Product Description: Lors d’une ancienne émission télévisée d’« Apostrophe » qui réunissait des philosophes, des hommes d’Église, des écrivains, Bernard Pivot demanda (si ce n’est pas du mot-à-mot, c’est dans l’esprit) : « Pourquoi fait-on tellement cas de la mort et des souffrances du Christ sur la croix ; alors que tant d’autres ont subi les mêmes souffrances et tellement d’autres des souffrances encore plus terribles ? » Aucun invité ne put répondre clairement à sa question...read more

Monty Python's Life of Brian film is known for its brilliant satirical humour. Less well known is that the film contains references to what was, at the time of its release, cutting edge biblical scholarship and Life of Jesus research. This research, founded on the acceptance of the Historical Jesus as a Jew who needs to be understood within the context of his time, is implicitly referenced through the setting of the Brian character within a tumultuous social and political background.This collection is a compilation of essays from foremost scholars of the historical Jesus and the first century Judaea, and includes contributions from George Brooke, Richard Burridge, Paula Fredriksen, Steve Mason, Adele Reinhartz, Bart Ehrman, Amy-Jill Levine, James Crossley, Philip Davies, Joan Taylor, Bill Telford, Helen Bond, Guy Stiebel, David Tollerton, David Shepherd and Katie Turner. The collection opens up the Life of Brian to renewed investigation and, in so doing, uses the film to reflect on the historical Jesus and his times, revitalising the discussion of history and Life of Jesus research. The volume also features a Preface from Terry Jones, who not only directed the film, but also played Brian's mum.

Product Description: Roma Downey and Mark Burnett’s epic television event A.D. The Bible Continues captures all the political intrigue, religious persecution, and emotional turmoil of the founding of the early church in spectacular fashion.Now, in this official companion book to the television event, exclusive photography and inspirational Scripture celebrate the sacrifice and the triumph of the early disciples in stunning, vibrant detail...read more

Product Description: The New Testament is the second major part of the Christian biblical canon, the first part being the Old Testament, which is based on the Hebrew Bible. The Greek New Testament discusses the teachings at person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christianity...read more

Product Description: Imagine a deluxe 30+ page Christmas card that contains the story of the first Christmas as it might have been told by Mary. Consider how much faith, fortitude, and courage it took for Mary and Joseph to accept their assigned roles as the earthly parents of Jesus Christ...read more

Product Description: The Bible. As believers we’re told to know it, treasure it, live it, share it, and guard it. But why bother with what some see as an antiquated relic? Why have people fiercely held on to it, even given their lives for its message? You see, the Bible is the very word of God...read more

Product Description: Here is an opportunity to review your scriptural knowledge of the first pope, and to take a journey through the early history of the Church. Learn the real reason for St. Peter's coming to Rome, and why he might have later been exiled from the city...read more

Product Description: The author of Hebrews calls God 'Father' only twice in his sermon. This fact could account for scholarship's lack of attention to the familial dynamics that run throughout the letter. Peeler argues, however, that by having God articulate his identity as Father through speaking Israel's Scriptures at the very beginning and near the end of his sermon, the author sets a familial framework around his entire exhortation...read more

Product Description: In this love story between Jesus and Mary Magdalene you will discover what Jesus told Mary about sex. What He told her about God, Himself, His miracles and the secret mysteries. Experience Jesus and Mary's everyday lives and the lives of His disciples, their personalities, bickering and personal problems...read more

Product Description: This book argues that the throne motif constitutes the major interpretive key to the complex structure and theology of the book of Revelation. In the first part of the book, Gallusz examines the throne motif in the Old Testament, Jewish literature and Graeco-Roman sources...read more

Product Description: The paradoxes of Jesus seem like contradictions, and they are. For example, Jesus says that we receive by giving; we find by losing; we rule by serving; we rest by laboring; we live by dying. However, the surprise is that out of these contradictions a new and profound truth emerges, one which might escape our notice...read more

His apostles refused to believe, while Thomas declared him God. Jesus dared and prepared his apostles to conquer the world. He interrupted his own memorial service and renewed five hundred of his closest friendships. He helped his brother, James, over the last faith hurdle, turned the movement over to his apostles, then returned at last to the outstretched arms of his heavenly Father. Religious leaders fought in vain to put out the new church’s torch, and Jesus invited the last apostle to visit him in heaven. Life changing? You bet! Life Application questions are at the end of each chapter to see whether any of those changes has happened in your own life. Come meet the people who met Jesus. You are one of them. Probably you are several of them. Go ahead and struggle with them as they did. Laugh. Cry. Do mental battle with him. Emotional battle too. Fight for your faith as they fought. Pause to listen for what you've never heard before. Then touch Jesus. This is the story of faith in the impossible. Hope in the inconceivable. Love for the invincible. It is the dreams of youth, the desperations of infirmity, the hopes of age, and the song of eternity. Follow the suspense in their terrorist-dominated world as each person in Jesus' life comes to terms with who they are, and who Jesus is. It is the story of doubts explained away, animosities melted away, misunderstandings cleared away. It is your story and mine. For deep within each of us is everyone who ever met and struggled with Jesus. Get all books in this series on 100 people who met and struggled with Jesus: Book 1: Star Song Book 2: Dream Maker Book 3: Hearts Afire Book 4: Folk Hero Book 5: Flood Gates Book 6: Promise Keeper Book 7: Shadow of Death Book 8: Come Fly With Me Welcome, now, to the story of Jesus through the eyes of 100 people who met and struggled with him.

Product Description: Book 4, FOLK HERO: Religious leaders cornered him, theologians stalked him, the wealthy helped him. For the commoner he conquered demons, controlled nature, created food, destroyed death. Hometown friends tried to kill him, while cousin John gained a glory home...read more

BOOK 6: PROMISE KEEPER A traitor praised him, a woman crowned him, foreigners sought him. The world ran after him, Judas ran from him, his apostles deserted him. He held his own funeral service, then begged God to help him keep his promise. The religious leaders were unmasked, and King Herod wrestled with just who Jesus was. Come meet the people who met Jesus. You are one of them. Probably you are several of them. Go ahead and struggle with them as they did. Laugh. Cry. Do mental battle with him. Emotional battle too. Fight for your faith as they fought. Pause to listen for what you've never heard before. Then touch Jesus. This is the story of faith in the impossible. Hope in the inconceivable. Love for the invincible. It is the dreams of youth, the desperations of infirmity, the hopes of age, and the song of eternity. Follow the suspense in their terrorist-dominated world as each person in Jesus' life comes to terms with who they are, and who Jesus is. Jesus accepts the as they are. But can they accept themselves as they are? More than that, can they accept Jesus as he is? Both God and man? Both Creator and created? Both King and servant? It is the story of doubts explained away, animosities melted away, misunderstandings cleared away. It is your story and mine. For deep within each of us is everyone who ever met and struggled with Jesus. Get all books in this series on 100 people who met and struggled with Jesus: Book 1: Star Song Book 2: Dream Maker Book 3: Hearts Afire Book 4: Folk Hero Book 5: Flood Gates Book 6: Promise Keeper Book 7: Shadow of Death Book 8: Come Fly With Me Welcome, now, to the story of Jesus through the eyes of 100 people who met and struggled with him.

BOOK 2~DREAM MAKER: Governor Pilate only tolerated his subjects, John the Baptist tried to change them, Satan threw up roadblocks that never seemed to work. Future apostles Andrew was always bringing in outsiders, Philip insisted on proof, and Nathaniel was naive. The temple merchants lived off religion, Nichodemus tried to reform religion, and Peter's mother-in-law dwelt in her religion. The pagan Samaritan searched with hope, the royal official probed with fortitude, the centurion encountered with power. Come meet the people who met Jesus. You are one of them. Probably you are several of them. Go ahead and struggle with them as they did. Laugh. Cry. Do mental battle with him. Emotional battle too. Fight for your faith as they fought. Pause to listen for what you've never heard before. Then touch Jesus. This is the story of faith in the impossible. Hope in the inconceivable. Love for the invincible. It is the dreams of youth, the desperations of infirmity, the hopes of age, and the song of eternity. Follow the suspense as each person in this terrorist-driven world in Jesus' life comes to terms with who they are, and who Jesus is. Jesus accepts the as they are. But can they accept themselves as they are? More than that, can they accept Jesus as he is? Both God and man? Both Creator and created? Both King and servant? It is the story of doubts explained away, animosities melted away, misunderstandings cleared away. It is your story and mine. For deep within each of us is everyone who ever met and struggled with Jesus. Get all books in this series on 100 people who met and struggled with Jesus: Book 1: Star Song Book 2: Dream Maker Book 3: Hearts Afire Book 4: Folk Hero Book 5: Flood Gates Book 6: Promise Keeper Book 7: Shadow of Death Book 8: Come Fly With Me Welcome, now, to the story of Jesus through the eyes of 100 people who met and struggled with him.

BOOK 1: STAR SONG Mary was too young, Elizabeth too old, Joseph too gullible, the shepherds too smelly, Anna too senile, Simeon too idealistic, Salome too flippant. The wise men should have minded their own business, Zechariah should have accepted he'd never have children. King Herod dared control God, the Bible scholars dared interpret God. Come meet the people who met Jesus. You are one of them. Probably you are several of them. Go ahead and struggle with them as they did. Laugh. Cry. Do mental battle with him. Emotional battle too. Fight for your faith as they fought. Pause to listen for what you've never heard before. Then touch Jesus. This is the story of faith in the impossible. Hope in the inconceivable. Love for the invincible. It is the dreams of youth, the desperations of infirmity, the hopes of age, and the song of eternity. Follow the suspense in their terrorist-dominated world as each person in Jesus' life comes to terms with who they are, and who Jesus is. It is the story of doubts explained away, animosities melted away, misunderstandings cleared away. It is your story and mine. For deep within each of us is everyone who ever met and struggled with Jesus. Get all books in this series on 100 people who met and struggled with Jesus: Book 1: Star Song Book 2: Dream Maker Book 3: Hearts Afire Book 4: Folk Hero Book 5: Flood Gates Book 6: Promise Keeper Book 7: Shadow of Death Book 8: Come Fly With Me Welcome, now, to the story of Jesus through the eyes of 100 people who met and struggled with him.

Product Description: BOOK 5: FLOOD GATES Jesus survived death threats, calmed misdirected power, talked with the spirit world. He released people of handicaps, gave an adulterous hope, rested with friends, then raised the dead. And the hypocrite religious leaders finalize plans to kill him...read more

Book 7, Shadow of Death Pilate was cornered by the people, Simon was cornered by the executioners. Jesus writhed in pain on the cross that should have been ours, and invaded hell to provide escape for us. The thieves struggled with their mortality, Joseph struggled with religiosity, the guards struggled with impossibility. Jesus saw the women, pursued Peter, and lifted up the depressed. Come meet the people who met Jesus. You are one of them. Probably you are several of them. Go ahead and struggle with them as they did. Laugh. Cry. Do mental battle with him. Emotional battle too. Fight for your faith as they fought. Pause to listen for what you've never heard before. Then touch Jesus. This is the story of faith in the impossible. Hope in the inconceivable. Love for the invincible. It is the dreams of youth, the desperations of infirmity, the hopes of age, and the song of eternity. Follow the suspense as each person in their terrorist-dominated world in Jesus' life comes to terms with who they are, and who Jesus is. Jesus accepts the as they are. But can they accept themselves as they are? More than that, can they accept Jesus as he is? Both God and man? Both Creator and created? Both King and servant? It is the story of doubts explained away, animosities melted away, misunderstandings cleared away. It is your story and mine. For deep within each of us is everyone who ever met and struggled with Jesus. Get all books in this series on 100 people who met and struggled with Jesus: Book 1: Star Song Book 2: Dream Maker Book 3: Hearts Afire Book 4: Folk Hero Book 5: Flood Gates Book 6: Promise Keeper Book 7: Shadow of Death Book 8: Come Fly With Me Welcome, now, to the story of Jesus through the eyes of 100 people who met and struggled with him.

Product Description: Book 3, HEARTS AFIRE: Future apostles Simon fought Rome and Matthew joined Rome, while Judas seemed the only level-headed one. Zebedee sacrificed his sons, while a widow saw her son return to life. People with demons fell desperately at his feet, while lepers sought him in hopelessness...read more

Product Description: This collection examines the allusions to the Elijah- Elisha narrative in the gospel of Luke. The volume presents the case for a "maximalist" view, which holds that the Elijah-Elisha narrative had a dominant role in the composition of Luke 7 and 9, put forward by Thomas L...read more

Product Description: How is this world going to end? Some believe that it will end in a nuclear holocaust. Others believe it will be destroyed by global warming or overpopulation. Some suggest that the earth will be destroyed by an astronomical collision from space...read more