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YOU DESERVED A BETTER FATHER:
GOOD PARENTING TAKES A PLAN

by Robb Brandt, MD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 This book is about parenting by intention, and other lessons the author learned through the loss of his firstborn son. It is especially for parents who believe that bits and pieces of leftover time will be enough for their own children. "This book is a 'must read' for anyone who has children and a demanding vocation," says Dr. Gary Chapman. "It will bring laughter, tears, and hope. I highly recommend it."


Dr. Brandt's reason for writing this book is to help "fast-lane" parents understand that God's clock and their children's needs are not necessarily running in the same time sequence. You're either there, with them, or you're not. Despite what you may think about your indispensability to your work, your clients, or even, in Dr. Brandt's case, your patients, your children need and deserve you ... NOW.


Surely you don't want to find yourself in the following situation, from which the book's title comes, as Dr. Brandt has his last words with his eight-year-old son, lying before him in a casket:


"I'm so sorry, Robbie," I said. "My heart's breaking Robb, buddy. You know how much I love you and how incredibly I'm going to miss you."

I wanted to bend down and wrap my arms around him. I touched his arm. Cold and stiff. I wanted to remember him as warm, lively, and seldom still.

"We've had a lot of good times, buddy. Great times," I continued. "Building tree houses, playing Whiffle ball, fishing at Pine Lake, and our great camping trips.

"But I'm sorry about all those times my jammed and unpredictable schedule stole a ball game or a camping trip from you. You always looked so disappointed and hurt. I should have known I needed to plan our family times better. And, how I regret all those 'Quickly, I have to go, let's have fun quickly' times."

My fallen pal lay silent and still, as pangs of guilt shivered through me.

"You deserved better, Robb. A better father," I said.

 

And those were my last words to my first-born son.

 

ENDORSEMENTS:

“This is a can’t-put-it down, gripping and throbbing-with-passion story of one father’s journey through ‘the valley of the shadow’ into the sunlight of understanding. All parents will be stimulated to ‘be better’ because of this living, breathing narrative.”

                   –Hayes Wicker, DMin, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church, Naples, Florida

“Robb's journey to become the best dad possible in spite of a busy surgical practice will both challenge and encourage you. This is a book full of real life wisdom that comes out of real life experiences.” –T.J. Addington, Senior VP, EFCA, Reach Global


“A compelling case for intentional fatherhood and an encouragement for parents to seize the moments with their kids. I recommend it.”

–Rick Santorum, Former United States Senator from Pennsylvania

                                    and Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference

"This is an essential message born out of real-life experience and Robb’s personal passion to become a better dad.  Yet, the principles are universal and will help you as they have helped me. "
                                – Jeff McNicol, Senior Pastor; Chippewa Evangelical Free Church

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

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The Spiritual Fitness Checkup for the 50-Something Woman

Ten Steps Toward Midlife Spiritual Health


by Sharon V. King, PhD


You made it! along with millions of other female Baby Boomers, you have celebrated at least one birthday with a “5” in the front. it’s time for a physical fitness checkup to make sure your 50-something body is as healthy as possible. But, don’t’ forget: Your spiritual fitness is equally important to your overall health. The Spiritual Fitness Checkup for the 50-something Woman is your guide to toning up your relationship with God at your midlife milepost.

 

 

This book is for you if:

 

- You had 50 or more candles on your last birthday cake.

- You think “fitness” is all about getting skinny.

- Your spiritual life is important to you.

 

With 10 spiritual fitness “Checkups” and exercises to help you take your own “Spiritual pulse Check,” you will learn how to:

 

- Jettison unwanted spiritual “baggage”

- View your “midlife crisis” from God’s perspective

- Focus on forgiveness instead of anger

- Conduct a spiritual “lab test”

- improve your spiritual “stamina”

- enhance your meditation time

- Spiritualize your midlife self-image

 


 

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The Transforming Power of Story
How Telling Your Story Brings Hope to Others and
Healing to Yourself

by Elaine Leong Eng, MD, and David B. Biebel, DMin

Published March 2010 - 204 pages
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This book demonstrates, through multiple true life stories, how sharing one's story, especially in a group setting, can bring hope to listeners and healing to the one who shares. Right from the start, as Dr. Eng describes her own journey with blindness, you'll be engrossed and inspired by what you read. Designed for group use, individuals facing difficulties will find this book greatly encouraging. Any reader will find it both meaningful and helpful.

 

 PRAISE FOR THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF STORY

 

“Dr. Elaine Eng is a remarkable woman with an incredible story and personal ministry. She has been an inspiration to me for as long as I have known her. Her book will inspire you, bring tears of joy to your eyes, and longing to your heart, and reinforce your love for our wonderful Savior. Dr. Eng is a living, walking testimony to God’s grace and power through human frailty. Her life and her stories show poignantly how He can use any circumstance for His glory.”  –Diane Passno, Sr. Vice President, Focus on the Family

 

“I opened the door of my cabin in the beautiful Brakenhurst Conference Center, north of Nairobi, and there she was—the same sightless lady I had seen the year before in a similar setting in Thailand. What is she talking about to each of these doctors and nurses who take her by the arm and lead her through the garden paths? She’s there to teach classes to these hundreds of doctors and nurses, but all day long she seems to be walking and talking. Or is it listening?

     “Now you can take Doctor Elaine Eng by the arm and hear not only The moving stories she has been hearing, but her own riveting story of transformation. You may find healing or strength—as the need may be—as she and others share heart and soul in the major crises of life. She waits at your door to share The Transforming Power of Story.” –Robertson McQuilkin, President Emeritus; Columbia International University

 

“It was a ‘not to put down’ book and every minute I could find free, I read it. People of all walks of life and persuasions of faith will find their own stories come alive in those of the contributors.”

–Mary Jane Jewell, RN

 

 “Eng and Biebel have privileged their readers to hear directly from survivors. The storytellers are ones who painfully looked for and found who they could trust to transform the chaos of the wounded soul to become a dependable guidepost of encouragement and healing. This book includes menus for practical applications, allowing any of us to create help for others from our own lessons of loss.”

–Marvin Jewell, MD

 

 “The Transforming Power of Story not only talks about why our stories are so important to share, but it also demonstrates this fact through each story recounted in this book. Through the exercises at the end of each chapter, this ground-breaking book gives opportunity for each reader to reflect on his or her life story in ways that give the just-read story practical application in the reader’s life. A great job. A great read. A potentially life changing book.”

–Ruth E. Van Reken, author

 

About the Authors:

Elaine Leong Eng, MD, is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. She is a graduate of Princeton University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is currently Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Weill-Cornell Medical College and teaches at the Alliance Theological Seminary's Graduate School of Counseling. Trained in the Lay Ministry Program of Concordia College, Dr. Eng integrates faith, medical, and psychological issues to provide mental health education to many audiences. Avenues for this include international and domestic travel for speaking engagements and writing.

 

David B. Biebel, DMin, is a minister, medical editor, health educator, and author or coauthor of seventeen other books including the CBA Gold Medallion award winning New Light on Depression and several others that have received special recognition including If God Is So Good, Why Do I Hurt So Bad? and Simple Health. His most recent series of health related books includes 70 Ways to Beat 70 and 50 Ways to Feel Great Today (Revell). He holds a Doctor of Ministry degree in Personal Wholeness from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. His first book was Jonathan, You Left Too Soon, upon which his chapter in The Transforming Power of Story is based.

 

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In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing
Lessons from Landing in the Hudson River

by Andrew Jamison, MD

The image on the book cover to the right is one of the top news images of our time. Immediately upon seeing it, we asked ourselves, “How could that happen? It would take a miracle!”

In the providence of God, one of the passengers on board was a Christian fourth-year medical student who got on the flight home to Charlotte, SC, standby,  because his residency interviews in New York City, January 15, 2009 were concluded sooner than expected.

From the book: “As I took my seat, I pulled out two books I had been reading on the interview trail. One, The Sovereignty of God, by Arthur W. Pink, was a heavy theological book that had been convincing me of just how sovereign God is. The other was a little lighter read, Prince Caspian, by CS Lewis. This is a children’s book with great biblical allegories....

“During this time on the taxiway, the flight attendants went through their typical speech of what to do if, “In the unlikely event of a water landing, your seat cushion may be used as a flotation device.” I only half-way registered what she said, but I?guarantee you, those words will never fly past my brain again, unattended.”

From the Foreword, by Dr. David Stevens, CEO of the Christian Medical & Dental Associations:
“When you’re hurtling toward death, the character already developed in you takes over like an auto-pilot, and finds expression in one way or another. In Andrew’s case, while others might have screamed in terror, his response was to ask the nearby passengers if he could PRAY with them. Now that’s the kind of doctor I want to attend me when things are taking a turn for the worse, or as the saying goes, when it seems like the wings are about to fall off.”

Dr. Andrew Jamison is a first-year intern at Scott and White Hospital in Temple, Texas, doing a preliminary internal medicine year before starting a dermatology residency, also at Scott and White. His wife, Dr. Jennifer Jamison, is in her first year of a family medicine residency at Scott and White. They met in medical school at Charleston, South Carolina.

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FINDING MARTIANS IN THE DARK 
EVERYTHING I NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT TEACHING
TOOK ME ONLY 30 YEARS TO LEARN
by Dan M. Biebel
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Packed with wise advice based on hard experience, laced with humor, and wrapped around a wide variety of experiences, this book challenges, encourages, and inspires new or used teachers. Parents of junior or senior high school students will also enjoy it. Finding Martians in the Dark is destined to become an instant classic and required reading at teacher training institutions.

PRAISE FOR FINDING MARTIANS IN THE DARK:

Susan J. Wegmann, PhD says, “Biebel’s sardonic wit is mellowed by a genuine love for kids and teaching.... A Whitman-like sensibility flows through his stories of teaching, learning, and life.”

Tom Schram, PhD says, “Honest and heartfelt, practical and wise, it embeds lessons of teaching and
learning in a rich set of personal accounts. From hiding in hedges to tracking mud on clean floors to
banging an oat bucket, Biebel creatively weaves everyday experiences into broader understandings of
how one comes to terms with becoming a teacher. The narrative draws readers into the mind and
heart of a veteran educator who has discovered the profound value and abundant humor to be found
in the missteps and successes of classroom life.”

Anonymous parent of five said, “This book is so funny, it was all I could do to keep from laughing.”

Dan M. Biebel graduated from high school in Windsor, Vermont, in 1970. He earned
his B.S. in 1976 from Keene State College, Keene, N.H., and an M.S. at the University
of Wyoming in 1981. He has taught science and coached basketball and track at various
schools in Wyoming, Colorado, New Hampshire, and Florida, in a career that
stretches from 1977 to the present, receiving various awards for his contributions.
His love for the outdoors provides a backdrop for many of the lessons shared in this
book. Dan’s search for “Martians” continues, for the public will surely demand a
“Jargonasaurus III” when it is completed.
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BOOKS BY GARY A. BURLINGAME

Because We’re Family - Helping You Share Your Faith with Your Family

Sometimes things related to faith can be hard to discuss with your family. This booklet, designed to be given as a gift, was created to help you open the door to discussing spiritual matters with family members who are open to such a conversation.




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Because We’re Friends - Helping You Share Your Faith with Your Friends

 Sometimes things related to faith can be hard to discuss with your friends. This booklet, designed to be given as a gift, was created to help you open the door to discussing spiritual matters with friends who are open to such a conversation.




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My Broken Heart Sings 

The Poetry of Gary A. Burlingame


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Published August, 2009

 Praise for My Broken Heart Sings:

 

 

Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard wrote, “A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music....”

 


Gary A. Burlingame is one such being, with this difference – once unhappy, due to the loss of a son, his broken heart now sings, because he kept walking by faith. His readers are the beneficiaries of the work of the One who binds up the brokenhearted, “…bestowing on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor” (Isaiah 61:1-3).

 

 

Gary describes this metamorphosis, “In the days of my youth the songs of my heart were self-focused. My poetry had no clear voice or purpose (outside of wooing my wife). Over time the Lord brought me through some heart-changing experiences. He allowed my heart to break so that He could mold my heart into something new. Out of this regenerated state my poetry grew - expressing what other people could not express - crying out for them. My prayer is that my poetry would give broken hearts an outlet of release. My Broken Heart Sings is a compilation of poems that speak of pain and joy, love and loss, suffering and new birth.”

 

 

–David B. Biebel, DMin

About the Author:


In 1987, Gary and his wife Debbie lost their son Christopher John, at only six months of age, to a chronic lung disease. This life-changing experience gave them a special heart for helping others through similar loss and pain. Some of Gary’s poems speak directly out of their own sorrow while other poems speak for those who were unable to give voice to their pain.


Endorsement:


“Gary Burlingame’s poetry has been on display in my waiting room for many years. His poems have touched the lives of many patients and their families. His poems stir the emotions while being practical, insightful, spiritual, and deeply truthful. I am glad to have his poetry in book form to refer to my patients and friends for support when they find themselves in pain and fall into deep struggles in their own lives.”

               – Dr. David Trumbore - Director of physical therapy at  Delaware  Valley Orthopedic Associates, Philadelphia and president of Effective Fitness Solutions, LLC Bensalem, PA


Sample text:

 

 A Truer World

A friend asked me why I hadn’t written about the loss of my own son, Christopher John. It was hard to focus on any particular feeling or to capture everything I needed to say in a single poem. This poem came to me as I prepared for an Easter sunrise service. Without my son I would not have known A Truer World. His death at only six months of age caused me to wrestle with God’s Word and sovereignty in order to find our true source of hope and joy.

 

On a cold December day,

Colder than I’ve ever known,

I carried you away–

Away from your earthly home–

And I laid you to rest

On that cold December day.

Such a cold December day!

 

On a cold December day,

Everything just turned around.

My dreams were swept away;

Away from me raising you

Into you changing me-

On that cold December day.

Such a cold December day!

 

             When I needed it most in life

             I declared it.

             All I ever really had

             Came forth in boldness:


             Where O death is your sting?

             Where O death, your victory?

             The sting of death is sin.


             And we

             Had the victory

             Through Christ

             On that cold December day.

 

On a cold December day-

You died a boy and not a man

And I sent you away,

Away from my loving hands,

As I laid you to rest

On that cold December day.

Such a cold December day!

 

Was it the son who changed the father?

Do we really know how it should be?

I thought I would be raising you,

But it’s you who is changing me.


It was you, my son, who changed my life;

You brought a truer world to me.


As helpless as you were,

You brought a truer world to me.

                                
                                Copyright 2009, Gary A. Burlingame 
  

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