The Sanctuary for Lent 2016 (Pkg of 10)
The Sanctuary for Lent 2016 (Pkg of 10)

Author: Sue Mink

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2015-12-01

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 1426799756

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Prayer is the focus of Sue Mink's devotions and on people in the Bible who prayed. She especially examines Jesus and his prayers, including the Lord's Prayer, which is examined phrase by phrase over several days. The Sanctuary for Lent 2016 is a booklet that contains one devotion for each of the forty days in Lent, plus Sundays. Each daily devotion includes a recommended Scripture reading, a Bible verse, an inspiring message, and an uplifting prayer. Designed to fit in a #10 envelope which enables churches to include the booklet in Lenten mailings.

The Sanctuary for Lent 2017 (Pkg of 10)
The Sanctuary for Lent 2017 (Pkg of 10)

Author: Donald K. McKim

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2016-12-06

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 1501824899

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The Sanctuary for Lent 2017 contains brief readings for each day in Lent, including a suggested Scripture, a short devotion, and a closing prayer. It is an excellent gift for family, friends, or those with special needs. In keeping with the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s nailing of the theses, each day’s devotion will include a quote from one of the reformers. Sold in packs of 10, booklets are designed to fit in a #10 envelope, enabling churches to include the booklets in their Lent mailings, especially for those unable to attend services.

Get Real
Get Real

Author: Derek Maul

Publisher: Upper Room Books

Published: 2016-05-01

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 0835812677

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Finally, a book for men's spiritual development that actually starts with Jesus. Not lightly baptized Jungian archetypes. Not secular stereotypes that seek to present Jesus as a "man's man." This is good stuff. —John Ortberg Pastor, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church Author of The Life You've Always Wanted What exactly does it mean to be a Christian in today's world? Particularly, what does it mean to be a Christian man in 21st-century American culture? Derek Maul, an award-winning columnist and men's group leader, explores these questions in Get Real. The emerging 21st-century Christian man is a spiritual adventurer who's unafraid to find strength in community with others, including other men. This man rejects the phony values of society—such as the incessant desire for power, youth, money, cars, gadgets—and finds courage in Jesus' invitation: "Follow me." Maul delivers straight talk to men about faith, family, and desire for God in bite-size sections. He draws on his own experiences, including stories from his weekly men's group called The Men's Room. Every man can have a deeper spiritual life. Find out how to follow Jesus and leave a legacy of faith. A Leader's Guide for a 10-week group study is also available.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Thomas Piketty

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2017-08-14

Total Pages: 817

ISBN-13: 0674979850

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What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.

Managing the Undesirables
Managing the Undesirables

Author: Michel Agier

Publisher: Polity

Published: 2011-01-25

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0745649017

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Official figures classify some fifty million of the world’s people as 'victims of forced displacement'. Refugees, asylum seekers, disaster victims, the internally displaced and the temporarily tolerated - categories of the excluded proliferate, but many more are left out of count. In the face of this tragedy, humanitarian action increasingly seems the only possible response. On the ground, however, the 'facilities' put in place are more reminiscent of the logic of totalitarianism. In a situation of permanent catastrophe and endless emergency, 'undesirables' are kept apart and out of sight, while the care dispensed is designed to control, filter and confine. How should we interpret the disturbing symbiosis between the hand that cares and the hand that strikes? After seven years of study in the refugee camps, Michel Agier reveals their 'disquieting ambiguity' and stresses the imperative need to take into account forms of improvisation and challenge that are currently transforming the camps, sometimes making them into towns and heralding the emergence of political subjects. A radical critique of the foundations, contexts, and political effects of humanitarian action.

The Glory of Kings
The Glory of Kings

Author: Peter J. Leithart

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1608996808

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Over the past several decades, Reformed theologian and biblical scholar James B. Jordan has produced a unique body of work. His electrifying commentaries and essays on Scripture, along with his penetrating writings on Trinitarian theology, liturgics, music, and culture have inspired a growing number of pastors and theologians. In this Festschrift, Jordan's friends and associates celebrate his contributions by applying his methods and insights to a range of biblical, theological, liturgical, and cultural questions. The Glory of Kings aims to bring Jordan's work to the attention of a wider audience and to introduce the work of a scholar that R. R. Reno has called one of the most important Christian intellectuals of our day.

Mus of Kerbridge
Mus of Kerbridge

Author: Paul Kidd

Publisher: Paul Kidd

Published: 2007-03

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9781847532916

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Enter a world of romance and adventure! A world where Centaur ladies flirt with Satyr Musketeers - where rapier and pistol match their powers against ancient sorceries. Where a small brown house-mouse becomes the King's most astonishing new cavalier! Accidentally sprung into intelligence by a brutal spell, Mus the mouse finds himself cast adrift in an astonishing new world. As companion to Miriam, a Half-Horse damsel in distress, Mus must protect his lady fair from sorcery and battle, facing sinister intrigues that seek to overthrow the very throne. When the world seems all but over run by war, Mus proves that a tiny body can hold a lion's heart...