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1, 2 Samuel (Preacher's Commentary, Volume #8)
by Kenneth L. ChafinThis book provides an expository discussion of 1 and 2 Samuel, from the birth of the prophet Samuel through the reign of King David.
A Christmas Carol: Pop-Up Book
by Charles DickensA very short children's version of the Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol.
A Fatal Advent (A Claire Aldington - St. Anselm's Mystery #4)
by Isabelle Holland[from the back cover] Mystery/Suspense A Fatal Advent takes place just before Christmas at St. Anselm's, the famous and fashionable Episcopal parish on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The Norwich Boys' Choir from England is expected shortly to join together with St. Anselm's own choir in a festival of Advent music. The rector's Christmas guest, a former dean of St. Paul's in London, has already arrived. Tragically, so has death when the dean's body is found at the foot of the parish house stairs. When another murder takes place a day later, the Reverend Claire Aldington, St. Anselm's pastoral counselor and self-styled sleuth, is plunged into her most baffling and complex case. It is also the most nerve-racking as more and more, suspicion points to her husband, Brett Cunningham, as the murderer. Isabelle Holland is the author of A Bump in the Night, A Lover Scorned and A Death at St. Anselm's. Look for more of her books in the Bookshare collection.
A Fresh Anointing
by Kenneth E. HaginIn these last days, it is important for the body of Christ to realize that following man-made plans and formulas is not helping each believer joyfully do God's work. We believers need to get filled and remain full to overflowing with the Word of God by learning what the Word of God says so we get the Word in our hearts. We also need to be filled continuously with the Spirit of God to avoid just going through the motions of religiosity. Being continually full of God's Word and Spirit gives us a fresh anointing of God upon our lives so we can prosper in everything we do for the Kingdom. Staying in the Word keeps us in God's Presence where we can know what the Lord Jesus Christ's plan is and act upon it, which will bring Jesus the glory and honor due His Name. When we are anointed daily, we can have both personal revival and revival throughout the whole church, enabling every believer to take his place and fulfill his function in the Body of Christ. By doing God's will instead of our own, we will be Full Reservoirs rather than Empty Cisterns. The Old Testament anointing of men who were anointed to serve in the sacred offices of the prophet, priest, and king by the anointing with oil is compared and contrasted with what we experience as born-again believers with the anointing of the Holy Spirit presented in the New Testament. The Old Testament office of Priest is contrasted with our High Priest, Jesus. The whole body of Christ is a Priest, offering prayers of intercession for the non-believer and supplication for the believer, as well as praising God. We are also Kings in this life to reign with Christ's righteousness, not only in the millennium or in heaven. God is still anointing prophets, preachers, priests, and kings unto our God, and He's still anointing His people to be witnesses for Him! The author helps us look at several New Testament examples of what it means to initially be filled with and then constantly continue being filled throughout our lives with the Holy Spirit which corresponds to the Old Testament anointing and being continually anointed with fresh oil. The three outstanding characteristics of those with a fresh anointing are described. We can see the results of being anointed with fresh oil and the characteristics of those who maintain a fresh anointing of the Holy Spirit in their lives. Whatever we go through in life, if we are filled up with the Holy Spirit, we can maintain the glow in adverse circumstances.
A Gift of Hope: The Tony Melendez Story
by Mel White Tony MelendezFrom the Publisher: The inspiring story of a young thalidomide victim and talented musician who has gained international recognition. Wonderful reading for anyone--especially those facing seemingly insurmountable difficulties. ... This is a beautifully, and positively, written autobiography. Melendez neither downplays his and his family's struggles resulting from his lack of arms, nor does he whine about them. Writing about his father, "Still, he knew that only in America would he find the kind of medical treatment I needed, so he put his own dreams aside and began to dream for me. He was young, strong, and determined to provide for each of us-but especially, I believe, for me. Imagine his growing frustration as he tried to support us on the minimum wage jobs that he could find. And there was no extra time or money to train in another field. [In Nicaragua, he was educated and accomplished in the fields of agriculture and animal husbandry.] Instead, he found himself in a huge pool of cheap labor as more and more unskilled young people migrated to America."
A History of the Diocese of Charleston: State of Grace
by Pamela SmithIn 1820, the Catholic Diocese of Charleston was established, and Bishop John England arrived from Ireland. His new diocese encompassed North and South Carolina, Georgia and, for a time, Haiti. From 1859 to 1885, when Patrick Lynch and Henry Northrop were bishops of Charleston, the diocese included the Bahama Islands. However, the history of Catholics in the diocese--which now covers all of South Carolina--began much earlier. The arrival of Spanish settlers and missionary priests dated back more than 150 years before there was a diocese on American soil. Sister Pam Smith charts the history of the diocese from the first words of prayer uttered on Santa Elena in the sixteenth century through the interfaith singing of a reformed slaveholder's hymn at a painful funeral in the twenty-first century.
A Job for an Angel (The Ginger Series #3)
by Elaine L. ShulteLove Your Neighbor? October brings two new people into Ginger’s life--and they couldn’t be more different from each other. Ginger looks forward to her Wednesday afternoon job of “baby-sitting” Aunt Alice. She may be elderly and ill, but she's cheerful and fun to be with. At school, however, Ginger is stuck trying to befriend grouchy Robin Lindberg, who never misses an opportunity to be nasty. Ginger knows that “love your neighbor” includes the Robins as well as the Aunt Alices... but knowing doesn’t make it easy....
A Nearly Infallible History of Christianity
by Nick PageFrom Abelard to Zwingli, via a multitude of saints and sinners, Nick Page guides us through the creeds, the councils, the buildings and the background of the Christian church in an illuminating, and perhaps ever so slightly irreverent way.Well-known as a writer, speaker, unlicensed historian and general information-monger, Nick Page combines in-depth research, historical analysis and cutting-edge guesswork to explore how on earth the Christian church has survived all that 2,000 years of heroes, villains and misfits could throw at it (mostly from the inside) to remain one of the most influential forces in the world today.'I was predestined to read this.' John Calvin.'I felt my heart strangely warmed. Or it could have been indigestion.' John Wesley.
A Peculiar People: Slave Religion And Community-culture Among The Gullah (The\american Social Experience Ser.)
by Margaret Washington CreelA historical analysis of the Gullahs of South Carolina, and an imaginative and suggestive treatment of slave religion and social cohesion, "A Peculiar People" Slave Religion and Community-Culture Among The Gullahs examines the components that provided the Sea Island slave population with their cultural autonomy and sense of consciousness. The elements of community, religion, and resistance are examined in relationship to this unique people. Margaret Creel traces three successive importations of slaves into the South Carolina coastal region, addressing each as a distinct period. She argues that the large numbers of slaves imported between 1749 and 1787 came predominantly from Senegambia, the Gold Coast, and Liberia. The majority of the Gullah population came from these areas of West Africa. Combining anthropological and historical studies with observations, reports, manuscripts, and letters relating to the Gullahs, the book creates an original and exceptionally fascinating analysis of Gullah culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel
by John Irving“A remarkable novel. . . . A Prayer for Owen Meany is a rare creation. ... An amazingly brave piece of work ... so extraordinary, so original, and so enriching. . . . Readers will come to the end feeling sorry to leave [this] richly textured and carefully wrought world.” —STEPHEN KING, Washington PostI am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary.A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
A Social History of French Catholicism 1789–1914 (Routledge Revivals)
by Ralph GibsonFirst published in 1989, A Social History of French Catholicism 1789–1914 is a clear survey of over a hundred years of Catholicism in French society. It chronicles the religious experience of French men and women, both clergy and laity, in post-revolutionary France. The book begins with a look at Catholic life in the Old Regime and during the French Revolution, and proceeds to topical chapters on the secular clergy, the religious orders, popular religion, religious practice by region, gender and age, and the social classes. The final chapter deals with the re-Christianization of France in the latter part of the nineteenth century. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of history and religion.
A Taste of Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul
by Jack Canfield Mark Victor Hansen Patty Aubery Nancy MitchellThese stories will deepen your Christian faith by helping you practice Christian values in your daily life: at home, at work, and in the community. This collection will open your heart to the experience and expression of more love in your life and will remind you that you are never alone or without hope, no matter how challenging and painful your circumstances may be.
A Truer Liberty: Simone Weil and Marxism (Routledge Revivals)
by Victor Seidler Laurence A. BlumSimone Weil — philosopher, trade union militant, factory worker — developed a penetrating critique of Marxism and a powerful political philosophy which serves an alternative both to liberalism and to Marxism. In A Truer Liberty, originally published in 1989, Blum and Seidler show how Simone Weil’s philosophy sought to place political action on a firmly moral basis. The dignity of the manual worker became the standard for political institutions and movements. Weil criticized Marxism for its confidence in progress and revolution and its attendant illusory belief that history is on the side of the proletariat.Blum and Seidler relate Weil’s work to influential trends in political philosophy today, from analytic Marxism to central traditions within liberal thought. The authors stress the importance of Weil’s work for understanding liberation theology, Catholic radicalism, and, more generally, social movements against oppression which are closely tied to religion and spirituality.
Ablaze for God
by Wesley L. Duewel Robert E. ColemanWhat are the spiritual dynamics of leadership? How can you be more a person of God, aflame for God, anointed and empowered by God -- truly a Spirit-filled leader? Here are answers that you will read again and again.
Acquainted With The Night: A Year on the Frontiers of Death
by Allegra TaylorDeath is the most predictable thing that will happen to any of us and one of the few experiences we share with every other human being, yet we hardly give it a thought. Most of us behave as if pretending it didn't exist gives is a measure of control over it. The traditional supports that used to cradle us in times of need are no longer there.Acquainted with the Night is the story of Allegra Taylor's year spent working in a hospice and training to become part of London Lighthouse, the support network for people with AIDS.Accessible, anecdotal and warmly personal, this is an important book. For it shows us that death is not the enemy; that it is possible to 'be there' for someone who is dying or bereaved, to grieve well in the face of death and, when the time comes, to die well ourselves.
Adults and Children in the Roman Empire (Routledge Revivals)
by Thomas WiedemannThere is little evidence to enable us to reconstruct what it felt like to be a child in the Roman world. We do, however, have ample evidence about the feelings and expectations that adults had for children over the centuries between the end of the Roman republic and late antiquity. Thomas Wiedemann draws on this evidence to describe a range of attitudes towards children in the classical period, identifying three areas where greater individuality was assigned to children: through political office-holding; through education; and, for Christians, through membership of the Church in baptism. These developments in both pagan and Christian practices reflect wider social changes in the Roman world during the first four centuries of the Christian era. Of obvious value to classicists, Adults and Children in the Roman Empire, first published in 1989, is also indispensable for anthropologists, and well as those interested in ecclesiastical and social history.
African American Religious Studies: An Interdisciplinary Anthology
by Gayraud WilmoreThis anthology provides a coherent, interdisciplinary theoretical base for students of African American religious studies and will assist in the design of programs and courses for lay theological education and training. To this end, the editor has assembled material from Old and New Testament studies, theology, church history, pastoral counseling, worship, and social action.
Albert’s Way: The First North American Congress on the Carmelite Rule
by Michael MulhallThe book deals with the Carmelites who represented one offshoot of the rich, fervent and creative society that formed Europe's medieval--from about 1100 until 1500--and particularly Norman, society.
Alexandra David-Neel: Portait of an Adventurer
by Ruth MiddletonThis unique biography explores the inner journey of a woman whose outer life was a thrilling story of passion and adventure. Alexandra David-Neel (1868-1969), born in Paris to a socially prominent family, once boasted, "I learned to run before I could walk!" In the course of a lifetime of more than one hundred years, she was an acclaimed operatic soprano, a political anarchist, a religious reformer, an intrepid explorer who traveled in Tibet for fourteen years, a scholar of Buddhism, and the author of more than forty books. But perhaps the most intriguing of all her adventures was the spiritual search that led her from a youthful interest in socialism and Freemasonry to the teachings of the great sages of India and culminated in her initiation into the secret tantric practices of Tibetan Buddhism. This book reveals the penetrating insight and courage of a woman who surmounted physical, intellectual, and social barriers to pursue her spiritual quest.
American Aliya: Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement
by Chaim I. WaxmanThe major focus is on the who, when, and where of American immigration to Israel, but it is the "why" of this aliya which constitutes the core of the book. Waxman analyzes the relationship between Zionism, aliya, and the Jewish experience. Chapters include "Zion in Jewish culture," a synopsis of Zionism through the years, and "American Jewry and the land of Israel in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," an account of proto-Zionist ideas and movements in early America. Chaim I. Waxman delivers a broad analysis of the phenomenon of American migration to Israel - aliya. Working within the context of the sociology of migration, Waxman provides primary research into a variety of dimensions of this movement and demonstrates the inadequacy of current migration theories to characterize aliya.
American Judaism (The Chicago History of American Civilization)
by Nathan GlazerFirst published in 1957, Nathan Glazer's classic, historical study of Judaism in America has been described by the New York Times Book Review as "a remarkable story . . . told briefly and clearly by an objective historical mind, yet with a fine combination of sociological insight and religious sensitivity." Glazer's new introduction describes the drift away from the popular equation of American Judaism with liberalism during the last two decades and considers the threat of divisiveness within American Judaism. Glazer also discusses tensions between American Judaism and Israel as a result of a revivified Orthodoxy and the disillusionment with liberalism. "American Judaism has been arguably the best known and most used introduction to the study of the Jewish religion in the United States. . . . It is an inordinately clear-sighted work that can be read with much profit to this day."—American Jewish History (1987)
Among the Gods: An Archaeological Exploration of Ancient Greek Religion (Routledge Revivals)
by John FergusonFirst published in 1989, Among the Gods uses archaeological evidence to explore ancient Greek religion. The book analyses cult-statues and inscriptions to provide a detailed discussion of gods and goddesses, the priesthood, and healing sanctuaries. In doing so, it highlights the external, formal nature of religious practice in ancient Greece, such as pilgrimages, offerings, and hallowed sites. Archaeological records are used to examine both the theory and practice of ancient Greek religion, and to provide context to a variety of Greek myths and Greek literature. Among the Gods will appeal to those with an interest in religious history, archaeological history, and Classical history.
Ancient Israelite Literature in its Cultural Context
by John H. WaltonThis unique book surveys within the various literary genres the parallels between the Bible and the literature of the ancient Near East. Each section begins with a survey of the available ancient literature, continues with a discussion of the literature, and concludes with a discussion of cases of alleged borrowing. The genres covered are - cosmology - laws - historical literature - wisdom literature - apocalyptic literature - personal archives and epics - covenants and treaties - hymns, prayers, and incantations - prophetic literature
Answering God: The Psalms as Tools for Prayer
by Eugene H. PetersonEugene H. Peterson speaks to Christians who realize the necessity for prayer and yearn for it but who find their prayer unconvincing and unsatisfying.
Atheism
by George H. Smith"Does a god exist? This question has undoubtedly been asked, in one form or another, since man has had the ability to communicate. . . Thousands of volumes have been written on the subject of a god, and the vast majority have answered the questions with a resounding 'Yes!' ""You are about to read a minority viewpoint."With this intriguing introduction, George H. Smith sets out to demolish what he considers the most widespread and destructive of all the myths devised by man - the concept of a supreme being. With painstaking scholarship and rigorous arguments, Mr. Smith examines, dissects, and refutes the myriad "proofs" offered by theists - the defenses of sophisticated, professional theologians, as well as the average religious layman. He explores the historical and psychological havoc wrought by religion in general - and concludes that religious belief cannot have any place in the life of modern, rational man."It is not my purpose to convert people to atheism . . . (but to) demonstrate that the belief in God is irrational to the point of absurdity. If a person wishes to continue believing in a god, that is his prerogative, but he can no longer excuse his belief in the name of reason and moral necessity."