Bird argues that Jesus was attempting to achieve and enact the restoration of Israel, and in continuity with other strands of Jewish belief, Jesus conceived of the restoration of Israel as resulting in the salvation of the gentiles. Jesus' mission was Israel-centric, but he espoused a view of restoration that was indebted to certain strands of Israel's sacred traditions where the gentiles are implicit beneficiaries of Israel's salvation. Since this restoration was already being partially realized in Jesus' ministry, it was becoming possible for gentiles to begin sharing in Israel's salvation in the present. Additionally, Jesus understood himself and his followers to be the new temple and the vanguard of the restored Israel who would appropriate for themselves the role of Israel and the temple in being a light to the nations. Thus, a gentile mission has its germinal roots in the aims and intentions of Jesus and was developed in a transformed situation by adherents of the early Christian movement.
As organizations struggle to implement effective security measures, all too often they focus solely on the tangible elements, such as developing security policies or risk management implementations. While these items are very important, they are only half of the equation necessary to ensure security success. CISO Soft Skills: Securing Organizations
Truly a practical work, this handbook offers a comprehensive roadmap for designing and implementing an effective information security program based on real world scenarios. It builds a bridge between high-level theory and practical execution by illustrating solutions to practical issues often overlooked by theoretical texts. This leads to a set of practices that security professionals can use every day. The framework it describes can be expanded or contracted to meet the needs of almost any organization. A reference as well as a guide, each of the chapters are self-contained and can be read in any order.
Our children have many different teachers. School teachers, coaches, trainers, tutors and the church pastor are easy to see. Some are friends, classmates and special people we meet unexpectedly. Some are members of our family, and some are like Sam. At first glance he may not be someone who you would recognize as a teacher or someone that has any notion as to what the difference between right and wrong is. He may not even be someone you might like or merely someone to hang out with on a rainy Saturday afternoon. His appearance tricks you into thinking he's not worth getting to know. Actually, Sam has a lesson to teach us all. Hoping to find someone to accept him for who he is, not for what he has, Sam creates a plan to achieve his dream. He wants someone to share his life with, not just his treasures. Sam takes away all his beautiful possessions and turns his appearance from wealthy to ordinary. The big house on the hill, the designer clothes, and rare trinkets are all temporarily set aside in order to find someone who loves him for who he is. He puts on average, unassuming clothes, walks down from the house on the hill. He sits there and waits for kindness. Judging someone by how they look, where they live, or how they choose to spend their time isn't fair to yourself or the people around you. Our eyes must be open and optimistic in order to see kindness and give kindness. Sam shows us what is truly important: knowing someone's heart. Judging someone by where they live or the clothes they wear keeps us from truly understanding who they are.
What happens to the Gospel when you put other loyalties into positions of power in Christian life and practice? You get deformations, distortions, and caricatures of Christianity – killing in the name of love, defense of worldwide systems of domination, idolization of the nation instead of the membership in the global body of Christ, and baptism of exploitative and destructive economic ideologies. You get much of what world sees as contemporary Christianity, in other words. Too often, however, the inadequacies of contemporary Christian life, especially in the United States, are seen as separate issues in need of ‘improvement’ or ‘reform.’ Foolishness to Gentiles invites readers to see the pathologies of the churches not as a series of disconnected problems, but predictable outcomes of deep defects of Christian formation, commitments and theology. Having mortgaged so much of the integrity of the Gospel in the pursuit of imperial and national citizenship, and having allowed the powers of race and capital to divide the unity of the church, Foolishness to Gentiles calls Christians into deeper reflection, repentance and redirection. In a series of essays (new and previously unpublished, previously unpublished in English, and published previously in specialized venues), Foolishness to Gentiles opens doors to deeper theological and socio-political reflection, and some guideposts for more adequate practices of Christian discipleship in a variety of contexts and circumstances.
The moving story of Michael Brantley's struggles in life will encourage every reader, especially those who may be feeling unloved or discouraged. This is a real life story of a boy who grew up enduring more hopeless situations and heartbreaks than most people face in lifetime. But Michael refused to give up. he started looking to God for help and miraculous things started to happen. Today he is walking in total victory, loving life and telling others about the great things God has done. For those who may be wondering if life is worth living, I pray this book will change your life forever.
Children have the ability to make friends easily, without hesitation. They have no preconceived image of what a friend should look like, how they should speak, or what they should wear. They are the most acceptable people on the planet. A child's spirit, their enjoyment of the simplest things in life, their uncontrollable laughter, and their complete commitment to the people who love them is a wonder to behold. Keeping that spirit alive in our children as long as possible is one of the major challenges for all parents. Reinforcing that spirit in your child will help their acceptance of everyone as they make their way into adulthood. Searching for Annabelle helps to bring the message of acceptance to the reader in a delightful and whimsical way. Andy doesn't think Annabelle is like any other ant he has ever seen. She may have the same shape, color, and walk as any other ant, but he sees someone very different and special. Watching your children grow is like seeing your dreams come true in the middle of the day. Don't miss the magic of life's unexplainable moments in your children's life.
Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire explores the conjunction between psychoanalysis and democracy, in particular their shared commitments to free speech. In the process, it demonstrates how lawful constraints enable an embodied space or "gap" for the potentially disruptive but also liberating and novel flow of desire and its symbols. This space, intuited by the First Amendment as it is by Freud's free association, enables personal and collective sovereignty. By naming a "feminine law," we mark the primacy a space between the conceivable and the inconceivable, between knowledge and mystery. What do political free speech and psychoanalytic free association have in common, besides the word "free"? And what do Sigmund Freud and Justice Louis Brandeis share besides a world between two great wars? How is the female body a neglected key to understanding the conditions and contradictions of free discourse? Drs. Jill Gentile and Michael Macrone take up these questions, and more, in their wide-ranging, often passionate exploration of the hidden legacy of Freud and the Founding Fathers.
Tracing the evolution of the U.S. Army throughout American history, the authors of this four-volume series show that there is no such thing as a “traditional” U.S. military policy. Rather, the laws that authorize, empower, and govern the U.S. armed forces emerged from long-standing debates and a series of legislative compromises between 1903 and 1940. Volume I traces U.S. military policy from the colonial era through the Spanish-American War.
The Gentile brothers are at it again in this new, expanded edition of their 2017 book. In the original version, Jeffrey and Michael introduced readers to their mob adjacent world. In this updated version, the brothers still stand at the intersection of Hoodlum and Gangster, with more true mob tales and more never-before published mob photos. Mob Adjacent: A Family Memoir takes an acid trip down memory lane as the brothers discover a parallel world hidden behind a suburban façade. For them, The Wonder Years collides with The Sopranos. Mobsters come to dinner, contract hits come with warning notices, and thieves deliver merchandise and people. How does something like that happen to an ordinary family? Blame it on the company they keep. Friends and acquaintances include legendary crime boss Sam Giancana, Jackie Cerone, and an assortment of hoodlums, gangsters, bone-breakers, and second-story guys, with cameo appearances by Tony Accardo, Frank Sinatra, Leo Durocher, Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Joan Collins, Liza Minelli, and Elizabeth Taylor. For the Gentile brothers, life at the intersection of Hoodlum and Gangster yields dividends and teaches lessons. This is their story.
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Lively, well-informed portrait of the complex figure who was the apostle Paul Though Paul is often lauded as the first great Christian theologian and a champion for Gentile inclusion in the church, in his own time he was universally regarded as a strange and controversial person. In this book Pauline scholar Michael Bird explains why. An Anomalous Jew presents the figure of Paul in all his complexity with his blend of common and controversial Jewish beliefs and a faith in Christ that brought him into conflict with the socio-religious scene around him. Bird elucidates how the apostle Paul was variously perceived — as a religious deviant by Jews, as a divisive figure by Jewish Christians, as a purveyor of dubious philosophy by Greeks, and as a dangerous troublemaker by the Romans. Readers of this book will better understand the truly anomalous shape of Paul’s thinking and worldview.
Feeney Ward sits atop an empire he doesn't deserve. He's sacrificed everything for wealth: his parents, his mentor, and his self-worth. He's got all the money in the world, only to find himself paralyzed with regret and self-loathing. How did a young man's entrepreneurial spirit come to this end? Feeney has chased money his entire life. At five, he launched his first business venture, an innocent plan that inadvertently blossomed into a lucrative scam. As a result, Feeney developed an appetite for wealth destined to lead him down increasingly dark paths. However, Feeney's efforts never amount to much until a fortunate run-in with successful businessman Arthur Swezey. Under Swezey's wing, Feeney finds himself in a high-stakes world of shady investments, a world that pays off in a wild lifestyle driven by big money. When evidence suggests that Swezey might be double-crossing his young partner, Feeney sets in motion a series of rapid-fire events with tragic consequences. In the aftermath, Feeney realizes that wealth wasn't worth the price of his soul and decides to shut down the life he once led.
Discovery-based activities reinforce physics concepts by allowing students to apply physics phenomena to everyday observations in the world around them. It's organized in parallel with the textbook's chapters.
This is a concise, simple Bible study on the book of Romans. It takes traditionally difficult-to-understand material and makes it accessible to everybody, regardless of education level.
College Physics is the first text to use an investigative learning approach to teach introductory physics. This approach encourages you to take an active role in learning physics, to practice scientific skills such as observing, analyzing, and testing, and to build scientific habits of mind. The authors believe students learn physics best by doing physics. This package consists of: College Physics, Volume 2
The authors examine (1) experiences of different communist regimes to forecast North Korean adoption of a new economic model; (2) what might happen if conventional deterrence fails on the Peninsula; and (3) why North Korea might use nuclear weapons.
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