Christianity: sacred texts and revered writings

Instant USA Today and Publishers Weekly BestsellerMost days peace feels elusive, and our hope feels light-years away.

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Reflecting on Matthew's Gospel, renowned preacher Barbara Brown Taylor takes timeless stories of seeds, weeds, doubt, risk, fights, shame and glory and explores how they resonate with contemporary readers, enabling them to discover God's truth in their own lives.

The Proven, Groundbreaking Recovery CurriculumThe Celebrate Recovery Participant's Guide, Volumes 14 Updated Edition now combines all four volumes of The Journey Begins study guides for the essential tool to your personal recovery journey.

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Mysteries of the Early Christ takes readers on a journey into the rarely explored realms of the Infancy Gospels, unveiling the apocryphal narratives that seek to illuminate the early years of Jesus Christ.

Understanding the Bible will provide you with a foundational knowledge of the entirety of Scripture with a focus on broadening your vision of Jesus Christ.

Linville argues that a new approach to the book of Kings is needed because of the failings of the usual historical-critical methods.

Relatively brief and seemingly unassuming, Philippians is frequently underestimated by its readers and users.

Athletes are conditioned to be strong both physically and mentally.

The ten essays in this volume, the majority specially written, engage with questions of voice (whose?

For the many thousands who prepare sermons on the lectionary readings each week, here are expert, wise and extremely down to earth reflections to inspire and guide you, from an outstanding preacher and Church Times columnist.

Conversion is a main theological theme in the Lukan corpus.

USA Today bestsellerPublishers Weekly bestsellerWall Street Journal bestseller Many people today think the Bible, the most influential book in world history, is not only outdated but irrelevant, irrational, and even immoral.

The Message of Isaiah 40-55 traces the argument of Isaiah 40-55 to show how the chapters bring a message of encouragement and challenge about God's intention to restore the Judean community, some of whose members are in exile in Babylon, others living in the city of Jerusalem that has lain devastated since it fell to the Babylonians in 587.

Stories are basic to life.

The Book of Revelation presents the reader with a frightening narrative world in which the people of God are tormented, threatened, and sometimes killed by various agents of Satan.

Francis of Assisi as Artist of the Spiritual Life applies modern psychological understanding to a historical person.

This book explores Icelandic spirit work, known as andleg mal, which features trance and healing practices that span earth and spirit realms, historical eras, scientific and supernatural worldviews, and cross-Atlantic cultures.

For some, the Bible and literature are at odds.

The King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the English language.

The biblical foundations of a Christian communal movement that has stood the test of five centuries.

Over 2 million copies sold in The Word Biblical Commentary series.

The fourth edition of The Christian Theological Tradition provides students with essential theological knowledge of key persons and events of the Bible and the Christian faith, and of Christianity's multifaceted encounter with Western culture.

This volume publishes the symposium papers of a joint conference held in Bochum, Germay in 1990 between the University of Tel Aviv, Israel, and the University of the Ruhr, Bochum.

Anyone who reads the Gospels carefully will notice that there are differences in the manner in which they report the same events.

Remarkably enough, there is a scarcity of modern commentaries on the Psalms for the more general reader, though after the Gospels, they are probably the most widely-read part of the Bible.

The book of Acts opens with the dramatic story of tongues of flame descending upon believers at Pentecost and the prophecy of an egalitarian dispensation of the Spirit being fulfilled.

This volume brings together experts in the study of ancient prayers and divination methods to analyse the variety of means by which human beings sought to communicate with their gods and by which the gods were seen to communicate with their worshippers.

This book is a meditation on Paul's letter to the church in Galatia with the purpose of reclaiming Paul for those of faith who have grown tired of thinking that Christians are the people who draw lines, make distinctions, and police religious borders.

The first English translation of Maria de Naglowska's sexually magical novella, Le rite sacr de l'amour magique *; Contains autobiographical material from Maria de Naglowska's life *; Continues, in symbolic story form, the sexual initiatory teachings expounded in Naglowska's The Light of Sex and Advanced Sex Magic *; Includes a summary of Naglowska's religious doctrine in her own words Available for the first time in English, The Sacred Rite of Magical Love is a mystical, sexually magical novella written by Maria de Naglowska--the Russian mystic and esoteric high priestess of 1930s Paris.

Long overshadowed by Luther and Calvin, Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) is one of the most important figures in the Protestant Reformation and had profound effect on Western church history.

Overcome the Hurts of Yesterday and the Fears of TomorrowAs people created in the image of God, we have been given the capacity to choose what we do and do not believe.

A fresh, authoritative English translation, with an informative introduction, fascinating explanatory notes, and the Coptic text, with interpretation by Harold Bloom, our preeminent literary critic.

The enigmatic sixteenth-century Swiss physician and natural philosopher Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus, is known for the almost superhuman energy with which he produced his innumerable writings, for his remarkable achievements in the development of science, and for his reputation as a visionary (not to mention sorcerer) and alchemist.

This is a study of the language of wonder or amazement, comparing its use in Graeco-Roman, early Jewish and early Christian literature to the Gospel of Mark.

What does it look like to read the texts we now call the gospels like first- and second-century readers?

Many today find the Old Testament a closed book.

This 2004 book is an accessible introduction to the full range of the philosophy of William James.

The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context.

Our nation is politically, ideologically, and socially polarized to the point of breaking; confusion dominates every layer of our culture.

This classic King James Version UltraSlim Reference Bible has a wealth of study helps.

Appraisals of early Christian leaders in Acts typically neglect or minimize the contribution of Philip the evangelist.

The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context.

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