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THE SPIRIT OF TEXAS – the true story of an immigrant boy born in Scotland who sails to North America with his parents when he was a year and a half old to live first in Canada and then New York City. How he came to Texas at twenty-one and with nothing but a wooden box of carpentry tools built a large family and an even larger ranching operation in West Texas. It gives you an inside look at the epic struggle they had with Indians, outlaws, Mexicans, droughts, floods, pestilence and a thousand other things to build this beautiful but hard-fought life for his family.
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BEING GOD'S MAN – Everybody in life is somebody's man: the company man, the union man, the political man, the corporate man, the devil's man, their own man or God's man. This 75 page booklet and series of four audio presentations give us the twenty aspects of being God's man.
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CALLED TO LEAD – This series of three audio presentations shows men how to be what God has called every one of them to be: an effective leader. The author says he would give a million dollars to know the information in this teaching series when he was a very young man.
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HOW TO BUILD A DEBT FREE HOME – This 28 page booklet and series of three audio presentations shows the importance of living debt free and how to actually build your own home – DEBT FREE.
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$25.00 |
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HOW TO BUY A USED CAR – Most people only buy one or two houses in a life time but they buy many, many cars. It shows you [1] how to determine value in a used car, [2] what to look for when buying a used car and [3] how to negotiate your purchase [4] the effects of depreciation and [5] how to get it to work for you. Also where to buy cars below the market and how to actually make money buying and selling used cars.
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PRUDENCE – It is well agreed that wisdom is certainly a valuable thing in life but it doesn't dwell alone. Prudence is actually wisdom's foundation. This is a ten audio series of presentations on each aspect of prudence no one would ever want to venture through this life without.
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SECRETS OF PRAYER THAT AVAILS MUCH – Realizing we only get where we pray to in life, an effective prayer is very important. This is a five audio presentation series on how to have a prayer life that avails much.
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THE FULFILLED LIFE IN CHRIST – Everybody thinks they want to be happy but they really want to be fulfilled. This series of four audio presentations and 123 page booklet shows how a person can find and implement God's plan for their life. It also, most importantly, shows how to build your personal, family and financial life on the Rock. Failing to do so, as we know, will cause our life to fall apart completely.
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THE SUCCESS SECRET OF THE AGES – This 29 page booklet is imperative reading for everyone. We can live here under the curse or live under God's blessing while on this planet. There are only two choices. This information will pay you dividends for the rest of your life.
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TOTAL VICTORY – This is a four audio presentation series that tells how important it is to live in victory and then tells the listener how to walk in victory over the world, the flesh and the devil.
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WALKING IN DIVINE FAVOR – Many people go through life bouncing form one problem to the next suffering reproof and failure. Their life is full of loss. This four audio presentation series shows how to walk in favor with God, those in authority, your peers and your own family.
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What Others Are Saying
About The Spirit of Texas |
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AN EXCITING ACCOUNT.
A RICH, EXCITING STORY. |
| "The Spirit of Texas" is a historical family insight of one state's reflection of "American Exceptionalism." Raw, rugged men and women of noble character building a nation from grit, courage and compassion. A free, industrious people, unyielding to defeat and seeing their cut of cloth as identical to our Framers who were independent, self-reliant and God-fearing. The "Texas Spirit" is still alive today and that Lone Star still carries the weight of 50 not bowing to perverse ideology but acknowledging the laws of nature and nature's Creator. That spirit still stands today as a "beacon of light" in our schools, churches, centers of commerce and government for a whole nation to draw upon. |
John Sauers, Tea Party Founder
Loganville, Georgia |
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| Bravo! The Spirit of Texas tells the truth about the real Texas and the people who first settled it. Being raised in this ranching territory as a descendant of ranching families, I can testify that this is a genuine story of a West Texas pioneer family that managed to succeed in spite of many hardships. Through these difficulties and their love for the Lord they became stronger. The spirit of Texas is still alive and well today in this great state because of our ancestors' true grit and independent spirit. God bless Texas! |
Lee Weddell Puckitt
Immediate Past President
Texas Sheep and Goat raisers Assn. |
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| "The Spirit of Texas is the story of one family's heritage, the building of their ranches as well as their participation in the construction of the great state of Texas around them. It is a wonderful personal story that will engage and delight many Texans young and old and would be a perfect supplement to Texas History for students and adults alike. It is not one of those histories that has been "sanitized" to remove any reference to our ancestors' Christian faith but faithfully presents life as the pioneer Texans lived, worked, struggled and died for it." |
Tim Lambert, President
Texas Home School Coalition |
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| Among the sons of Scotland are famous explorers and botanists who visited faraway lands including one who was the first European to ascend Hawaii's mighty Mauna Loa and another was first to the North Pole. They discovered new plants and animals and performed grand experiments. William Menzies, the subject of his biography, called The Spirit of Texas was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and as a baby immigrated to Canada with his family in 1856. He settled in West Texas, where he met and married Letha Ann Chastain in 1888. |
| The Spirit of Texas, written by his great-grandson Winston Menzies, records how his great-grandparents survived against all manner of trials, prospered and raised eight children on a remote Texas ranch by the San Saba River. They succeeded by their faith in God, hard work and dedication to family and to one another. The Menzies story is an intriguing, adventuresome reminder of the pioneering spirit that made rural Texas so unique. It is also an admonition of how we have abandoned so much of what made this nation possible. As the author observes in his epilogue, "If we lose the history of where we came from, we certainly won't know where we are going. God help us to at least leave it the way we found it and, hopefully, by His grace, make it even a little better." |
Forrest M. Mims III, "The Country Scientist"
Writer for Scientific Journals
and the San Antonio Express-News
Named one of the "50 Best Scientists" by Discover Magazine |
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