Read Your Bible For Revival is a book that practically and inspirationally teaches Christians how to enjoy reading their Bible, while maximizing its impact on their life. Many Christians who love God and love His Word, struggle to build a lifestyle of reading their Bible daily, because of the burden to study and trudge through seemingly out of date or hard to understand stories, requirements and details. Read Your Bible For Revival lifts the pressure to study, memorize and meditate, by teaching you how to enjoy simply reading your Bible, as a lifestyle of abiding in God's Word. Then it teaches you how to receive the life changing Spirit and life that flows from God's Word, as a student of the Holy Spirit. This fresh teaching opens up the reality of an exhilarating life transforming journey through the Bible.

On the final day of a counternarcotics mission, Special Forces operative Jake Tyler is searching for a downed pilot. It's the first in a series of life-altering events that ultimately puts him in the sights of one of the most powerful and deadly drug cartels in South America. It seems Jake's friend and military comrade, Haskell Delaney, has been playing both sides in their operations, and the duplicity has just caught up with him. With a bounty now on his own head, Jake has no choice but to go after the cartel kingpins before they can take him out. With a rogue and gutsy execution, and the help of two civilians, he pulls off an operation he believes will put an end to his plight. But the stakes are raised when Jake's new love, Callie Kane, is abducted and used to lure him for a final showdown with Adonis Valentin, the unimaginably evil drug lord who has, like Jake, eluded death. Now one of them is going to die, either at the hand of his adversary or from the siege of artillery converging from ground and air...as a massive interdiction closes in. The only way out is back through the jungle. Terror in the world takes many forms, much of it gratuitously bloody, but now in the oft forgotten and interminable drug war, it's become personal. From the tropical beaches and rainforests of Costa Rica, to the terrifying darkness of Colombia, IN THE DARK OF THE SUN smolders with the grit of a seasoned warrior on whose life it is based. While racing through a relentless stream of action and suspense, the story delves into the fine line between darkness and light...in friendship, in life, and in love. With the rapid-fire intensity found in Proof of Life and Tears of the Sun, the familiar elements of Traffic and Blackhawk Down, IN THE DARK OF THE SUN stands unique with its combination of eloquent beauty and raw reality.

This addition to the prestigious Studies in Antiquity and Christianity (SAC) series is the first of a two-volume set of essays on the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. The essays focus on the exegetical methodology developed by Rolf P. Knierim at the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity in Claremont, California. The exegetical foundations of Knierim s methodology pay special attention to the literary forms and conceptual underpinnings of biblical texts. But the method moves well beyond the concerns of traditional form criticism to address the overall interpretation of the Hebrew Bible from the perspectives of the ancient biblical writers and contemporary readers. The result is a comprehensive interpretive methodology that employs a close reading of biblical texts, integrating concerns about literary form and theological perspective with the settings in which biblical texts were composed as well as the ways they are read in the present and the future. Such readings, the editors maintain, constitute the cutting edge of biblical interpretation at the outset of the millennium. Volume 1 contains twenty-one essays, including seven by Knierim. Other contributors are: Mary Deely, Michael Floyd, John Goldingay, Robert Hubbard, Mignon Jacobs, Isaac Kalimi, Joel Kaminsky, Paul Kim, Wonil Kim, Charles Mabee, Steven Reed, and Janet Weathers. Editors: Deborah Ellens is an independent scholar. Michael Floyd is Professor of Old Testament at the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest. Wonil Kim is Assistant Professor of Old Testament Studies at La Sierra University. Marvin A. Sweeney is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Claremont School of Theology and Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University. For: Pastors, college and seminary courses in Hebrew Bible, scholars>

Martin Dust analysiert in seiner mentalitatsgeschichtlichen Studie das "weltanschauliche Gepack" katholischer Erwachsenenbildung aus einer ideologiekritischen Perspektive von der Endphase der Weimarer Republik im UEbergang zur Nazi-Diktatur. Als Quellen dienen die Zeitschrift Prediger und Katechet, das grundlegende Periodikum Volkstum und Volksbildung des Zentralbildungsausschusses der katholischen Verbande Deutschlands (1919-1934) sowie der Nachlass des Schriftleiters und Erwachsenenbildners Emil Ritter (1881-1968). Ritter war uber vier politische Systeme hinweg in einflussreichen Positionen tatig, unter anderem 1933/34 als Chefredakteur der durch Franz von Papen dominierten Tageszeitung Germania. Die Darstellung zeigt auf, dass die katholische Erwachsenenbildung aufgrund ihrer nationalen, voelkischen und antidemokratischen Grundmuster einen verhangnisvollen Beitrag zur Machteroberung und Systemstabilisierung der Nazi-Diktatur leistete.