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This engaging and inspirational book by Carl Lentz, the rock star pastor of Hillsong NYC, shows us the way toward a more connected, spiritually-grounded, and fulfilled life.
When you think of a Christian pastor, you probably don't envision a tattooed thirty-something who wears a motorcycle jacket, listens to hip-hop music, references The Walking Dead and Black Lives Matter in his sermons, and every Sunday draws a standing-room...

"Where must we go to find the greatest wonder? Not to the scientist’s discoveries and the inventor’s cunning devices: the greatest marvel is not material but spiritual; and to find it we must not look into the present or future, but go back to the first Christmas morning. On that morning the Judean shepherds had a story to tell which all they that heard it wondered at and which is still the wonder and song of the world. The birth of Jesus is absolutely...

First published in 1924, this title explores the schools of religious thought and practice that sprung up towards the end of the nineteenth century and at the start of the twentieth: sects, mystics and spiritualists, theological sciences and scientific theologies, personal philosophies, and a huge range of new trajectories of thought within the established forms of Western European Christianity. In particular, the author explores the numerous ways...

This is a Project Gutenberg edition published in 2005. Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech Weyland's aim was to discover how the inspired writers of the New Testament would have expressed and described the events of the New Testament and Gospels had they been actually writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Weymouth succeeded in rendering it into a dignified modern English edition; the absence of ecclesiastical and doctrinal bias make...

This is a Project Gutenberg edition released in 2005. Summary: The Book of 1 John in the King James Bible emphasizes the importance of love, fellowship with God, and living in truth. It warns against false teachings and encourages believers to live righteously, love one another, and abide in God's commandments. The text stresses that God is light and love, and through faith in Jesus Christ, believers overcome the world and receive eternal life.

This is a Project Guttenberg edition released in 2010. From Introduction: The title of Scottish, applied to the holy ones whose names occur in these short notices, must be understood to refer not so much to their nationality as to the field in which, they laboured or the localities where traces of their cultus are to be found. The Calendar here submitted does not pretend to be exhaustive; the saints therein noted are those who appear prominently...

First published 1873, this collection of short pieces offering advice and making observations on a variety of subjects is by the author of the novel "Ramona". Contents: The Inhumanities of Parents--Corporal Punishment The Inhumanities of Parents--Needless Denials The Inhumanities of Parents--Rudeness Breaking the Will The Reign of Archelaus The Awkward Age A Day with a Courteous Mother Children in Nova Scotia The Republic of the Family The Ready-to-Halts The...

Jules Tellier est un écrivain, poète et journaliste français, né au Havre le 13 février 1863 et mort à Toulouse le 29 mai 1889. [Source: Wikipedia]