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The Baxters devotional [large print] : 30 timeless truths from your favorite fictional family / by Kingsbury, Karen,author(CARDINAL)341094;

The history of the Baxter Family: a note from Karen Kingsbury -- How to read this devotional -- SEASON I: BAXTER BOOK: REDEMPTION: Testing makes us stronger -- Don't walk through hard times alone -- Double-minded doesn't work -- When you're lost, look up -- Even when your heart is breaking -- Forgive as God forgave you -- Take the right path -- Peacemakers are thankful -- Words hold the power of life and death -- Imitate God's kindness -- SEASON 2: BAXTER BOOK: REMEMBER: Think of others better than yourself -- Today's love is tomorrow's memory -- This too shall pass -- Know when it's time to turn the page -- God is not the reason...He is the rescue -- God wants to hear from you -- Be willing to start again -- When you're broken, turn to Jesus -- SEASON 3: BAXTER BOOK: RETURN: Trust God's purpose for your life -- Make things right sooner than later -- Ask God for wisdom -- God waits for you at the end of your rope -- When wrong seems right -- Compassion over judgment -- God is in the hills and valleys -- Don't give up on the people you love -- The Lord is a refuge -- Look for divine appointments -- Forgive...and then forgive again -- All things new -- Letter to the Reader."From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury, whose 25 million copies sold include numerous books about the popular Baxter family, comes a thirty-day devotional to help readers find the life-giving hope and deeper faith of the Baxter family. With the massive success of The Baxters TV show on Amazon Prime Video, Karen Kingsbury heard from tens of thousands of readers who wanted more regarding the faith of everyone's favorite fictional family. Finally, it became clear that there was a piece missing from the Baxter family saga. This is that missing piece. The Baxters Devotional. In this book, not only will you find the list of Bible verses that start each TV episode, but through those verses, you will also go deeper into the trials and triumphs that face the Baxters. This devotional can be shared with a group, but it will also be powerful in a personal setting. Because it is in quiet moments that we find some of our greatest growth. These thirty devotions include questions, writing prompts, and numerous Scriptures for a deeper biblical exploration. Karen has also added stories from her own life and faith as a part of each reading. Even if you have not read the Baxter books or watched The Baxters on Amazon, you will gain much from this devotional. However, if you want to know more, pick up the first book in the Redemption Series - Redemption - or watch The Baxters TV show on Amazon Prime Video. The Baxters Devotional will certainly deepen your spiritual understanding about the issues we face today. It is the perfect book for a new year, a new you, and a fresh start!"--

Subjects: Devotional literature.; Large print books.; Devotional literature, American.; Kingsbury, Karen.; Baxters (Television program); Christian life; Women;

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The wit and wisdom of the Talmud : proverbs, sayings, and parables for the ages / by Lankevich, George J.,1939-(CARDINAL)148090;

Subjects: Quotations.; Talmud; Proverbs, Jewish; Parables in rabbinical literature.;

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Daily devotions inspired by 90 minutes in heaven [large print] : 90 readings for hope and healing / by Piper, Don,1950-(CARDINAL)468310; Murphey, Cecil.;

Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Devotional literature.; Large print books.; Meditations.; Hope;

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Prejudices / by Mencken, H. L.(Henry Louis),1880-1956.(CARDINAL)151465;

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.[v. 1.] First, second, and third series -- [v. 2.] Fourth, fifth, and sixth series.First series. Criticism of criticism of criticism -- The late Mr. Wells -- Arnold Bennett -- The dean -- Professor Veblen -- The new poetry movement -- The heir of Mark Twain -- Hermann Sudermann -- George Ade -- The Butte Bashkirtseff -- Six members of the Institute : The Boudoir Balzac ; A stranger on Parnassus ; A merchant of mush ; The last of the Victorians ; A bad novelist ; A Broadway Brandes -- The genealogy of etiquette -- The American Magazine -- The Ulster Polonius -- The unheeded law-giver -- The blushful mystery : Sex hygiene ; Art and sex ; A loss to romance ; Sex on the stage -- George Jean Nathan -- Portrait of an immortal soul -- Jack London -- Among the avatars -- Three American immortals : Aristotelean obsequies ; Edgar Allan Poe ; Memorial service. Second series. The National letters : Prophets and their visions ; The answering fact ; The Ashes of New England ; The ferment underground ; In the literary abattoir ; Underlying causes ; The lonesome artist ; The cultural background ; Under the campus pump ; The intolerable burden ; Epilogue -- Roosevelt : an autopsy -- The Sahara of the Bozart -- The Divine Afflatus -- Scientific examination of a popular virtue -- Exeunt Omnes -- The allied arts : On music-lovers ; Opera ; The music of to-morrow ; Tempo di Valse ; The Puritan as artist ; The human face ; The cerebral mime -- The cult of hope -- The dry millennium : The Holy War ; The lure of Babylon ; Cupid and well-water ; The triumph of idealism -- Appendix on a tender theme : The nature of love ; The incomparable buzzsaw ; Women as spectacles ; Woman and the artist ; Martyrs ; The burnt child ; The supreme comedy ; A hidden cause ; Bad workmanship. Third series. On being an American -- Huneker : a memory -- Footnote on criticism -- Das Kapital -- Ad Imaginem Dei Creavit Illum : The life of man ; The anthropomorphic delusion ; Meditation on meditation ; Man and his soul ; Coda -- Star-spangled men -- The poet and his art -- Five men at random : Abraham Lincoln ; Paul Elmer More ; Madison Cawein ; Frank Harris ; Havelock Ellis -- The nature of liberty -- The novel -- The forward-looker -- Memorial service -- Education -- Types of men : The romantic ; The skeptic ; The believer ; The worker ; The physician ; The scientist ; The business man ; The king ; The average man ; The truth-seeker ; The pacifist ; The relative ; The friend -- The dismal science -- Matters of state : Le Contrat Social ; On minorities -- Reflections on the drama -- Advice to young men : To him that hath ; The venerable examined ; Duty ; Martyrs ; The disabled veteran ; Patriotism -- Suite Américaine : Aspiration ; Virtue ; Eminence -- Appendix: from My life as author and editor.Fourth series. The American tradition -- The husbandman -- High and ghostly matters : The cosmic secretariat ; The nature of faith ; The devotee ; The restoration of beauty ; End-product ; Another ; Holy clerks -- Justice under democracy -- Reflections on human monogamy : The eternal farce ; Venus at the domestic hearth ; The rat-trap ; The love chase ; Women as realpolitiker ; Footnote for suffragettes ; The helpmate ; The mime ; Cavia Cobaya ; The survivor ; The veteran's disaster ; Moral indignation ; The man and his shadow ; The balance-sheet ; Yearning -- The politician -- From a critic's notebook : Progress ; The iconoclast ; The artists' model ; The good citizen as artist ; Definitive judgments -- Totentanz -- Meditations in the Methodist desert : The new Galahad ; Optimist vs. Optimist ; Caveat for the defense ; Portrait of an ideal world -- Essay in constructive criticism -- On the nature of man : The animal that thinks ; Veritas Odium Parit ; The eternal cripple ; The test ; National characters ; The goal ; Psychology at 5 A.M. ; The reward ; The altruist ; The man of honor -- Bugaboo -- On government -- Toward a realistic aesthetic : The nature of art ; The one-legged art ; Symbiosis and the artist -- Contributions to the study of vulgar psychology : The downfall of the Navy ; The mind of the slave ; The art eternal -- The American novel -- People and things : The capital of a great republic ; Ambassadors of Christ ; Bilder aus schöner Zeit ; The high seas ; The Shrine of Mnemosyne. Fifth series. Four moral causes : Birth control ; Comstockery ; Capital punishment ; War -- Four makers of tales : Conrad ; Hergesheimer ; Lardner ; Masters -- In memoriam : W.J.B. -- The hills of Zion -- Beethoven -- Rondo on an ancient theme -- Protestantism in the Republic -- From the files of a book reviewer : Counter-offensive ; Heretics ; The grove of academe ; The schoolma'm's goal ; The heroic age ; The woes of a 100% American ; Yazoo's favorite ; The father of service ; A modern masterpiece ; Sweet stuff -- The fringes of lovely letters : Authorship as a trade ; Authors as persons ; Birth pangs ; Want ad ; Literature and the schoolma'am ; The critic and his job ; Painting and its critics ; Greenwich Village -- Essay in pedagogy -- On living in Baltimore -- The last New Englander -- The nation -- Officers and gentlemen -- Golden age -- Edgar Saltus -- Miscellaneous notes : Martyrs ; The ancients ; Jack Ketch as eugenist ; Heroes ; An historic blunder ; On cynicism ; Music and sin ; The champion ; Honor in America ; Notes in the margin of a treatise on psychology ; Definition -- Catechism. Sixth series. Journalism in America -- From the memoirs of a subject of the United States : Government by bounder ; Constructive proposal ; The nature of government ; Freudian footnote ; Bach to Bach! -- The human mind : On metaphysicians ; On suicide ; On controversy ; On faith -- Clarion call to poets -- Souvenirs of a book reviewer : The Emperor of Wowsers ; Thwacks from the motherland ; The powers of the air ; To the glory of an artist ; God help the South! ; The immortal Democrat ; Fides Ante Intellectum ; Speech day in the Greisenheim ; Professors of English -- Five little excursions : Brahms ; Johann Strauss ; Poetry in America ; Victualry as a fine art ; The libido for the ugly -- Hymn to the truth -- The pedagogy of sex -- Metropolis -- Dives into quackery : Chiropractic ; Criminology ; Eugenics -- Life under bureaucracy -- In the rolling mills -- Ambrose Bierce -- The executive secretary -- Invitation to the dance -- Aubade -- Appendix from Moronia : Note on technic ; Interlude in the Socratic manner ; Valentino.These essays, first published between 1919 and 1927, ushered in a new cosmopolitanism and skepticism in twentieth-century America. Taking on all aspects of the conformism and provincial narrowness of the American worldview that he saw, Mencken launched himself at a wide variety of targets with his usual humor and richness.

Subjects: Essays.; American essays; American literature; Literature;

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A treasury of African folklore : the oral literature, traditions, myths, legends, epics, tales, recollections, wisdom, sayings, and humor of Africa / by Courlander, Harold,1908-1996.(CARDINAL)124867;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-608) and index. The wall of millet (Togo) -- Dahomey, the kingdom built in Da's belly -- The gods of Dahomey, their exploits -- To each is given his dominion (Fon) -- The rule of sky and earth delimited (Fon) -- Sogbo becomes master of the universe (Fon) -- Sagbata's control of Earth stabilized (Fon) -- Sun god brings iron to man (Fon) -- Serpent as headrest for an overburdened Earth (Fon) -- The people who descended from the sky (Fon) -- Origin of the people of the Agblo quarter (Fon) -- How Legba became chief of the gods (Fon) -- Exploits of the Aladahonu dynasty (Fon) -- Origin of the royal sib (Fon) -- How the Aladahonu kings came to rule Abomey (Fon) -- The king and the nago (Fon) -- How Behanzin fought against the whites (Fon) -- Seeking poverty (Fon) -- Two Dahomean songs for the dead -- Some Dahomean riddles -- Some Dahomean proverbs -- The Yoruba -- Deeds and adventures of the Yoruba gods -- The descent from the sky (Yoruba) -- Iron is received from Ogun (Yoruba) -- Oranmiyan, the warrior hero of Ife (Yoruba) -- Orunmila's visit to Owo (Yoruba) -- Shango and the medicine of Eshu (Yoruba) -- Obatala's visit to Shango (Yoruba) -- How Shango departed from Oyo (Yoruba) -- Yoruba warriors, kings and heroes -- Ogbe Baba Akinyelure, warrior of Ibode (Yoruba) -- The burning of the elekute grove (Yoruba) -- Ogedengbe's drummers (Yoruba) -- Olomu's bush rat (Yoruba) -- The Yoruba trickster, Ijapa -- How Ijapa, who was short, became long (Yoruba) -- Ijapa cries for his horse (Yoruba) -- Ijapa and the oba repair a roof (Yoruba) -- Ijapa and Yanrinbo swear an oath (Yoruba) -- Ijapa and the hot-water test (Yoruba) -- Ijapa goes to the Osanyin shrine (Yoruba) -- Ijapa in Yoruba proverbs -- The worship of twins among the Yoruba -- How twins came among the Yoruba -- Two tales from Benin -- Igioromi (Bini) -- Ozolua and Izevbokun (Bini) -- How bronze castings were made at Benin.Man in Africa and his literature -- The ancient Soninke and Fulbe epics -- Gassire's lute (Soninke) -- The rediscovery of Wagadu (Soninke) -- The fight with the bida dragon (Soninke) -- Samba gana (Soninke) -- The blue blood (Fulbe) -- The valiant goroo-ba-dicko (Fulbe) -- Sayings of the Fulbe -- The messenger to Maftam (Soninke) -- Kanem-Bornu -- The two traders (Kanuri) -- The sau hunter (Kanuri) -- A chronology of kings and migrations in Kanem-Bornu -- How the Kanuri mark the time of the day -- The Hausa, an account of their origin -- Hausa religious poetry -- Seidu the brave (Hausa) -- Life and death (Hausa) -- The son of the hunter (Hausa) -- The friend and the lion (Hausa) -- Two Gizo tales -- The spider and the crows (Hausa) -- Spider deals with the famine (Hausa) -- Some Hausa proverbs and sayings -- Four tales of the impossible -- Contest at the baobab tree (Hausa) -- Three friends cross the water (Hausa) -- The strong one (Mende) -- Three fast men (Mende) -- Lion of Manding (Wolof) -- The king of Sedo (Wolof) -- The song of Gimmile (Gindo).Myths and legends of the Mensa Bet-Abrehe -- Creation and death (Mensa) -- The Rom, a race of giants (Mensa) -- How the giants disappeared (Mensa) -- Certain years as they are remembered in Mensa Bet-Abrehe tradition -- Philosophical and proverbial sayings of the Mensa, and the tales from which they derived -- The two donkey owners (Mensa) -- The prophet and the hyena (Mensa) -- The proverb of Adeg Wad Fedel (Mensa) -- God's gift to children (Mensa) -- A proverb made by the Ad Takles people -- The leopard in his old age (Mensa) -- The debbi (Mensa) -- The descent of Mount Gadam (Mensa) -- Dannas and his slave (Mensa) -- The heway snake (Mensa) -- The poison of the chameleon (Mensa) -- The tail of the wolf (Mensa) -- Historical recollections of the Mensa -- The fight at Balqat (Mensa) -- The battle of Sangera (Mensa) -- Kantebay Sallim and Ali Wad Mao (Mensa) -- How the game of fersit is played -- Three laments of the Mensa Bet-Abrehe -- The Somali and Swahili -- Ogge Ben Onogh (Somali) -- The battle of Eghal Shillet (Somali) -- The lion's share (Somali) -- Adventures of Abunuwas, Somali hero -- The story of Liongo (Swahili) -- Poem of Liongo (Swahili) -- A Swahili poet of Mombasa -- Swahili dance song -- Appendix: Excerpt from a United Nations report on bride price.Nzambi and Nzambi Mpungu (Kongo-Fiote) -- The bird messengers (Kongo-Fiote) -- Nzambi Mpungu's ambassador (Kongo-Fiote) -- Who beats Nzambi's drum? (Kongo-Fiote) -- Nchonzo Nkila's dance drum (Kongo-Fiote) -- Nzambi's daughter and her slave (Kongo-Fiote) -- Creation of Lake Bosa (Kongo-Fiote) -- How the spider won and lost Nzambi's daughter (Kongo-Fiote) -- Litigation among the Fiote people -- Litigation among the Bambala -- Mnemonics for a Yombe song -- The Mwindo epic (Nyanga) -- Some songs of the Luba people -- The supreme deity of the Luba -- How I shall be admired (Bene-Mukuni) -- The story of Mukana-Lwewo (Lamba) -- Teachings of the Chagga elders -- Nothing on Earth is cleverer than the female sex (Chagga) -- We are little snails who seek refuge behind the fronds of the banana tree (Chagga) -- Chiefs are like the rain (Chagga) -- Eating alone brings ruin (Chagga) -- The head of a man is a hiding place, a receptacle (Chagga).Onugbo and Oko (Idoma) -- Three Isoko songs from Ilue Ologbo -- The Ekoi people of the Calabar coast -- Obassi Nsi and Obassi Osaw (Ekoi) -- How the first rain came (Ekoi) -- How the moon first came into the sky (Ekoi) -- How all the stars came (Ekoi) -- How the rivers first came on earth (Ekoi) -- The Egbo secret society (Ekoi and Efik) -- How the first Egbo image came -- How the Efik learned to cook their meat -- An Efik lamentation -- The feast (Bamum) -- Brass casting among the Bamum -- Some Cameroon sayings in pidgin English -- The journey of the Afo-a-Kom (Kom) -- The origin of the Kom kingdom -- The A-Mbundu of Angola -- Mbundu human tales : kings, hunters and heroes -- King Kitamba Kia Xiba (Mbundu) -- The young man and the river (Mbundu) -- Kingungu a njila and Ngundu a ndala (Mbundu) -- Two men, one woman (Mbundu) -- A father-in-law and his son-in-law (Mbundu) -- The young man and the skull (Mbundu) -- The white man and the negro (Mbundu) -- The past and the future (Mbundu) -- Squirrel and the kingship (Mbundu) -- Dog and the kingship (Mbundu) -- Dog and Lizard (Mbundu) -- Dog and Jackal (Mbundu) -- The house-hog and the wild boar (Mbundu) -- Partridge and Turtle (Mbundu) -- Lion and Wolf (Mbundu) -- Frog and his two wives (Mbundu) -- Dinianga dia ngombe and deer (Mbundu).Some Masai myths and traditions -- How the Masai got their cattle -- Why man dies and does not live again (Masai) -- How the Masai split off from other people -- The sun and the moon (Masai) -- The stars (Masai) -- Sunrise and sunset (Masai) -- The rainbow (Masai) -- Comets (Masai) -- Sheet lightning (Masai) -- The story of the flocks and the rain and the sun (Masai) -- The story of the night and day (Masai) -- Earthquakes (Masai) -- Volcanoes and the steam jets (Masai) -- Origin of the Lumbwa people (Masai) -- The giraffe hunters (Masai) -- The Nuer and God -- Dialogues with Europeans (Shilluk) -- Ethiopian beginnings : the Axumite Empire -- The Queen of Sheba legend : the founding of the Solomonic dynasty (Ethiopian) -- How Makeda visited Jerusalem, and how Menelik became king (Ethiopian) -- Another account of the Queen of Sheba (Ethiopian) -- Menelik's return to Axum, and how he became king (Ethiopian) -- The ten churches of Lalibela (Ethiopian) -- A proclamation of Menelik II (Ethiopian) -- The sense of what is just : five Ethiopian tales -- The donkey who sinned -- The goats who killed the leopard -- The judgment of the wind -- Fire and water, truth and falsehood -- Justice -- Four poems from the Amharic.Some traditions and stories of the Ganda -- The first king of Uganda (Ganda) -- The legend of Kintu (Ganda) -- Mpobe and death (Ganda) -- Ndyakubi and Ndalakubi (Ganda) -- Some proverbs and sayings of the Ganda -- How the mountains and rivers were made (Akamba) -- Wanjiru, sacrificed by her people (Kikuyu) -- The lost sister (Kikuyu) -- Mukunga M'bura (Kikuyu) -- The making of iron among the Kikuyu people -- Music among the Bongo -- Schweinfurth gets to see the Akka Pygmies -- A song of the Twa Pygmies of Rwanda -- Some literary traditions of the southern Bantu -- Origin of the Tsonga or Shangaan people -- Some customs and traditions of the Tsonga or Shangaan people -- Shangaan children's activities -- Storytelling among the Shangaan -- The adventures of Papaju (Shangaan) -- The story of Xikhibana (Shangaan) -- Tendejuva the handsome (Shangaan) -- Shinangana's chronology -- The origin of the Venda people -- How Phuti became a totem of the Tswana people -- Much searching disturbs things that were lying still (Tswana) -- Some Tswana proverbs -- A Xhosa reproves a missionary -- How God distributed property (Xhosa).The gluttonous ansige (Karamba) -- The cow-tail switch (Jabo) -- Preachments of the animals (Grebo) -- Kru war song -- Hammer and chisel rhythm (Mano) -- The Akan peoples of Ghana -- Akan poetry -- Drum poetry of the Akan peoples -- Drum poems to Onyame, the supreme deity (Akan) -- Akan sayings about Nyame (Onyame) -- The drum-history of the state of Mampon (Ashanti) -- Chiefdom among the Ashanti -- A song for the new chief (Ashanti) -- Some Ashanti proverbs -- Sayings as guides to good social behavior (Ashanti) -- Riddle (Ashanti) -- Four Ashanti tales -- The coming of the yams (Ashanti) -- Journey to Asamando, land of the dead (Ashanti) -- O the world! (Ashanti) -- Talk (Ashanti) -- Gold and gold weights (Ashanti) -- Ashanti proverbs and sayings cast in brass -- The search for gold (Ashanti) -- Anansi, trickster hero of the Akan -- Anansi proves he is the oldest (Ashanti) -- Anansi owns all tales that are told (Ashanti) -- Anansi's rescue from the river (Ashanti) -- Aberewa's sword (Ashanti) -- Anansi borrows money (Ashanti) -- Anansi gives Nyame a child (Ashanti) -- How debt came to Ashanti -- The competition for Nyame's daughter (Ashanti) -- The hat-shaking dance (Ashanti) -- Anansi plays dead (Ashanti) -- The king's drum (Ashanti).The story of Umkxakaza-Wakogingqwayo (Zulu) -- The king's child and Ubongopa-Kamagadhlela (Zulu) -- Uncama-Ngamanzi-Egudu's journey to the other world (Zulu) -- The man who threw away his bread (Zulu) -- How the Zulu experience sympathy through the navel -- Some Zulu riddles -- News from Zululand -- Fragments of the Zulu past in song -- The hemp smoker and the hemp grower (Shona) -- Shona walking song -- The Bushmen and Hottentots -- The coming of the sun in the sky (Bushman) -- The son of the wind (Bushman) -- The wind in the form of a bird (Bushman) -- The lion's dwelling place (Bushman) -- The cloud-eaters (Hottentot) -- The fish-stealers (Hottentot) -- A Nama woman married to an elephant (Hottentot) -- The horse cursed by the sun (Hottentot) -- The origin of death (Hottentot) -- Some eastern cattle peoples -- The Tutsi of Rwanda and Burundi -- The hunting ritual of Tutsi kings -- Royal drums of the Tutsi -- Ibabazabahizi (Tutsi) -- Abagombozi poetry of the Tutsi -- Gihilihili : the snake-person (Tutsi).A collection of African folklore from the Sub-Saharan region that reflects the diversity of cultures and traditions in the area.

Subjects: Folk tales.; Folklore;

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Bringing the story home : the complete guide to storytelling for parents / by Lipkin, Lisa.(CARDINAL)703269;

Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Family recreation.; Storytelling.;

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The Bible, simplified : learn the story, live the story / by Windahl, Zach,author.;

Includes bibliographical references.Part One: Introduction to the Bible -- What is the Bible? -- How to read the Bible -- The Bible story simplified -- Part Two: Creation and Covenants -- Creation and the fall -- Cain and Abel -- Noah and the flood -- Tower of Babel -- Intro to covenants -- Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob -- Joseph -- Part Three: Exodus and the Promised Land -- Early life of Moses -- The exodus from Egypt -- Receiving the law -- Shaping a nation in the wilderness -- Conquering the promised land -- Part Four: Kingdoms and Prophets -- Judges -- The kings and the temple -- The divided kingdom -- Major and minor prophets -- Part Five: Wisdom and Poetry -- The psalms -- Wisdom Literature -- Part Six: Exile and Restoration -- The Babylonian exile -- Returning and rebuilding -- "The silent years" -- Part Seven: Jesus the Messiah -- How to read the gospels -- Birth and early life of Jesus -- Preparation for ministry -- Calling the disciples -- Ministry of Jesus -- The final week -- Trial and crucifixion -- Resurrection and ascension -- Part Eight: The Early Church -- Pentecost and the Holy Spirit -- Spreading the gospel -- Paul's epistles -- The general epistles -- Part Nine: The End Times -- Understanding Revelation -- Judgment and Hell -- New Heaven and new Earth -- Part Ten: How to be a Christian -- Living out your faith."You don't need a theology degree to understand the Bible--you just need 60 days. Join bestselling author Zach Windahl on a journey to a deeper, more meaningful relationship with God through his Word"-- Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Bible; Bible;

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The Apocalypse [sound recording] controversies and meaning in Western history / by Koester, Craig R.,1953-(CARDINAL)773894; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;

Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-152) in guidebook.Disc 1. Lessons 1-6. Revelation and the apocalyptic tradition -- Apocalyptic worldview in Judaism -- Apocalyptic dimension of early Christianity -- Origins of the book of Revelation -- Issues facing Revelation's first readers -- God, the Lamb, and the seven seals -- Disc 2. Lessons 7-12. Seven trumpets, temple, and celebration -- The dragon and the problem of evil -- The beasts and evil in the political sphere -- The harlot and the imperial economy -- The battle, the kingdom, and last judgment -- New creation and new Jerusalem -- Disc 3. Lessons 13-18. Antichrist and the millennium -- Revelation's place in the Christian Bible -- The Apocalypse and spiritual life -- The key to the meaning of history -- Apocalyptic fervor in the late Middle Ages -- Luther, radicals, and Roman Catholics -- disc 4. Lessons 19-24. Revelation takes musical form -- Revelation in African American culture -- The Apocalypse and social progress -- Awaiting the end in 1844 and beyond -- Rapture, tribulation, and Armageddon -- The modern apocalyptic renaissance.Lectures by Craig R. Koester, Luther Seminary.This guide to the historical and intellectual background of the John of Patmos' Apocalypse includes a close reading of the text, focusing on the meaning of its images and details the wide-ranging impact of the book on Christian and Western history. Dr. Koester examines its meaning in John's day and how it continues to be meaningful to contemporary readers, for some as a book of predictions and others as a work of literature, while it remains for most who read it a message of hope.DVD.

Subjects: Bible.; History;

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