Another quality eBook from Chapel Library. The Attributes of God has become a Christian classic in our time. Unlike other more devotional treatments, Pink considers the biblical evidence for each of God’s attributes and gives in-depth insight into His character and very nature. The reader leaves each chapter both exalting God and better understanding “him with whom we have to do.” Attributes considered include God's decrees, knowledge, supremacy, sovereignty, immutability, holiness, power,...

The Greatest Russian Fairy Tales & Fables gathers wonder tales, animal fables, heroic encounters, and household marvels from the capacious Russian oral tradition. Its pages move between crisp moral anecdote and richly episodic enchantment, where witches, tsars, clever peasants, and talking creatures test the boundaries between social order and imaginative freedom. Original illustrations deepen the volume's appeal, giving visual form to recurring figures and the dramatic landscapes of Slavi...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...

Arthur Bullard’s The Russian Pendulum (1919) is a personal and political analysis of the Russian Revolution, from the Revolution of 1905 through the beginning of the Civil War in 1918. It reflects Bullard’s own perspective, as an advocate for change in Russia with American help. Bullard’s experience as an advisor to Colonel House and Woodrow Wilson as a key staffer for the Committee for Public Information in Russia strongly colors his analysis. In this provocative study, Bullard analyzes t...

This edition features• illustrations• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and IndexCONTENTSBOOK I.THE DESERTS OF EUROPE AND ASIA:—THE LANDES, THE DUNES, AND THE STEPPES.I. THE DESERT IN FRANCE:—THE LANDES OF BRITTANY,II. THE LANDES OF GASCONY,III. THE DUNES, OR SAND-HILLS,IV. WILD SCENES OF ENGLAND:—DARTMOOR AND THE FEN COUNTRY,V. THE STEPPES:—THE DESERT IN RUSSIA, SIBERIA, AND TARTARY,VI. ANIMAL LIFE IN THE S...

Originally published in 1932, this volume The World's Economic Crisis: and the Way of Escape contains six lectures delivered under the auspices of the Sir Halley Stewart Trust in 1931. The trust was founded in 1924 for research towards the Christian ideal in all social life. All distinguished economists of the time this book is an excellent view of the world in the early twentieth century. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.This book is a re-issue o...

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into sentences and paragraphs that ease themselves from the shadows and are sudden...

The words Christ spoke from the cross can inform Christians of the purpose, the meaning, the sufferings, and the sufficiency of his death. After an introduction that discusses the nature of Christ's death as natural, unnatural, preternatural, and supernatural, Dr. Arthur W. Pink clearly illustrates the lessons that can be drawn from Christ's words-lessons on forgiveness, salvation, affection, anguish, suffering, victory, and contentment. This comprehensive and accessible volume is useful f...

Who rules this world—God or the Devil?This theological classic, first published in 1919, was notorious for its independent take on the Bible. In it, Arthur Pink fiercely defends the sovereignty of God against the apparent threat of the Devil. His doctrinal belief is that God both elects and reprobates, as Romans 9:21–23 clearly teaches. "Fear not!" he admonishes. "All things are moving in accord with His eternal purpose, and therefore, all things are working together for the good o...

The words Christ spoke from the cross can inform Christians of the purpose, the meaning, the sufferings, and the sufficiency of his death. After an introduction that discusses the nature of Christ's death as natural, unnatural, preternatural, and supernatural, Dr. Arthur W. Pink clearly illustrates the lessons that can be drawn from Christ's words-lessons on forgiveness, salvation, affection, anguish, suffering, victory, and contentment. This comprehensive and accessible volume is useful f...

Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, Volume 2, originally published in Pink’s monthly Studies in the Scriptures. As in all his writings, Pink clearly and accurately describes the truth of Jesus’ teaching to the multitudes so many years ago, and how His teaching is still very relevant to us today.Volume 2 covers the entire sixth chapter of Matthew: Alms, Prayer, Fasting, Covetousness, The Single Eye, Serving God, and Anxiety Forbidden.

This book is about living with Parkinson's, an incurable, debilitating disease caused by the lossof dopamine-producing cells in the brain of the afflicted person. Levodopa is the only drug that replaces some of the dopamine and exercise is the only activity that induces the brain to produce dopamine. The author uses a rigorous exercise program to reduce the dosage of levodopa and extend the useful life of this essential drug. This is the author's dumb bells and dopamine approach to control...