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Product Description: Understand Not Only What Scripture Says but How to Live It Today A new commentary for today’s world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible’s grand story. The first commentary series to do so, SGBC offers a clear and compelling exposition of biblical texts, guiding everyday readers in how to creatively and faithfully live out the Bible in their own contexts...read more

Product Description: My name is Marten Mann. I work for the Devil, or The Prince of Lies, as you people are so fond of calling him. Yes. You read that last line correctly. I am employed by the Powers of Evil as Acquisitor Ad Infinitum. Catchy, huh? To put it in simpler terms, I am a broker of sorts...read more

Product Description: John Byron (1723-86) died a vice-admiral, having earned the nickname 'Foulweather Jack' after much experience on rough seas. In 1741 he was a midshipman aboard HMS Wager in a squadron sent to attack Spanish ships off Chile. Shipwrecked in a storm after rounding Cape Horn, the majority of the survivors turned on their captain and attempted to make their own way home...read more

Product Description: John Byron blends the ordinary with the unusual to give you four intriguing tales that promise to take you to realms you only thought you knew. A man, dying of incurable cancer finds himself on an unexpected adventure that proves that things as he knew them are never what they seem...read more

Product Description: New Testament scholarship and Paul have had a complicated relationship over the question of slavery. For many decades there has been a struggle to reconcile the abolitionist cause with a biblical text that seemingly supports the institution of slavery...read more

Product Description: The author investigates slavery metaphors in early Judaism and shows how they influenced Paul's understanding of himself and his fellow-believers as slaves of Christ. Contents include: Chapter 1 Introduction, Chapter 2 the Language of Enslavement in Early Judaism, Chapter 3 Slavery in Ancient Israelite Literary Traditions, Chapter 4 Response to Slavery in Early Jewish Literature, Chapter 5 Responses to Slavery in the Writings of Josephus, Chapter 6 Responses to Slavery in the Writings of Philo, Chapter 7 Slavery, Noble Birth & the Figure of Joseph, Chapter 8 Summary/Synthesis of Part 1, Chapter 9 Introduction to the Pauline Literature, Chapter 10 The Paradigmatic Slave of God in Philippians, Chapter 11 Slavery & Freedom in Galatians, Chapter 12 Enslavement to Sin & God in Romans, Chapter 13 Slaves & Free Persons in 1 Corinthians, Chapter 14 Conclusion...read more

Product Description: Book by Byron, John

Product Description: Kang Sheng held tremendous power in China for more than 50 years. As a member of Mao's inner circle, he created China's dreaded secret police, unleashed the demonic Cultural Revolution, and oversaw the murder and torture of millions of Chinese...read more

A biography of Kang Sheng, the man who manipulated Mao and created the legacy of tyrannical cruelty that continues to exist in China