Answers to the most common questions and misconceptions about the Bible Seven Things I Wish Christians Knew about the Bible is a short and readable introduction to the Bible-its origins, interpretation, truthfulness, and authority. Bible scholar, prolific author, and Anglican minister Michael Bird helps Christians understand seven important "things" about this unique book: how the Bible was put together; what "inspiration" means; how the Bible is true; why the Bible needs to be rooted in history; why literal interpretation is not always the best interpretation; how the Bible gives us knowledge, faith, love, and hope; and how Jesus Christ is the center of the Bible. Seven Things presents a clear and understandable evangelical account of the Bible's inspiration, canonization, significance, and relevance in a way that is irenic and compelling. It is a must read for any serious Bible reader who desires an informed and mature view of the Bible that will enrich their faith.

Baptists in America began the eighteenth century a small, scattered, often harassed sect in a vast sea of religious options. By the early nineteenth century, they were a unified, powerful, and rapidly-growing denomination, poised to send missionaries to the other side of the world. One of the most influential yet neglected leaders in that transformation was Oliver Hart, longtime pastor of the Charleston Baptist Church. Oliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America is the first modern biography of Hart, arguably the most important evangelical leader in the pre-Revolutionary South. During his thirty years in Charleston, Hart emerged as the region's most important Baptist denominational architect. His outspoken patriotism forced him to flee Charleston when the British army invaded Charleston in 1780, but he left behind a southern Baptist people forever changed by his energetic ministry. Hart's accommodating stance toward slavery enabled him and the white Baptists who followed him to reach the center of southern society, but also eventually doomed the national Baptist denomination of Hart's dreams. More than a biography, Oliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America seamlessly intertwines Hart's story with that of eighteenth-century American Baptists, providing one of the most thorough accounts to date of this important and understudied religious group's development. This book makes a significant contribution to the study of Baptist life and evangelicalism in the pre-Revolutionary South and beyond.

Biblical Christianity In African Perspective is a survey of the major truths of the Christian faith as seen from the perspective of the African world view.

The book addresses the major tenets of the Christian faith together with some of the most important moral and spiritual issues of African life. Unlike most theology books, this book has been purposely written in readable everyday language, including many true African stories. The book was written by a person with 50 years of study in the Word of God, who has spent over 40 of those years relating the Bible to African life and issues.

It is the result of five years of graduate research and evaluation in consultation with more than 300 African theological students and faculty in various schools.

Those who say "Rapture before Tribulation" are in effect saying "peace andsafety" And therefore, you being a foolish virgin, with not enough oil to lightyour lamp for the breaking of the first six seals, shall these same seal judgmentscome upon you for your destruction, ..".suddenly like birth pangs upon awoman with child and they shall not escape," I Thessalonians 5:3.Can you put your finger on the order of events Christ gives us in Matthew24:3-31? See also the Apostasy and the "man of lawlessness," both come beforethe rapture. Read: II Thessalonians 2:3. See order of events: Daniel chapter12, Revelation chapters 6, 7, 13 and 14. Remember, there is only one harvestor rapture.Make ready ye saints in this; "The Laodicean Apostate Church." We must passthrough the tribulation for the trying of our faith; for the separating of thewheat from the tares, or the five wise from among the five foolish virgins. Doyou have enough oil to endure unto the end? Or will your lamp go out? Trysome of my oil; For "my cup runneth over " Please Read on...After the Rapture, then comes the Wrath of God on the Foolish Virgins Next: Tormenting wrath on Anti-Christ followers of all nations, as the elementsbecome increasingly toxic. Then Anti-Christ armies suffer greatly Now comesall the armies of all nations to join satan, the beast and the false prophet, tobattle Israel and God's armies from heaven; for "The Last Great Battle" "TheBattle of Armageddon " Next: "The Millennium," "The Second Death," "Lakeof Fire..."

For at least the past two decades, international Anglicanism has been gripped by a crisis of identity: what is to be the dynamic between autonomy and interdependence? Where is authority to be located? How might the local relate to the international? How are the variously diverse national churches to be held together 'in communion'? "A Still More Excellent Way" presents a comprehensive account of the development and nature of metropolitical authority and the place of the 'province' within Anglican polity, with an emphasis on the contemporary question of how international Anglicanism is to be imagined and take shape. The first comprehensive historical examination of the development of metropolitical authority and provincial polity within international Anglicanism, the book offers hope to those wearied by the deadlock and frustration around questions of authority which have dogged Anglicanism.

This book is a collection of related stories by members of the Adrian Dominican congregation that reflects the creative movement that has taken place in religious life as women have responded to the inspiration of Vatican Council II as well as to the impact of contemporary culture. While the impetus to renewal came directly from the Church authority, adaptation and change far exceeded what was originally envisioned by those who authorized the process, particularly when the institutes responded to the directive to "consult all the members."The contributors to this book trace the most critical influences that moved religious congregations toward a renewed religious life. They embraced a God who does not remain static but who moves in human history, a loving God who relates to us in care and compassion, a Holy Spirit who dwells within and inspires through discernment the decisions and directions that are to be taken, a sense of personal worth and empowerment as women baptized into gospel mission and ministry, a response to Church teaching that action on behalf of justice is constitutive of Gospel mission. In renewing their religious life, women have an important experience to offer the Church for ongoing renewal in the future, as reflection upon these essays and continuing dialogue will reveal.>