“This tale is a sturdy one that is made even more emphatic by Davies’s terse writing style. The text is heightened in every way by Carlin’s outstanding mixed-media artwork.” — Booklist (starred review) On a mean street in a mean, broken city, a young girl tries to snatch an old woman’s bag. But the frail old woman says the thief can’t have it without giving something in return: the promise. It is the beginning of a journey that will change the girl’s life — and a chance to change the world, for good.
Brothers Arinze and Odunze Nwanazu struggle to comprehend the catastrophes that continue to befall them. Odunze is a wife-beating alcoholic who is has lost both of his sons to a mysterious illness. The death of Arinze's second son, and a chance meeting with a peculiar old man, reveal the atrocities of their forefathers.
A preacher's daughter shouldn't encourage a troublemaker-no matter what her wayward heart desires. Liberty has always believed she should marry a man of God, but Jake doesn't qualify. The promises they'd made at age twelve can't change that. If only Jake would stop pursuing her, she might keep from falling in love with him. Jake fears he'll lose Liberty to Beau, the new man in town. He doesn't trust the smooth-talker-and certainly not with Liberty. Expressing his opinion sounds jealous and pushes Liberty further away. Jake's efforts to forget the woman he loves lands him in jail for a crime he didn't commit. A bounty hunter on the trail of a notorious outlaw gallops into town, and Liberty finds herself in unexpected peril. When Jake rides after her, he faces a test of faith. Jake and Liberty must each overcome their own false beliefs. Only then can they experience the truth of God's redeeming love. Set during a troubled time in America, the Montana Treasure series explores faith, courage, and love in the Wild West. Read this heartwarming story to affirm your faith in love.
Do you trust in the promises of God you've read in the Bible? Do you live your life by them? In The Promise Code, join trusted Bible teacher O. S. Hawkins as he dives into 40 of those promises, giving them context and meaning. Find the joy and peace that can only come through an understanding of how you can count on God's promises to be true in your own life. Learn how to: Lead a faithful Christian life by believing in God's promises Draw nearer to God through studying what He says to be true in His Word Experience peace amid life's troubles This beautiful book will be a favorite on your bedside table, and it makes a perfect gift for: The many people who already are fans of the Code Series Anyone who needs a little lift in their life Graduations, Christmas, birthdays, Mother's Day, and Father's Day Each of the 40 entries contains a Bible promise, a reading that illuminates that promise, and a prayer that will stay with you throughout your week, helping you to remember God's promise to you. Also enjoy other O. S. Hawkins's books in this series: The Joshua Code: 52 Scriptures Every Believer Should Know The Jesus Code: 52 Scripture Questions Every Believer Should Answer The Prayer Code: 40 Scripture Prayers Every Believer Should Pray The Believer's Code: 365 Devotions to Unlock the Blessings of God's Word The Bible Code: Finding Jesus in Every Book in the Bible
What is the central theme of the Bible?Given the diversity of authorship, genre, and context of the Bible’s various books, is it evenpossible to answer such a question? Or in trying to do so, is an external grid being unnaturallysuperimposed on the biblical text?These are difficult questions that the discipline of biblical theology has struggled to answer.In this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of his classic Toward an Old Testament Theology,Walter Kaiser offers a solution to these unresolved issues. He proposes that there is indeeda unifying center to the theology and message of the Bible that is indicated and affirmed byScripture itself. That center is the promise of God. It is one all-encompassing promise of lifethrough the Messiah that winds itself throughout salvation history in both the Old and NewTestaments, giving cohesiveness and unity to the various parts of Scripture.After laying out his proposal, Kaiser works chronologically through the books of both testaments,demonstrating how the promise is seen throughout, how the various sub-themesof each book relate to the promise, and how God’s plan to fulfill the promise progressivelyunfolds. Here is a rich and illuminating biblical theology that will stir the emotion and theintellect.
It's her destiny to die young. The man who loves her can't live with that. Promise, a talented young singer with a terminal illness, is counting on fame to keep her memory alive after she dies. Porta is an aging sorceress and art collector in search of immortality. When Promise inexplicably survives a series of freak accidents, Porta believes that she may hold the key to eternal life. Enter Chase, an autistic artist who falls in love with Promise and fascinates her with his mysterious visions and drawings. Soon, all are plunged into a confrontation over the mystery and the cost of something even greater than eternal life . . . eternal love.
The two-volume set LNCS 4051 and LNCS 4052 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 33rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2006, held in Venice, Italy, July 2006. In all, these volumes present more 100 papers and lectures. Volume II (4052) presents 2 invited papers and 2 additional conference tracks with 24 papers each, focusing on algorithms, automata, complexity and games as well as on security and cryptography foundation.
The tree on the left was smaller, but beautiful in a different way. Its slender leaves were green and differed little from any other leaf. It was the fruit, however, that fascinated the woman. It consisted of shiny gold spheres that reflected sunlight the way water reflected her face. She wondered what it would be like to taste a fruit as beautiful and shiny as this, but remembered that she would never know. Moving closer to the tree, she reached out her hand and touched a fruit. Dr. Robert Wetmore has written a compelling Biblical Fiction about Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden and after the fall. The Two Trees is his first book in the Promise Series, which follows the line of the Promise that God gives to Adam and Eve in the Garden in Genesis 3:15 about a coming Savior that will crush Satan.
The award-winning and surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming world Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species meant loss for many Alaskans. Oakes and her research team wanted to chronicle how plants and people could cope with their rapidly changing world. Amidst the standing dead, she discovered the resiliency of forgotten forests, flourishing again in the wake of destruction, and a diverse community of people who persevered to create new relationships with the emerging environment. Eloquent, insightful, and deeply heartening, In Search of the Canary Tree is a case for hope in a warming world.
