Through the 12 Point Action Plan Vision of Reverend Dr. R.B. Holmes, Jr., this book serves as a model to support the needs of the churches of the National Baptist Convention USA, Inc.

"The purpose of this book is to help potential and current graduate students learn from Ph.D. graduates who successfully completed the dissertation. Through interviews with 33 professionals in different academic disciplines highlighted in this book, each person was asked the same questions: (1) What motivated you to complete the doctoral degree? (2) How did you select your dissertation topic? (3) How did you select your dissertation committee? (4) Tell me about the design of your dissertation study? (5) What was the significance of your dissertation study and how is this information useful in the world of education? (6) What challenges did you encounter in completing your dissertation? (7) What tips can you offer to students for completing a dissertation? (8) What would you do differently if you had to do it all over again?"--page 6.

This book is written for the person who wants to know more about the biblical word. It is a spirit-led devotional book from the teaching and preaching of the notable community leader, pastor, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Reverend Dr. RB Holmes, Jr. This book is a synopsis of 52 of Reverend Holmes’ sermons along with a daily journal of key questions to help you expound upon the message. The book provides an opportunity for readers to meditate, study and record their personal thoughts for each day after the weekly Sunday Sermon. Readers can meet in groups with church members and friends and use the lessons as a workbook. They can also listen to the entire sermon at Betheltally.org. The sermons cover a wide range of stories from the books of John, Matthew, Hebrews, Exodus, and others. The book uses current events supported with biblical references for readers to clearly understand the messages from the sermons. After you have read this book, you will know who Jesus is and what He expects from us. You will know some of His miracles for people who trusted Him and how these blessings apply to you.

Some Popular KJV Bible Verses from A 12 STEP PLAN for Creating a Bible Study “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning” (Psalm 30: 5). “Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world” (1 John 4: 4). “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding” (Proverbs 3:5). “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11: 1). “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16).

Returning to his innovative work of twenty-five years ago, Robert Hill once more offers an incisive analysis of five key cultural strengths of African-American families. With compassion and eloquence, he argues that these existing strengths provide a solid foundation upon which to develop the kind of public policies and self-help initiatives that will truly promote the interests, not only of the African American community, but of our diverse nation as a whole.

“The Negroes must have Jesus, Jobs, and Justice,” declared Nannie Helen Burroughs, a nationally known figure among black and white leaders and an architect of the Woman’s Convention of the National Baptist Convention. Burroughs made this statement about the black women’s agenda in 1958, as she anticipated the collapse of Jim Crow segregation and pondered the fate of African Americans. Following more than half a century of organizing and struggling against racism in American society, sexism in the National Baptist Convention, and the racism and paternalism of white women and the Southern Baptist Convention, Burroughs knew that black Americans would need more than religion to survive and to advance socially, economically, and politically. Jesus, jobs, and justice are the threads that weave through two hundred years of black women’s experiences in America. Bettye Collier-Thomas’s groundbreaking book gives us a remarkable account of the religious faith, social and political activism, and extraordinary resilience of black women during the centuries of American growth and change. It shows the beginnings of organized religion in slave communities and how the Bible was a source of inspiration; the enslaved saw in their condition a parallel to the suffering and persecution that Jesus had endured. The author makes clear that while religion has been a guiding force in the lives of most African Americans, for black women it has been essential. As co-creators of churches, women were a central factor in their development. Jesus, Jobs, and Justice explores the ways in which women had to cope with sexism in black churches, as well as racism in mostly white denominations, in their efforts to create missionary societies and form women’s conventions. It also reveals the hidden story of how issues of sex and sexuality have sometimes created tension and divisions within institutions. Black church women created national organizations such as the National Association of Colored Women, the National League of Colored Republican Women, and the National Council of Negro Women. They worked in the interracial movement, in white-led Christian groups such as the YWCA and Church Women United, and in male-dominated organizations such as the NAACP and National Urban League to demand civil rights, equal employment, and educational opportunities, and to protest lynching, segregation, and discrimination. And black women missionaries sacrificed their lives in service to their African sisters whose destiny they believed was tied to theirs. Jesus, Jobs, and Justice restores black women to their rightful place in American and black history and demonstrates their faith in themselves, their race, and their God.