Download or read book On the Bank of the Kebar River written by James L Crawford and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what the man was like who wrote the book of Ezekiel? What was it like for those exiled to Babylon in the 6th Century BC? On the Banks of the Kebar River imaginatively follows the life of the exiled priest turned prophet, Ezekiel. Called to be a prophet on his 30th birthday, he spent his life warning the remnant in Babylon and those left in Jerusalem of the coming destruction to their Holy City. Ezekiel has been recognized as the prophet to the exiles, and the prophet of renewal. Dr. Crawford brings you alongside Ezekiel, and paints the picture that prophets were real men, with lives and trials of their own. This is the third historic fictional book he has written about the major prophets. They draw from archaeology, historical accounts, the Bible, and the author's imagination to paint a picture and fill in these men's lives. The others include The Almond Branch and the Boiling Cauldron, about the life of Jeremiah and A Crumbling Society, about Isaiah, Counselor to the Kings.
Download or read book The Omega Prophecy written by David Paul and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Paul follows in the tradition of spiritual thrillers pioneered by Charles Williams (War in Heaven) and Frank Peretti (This Present Darkness), and blends the realm of angels and demons with 21st century bio-warfare. The action is compelling and the stakes go beyond the world: souls hang in a delicate balance between heaven and hell. It takes great discipline on the part of the reader to set this book down at night and go to bed. As observed by Professor Emeritus Francis C. Rossow of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis MO, “If you like the novels of Stephen King, Frank Peretti, J.R.R.Tolkien, and C.S. Lewis then Plague of Terror is the book for you." "If you like the novels of Stephen King, Frank Peretti, J.R.R. Tolkien, and C.S. Lewis then Plague of Terror is the book for you." Francis C. Rossow, Professor Emeritus, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri. "Plague of Terror is one of those books that grabs you." Michael J. Chapman, author and national lecturer on public education and revisionist history.
Download or read book By the Rivers of Babylon written by Michael D. O'Brien and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the Rivers of Babylon presents the early life of the prophet Ezekiel, from his childhood to his service in the Temple to the Babylonian Captivity, where he was enslaved among the exiles along the River Chebar. Ezekiel, a bricklayer, is simple and timid. He is not yet a priest, and his visions have not yet begun. He stands in the midst of the Jewish exiles as they struggle to build a town of their own, to remain faithful to God's covenant without the Temple, and to discern the various forces that threaten to divide them and erode their faith. All of these experiences flow like streams into Ezekiel's later mission to rally his people from inner destruction. What makes a prophet? Why was this man chosen? Michael O'Brien offers an intimate glimpse into the mind and heart of a visionary.
Download or read book Daniel written by Wendy L. Widder and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new commentary for today's world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible's grand story. The first commentary series to do so, SGBC offers a clear and compelling exposition of biblical texts, guiding everyday readers in how to creatively and faithfully live out the Bible in their own contexts. Its story-centric approach is ideal for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and laypeople alike. Each volume employs three main, easy-to-use sections designed to help readers live out God's story: LISTEN to the Story: Includes complete NIV text with references to other texts at work in each passage, encouraging the reader to hear it within the Bible's grand story. EXPLAIN the Story: Explores and illuminates each text as embedded in its canonical and historical setting. LIVE the Story: Reflects on how each text can be lived today and includes contemporary stories and illustrations to aid preachers, teachers, and students. —Daniel— The book of Daniel is often read for its contribution to our understanding of end-times events, but sometimes Christians have been so obsessed with this that we have missed its main message: God is in control, no matter how things look, and his kingdom will one day fill the earth. Edited by Scot McKnight and Tremper Longman III, and written by a number of top-notch theologians, The Story of God Bible Commentary series will bring relevant, balanced, and clear-minded theological insight to any biblical education or ministry.
Download or read book Fortress Commentary on the Bible written by Matthew J. M. Coomber and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 2761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fortress Commentary on the Bible: Old Testament and Apocrypha presents a balanced synthesis of current scholarship, enabling readers to interpret Scripture for a complex and pluralistic world. The contributors bring a rich diversity of perspectives to the task of connecting solid historical critical analysis of the Scripture with sensitivity to theological, cultural, and interpretive issues arising in our encounter with the text. The contributors represent a broad array of theological commitmentProtestants, Catholics, Jews, and others. The introductory articles and section introductions in the volume discuss the dramatic challenges that have shaped contemporary interpretation of the Old Testament and Apocrypha. Individual book articles provide an introduction and commentary on key sense units that are explored through the lenses of three critical questions: The text in its ancient context. What did the text probably mean in its original historical and cultural context? The text in the interpretive tradition. How have centuries of reading and interpreting shaped our understanding of the text? The text in contemporary discussion. What are the unique challenges and interpretive questions that arise for readers and hearers of the text today? The result is a commentary that is comprehensive and useful for preaching, teaching, and research.
Download or read book Garden of the Soul written by Mark Mah and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of Jesus, placed in the context of the familiar and factual, are filled with metaphors that audiences can understand and appreciate. Metaphors not only inform and persuade, but also fire up readers' imaginations and get them involved as participants. Humans are primed to think and feel metaphorically, and so Garden of the Soul aims to metaphorically explore five landscapes that feature prominently in the Bible. Each metaphorical landscape throws light on an aspect of spiritual life. The bountiful garden speaks of growth, the flowing river calls for unceasing prayer, the raging sea mirrors the turbulence of a journey of faith, the barren desert transforms by emptying life's clutter, and the high mountain challenges readers to scale its peak to glimpse a transcendent vision of God. This book will inform, enrich, and challenge readers' spiritual lives throughout their journey from garden to mountain.
Download or read book The True Worship Song Is Withdrawn from the Bank Account of Adversity written by Gideon Cebekhulu and published by Partridge Africa. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main purpose of this book is to start a conversation with a reader so that together we can search the MAN that God Created in his Image and after his Likeness. If we are lazy to search, we can simply call this Man Adam and we move on with the reading of the Bible. I think if we can go deeper than that, maybe we can find out that this Man is my Heart which is both Male ( Lord Jehova/ my Husband/ the Bridegroom/Heaven) and the Female which is my Heart ( Israel/ Wife/ Bride of the Lamb etc). Male and Female created he them If I believe this is true, I think it will help me to understand the Bible even better by removing the parables. This will also help me to know that the Bible is talking to me right now and it is not a story that took place somewhere. I think we all know that the Bible is spiritual and therefore it talks to my Heart/ my Soul and I know her as Gideon. My Heart is both Male + Female hence we talk about the marriage with the Lamb and my heart is the bride in this case. To try and explain myself, I would say : The Parable of the Ten Virgins will be : The Bridegroom will be Lord Jesus Christ and Ten Virgins will be my Heart ( 1 side with faith & other without.)
Download or read book Glory In Our Midst written by Meredith G. Kline and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2001-03-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Nostalgic Trip Into the History of the Jews of Iraq written by Yūsuf Rizq Allāh Ghanīmah and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing the Garden of Eden in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, the author (a Christian Assyrian educated in Jewish schools) presents a brief history of Iraqi Jews from Adam and Eve to 1924, summarizing the works of scholars and archaeological findings. The book was translated from the original Arabic work, Also included is an essay updating the history to 1997. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Essential Writings of Meredith G Kline written by Meredith G. Kline and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scholarship of Meredith G. Kline (1922–2007) was characterized by a very high view of Scripture, a strong commitment to a Reformed view of biblical theology (centered on covenant), explication of the coherence of the Old and New Testaments, and, most of all, a desire to focus the attention of both scholars and lay Christians on the centrality of Christ’s redemptive work of justifying his people and imbuing them with his perfect righteousness. Kline’s writings are often quite creative and full of fresh insights, thoroughly intellectual but also pastoral, and they have provided many with the exciting, energizing feeling that they are reading and understanding the biblical text—and how Scripture in its entirety hangs together—for the first time. Essential Writings of Meredith G. Kline presents sixteen articles that Meredith G. Kline wrote over a period of forty years. The articles display the unique, creative, and Christocentric way in which Kline interpreted the entire Bible. They cover a range of topics, thereby providing a good overview of Kline’s scholarship. Topics include covenant, law, and the state; faith, the gospel, and justification; redemption; and resurrection and the consummation. Pastors and scholars, especially those in the Reformed community, will be delighted by the fresh insights and wisdom, and sometimes paradigm-changing perspectives, found in the pages of this book. Meredith G. Kline (1922–2007) was a professor of Old Testament for fifty-five years, teaching at four seminaries: Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary in California. He was also an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
Download or read book Song of Exile written by David W. Stowe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oft-referenced and frequently set to music, Psalm 137 - which begins "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion" - has become something of a cultural touchstone for music and Christianity across the Atlantic world. It has been a top single more than once in the 20th century, from Don McLean's haunting Anglo-American folk cover to Boney M's West Indian disco mix. In Song of Exile, David Stowe uses a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach that combines personal interviews, historical overview, and textual analysis to demonstrate the psalm's enduring place in popular culture. The line that begins Psalm 137 - one of the most lyrical of the Hebrew Bible - has been used since its genesis to evoke the grief and protest of exiled, displaced, or marginalized communities. Despite the psalm's popularity, little has been written about its reception during the more than 2,500 years since the Babylonian exile. Stowe locates its use in the American Revolution and the Civil Rights movement, and internationally by anti-colonial Jamaican Rastafari and immigrants from Ireland, Korea, and Cuba. He studies musical references ranging from the Melodians' Rivers of Babylon to the score in Kazakh film Tulpan. Stowe concludes by exploring the presence and absence in modern culture of the often-ignored final words: "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." Usually excised from liturgy and forgotten by scholars, Stowe finds these words echoed in modern occurrences of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and more generally in the culture of vengeance that has existed in North America from the earliest conflicts with Native Americans. Based on numerous interviews with musicians, theologians, and writers, Stowe reconstructs the rich and varied reception history of this widely used, yet mysterious, text.
Download or read book Life and Witness of Ezekiel written by Larry R. Helyer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one make sense of a bizarre prophet like Ezekiel with his shocking symbolic actions and out-of-this-world visionary experiences? Not without patient exegesis and considerable humility. But the effort is worth it because this choice servant of Yahweh has an enduring message that leaves an imprint on the teaching of the great Servant of the Lord, Jesus of Nazareth. This book, intended for the general reader, is not a commentary proper but a portal into the wild and wonderful world of this priest-prophet, the third voice of a prophetic trio, the so-called "major prophets" (Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel). The author demonstrates an underlying theological unity that links Ezekiel with not only his fellow prophets, especially his contemporary Jeremiah, but also the entire canon of Scripture. The author wants readers to grasp the essential burden of Ezekiel's book, namely, to hope in the God of all comfort and hope because he will raise his people from their graves! And not only will the holy God restore his people to holiness and righteousness, he will dwell with them forever. That hope is the mainstay for God's people yesterday, today, and forever.
Download or read book The English Cyclopaedia written by Charles Knight and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The English Cyclopaedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God at Sinai written by Jeffrey Jay Niehaus and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1995 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theophanies, or manifestations of God, occur throughout the Old Testament. In this in-depth look at God's self-manifestations, Niehaus reveals their unity and how they relate to and differ from ancient Near Eastern myths and legends. *Lightning Print On Demand Title
Download or read book The English Cyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Time for Everything written by Karl Ove Knausgaard and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2009-11-20 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spellbinding pursuit of divine mysteries from the celebrated author of My Struggle “The writing glows with an intense awareness of the here and now, and loving observations of landscapes and objects . . . an extraordinary novel, and completely original.” —The Independent In the sixteenth century, Antinous Bellori, a boy of eleven, is lost in a dark forest and stumbles upon two glowing beings—one carrying a spear, the other a flaming torch. This event is decisive in Bellori’s life, and he thereafter devotes himself to the pursuit and study of angels, the intermediaries of the divine. Stretching from the Garden of Eden to the present, A Time for Everything reimagines key allegorical encounters between humans and angels: the glow of the cherubim watching over Eden; the profound love between Cain and Abel despite their differences; Lot’s shame in Sodom; Noah’s isolation before the flood; Ezekiel tied to his bed, prophesying ferociously; the death of Christ; and the emergence of sensual, mischievous cherubs in the seventeenth century. Alighting upon these dramatic scenes—from the Bible and beyond--Knausgaard’s imagination takes flight. The result is a dazzling display of storytelling at its majestic, spellbinding best. Incorporating and challenging tradition, legend, and the Apocrypha, these penetrating glimpses hazard chilling questions: can the nature of the divine undergo change, and can the immortal perish?
