

The Way of the Cross is an ancient Christian devotion where believers meditate on the passion of Jesus Christ in fourteen steps or stations. This devotion is usually practiced on Fridays in the liturgical season of Lent, a preparatory time for Easter, and on Fridays during the year. The author has incorporated insightful pro-life reflections on this devotion, while discussing a range of issues from abortion and euthanasia to the latest bio-medical technologies. This work is intended especially to assist pro-lifers, schools, and Church groups in their desire to promote justice for the unborn and a culture of life in society.

The Way of the Cross is an ancient Christian devotion where believers meditate on the passion of Jesus Christ in fourteen steps or stations. This devotion is usually practiced on Fridays in the liturgical season of Lent, a preparatory time for Easter, and on Fridays during the year. The author has incorporated insightful pro-life reflections on this devotion, while discussing a range of issues from abortion and euthanasia to the latest bio-medical technologies. This work is intended especially to assist pro-lifers, schools, and Church groups in their desire to promote justice for the unborn and a culture of life in society.

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Sex produces life. Sex & life are sacred. The book is the Solution Manual to Sexual Fixation. It takes it from an unknown, unmanageable, passion-driven phenomenon to a known, manageable self-directed expression. It dismantles & demystifies it, nullifying its powerful mesmerizing affects & step by step, with ease & simplicity, gradually instructs on how to release the mind from disguised mind manipulations, allowing the mind to finally experience simple sweet peace and bliss.

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A Gift of Tremendous Import:

The long-awaited advent of the solution to sexual attraction and addiction is once again dispensed by one of God’s devotees, the simple Sage Hope. This is a gift of tremendous import and magnitude, to humanity for eons to come. It is a vast treasure fashioned in the hermitage of inner silence and brought out into the open, brilliantly lighting the sight of the bewildered with its profound insights.

Open the Mystery:

The opening words “Open to Bliss” refers to the act of opening or unravelling. It is demystifying the complex, perplexing, and infinitely varied stream of data, which is presented to us as sexual attraction, to its simpler elements, to such a degree that it no longer holds any power. It is seen as child’s play (blatantly simple), and as a pitiful attempt at manipulation. Bliss is what remains when one’s consciousness has escaped this confounding maze designed for the mind, and learns to derive pleasure once again in experiencing the preciousness of his or her own true innocent childlike-self.

A Teacher’s Teacher:

Sage Hope is A)self-taught and B)Guru-taught (Spiritual Teacher-taught,) & God-taught by:
1. Introspection, analysis, eternal questioning, investigation
2. Validation of truths in daily life
3. Application to embody the potent ascertained truths
4. Independent study of the Spiritual Teachers’ invaluable written works
5. The study of world’s revealed religious literature.

The Work:

This is an unbiased research of the introspective Sage Hope. After in-depth study of various religions (equivalency of his study spans thrice his lifetime), after unravelling the mystery of love, and having experienced emotional fulfillment, he turned his attention to this formidable, potent, and illusive mystery, namely sexual attraction. The work represents 4 ½ years worth of exclusive study on the matter culminating in the Absolute Solution, which when understood dispels the illusions of sexual attraction to such a point that the mystery becomes as the sage says, “unimpressive.”

Essence of the Problem:

Sexual attraction is presented in perplexing, multi-layered, multi-faceted, and ever-changing forms. The onlooker is thereby mesmerized. Baffled, he loses his perspective and sense of reality. His consciousness is swept away with the stream of peculiar variegated data that bombards him.

The Solution:

A born teacher, the author, Omid Mankoo, is extremely detailed. With simplicity, he dissects and identifies each illusive element of the jumbled mass of sexual manipulation. He elucidates how each element functions to capture the mind. Furthermore, he demonstrates the reason for their potency when they combine to form, what many experience as, a mysterious unknown force, that many mistakenly attribute to their instinct or nature, and strongly but mistakenly feel that this unknown force is originating from within them. The complex jumble created by social norms, ideologies and beliefs on sex and sexual behavior, the status of persons, innocence, and more are each discussed separately, demystifying each of their affects on the whole experience of sexual attraction.

Several means of grasping the material is employed, including:

242 Insights & Insight Briefs Table:

With minimal reading, an ample burst of rich nourishing knowledge is delivered to the reader, by means of 242 condensed (Sutra) Insights, each sentence of which is a compacted form of many sentences. Insights are also listed in a table to be used as reminders or for ease of reference. The recommended reading method is to read the first insight, then go onto reading the next insight, so on and so forth until the book is finished. If at any point one needs further clarification of an insight, they can read the explanations available underneath the insights. In this manner the book can be read fairly quickly. Then, it is recommended to go back and read each insight along with each explanation.

Explanations of Insights:

Explanations below Insights are to assist those readers requiring a guiding hand to walk them through to fully grasp the sometimes intricate details of some Insights.

234 Pictorial Reminders of Insights:

These are semi-picture and keyword representations of the Insights enabling the reader who has understood the insights to be reminded of them by viewing the Pictorial Reminder. In this manner the entire book can be reviewed again fairly quickly.

42 Listed Examples:

In order to assist in clarifying the intended meaning even further, a host of 42 examples are given, which are also listed in a table for ease of reference. Numerous other unlisted examples abound throughout the text.

Comprehensive Index (as a quick summary of book):

The fastest method of study for those with little time is explained to be to read entries under a specific heading within the comprehensive index. The comprehensive index contains a myriad of entries spanning sometimes three sentences long. Reading them is equivalent to reading a summary of the book, covering virtually all of the key points.

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