In his previous metaphysical book, Trying to Remember, Dr. Thomas Paul Hansen explored this question and statement: Are you a spiritual being having a physical experience or a physical being having an occasional spiritual experience? Which one you believe makes all the difference in the world. In his new book, Remembering Our Oneness, learn how to live as the spiritual being that you are, even while experiencing this illusion of a physical universe. Learn how to be in this world, but not of this world. Learn how to co-create a world of peace that will help all of us awaken to our true Godself nature. We can take concrete action for peace in the world and at the same time remember that our true spiritual nature is already inside each one of us. Did we actually make this physical universe ourselves, with our minds? Why would we have done so? Find out why the old seeing is believing concept should be changed to believing is seeing.
These verses and stories celebrate and reverence the majestic beauty of our shared humanity; our common sisterhood and brotherhood that bonds us to each other and to a thousand generations gone before. "We are joined from the dust of heaven, borne on the cosmic breeze. We raise our chorus to the cradle of life, set our music upon starry seas." "We celebrate the pulse of life, unbroken beat, shared by all, though we never meet. Echoes from the dawn of time. Singing to the yet to be." Even while celebrating the majesty of being human, we can have no illusions about the heartless ferocity of which we are sometimes capable, when we fail to love one another and to honor the human dignity that the majesty of our shared origins demands for all of us. In the Great Fire Death of 1939 to 1945 this book poses the question meant to reverberate for a thousand years: What was it like when the rampaging mindless pathogen was not the Black Death and Yersinia pestis, but the Fire Death and Homo sapiensia pestis? We remember the joys of days that once we shared with the friends of the long-gone then, who oh so briefly life anew. We shed a tear for children who never came to be because of young people who lost their lives or their loves in war: "Those never held in times embrace, time cannot forget, nor all of time together their precious like beget, the spirits of children of lovers never met." We can come to understand that we are the miracle of creation: a creature who can touch past time, can sing, can care. We can come to know: the mystery past power of words alone, what wonders are we all.
When the major economic downturn affects the housing market in Reno, Nevada, Barry Joseph and his family find themselves facing difficult decisions. Constant attempts to communicate with their mortgage company fail time after time, forcing Barry to take unprecedented action. Follow the Joseph family's struggle to survive in this modern-day David-versus-Goliath parable as their struggles amid the nation's housing crisis drive the family to the brink of disaster.
Letters written from Thomas P. Bird, a former Lutheran Minister now serving a life sentence for murder, to Pastor Kenneth P. Kothe, a seminary classmate of Bird's, with meditations written by author Dave Racer.
Composition for the 21st 1⁄2 century: Image-Making for Animation focuses on composition and its technical and artistic application in animation, illustration, games, and films. It covers all aspects of design and discusses in detail their artistic applicability and impact on image and narrative. Emphasis is placed on the ability of each aspect to support and affect the narrative. Additional case studies explain the successful use of these concepts in films and animation. This book is geared toward students; however, it is also reader-friendly for professionals. Composition for the 21st 1⁄2 century: Image-Making for Animation’s goal is to comprehend composition as an artistic tool and as a significant part of the professional image-making process. Key Features: Teaches the complexity of composition in image-making. Closes the gap between praxis and theory in animation. Explains how to produce images that support the narrative in their visuals. Discusses the need for artistic reasoning in image-making. Presents case studies that assist the reader in understanding the process as they progress through this book. Author Bio: For more than twenty years, Thomas Paul Thesen’s career has been about learning and understanding the complexities of art, animation, and image-making, both in still illustration, drawing, and photography, and in the moving image. He has worked in the industry as a character animator and visual development artist for companies such as Pixar, DreamWorks, and Sprite Animation Studios. He has also taught for many years at universities across Asia, the USA, and the UK.
The Kingdom Shift brings insight to God's ultimate will for creation to become a true extension of the Kingdom of God, therefore reversing the curse of sin. The Kingdom Shift reveals the fact that mankind has a mandate to pursue the Kingdom of God. It also gives the reader insight how to unlock their potential. The Kingdom Shift reveals God's will for marriage based on kingdom principles. The Kingdom Shift will reveal how true servant hood is the key to effective leadership. Have you been interested in how to be victorious in spiritual warfare? Then the Kingdom Shift is your answer. This is a book that will open your eyes to the truth and self-aggrandizement which is the work of sensationalism. The Kingdom Shift is pertinent to 21st Century believers who do not want to be sifted but shifted. The anointing upon Paul Thomas' life is both strong and invigorating. He has a passion to take the kingdom message throughout the world. His ministry has reached thousands in India, South America, Haiti, the Caribbean, Canada and throughout the USA. Paul has authored several books which he has targeted to reach church leaders and mature Christians. One book, "Supporting the Leaders Around You" has been translated to several Indian dialects. Paul is the founder and pastor of Victory Christian Assembly and founder of The United Christian Alliance, a fellowship of pastors throughout the US who are repairers of the breech as they unite as a prophetical, apostolic team to build the universal Kingdom of God. Paul A. Thomas and his wife Katie live in Greenville, NC.
Composition for the 21st 1⁄2 century: Characters in Animation focuses on characters and their application in animation, illustration, games, and films. It covers various technical aspects of character design and their artistic applicability. This book analyzes in detail the purpose of these character design features and provides examples of their impact. Emphasis is placed on each aspect and how it affects and is affected by the narrative. Additionally, complex case studies that assist in explaining the successful use of these concepts in films and animation are included. This book is geared toward students; however, it is also reader-friendly for professionals. Composition for the 21st 1⁄2 century: Characters in Animation’s goal is to comprehend composition as an artistic tool and as a significant part of the professional character design process. Key Features: Teaches the complexity of composition in the professional character design process. Closes the gap between praxis and theory in character design. Explains how to produce believable characters that express their narrative in the visuals. Discusses the need for artistic reasoning in character design. Presents case studies to assist readers in understanding the process as they progress through this book. Author Bio: For more than twenty years, Thomas Paul Thesen’s career has been about learning and understanding the complexities of art, animation, and image-making, both in still illustration, drawing, and photography and in the moving image. He has worked in the industry as a character animator and visual development artist for companies such as Pixar, DreamWorks, and Sprite Animation Studios. He has also taught for many years at universities across Asia, the USA, and the UK.
This groundbreaking, provocative book presents an overview of research at the disciplinary intersection of psychoanalysis and linguistics. Understanding that linguistic activity, to a great extent, takes place in unconscious cognition, Thomas Paul Bonfiglio systematically demonstrates how fundamental psychoanalytic mechanisms—such as displacement, condensation, overdetermination, and repetition—have been absent in the history of linguistic inquiry, and explains how these mechanisms can illuminate the understanding of the grammatical structure, evolution, acquisition, and processing of language. Reexamining popular misunderstandings of psychoanalysis along the way, Bonfiglio further proposes a new theoretical configuration of language and expertly sets the future agenda on this subject with new conceptual paradigms for research and teaching. This will be an invaluable, fascinating resource for advanced students and scholars of theoretical and applied linguistics, the cognitive-behavioral sciences, metaphor studies, humor studies and play theory, anthropology, and beyond.
This book synthesizes psychoanalytic and Marxist techniques in order to illuminate the resistance to a socialization of the American economy, the protectionist discourses of anomalous American capitalism, and the suppression of the capitalist welfare state. After the Second World War, Democrats and Republicans effectively eliminated the communist and socialist parties from the American political spectrum and suppressed their allied labor movements. The right-wing shift of both parties fabricated a false opposition of left and right that does not correspond to political oppositions in the industrialized democracies. Marxist perspectives can account for the massive inequality of the political economy, but they are insufficient for illuminating its preservation. Psychoanalysis is necessary in order to explain why Americans continue to vote within a two-party system that neglects the lower classes, and why the working class tends to vote against its own interests. The psychoanalytic techniques employed include doubling, repetition, displacement, condensation, inversion, denial, fetishizing, and cognitive repression. In examining the fixation upon the proxy binary of Democrat vs. Republican, which suppresses the true opposition of left vs. right and neutralizes alternatives, the work analyses numerous contemporary political issues through applications of Marxist psychoanalytic theory.
Vietnam War veteran Timothy Patrick O'Rourke discovers the great paradox of war upon his return to the US in 1973: he has left the war, but the war has not left him. He carries with him a profound sense of unfinished business, and struggles to find meaning amid days packed with the responsibilities of a life he no longer understands. Even with the patient, loving support of his girlfriend, Cheryl, Timothy cannot escape the shadow of war. Then he meets the mysterious Hoffen. A voice of tragedy, wisdom and hope, Hoffen has traveled through the darkness and emerged on the other side. Maybe, just maybe, Timothy can do the same. Timothy's odyssey is every veteran's story to some degree, with alienation, hyper-vigilance, substance abuse, relationship problems, guilt, flashbacks, nightmares, and depression as his constant companions. Hope in the Shadows of War confronts the stark realization that a wound that never closes can't heal, and it proves that while trauma casts a long shadow for survivors, hope is a powerful antidote.
Few men stand with as towering a stature in the annals of American legend as THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826). Author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States, he ranks as one of the most significant of the United States' Founding Fathers, his political philosophies continuing to impact the nation to this day. In the late 19th century American biographer PAUL LEICESTER FORD (1865-1902) assembled this collection of Jefferson's most important, most influential, and most revealing writings. This replica of the 12-volume "Federal Edition" of 1904 is considered a masterpiece of historical scholarship, praised for its attention to detail as well as its objective dispassion toward its subject. Here, in Volume III, discover: [ correspondence and miscellaneous writings, 1779-1781 [ the first part of "Notes on Virginia," Jefferson's only book-length work.
This book is about composition and its application in animation, illustration, games and film. It covers all various aspects of design and explains in detail the use of the specific aspect and provides examples of its impact. Focus is on the ability of each aspect to tell a story and how it affects story. Additionally case studies are included that explain the successful use of those aspects in film and animation. The book is geared to students and professionals, however tries to be as simple as possible in the presentation of each aspect, but also complex in its case studies. The book¿s goal is to see composition as a technical part of image and film and as an artistic tool. Key Features Teaches the complexity of composition in image making. Closes the gap between praxis and theory in animation. Explains why certain images have a high quality and how to use the "whoy" in one's personal artistic work on a daily basis. Key term definitions found throughout the chapters. Case studies and video clips help the reader understand the process as they progress through the book.
Nutrient Indicator Models for Determining Biologically Relevant Levels: A case study based on the Corn Belt and Northern Great Plain Nutrient Ecoregion is the first book to provide answers to the management of nutrients based on changes in biological communities. The text describes a case study that is the result of a large scale project in the Corn Belt and Great Plains Nutrient Ecoregion. This study is the first to identify relationships between fish assemblages and nutrient concentrations by Nitrogen species. Species optima based on sensitivity and tolerance to nutrients is modeled. Nutrient Biotic indices calibrated for application are based on the results of years of biological indicator development. Test response intervals and Shift response intervals are formulated and validated against relevant biological assemblage shifts. This case study is the first to suggest recommended values for the nitrogen and phosphorus cycle with identifiable shifts caused in biological assemblages. This will provide watershed and environmental managers with the information needed to manage the inputs into the world’s dead zones.
This book assists readers in thinking systematically about meanings of faith and its significance for behavior as well as in striving for consistency and order in understanding the teachings of Jesus and their relevance for modern life. The first part deals with meanings of such topics as faith, love, God, the Holy Spirit, human nature, communion, the Church, and human destiny. The second part discusses the teachings of Jesus concerning God, Himself, the kingdom, ethics, and eschatology.
RB Rough starts to romanticize about Tamarack after rescuing her from her boat; adrift, without power and headed for a waterfall. All havoc then ensues when her tow domineering sisters arrive; Shurlene and Medika. RB's two companions, talking Moreloafs, valiantly serve as his crew. The main source of entertainment for the residents of this quiet world 'Aqua Caverness' is a weekly boat race on the Cauldron River; a river that is one of a multitude of connected rivers on this planet that lacks large oceans. RB is cast over the falls and left for dead. He drifts downstream where he is rescued by a diminutive and loving race of beings called Worblers. They nurture RB back to health and help repair his boat. Along the way back he meets a wizened man named Sawmill Man who operates a saw mill on the river. RB explores a lost city and is attacked by a demon. RB's voyage home is filled with adventure and humor in this world of backwards/forwards technology.
Paul writes that we are justified by faith apart from 'works of the law', a disputed term that represents a fault line between 'old' and 'new' perspectives on Paul. Was the Apostle reacting against the Jews' good works done to earn salvation, or the Mosaic Law's practices that identified the Jewish people? Matthew J. Thomas examines how Paul's second century readers understood these points in conflict, how they relate to 'old' and 'new' perspectives, and what their collective witness suggests about the Apostle's own meaning. Surprisingly, these early witnesses align closely with the 'new' perspective, though their reasoning often differs from both viewpoints. They suggest that Paul opposes these works neither due to moralism, nor primarily for experiential or social reasons, but because the promised new law and covenant, which are transformative and universal in scope, have come in Christ.
Leading biblical scholar Thomas Schreiner provides an easy-to-navigate resource for studying and understanding the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline Letters. This accessibly written volume summarizes the content of each major section of the biblical text to help readers quickly grasp the sense of particular passages. This is the first volume in the Handbooks on the New Testament series, which is modeled after Baker Academic's successful Old Testament handbook series. Series volumes are neither introductions nor commentaries, as they focus primarily on the content of the biblical books without getting bogged down in historical-critical questions or detailed verse-by-verse exegesis. The series will contain three volumes that span the entirety of the New Testament, with future volumes covering the Gospels and Hebrews through Revelation. Written with classroom utility and pastoral application in mind, these books will appeal to students, pastors, and laypeople alike.
PAUL'S LETTER TO THE PHILIPPIANS provides the reader with an explanation of Scripture that is detailed and up-to-date with modern scholarship, faithful to Scripture as the inerrant, infallible Word of God. It is a trusted resource for Bible study. Each commentary volume offers straightforward, clear, trustworthy, practical, and applicable explanations written by conservative, evangelical scholars. This verse-by-verse commentary makes every volume easy to understand and beneficial to your Christian life today. Yet, it also gives the reader a more in-depth understanding of God's Word. The author does not provide you with what he thinks, feels, or believes. Instead, he gives you what God said and what the Bible author meant by the words that he used. The reader will also be given the historical context, Bible backgrounds, and any Bible difficulties.
In an age where the essence and boundaries of the Church are questioned, "PAUL'S LETTER TO THE EPHESIANS: CPH New Testament Commentary" offers an incisive, historically grounded exposition on one of the New Testament’s most transformative letters. The Apostle Paul wrote to the Ephesian church with a desire to elaborate on the grand scheme of God's eternal plan. Through the lens of this epistle, this volume unravels complex themes, offering clarity and deep insights, that fortify the reader's understanding of both the Christian faith and the institution of the Church. Indispensable Background and Context The work opens with an enlightening introduction, followed by an outline, setting the stage for the subsequent exegetical journey. It provides crucial historical, sociopolitical, and theological background, contextualizing the situations that the Ephesian Christians faced and how Paul's words aimed to guide them. Rich Exegetical Treatment Adhering to a literal translation philosophy and employing the objective Historical-Grammatical method, the commentary carefully dissects each chapter of Ephesians. You will discover how Paul likens the Church to a Body, a Temple, a Mystery, a New Creation, and even to roles within a household and a soldier in battle. Each likeness serves as an intricate facet, revealing the multifaceted institution that God envisioned the Church to be. Addressing Difficult Texts Each chapter concludes with a "Bible Difficulties" section, where commonly misunderstood or misinterpreted texts are put under the microscope. Employing rigorous conservative scholarship, the commentary dispels doubts and misconceptions, reinforcing the inerrancy of Scripture. Apologetic Undertone Beyond mere exposition, this book has a robust apologetic undertone. It serves as a defense of the Christian faith, addressing contemporary issues and challenges through the lens of Paul’s teachings. It unequivocally establishes that there is no universal salvation and that the concept of "once saved always saved" is unscriptural. It also emphasizes that while we live in an age of grace, obedience to Christ remains paramount. Who This Book is For Scholars, seminary students, pastors, and committed laypersons will find this volume an invaluable resource. It serves as a comprehensive guide for sermon preparation, academic study, and for anyone eager to dive deep into understanding God’s purpose for the Church as laid out in Paul's Letter to the Ephesians. Comprehensive Concluding with a meticulous bibliography, the book is exhaustive but not exhausting, making it accessible for readers at a 10th to 11th-grade reading level. It employs simplified terminology, concrete examples, and visual aids to ensure that even complex theological concepts are easily grasped. In a world filled with spiritual confusion and doctrinal dilution, "PAUL'S LETTER TO THE EPHESIANS: CPH New Testament Commentary" stands as a beacon, guiding the reader back to the immutable truths of God's Word. It is not just a book to be read but a treasure to be explored.
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