Navigating the Sermon for Cycle B of the Revised Common Lectionary
How to Kill Things with Words (Criminal Practice) (The Library of New Testament Studies, #454)
by David R McCabe
This work studies the literary and socio-discursive contexts of 'the Ananias and Sapphira episode' in "Acts" as a narrative illustrating the negative-ethos of community goods. This work examines the dynamics of the Ananias and Sapphira episode in "Acts" and its role in the narrative of "Luke-Acts". McCabe locates the passage within its literary context, and emphasizes the manner in which it is embedded in a discourse on the life of the Christian community expressed through shared goods. Utilizin...
Stories Jesus Told (The children's picture Bible)
by Rawson Lloyd and Christopher Rawson
Jesus' Death and Resurrection (Jesus' Death & Resurrection, #2)
by Frank C Laubach
There are countless paths to follow when seeking spiritual guidance, but thousands of years of religion and theology cannot replace the premier example that Jesus himself set. In A Portrait of Jesus, bestselling writer Joseph Girzone recaptures the truth of Jesus that is presented in the Gospels and gives a compelling vision of the person Jesus' contemporaries must have known. In his most powerful work yet, Girzone seeks to personify Christ in the minds of readers by asking some simple questions...
How did Gospel authors Matthew and Luke shape the story of John the Baptist around the story of Jesus? Why was the historical Baptist so popular? In John the Baptist: Prophet of Purity for a New Age, Catherine Murphy explores the character of John the Baptist and compares what the foundational Gospels yield: not only the perspectives of the synoptic authors, but also a sketch of the historical figure of John the Baptist, which is then placed within the religious, political and economic context o...
Great People of the Bible (Fisherman Bible Studyguide)
by Carol Plueddemann
The great people highlighted in these studies can give us encouragement and hope for our lives today because we have the same resource they had-faith in a great God.
