We have misunderstood Paul, badly.We have read his words through our own set of assumptions. We need to begin with Paul's world view, to see things the way he saw them.- What if 'original sin' was never part of Paul's thinking?- What if the idea that we are saved by faith in Christ, as Luther argued, was based on a mistranslation of Paul's words and a misunderstanding of Paul's thinking?'Over the centuries,' writes Steve Chalke, 'the Church h...

The incredible true story behind the global gaming phenomenon! Generation Decks tells the story of the mould-breaking fantasy card game Magic: The Gathering. The brainchild of misfit maths genius Richard Garfield, Magic combines fiendishly complex gameplay with collectability. When it came out in the early '90s it transformed the lives of gamers who had longed for a game that combined challenging mechanics and kick-ass artwork with a chance to connect and compete with lik...

Are childhood wounds still controlling how you feel about yourself?Does Any of This Sound Familiar?You can't shake the feeling that you're fundamentally broken or unlovable.You sabotage relationships when they get too close.You freeze when someone raises their voice, even when it's not directed at you.You replay your childhood trying to figure out what you could have done differently.Living with unhealed chil...

Samuel Moore is living a dystopian lie…After a civil war, the North American Commonwealth now dominates the eastern half of the former United States. Controlled by a totalitarian regime called the Directorate, the NAC demands compliance, awareness, and unity. A Directorate member and teacher, Sam enjoys the benefits while skirting the forbidden.Then Sam encounters Katie Spencer. She sneaks him a short wave radio and he hears the Western Alliance broadcasts. Katie also revea...

The Texas wine industry just keeps growing. Sometimes it feels as if a new winery opens every week. And if you still think Lone Star wines don t yet compare in quality, check out the results at prestigious national competitions.Texas wine has never been better, some of it, that is. The hard part is identifying the best winemakers among the hundreds of establishments that beckon the wine tourist.Needed is a guide who knows and cares about wine in general and Texas wine in pa...

This bookidentifies and explores the consistent link between negative depictions of education in novels and claims for the educative effects of reading them. The novel and education are both phenomena that rely fundamentally on development over time: the former in plot and character, and the latter in individual potential. Despite this basic parallel, these forms of development are at odds in many works of fiction that treat education as constrictive and even traumatic to the individual, r...

Reason has done much of the heavy lifting throughout history. This book presents quotations from many of history's key figures who both recognize the importance of – and also the limitations of – reason.

Circuits of disease correspond to previously unconsidered practices of caregiving in early modern English drama in this new volume by Darryl Chalk and Rebecca Totaro. They explore how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries responded to and intersected with local and international ideas of communal care, health management, quarantine, embodiment, and theatricality.The role of the spectators who found themselves represented in such themes of caregiving in times of crisis fin...

Selected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent the contemporary state of Shakespeare studies in thirty-eight countries worldwide. Apart from readings of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, more than forty chapters map Renaissance contexts of his art in politics, theater, law, or material culture and discuss numerous cases of the impact of his works in global culture from the Americas to the Far East, including stage productions...

Ishmael The Snail is a poem about figuring out how to move through life. Ishmael is a snail, but his friends are a wren and a hare. When Ishmael hears his friends talk about racing to hop the fastest and fly the farthest, he feels uneasy and begins to wonder if he's behind. How could he race with hares and wrens if he can't hop or fly? Why does he move differently? With some help from his mother Gail, his friends, and the world around him, Ishmael learns that life is not a race, t...

The quest for meaning and purpose dwells within all of us. Jesus insisted that its fulfillment lay in a relationship with him. But what does that relationship look like—really?Apprentice calls spiritual pilgrims, both Christians and non-Christians, to exchange the shallow diversions of secular and religious culture for the pursuit of our true desires. In a book of refreshing honesty, great heart, and rich creativity, Steve Chalke guides us into an apprenticeship with the master teacher, Je...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Are childhood wounds still controlling how you feel about yourself?Does Any of This Sound Familiar?• You can't shake the feeling that you're fundamentally broken or unlovable.• You sabotage relationships when they get too close.• You freeze when someone raises their voice, even when it's not directed at you.• You replay your childhood trying to figure out what you could have done ...