Dr. Andrew James Isaac, is an ordained minister in the Wesleyan Church for 47 years. He describes himself as a Pastor/Teacher. He has an insatiable passion to preach the Word of God. He is a gifted Bible expositor, and has developed unusual skills in teaching the Word. God has given him the anointed ability to expound the Word with precision, exactness and accuracy. He has conducted Preaching and Teaching Seminars in Oregon, Washington State, California, Phoenix, Arizona, Barbados, St. Kitts, the US Virgin islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and Ontario, Canada. He is a graduate of Caribbean Wesleyan College in Barbados (now in Jamaica), Warner Pacific College in Portland, Oregon; Western Conservative Baptist Seminary (now Western Seminary); Western Evangelical Seminary (now George Fox University in Oregon). He is married to the former Glendene Villetta Branch from Barbados. He has two sons: Andrew Jr. a minister in his church and also works for the IRS in Portland, Oregon. Peter, is a full time Wesleyan Minister in the Hartford Wesleyan Church, Connecticut. "NOW THAT I'M A CHRISTIAN: AN OUTLINED, BIBLICAL STUDY FOR NEW AND OLD CHRISTIANS," is a Study Manual with Sixteen Study Units. Each Study Unit is followed by questions for class or individual discussions. The Study Manual is primarily written with new Christians in mind, and which will be a continued intellectual and spiritual exercise for older Believers. The Study Manual is fully outlined for quick comprehension. Its doctrinal topics are explained with Biblical clarity, accuracy and conciseness. No special knowledge is required to understand these lessons. All terms are explained in simple language without being over simplistic. Many churches will find in this Teaching Manual an educational, personal and spiritual resource for growing in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
The History Makers biography of Isaac Newton narrates events from this mathematicians personal life while providing key details about the scientists and theories he studied and the trials of his world. Analysis of his personal and intellectual journey is evidenced by Newtons own words and the words of his contemporaries and predecessors. By pairing the story of his life to explanations of mathematical and scientific theory, readers make connections between the legendary man and his work
The History Makers biography of Isaac Newton narrates events from this mathematicians personal life while providing key details about the scientists and theories he studied and the trials of his world. Analysis of his personal and intellectual journey is evidenced by Newtons own words and the words of his contemporaries and predecessors. By pairing the story of his life to explanations of mathematical and scientific theory, readers make connections between the legendary man and his work
Gospel scholarship has long recognized that Matthean Christology is a rich, multifaceted tapestry weaving multifold Old Testment figures together in the person of Jesus. It is somewhat strange, therefore, that scholarship has found little role for the figure of Isaac in the Gospel of Matthew. Employing Umberto Eco's theory of the Model Reader as a theoretical basis to ground the phenomenon of Matthean intertextuality, this work contends that when read rightly as a coherent narrative in its first-century setting, with proper attention to both biblical texts and extrabiblical traditions about Isaac, the Gospel of Matthew evinces a significant Isaac typology in service of presenting Jesus as new temple and decisive sacrifice.
Isaac Newton had an extraordinary idea. He believed the physical universe and everything in it could be described in exact detail using mathematical relationships. He formulated a law of gravity that explained why objects fall downwards, how the moon causes the tides, and why planets and comets orbit the sun. While Newton’s work has been added to over the years, his basic approach remains at the heart of the scientific worldview. Yet Newton’s own had little in common with that of a modern scientist. He believed the universe was created to a precise and rational design – a design that was fully understood by the earliest people. Over time this knowledge was lost, and Newton considered it his life’s work to rediscover it, whether through applied mathematics or a painstaking study of the Bible and other ancient texts. In chasing his impossible goal, Newton managed to contribute more to our understanding of the universe than anyone else in history.ANDREW MAY went to the same Cambridge college, Trinity, as Sir Isaac Newton. After gaining his first degree in Natural Sciences he went on to do a PhD in astrophysics at Manchester University. This was on the subject of galactic dynamics, and the only physics he needed to know he was a Newtonian. He continued as a postdoc in the same area for four years, before moving into the more lucrative if shadowy world of defence science. He worked first in private industry, then in the Civil Service and then in private industry again, for a total of 24 years. He now earns his living as a freelance writer and defence consultant.
On April 12, 1864, on the Tennessee banks of the Mississippi River, a force of more than 3,000 Confederate cavalrymen under General Nathan Bedford Forrest stormed Fort Pillow, overwhelming a garrison of some 350 Southern white Unionists and over 300 former slaves turned artillerymen. By the next day, hundreds of Federals were dead, over 60 black soldiers had been captured and re-enslaved, and over 100 white soldiers had been marched off to their doom at Andersonville. Confederates called this bloody battle and its aftermath a hard-won victory. Northerners deemed it premeditated slaughter. To this day, Fort Pillow remains one of the most controversial battles in American history. River Run Red vividly depicts the incompetence and corruption of Union occupation in Tennessee, the horrors of guerrilla warfare, the legacy of slavery, and the pent-up bigotry and rage that found its release at Fort Pillow. Andrew Ward brings to life the garrison’s black soldiers and their ambivalent white comrades, and the former slave trader Nathan Bedford Forrest and his ferocious cavalry, in a fast-paced narrative that hurtles toward that fateful April day and beyond. Destined to become as controversial as the battle itself, River Run Red establishes Fort Pillow’s true significance in the annals of American history.
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