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These Things We Believe, A Layman's Look at the Baptist Faith and Message is an alliterative outline of the foundational tenets of Southern Baptists. Its intended purpose is that it may be used by pastors and laypersons to supplement their teaching not only the new believer, but to strengthen Christians of any age to live and share their faith in a world that challenges their foundational beliefs. Written in outline form, it gives the teacher flexibility to incorporate personal examples and experiences to enhance teaching and learning whether it is to new members, those in a Sunday morning Bible study or other learning situations. S.V. (Steve) Dedmon earned his bachelor's degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) and his Juris Doctor from Nova Southeastern University. He is a professor at ERAU where he teaches a variety of aviation law related courses. As an attorney, he is member of the Florida and United States Supreme Court Bars as well as past chair and current member of the Florida Bar Aviation Law committee. Since accepting Christ, he has been a member of various Southern Baptist churches where he has taught at the high school, singles, and adult levels, as well as serving in deacon and counseling ministries. He has been married for thirty-five years to his wife, Suzanne, and they have two children. When not writing and teaching, he is an avid tennis player and aviation enthusiast and is the owner of two aircraft, one that was a primary trainer in World War II. He and Suzanne reside in Fleming Island, Florida.

In 1936, a wide-eyed boy by the name of LeRoy Brown clambered aboard a 1929 Waco 10 converted to crop dusting duty, sat down in the grimy hopper, and then launched into a clear-blue Florida sky on a wondrous flight that ignited a life-long passion with flying and airplanes. More than 35,000 flight hours later, Captain LeRoy Brown stepped out of the cockpit of a Pan American World Airways DC-10 to end a commercial aviation career that spanned nearly five decades . In between, he filled dozens of logbooks with exciting tales of flying biplane crop dusters, B-17 freight haulers, old airliners, surplus military trainers, state-of-the-art propeller and jet airliners, and more than 150 personally owned airplanes. Packed with photographs and generous sidebars of supplemental information, From Crop Duster to Airline Captain chronicles the life and flying stories of Captain LeRoy Brown, 2009 inductee into the Florida Aviation Historical Association Hall of Fame and 2012 recipient of the Federal Aviation Administration's Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award.

This is a tale about an ordinary woman in northern New England who takes in a feisty, extraordinary dog rescued from the streets of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.

"When things begin to disappear from apartments at Locksley Glen, residents cooperate to look for evidence of the person responsible, but for a long time they find nothing that points clearly to the one to blame. Finally, at a society wedding of a Locksley Glen resident's daughter, a violent storm brings residents together as a unit to ferret out the perpetrator by using a language clue."--Back cover.

"Someone has left a soggy two-piece bathing suit at the pool, and the residents of Locksley Glen are beginning to suspect foul play. After all, would a woman leave the pool without her suit unless she was forced to do so? Research into everything they can think of brings them to no conclusion, until Alice One begins thinking about the possibilities offered by a symbol on a design found in San Francisco. When Alice One burns the toast she made in the middle of the night, she comes closer to the solution, which she and Starr finally pin down during the annual art show."--Back cover.

"A group of residents of a Florida assisted living facility, Locksley Glen, are stunned to learn that a young server in the dining room has kissed one of the elderly male residents. That just isn't done at Locksley Glen. The resident isn't explaining. Nobody can figure out why, even after a Halloween Party offers more clues: a woman resident discovers that the fake knife that is part of her Halloween costume is stained with real blood. Finding out why means examining the lives of young immigrants and helping them become contributing Americans."--Back cover.

TRANS WORLD AIRLINES - A Book of Memories is a history of TWA offered in a different and most unique format... through the eyewitness experiences of its flight crews and ground workers, as well as friends of the company who share their reminiscences. TWA was a pioneer and an important domestic and international airline that played prominently in developing commercial aviation. This book introduces the founders of the airline and some of the early pilots, flight attendants and mechanics who set the standard. We also glimpse inside to the legendary and colorful Howard Hughes, who shaped the airline and campaigned for the Lockheed Constellation. We also learn about Carl Icahn and his controversial leadership of the airline. Jon Proctor, who devoted twenty-seven years of his professional life to TWA, contributed several stories, including a description of TWA's famous Royal Ambassador Service and the Grand Canyon crash. Jon has also contributed many of the beautiful photographs of TWA aircraft that grace the pages of this book. Another TWA veteran, George Hamlin, also contributed many images, as well as stories about the iconic Flight Center at New York International Airport. Other contributions detail many of the VIPs who traveled on TWA, including White House press charters for Presidents Johnson and Nixon; plus Hollywood celebrities, and legendary figures such as Bing Crosby and David Letterman. These are stories from the heart, from employees who dedicated their entire professional careers to the airline, involved personally with the incredible achievements that made TWA the carrier it was. The people of TWA, numbering in the tens of thousands, literally spanned the globe over the years. We invite readers to enjoy these stories, which revisit an era that will never be replicated.