Books with author John Winch

Join the Miller Family and their epic struggle to survive the aftermath of an EMP attack on the United States. This complete box set contains all three novels in The EMP Aftermath series - a best selling trilogy by author John Winchester.The Journey Home: Book one starts off with Jack Miller out of town on business and stranded a thousand miles away from his family. While he faces challenges on the road, his wife and sons find danger waiting closer to home.Desperate Measures: Book two picks up as Jack finds an unexpected source of food, but a cache this large will not go uncontested. Another group claims the food as their own, and the ensuing conflict quickly spirals out of control.Retribution: Book three of the series follows the Miller's older son, Kenny. A tragedy strikes, forcing Kenny to act. In a world without law and order Kenny must dispense his own justice at the barrel of a gun.

This is the story of the Miller family, Jack, Amy, and their sons Kenny and Danny. Separated by half a continent after an EMP attack sends the United States back to the Stone Age, the Millers are desperate to reunite as they struggle to survive.Jack Miller isn’t too worried about the apocalypse. He has been prepping for a few years and has a basement stocked with the food and supplies his family needs to ride out a disaster. Today though, he is out of town on a business trip. An EMP strike delivered by a rogue nation leaves him stranded over a thousand miles away from his home. This is the last place he expected to be during a disaster. He sets out on an epic journey home armed only with his know how and survival skills. What he encounters leaves him questioning how prepared any lone man can be.Amy Miller is all set to enjoy a well deserved vacation day. She’s a hard working mother of two with a full time career and rarely has a quiet moment to herself. The EMP throws a wrench in the works and leaves her unprepared for the chaos to follow. With the city falling down around her ears, she is pushed to the limit. Her suburban home is well stocked with supplies, but she clings to the hope that order will be restored. Faced with the darker side of humanity, will she overcome her inhibitions and do whatever it takes to protect her family?

This was Giacomo’s chance to prove himself. He gathered his father’s old nets and traps and set out into the fields. But Giacomo’s quest to impress his father and catch an evasive bird is foiled at every attempt because an old man is freeing every bird Giacomo catches. Finally Giacomo spots the bird he is after, perched in the window of the artist’s studio. In his rush to catch it, the boy frightens the bird away. Then he sees something on the old man’s table and has an idea. A delicious pun and play on words creates a perfect ending. Exploring an unknown aspect of one of history’s great artists, John Winch’s paintings are richly furnished with references to da Vinci’s paintings and inventions, brilliantly evoking the early-Renaissance setting, while his sparse text successfully conveys the increasing desperation of the struggling boy.

SELECTIONS: A Journey Toward Spiritual Formation The opening words of the Prologue are as good a beginning toward a description of the book as any: What began as a contemplative practice soon became a time of self examination, and then an ongoing reading of the New Testament, followed by an aroused intellectual curiosity that led to research into scriptural exegesis, and finally, after years of repetition and reflection, to a satisfying experience of internalization. Somewhere along the way I realized I was working on my own personal spiritual formation. This is how my alternative New Testament Lectionary came into being. My "uncommon lectionary" is an invitation to a spiritual pilgrimage through salient selections of New Testament passages. For those involved in or interested in the Christian Movement there is no better place to dig deeper. The New Testament text is provided so one does not have to fumble around to find one's own copy. After describing the evolution of the process, the book is divided into the seasons of the Christian Year. Each week correlates a Gospel Reading and an Epistle Reading. There is background material for each section, setting the stage for the specific season. The reader is guided through the reading in a lectio divina style, with variations to keep it from becoming too repetitious. Unique to the book are some "gentle challenges" in each week's reading to help the reader press beneath the surface. These vary with each season, ranging from an invitation to record several "I Believe" statements about a particular passage to creating three handwritten, free-flowing "Lenten Pages" During Holy Week one may be asked to practice one hour of "Sacred Silence" Pentecost challenges the reader to compose a Haiku based on the passages for the week. Missiontide presses for an essay of no less than three, no more than five sentences on each passage relative to the question