This sermon contains reflections upon the excellent things done by the great God more generally in creation and redemption, and in the government of the world, but more particularly in the remarkable revolutions of providence which are everywhere the matter of present observation, with a postscript giving an account of some very stupendous accidents which have lately happened in France. Also found within is a sermon preached unto the convention of the Massachusetts Colony in New England with a short narrative of several prodigies which New England had of late had the alarms of heaven in. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. Old English text.

These words show that a notoriously bad man may find better quarter from the generality of this naughty world than the very best. They likewise serve to admonish thee that you should not be much disturbed, nor altered in your opinions, when you behold such a man much caressed and followed with triumphs and applauses; or if you should see men of goodness and great virtues abandoned and despised. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. Written in Old English.

Daniel Heimbach examines the biblical teachings on sexual morality as well as four counterfeit views that have crept into our "sexually revolutionized" society. He gives us an in-depth look at the moral relativism that has spread through our culture and opens our eyes to the effects that nonbiblical sexual choices have on individuals, the family, the church, and the culture.

"'Why should I mind the way I go, His way is best for me this I know. HE IS MY STRENGTH, MY TRUTH, MY WAY. HE IS MY COMFORTER DAY BY DAY. As I travel with Him hand and hand I know I am bound for the Promised Land." "

In "To Know Jesus Better," inspirational and practical lessons prepared by the late Pastor Fred Dickey of St. Luke Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, will help you understand the mysteries of life and provide you with the strength to overcome adversity on your path to righteousness.

His lessons teach about life, time, and eternity, as well as the gifts of God. Learn how to navigate 'the Christian walk," harness the 'power to transform life," and understand the 'guidelines of faith." Author Geneva Zachary also contributes her inspiring devotions, poems, and prayers to help enrich your walk with Christ.

Prepare for the next world through God's steadfast love, his presence everywhere, and his infallible truths. Take comfort in knowing that God is always present. When you grow closer to Jesus, your life becomes fulfilled and enriched with His grace and mercy.

The sermons found in this work could not be arranged according to any proper sequence. Those which refer to doctrine and the Church Seasons are mostly found in the beginning, while those which deal with practical subjects are found near the end. The original manuscripts have been adhered to as closely as possible. Most of these sermons were written out very roughly and were only intended for delivery from the pulpit.

By God's grace, I have taken it upon myself to write down some of the principles that He taught me concerning discernment, spirit beings and walking in the realm of the spirit. So many people in Christendom have little or no knowledge at all concerning what goes on in the spiritual realm. As a result, they are not able to fight off the enemy of their soul who is out to steal, kill and destroy every human being. My hope is that people's spiritual "eyes of understanding will be enlightened" as they study the principles outlined in this book. It is designed to help the reader understand the key principles about discerning of spirits, the origin of evil spirits, the activities of evil spirits, how to identify evil spirits and how to expel evil spirits. I also answered one of the most frequently asked questions in the body of Christ today, "Can a Christian Have a Demon?" It is my hope and desire that by the time an average person goes through the teachings outlined in this book, he or she will no longer be ignorant about evil spirits and about spiritual matters. I therefore, encourage you to take the Chapters in this book seriously and make a determination to apprehend the principles outlined in each Chapter. May the Lord give you great revelation as you read.

"Tuesday Morning Meditations" is an important book for those seeking a deeper understanding of God, spirituality, and ultimate meaning in a world that often seems distant, uncaring, and indifferent.

In these 23 sermonic reflections, author Dwayne Meadows, speaking in language born of a deep engagement with the Biblical text, and with the poetic nuance of the great bards of the sermonic arts, encourages, edifies, and challenges with such sermons as * "This is Love" * "What If" * "Lord make me to know mine end" * "Strange Fruit"

"Tuesday Morning Meditations" is a book for everyone, regardless of denomination or faith tradition, who wrestles with the essential enigma of divine relationality, and is not afraid to question traditional understandings of Humankind's religious strivings.

"This little work, after having passed through fifteen editions in this country (USA), and we know not how many in England, after having been translated into French, German, Greek, and many more languages, printed in raised letters for the blind, and last of all, having been adopted as a school-book for the liberated slaves at Sierra Leone, is now sent forth by the publishers in a new dress, with the addition of two new Lectures." - Author's Preface John Todd (1800-1873) was a graduate of Yale College and Andover Theological Seminary. His theology was molded by the works of Jonathan Edwards, and he had the privilege of pastoring Edwards Memorial Church in Northampton, MA. These lectures are the fruit of a ministry directed with conviction to the consciences of the young. From the opening page of these lectures the reader is addressed in such a personal way that he cannot but hear the words for himself. Not only should these be read by and to children, but every pastor and Sunday School teacher should read it and learn the delicate art of speaking to children. This was a best seller in the middle of the 19th century, but it has been buried for more than 125 years. It is high time Todd was able to speak again for the cause of God and truth.

1923. The Rev. G.J. Ouseley was a priest, first in the Established Church of Ireland, and afterwards in the Catholic Apostolic Church. The Gospel was written down by him after he had received it in numerous fragments at different times from Emmanuel Swedenborg (who was seen by trustworthy clairvoyants and afterwards identified from a portrait shown to them), Anna Kingsford, Edward Maitland, and a priest of a former century giving his name as Placidus of the Franciscan Order, afterwards a Carmelite. The unseen communicators wished to reinstall passages that insist on the obvious, though often lamentably neglected, duty of love and protection for animals, relate a number of instances of the personal interference of the Lord of Love to save animals from ill-treatment and teach against the eating of flesh and taking of strong drink.

The public university classroom is a place where socialization still occurs: it's where students learn to be citizens of the world. Having attended to political correctness and multiculturalism, universities are now facing the issue of spirituality in their quest to educate the whole person. In this book, Chris Anderson takes up this task by carefully exploring how a professor of faith can help a public university accomplish its pluralistic mission. Anderson illustrates how the study of secular literature throws fresh light on the ways in which the Bible can be read. He also deftly shows how a sympathetic study of the Bible trains secular readers for understanding the abiding significance of the Western literary canon as a kind of scripture. Anderson thus gives readers a book that is as much about the experience of a faithful teacher and the proper ends of education as it is about discovering the right ways to read texts - be they sacred or secular.

"Weapons of Mass Distraction" is a compilation of sermons that challenge us to think and act responsibly on current social issues that promise to have a huge impact on the planet's well-being in the coming century.

Globalization, the attack on democracy, the mistreatment of women, and the growing AIDS pandemic are but a few of the topics taken on by these courageous sermons that dare to challenge the prevailing mindset that labels democratic protest as unpatriotic.

This collection of hope-inspiring messages, accessible to persons of all faiths, is anything but anti-American. In fact, they speak to the very core values held high by this country for so long.

"Weapons of Mass Distraction" is a welcomed theological dialogue with the great social issues of our generation, coming from the perspective of the "silenced majority" those who's protest cries against wars of aggression did not make the evening news; and who's votes in the 2000 presidential election were ignored to the detriment of millions.

Finally, "Weapons of Mass Distraction" is a call to action; a call to all those who "see the trouble we are in" and have the courage enough to do the work of rebuilding the walls.

Mr. Gordon is unwilling that anyone who may look into this volume should fail to grasp his purpose in writing it. He has no interest in the destruction of the belief in miracle. He is concerned to show that where miracles has ceased to be regarded as true, Christianity remains in its essence entire; that the fortune of religion is not to be identified with the fortune of miracle; that the message of Jesus Christ to the world is independent of miracles, lives by its own reality and worth, self-evidencing and self-attesting. Contents: issue defined; belief in God and miracle; Jesus Christ and miracle; Christian life and miracle; eternal gospel.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The Bible is filled with stories about life-changing encounters with the divine -- Moses and the burning bush, Samuel in the temple, the angel's visit to Mary, and Paul's Damascus road experience are just a few examples -- and many modern Christians have had equally powerful experiences of the Lord's power and presence. In this third volume of the acclaimed "Visions" series, 60 contributors share their authentic, intensely personal accounts of holy experiences. Whether they relate transforming moments like visions, healings, or visitations by angels, joyous moments like being in the presence of a loved one who has died, or just the simple sense of God's presence while singing in church or sitting in a sunny meadow on a warm spring day, each vignette is a testament to the indescribable comfort and peace of an encounter with the divine. And because each personal story also illustrates a lectionary scripture passage, Shining Moments is a valuable preaching resource. But even more, this book provides inspiring and heart-warming reading for personal devotion and spiritual growth.

The Bible has played a critical role in the story of Judaism, modernity, and identity. Penny Schine Gold examines the arena of children's education and the role of the Bible in the reshaping of Jewish identity, especially in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s, when a second generation of Eastern European Jews engaged the task of Americanizing Jewish culture, religion, and institutions. Professional Jewish educators based in the Reform movement undertook a multifaceted agenda for the Bible in America: to modernize it, harmonize it with American values, and move it to the center of the religious school curriculum. Through public schooling, the children of Jewish immigrants brought America home; it was up to the adults to fashion a Judaism that their children could take back out into America. Because of its historic role in the development of Judaism and its cultural significance in American life, Gold finds, the Bible provided Jews with vital links to both the past and the present. The ancient sacred text of the Bible, transformed into highly abridged and amended "Bible tales," was brought into service as a bridge between tradition and modernity.Gold analyzes these American developments with reference to the intellectual history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe, innovations in public schooling and social theory, Protestant religious education, and later versions of children's Bibles in the United States and Israel. She shows that these seemingly simple children's books are complex markers of the pressing concerns of Jews in the modern world.

The Bible is filled with many familiar stories of mystical experiences -- Moses and the burning bush, Samuel in the temple, the angel's visit to Mary, and Paul's Damascus road experience are just a few examples -- and many modern Christians have equally powerful experiences of the Lord's life-changing power and presence.

In this follow-up volume to Vision Stories, 84 contributors share their authentic, intensely personal accounts of encountering the divine, including visions, healing miracles, and answers to prayer. Each vignette manifests the indescribable joy, comfort, and peace we experience in God's presence. And because each personal story also illustrates a scripture passage, Sharing Visions is a valuable preaching resource. But even more, this is inspiring reading for personal devotion and spiritual growth.

Why is it, James Moore asks, that we try to justify anything and everything we want to do? We use words, scapegoats, blaming other people, circumstances, past events, even evil spirits ("the devil made me do it ") to attempt to excuse bad choices we make with our own free will. What does the Christian faith have to say about all this? The author reminds us of what our faith tells us about excuses: first, that God sees through them; second, that God is more interested in forgiving us than in hearing our excuses; third, that God wants penitence - not excuses - from us. In his warm, embracing style, James Moore encourages us to seek forgiveness. After all, we are justified, not by our eloquent excuses but by the grace of a loving, caring, forgiving God.

So Ya' Wanna' Be A Teacher tells the whole amazing true story of what really goes on in the typical American public school. The author was an English teacher for thirty-four years in a middle, junior-high and high school and knows all about the problem student, problem classes, crazy' problem parents, student fighting, cheating, the Educational Aristocracy, nutty field trips, administrivia and bizarre assembly programs. The teacher in his career had taught over four thousand students, broken up over two-hundred and fifty fist fights, participated in over seven hundred fire drills and listened to loud school bells ring over a hundred and fifty thousand times.

In "To God Alone Be Glory," the fruit of extensive study and research, Harold Daniels tells the fascinating story of the history of Reformed worship in America, from the 1600s to the present. He describes the development and objectives of the "Book of Common Worship" and explores how the book itself serves as an agenda for liturgical reform within the church. In a substantive second part of the book, Daniels provides the sources of the prayers and other materials used in the "Book of Common Worship." Persons involved in planning, presenting, studying, or teaching about Presbyterian worship will benefit greatly from having a copy of this comprehensive resource in their personal library.

On February 22, 1991, the Mother of Jesus Christ began a supernatural relationship with two central Illinois men who themselves had been best of friends from their youth. Through appearances and mystical interior conversations, the Most Blessed Virgin Mary began instructing them in regards to the wishes and demands of Heaven during our contemporary age. "When Legends Rise Again" is one of the products of their unique and prophetic encounters with these Hosts of Paradise. Never has there been such a righteous admonition filled with so many solemn truths pertaining to the soul of the United States of America. It is a graceful, yet lambasting, rebuttal of our immoral culture and lackadaisical approach to our relationship with Jesus Christ and the responsibilities espoused by the tenets of His teachings. This expose delves into the character of those who founded this great nation, along with highlighting many sacred witnesses who have burned-out their lives guarding an almost mystical heritage that we are collectively taking for granted. It is the third work in a monumental series of mystical writings that possess the power to ultimately transform the spiritual perception of millions regarding the sacred nature of our lives in preparation for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

This collection of children's sermons communicates the gospel to youngsters on their level and in a way that interests them. Just as Jesus referred to common objects when he taught, these lessons use everyday items to illustrate the them. Each message includes the scriptural background and a list of materials needed.