To save Christmas, a father and son must battle eight not-so-tiny dinosaurs . . .It's Christmas Eve and Dad is up late, testing a game for his son. A sudden ruckus outside brings him to his feet, and when he looks into the sky, he can hardly believe his eyes. Eight gigantic dinosaurs are pulling a strange UFO across the sky!It isn't long before this night before Christmas turns into a nightmare. The ferocious dinosaurs—Smasher, Splinter, Crusher, Fang, Bite...

There's more than one kind of Texas native-we share our magnificent state with numerous other species some with four legs or more and some with no legs at all. Naturalist Jim Harris has studied most of them, and in Lone Star Menagerie he shares some little-known facts, fascinating tales, and amusing personal experiences with these creatures that we live alongside.

Communication in Mission and Development identifies, unpacks, and articulates fundamental problems in communication in mission and development as it is being carried out in Africa and the majority world today. New technology, unique in the history of mankind, is throwing up vexing issues, to date barely recognized, in communication practice. This book reconsiders: -Previous work by mission scholars on communication. -Questions regarding materialism in Africa. -Widespread understandings on ...

Jim Harris has over forty years of experience with tremendously successful small business rescues and startups in the automotive, fitness, publishing, and podcasting industries. Those who have worked alongside him highly praise him for his leadership, vision, character, and mentorship.

Secular assumptions underlie much formal communication between the West and Africa, and even intra-Africa. Secularism is dualistic by nature, but thinking in Africa is mostly monistic. This book suggests that it is better to be rooted in faith in Christ than in so-called secularism. The great respect given to the Bible in much of Africa verifies this idea. Communication of and through Christ is a bridge that can enable indigenous sustainable development. The same gospel is the bridge over ...

What if the whole "God delusion" approach is a neo-colonial imposition at the linguistic and philosophical level? Could it lead to unmitigated disasters in intercultural communication and development work? This paradigm-challenging book points to the necessity, in light of contemporary impasse in intercultural understanding, of God's involvement in the encounter between the West and the majority world, especially Africa. Failure to account for God, the cradle of imagination operative in hu...

When a young lady travels from the UK to Africa to find love with a single missionary, she finds more than she bargained for! The missionary is already in love – with Africa! What can she do? A touching romantic fiction which serves to introduce the reader to Africa, and to God’s work among the peoples of that continent.

Can a white man thrive living as an African in a village in Africa? Philo’s adventure takes him to the fictional African country of Holima, where he is adopted by an African tribe.Should Philo follow Western wisdom, and cause problems through generous giving? Or can he convince Western people that a vulnerable approach is the best way to reach Africa?Jim Harries’ new novel of Christian fiction is broadly based on his true-life experiences, and shows how God performs his power...

George Maxwell is going straight to Hell! That wasn't his intention, of course, especially since he's not dead yet. But some days are like that. You start out digging a well and the next thing you know, you're off on an adventure. On the positive side, it gets him away from....HELENE.

Chinese Take-Outby Jim HarrisChinese Take-Out is an elevated, slow-burn thriller series set in rural Canada, where an exhausted escapee from Beijing's Ministry of State Security triggers a collision between ordinary citizens and international power. When Syun Se — a disciplined, guarded analyst with knowledge the MSS desperately wants back — seeks refuge at a decaying estate, her rescuers, Wallsy and Norsworthy, are drawn into a widening conspiracy involving Tibeta...

Words mean things. They are pregnant with imagery, tone, meaning, and texture. They are building blocks by which we can construct silly things or serious things. We can instruct and insult with our language. I choose to encourage and instruct. This book is a collection of thoughts, ideas, jokes, and truths. As a Christian, I am deeply committed to the Bible and the God who inspired it. My passion in life is to expose people to the truth of the scriptures and make their lives better. I also...

Everyone knows the story of the three little pigs, but now you're going to meet the three little javelinas (pronounced ha-ve-LEE-nas)-loveable, wild, southwestern cousins of pigs. Living in homes built out of tumbleweeds and saguaro ribs (from the fallen giant cacti), the first two javelinas are soon running from the hungry coyote, who had hoped to eat them with red chile sauce. And where do they go for shelter? Why, to their wise sister's house, made strong with adobe bricks. This clever ...