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Are Mormons Christians? What do they believe? How do their beliefs compare with other Christian religions? I have been impressed by the dedication of Mormon missionaries, the beauty of the Mormon Tablernacle Choir and the majestic architecture of Mormon temples. I have known several Mormons and they seem to be family oriented people who live out their faith in tangilble ways. As American culture drifts towards situation ethics and values based on surveys, Mormons are like other Christians in that they tend to be conservative and look to their Church and Scriptures for guidance. This interest and curiosity led me to study Mormon scriptures and compare them with the Bible. Each chapter of Trut...
A deluge of rain and a strange hitchhiker combine to transport martial arts champion Noah King on a bizarre course to an alternate world. Days whiz by in a fraction of a second when he enters a mysterious fog. His passenger, Sylv, is not what she seems. She admits to being a Tabizi, the instigator of his fog-encased journey to World 5. She has chosen him to intervene in the anarchy of a split world two hundred years in the future. Time reversal fails, and Sylv is stranded with Noah. She deserts him in the forest, and becomes known as Dark Seeress. Noah discovers he must fight the anarchist leader in blood sport to survive. After he defeats his opponent, an influential dwarf proclaims him the new king. Captive women flee to the forest, where Sylv declares all women are under her protection. Noah learns this world was split by quakes and volcanic action that left a 100 meter high Great Wall circling the globe. Cannibals roam the Wasteland on one side, preying on refugees. War is imperative to keep the savages out of Noah's lush green kingdom, but Sylv refuses to ally herself and the other women with his forces.
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This volume of the New Testament Library offers a thorough and careful commentary on the complicated book of Hebrews, showing its meaning within the context of ancient culture and the theological development of the early church. Written by one of the leading New Testament scholars of the present generation, this commentary offers remarkable insights into the Hellenistic, Roman, and Jewish contexts of the book of Hebrews. The New Testament Library offers authoritative commentary on every book and major aspect of the New Testament, as well as classic volumes of scholarship. The commentaries in this series provide fresh translations based on the best available ancient manuscripts, offer critical portrayals of the historical world in which the books were created, pay careful attention to their literary design, and present a theologically perceptive exposition of the text.
GRIEF IS LIKE THIS . . . Falling in love with your best friend, only to lose her to a mysterious death. Working for decades to achieve a dream, and just when it’s within reach, watching it threaten to go up in flames. Longing for your deceased father to celebrate with you when your first novel sells. Spending the first sleepless months in the throes of new motherhood alone, as your husband struggles to save his career. Befriending the woman who should be your enemy, because you are that lonely . . . Annie, Jesse, Noah, and Juliette are tied together by their experiences of grief; they are separated by their own versions of the truth of what happened on a single night twelve years ago, when Juliette, a college freshman grieving her mother, and Noah, a high school senior fighting for a place in a world that told him he didn’t matter, found each other. Spanning decades, this complex, captivating story pulls back the curtains of cancel culture to explore ambition, empathy, art, desire, consent, motherhood, and what it really means to lose everything. “I will be thinking about this book for a long time.” —Sally Hepworth, author of Darling Girls
Greek tycoon Dmitri Karegas tries to help Jasmine Douglas, only to discover that Jasmine's hatred for him conceals a still-simmering chemistry between them.
Drawing from the Bible, the Pseudepigrapha, the Talmud and Midrash, the kabbalistic literature, medieval folklore, Hasidic texts, and oral lore collected in the modern era, Schwartz has gathered together nearly 700 of the key Jewish myths. For each myth, he includes extensive commentary, revealing the source of the myth and explaining how it relates to other Jewish myths as well as to world literature --from publisher description