Living Words from the Living Word is a collection of short teaching vignettes taken from a lifetime of preaching. The two-fold goal of each one is to stimulate hunger for God's truth contained in His living Word and to foster its practical application to the circumstances of daily life. The author's prayer is that, when read thoughtfully and prayerfully, they will be a source of spiritual nourishment and provide a window through which the reader can glimpse something of the heart of God.
Timothy Ward offers an excellent, lucid exposition of the nature and function of Scripture, expressed in a form appropriate for the tweny-first century, grounded in the relevant scholarship, and standing firmily in line with the best of the theological traditions.
Reading a translation of any book is just not the same as reading it in its original language and is adequately stated in the phrase "lost in the translation." Whenever a text is translated from one language to another it loses some of its flavor and substance. The problem is compounded by the fact that a language is tied to the culture that uses that language. When the text is read by a culture different from the one it is written in, it loses its cultural context. A Biblical example of this can be found in the Hebrew word tsur which is translated as a rock - "He only is my rock and my salvation, he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved" (Psalm 62:2, KJV). What is a rock and how does it apply to God? To us it may mean solid, heavy or hard but the cultural meaning of the word tsur is a high place in the rocks where one runs to for refuge and defense, a place of salvation. "The Living Words" is an in-depth study into the Ancient Hebrew vocabulary and culture of the Bible replacing the flavor and substance that has been removed from us.
Peter Ludlow shows how word meanings are much more dynamic than we might have supposed, and explores how they are modulated even during everyday conversation. The resulting view is radical, and has far-reaching consequences for our political and legal discourse, and for enduring puzzles in the foundations of semantics, epistemology, and logic.
A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project—including Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, and Layli Long Soldier, among others—to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. The chosen poems reflect on the theme of place and displacement and circle the touchpoints of visibility, persistence, resistance, and acknowledgment. Each poem showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, “that heritage is a living thing, and there can be no heritage without land and the relationships that outline our kinship.” In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than five hundred living indigenous nations. Living Nations, Living Words is a representative offering.
The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.
Jesus, 2,000 years ago, came as the Messenger of SOVEREIGN LORD EMMANUEL THE GREAT, to bring the people the higher way of truth, to help them understand about the 'Kingdom' and how they could become a part of it. He was sent by Divine to bring the people the Pathway of Life upwards to have life eternally. In this book, SOVEREIGN LORD EMMANUEL THE GREAT, the GREAT FATHER EMMANUEL who brought the words through Jesus 2,000 years ago, explains the greater teachings of Jesus. He brings HIS Divine Love and the 'road' to eternal life through. These are true gems for those who desire to understand the highest spiritual pathway.Many topics are discussed with THE GREAT FATHER EMMANUEL, such as: -Who the Great Creators are, -Who Jesus was as 'the man, '-What was the mission of Jesus?-The Great Father Emmanuel, who is HE?-Jesus, The Divine Love Element and The Word, -Has Jesus returned at this time?-The teachings about 'paradise.'-Your Personal Alignment, -The Return of the Great Sun Consciousness, -Universal Creation, -The Great Gathering, what is it?Sovereign Lord Emmanuel The Great talks to those who desire to be within their heart of love. 2,000 years ago, HE spoke through Jesus to help people to understand who HE is. HE always promised to return, and now HE has.Suzanna Maria Emmanuel, Divine Love Element, Universal Light Grid Programmer, Divine Ascension Channel, The Word & Author of SOVEREIGN LORD EMMANUEL THE GREAT & CAEAYARON, (Kryon), THE GREAT MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT.
The present book, the second of a six-volume series, is an adaptation into readily accessible English of 11 fundamental discourses--one for each weekly Torah portion in the book of Exodus--from Rabbi Schneur Zalman's classic work, Torah Or. It is thus an unprecedented presentation of chassidic philosophy and mysticism as explained in detail in their original source. Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1812), founder of the intellectual branch of Chassidism--Chabad--is credited with bringing the deepest secrets of Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah "down to earth," so they could be read and understood by even the average person. He broke the paradigm: it was no longer, "first perfect yourself spiritually, then you will be fit to study this"; now it was, "study this and it will help you to perfect yourself spiritually." The worldwide spread of Chabad-appealing to people of all backgrounds, and in every conceivable culture-in the centuries since bears elegant testimony to the power of these ideas to tap the very Jewish soul. And yet, written in scholarly Hebrew, these keys to the essential core of Judaism were locked away, untranslated, for almost 200 years. In this series, Rabbi Yitzchok Wagshul, a master teacher, does not merely translate the original material, he clearly explains it in friendly, articulate English for scholar and lay person alike. No background in Jewish knowledge is required; just a willingness to think. If Rabbi Schneur Zalman were teaching today, this book is what he might well say. Book jacket.
Dallas Willard explores what it means to live well now in light of God's kingdom. This book is adapted from the talks given at the February 2013 Dallas Willard Center "Knowing Christ Today" conference. Each chapter is followed with an illuminating dialogue between Dallas Willard and John Ortberg.
