Bøger af John Baker

It is very important to take good care of your lawn. The lawn represents your personality. Whether it is in front of the house or office, you need to look after the lawn on a regular basis. Nobody wants to see a poorly maintained lawn area. It can also be a good way to make an impression in public. People always want to be successful in both personal and professional life. As we know the first impression is always the last impression, a well-maintained lawn could be the perfect example to achieve that feat. This book guides you thoroughly on how to take care of a lawn area.

Most people have gardens in the homes where they grow vegetables and other healthy herbs for their nutritional needs or flowers to enhance the beauty of their homes. If you have a garden in your home or you live on a large farm then you need to fence around your garden so that you can protect your plants from people who can steal them or animals that may destroy them. Garden fences play important role in your compound. Here are a few reasons why you need to have a garden around your garden: Your garden needs shelter from harmful winds. When you grow plants that cannot withstand heavy winds, you need to consider building a fence around your garden to help protect your plants from wind gusts that may destroy them. This is especially true when you have a larger garden and have invested heavily in your crops. Failure to protect them from heavy winds may result in huge losses. When you have beautiful and healthy plants in your garden you are likely to invite destructive animals who wants to feed on the crops and end up destroying them. In addition, people may want to steal from your garden. The best way to secure your plants and protect them from harmful animals and thieves is to build a garden fence around them.

When is the absolute right time for planting garlic? What is the proper method for successful garlic growing? You can manipulate the planting time a little. We have fairly discussed everything you need to know for a bumper garlic growth. If you follow our book for planting garlic cloves, you will perhaps end up having decent crops. Roots should start growing soon after you plant. Your aim should be to get good root development before the plants become latent. Green shoots might occur in the fall. Garlic is one of the healthiest vegetables which is popular in Mediterranean and Asian cooking. Garlic is easy to grow where you will be blessed with plenty of fat and juicy garlic bulbs. All you have to do is find a sunny site. However, buying seeds needs careful measure. Garlic is not at all hard to grow. In fact, growing garlic is approximately easy. It has a few significant demands that are conveniently met. Decent soil with adequate moisture, planting and harvesting the garlic is what we need at the right time. Studies provide us a better understanding as a whole about the amount of garlic that is needed for blessing us with the health benefits. In our detailed chapters of the book, we have discussed health benefits besides the planting method for garlic.

It may generally be hard for new dieters getting accustomed to the hard process of weight loss. Most of us are easily lured to believe certain advertisements, program, books or even internet contents endorsements trying to tell us that weight loss is easy. As a matter of fact, changing any habit can be difficult and especially altering our eating habits is remarkably difficult because our physical and environmental patterns involve food. There are various means to lose a big amount of weight fast with a chance of making you hungry and unsatisfied. The hunger will cause you drop out on these plans if your willpower is weak. But following these hacks will ensure that you reduce your appetite and quickly lose weight without hunger while improving the metabolic health. Many diet experts may suggest several small meals, intense workouts, weight loss induced foods etc. will keep that metabolism stoked. Today, you will learn that these processes barely cause fat loss through our book. Eating less creates the body to slow down instead of needing to burn body fat. In a more general sense, it burns muscle tissue alongside a bit of body fat instead of burning only body fat. Our metabolism simply assumes we are starving, as a result, it wants to get rid of genuine calorie-hungry muscle tissue. After the starvation of metabolism, it restores all the lost body fat to protect us from starving ahead while contributing to relapsing ineffective weight loss. While you are firm about shedding those pounds, you have to understand these dieting myths that barely cause fat loss. In our book, we will debunk several other myths like these while giving you the tremendous hack for losing pounds. Grab Your copy today!

Apparently there are countless people who really want to grow their very own strawberries because there are tons of inconveniences that commercially produce strawberries give off, especially the cost that it would take just to have a taste of that sweet and incredibly juicy fruit of a strawberry plant. Good for you this book will provide you genuine and very effective approaches on how you can grow and harvest your own strawberries! The book does include some introductory part that will put you in awe because you'll know more about the strawberry's existence. Pretty interesting facts will be mentioned along the discussion of strawberries in this very special book. Aside from that, upon reading this book, you will acquire the fundamentals and of course some advance methods of growing your own strawberries. Some most common strawberry diseases and pests will also be discussed as it is very crucial to know this to preclude any losses for your plants, especially if you don't really want to waste even a single fruit of those extra sweet juicy bountiful yields. In addition to that, I've included some personal experience and have added some friendly advices about growing, especially about harvesting and storing your yields. I've also decided to include some general tips, and knowledge that might be really helpful in maintaining your strawberry plant vibrant and vigorous that will help those newbies who really love and want to grow their strawberries. The entirety of the book simply gives you a very friendly tone for you to be able to absorb every nook and cranny of the stuffs discussed in it. With that said, all of these information gaps mentioned in this preface will be ultimately elaborated upon reading the book with utmost appreciation and passion. Regardless, pretty everyone can enjoy this book no matter of their perspective. Why? Because this book simply gives you what is most beneficial for you. Hope you'll enjoy it. Cheers!

Waking up in a beautiful log home nestled deep inside a forest, poising proudly on a hillside or on a green meadow, serenely facing a sparkling lake is a dream of many. No other kind of habitat can compete with the full-of-spirit and poetic ambiance of a log home. Who doesn't want a green home that can perfectly blend into nature and indulge all our senses? It's a dream of every soul, but the only problem is 'where do we start from?'. Don't worry! That is the reason why this book was written. This book can help you turn your dream a log cabin home into reality. The warm, cozy, fairytale-like wood house is not impractical to achieve anymore if proper planning and hard work are incorporated. Just flip the pages of this book and you are all ready to go. Among other things, this book will -Stimulate your appetite for a log cabin home! -Teach you how to build one -Outline the cost of building a log cabin home -Draw your attention to the merits and demerits of owning and actually living in a log cabin home Happy reading; and please, place your order today.

Do you enjoy cooking with fresh herbs but don't like their high market prices? Do you wish you could get cheaper varieties on a consistent basis? Growing your own herbs indoors in gardens and containers maybe the best solution! Unlike how its sounds, growing herbs indoors could be a frustrating exercise if you aren't aware of the right to put in place. Hence the usefulness of this guide about "Herbs Growing Indoors: Learn to Grow Your Own Herbs!" With it, you will learn everything that you need to understand for you to grow a delicious, vibrant, and lush indoor herbs garden. Here is a preview of what you should expect from the guide: -Tricks on how to get the proper air circulation and lighting for your herbs growth. -The best fertilizer and soil for your herbs. -Tips on how to minimize and eliminate mold, fungus, pest, and insects. -How to choose the best containers for growing your herbs. -Some of the best herbs to start with! ...And much more ways on how to eliminate the biggest problems that are faced by indoor herbs gardeners! The guide has been written in a simple language that is easy to read, and perfect for beginners who want to establish their indoor herb gardens in the most proper way!

Beyond a steady flow of visitors seeking to soak up onto something of rustic ambiance and connect with Mother Nature, there are lots of advantages of owning a log cabin and timber houses over more conventional structures. Long time log cabin owners say that log cabins offer abundant and vibrant rewards over the stick and brick houses of their neighbors. And within this book covers the best heating methods linked with owning a log cabin such as those most popular: -Radiant Floor Heating -Wood Burning Stove Method -The use of Fireplace -Geothermal Heating In addition to learning on how to effectively maintain the warm of your log cabin, this book also deals with techniques and significant information on utilizing every bit of your log house. This part includes: -Selecting the most effective orientation -Knowing what thermal mass in relation to log selection is -Minimizing air leakage -Foundation -Controlling the moisture -Design prudence Effectively maintaining your log cabin is also essentially tackled in this very special book. On which you could learn various stuffs such as: -Inspecting your log cabin -Washing and keeping it clean -Staining for overall longevity -Chinking -Pest control -General Maintenance I've also decided to include some general tips, advices, and knowledge that might be really helpful in maintaining your log cabin, especially for those who have little experience about log the subject. The entirety of the book simply gives you a very friendly tone for you to be able to absorb every nook and cranny of the stuffs involved in here. With that said, all of these information gaps mentioned in this preface will ultimately elaborated upon reading the book with utmost appreciation and passion. Regardless, pretty everyone can enjoy this book no matter of their perspective. Why? Because this book simply gives you what is most beneficial for you. Grab Your Copy Now!

This book helps break down the home buying process into simple, quick and easy to understand steps. It explains the basic process buyers should be aware of if they are considering buying their first home.

Beginning in 2009, a major recession swept across the United States with record numbers of American families finding their homes going into foreclosure and unemployment rates continuing to climb. Despite this dramatic downward slide in the economy, by 2010, the number of billionaires in America rose by 8%, and by 2011, with the economy continuing to struggle, the collective net worth of the Forbes 400 richest people in the United States increased from $1.37 trillion to $1.5 trillion. Mr. Baker's book, "Greed in America: the Numbers Don't Lie", brings to light the true significance and inherent injustice of the disproportionate wealth that is possessed by a tiny fraction of our society. He accomplishes this by means of simple but indisputable mathematical computations that transform the practically incomprehensible abstraction of a "billion dollars" into concrete and easily comprehended terms.

The fresh smell of cut grass is quite intoxicating, but that should not be the sole reason for starting lawn management as a business. According to the statistics from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS, 2010), the grounds maintenance industry employs almost 1.25 million people in the US alone. Even better perhaps, the projected employment figures are expected to grow by an additional 250,000 by the year 2020. What does that all this imply for you? That the demand for workers in the grounds maintenance sector is going to grow by 20% - this is certainly faster than the expected growth for all service occupations. This tells you that definitely there is a huge current and future market for new initiatives in the lawn maintenance industry in terms of new businesses. Within this service sector, there is ample business opportunity. You can customize your lawn business so that it perfectly fit not just your specific needs and desires but even those of your customers. To gain the necessary start-up capital or to secure solid investment money for a new lawn business or for expanding your current one needs a strong and viable business plan. The book provides a comprehensive guide on the following: -how to start your lawn business, -pros associated with this kind of business and the pitfalls to expect and avoid. -some priceless nuggets on how to get profitable customers. -how you can create a viable business by providing -useful investment and management tips to ensure you give your customers the picture-perfect lawn while realizing profitable return-on-investment.

One of the reasons that cause many people to shy away from engaging in ecommerce business is the startup costs that are normally involved and the challenges that are associated with order fulfillment. Dropshipping business model has made it simple for many entrepreneurs to build their own businesses without having to worry about maintaining physical inventory or fulfilling the orders. Dropshipping business model makes it possible to start a business that has the potential of great success with very limited amount of capital. However success with the business is highly dependent on the level of understanding or the process which involves marketing, customer acquisition and engagement with great suppliers amongst other things. Dropshipping: What is it, How does it work and how to start your own business is one book that has shared in detail what dropshipping entails and all that you should be aware of before you get started. The fact that you can start dropshipping business with very small amount of capital doesn't mean that you don't have to work hard. Instead of investing a lot of money into the business; a lot of focus should be put in the work and learning how the process works for great success. Whether it's finding out on genuine suppliers; researching for competitors and the popular products within your niche, or even building a highly optimized ecommerce for increased traffic generation; it takes a lot of work for to build a solid foundation for a profitable dropshipping business. This book has shared in detail all that you need to do to identify a good niche, how you can get started with dropshipping business, how to identify suppliers and build your website amongst other important steps. Whether you are already into dropshipping business or just starting out; take advantage of the information shared in this book for increased growth and success of your dropshipping business. Grab Your copy now!

With a foreword by Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life, this revised and updated edition will help you find true happiness—if you choose to accept it.We’ve all been hurt by other people, we’ve hurt ourselves, and we’ve hurt others. And as a result, every single one of us ends up with some sort of hurt, hang-up, or habit. But the question we all face is, Where do we go from here? Ten years after the original edition of Life’s Healing Choices, this newly revised edition contains updates to basic teaching principles—based on ten years’ experience—as well as new and contemporary testimonies. Using the Beatitudes of Jesus as a foundation, Rick Warren and John Baker, pastors at Saddleback Church, developed the eight choices shared in this book. In addition to practical, encouraging biblical teaching, each chapter includes two real-life testimonies of men and women whose lives have been transformed by living out the eight choices in this book. Through making each of these choices, you too will find God’s pathway to wholeness, growth, spiritual maturity, happiness, and healing. You’ll find real answers, real hope, and a real future—one healing choice at a time.

Find inspiration during your moments of strength and growth and encouragement in your times of weakness.Are you on a recovery journey? Do you need a daily resource of hope to get you through every day? The Celebrate Recovery 365 Daily Devotional includes brief daily encouragement for the millions on the road to recovery from various hurts, pain, or addiction of any kind. Readers will find: Deeper application of the 12 steps and 8 principlesA year's worth of devotions, giving ongoing support and hope for the road aheadScripture verses and focused prayers for each dayGuidance on how to recover from alcoholism, divorce, sexual abuse, codependency, domestic violence, drug addition, sexual addiction, food addiction, gambling addiction, and moreReminders of God's goodness, grace, and redemptionInspiration to support others struggling with hurts, habits, and hang-ups Celebrate Recovery is more than a 12-step recovery program; it is a means toward lasting life changes through Christ-centered 12 steps and 8 principles based on the Beatitudes. Through daily entries with scripture and prayer, you'll discover the key to long-term recovery. Whether a self-purchase or a gift for someone you care about, Celebrate Recovery 365 Daily Devotional is designed to inspire readers during moments of strength and growth and encourage them in times of weakness. This year-long devotional will bring comfort and encourage strength for each day and provide words of hope, courage, and triumph.

Author and founder John Baker tells the story of how Celebrate Recovery became one of the largest Christ-centered recovery programs in history. Baker will help you discover how God's love, truth, grace, and forgiveness can heal your hurts, hang-ups, and habits.

Pastors John Baker and Johnny Baker will help you continue the Celebrate Recovery journey with four new participant's guides that cover 25 lessons. The purpose of these new lessons is to help people to grow and maintain momentum as they continue to move forward in their recoveries.

A Program for Implementing a Christ-Centered Recovery Ministry in Your Church Alcoholism - Divorce - Sexual Abuse - Codependency - Domestic Violence - Drug Addiction - Sexual Addiction - Food Addiction - Gambling Addiction and many more! There is a way the church can help the hurting move beyond their wounds to experience the healing and forgiveness of Christ. Since 1991, more than 200,000 people have participated in the Celebrate Recovery programs offered at more than 3,500 churches, prisons, and rescue missions. Drawn from the Beatitudes, Celebrate Recovery helps people resolve painful problems in the context of the church as a whole."e;And then there's pastor John Baker, the founder of Celebrate Recovery... Big John and I shared something in common. We used to drink too much. And our hearts changed, and then we quit. That is a tried-and-true formula. The problem is government is not good at changing hearts. But people like John Baker have been good about it and successful doing that."e; -President George W. Bush on Celebrate Recovery and its founder, John Baker, at the Faith- Based and Community Initiatives Conference, March 3, 2004.

A Program for Implementing a Christ-Centered Recovery Ministry in Your ChurchAlcoholism - Divorce - Sexual Abuse - Codependency - Domestic Violence - Drug Addiction - Sexual Addiction - Food Addiction - Gambling Addiction and others.There is a way the church can help the hurting move beyond their wounds to experience the healing and forgiveness of Christ. Since 1991, more than 200,000 people have participated in the Celebrate Recovery programs offered at more than 3,500 churches, prisons, and rescue missions.Drawn from the Beatitudes, Celebrate Recovery helps people resolve painful problems in the context of the church as a whole.

The Celebrate Recovery Participant's Guides are essential tools for the personal recovery journey. In the seven lessons in Guide 4: Growing in Christ While Helping Others, you will work through the final two principles on the road to recovery. More than just maintenance, these principles will help you prevent relapse and give you the necessary tools to help others in their recovery process.8 Reserve a daily time with God for self-examination. Bible reading and prayer in order to know God and his will for my life and to gain the power to follow his will.9 Yield myself to God to be used to bring this Good News to others, both by my example and by my words. "e;Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires"e; (Matthew 5:10).By working through the lessons and exercises found in each of the four Participant's Guides you will begin to experience the true peace and serenity you have been seeking, restore and develop stronger relationships with others and with God, and find freedom from life's hurts, hang-ups, and habits.All the scriptures have been updated to the new NIV 2011 version.

The Celebrate Recovery Participant's Guides are essential tools for the personal recovery journey. In the seven lessons in Guide 3: Getting Right with God, Yourself, and Others, you will move through principles 5-7 of the recovery process:5 Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself, and to someone I trust. "e;Happy are the pure in heart"e; (Matthew 5:8).6 Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects. "e;Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires"e; (Matthew 5:6).7 Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I've done to others, except when to do so would harm them or others. "e;Happy are the merciful"e; (Matthew 5:7). "e;Happy are the peacemakers"e; (Matthew 5:9).By working through the lessons and exercises found in each of the four Participant's Guides you will begin to experience the true peace and serenity you have been seeking, restore and develop stronger relationships with others and with God, and find freedom from life's hurts, hang-ups, and habits.All the scriptures have been updated to the new NIV 2011 version.

The Celebrate Recovery Participant's Guides are essential tools for the personal recovery journey. In the five lessons in Guide 2: Taking an Honest and Spiritual Inventory, you will experience an in-depth look at the 4th principle in the recovery process:4 Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself, and to someone I trust. "e;Happy are the pure in heart"e; (Matthew 5:8).By working through the lessons and exercises found in each of the four Participant's Guides you will begin to experience the true peace and serenity you have been seeking, restore and develop stronger relationships with others and with God, and find freedom from life's hurts, hang-ups, and habits.All the scriptures have been updated to the new NIV 2011 version.

The Celebrate Recovery Participant's Guides are essential tools for the personal recovery journey. In the six lessons in Guide 1: Stepping Out of Denial Into God's Grace, you will experience the first 3 of the 8 recovery principles:1 Realize I'm not God. I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable. "e;Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor"e; (Matthew 5:3).2 Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to him, and that he has the power to help me recover. "e;Happy are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted"e; (Matthew 5:4).3 Conciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ's care and control. "e;Happy are the meek"e; (Matthew 5:5).By working through the lessons and exercises found in each of the four Participant's Guides you will begin to experience the true peace and serenity you have been seeking, restore and develop stronger relationships with others and with God, and find freedom from life's hurts, hang-ups, and habits.All the scriptures have been updated to the new NIV 2011 version.

La vida es un regalo. La dicha y la sanacin tenemos que elegirlas. Todos hemos sido heridos por otros, nos hemos hecho dao y hemos herido a otros. Como resultado, todos y cada uno de nosotros termina con algn tipo de herida, complejo o mal habito. Pero la pregunta que nos toca responder es: Cmo ser el resto de nuestra vida? Este libro de John Baker ofrece ocho decisions sanadoras que nos liberaran de nuestras heridas, complejos y malos habitos, y nos promoten la dicha verdadera y una vida plena. Usando las Bienaventuranzas de Jesus como fundamento, Rick Warren, pastor titular de la Iglesia Saddleback, y Baker, quien tambin es pastor en Saddleback, desarrollaron las ocho decisiones presentadas en este libro. A medida que usted aprenda las ocho decisiones sanadoras y conozca historias dramticas de vidas transformadas, encontrara el sendero de Dios hacia la plenitud, el crecimiento, la madurez espiritual, la dicha y la sanacin.

Equality is the key issue of modern politics. It is the basic matter of principle dividing left and right - a central question for each person's political beliefs. Yet the reasoning behind these beliefs is rarely put forward or critically examined.In this book, John Baker sets out the central arguments for equality. He shows that anyone who has a serious concern for the well being of others, who is committed to treating others decently. and who values a sense of community. has strong reasons to believe in equality. He also argues that we must go beyond the limited equality involved in 'equal opportunity: that the privileged cannot claim to deserve their advantages; that freedom and equality support one another: that equality would benefit society as a whole:and that equality is possible. The resulting case is eloquent, powerful, and compellingArguing for Equality is written in a clear, fresh style which avoids unnecessary jargon and abstruse ideas It is designed tote easy to use. and to stimulate people to draw on their own experience. make up their own minds and develop their own ideas. His essential reading for both the committed egalitarian and the undecided - in fact for anyone who cares about the kind of society we should live in.