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The work of our teachers has often paralleled the history of our nation. Our teachers have helped our country meet its historical challenges and respond to the needs and crises of American society. What other profession can say they have done so much for so many? Teachers have a historic legacy to carry on, and the sacred responsibility to carry it into the future. Our schools have the burden of ensuring the success of every child, and the honor of...
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The Eeerdmans Commentary on the Bible presents, in nontechnical language, the best of modern scholarship on each book of the Bible, including the Apocrypha. Reader-friendly commentary compliments succinct summaries of each section of the text and will be valuable to scholars, students, and general readers.
Rather than attempt a verse-by-verse analysis, these volumes work from larger sense units, highlighting the place of each passage within the overarching...
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Growing in Grace is designed to take its reader through the Bible, one page a day. It begins in Genesis, the first book of the Bible. Here we explore Bible truths such as creation, the fall of man, the entrance of sin and death into a once perfect world. We learn of God's promise, early given, to send a Savior into the world to pay the price of man's sin and provide a way for man to be restored to a place of peace and friendship with God. We follow...
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I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement. But the angel said to me, "Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns." Revelation 17:6-7
These mysterious Bible verses have captured the interest of prophecy students for centuries. Who is "the woman" drunk with...
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The Eeerdmans Commentary on the Bible presents, in nontechnical language, the best of modern scholarship on each book of the Bible, including the Apocrypha. Reader-friendly commentary compliments succinct summaries of each section of the text and will be valuable to scholars, students, and general readers.
Rather than attempt a verse-by-verse analysis, these volumes work from larger sense units, highlighting the place of each passage within...
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The NIV Application Commentary SeriesThe setting: Jerusalem. Recently returned from Babylonian captivity, the Jews are occupied with personal pursuits while the temple of Yahweh lies in ruins. To the prophets Haggai and Zechariah falls the task of calling God's people to their forgotten priority: rebuilding his house. Heeding prophetic admonition, the people overcome the obstacles that face them and prosper in their work––thanks largely to the...
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Principles of the Kingdom of God is the title of this Book. This Book explores spiritual principles as opposed to the principles of this present age. In everyday life we are well familiar with the principles that operate here on the earth. We know that when a door is shut we must open it in order to pass through. We know that touching a hot stove will cause pain and a burn. Science is aware of the rules and boundaries of the laws of physics and chemists...
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Get the Summary of Thomas Watson's The Beatitudes in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Beatitudes" by Thomas Watson offers a profound exploration of Christ's Sermon on the Mount, emphasizing the essence of true religion and the path to eternal life. Watson interprets Christ's teachings as a guide for converting and nourishing souls, highlighting the importance of ministers in preaching and combating false teachings......
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La vida es un regalo de Dios. Desde el momento inicial de la concepcin en el vientre materno, el aliento de Dios esta presente. Sin este, el feto est destinado a su muerte. Es por esta razn que es tan importante reconocer la santidad en la vida del feto. Es increble y doloroso ver el irrespeto por la vida de un feto, y ver como en innumerables ocasiones la madre decide terminar con esa vida slo por conveniencia personal. Por otro lado es digno reconocer...
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Matthew Henry (1662-1714) was a Presbyterian minister in England who began his commentary on the Bible in 1704. He completed his work up to the end of Acts before his death. Afterwards, his ministerial friends completed the work from Henry's notes and writings. Time has sealed the reputation of Matthew Henry's classic commentary as a rich source of insight into God's word. For nearly 300 hundred years, Christian have consulted its rich insights into...
51) Solomon, Apostle or Apostate: Solomon's Song; Plus the Relevance of the Female Gender in Scripture
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Solomon was the son of David and Bathsheba. When his father died, he came to the throne as the King of Israel. Benefiting from his father's many victories, he governed in a time of peace. With skillful diplomacy and astute land and sea trade, he gained enormous revenues and developed Israel into a mighty and prosperous nation. He constructed the first permanent temple of Jewish worship. His incisive judgments came to be known far and wide. In his...
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The promise of Christ's return should have a controlling effect on the life of every Christian. A close New Testament study reveals the Messianic promise to be the foundation and focus of the first century church. Like them, we should always be prepared to give an answer for "the hope we have". It is a subject of every book except Philemon and 3 John.
"Maranatha! Our Lord Is Coming" moves from Matthew to Revelation, citing a multitude of verses (more...
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Should Adam Have Taken the Liberty to Rescue All Generations? is basically about God's wonderful creation of the heavens and earth and everything in them and Adam's failure to obey God's command not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which brought about the great sins to all generations. Adam's action also brought about the first of the Great Towel of Babel, the Great Flood and the Great Exodus, after the Great Sin. I also wished...
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This book contains full life details concerning Dr. Ruby Survine-Pierre. In it, you will find that she is a child of the Almighty God, and as you read, you will discover the clear depiction of the many sagas of her life. Beginning from her birth, it tells of a time when racial discrimination, poverty, and oppression of the Black community were so commonly prevalent. Throughout all of Ruby's dark times, she was able to push through because of her faith...
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The title of this book is Revelation. Revelation is variously defined as: "an uncovering, a bringing to light of that which had been previously wholly hidden or only obscurely seen." God has been pleased in various ways and at different times (Heb. 1:1) to make a supernatural revelation of himself and his purposes and plans, which, under the guidance of his Spirit, has been committed to writing (Easton's Dictionary). Although this book does contain...
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Quoting the Bible does not provide the evidence that scripture is the Word of God. Proving there is a God provides the evidence the scriptures of the Holy Bible are his Word.
Discover the evidence never before declared so simply and with clarity in all the World the existence of God!
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"At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is." In this towering 1875 work, Arnold grapples with the problem of finding religious meaning in a scientific age.
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Journey to Understanding the Bible focuses on the truth, which might have not been thoroughly emphasized in ministration. The book journeyed into expanding our knowledge of God, man, Christ, and the truth about spirit and soul, which are often misinterpreted in ministration. For no Religion is Higher than Truth.
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The Eeerdmans Commentary on the Bible presents, in nontechnical language, the best of modern scholarship on each book of the Bible, including the Apocrypha. Reader-friendly commentary compliments succinct summaries of each section of the text and will be valuable to scholars, students, and general readers.
Rather than attempt a verse-by-verse analysis, these volumes work from larger sense units, highlighting the place of each passage within the overarching...
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Although there is broad consensus among Bible prophecy scholars that the times of the gentiles will continue, until the return of Jesus Christ, the century-old, traditional interpretation holds that Daniel's fourth, gentile kingdom (the Roman Empire) ceased to exist in AD 476 in the West at Rome and, therefore, must be "revived" politically in the beginning of the seven-year tribulation period. That prevailing viewpoint is obscuring a clear understanding...
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