“What was this place? Was I crazy? Or was I crazy before, back in L.A.? Was my real life some sort of dream? Was this hell reality?” Austin Lively is a struggling, disillusioned screenwriter whose life is suddenly changed forever when he opens a door and is unwittingly transported to a fantastical medieval realm. Austin finds himself wielding a bloody dagger while standing over a very beautiful and very dead woman. Bewildered and confused, he is seized by castle guards and thrown in a dungeon. Just when he begins to fear the worst, he is suddenly transported back to reality in LA. Did that really just happened? Has he gone insane? Was it all a dream? Did he have a brain tumor? Desperate for answers, he sets out to find them and discovers that the mystery can only be unlocked by a strange piece of fiction that holds the truth about the magical kingdom. But he isn’t the only person searching for the missing manuscript, and his rivals will stop at nothing to get it first. To complicate matters more, Austin soon discovers that he has no control over when he passes between worlds and finds himself out of trust for even the simple things, like walking through doorways. Stuck between dual realities –charged for a murder he doesn’t recall in one and running from a maniacal billionaire who’s determined to kill him in another– Austin’s monotonous life has become an epic adventure of magic, murder, and political intrigue in both the New Republic of Galiana and the streets of Los Angeles California.
Chronicles the attempts of the authors to protect and study the mountain gorillas of Rwanda, discussing the foundation of the Mountain Gorilla Project as well as the ecological and political situation of Rwanda.
A young boy is stranded on a small island with a mysterious man who shows him how to survive in this adventure story by the acclaimed author of War Horse. When Michael’s father loses his job, he buys a boat and convinces Michael and his mother to sail around the world. It’s an ideal trip—even Michael’s sheepdog can come along. It starts out as the perfect family adventure—until Michael is swept overboard. He’s washed up on an island, where he struggles to survive. Then he discovers that he’s not alone. His fellow-castaway, Kensuke, is wary of him. But when Michael’s life is threatened, Kensuke slowly lets the boy into his world. The two develop a close understanding in this remote place, but the question of rescue continues to divide them. Praise for Kensuke’s Kingdom “[A] poignant adventure story . . . This well-crafted story has all the thrills and intrigues of Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet . . . and Theodore Taylor’s The Cay . . . and it will resonate with the same audience.” —School Library Journal “Highly readable.” —Booklist
God's Grand Design By: William R. Arnold, Edited by Ms. Aurora Payad-Arnold God’s Grand Design is to restore mankind to its original state of sacred perfection after Adam and Eve fell and created the original sin of disobedience, hiding, and lying to the Lord. When God cursed the serpent for tempting Adam and Eve to be like God, he promised to send his only begotten Son to save humanity. He did via the incarnate word in the womb of the immaculately conceived Virgin Mary. God wants to be man and receive a new body to defeat death through Jesus Christ. Man wants to become God to receive eternal life. Man’s journey to become God starts from being an ignorant baby gaining knowledge, to a cowardly teenager obtaining courage, to an adult converting greed to generosity, to a wise man changing selfishness to unselfishness, and at last, to a free man able to think for himself in eternal service to God in his kingdom. The journey requires him to know right from wrong, good from evil, and God’s will from man’s will and thus defeat evil, worldly temptations, and demonic possession. Through Christ, God and man are destined to become one through three advents, making the God/Man Christ into the new human spirit (blessings). Then, the Man/God Jesus becomes the new human flesh to make all things perfect in the sight of God. Jesus Christ came as a priest on a donkey to decode the Torah, bring knowledge, and remove blindness to defeat sin. By his death and resurrection, he granted free redemption to man’s flesh to give him a new body. The second coming of Jesus Christ as thief in the night will bring awakening to remove deafness by teaching God’s truths to defeat evil. As a just judge on a cloud on his third advent, the Lord will remove mankind’s dumbness to defeat death. And then man can become worthy of receiving God’s rewards of paradise in heaven or heaven on earth.
Christians seeking to "save the Earth" have to relate creation to salvation by doing justice to both themes. This study explores the ambiguous legacy of the ways in which this challenge has been approached in the reformed tradition of Swiss, Dutch, and German origins and in the reception of this tradition in South Africa. The book focuses on the diverging interpretations of the category of "re-creation" in this regard. (Series: Studies in Religion and the Environment / Studien zur Religion und Umwelt - Vol. 8)
The 2007–9 financial crisis threatened economic disaster on a scale not seen since the Great Depression, but rapid state action prevented the widely feared devastation. The German response was considerably more generous to banks than the American or British bailouts. Drawing on interviews and primary sources in government, private firms, and media, Mitchell explains how the structure of national financial systems and interbank relationships produced extensive private rescues and pressure on different states. Mitchell explores the different responses and results in Germany, the UK and the US using a combination of detailed case study analyses of the three countries' responses to the crisis and a quantitative analysis of patterns of state responses to financial crises. This book will be essential reading for scholars and advanced students of political economy, comparative politics, economic sociology, economics, and public policy.
The Law, as the first covenant that God gave to the Israelites, is the covenant of God that never be able to condemn. However, the deeds by the Law as the deeds of the flesh performed by the Law is to commit sin. Because through the mind of the flesh that the devil deceives, we are not able to serve God, who is spirit. Due to the sin of Adam and Eve that they followed the serpent as the devil instead of the will of God in the Eden Garden, their spirit and even their offspring’s spirit had died to God. In this way the human being have been born as sinners with the original sin, having a spirit that is dead to God. So that the human being have been living with their mind of the flesh and a spirit that is dead to God. Thus, human being have not been able to serve God, who is spirit. To save the Israelites who become such sinners, first off God gave them the Law as the first covenant, and made the Israelites live to keep the Law through their mind of the flesh, because they have a spirit that is dead to God. This period is the age of the Law and the age of the First Covenant, that the Israelites of the Old Testament era had been living. By the way to the Israelites who had been serving idols through their minds of the flesh in the world of the darkness, God gave the Law to them and made them keep the Law through the mind of the flesh. In this way God gave them the age of the Law as the training period and disciplining period that let them to get off their idols and to serve God through the Law. However, because the deeds by the Law is to commit sin, the Israelites was not able to serve God. Therefore, God gave the gospel as the new covenant that becomes the way to be saved spiritually to them in order to let them believe it and live the spiritual life. However, the Jews, who are the descendants of the Israelites, still adhere strictly to the Law of Moses to this day, claiming that they alone are the children saved of God, and rejecting the spiritual gospel. Nevertheless, God made the apostles preach the spiritual gospel, so that the people who was saved through this gospel built the early church to serve God spiritually. Moreover, God made the children saved of the early church live a spiritual life among the sinners in the world, performing by the spiritual deeds according to the spiritual gospel. By the way since the apostles, the forebears were not aware spiritually of the spiritual gospel that the apostles were aware of spiritually, thus, the forebears were not born again from their spirits that were dead to God. And they were living customarily according to their deeds by the Law through their mind of the flesh. Thus, they preached the spiritual gospel through the deeds of the flesh performed by the Law, instead of the spiritual gospel which the apostles had preached through their spirits born again, Therefore, even the churches today that claim to preach the spiritual gospel, known as the Reformed Churches, have not fulfilled the spiritual salvation. Because to serve God, they have believed and followed the spiritual gospel as the new covenant through their mind of the flesh, but not their spirit born again. In another words, if the Reformed Churches perform the gospel of the salvation through the deeds of the flesh, but not the spiritual deeds, God is not able to listen from them. Thus, they are not able to be saved from their original sin, so that they become to live as the sinners with the original sin. It means that because they are not aware spiritually concerning the faith by the mind of the flesh and the faith by the spirit born again, also concerning the mind of the flesh and the spiritual mind by the spirit born again, they are living with the deeds by the Law through the mind of the flesh deceiving by the devil, but not the spirit born again. These spiritual matters of God can only be aware through the evidence of spiritual faith, as mentioned in Hebrews 11, rather than through judgment based on the mind of the flesh and the sight of the flesh. When we are aware spiritually of these spiritual matters through faith given by God, we become to be born again as the righteous from the spirit that had died to God due to Adam’s sin. And we become to receive the Counselor as the Spirit promised into our temple of the hearts as our spirit born again, then we become to fulfill our salvation. Therefore, we who have been saved become to live the spiritual life and worship God, according to the leading by the Jesus being with each of our Counselors. In this way we as the children saved of God become to live the spiritual life in the world of the darkness until the Second Coming of Jesus. And after the Judgment, we will lift up into the Kingdom of God for our eternal life with the disembodied spirit due to the death with the flesh by the Judgment. Concerning such spiritual process of the salvation mentioned above, when you are aware spiritually of the spiritual words of God as follows, that I, as the author of this book interpreted the spiritual gospel given by the new covenant, you will be performing the way to be saved spiritually. This book 「the way to be saved spiritually」 is the book to introduce 「those books with spiritual interpretation」 as follows that I wrote for the gospel of the New Testament that God gave as the new covenant. And 「those books with spiritual interpretation」 are currently being sold under names such as 「Matthew Interpretation Book」, 「John Interpretation Book」, 「Acts Interpretation Book」, 「Romans Interpretation Book」, 「1 2 Corinthians Interpretation Book」, 「1 2 Thessalonians Interpretation Book」, 「Hebrews Interpretation Book」, 「1 2 Peter Interpretation Book」, 「1, 2, 3 John Interpretation Book」, and others, at Upaper in Korea and each of ebook stores affiliated with Upaper, also Google ebook stores and Amazon kindle stores. And this book, 「the way to be saved spiritually」 is the book that summarized all 「those books with spiritual interpretation」 that I have written with the spiritual interpretation of the New Covenant books in the Bible. The spiritual gospel summarized in this book will serve as the Master key in order to open the gates of the Kingdom of God. This Master key will be leading you to 「the way to be saved spiritually」.
With our witness compromised, numbers down, and reputation sullied, the American church is at a critical crossroads. In order for the church to return to health, we must decenter ourselves from our American idols and be guided by global Christians and the poor, who offer hope from the margins, and the ancient church, refocusing on the kingdom, image, Word, and mission of God.
