Since the beginning of time, stories have revealed core beliefs, cultural values, trials, struggles, successes, and what the heart treasures. From generation to generation, stories have given us a glimpse into the lives of those who came before us. Stories deep within Christian tradition help us to better understand our own personal journeys as we walk by the light of faith. Potato Christmas is a most unusual story. The setting is a rural community in Ireland at the tail end of the Potato Famine (1845-1851) and a few years following the famine. While the famine affected the total population, those who suffered the most were the poor. Many were tenant farmers and farm laborers; however, sorrow and grief and the pain of loss were suffered by all classes. In the broken places of our spirit, we find our strength. In the darkest of nights, a light shines to guide us to a new day, but only through the eyes of faith can the light be seen. Natural or human-made forces bent on destroying the human spirit can never defeat those who truly believe that on a distant night in the small town of Bethlehem a child was born. This child, Christ our Lord and Savior, is the greatest gift and act of love ever given. All we have to do is accept it and live out a life that practices giving to those we know, those we meet, and the stranger who comes our way. Potato Christmas will set the tone for your holiday season to be especially meaningful.
When a photographer trades the urban jungle of Los Angeles for summer in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, poetry is revealed amid the murmuring voices of the ancients along the Continental Divide.
Meet Jesus is a picture book that introduces young children (ages 4-8) to Jesus and his lessons of love, kindness, forgiveness and peace. Meet Jesus emphasizes the humanity rather than the divinity of Jesus, giving the story broad appeal for liberal or progressive Christians and non-Christians alike. The text includes Bible references with corresponding Bible passages in the back of the book.
What if there was a world where man no longer reigned and evolution ran backwards? There is such a world, and it's closer than you think. Marooned on planet Niburu, a disgraced fighter pilot turned Bounty Hunter, Commander Zacary Ryker, must choose between revenge and protecting a band of human castaways as he reluctantly leads them and their genetically engineered Chimera mercenaries against his nemesis and a brutal race of aliens. Sometimes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. He's just not human...
The word "Eschaton" is of Greek derivative and means "end times." As such, it is associated with the events surrounding the Second Coming of Christ. In the face of modernism and its resultant secularity, the idea of a literal Millennial Reign of Jesus upon the earth has become unthinkable, even silly, to some. And, for them, so has the idea of a literal creation as described in Genesis. Some academic Biblical scholars have joined the secularists in labeling much of the Bible as merely metaphor and myth. They have discounted 6,000 years of Judeo-Christian testimony as some monolithic, long and enduring self-delusion, as if only recently have people become intelligent or rational. Modernism's poison has eaten away at the fabric of faith and trust in God. Too many contemporary Christians have quit preparing themselves to "endure to the end" and have instead come to expect an "end time" rescue by means of a Pre-Trib or Mid-Trib Rapture. Consequently, they have abandoned God's call to holiness and its resultant spiritual authority and power in favor of popular psychology and self-help teaching. This presentation is intended to inform those who require that all truth find support in the Word of God in order to be believed. Its purpose is to show that historically understood eschatology is well-supported in Scripture and, therefore, can and should be embraced. Wayne Clark is a husband, father, grandfather, businessman and teacher for whom Bible study has been a lifelong passion. He has been teaching God's Word to adults since 1971. Wayne has a Master of Divinity degree from Asbury Theological Seminary. Although he has served as a full-time pastor, he sees his main calling as "ministry in themarketplace." He and his wife, Nancy, reside in Alpharetta, Georgia and are both heavily involved in adult discipleship.
Three seminary students are getting ready for a summer break when a courier brings Brogan news of an uncle he didn't know he had who has died and he is the only heir to the estate. There is a catch--he has to go to the isle of Patmos within ninety-six hours for the reading of the will or forfeit his inheritance. Sounds easy, however, there are those in Patmos that will do anything to keep him from receiving it. When they arrive, the disciple that Jesus loved will step into their lives and turn their faith beyond belief!
A Bounty Hunter tracking his nemesis weighs revenge against survival when he stumbles into a world where evolution runs backwards. Marooned on planet Niburu, a disgraced fighter pilot turned Bounty Hunter, Commander Zacary Ryker makes a startling discovery: the assassin that murdered his family on Earth has stowed away on his doomed vessel and thrown in with an alien race of Reptoids to exterminate all humans in his new world. Torn between his thirst for revenge and survival, Ryker's destiny becomes intertwined with the dangerous liaison of a Shakespeare quoting Chimera, a teenage femme fatale and her telepathic wolf-dog shaman as they are plunged into an alternate reality where the law of evolution has run astray. Little do they know that they are about to be drawn into a larger struggle, a struggle beyond their universe; an epic battle for the Multiverse.
The story of a man's struggle to provide education, interrupted by service in the Confederate Army, in an impoverished region as told through his diaries and correspondence. This book is also available in hardcover version.
This title was first published in 2000. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted with Amnesty International, the Labour Party, Tenants’ Associations and the Exodus collective, this work examines the nature of political activism. The author combines Habermasian theory and empirical fieldwork to critically analyze the nature of the political public sphere. While adopting a Habermasian approach, Clark recognizes the problems and limitations associated with notions of civil society and communicative action. An empirically formed critical stance is maintained throughout the work. Three main themes are drawn from this research: an analysis of structures of political participation; presentation of a typology of political activism ; analysis of the public process of participation. Essential reading for those studying public participation and its relationship to activism, as well as for students of politics, public policy and sociology.
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