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VALENTINE'S DAY -- WHO CAN FIND A WIFE OF NOBLE CHARACTER?

Our daughter, Carolyn, and her husband, Michael Coney at their wedding in 1983. Carolyn went to heaven in 1990 after a short battle with cancer. She wasn't perfect, but she was a special woman, and many testified to that.

A special woman
By Ada Nicholson Brownell
God gave Solomon a special Gift of Wisdom, but the king didn’t seem too smart where women were concerned. God permitted men to have more than one wife in Old Testament days, so Solomon married 700 women and had 300 concubines, many of them foreign gals God forbid Israelites to marry. Apparently Solomon couldn’t find the one woman—the one jewel—the girl that would be his one and only until death. But Solomon did have supernatural wisdom that told him the qualities of the ideal wife, although the king didn’t have enough sense to find a good woman and cleave only to her himself. He couldn’t seem to apply wisdom to his own life.Yet, I respect Solomon’s wise counsel and he wrote many things I use as goals. But I’ve never reached the perfect woman he describes.Here’s what he penned, followed by what I think he and the Lord are saying to me. Solomon wrote in Proverbs 31:“A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.” [She is beautiful inside because of her godly lifestyle, her love, devotion and faithfulness.] “Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.” [She earns her husband’s loving respect.] “She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands. She is like the merchant ships bringing her food from afar. She gets up while it is still dark; she provides food for her family and portions for her servant girls.” [She is a good mother and compassionate.] “She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard. She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks. She sees that her trading is profitable and her lamp does not go out at night. In her hand she holds the distaffIf she had lived in New Testament days she would have obeyed the counsel in Ephesians 5: 32-33 to “respect her husband.” Solomon also wrote in Proverbs 14:1, “The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.” [I don’t want to tear down my home with my words.] “She is clothed with strength and dignity; She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue. [This gal is no dummy; she studies and teaches others.] “She can laugh at the days to come.” [She has a sense of humor.]“Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her. ‘Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.’” [The whole family adores her and they voice appreciation.] “Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.” [She knows loving God, her family and others is more important than anything. She finds satisfaction and reward.]




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MYSTERIES OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND DEMON POSSESSION

     
By Ada Brownell
“You know these people are out to get us,” the young patient said, his eyes squinting and glaring with anger. “They let us swim in their pool, and give us games to play, but we need to be careful. Did you know they have a graveyard on the grounds?”As a reporter who worked the medical beat for the local newspaper, I rode with a public relations guide, guards, and a group of mentally ill youth on the grounds of the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo. “Is that so?” I said.He nodded and continued sharing his delusional thoughts as the driver delivered the load of disturbed kids to the pool.I met and interviewed a number of mentally ill folks in the seven years I spent on that beat. In addition, I picked the brains of the amazing people who work with these patients. Some of those kept in the institution were dangerous killers.Not all murderers were on the forensics unit which housed criminals who had been ruled “not guilty by reason of insanity.” There was one kid on the juvenile unit rumored to have killed his parents. A woman on the general adult unit killed her children. Another woman beat a guard nearly to death with the metal turn handle from a window.Yet, most patients were more a danger to themselves than to others. One teenager cut her arms trying to get rid the wickedness in her. In addition to the stitched new cuts, scars showed tracks of agony—from  her wrists to her shoulders. I saw a middle-aged woman with the same problem.At the turn of the last century, these types of people were thought to be demon possessed.  When knowledge of the brain expanded, doctors at psychiatric institutions, often called insane asylums or lunatic asylums, began to diagnose the causes of mental disease. Often perfectly sane people were housed with the severely disturbed.The 1899-1900  Board of Lunacy Commissioners reported among those admitted with obvious mental disorders were a number with epilepsy, Down’s Syndrome (labeled idiocy then), paralysis, kleptomania (a compulsion to steal,) sexual paranoia, alcoholic paranoia, religious excitement, ill health, intemperance.I asked nurses who worked with the patients today if they thought some of their patients, admitted because they were a danger to themselves or others, were demon possessed.“The patient who escaped recently who had murdered someone in Denver and stabbed him about 70 times, seems to qualify,” one said.After escaping, the gal was free only about a week, then was caught and returned.“She goes into a rage if she requests a movie and the store doesn’t have it,” the nurse said. “You never know what will set her off.”I was told no matter what treatment used, nothing helped some of the patients.A psychiatrist who had recently become a Christian said, “It’s difficult to tell whether a person is mentally ill or demon possessed. I do my best to counsel them, then I pray for them all. God knows what they need.”I learned mental illness is a disease like diabetes—it’s often caused by an imbalance of chemicals in the brain. Even a brain tumor or injury can cause adverse changes in behavior. So mental illness is a physical problem.In contrast, demon possession is a spiritual problem and I think Satan takes over the part of brain reserved for God. From what we read in the New Testament and hear from missionaries who encounter it, demons need to be cast out.I don’t believe a born-again Christian who lives in obedience to God can be demon possessed, because scripture says “greater is he who is in us than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4). The goal is to stay close to Jesus, watch what we put into our minds, and shun even the appearance of evil. We’re told, “Submit yourself to God. Resist the devil and he’ll flee from you (James 4:7).May that thought give you joy when you hear stories about demon possession. Also remember not everything attributed to demons actually was done by Satan.©Copyright Ada Brownell Oct. 31, 2013

Why has the United States been blessed with liberty?

God’s mercy brought America through hard timesBy Ada BrownellA phone call from our daughter. “Better turn on the news.” A click, and I sank into a recliner. Flames shot from the World Trade Center and people jumped out windows. Then a large aircraft plowed into the remaining twin tower, exploding top floors and setting the remainder of the crumbling skyscraper on fire. A short time later, a plane made a direct hit on our Pentagon, and another headed for the White House.We were at war. Our soldiers still fight the tentacles of terrorism trying to strangle the last breath of freedom from our nation and the world.What a joy liberty has been in the decades I’ve lived! No bombs lighting the sky in the distance or jarring my bed at night. During my childhood I trembled during World War II when the town siren screamed, “Blackout.” But sirens stopped, our homeland was safe despite carnage at Pearl Harbor, and Americans lived free.  Yes, war bruised our nation. I remember my sister’s scream when she received the call revealing her fiancé was killed in World War II. We feared Russia during the cold war, and during the Bay of Pigs crisis we wondered if atomic bombs would level our nation before morning. We’re still burying our young killed on battlefields abroad.Throughout history, America went to its knees for God’s help. They cried out to the Lord during the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican-Indian War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq; and interventions in Granada, Panama, Bosnia. I’m thankful for those who fought, gave their lives or were maimed.Liberty prevails, and I believe it’s partly due to our Judeo-Christian heritage that teaches loving God and others. Another reason we have been blessed is our nation’s support of Israel.  "And I will bless those that bless you and curse the one who curses you,” God said of Israel (Genesis 12:1-3). Zechariah 2:8 speaks about God rising against the nations that plundered Israel – “for whoever touches you touches the apple of my eye." If we turn from God, it even affects the environment: “There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land. There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery…. Because of this the land mourns, and all who live in it waste away, the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the fish of the sea are dying” (Hosea 4:1-3).And the promise for obedience: “Then all the nations will call you blessed for yours will be a delightful land,” says the Lord Almighty (Malachi 3:6-12).Even with continued war and our nation divided by different agendas, we are free and blessed. The church still prays for our leaders and our country, and I thank God for His mercy and ask for more.Ada Brownell, a free lance writer and author of four books, is a retired reporter for The Pueblo Chieftain. Her blog: http://www.inkfromanearthenvessel.blogspot.com

Ministry: God's Call Not for the Fainthearted

God’s call is not for the fainthearted, whether to a mission field, an unpopular stand or a particular task. When God calls, expect difficulty and hardship. Expect to shed some blood, sweat and tears.That’s not something we in twenty-first century America like to hear. We’re used to convenience and leisure and instant gratification. But as I read through the Bible, I see God calling his people to specific tasks that require hard work and sacrifice. For example, Noah was called by God to build an ark that would save his family as well as the animals God had chosen. How long did he have to work on building the ark? Scholars believe it was probably around sixty years. That’s sixty years of gathering materials, measuring, cutting, fitting, pounding, sealing. Hard work. Sweat. Is there anything you’d be willing to spend sixty years working on?The Israelites fought many battles in their conquest of the Promised Land. We don’t read the details about every battle in the Biblical accounts, but this was war in all its bloody, gory, frightening, painfulness. And these messy battles continued through the period of the judges, King Saul, King David and beyond. God called them to the task, but it wasn’t easy. Most likely, some of the Israelite warriors gave their lives answering God’s call. Families were left without husbands and fathers and brothers and sons. Blood and tears. What are we willing to sacrifice for God’s call?The prophets were often required to sacrifice their reputation and their safety in order to demonstrate God’s word to his wayward people. Jeremiah spent time sinking in the mud of a cistern, alone without food to strengthen him or sunshine to warm him. Isaiah was told to walk around naked for 3 years. And of course, Hosea’s heart broke over and over again as his wife played the harlot with other lovers. Rejection. Embarrassment. Are we willing to suffer personal shame for God’s call?Even in the New Testament, people who believed Jesus was the Messiah were thrown out of the synagogues, persecuted by both Jews and Romans. Nearly all the apostles were killed because they felt called to follow the Lord. Paul even lists the times he was flogged, shipwrecked, stoned, etc. Followers of the Most High God didn’t expect to have it easy or convenient. They weren’t interested in a leisurely approach, and understood well that their reward would come later.As a writer, I have answered God’s call but sometimes feel discouraged because the going is hard. The ideas aren’t flowing. The words won’t come. Maybe I’ve misunderstood what God wanted. I thought if He called me to write, He’d make it easy for me to accomplish. Oh, no. God’s call is an offer to stretch beyond our own resources, our own abilities. That’s hard. That can be discouraging. That involves long hours of lonely work. But, if that’s where you are, you’re in good company, and in good hands! “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” Hebrews 12:1“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified or discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9Answer God’s call on your life, but be ready to work to accomplish it.


Mary L. Hamilton is the author of Hear No Evil, Book 1 in the Rustic Knoll Bible Camp series for tweens. She grew up at a camp much like the setting for her book. When not writing, Mary enjoys knitting, reading and being outdoors, though not all at the same time. She and her husband live near Houston, TX within range of their three grown children.
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Beauty and Success: How to Look and Be Your Best

 By Ada Brownell
For some reason, humans follow other people like sheep following other sheep, even if they have no idea where they’re going.Sheep will blindly, habitually, stupidly follow one another along the same little trails until they become ruts that erode into gigantic gullies, says Phillip Keller, a shepherd and Christian author.

Phillip Keller, A Shepherd Looks at the Good Shepherd and His Sheep (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan), 65.

Many Books for Teens Distort Life

 WHAT ARE WE FEEDING OUR YOUTH?By Ada Brownell
“Too many books for adolescents act like funhouse mirrors, reflecting hideously distorted portrayals of life,” said Meghan Cox Gurdon in a March 12, 2013, speech at Hillsdale College.“Today too many novels for teenagers are long on turbulence and short on a sense of perspective.”She gave an example of a book approved by School Library Journal, which consists of explicit and obscene descriptions of sexual encounters. Two others Gurdon used as examples go into detail of bloody violence, cruelty, self mutilation and offensive language.“Books tell children what to expect, what life is, what culture is, how we are expected to behave—what the spectrum is,” the reviewer said. “Books don’t just cater to tastes. They form tastes. They create norms. The norms young people take away are not necessarily the norms adults intend.”What about church kids? What are they reading?I’ve worried about the advent of fantasy, paranormal and superhuman powers in Christian books for young adults. Speculative Christian fiction messes with your mind, but nothing like what Gurdon described in the secular literature for youth.The supernatural isn’t the problem if it stays away from wizards, fortunetellers and that sort of thing. In Leviticus 19:31, it says, “Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.  Another warning is written in Levitcus 20:6. In my YA books for teens, I speak often about God’s supernatural power—straight from scripture. In Joe the Dreamer: The Castle and the Catapult, in his dreams Joe slips into the skin of Bible characters that experienced God’s miraculous intervention.
Gurdon said, "The body of children’s literature is a little like the Library of Babel in the Jorge Luis Borges story—shelf after shelf of books, many almost gibberish, but a rare few filled with wisdom and beauty and answers to important questions.  “The good news is that just like the lousy books of the past, the lousy books of the present will blow away like chaff,” she added. “The bad news is that they will leave their mark.”
            --excerpts from “The Case for Good Taste in Children’s Books,” July/August 2013 Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College.

Prevent suicide and depression: It's OK to Talk to Yourself

Controlling our thinking:IT'S OK TO TALK TO YOURSELFBy Ada BrownellAuthor of the book, Imagine the Future Youhttp://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001KJ2C06
You've seen the commercial. Mom washed her teenager's new jeans, causing a crisis."My life is over," the young gal says.She couldn't be serious, we think. Yet, when I became the new teacher of a high school Sunday school, I contacted all who had attended in the past. Before he had time to receive the card, one of them was dead. The young man hung himself from a tree in his parents' front yard. I heard the kid, whose parents had money for booze and cigarettes, killed himself because he had nothing but holey sox to wear.In preaching about suicide a few weeks later, our pastor emphasized suicide almost always comes as the result of a suggestion from Satan.But we don't have to listen to the devil. We can capture evil thoughts and refuse to allow them to live our minds. The Apostle Paul wrote, "We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5).If you don't want to be depressed, change the way you talk to yourself, advises Christian psychologists
Frank Minirth and Paul Meier, authors of Happiness is a Choice. "All of us go through each day talking to ourselves in our thoughts. We either talk in a positive or a negative, critical tone."What had the boy said to himself before he climbed up that tree with a rope? "I can't face those kids at school anymore?" Or, "Nobody cares about me anyway?"What if he'd thought like my stepbrother, Clarence, who started out in his early teens asking people if he could have their old broken bicycles? He figured out how to fix them, probably at first cannabalizing parts from one old bike he could put on another, and using old paint from my Dad's garage. Then he sold the repaired bicycles. In no time he had a profitable business, at least for someone his age.Although changing our thinking patterns is not easy, it can be done. "The scripture promises that negative thinking can be changed to positive thinking," says Jerry H. Schmidt, author of Do You Hear What You're Thinking? He gives a number of scriptures, among them Romans 12:2, "Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect" (New Living Translation).Another one is, "If there is anything worthy of praise, think on and weigh and take account of these things—fix your minds on them. Practice what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me. And model your way of living on it, and the God peace—of untroubled, undisturbed, well-being—will be with you" (Philippians 4:6-9 Amplified Bible).Beyond that, we need to decide to believe in ourselves and in the God who created us. Jesus told us to "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength," and "Love your neighbor as yourself." (Mark 12:-31). That implies we are to love ourselves, too.Then believe this scripture, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me," (Philippians 4:13).If you need to, talk to yourself about it!

CHRISTIAN FAITH IN A SECULAR CLASSROOM

 USE YOUR OWN DIRT
 By Ada Brownell
 
An excerpt from Ada Brownell's (non-denominational) motivational Bible study for youth
Imagine the Future You
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001KJ2C06
 A psychology professor openly ridiculed Christians in one of my university classes. As the instructor made sarcastic remarks about Christians in the news and preached his atheistic ideas, I wondered why no one challenged him. One day I raised my hand.
 “You said this textbook will be outdated in ten years,” I began. “So what you're teaching might not be true in ten years?”
The questions flowed.
“Can you prove evolution? Isn’t it true you accept it by faith? Are you aware many scientists threw out missing links because in the more than a century since Darwin they can’t find them? Did you know scientists are even putting forth the idea that man might have fallen from outer space?
“How did creation turn out so perfectly without a Designer? Why aren’t monkeys turning into humans now?”
He admitted that, yes, the textbooks and the theories and knowledge in them would soon be outdated; that he didn’t have all the answers; and, “Yes, we do accept some things by faith. But when something is universally accepted, we treat it as fact.”
I should have asked, “Then because the God of creation and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ are universally accepted, that should be treated as fact?”
Although I accept that many Christians believe the theory with God starting the process, a few weeks later, I asked a science professor if the laws of thermodynamics violate evolution. The teacher had opened the class on the environment stating everything would be based on evolution.
No more than thirty-five pages into the text, Living in the Environment, by G. Tyler Miller Jr., the class was studying the law of energy degradation, also known as the second law of thermodynamics. The law states that matter, if left to itself and undergoing physical or chemical changes, will always change in the direction of decreased order and decreased energy content. The entire universe obeys this law, and this includes every chemical reaction.
In words plain and simple, the law means anything left to itself will slowly fall apart. Every old barn with the roof sagging and the walls falling in demonstrates this law. Despite galaxies thought to be expanding (are they expanding, or are we increasing our knowledge?), scientists will tell you the entire universe is slowing down, growing old, and, as the saying goes, is running out of steam.
The second energy law also tells us energy tends to flow or change spontaneously from a compact and ordered form to a dispersed and random, or disordered, form.
“No one has ever found a violation of this law,” Miller states.When the teacher read that, I put up my hand. “Isn’t evolution a violation of this law?”
In order for evolution to occur, many complex chemical changes must take place, and they must all be in the direction of increased order and energy to move from the simple to the com­plex.
The teacher paused a moment, cleared his throat, and said, “Well, evolution is the only violation.”
The theory of evolution also violates the first law of thermodynamics, which simply says energy (or matter) neither can be created nor destroyed.
A story goes that God and Satan were having a discussion.
“I can do anything you can,” Satan said, stretching his puny body so he looked taller.
God smiled. “OK. Make a man.”
Satan bent over and began scraping up dirt.
God grabbed his shoulder. “Use your own dirt.”
NOTE: Imagine the Future You does acknowledge many Christians believe in evolution with God starting the process. Some believe in age-long days of creation. The chapter goes into much detail and research into things that relate to evolution, including the Piltdown Man, and evidence about missing links, new evolutionary theories such as punctuated equilibrium, the latest scientific discoveries from respected sources, and how belief in a loving Creator changes your future.
The link for the book: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001KJ2C06


G. Tyler Miller Jr., Living in the Environment (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co.), 34–43.

Do you believe in yourself and things greater than yourself? Take quiz from Imagine the Future You

TWENTY QUESTIONS FROMIMAGINE THE FUTURE YOUBy Ada Nicholson Brownell
Can you answer them all?
IMAGINE THE FUTURE YOU--FREE January 25 AND 26
Will you be the person you dream of being—or someone from your nightmares?
You don’t need a fortune teller to reveal your future. You are the person who determines who you will be, what your life will be like, and how your hopes and dreams will be fulfilled.

This book will show how to make the right connections, how to grow your talents, and how to begin believing in yourself and things greater than yourself—for a wonderful Future You!
A Bible study available in paper or for Kindle http://www.amazon.com/dp/1489558284Ada Brownell’s author page: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001KJ2C06


Quiz

1. How will you go about achieving your dreams?
2. If you have good character, will it show even when you are mistreated? How will it be shown?
3. What makes us remember Joseph?
4. Where is the most important place your name can appear? How do you go about getting your name there?
5. What does how you present yourself have to do with respect?
6. What makes opinion leaders different?
7. What if I feel drawn to a vocation but feel I can’t do it?
8. How can we guard our minds?
9. Name three sexually transmitted diseases that can kill.
10. In the national study of STDs, what percentage of girls were estimated to be infected by at least one of the diseases?
11.  Does propaganda contain any truth? Why? 12. Give five of the ten reasons the author says we fall in love.
13. Where in the Bible is the “love chapter?”
14. Name seven good reasons why it’s best to wait to have sex until marriage.
15. Are we able to prove God exists? Why?
16. List the four ideas on the scriptural days of creation.
17. What is the name of the fraudulent missing link which deceived from 1912 until 1953?
18. Why do we know Jesus existed before he was born in Bethlehem?
19. Did Jesus claim to be God?
20. From Old Testament times, what has been necessary to forgive sin? What do you have to do to be saved from sin and death? Will you have a second chance after death?
 aNSWERS SOON
© Ada Brownell January 2013

Atheism/secularism among us. AN ENEMY IS AFTER OUR YOUTH

By Ada Brownell
Those who keep track of faith in the United States tell us an enemy scrambled over the crumbling walls surrounding the American church, snatching faith and carrying away hostages.Nehemiah saw a similar situation in Old Testament Days.  Years before, enemies sacked Jerusalem until the 22-foot-thick stone walls surrounding the city were turned to rubble and the gates burned with fire (Nehemiah 1:3). Many Jews who escaped exile still lived outside the walls in trouble and disgrace.Nehemiah had an important job as cupbearer for King Artaxerxes in Persia.  When he got the news about the sorry state of his people in Jerusalem, Nehemiah wept. He fasted and prayed. He praised the Lord for his awesome power. Then he repented of his sins and Israel’s sins.Seeing his grief, King Artaxerxes gave Nehemiah a leave of absence, so Nehemiah went to Jerusalem to rebuild the walls.Nehemiah was not a carpenter or a stonemason.  He’d never been a supervisor.  But he saw a need and knew although Israel had sinned and been scattered over the nations, if they would return to the Lord and obey His Words, the Lord would bring them back to the land where God chose for His name to be honored.             Like Jerusalem in Nehemiah’s time, the enemy of our souls has broken down the walls of the U.S. church so that we're losing too many of our youth. Some churches don’t have enough young people to survive another decade.  Yet, there is hope.            Not long before his death, I interviewed the Rev. Thomas Zimmerman, a dynamic 20thCentury Christian leader.  I asked Zimmerman if he expected the American church to pass faith to the next generation.            “It will,” he said, enthusiastically.  “But the church of tomorrow won’t do things exactly the way our generation did.”I've found that to be true. We have wonderful new worship songs, churches with multiple satellites and powerful services on Saturday and Sunday that reach thousands of young adults. But still the enemy is at work. More and more Christian parents and grandparents deal with teens in rebellion who live an immoral lifestyle, and some admit they are atheists.I notice how schools, universities, and government are changing the way we think. I received my degree after age 40 from a state university and shuddered at how different the youth came in, but how similar when they went out. In the classroom belief in God and Christianity were ridiculed, immorality expected, and America criticized. Most students graduated talking alike, thinking alike, believing the same. They resembled a line of toy soldiers where it was difficult to distinguish one from another.I think they were brainwashed with ungodly propaganda carefully framed to change the individual. They began with a little truth.“For a long time propagandists have recognized lying must be avoided,” says Jacques Ellul, author of “Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes”. IMAGINE THE FUTURE YOUFREE JAN. 25-26
Faith in God stripped away by secular educational systems and the media is why I wrote the motivational Bible study for youth, Imagine the Future You. Reviewers say the study, complete with questions and answers, is a great source for family discussion. It's also good for parents to read, so they'll know how to approach children before their faith is gone.Now is the time to get the book. The e-book will be free of charge on Amazon on Jan. 25-26. Amazon Ada Brownell author page: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001KJ2C06
©Ada Brownell January 15, 2014

Vintage Books, 1973, Random House, New York, Copyright 1965 by Alfred A. Knopf Inc., page 53 Propaganda, page 279