In The Magnificent Defeat, Frederick Buechner examines what it means to follow Christ, the lessons of Christmas and Easter, the miracles of grace, and "the magnificent defeat" of the human soul of God.

The Babylonian Talmud remains the richest source of information regarding the material culture and lifestyle of the Babylonian Jewish community, with additional data now supplied by Babylonian incantation bowls. Although archaeology has yet to excavate any Jewish sites from Babylonia, information from Parthian and Sassanian Babylonia provides relevant background information, which differs substantially from archaeological finds from the Land of Israel. One of the key questions addresses the amount of traffic and general communications between Jewish Babylonia and Israel, considering the great distances and hardships of travel involved.

This book is a must read Don't let the word poetry fool you This book is inspiring, encouraging, empowering, life-changing, powerful, profound, prophetic poetry that points to Christ. This is not your average book of poems. These words are God-inspired You must be careful how you speak over your life and who you allow to speak into your life Words live Words have the ability to create, produce, form and construct. The words in this book does that and more They give life to lifeless situations Words can also destroy, demolish, tear down, remove and eliminate......ultimately death can occur because of spoken words How many of you need some things to die out of your life like sickness, disease, pain, and turmoil? There is absolutely no way you can read this book and the Words not come alive in your spirit To read this book is to be healed, to be restored, to be revived, to be delivered, to be set free from strongholds and addictions This book will create fresh vision for your life, birth new revelation in your spirit, and produce fruit in your life that will remain This book was written to create new spiritual levels in your life. It will inspire you to transform your mind to think like Christ, remove your stony heart and refashion you a heart of flesh The words in this book are anointed by God and will destroy, completely demolish the works and ploys of satan, pull down strongholds and generations curses in your life will be removed as well as barriers that try to hinder your progress in God To read this book you will experience God's supernatural power in your life These words bring about a change, a spiritual birthing; they will transform your life even as you read them This book is full of the Word of God It will challenge you to re-evaluate your life and make positive, life-long changes that will cause you to rise to new spiritual heights This book prepares you for your next radical move, your next shift, your next supernatural blessing The words in this book are anointed to bring about conviction that provokes a God-fearing change, awaken the spirit in you, deposit faith and build your confidence in God It is time for the body of Christ to rule, subdue, have dominion, take over territory and walk in total VICTORY

"The Egypt Experience" is an uplifting, inspirational book. A book that will inspire the reader to forge ahead and never to give up when faced with difficult or adverse situations. "The Egypt Experience" gives us to know that somewhere in our lives we will face some rough times but that God will always be there to see us through until the end and that we are never alone. "The Egypt Experience" gives the readers the blessed assurance that God is still in control of our lives and He will always protect and provide for His children.

Grieving, Brooding, and Transforming: The Spirit, The Bible, and Gender is a collection of scholarly essays by Pentecostal women. It explores troubling biblical texts, as well as those of contemporary church life, in regards to the portrayal of women. The authors seek to identify the presence and work of the Spirit that is often hidden within the contours of these texts. A Pentecostal feminist hermeneutic desires to move beyond suspicion into the deeper terrain of the Spirit's mission of grieving, brooding, and transforming a broken world. The essays point to the purposes of God toward justice and the healing of creation.