New Releases by Scott Dawson

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Part-poetical, part-polemical, and built on the solid rock of Reformed theology, this refreshing vision helps the Church breathe again. The book includes a study guide, an analysis of the report of the Theological Task Force on Peace, Unity and Purity of the Presbyterian Church, and other resources.

Reading Jesus Ascended inspires me with hope that many a pulpit once again will hold forth in a fresh and vital way the gloriously applicable truth of the going up of the Risen Christ to the bosom of the Father, thence to send down every needed blessing... this clearly written, theologically astute book is marked by pastoral insight and a warm-hearted humility that will commend its potentially transforming truths to students, preachers, and even seekers... Dr. Dawson''s accurate and careful survey of Biblical teaching on this doctrine is complemented by a competent and indeed thrilling look at the rich Patristic treatment of the Lord''s ascension... And in company with John Calvin ..., Dawson sets forth the absolute necessity and the absolute sufficiency of the continuing Priesthood of Jesus Christ in our flesh in the Presence of the Father above. Jesus Ascended is especially helpful in thinking through and applying what Christ''s continuing priesthood really means for prayer, for mission, for the right way to deal with the world around us and for helping the poor. Dawson has been enabled to handle profound theological truth in a way that sparkles with loveliness and light. Book jacket.

A vivid, passionate, inspiring collection of poems that convey universal and powerful emotions. Share the passion of loss and love. Heart Songs, A Poetic Journey of Truth will take you (and your heart) where you have always wanted to go. The poet clearly has an extraordinary talent. "I read the book twice some of the poems moved me beyond words everyone of them I enjoyed, but some just reached out and touched my soul for the first time I felt as if someone knew me!" Cookie Victoria Dawson is an award winning poet with over six Editor''s Choice Awards, two Texas Wide Writer''s Competition Awards, and Golden Triangle Writer''s Guild Award. Her poems have been published in seven national anthologies and other literary journals.

In this book, Dawson uses the third section of the Book of Isaiah (chapters 56-66) as his scriptural basis. He leads us through this study by first exploring diminishing names and how we can be free of them. The author then directs us to how we may receive the blessing of the new names God bestows upon us--My Delight Is In Her, Sought Out, Repairer of the Breach. It uses imaginative stories, prayer, and reflection to enable us to fully experience the transition from responding to our defeating names to living our fresh identities in God.

Abstract: "This paper presents a technique for probing and fault injection of distributed protocols. The proposed technique, called script- driven probing and fault injection, can be used for studying the behavior of distributed systems and for detecting design and implementation errors of fault-tolerant protocols. The focus of this work is on fault injection techniques that can be used to demonstrate three aspects of a target protocol: i) detection of design or implementation errors, ii) identification of violations of protocol specifications, and iii) insight into design decisions made by the implementors. The emphasis of our approach is on experimental techniques intended to identify specific ''problems'' in a protocol or its implementation rather than the evaluation of system dependability through statistical metrics such as fault coverage. To demonstrate the capabilities of this technique, the paper describes a probing and fault injection tool, called the PFI tool (Probe/Fault Injection Tool), and several experiments that studied the behavior of two protocols: the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) [4,25] and the Group Membership Protocol (GMP) [18]. The tool can be used to delay, drop, reorder, duplicate, and modify messages. It can also introduce new messages into the system to probe participants. In the case of TCP, we used the PFI tool to duplicate the experiments reported in [7] on several TCP implementations without access to the vendors'' TCP source code in a very short time. We also run several new experiments that are difficult to perform using past approaches based on packet monitoring and filtering. In the case of GMP, we used the tool to test the fault-tolerance capabilities of an implementation under various failure models including daemon/link crash, send/receive omissions, and timing failures. Furthermore, by selective reordering of messages and spontaneous transmission of new messages, we were able to guide a distributed computation into hard to reach global states without instrumenting the protocol implementation."

This book features a fresh approach to relating to Jesus as we find him in the Gospels. It is written with those who are familiar with Christianity but who feel that their experience of traditional faith has not been enough for them.