Religions and Education in Antiquity gathers ten essays on teaching and learning in the contexts of ancient Western religions, including Judaism, early Christianity and Gnostic Christian traditions. Beginning with an overview of religious education in the ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds, editor Alex Damm and the contributors together demonstrate the mutual influence of religion and education on each other; the relevance of educational traditions in addressing (for instance) historical or exegetical issues; and the thoroughgoing importance of education to religious life across time and space in antiquity. Highly useful to scholars of religion, theology, classics and education, this volume affords a state of the art study on pedagogy and learning in ancient religious contexts.

This book provides new insights on the unique role of doctoral students and new faculty as they join other stewards of the academy working within Christian higher education. Weaving together a variety of voices-graduate students, pastors, and seasoned scholars-the book examines the Christian university's relationship to the Church and how faith and stewardshipcan guide the pursuit of teaching and scholarship.

One of Satan's strategies to keep God's children in financial bondage is to convince them that they can't afford to give, when in fact they can't afford not to give. It is vitally important that you understand this fact: It is your giving that opens you up to receive an empowerment from God, a supernatural ability from God to prosper. Your giving is what allows God to cloth you with the anointing to prosper in every area of your life. The only thing powerful enough to stop that anointing from operating in your life is when you allow the enemy to stop you from sowing. You must get to the point where you realize that as long as you keep giving you will continue to experience victory in your life, and financial freedom. WHEREVER YOU FIND POVERTY, WHEREVER YOU FIND LACK, AND WHEREVER YOU FIND ANY TYPE OF FINANCIAL CAPTIVITY IF YOU WILL TRACE IT BACK TO THE ROOT CAUSE, YOU WILL ALWAYS DISCOVER THE ROOT CAUSE OF IT BEING A LACK OF SOWING SEED Every time you plant a seed you active or set in motion spiritual laws. God said in the book of Genesis that as long as the earth remaineth seedtime and harvest would not cease. You plant a seed you get a harvest That's just the way the law works You plant you reap That's spiritual law It is unchangeable, and undeniable. It works every time you plant a seed. It works whether or not you feel like it is working. It works regardless of the circumstances or situations. You plant you reap Once you understand that God is the Source of your financial freedom and that giving is how you receive that freedom the devil will never be able to hold you in financial bondage again This book is designed, to teach you how to experience supernatural increase in your life by activating the spiritual laws governing increase and abundance. Join me as we go on a journey to wealthy place

Since its beginning, the professing church has been divided over the practice of water baptism. There has never been any true consensus on such important matters as the purpose for its administration, to whom it should be administered, by whom it should be administered, when it should be administered, how it should be administered, etc. For a ceremony of such seeming importance this is remarkable. Doesn't the Word of God provide plain instructions regarding these things as they relate to the water baptism being practiced by the Church today? No, it doesn't Given this, a reasonable mind might ask "Is water baptism really necessary today?" This book provides scripture-based reasons why water baptism is not necessary for either salvation or obedience