All Star Press, Books That Change Lives, is proud to release the ebook version of “The House That Richard Built.” This is a powerful book from James D. Smith that details the life lessons he learned as the son of a carpenter. It is available exclusively through Amazon.com for the Kindle eReader, Kindle App, and [...]
FREE Kindle book from All Star Press – Monday, April 30th
April 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
We are all carpenters; we are all building something. We are building families, marriages, careers, relationships, and legacies. Do we have the right type of tools and instruction to build the life we want? You can learn about these power tools for life in the new e-book “The House that Richard Built” by James D. [...]
It Never Fails
March 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
by James Smith, Looking at the world around us, most of us would have to concede that there is something wrong. But there’s always been something wrong, hasn’t there? You can’t explain the Hitler’s and Khan’s and Nero’s of the world without admitting that something is just out of sync with God’s intention for mankind. [...]
Do the Impossible…So now, go!
February 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Ever feel like the task before you is impossible? Ever feel like what you’re being called to do is beyond your reach? This blogs for you. “So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” God said these words to Moses. Exo 3:10 Never in the [...]
If Hillary can do it…
February 7, 2012 By 2 Comments
On 29 May 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepalesa Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed as having reached the summit of Mount Everest. What most people don’t know is that before Hillary achieved this monumental goal, he had failed in an attempt the previous year. The story goes that after his failure in 1952, [...]
Fear Itself
January 30, 2012 By 2 Comments
One of my favorite film series is the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Tolkien crafted a wonderful story centered around an ordinary hobbit named Frodo Baggins. Frodo wasn’t the biggest, fastest, most skilled, nor most educated. He wasn’t that good with the sword nor the bow. He was given an impossible task…journey into enemy territory [...]
Touching the Leper
January 19, 2012 By 1 Comment
This Sunday I preached about Jesus’ encounter with the leper in Matthew 8. What an incredible story told in just a handful of verses. It seems as Jesus was coming down the mountain from delivering the greatest sermon in the history of mankind (the Sermon on the Mount), a leper came and knelt before him. [...]
