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Book With Paul at Sea

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  • Author : Linford Stutzman
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2012-04-18
  • ISBN : 1610974255
  • Pages : 189 pages

Download or read book With Paul at Sea written by Linford Stutzman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Jesus began on and around the Sea of Galilee, Paul continued on and around the Mediterranean Sea. With Acts as the stage, the biblical narrative shifts from land to sea. Paul is the central actor in this part of the drama. Luke, the playwright, traveling with Paul on portions of his journeys, was deeply impressed by Paul's challenges and his creative engagement with both the pagans and the Jews living in the Roman Empire. In With Paul at Sea, Linford Stutzman, himself an accomplished sailor, relates key highlights of his personal experience of sailing Paul's voyages two thousand years later. Including examples of discoveries in the cities and harbors of Acts, combined with historical, archeological, and biblical evidence, Stutzman demonstrates the contribution and relevance of Paul for Christians in the twenty-first century. Portraying the modern world as a sea, the church as a ship, and a life of faith as sailing, With Paul at Sea is an invitation for today's Christians to travel with Paul.

Book Paul and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Download or read book Paul and the Dead Sea Scrolls written by Pierre Benoit and published by Crossroad Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sailing Acts

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  • Author : Linford Stutzman
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2006-10-01
  • ISBN : 168099266X
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Sailing Acts written by Linford Stutzman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who love sailing and you-are-there travel literature. Also for those who enjoy studying the life and times of the Apostle Paul. But definitely for those who love adventure, or at least reading about it! Seafaring isn't for the faint of heart. It wasn't for the Apostle Paul in the first century A.D.—shipwrecked, imprisoned, and often a stranger in foreign lands. And it turned out to be a heart-stopping task some two thousand years later, when a religion professor and his wife undertook a 14-month journey by sailboat! They stopped in eight countries, visiting every site where Paul stopped on his tumultuous missionary journeys. "Sailing Acts" traces this 21st-century voyage from Volos, Greece, to Rome, Italy, by car, by foot, by motorized scooter, but mostly on a 33-foot boat, logging more than 3600 nautical miles over two sailing seasons. "Explorers are easy to admire or despise, but very difficult to understand without going on the trip," writes Stutzman. "To really appreciate the experiences, the drama, and development of Paul the explorer, you need to sail with him." So begins Sailing Acts, inviting readers to come on board. Stutzman draws thoughtful comparisons from his own travel mishaps and adventures to the ones Paul experienced on his journeys. This book is in the tradition of Bruce Feiler's Walking the Bible. Stutzman's knowledge of the socio-political setting in the first-century Roman empire provides an informative backdrop to understanding Paul and reading his epistles in a new light. The book includes dozens of photos, maps showing the couple's travel routes, a list of all the repairs and replacements Stutzman made to the aging boat which he bought sight-unseen, and an itinerary of places they visited. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Book Buried at Sea

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  • Author : Paul Garrison
  • Publisher : Great Scott! eBooks
  • Release : 2014-10-03
  • ISBN : 1940483190
  • Pages : 780 pages

Download or read book Buried at Sea written by Paul Garrison and published by Great Scott! eBooks. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Leighton is young, fit, and hungry for excitement—and his dream of adventure is coming true, now that he's been hired as a deckhand and personal trainer to a wealthy investment banker and setting sail for Rio de Janeiro aboard the luxury yacht Hustle. But Jim's enigmatic employer is not what he seems. With all his money, charm, and seafaring tales, Will Sparks is a man who's guarding a terrifying, potentially lethal secret. And in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Sparks makes a startling announcement: They are changing course for Africa because someone is pursuing them. Someone who wants them dead. With no previous sailing experience—far from the sanctuary of land and in the company of a stranger who is possibly delusional and certainly dangerous—Jim is suddenly trapped in a harrowing race for survival across the vast waters of the globe, fleeing a faceless threat that inexplicably knows where they are and where they are going. And when destiny places him alone at the helm, Jim's options are reduced to two: sail or die, because the terror relentlessly approaching at breakneck speed will not be shaken off or deterred—nor will it rest until Hustle and Jim Leighton both lie broken and lifeless on the ocean floor.

Book Beyond the Sea

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  • Author : Paul Lynch
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2019-08-29
  • ISBN : 1786076497
  • Pages : 119 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Sea written by Paul Lynch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chosen as a Book of the Year by Sebastian Barry, Martina Devlin and Peter Cunningham Winner of the Prix Gens de Mer, 2022 Hector and Bolivar set sail from their South American fishing village on what they believe to be a routine expedition. But then a devastating storm casts them adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. With no means of contacting the outside world and no sign of rescue, their only hope lies with one another. Both men must confront the truth about themselves, and the regrets that they have spent a lifetime trying to forget, if they are to survive. Part gripping story of resilience, part fearless existential parable, Beyond the Sea is a meditation on what it means to be human, in a world that pushes us to the brink.

Book John Paul Jones

Download or read book John Paul Jones written by Joseph F Callo and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Samuel Eliot Morrison Award for Excellence in Naval Literature. This fresh look at America's first sea warrior avoids both the hero worship of the past and the recent, inaccurate deconstructionist views of John Paul Jones's astonishing life. The author goes beyond a narrow naval context to establish Jones as a key player in the American Revolution, something not done by previous biographers, and explains what drove him to his achievements. At the same time, Admiral Joseph Callo fully examines Jones's dramatic military achievements—including his improbable victory off Flamborough Head in the Continental ship Bonhomme Richard—but in the context of the times rather than as stand-alone events. The book also looks at some interesting but lesser-known aspects of Jones's naval career, including his relationships with such civilian leaders as Benjamin Franklin. How Jones handled those often-difficult dealings, Callo maintains, contributed to the nation's concept of civilian control of the military. Suggesting that Jones might well be the first U.S. apostle of sea power, the author also focuses on the fact that Jones was the first serving American naval officer who emphasized the role naval power would play in the rise of the United States as a global power. Another neglected aspect of Jones's career that gets attention and analysis is his brief tour in the Russian navy, a revealing chapter of his life that has been underreported in the two hundred years since Jones's death. Rather than looking at Jones in a rearview mirror, Callo illuminates how this unique naval hero is linked to the nation's present and future. As a result, he gives us a sea saga that tells much about our own lives and times.

Book Victory at Sea

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  • Author : Paul Kennedy
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2022-04-26
  • ISBN : 030026531X
  • Pages : 544 pages

Download or read book Victory at Sea written by Paul Kennedy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II “A brilliant and gripping book by a master historian working at the top of his powers.”—Fredrik Logevall, Harvard University “Paul Kennedy has written a classic in this sweeping narrative account of the desperate struggle to command the seas and America’s rise as a superpower during the Second World War.”—John H. Maurer, U.S. Naval War College In this engaging narrative, brought to life by marine artist Ian Marshall’s beautiful full‑color paintings, historian Paul Kennedy grapples with the rise and fall of the Great Powers during World War II. Tracking the movements of the six major navies of the Second World War—the allied navies of Britain, France, and the United States and the Axis navies of Germany, Italy, and Japan—Kennedy tells a story of naval battles, maritime campaigns, convoys, amphibious landings, and strikes from the sea. From the elimination of the Italian, German, and Japanese fleets and almost all of the French fleet, to the end of the era of the big‑gunned surface vessel, the advent of the atomic bomb, and the rise of an American economic and military power larger than anything the world had ever seen, Kennedy shows how the strategic landscape for naval affairs was completely altered between 1936 and 1946.

Book The People of the Sea

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  • Author : Paul D'Arcy
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780824829599
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book The People of the Sea written by Paul D'Arcy and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countering the dominant paradigms of recent Pacific Islands' historiography, which tend to limit understanding of the sea's importance, this volume emphasizes the flux in the maritime environment and how it instilled an expectation and openness toward outside influences and the rapidity with which cultural change could occur in relations between various Islander groups." "Students and scholars of Pacific history and environmental and cultural studies will welcome this re-evaluation of the sea's influence in Oceanic history."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Sunk Without Trace

Download or read book Sunk Without Trace written by Paul Gelder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Total Loss has been on the Adlard Coles list for 23 years, and in March this year we published a new edition in B format with a 'thriller' look. In two months it has sold 886 copies. There was a lot of unused material left over from it, plus some new total loss stories of yachts sunk, which have happened since the book went to press. I'd like to get the author working on a follow-up volume asap (he's a journalist and takes ages to deliver - deadlines etc). We'd repeat the formula: thriller look, low-priced impulse buy.

Book The Stranger from the Sea

Download or read book The Stranger from the Sea written by Paul Binding and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shipwrecked sailor disturbs the life of a journalist in a late nineteenth-century English seaside town in this reimagining of Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea. After a ferocious storm shipwrecks young Norwegian sailor Hans Lyngstrand in the English Channel near Dengate, aspiring journalist Martin Bridges takes a job at the local newspaper. When Hans moves into Martin’s boardinghouse to convalesce and Martin interviews the young sailor for the paper, it upends Martin’s otherwise uneventful world. Hans tells him of the shipwreck—and of his encounter with a vicious sailor vowing to seek revenge, who Hans believes may still be alive. So begins a complex friendship between the two young men that will cause Martin to reexamine his relationships with everyone around him. In The Stranger from the Sea, the backstories Paul Binding creates for the characters of Ibsen’s classic The Lady from the Sea unfold in tandem with the secret romances, rivalries, and heartaches of a seemingly unremarkable town. The result is a lyrical and quietly captivating novel that will mesmerize readers from its opening pages. “A sensitive depiction of youthful sexuality, the anguish of failed relationships, and the rights of women in a male-dominated world,” —TLS

Book Divine Visitations and Hospitality to Strangers in Luke Acts

Download or read book Divine Visitations and Hospitality to Strangers in Luke Acts written by Joshua W. Jipp and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents a coherent interpretation of the Malta episode by arguing that Acts 28:1-10 narrates a theoxeny, that is, an account of unknowing hospitality to a god which results in the establishment of a fictive kinship relationship between the Maltese barbarians and Paul and his God. In light of the connection between hospitality and piety to the gods in the ancient Mediterranean, Luke ends his second volume in this manner to portray Gentile hospitality as the appropriate response to Paul’s message of God’s salvation -- a response that portrays them as hospitable exemplars within the Lukan narrative and contrasts them with the Roman Jews who reject Paul and his message.

Book Paul on Trial

    Book Details:
  • Author : John W. Mauck
  • Publisher : Thomas Nelson
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780785245988
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Paul on Trial written by John W. Mauck and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JOHN W. MAUCK provides an exciting new way of understanding the Book of Acts. With great skill and powerful arguments, the author contends that Acts was written primarily to defend Paul for his forthcoming trial in Rome. After reading Mauck's volume, the read we will not only gain a fuller understanding of Acts, but also obtain rock-solid arguments for defending Christianity and understanding its Jewish roots. What's Inside: A fresh study of Acts as a legal "brief" Insights gained from understanding of Roman law Numerous Charts that outline Luke's "argument" Recorded speeches viewed as "witness testimony" A section-by-section review of all of Acts A powerful apologetic defending the claims of Christianity Endorsements: "The book is a terrific addition to any lawyer's library. It makes the Book of Acts come alive with new and useful insights." -- Samuel B. Casey, Executive Director, Christian Legal Society "It makes a constructive, fresh, and fascinating contribution to the understanding of Acts." -- Dr. Donald Hagner, Author of Matthew in WBC, Fuller Theological Seminary

Book The Lost Shipwreck of Paul

Download or read book The Lost Shipwreck of Paul written by Robert Cornuke and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's story of his search for the archaeological remains of the anchors of the shipwreck of Saint Paul. In the process he attempts to establish the historicity of the Biblical Book of Acts.

Book Killing Icarus

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  • Author : Paul Kemprecos
  • Publisher : Suspense Publishing
  • Release : 2021-07-13
  • ISBN : 9780578876818
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Killing Icarus written by Paul Kemprecos and published by Suspense Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 NYTs bestseller, Paul Kemprecos: For art historian Abi Vickers, the windswept cottage overlooking Cape Cod Bay is the ideal refuge until she discovers a WWII secret in an Edward Hopper sketch, unleashing dangerous forces.

Book Do You Know Where Sea Turtles Go

Download or read book Do You Know Where Sea Turtles Go written by Paul Lowery and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book God Loves Me

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  • Author : Patricia L. Nederveld
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998-10
  • ISBN : 9781562123673
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book God Loves Me written by Patricia L. Nederveld and published by . This book was released on 1998-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These beautifully illustrated storybooks serve as building blocks to help children learn that God loves them. Two- and three-year-old children can respond to the stories through follow-up play activities at the end of each book.The Bible in 52 storybooks Each story is beautifully illustrated, simply told, and accompanied by activity ideas to help children respond. Available individually or as a set.Children will learn about God's wonderful creation and people like Abraham, Hannah, David, Simeon, Anna, Peter, and Paul -- and all the wonderful stories in between. Includes a sleeve for convenient storage

Book Sea Shepherd

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Watson
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton
  • Release : 1981-11
  • ISBN : 9780393335804
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Sea Shepherd written by Paul Watson and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1981-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of British Columbia conservationist who is determined to stop the hunting of seals and whales, and used his own boat, Sea Shepherd, to do so.