Author: Jack Vandermere
Publisher: Christian Art Publishers
ISBN: 1770368612
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Every child born into this world has untold potential. But, tragically, so many people opt for the easy yet mundane life of mediocrity and thus never discover what they should and could become. This powerful allegory of a man known as The Strange One because he paints his life with color in a gray and drab world will inspire readers to look within their own lives for their God-given potential and to become artists of life. Readers will journey with The Strange One up Mount Possibility to slay the Dragon Mediocrity. They will be challenged to risk being different – to be all they can be. Readers will also discover that true greatness and meaning in life is not found in self-fulfillment, but in helping others to achieve their potential, even if it requires sacrifice. Each chapter of the allegory is preceded by a meditation on the chapter in which a biblical foundation is laid and the reader is challenged to explore and consider the truths of the allegory in light of their own life.
The Town Called Potential (eBook)
Author: Jack Vandermere
Publisher: Christian Art Publishers
ISBN: 1770368612
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Every child born into this world has untold potential. But, tragically, so many people opt for the easy yet mundane life of mediocrity and thus never discover what they should and could become. This powerful allegory of a man known as The Strange One because he paints his life with color in a gray and drab world will inspire readers to look within their own lives for their God-given potential and to become artists of life. Readers will journey with The Strange One up Mount Possibility to slay the Dragon Mediocrity. They will be challenged to risk being different – to be all they can be. Readers will also discover that true greatness and meaning in life is not found in self-fulfillment, but in helping others to achieve their potential, even if it requires sacrifice. Each chapter of the allegory is preceded by a meditation on the chapter in which a biblical foundation is laid and the reader is challenged to explore and consider the truths of the allegory in light of their own life.
Publisher: Christian Art Publishers
ISBN: 1770368612
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Every child born into this world has untold potential. But, tragically, so many people opt for the easy yet mundane life of mediocrity and thus never discover what they should and could become. This powerful allegory of a man known as The Strange One because he paints his life with color in a gray and drab world will inspire readers to look within their own lives for their God-given potential and to become artists of life. Readers will journey with The Strange One up Mount Possibility to slay the Dragon Mediocrity. They will be challenged to risk being different – to be all they can be. Readers will also discover that true greatness and meaning in life is not found in self-fulfillment, but in helping others to achieve their potential, even if it requires sacrifice. Each chapter of the allegory is preceded by a meditation on the chapter in which a biblical foundation is laid and the reader is challenged to explore and consider the truths of the allegory in light of their own life.
Hands-On Bible NLT
Author: Tyndale
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1414398549
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1345
Book Description
Jesus taught with hands-on lessons and illustrations. The Hands-On Bible uses the same experience-based learning to communicate God's Word in an active, understandable way. With hundreds of fun, memorable activities, the Hands-On Bible is packed with activities and experiences that invite kids to crawl inside the Scriptures and do God's Word Exciting Bible features include 102 Hands-On Bible Experiences, 52 Key Verse Activities, 31 Bible Hero Biographies, 16 Bible Bonanza Experiences, 82 Jesus Connections, 66 Bible Book Intros, 69 Fun Facts, a Where to Turn When I'm . . . index, kid-friendly Q&A, 28 full-color tip-in pages, and charts and maps. The family devotions and Bible reading plan content is available online at myhandsonbible.com, along with some downloads. The New Living Translation is an authoritative Bible translation rendered faithfully into today's English from the ancient texts by 90 leading Bible scholars. The NLT's scholarship and clarity breathe life into even the most difficult-to-understand Bible passages--but even more powerful are stories of how people's lives are changing as the words speak directly to their hearts.
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1414398549
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1345
Book Description
Jesus taught with hands-on lessons and illustrations. The Hands-On Bible uses the same experience-based learning to communicate God's Word in an active, understandable way. With hundreds of fun, memorable activities, the Hands-On Bible is packed with activities and experiences that invite kids to crawl inside the Scriptures and do God's Word Exciting Bible features include 102 Hands-On Bible Experiences, 52 Key Verse Activities, 31 Bible Hero Biographies, 16 Bible Bonanza Experiences, 82 Jesus Connections, 66 Bible Book Intros, 69 Fun Facts, a Where to Turn When I'm . . . index, kid-friendly Q&A, 28 full-color tip-in pages, and charts and maps. The family devotions and Bible reading plan content is available online at myhandsonbible.com, along with some downloads. The New Living Translation is an authoritative Bible translation rendered faithfully into today's English from the ancient texts by 90 leading Bible scholars. The NLT's scholarship and clarity breathe life into even the most difficult-to-understand Bible passages--but even more powerful are stories of how people's lives are changing as the words speak directly to their hearts.
Sacrifice Zones
Author: Steve Lerner
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262518171
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
The stories of residents of low-income communities across the country who took action when pollution from heavy industry contaminated their towns. Across the United States, thousands of people, most of them in low-income or minority communities, live next to heavily polluting industrial sites. Many of them reach a point at which they say “Enough is enough.” After living for years with poisoned air and water, contaminated soil, and pollution-related health problems, they start to take action—organizing, speaking up, documenting the effects of pollution on their neighborhoods. In Sacrifice Zones, Steve Lerner tells the stories of twelve communities, from Brooklyn to Pensacola, that rose up to fight the industries and military bases causing disproportionately high levels of chemical pollution. He calls these low-income neighborhoods “sacrifice zones.” And he argues that residents of these sacrifice zones, tainted with chemical pollutants, need additional regulatory protections. Sacrifice Zones goes beyond the disheartening statistics and gives us the voices of the residents themselves, offering compelling portraits of accidental activists who have become grassroots leaders in the struggle for environmental justice and details the successful tactics they have used on the fenceline with heavy industry.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262518171
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
The stories of residents of low-income communities across the country who took action when pollution from heavy industry contaminated their towns. Across the United States, thousands of people, most of them in low-income or minority communities, live next to heavily polluting industrial sites. Many of them reach a point at which they say “Enough is enough.” After living for years with poisoned air and water, contaminated soil, and pollution-related health problems, they start to take action—organizing, speaking up, documenting the effects of pollution on their neighborhoods. In Sacrifice Zones, Steve Lerner tells the stories of twelve communities, from Brooklyn to Pensacola, that rose up to fight the industries and military bases causing disproportionately high levels of chemical pollution. He calls these low-income neighborhoods “sacrifice zones.” And he argues that residents of these sacrifice zones, tainted with chemical pollutants, need additional regulatory protections. Sacrifice Zones goes beyond the disheartening statistics and gives us the voices of the residents themselves, offering compelling portraits of accidental activists who have become grassroots leaders in the struggle for environmental justice and details the successful tactics they have used on the fenceline with heavy industry.
Inka Human Sacrifice and Mountain Worship
Author: Thomas Besom
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826353088
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Inka empire was the largest pre-Columbian polity in the New World. Its vast expanse, its ethnic diversity, and the fact that the empire may have been consolidated in less than a century have prompted much scholarly interest in its creation. In this study, Besom explores the ritual practices of human sacrifice and the worship of mountains, attested in both archaeological investigations and ethnohistorical sources, as tools in the establishment and preservation of political power. Besom examines the relationship between symbols, ideology, ritual, and power to demonstrate how the Cuzqueños could have used rituals to manipulate common Andean symbols to uphold their authority over subjugated peoples. He considers ethnohistoric accounts of the categories of human sacrifice to gain insights into related rituals and motives, and reviews the ethnohistoric evidence of mountain worship to predict locations as well as motives. He also analyzes specific archaeological sites and assemblages, theorizing that they were the locations of sacrifices designed to assimilate subject peoples, bind conquered lands to the state, and/or justify the extraction of local resources.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826353088
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Inka empire was the largest pre-Columbian polity in the New World. Its vast expanse, its ethnic diversity, and the fact that the empire may have been consolidated in less than a century have prompted much scholarly interest in its creation. In this study, Besom explores the ritual practices of human sacrifice and the worship of mountains, attested in both archaeological investigations and ethnohistorical sources, as tools in the establishment and preservation of political power. Besom examines the relationship between symbols, ideology, ritual, and power to demonstrate how the Cuzqueños could have used rituals to manipulate common Andean symbols to uphold their authority over subjugated peoples. He considers ethnohistoric accounts of the categories of human sacrifice to gain insights into related rituals and motives, and reviews the ethnohistoric evidence of mountain worship to predict locations as well as motives. He also analyzes specific archaeological sites and assemblages, theorizing that they were the locations of sacrifices designed to assimilate subject peoples, bind conquered lands to the state, and/or justify the extraction of local resources.
Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas
Author: Christoval de Molina
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incas
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incas
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Hands-On Bible NLT
Author: Tyndale
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1496450167
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1345
Book Description
Jesus taught with hands-on lessons and illustrations. The Hands-On Bible uses the same experience-based learning to communicate God's Word in an active, understandable way. With hundreds of fun, memorable activities, the Hands-On Bible is packed with activities and experiences that invite kids aged 6-12 to crawl inside the Scriptures and do God's Word! Exciting Bible features include: 102 Hands-On Bible Experiences 52 Key Verse Activities 31 Bible Hero Biographies 16 Bible Bonanza Experiences 82 Jesus Connections 66 Bible Book Intros 69 Fun Facts "Where to Turn When I'm . . ." index Kid-friendly Q and A 28 full-color tip-in pages Charts and maps The family devotions and Bible reading plan content is available online at thehandsonbible.com, along with some downloads. The New Living Translation is an authoritative Bible translation rendered faithfully into today's English from the ancient texts by 90 leading Bible scholars. The NLT's scholarship and clarity breathe life into even the most difficult-to-understand Bible passages--but even more powerful are stories of how people's lives are changing as the words speak directly to their hearts.
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1496450167
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1345
Book Description
Jesus taught with hands-on lessons and illustrations. The Hands-On Bible uses the same experience-based learning to communicate God's Word in an active, understandable way. With hundreds of fun, memorable activities, the Hands-On Bible is packed with activities and experiences that invite kids aged 6-12 to crawl inside the Scriptures and do God's Word! Exciting Bible features include: 102 Hands-On Bible Experiences 52 Key Verse Activities 31 Bible Hero Biographies 16 Bible Bonanza Experiences 82 Jesus Connections 66 Bible Book Intros 69 Fun Facts "Where to Turn When I'm . . ." index Kid-friendly Q and A 28 full-color tip-in pages Charts and maps The family devotions and Bible reading plan content is available online at thehandsonbible.com, along with some downloads. The New Living Translation is an authoritative Bible translation rendered faithfully into today's English from the ancient texts by 90 leading Bible scholars. The NLT's scholarship and clarity breathe life into even the most difficult-to-understand Bible passages--but even more powerful are stories of how people's lives are changing as the words speak directly to their hearts.
The Presence of Siva
Author: Stella Kramrisch
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120804913
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
One of the three great gods of Hinduism, Siva is a living god. The most sacred and most ancient book of India, "The Rg Veda," evokes his presence in its hymns; Vedic myths, rituals, and even astronomy testify to his existence from the dawn of time. In a lively meditation on Siva--based on original Sanskrit texts, many translated here for the first time--Stella Kramrisch ponders the metaphysics, ontology, and myths of Siva from the Vedas and the Puranas. Who is Siva? Who is this god whose being comprises and transcends everything? From the dawn of creation, the Wild God, the Great Yogi, the sum of all opposites, has been guardian of the absolute. By retelling and interweaving the many myths that keep Siva alive in India today, Kramrisch reveals the paradoxes in Siva's nature and thus in the nature of consciousness itself.
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120804913
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
One of the three great gods of Hinduism, Siva is a living god. The most sacred and most ancient book of India, "The Rg Veda," evokes his presence in its hymns; Vedic myths, rituals, and even astronomy testify to his existence from the dawn of time. In a lively meditation on Siva--based on original Sanskrit texts, many translated here for the first time--Stella Kramrisch ponders the metaphysics, ontology, and myths of Siva from the Vedas and the Puranas. Who is Siva? Who is this god whose being comprises and transcends everything? From the dawn of creation, the Wild God, the Great Yogi, the sum of all opposites, has been guardian of the absolute. By retelling and interweaving the many myths that keep Siva alive in India today, Kramrisch reveals the paradoxes in Siva's nature and thus in the nature of consciousness itself.
Sacrifice
Author: Alessandro Orsini
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501712276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Alessandro Orsini is one of Italy's premier analysts of political extremism. His investigation of the beliefs and mind-sets of Europe's political fringe has largely focused on anarchist and far-left groups, but in Sacrifice he turns his inquiry to the rapidly expanding neofascist movement. He joined local groups of a neofascist organization he names Sacrifice in two neighboring cities with very different political cultures. In this gripping, "insider" book, which features dialogues with various militia members, Orsini shows how fascists live day to day, how they understand their world, and how they build a parallel universe in which the correctness and probity of their attitudes are clear. Orsini describes the long, troubled process by which these two groups slowly accepted him as an investigatoractivist and later expelled him for his ideologically uncommitted stance and refusal to subject his observations to censorship. His activities as a fascist were often mundane: leafleting, distributing food parcels to the indigent, and attending public rallies. In Sacrifice, Orsini describes from within the masculine ethos of the militias, the groups' relations with local police and politicians, and the central role of violence and anticommunist actions in building a sense of fascist community.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501712276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Alessandro Orsini is one of Italy's premier analysts of political extremism. His investigation of the beliefs and mind-sets of Europe's political fringe has largely focused on anarchist and far-left groups, but in Sacrifice he turns his inquiry to the rapidly expanding neofascist movement. He joined local groups of a neofascist organization he names Sacrifice in two neighboring cities with very different political cultures. In this gripping, "insider" book, which features dialogues with various militia members, Orsini shows how fascists live day to day, how they understand their world, and how they build a parallel universe in which the correctness and probity of their attitudes are clear. Orsini describes the long, troubled process by which these two groups slowly accepted him as an investigatoractivist and later expelled him for his ideologically uncommitted stance and refusal to subject his observations to censorship. His activities as a fascist were often mundane: leafleting, distributing food parcels to the indigent, and attending public rallies. In Sacrifice, Orsini describes from within the masculine ethos of the militias, the groups' relations with local police and politicians, and the central role of violence and anticommunist actions in building a sense of fascist community.
Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas
Author: Clements R. Markham
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317090330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Translated from the Original Spanish Manuscripts, and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction. Texts include: An account of the fables and rites of the Yncas, by Cristóbal de Molina, c. 1570-84,; An account of the antiquities of Peru, by Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti-Yamqui Salcamayhua [an Indian], c. 1620; A narrative of the errors, false gods, and other superstitions and diabolical rites in which the Indians of the province of Huarochiri lived in ancient times, by Dr. Francis de Avila, 1608; Report by Polo de Ondegardo, c. 1560. Indexes include one of Quichua vocabulary. The supplementary material includes the 1872 and 1873 annual reports. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1873.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317090330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Translated from the Original Spanish Manuscripts, and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction. Texts include: An account of the fables and rites of the Yncas, by Cristóbal de Molina, c. 1570-84,; An account of the antiquities of Peru, by Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti-Yamqui Salcamayhua [an Indian], c. 1620; A narrative of the errors, false gods, and other superstitions and diabolical rites in which the Indians of the province of Huarochiri lived in ancient times, by Dr. Francis de Avila, 1608; Report by Polo de Ondegardo, c. 1560. Indexes include one of Quichua vocabulary. The supplementary material includes the 1872 and 1873 annual reports. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1873.
The Sacrifice Box
Author: Martin Stewart
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0425289540
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
"First published in the United States of America by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018"--Title page verso.
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0425289540
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
"First published in the United States of America by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018"--Title page verso.