Sean McDowell offers a comprehensive, historical analysis of the fate of the twelve disciples of Jesus along with the apostles Paul and James. McDowell assesses the evidence for each apostle’s martyrdom as well as determining its significance to the reliability of their testimony. The willingness of the apostles to die for their faith is a popular argument in resurrection studies and McDowell offers insightful scholarly analysis of this argument to break new ground within the spheres of New Testament studies, Church History and apologetics.
Rediscovering Jesus, is a book about taking a fresh new look at the claims of this amazing historical figure name, Jesus Christ. I say this in all humility but honestly, I believe in my experience over the last 32 years of being a Christian and working with churches, that the church has many misconceptions about who Jesus is. When you do not have a proper understanding of the Bible as a Christian, then your foundation will be faulty. You cannot build a house to last for generations on a faulty foundation. I have taken an apologetic approach to writing this book. Apologetics can be defined as a defense of the Christian faith. Apologetics is giving a rational presentation for and providing the intellectual basis of the truth claims of biblical Christianity. I wanted to give the reader enough information where it’s not too academic, but academic enough that you could have a theological, historical, and philosophical understanding, of the claims of Jesus. I pray that this book will give you a revelation and understanding, of the greatest man who ever lived, Jesus Christ. I believe that Jesus is fully God and fully man. The purpose of this book is to show the evidence that you will know and consider that Jesus is truly the Son of God. And that you may receive him as your Lord and Savior. In this critical time in our history the only answer to true freedom and liberty is by, “Rediscovering Jesus” the true Savior of the world.
In the last half of the nineteenth century, Central Michigan was coming to life. The logging industry brought many in search of employment. Settlers came from the east looking to make a new start. In addition to their belongings, they brought their religion. One man was determined to share his faith with all who would listen. Elias Sias would lead hundreds to Christ and start numerous Christian congregations until the day he died. He was a spiritual pioneer as well as a community leader.
A leadership expert, clinical psychologist, and New York Times bestselling author asks the big questions and shares his early mental health struggles in this groundbreaking, uplifting book. World-renowned psychologist and leadership expert Henry Cloud has impacted millions of lives through his groundbreaking books and through his work coaching leaders of the most influential organizations in the world. But few people know the details of his own story and how he became one of the most beloved and respected psychologists and faith influencers in America. In this indelibly personal and vulnerable book, Dr. Cloud leads us through his early struggles with illness and depression and the miracles that healed him and led him to his calling as a healer of others. Through masterful storytelling combined with a deeply nuanced understanding of the human mind, Dr. Cloud invites readers to inhabit the spaces of suffering and elation that make us most human and to walk alongside of him as he ponders the great questions we are so often afraid to ask but which also give life meaning. Written in the vein of such groundbreaking books as An Unquiet Mind, When Breath Becomes Air, and On Being Mortal, Why I Believe is a masterwork in spiritual exploration from one of the great scientific minds and faith voices of our time.
A New York Times bestseller! Do you want to live a life of unstoppable strength, unmovable faith, and unbelievable power in the face of every challenge? Learn how to become an Overcomer—starting right now. We live in a time of deep uncertainty, and yet the Bible promises that we were created to enjoy lives of freedom, even in times when the world around us seems filled with darkness. You were not made to live in disappointment, disillusionment, and defeat, and God has given you the tools to live a life defined not by your trials, but by your victories. In Overcomer, beloved Bible teacher Dr. David Jeremiah offers his insights on one of the most quoted but least understood passages of the Bible: the apostle Paul’s admonition to the Ephesians to take up the whole armor of God (Ephesians 6:10-18). With his signature depth, wisdom, and compassion, Dr. Jeremiah explores the powerful relevance of spiritual armor as a critical tool each day as we confront the specific challenges in our lives and of our time. Overcomer contains: Examples of how the people of God have overcome their enemies in the past Inspiring stories of victorious Christian living today Specific strategies you can practice armoring yourself in God’s strength In Christ, believers have everything necessary to live a victorious, overcoming life. If you’ve had enough of living in defeat, it’s time to find renewed strength and claim the promises of God’s Word to overcome life’s greatest threats.
Though there are a growing number of books out on Adam, this one is unique with its multi-author combination of biblical, historical, theological, scientific, archaeological, and ethical arguments in support of believing in a literal Adam and the Fall. A growing number of professing evangelical leaders and scholars are doubting or denying a literal Adam and a literal Fall, which thereby undermines the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Last Adam, who came to undo the damaging consequences of Adam’s sin and restore us to a right relationship with our Creator. This book is increase your confidence in the truth of Genesis 1–11 and the gospel! Enhance your understanding pertaining to the biblical evidence for taking Genesis as literal history Discover the scientific evidence from genetics, fossils, and human anatomy for the Bible’s teaching about Adam Understand the moral, spiritual, and gospel reasons why belief in a literal Adam and Fall are essential for Christian orthodoxy
The book is an overview of the various things going on in our deteriorating society with appropriate descriptions and with the opportunity to make appropriate choices during the process as one reads from chapter to chapter. The book combines the political world, the philosophical world, and the Christian world, as well as includes references to the deceptive practices currently underway to attack the Christian faith and the Christian church by Progressives, Democrats, and left-wing agitators. The hope for the world is revealed and discussed with the opportunity for a final decision based upon the evidence of the book.
Green in early modern England did not mean what it does today; but what did it mean? Unveiling various versions and interpretations of green, this book offers a cultural history of a color that illuminates the distinctive valences greenness possessed in early modern culture. While treating green as a panacea for anything from sore eyes to sick minds, early moderns also perceived verdure as responsive to their verse, sympathetic to their sufferings, and endowed with surprising powers of animation. Author Leah Knight explores the physical and figurative potentials of green as they were understood in Renaissance England, including some that foreshadow our paradoxical dependence on and sacrifice of the green world. Ranging across contexts from early modern optics and olfaction to horticulture and herbal health care, this study explores a host of human encounters with the green world: both the impressions we make upon it and those it leaves with us. The first two chapters consider the value placed on two ways of taking green into early modern bodies and minds-by seeing it and breathing it in-while the next two address the manipulation of greenery by Orphic poets and medicinal herbalists as well as grafters and graffiti artists. A final chapter suggests that early modern modes of treating green wounds might point toward a new kind of intertextual ecology of reading and writing. Reading Green in Early Modern England mines many pages from the period - not literally but tropically, metaphorically green - that cultivate a variety of unexpected meanings of green and the atmosphere and powers it exuded in the early modern world.
ITS TIME TO RETHINK SPIRITUAL SMARTS All of creation is at a tipping point, and there is a growing global sense that we are approaching something of eternal finality. Are we ready? Have we applied to spiritual intelligence the same level of attention we’ve given to IQ, EQ, CQ, and AI? If our technological innovations have produced such advancements, why are we experiencing all-time record levels of global crises? Why has human ingenuity not sufficed? This life-changing book will test your assumptions about your spiritual aptitude and encourage you to examine your connectivity with the spiritual realm. While it’s not intended to be a vehicle to make you more religious or self-righteous, it serves as a tool to enhance your spiritual intelligence. Through eye-opening analogies and practical strategies, you will come to appreciate it’s not for a select group of ultra-spiritual elites but for everyday people like you and me. “Jennifer is delightfully prophetic, uncommonly upbeat, and overflowing with authentic faith. And you, my friend, are about to receive that same impartation as you read Spiritual Intelligence – The Original.” DR. DAVE WILLIAMS, bestselling author and founder of Center for Pacesetting Leadership “Read her book from cover to cover, use highlighters, take notes, and share her prophetic revelation with others. It’s time for thought leaders to emerge who truly hold kingdom solutions and live it and demonstrate it. Jennifer Palthe is that leader.” JENNIFER EIVAZ, from the Foreword of Spiritual Intelligence: The Original “What a tremendous book! Jennifer Palthe’s comprehensive and thorough study in Spiritual Intelligence will launch you into high level spiritual discernment.” “I cannot more highly recommend this book.” PHIL MASON, author of Quantum Glory and Royal Heart Therapy “Jennifer Palthe offers a thought-provoking and eye-opening investigation into the phenomenon of spiritual intelligence” LEE M. CUMMINGS, author of Flourish and Be Radiant “Jennifer hits the mark on both the path and the purpose of spiritual intelligence. Get ready to have your spiritual sensitivity raised to a new level.” SONNY MISAR, author of Journey to Authenticity
A guide to stopping the lies and renewing your mind. Psychologist Dr. Chris Thurman tells us the unvarnished truth about the most common lies we tell ourselves, how they damage our emotional and spiritual health, and what we can do to overcome them in this 25-lesson workbook based on the classic bestseller, The Lies We Believe. The Lies We Believe Workbook is designed to help us recognize our faulty beliefs, internalize the truth that can set us free, and grow into more mature and passionate followers of Christ. As we work diligently on developing a more biblically accurate view of reality, we are transformed in the process. To put it differently, when we learn to think more like Christ we can be more like Christ. On your own or with some friends, take the challenge to work out your mental salvation by pulling down toxic mental strongholds, building truthful strongholds in their place, and being transformed by the renewing of your mind. When we do this, we can experience the abundant life God intended for us to live. Each lesson includes: A self-assessment questionnaire to rate your faulty beliefs Study of the biblical truth that leads to freedom Key memory and meditation verses for renewing your mind Prayer for contemplation and reflection
America has passed a tipping point. A majority of Americans now say that truth is up to the individual and that ultimate truth cannot be known. Learning to "speak our own truths" was supposed to lead to dignity and harmony. Instead, our society struggles with unprecedented levels of social conflict, purposelessness, and loss of identity. And still, the "Truth versus truths" tension continues to grow. Is all hope lost? In this inspiring book, Dr. Jeff Myers tells the fascinating stories of Jesus-followers who lived for Truth and transformed their world in times of crisis. These inspiring figures led the way in human dignity, science, art, medicine, education, politics, justice, and even the idea of meaningful work. No matter what is going on around us, the truth is worth fighting for. If you long for a positive, restorative role in our own chaotic era, it's time to discover how truth changes everything.
THIS IS THE BEST WAY TO EXPERIENCE ALL YOU WERE CREATED FOR In Identity Crisis you will find power and purpose by putting your faith in the One who can transform your identity. Even in crisis, He can do far beyond anything you can imagine. What’s the greatest crisis in our world today? Dr. Bobby Wagner, contends it is our inability to believe in the power of God in our lives. Is it possible to read the Bible and believe God does not work powerfully through His people? Our miraculous identity in Christ has not ceased, our faith in it has. It seems we are losing our faith in our God given identity, in the Bible, in the church, and in our world. A dramatic transformation takes place when you believe in the power of the Gospel. As our unbelief continues one more person misses the Good News. As a result, of the nearly 75 million Americans who have trusted Jesus Christ for salvation, more than 70 million have never shared the Good News. In a postmodern and post Christian culture in the midst of a crisis of unbelief, the only way souls will be touched is if God’s people become witnesses of the power of the Gospel.
Exalting Jesus in Song of Songs is one volume in Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary series. This series affirms that the Bible is a Christ-centered book, containing a unified story of redemptive history of which Jesus is the hero. It’s presented as sermons, divided into chapters that conclude with a “Reflect & Discuss” section, making this series ideal for small group study, personal devotion, and even sermon preparation. It’s not academic but rather presents an easy-reading, practical and friendly commentary. The series is projected to be 48 volumes.
Emphasizing the interplay of aesthetic forms and religious modes, Sean Pryor's ambitious study takes up the endlessly reiterated longing for paradise that features throughout the works of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. Yeats and Pound define poetry in terms of paradise and paradise in terms of poetry, Pryor suggests, and these complex interconnections fundamentally shape the development of their art. Even as he maps the shared influences and intellectual interests of Yeats and Pound, and highlights those moments when their poetic theories converge, Pryor's discussion of their poems' profound formal and conceptual differences uncovers the distinctive ways each writer imagines the divine, the good, the beautiful, or the satisfaction of desire. Throughout his study, Pryor argues that Yeats and Pound reconceive the quest for paradise as a quest for a new kind of poetry, a journey that Pryor traces by analysing unpublished manuscript drafts and newly published drafts that have received little attention. For Yeats and Pound, the journey towards a paradisal poetic becomes a never-ending quest, at once self-defeating and self-fulfilling - a formulation that has implications not only for the work of these two poets but for the study of modernist literature.
Sports and popular music are synergistic agents in the construction of identity and community. They are often interconnected through common cross-marketing tactics and through influence on each other's performative strategies and stylistic content. Typically only studied as separate entities, popular music and sport cultures mutually 'play' off each other in exchanges of style, ideologies and forms. Posing unique challenges to notions of mind - body dualities, nationalism, class, gender, and racial codes and sexual orientation, Dr Ken McLeod illuminates the paradoxical and often conflicting relationships associated with these modes of leisure and entertainment and demonstrates that they are not culturally or ideologically distinct but are interconnected modes of contemporary social practice. Examples include how music is used to enhance sporting events, such as anthems, chants/cheers, and intermission entertainment, music that is used as an active part of the athletic event, and music that has been written about or that is associated with sports. There are also connections in the use of music in sports movies, television and video games and important, though critically under-acknowledged, similarities regarding spectatorship, practice and performance. Despite the scope of such confluences, the extraordinary impact of the interrelationship of music and sports on popular culture has remained little recognized. McLeod ties together several influential threads of popular culture and fills a significant void in our understanding of the construction and communication of identity in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Delve into the fascinating history of one of the South's greatest states with Mississippi Secrets: Facts, Legends, and Folklore. Authors Dr. Gary D. and Ruth A. McDowell offer an intriguing collection of little-known events in Mississippi's history. Written in short, easy-to-read vignettes, these tales uncover some of the state's most fascinating figures and legends from how the Choctaws and Chickasaws settled the land to a UFO encounter in Pascagoula. You'll also read about famous Mississippians, the American Civil War, the 1960s Civil Rights movement, living in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina, and other captivating tales that include: - The U.S. president who stole another man's wife, brought her to Mississippi, and married her before she was divorced - The pirate who helped win the Battle of New Orleans and then retired to Bay St. Louis - The national hero who killed a man in a knife fight in Natchez - The blues singer who sold his soul to the devil in Clarksdale in return for his talent - An interview with James Meredith Whether you're a native of Mississippi or simply curious, Mississippi Secrets will capture your imagination with what the history books never tell you!
I can say with absolute certainty that, everybody enjoys watching movies, cinema, films and television. But few, if any, know how a film is made: a film has inbuilt special effects or 'tricks'to make it appealing to audiences. MOVING CAMERAS AND LIVING MOVIES reveals to you ALL about films & Filmmaking; it is a hard and tasking enterprise involving tens of thousands of workers and millions of investment dollars. After reading MOVING CAMERAS...your love for movies will triple. Movie technicians and camera gurus have a license to mould, alter, and manipulate the screen to produce or induce rain, sunlight, snow, fire, or fly any object in space in defiance of gravity or even cause 'accidents'or 'raise' the dead to life. Learn the fascinating, exciting world of film, actresses, actors, fashion, and fictional entities.
Over 10 million copies sold Written by the leading authority on sports card values, this collectors' classic is the definitive guide to organizing and pricing baseball card collections. A bestseller for over 25 years, The Official(R) Price Guide to Baseball Cards continues to cover all major baseball card manufacturers, including Bowman, Donruss/Playoff, Fleer, Topps, and Upper Deck. -Close to 300,000 prices for individual cards and complete sets issued from 1948 to the present -Professional advice on buying, selling, grading, and storing cards -Valuable coupons for discounts on Beckett Grading Services and Beckett magazines
This guide is packed with vital information for collectors and lists more than 40,000 prices for cards identified by manufacturer, year, and size. Advice is provided by the experts on determining the condition of cards; buying, selling, and trading cards profitably; and a glossary of industry terms. 850 photos.
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