Author : Mark Hamilton
Publisher : ACU Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1684268982
The life and work of Jesus Christ must not be overlooked. Born under Roman occupation, Jesus lived his entire life without writing anything down. His earliest followers, the Christians that were shaped by his life and teachings, carefully recorded his words as good news. They also experienced his resurrection and believed that he had entrusted them with a mission to transform the world.
Author : Mark Hamilton
Publisher : ACU Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1684269008
The nation of Israel tells its story of the rise of kings not once but twice (Joshua–2 Kings, 1–2 Chronicles); and during this period, they wrote Psalms and gathered together their wise sayings. Then, plunged into the darkness of exile, they had to discover again who God was and what kind of life he called them to live. In the same way, Christians read these texts today for what they share about a promised Messiah and how they explain what life with God looks like in all its complexity.
Author : Mark Hamilton
Publisher : ACU Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 21,23 MB
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1684269512
God reveals his true nature in the first five books of the Bible. While the broader story of the Bible is known to many Christians, careful readers of the Pentateuch still have many questions. The origin story of the Jewish nation is one of hardship and loss. The Transforming Word will encourage you to examine the Scriptures and discover the God who sustains everything.
Author : Adrio König
Publisher : Lexham Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 2019-05-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1683592867
Look to Christ, the ultimate revelation of God. The letter to the Hebrews asks questions aimed at the heart of what it looks like for Christians to walk in Christ's footsteps. How should Christians relate to the Old Testament? What are we to make of the New Testament's urgent pleas to persevere in the faith? Can we really lose our salvation? How does Jesus model both humility in his humanity and the glory of God through his earthly life? These questions continue to be fiercely debated by Christians. The ancient letter to the Hebrews answers all by focusing on Christ's magnificent love and greatness. In Christ Above All, Adrio König puts readers in the shoes of the original audience of Hebrews and shows how, in a world full of competing claims to power and authority, Christ--in all his glory and humanity--really does surpass all others. In the Transformative Word series, you'll read the Bible with a global cast of church leaders and scholars. In conversational tone, contributors from around the world explain the importance of a biblical book, showing how it can transform your life.
Author : Jerry Pham
Publisher : Jerry Pham
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 45,6 MB
Release : 2020-10-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
This e-book is Volume 4 of the 101 C2-Proficiency Key Word Transformation quizzes series written to help you improve paraphrasing skills. It contains 101 sentence transformations in total, many of which are based closely on some of the most common test items in past exam papers. For those preparing for the C2 Cambridge English Proficiency examination (previously known as the CPE), the book provides you with further practice for Part 4 of the Reading & Use of English paper. Prior to using this book, you should acquaint yourself with basic knowledge of some sophisticated grammar forms in English, which appear to be commonly tested in this part of the paper. These include inversion or inverted sentences, subjunctives, cleft sentences, emphatic structures, conditionals, comparatives and superlatives, relative clauses, nominal clauses, phrasal verbs and phrasal nouns, prepositional combinations, etc. A firm grasp of collocations and idiomatic expressions is also essential in helping you make full use of this book. Before checking out the other volumes of the series, it would be advisable for you to attempt Volume 1 and Volume 2 as they are aimed at helping you revise the key language features mentioned above as well as lay the foundation for more complex quizzes in the later volumes.
Author : Wagenman, Michael R.
Publisher : Lexham Press
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 35,52 MB
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1577997204
The disciples and early Christians faced doubt, opposition, and threats--just like many Christians do today. In Together with the World, Michael Wagenman shows how the book of Acts can help modern Christians respond to crisis and critique in our contemporary world. The book of Acts is about more than simply the beginning of church history. In Together for the World we find a group of disciples, empowered by the Holy Spirit, following God's call to spread the good news.
Author : Surendra J. Patel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351066765
Originally published in 1993, this book contains 3 studies from Finland, Greece and Japan. These countries were chosen because they experienced their technological transformation mainly during the 20th Century and it was considered that their experience would have some relevant lessons for the countries of the third world. Special attention is paid to Japan as its example has great relevance both for development theory and practical strategies.
Author : Carolyn Custis James
Publisher : Lexham Press
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 2018-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1683590813
The ancient book of Ruth speaks into today's world with astonishing relevance. In four short episodes, readers encounter refugees, undocumented immigrants, poverty, hunger, women's rights, male power and privilege, discrimination, and injustice. In Finding God in the Margins, Carolyn Custis James reveals how the book of Ruth is about God, the questions that surface when life falls apart, and how God reaches into the margins and chooses two totally marginalized women who, in the eyes of the patriarchal culture, are zeros. Against the backdrop of disturbing issues in today's world, this bracing narrative puts on display a radical gospel way of living together as human beings that shouts the Kingdom of God, foreshadows Jesus' gospel, and raises the bar for men and women, then and now.
Author : Wayne K. Barkhuizen
Publisher : Lexham Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1577997123
Although the book of Esther contains no direct references to God, his fingerprints can be found all over it. In God Behind the Scenes, Wayne K. Barkhuizen helps us trace the unseen hand of God throughout the Esther narrative, while pointing out how the book is still relevant today. As we walk through the book, we’ll see how God was indeed active in preserving the people through whom the Messiah, Jesus Christ, would one day come.
Author : David L. Bartlett
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 161164108X
With this twelve-volume series, Westminster John Knox Press offers one of the most extensive and well-respected resources for preaching on the market today. The twelve volumes cover all of the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, along with moveable occasions. The page layout is truly unique. For each lectionary text, preachers will find brief essays--one each on the exegetical, theological, pastoral, and homiletical challenges of the text. Each volume also contains an index of biblical passages so that nonlectionary preachers may make use of it.
