The Exegetical Study Guide Series


Book Description

Do you have a desire to know the "on-the-ground" facts concerning the validity of the New Testament? Have you ever wanted to know what the original languages were and what they said, and to stop relying upon one published translation after another, without studying the languages? Want a different kind of New Testament commentary that is not boring and will excite you to understand how and why the New Testament came to be? Need Solid proof of the validity of the New Testament and the statements of the Messiah? Desire a ground-breaking work that will unite the pages of history with the pages of the Bible? "The Exegetical Study Guide Series" by A. T. Steele will provide the reader with understandable, yet technical, access to the original language without having ever taken one course to do so. Far from being a surface-level study, this book will draw the reader into the richness and depth of the New Covenant concept, rife with life-applications. Prepare to understand the original New Testament content as it was intended to be understood by its original authors. It is a beginner's guide to deeper New Testament study as well as a long-awaited work for the bible student, and can be utilized in personal and group studies, collegiate pursuits and as a reference for research. Steele's methods of explaining the original Greek of the New Testament and demonstrating how it is translated is a careful crafted and designed for the average reader, and is positively unlike anything else found on the subject. The reader will assuredly walk away from the book with a new outlook on how the New Testament came to be, and how history was awakened in the first-century. This book should be in the hands of any serious student of biblical exegesis, and every serious Christian who is on the path of real discipleship.




The Prayer Book Guide to Christian Education, Third Edition


Book Description

While this one-volume guide is especially useful for Christian educators, showing them how to teach week by week according to the ethos and tradition of the Episcopal Church, it also provides a valuable and useful reference tool for all church leaders and members in connecting Christian faith to daily life. This new guide to Christian education and formation is based on the Book of Common Prayer, the cornerstone of Anglican liturgy and theology. Keyed to the Revised Common Lectionary, all activities and lessons are structured on the seasons and lessons for Years A, B, and C. The guide stresses the major themes of baptismal theology and shows how teachers, parents, and children can live the liturgical cycle in Christian formation ministries at church and at home.




The A to Z Guide to Finding It in the Bible


Book Description

This practical, applicable, and easy-to-use reference tool offers an "at your fingertips" guide to key Scripture references, Bible stories, and verses that relate to topics like -anger -controversy -employment -going green -happiness -leadership -money -relaxation -sex -worship Even topics off the beaten path, such as UFOs, pistachios, and insomnia are covered. An excellent resource for pastors, speakers, and writers, this collection is produced by Livingstone, whose products have won 11 ECPA Gold Medallion awards.




The Complete Guide to Book Publicity


Book Description

Written by one of the country's leading publicists, this is an authoritative, in-depth guide to the unique form of publicity needed to successfully launch a book. Step by step, readers are coached through the stages of a book's publicity lifecycle. The nuts and bolts of book promotion are covered for fiction, nonfiction, hardcover trade, mass market, and trade paperbacks. A thorough "publicity toolbox" of sample press kits.




The Complete Plant Selection Guide for Landscape Design


Book Description

This book is a quick and easy-to-use reference guide for choosing plant material for landscape designs. This reference manual includes comprehensive lists with search criteria for each of the major plant groups, including trees, shrubs, groundcovers, perennials, vines, grasses, and ferns. These plant groups contain hundreds of specific species, varieties, and cultivars that are readily available in the marketplace from the major production nurseries. Landscape architects, designers, contractors, or anyone who designs with plants, can easily choose plants that will work on their site. The book is technical enough for the professional, yet simple enough to be used by the layperson. Both botanical and common names are used and an extensive amount of cultural and environmental information is presented. While many other books of this kind give only basic information such as sun/shade, height/width, there are so many as 30 specific categories for each plant group. The categories cover such important criteria as light and soil requirements, zone hardiness, height and width, pest and disease susceptibility, urban tolerance, and tolerance to salt and drought. The lists also include many criteria often overlooked such as growth rates, overall messiness, root systems, minimal fall clean up, maintenance levels, soil PH and landscape value/use, and many visual characteristics such as texture, foliage color and fall colors, bloom colors and seasons, shapes and forms, attractive bark and foliage and more. There is also a candid Pros & Cons section covering some realistic considerations for each of the plant species groups.