Do you remember what it was like to hear your own echo? It was so amazing that you had to do it again and again. Often we stumble upon these locations by accident but when conditions are right, an echo is unavoidable. The Apostle Paul suggests that when the Holy Spirit lives inside of us, certain character traits become inevitable. Join Mark Jones as he takes you on an excursion in search of the echo of God for your own life through the examination of the Fruit of the Spirit. Echoes of Heaven is a fresh look at Galatians 5:22-23, both for individual study and small group interaction. Book jacket.
The author's critical study examines the key works of fiction by Oe Kenzaburo – the internationally renowned Japanese writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994.
The Oxford History of Poetry in English (OHOPE) is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. OHOPE both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the fourteen volumes. By taking as its purview the full seventeenth century, 1603-1700, this volume re-draws the existing literary historical map and expands upon recent rethinking of the canon. Placing the revolutionary years at the centre of a century of poetic transformation, and putting the Restoration back into the seventeenth century, the volume registers the transformative effects on poetic forms of a century of social, political, and religious upheaval. It considers the achievements of a number of women poets, not yet fully integrated into traditional literary histories. It assimilates the vibrant literature of the English Revolution to what came before and after, registering its long-term impact. It traces the development of print culture and of the literary marketplace, alongside the continued circulation of poetry in manuscript. It places John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Margaret Cavendish, and Katherine Philips and other mid-century poets into the full century of specifically literary development. It traces continuity and change, imitation and innovation in the full-century trajectory of such poetic genres as sonnet, elegy, satire, georgic, epigram, ode, devotional lyric, and epic. The volume's attention to poetic form builds on the current upswing in historicist formalism, allowing a close focus on poetry as an intensely aesthetic and social literary mode. Designed for maximum classroom utility, the organization is both thematic and (in the authors section) chronological. After a comprehensive Introduction, organizational sections focus on Transitions; Materiality, Production, and Circulation; Poetics and Form; Genres; and Poets.
This is the most critical, pivotal time of all time. Bill Vincent really believes that there are things that are being set in motion, set in order right now. Sometimes you keep going after something and the doors aren't opening, things aren't happening. You just keep going after it and you keep going after it and nothing seems to open up, what's going on? Does there need to be a decision made in the courts? Bill believes so. He began to search his heart for what God wanted to speak today and all of a sudden, He began to speak. God said the heavenly court, whenever that popped up God said court is now in session. I don't care where you are in the things of God there are things about to open up like never before for the body of Christ. Decisions are about to be made specifically for your benefit hallelujah. Do you believe there's power in prophetic? There's power in prophetic decrees hallelujah. Part of the heavenly court is decreeing. The first point I want to talk about is prophetic degree.
Do you believe in God? So many people answer this question in the negative because the God they have been taught to believe in is simply not all that believable. In the twenty-first century, a Deity who intervenes in history, supernaturally responds to prayers, favors and protects his faithful and chosen, and executes righteous judgment engenders doubt and disbelief in thinking people of all faiths, as well as those of no practicing faith. A God We Can Believe In is a response to this moment. Herein you will find contributions from leading rabbis and scholars that articulate paths to heart, mind, and soul with God-teachings that are spiritually compelling and intellectually sound. Our authors present God in ways that are consistent with the facts that higher learning has established, the principles of reason, and our shared life experiences. In these pages you will find a God that cannot be brushed aside by educated moderns; a God that does not violate the realities of logic or natural law; a God presented in accessible language; a God that can be lived with and lived for. It is a book for thoughtful individuals everywhere.
Mark Oakley reveals George Herbert as a fine companion with whom to examine the journey of the soul. His poems are 'heart-work and heaven-work', embracing love and closeness, anger and despair, reconciliation and hope. There is too an appealing and audacious playfulness about Herbert: he seems to take God on, knowing God will win, confident God will not abandon him. This sense of relationship with God as primarily friendship is one of many intriguing and healing aspects we are invited to consider. George Herbert is one of the great 17th century poet-priests. His poems embrace every shade of the spiritual life, from love and closeness, to anger and despair, to reconciliation and hope. And his work is always rich with audacious playfulness: he seems to take God on, knowing God will win, as if he's having an argument with a faithful friend he knows is not going to leave. In much of theology and spirituality, God is a critical spectator to human lives, but for Herbert, his sense of relationship with God is primarily of a friendship that can never be broken. These are some of the themes Mark Oakley explores in this outstanding book 'My Sour-Sweet Days contains forty well-chosen poems by George Herbert (widely considered the greatest devotional poet in the English language), each of which is followed by a short but profound reflection by Mark Oakley. The combination is excellent: richly expressive poems and accessible personal meditations. This book powerfully demonstrates how poetry can bring comfort, refreshment and renewed energy to our spiritual lives.' Professor Helen Wilcox, editor of the critically acclaimed edition of The English Poems of George Herbert (Cambridge University Press, 2007) 'It's extremely unusual to meet anyone who isn't a specialist who has such a subtle feeling for language as Mark Oakley does.' Sir Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate
Transform Your World with a Word Have you ever hoped and prayed for God to transform a hopeless situation but been discouraged when nothing changed? Pastor Marty Darracott refused to settle for spiritual silence. He embarked on a quest that changed him—and the lives of tens of thousands—forever. In Echo Heaven, pastor and one of the key leaders of the North Georgia Revival, Marty Darracott empowers you to activate the gift of Words of Knowledge and shift hopeless situations by speaking God's voice. Join Marty for a life-changing journey as you discover how to: cultivate a lifestyle of hearing from Heaven supernaturally tune in to the Holy Spirit operate in another dimension of the Words of Knowledge gifting immediately shift circumstances and situations and receive supernatural clarity and direction. Don't let the enemy fool you into silence! You have access to the words of God—the same words that spoke creation into being, calmed the wind and the waves, and raised the dead. Learn to echo these words and bring healing, deliverance, and transformation into every impossible situation!
