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Author: David Powlison
Publisher: New Growth Press
Published: 2012-01-30
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1936768151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHave you ever had the experience of getting angry, upset, or worried about something—only later to discover some crucial fact you hadn’t known? Or have you ever been delighted with something or someone, and later found out you’d been had? Something you had not taken into account explained everything in a different way. You had no reason at all ...
Author: René Girard
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1976-04
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780801818301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the novel based on an altruistic hero who dies, through a description of five novelists.
Author: Daniel Jones
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0307351041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compilation of fifty essays from the popular "Modern Love" column in "The New York Times" explores the intricacies and complications of negotiating love and loss in the twenty-first century.
Author: Mark D. Roberts
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780801063893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHelpful, biblically based guide on what it means to live as a Christian in today's world.
Author: Pierpaolo Antonello
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 2015-10-01
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1628951737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifty years after its publication in English, René Girard’s Deceit, Desire, and the Novel (1965) has never ceased to fascinate, challenge, inspire, and sometimes irritate, literary scholars. It has become one of the great classics of literary criticism, and the notion of triangular desire is now part of the theoretical parlance among critics and students. It also represents the genetic starting point for what has become one of the most encompassing, challenging, and far-reaching theories conceived in the humanities in the last century: mimetic theory. This book provides a forum for new generations of scholars and critics to reassess, challenge, and expand the theoretical and hermeneutical reach of key issues brought forward by Girard’s book, including literary knowledge, realism and representation, imitation and the anxiety of influence, metaphysical desire, deviated transcendence, literature and religious experience, individualism and modernity, and death and resurrection. It also provides a more extensive and detailed historical understanding of the representation of desire, imitation, and rivalry within European and world literature, from Dante to Proust and from Dickens to Jonathan Littell.
Author: John Piper
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2005-06-14
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1433517906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Bible has a way of shocking us. If Americans could still blush, we might blush at the words, "Rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love" (Proverbs 5:18-19). But, of course, sin always tries to trash God's gifts. So we can't just celebrate sex for what God made it to be; we have to fight what sin turned it into. The contributors to this unique volume encourage you to do both: celebrate and struggle. This book has something for all-men and women, married and single-from contributors like John Piper, C. J. and Carolyn Mahaney, Mark Dever, Al Mohler, Carolyn McCulley, and others.
Author: John Piper
Publisher: Multnomah
Published: 2012-09-25
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 1601424353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplore this stunning quality of God’s grace: It never ends! In this revision of a foundational work, John Piper reveals how grace is not only God’s undeserved gift to us in the past, but also God’s power to make good happen for us today, tomorrow, and forever. True life for the follower of Jesus really is a moment-by-moment trust that God is dependable and fulfills his promises. This is living by faith in future grace, which provides God's mercy, provision, and wisdom—everything we need—to accomplish his good plans for us. In Future Grace, chapter by chapter—one for each day of the month—Piper reveals how cherishing the promises of God helps break the power of persistent sin issues like anxiety, despondency, greed, lust, bitterness, impatience, pride, misplaced shame, and more. Ultimate joy, peace, and hope in life and death are found in a confident, continual awareness of the reality of future grace.
Author: Douglas J. Knox
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2006-12-04
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1462837921
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Deceitful Desires" tells the story of a young man who makes all the wrong decisions. He spends his early twenties hanging out with friends, and chasing women while struggling to find his way in life. In an attempt to finally settle down, he marries. Though he realizes he married for all the wrong reasons, a return to his childhood church prompts him to try what seemed impossible to him; a monogamous relationship with his wife. All that remains to be seen now is; Will this change become permanent, or will he return to his old ways?
Author: John Owen
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Published: 1774
Total Pages: 342
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark D. Roberts
Publisher: W Publishing Group
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780849904165
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Ezra and Nehemiah address issues that make the front pages of our newspapers - and they speak to the yearnings of our hearts". This is why the author of this volume, Dr. Mark Roberts enthusiastically encourages Christian communicators to explore these somewhat obscure Old Testament texts. For much the same reason the author believes modern pastors and Bible students can benefit from careful study in the often-maligned book of Esther. He emphasizes the book's contemporary relevance, stating, "Esther encourages us to grapple with pressing moral issues in light of God's wisdom". As a pastor with a passion for communicating God's truths to young people and to the unchurched in our world, Dr. Roberts shares his personal success in using the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther to address contemporary needs. Not only is this commentary well-written and carefully researched, but, as an added plus, Dr. Roberts' deep faith and his dynamic relationship with Christ shine through every page. As Dr. Lloyd Ogilvie says in the editor's preface, the author of this fine volume "is vulnerable, open and honest about how the Scriptures he explains have impacted his own life". Marked by the excellence you have come to expect in the Communicator's Commentary series, this latest volume wrestles with difficult questions, such as the rightful place of Esther in the canon and the puzzling roles of Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel; provides a wide range of quotations and anecdotes from modern and classical sources to help us communicate God's message today; and offers balance of exegetical, historical, and literary analysis along with penetrating applications of the truths reflected in these texts. "As communicators",Dr. Ogilvie says, "we all long for those magnificent moments in our preparation when we are gripped with an inspired insight into a passage of Scripture that prompts us to exclaim, 'that will preach!' We are filled with excitement and enthusiasm to share what we've discovered. This is exactly what will happen as you study this commentary. It is power-packed and brimming over with new insight into familiar passages".
