The Threshing Floor


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"While Jack Garrison is forever a changed man free of his bitterness, his future looks uncertain. After protecting him from a terrorist attack, the girl he loves, Bette Deekmann, struggles to stay alive all while harboring a dangerous secret. As her past comes to light, Jack finds himself wondering - who is she, really? As his visions of the past continue to draw him into Israel's history, Jack begins to see that both Bette and Israel are a part of God's bigger plan as well as the focus of an age-old battle - a violent and dangerous war. -- adapted from back cover




Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel


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Vital to an agrarian communitys survival, threshing floors are also depicted in the Hebrew Bible as sites for mourning rites, divination rituals, cultic processions, and sacrifices. Jaime L. Waters examines these sacred functions and the various personnel active in the use and operation of the sites and shows that they were sacred spaces connected to Yahweh, under his control and subject to his power to bless, curse, and save, providing Israel a special ritual access to Yahw




Experiencing His Presence


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Bynum offers a step-by-step guide in how to birth fervent, effective intercession according to James 5:16. This daily devotional is based on "The Threshing Floor," which reveals how to go into a deeper and more intimate relationship in the process of purification on the threshing floor of intercession, as revealed in Moses' tabernacle.




Go Tell It on the Mountain


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In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Originally published in 1953, Baldwin said of his first novel, "Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." “With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details ... [a] feverish story.” —The New York Times




Marketplace Miracles


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When the New York Times wrote a front-page account of Elk River, Minnesota’s faith-filled transformation, Rick Heeren was the city’s leader behind the scenes. Here, he shares his story and many other motivating how-to accounts of businesses, schools and communities that have put God at the center of their vision and seen miraculous turnarounds. See how one company in Minnesota planted 600 churches in the Ukraine. Discover how a real estate developer turned a foreclosed mall into a focal point that would change a city. Learn how one woman’s self-published book blossomed into a movie, and a pastor’s idea for a motion picture camera led to $200 million to make his first major film. Heeren also shares practical ideas for readers who catch his enthusiasm and passion for bringing about transformation in their own communities. After reading Heeren’s book, you’ll see why with God, nothing is impossible!




Matthew 1-13


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The Gospel of Matthew stands out as a favorite biblical text among patristic commentators, including Origen, Hilary of Poitiers, Jerome, Theodore of Heraclea, Cyril of Alexandria, John Chrysostom, Augustine, and more. In this ACCS volume, the rich abundance of patristic comment provides a feast of ancient interpretation of the First Gospel.




The Threshing Floor


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This book looks at the current issues of those who have made the choice to leave The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because of questions and concepts presented to them by the internet and social media. This book (part 1) will identify specific issues that are connected to this latter-day falling away and the perceived responsibilities of the church and priesthood leadership. The upcoming part 2 will address the specific questions that many claim to be the reasons for their loss of faith. Such as The Book of Mormon and The Book of Abraham translations, women and the priesthood, science and religion, polygamy, and past priesthood restrictions, and other questions.




The Marble Threshing Floor


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Studies in modern Greek poetry.Since its emergence as an independent nation during the 19th century Greece has produced a succession of poets of whom any country would be proud. Their poetry has behind it the majestic and awe-inspiring worlds of ancient Greece and Byzantium, as well as the centuries-old tradition of folk-song and ballad.In this book the author examines the poetry of five of Greece's major poets: Solomos, Palamas, Cavafis, Sikelianos, and Seferis.




The Threshing-Floor of Faith


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There is a movement today affecting the Latter-day Saint youth and seasoned adults causing many to fall away from the faith of their fathers. The "Threshing Floor of Faith" takes a look into the causes of this spiritual calamity that has or will affect almost every family in the Church. Often parents cannot understand why active children are choosing to leave their faith with a distrust for the Church and priesthood leaders. Many adults are also falling away disgruntled with the Church organization that was restored by revelation and the Prophet Joseph Smith. There are questions being presented and asked that seem to be unanswerable, yet, there are answers found in scripture. Part I of this book will take a look at the purpose of the Church organization and the responsibilities of the priesthood and its leaders and where the foundation of testimony should lay. "The Threshing Floor of Faith" will use the scriptures to present information and doctrine that could be used for a lasting and enduring testimony, not only in Christ but also the organization that is to administer His Gospel. Part II will address some of the questions that are causing many to turn from the faith they once embraced, using the scriptures to answer the questions. "The Threshing Floor of Faith" will address questions and present scriptural answers to topics such as: * Science and Religion; creation and scripture, * Translations of the Book of Abraham and the Book of Mormon,* Past restrictions of the Priesthood,* Polygamy,* Women and the Priesthood, * Same sex attraction, * And others.The scriptures are the best commentary on the scriptures rather than opinions, traditions and interpretations; and this book will use that standard of scripture as the foundation from which to build faith and testimony. No one reached the Tree of Life in the dream of Lehi except by the 'Iron Rod,' nevertheless; many fell away even after having partaken of the fruit. The center and foundation of all faith must be in Jesus Christ and the Atonement. "The Threshing Floor of Faith" is written for the faithful and those questioning their faith, presenting a view that connects the questions causing doubt, the organization of the Church and its Priesthood Leaders to the Atonement and Gospel of Jesus Christ.




The Elk River Story


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In the Elk River Story, Rick Heeren, along with leading pulpit and marketplace ministers of Elk River and the surrounding communities, documents the origins and tracks the emergence of a transformational movement. Elk River, Minnesota, with a population of 20,000, has been experiencing the power of God for a few years now. This began when pastors and community leaders first came together to pray, and it took off when they chose to pastor the entire city instead of just their congregations. Later it moved into high gear when the marketplace began to experience transformation, first at City Hall, and then in the schools, the police, and businesses in general.