There are all kinds of ideas about what heaven will be like but many of them just don't fit with what God has said in his Word. Beam and Wilson take a humorous, insightful, and biblical look at heaven and what it will really be like.What's your picture of heaven? Will you be sitting on a cloud strumming a golden harp? Will you be singing in an eternal worship service? Will the gates be pearly and the streets paved with gold? Is the place you picture a place you would really want to spend a...

About the BookBig Blue Bubble Buggy is a story written by the whimsical and creative mind of Thomas D. Brucker. The story is based upon a surreal animated dream he had. He wrote the story on December 23,2001 for his Son Bryce and Daughter Brianna. Since then, the weight of time has altered their lives, relationships, and the world around them. Despite the weight of this change, the care and adoration that spawned the Big Blue Bubble Buggy has only blossomed and evolved further.

Northern Appalachia is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and home to a broad range of ecological and human cultures. With A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, editors Todd Davis and Noah Davis recognize and celebrate this diversity and the fact that humans are storytelling creatures who develop relationships with their landscapes at the intersection of art and science.A companion volume to A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, this gui...

This book about Heaven uses plain language (not a lot of religious jargon) to take a serious, yet ultimately comforting look at Heaven. It acknowledges that even Christians can have doubts and concerns about what being a citizen of Heaven will be like. Referring to Scripture whenever possible, it addresses such concerns as "Will we have bodies or simply be spirits in Heaven?" and "Will we keep our memories of this life?"

In Hope Is Where the Heart Is, Jim Pourteau shares the story of how he and his wife, Shannon, found healing and restoration in their marriage after betrayal and brokenness.Have you made mistakes, wrong choices, or foolish decisions that have negatively affected your life and the people you love?Jim Pourteau has you beat.Jim was the guy who did everything “right.” He was a spiritual leader in one of the largest congregations in the Northeast, the go-to guy when other...

This book is formatted for fast search and navigation. This is complete and unabridged one-volume edition of Matthew Henry's work.  Matthew Henry's well-known six-volume Exposition of the Old and New Testaments or Complete Commentary, provides an exhaustive verse by verse study of the Bible covering the whole of the Old Testament, and the Gospels and Acts in the New Testament.

In proceeding to the contemplation of the mysteries of knowledge, we shall adhere to the celebrated and venerable rule of tradition, commencing from the origin of the universe, setting forth those points of physical contemplation which are necessary to be premised, and removing whatever can be an obstacle on the way; so that the ear may be prepared for the reception of the tradition of the Gnosis, the ground being cleared of weeds and fitted for the planting of the vineyard; for there is a...

Life is full of mystery. Is it possible that there is order in the midst of chaos?Are there solutions to everyday problems? Can there be meaning or purpose in life? Is it possible to know why we are here and where we are going? Why is there so much suffering and death? Is there life after death? Can we be enlightened here and now? Am I destined to lose all identity—to become part of a great nothingness? Is it true that there are no answers?There is an ancient book that disc...

Biblicism, an approach to the Bible common among some American evangelicals, emphasizes together the Bible's exclusive authority, infallibility, clarity, self-sufficiency, internal consistency, self-evident meaning, and universal applicability. Acclaimed sociologist Christian Smith argues that this approach is misguided and unable to live up to its own claims. If evangelical biblicism worked as its proponents say it should, there would not be the vast variety of interpretive differences th...

There are Bibles literally all over the place. You can find them in the drawer of the end table in your hotel room, under the pews at your local church, on the shelves of your local library or bookstore, posted in full and in multiple versions onany number of websites. You can find them in every corner of the earth, even (if you look carefully enough) in places where they're forbidden.So there's no trouble getting hold of a Bible. But once you have one in your hands . . . now what?...

McKenzie argues that to comprehend the Bible we must grasp the intentions of the biblical authors themselves--what sort of texts they thought they were writing and how they would have been understood by their intended audience. In short, we must recognize the genres to which these texts belong. McKenzie examines several genres that are typically misunderstood, offering careful readings of specific texts to show how the confusion arises, and how knowing the genre produces a correct reading....

IS CHRISTIAN UNITY POSSIBLE? Is it possible that most Christians could agree on doctrines such as: Eternal Security, Infant Baptism, Original Sin, Women as Elders, Free Will, Predestination, Homosexuality, Who Has the Keys to the Kingdom?, Penance, The Deity of Christ, Filioque, Why do Good People Suffer, Religious Hierarchies, Purgatory, and Salvation? IT IS POSSIBLE, and the key l...