My Life Among the Gentiles
Author: Miriam Biskin
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 178
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Published: 1968
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Piper
Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press
Published: 2020-05-21
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1789740606
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Mission is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exist because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate.' John Piper's contemporary classic draws on key biblical texts to demonstrate that worship is the ultimate goal of the church and that proper worship fuels missionary outreach. Piper offers a biblical defence of God's supremacy in all things, providing a sound theological foundation for missions. He examines whether Jesus is the only way to salvation and issues a passionate plea for God-centredness in the missionary enterprise, seeking to define the scope of the task and the means for reaching 'all nations'. Let the Nations Be Glad! is a trusted resource for missionaries, pastors, church leaders, youth workers, seminary students, and all who want to connect their labours to God's global purposes. This third edition has been revised and expanded throughout and includes new material on the 'prosperity gospel'.
Author: Philip Rieff
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780813925165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRieff articulates a comprehensive, typological theory of Western culture. Using visual illustrations, he contrasts the changing modes of spiritual and social thought that have struggled for dominance throughout Western history.
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Published: 1857
Total Pages: 362
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Publisher: Canongate U.S.
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780802136169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe publication of the King James version of the Bible, translated between 1603 and 1611, coincided with an extraordinary flowering of English literature and is universally acknowledged as the greatest influence on English-language literature in history. Now, world-class literary writers introduce the book of the King James Bible in a series of beautifully designed, small-format volumes. The introducers' passionate, provocative, and personal engagements with the spirituality and the language of the text make the Bible come alive as a stunning work of literature and remind us of its overwhelming contemporary relevance.
Author: Luke Timothy Johnson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 0300156499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresenting a fresh inquiry into early Christianity and Greco-Roman paganism, Luke Timothy Johnson begins with a broad definition of religion as a way of life organized around convictions and experiences concerning ultimate power.
Author: George Catlin
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-11-27
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1387401017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge Catlin was a fascinating figure of the nineteenth century, an artist-explorer who ventured deep into the wilds of the newly discovered Americas to paint the rapidly vanishing indigenous populations, their leaders, warriors, medicine men and scenes from their modes of life. The gifts Catlin received over the years from these remote peoples formed the basis for a vast, important collection which Catlin loaned to the world's biggest museums, together with his portraits. This new hardcover edition of My Life Among the Indians is illustrated with examples of Catlin's art from this period.
Author: Miriam Biskin
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2010-02
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781440174049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMy Life Among the Gentiles is a delightful and warm-hearted collection of autobiographical essays written by a school teacher who is Jewish and who grew up in an overwhelmingly gentile environmnet of an upstate New York town. With compassion and humor, Miriam Biskin describes episodes in the lives of her colorful relatives and friends, and shows their roles in her life. You will meet her grandparents, who innocently participated in an economic fraud; Grandfather Mendel, who was under the impression that Abraham Lincoln must surely have been a Talmudic scholar; Mrs. Biskin's own mother, who administered bowls of chicken soup as if she were handing out aspirin; her beloved friend Mrs. Bohen, who took the author, when she was a child, along as a consultant for an eye examination. Then there are the not-so-nice: her brother, who tried frantically to deny his Jewish faith; Jakie, the doll-smashing, spoiled brat, upon whom the author took revenge in a most satisfactory manner; the deaf old Yiddish teacher; the judge who thought a fair test to give applicants for American citizenship would be to ask them about the depths of rivers; and the Christian children who out of fear, ignorance, or hatred plagued the author's childhood with bigoted, or ignorant, words and deeds. You will also learn about the world of Christmas trees, Channukah bushes, holy communions: the times when children of differing religions are puzzled by the non-observance of their cherished holidays and traditions by their playmates of other faiths. For the Jew and non-Jew, the sociologist and layman, My Life Among the Gentiles hopefully will shed some light on the question of human relationships. For as the author tells us, "Some of my well-adjusted friends level a finger of judgment in my direction and make the pronouncement that I am a 'defensive Jew.' Their perspicacity is unimpressive because of the obviousness of the fact. My heritage, my commitment, my identity are all items worth defending, and their label fits as long as they don't stray to such idiotic euphemisms as 'Jewess.' ... And as they apologize for my conduct, I'd like them to get the name right. 'Jew' is not a dirty word or a scornful epithet: it is a simple and honorable deisgnation for that portion of the species which has been witness to man's long struggle to attain humanity."
Author: Joe Rigney
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2014-12-31
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1433544768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGod’s world is full of good things. Ice-cold lemonade. The laughter of children. College football. Scrambled eggs and crispy bacon. A late night with old friends around a blazing campfire. God certainly knows how to give good gifts to his children. But where is the line when it comes to enjoying all the pleasurable things our world affords? In The Things of Earth, professor Joe Rigney offers perplexed Christians a breath of fresh air by lifting the burden of false standards and impossible expectations related to the Christian life—freeing readers to gratefully embrace every good thing we receive from the hand of God. Helping us avoid our tendency to forget the Giver on the one hand and neglect his gifts on the other, this much-needed book reminds us that God’s blessings should drive us to worship and that a passion for God’s glory can be as wide as the world itself.