This book provides readers with three Bible-based teachings all Christians need to have to understand God in a deeper sense. First, it provides biblical knowledge of the reason God created humankind. Second, it provides knowledge of mankind's purpose. Third, it provides knowledge of the things God created to help mankind with life on earth.

Scripture & Song is the newest title in The Worship Lifestyle Devotional Series. Take a month-long journey, using scripture and lyrics, in order to strengthen your walk with the Lord.Each daily devotional reading is a short poetic lyric with the scripture that inspired each song written by the author. Space is provided after each chapter for reflection, thoughts and prayer.Whether you are looking to be bold in your praise or are in need of a place to turn ...

Choosing a Worship Lifestyle is the first title in The Worship Lifestyle Devotional Series. Enhance your daily devotions with 30 days of stories, lessons and teachings from a biblical standpoint.Each days devotion teaches the importance of living a daily worship lifestyle in our relationship with God, while looking at topics such as the heart attitude, consecration, devotion, forgiveness, grace, humbleness and more!Begin or end your day in a worship lifest...

In The Native South, Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O’Brien assemble contributions from leading ethnohistorians of the American South in a state-of-the-field volume of Native American history from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Spanning such subjects as Seminole–African American kinship systems, Cherokee notions of guilt and innocence in evolving tribal jurisprudence, Indian captives and American empire, and second-wave feminist activism among Cherokee women in the 1970s, ...

A brilliant, biting, and wickedly funny send-up of American politics. This is satire at its best, delivered as only Keillor can.

In Signposts, Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter have assembled seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. The essays will inspire today's scholars to dig even more deeply into the southern legal heritage, in much the same way that David Bodenhamer and James Ely's seminal 1984 work, Ambivalent Legacy, inspired an earlier generation to ta...

The story of the legal battle between the Cherokee Nation and the State of Georgia that ultimately led to the infamous Trail of Tears and the ongoing struggles for Native sovereignty.Sovereignty on Trial tells the story of a trio of landmark United States Supreme Court cases—Johnson v. M’Intosh (1823), Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831), and Worcester v. Georgia (1832)—that considered the legal status of Native nations in the early ninetee...

Fans of A Prairie Home Companion know him as Garrison Keillor’s grumbling sidekick Dusty “The Lives of the Cowboys,” an array of wise-cracking wise-guys from the mean streets of “Guy Noir, Private Eye,” or Jim, the beleaguered husband from A Prairie Home Companion’s famously catchup-deprived midlife couple. One minute he’s George Bush or Julia Child, Barack Obama or Arnold Schwarzenegger.So here’s the fearless Tim Russell in 19 hilarious performances from A Pr...

In this social history, Edward Countryman shows how interactions among America's different ethnic groups have contributed to our sense of nationality. From the earliest settlements along the Atlantic seaboard to the battle over our nation's destiny in the aftermath of the Civil War, Countryman reveals Americans in all their diverse complexity and shows why the very identity of "American"--forged by the African, the Indian, and the European alike--is what matters.

Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that "all men are created equal"? The usual answer is racism, but the reality is more complex and unsettling. In Bind Us Apart, historian Nicholas Guyatt argues that, from the Revolution through the Civil War, most white liberals believed in the unity of all human beings. But their philosophy faltered when it came to the practical work of forging a color-blind society. Unable to convince...

Unpack the riches and deepen your Bible study on the Fruit of the Spirit with this bestselling illustrated pamphlet that's packed with overviews, explanations, and charts!The Fruit of the Spirit Chart is a wonderful explanation of the nine Fruit of the Spirit mentioned in the Bible. This full-color Bible Study on The Fruit of the Spirit includes a chart that helps Christians understand the nine fruit of the Spirit...

* Discover how the Rapture fits into End Times prophecy. * Discover the differences between The Rapture, Resurrection, and Second Coming of Jesus Christ. * Discover what events occur before The Rapture. Understanding Bible Prophecy can be difficult. By examining End Time scriptures and doing an in depth analysis of specific End Time Bible prophecy scriptures in the books of Revelation, Matthew, Daniel, and Luke, the mystery of the Rapture is answered! This book makes the End Times simplifi...