Learning Religion

In Books Jesus Read, Robert "Dr. Bob" Lay takes his listeners on a guided tour of the Apocrypha—Jewish history, stories, and wisdom written in the 400 years between the Old and New Testaments. These are some of the writings Jesus and other first-century Jews would have known. For anyone wanting to better understand Jesus and the New Testament, look no further than the books Jesus himself may have read.

From best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Humes comes a dramatic story of faith, science, and courage unlike any since the famous Scopes Monkey Trial. Monkey Girl takes you behind the scenes of the recent war on evolution in Dover, Pennsylvania, when the town's school board decision to confront the controversy head-on thrust its students, then the entire community, onto the front lines of America's culture wars.

Who does Jesus love? The stranger who looks strange. The driver who cuts us off in traffic. The person online who thinks differently than we do. Loving people is hard. Especially when it involves the difficult people in our lives and those different from us. We say we love others, but really we don’t. Instead of loving, we hurt, belittle, and overlook people. Which is precisely why we need to learn how to love — from Jesus and from one another.

Jesus told us to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. We love the idea of it, but many of us are so busy it can be hard to live out. The past few years our culture has become more polarized with division and disrespect. As tragedies and social issues fill the headlines, the church seems to be nearly absent in the conversation. Love Our City presents our problem, how we can overcome it, and solid ways to fulfill our God-given mission.

Just Breathe (and Take a Sip of Coffee) explores how to homeschool in step with God. Learn how to regain your sanity, reclaim your schedule, and reignite your love for homeschooling through two straightforward and manageable principles: (1) The Sabbath Principle and (2) The Simplification Principle.

A suburban Boston school unwittingly started a firestorm of controversy over a sixth-grade field trip. The class was visiting a mosque to learn about world religions when a handful of boys, unnoticed by their teachers, joined the line of worshippers and acted out the motions of the Muslim call to prayer. A video of the prayer went viral with the title "Wellesley, Massachusetts Public School Students Learn to Pray to Allah". Charges flew that the school exposed the children to Muslims who intended to convert American schoolchildren.

كتاب قيّم يبين أن رمضان هو موسم لتربية النفس على الطاعات، والبعد عن المنكرات، وتعلم أحكام الشرع الحنيف، وهو من أعظم الفرص للدعاة لتربية الناس، وتعليمهم أمر دينهم. ولذلك فهم يتحيَّنون أمثال تلك الفرص؛ للقيام بأمر الله، والعمل بالحسنى على دعوة الناس للحق.

Whether it's the adventures of Greek gods and goddesses or Norse trickster tales, we all love to hear a good story. Best-selling author Kenneth C. Davis gives readers a taste of these enchanting myths and the diverse people who tell them. In his trademark question-and-answer style peppered with entertaining sidebars and quotes, he also shows how almost every civilization's mythology shares common themes.

This short introduction provides the historical background for Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum as well as some detail about the pope himself. It also provides a paragraph-by-paragraph summary of the document to better understand the teaching. This is ideal for students of the document and those studying Catholic social teaching.

As a child, Clive Staples Lewis imagined many things...heroic animals and knights in armor and a faraway land called Boxen. He even thought of a new name for himself - at four years old, he decided he was more of a Jack. As he grew up, though, Jack found that the real world was not as just as the one in his imagination. No magic could heal the sick or stop a war, and a bully’s words could pierce as sharply as a sword. So Jack withdrew into books and eventually became a well-known author for adults.

The Pilgrims' celebration of the first Thanksgiving is a keystone of America's national and spiritual identity. But is what we've been taught about them or their harvest feast what actually happened? And if not, what difference does it make? Through the captivating story of the birth of this quintessentially American holiday, veteran historian Tracy McKenzie helps us to better understand the tale of America's origins—and for Christians, to grasp the significance of this story and those like it.

The samurai are still remembered as some of the fiercest and most skilled warriors in human history. The name alone evokes an image of the grave and powerful swordsman, clad in lacquered armor and armed with a code of honor and clarity of mind that makes the soldiers of the modern era look like children new to the art. But what was it that allowed these men to hone their minds and bodies to such levels of skill and precision? They had no more and no less than any human alive today.

Embrace your inner Mrs. Potato Head! She’s so much more real and full of fun than Barbie ever could be. And she knows how to laugh like only those who have discovered the humor, heart, and wisdom of true womanhood can laugh. Mrs. Potato Head’s hormones are out of whack. Her memory is held together by sticky notes. But she’s got a sense of humor that just won’t quit, and she’s learned to accept and enjoy herself as she is - because God does.

Mental distress is a common occurrence among many people. Often, the stress in our minds extends to the physical state. We forget that the mind is the center of everything that we are, feel, and do. It operates ceaselessly every single second of our lives. The way we go about life is driven and influenced by our thoughts. The condition of our minds will reflect our reality.

This is a book celebrating the incredible, awesome, special individual within each of us. It's also a book for anyone who has ever mismatched her shoes or trimmed her own bangs when a professional might have been a better choice or added too much soap to the washer and watched it overflow.

Die großartige Sammlung 2er Klassiker von Johannes Freitag, jetzt in einem Band! Der Durchschnittseuropäer besitzt 10.000 Gegenstände und dennoch leidet laut der Weltgesundheitsorganisation WHO fast jeder zehnte Mensch an Depressionen. Erkauftes Glück ist also nur von kurzer Dauer. Aber was können wir tun, um dauerhaft glücklich und zufrieden zu sein? Positives Denken bedeutet auch nicht, dass dir ab sofort kein Unglück mehr widerfährt. Es bedeutet aber, dass du wertvolle Tricks kennst, um gelassener damit umzugehen.

David Hume's book tackling the subject of belief in God is among the most influential in Western philosophy. Published in 1779, three years after Hume's death, without featuring the author's name, the book was deeply controversial in its day. It is now considered a masterpiece and Hume is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers writing in English.

Whole Health can be achieved! Healing Bipolar and Depression, the 2nd Edition is the inspiring story of God’s grace and healing upon the life of Suzy Hoseus. There is no quick-fix method to gaining Whole Health. This book is about making life-giving choices and learning to live life the way God intended it to be lived—filled with love, joy, and dependence on Him.

What is a Masterpiece? What is it worth? It is a coveted thing of beauty, created as one of kind, by a Master Creator. God has designed each of us as masterpieces. None of us look the same nor have the same skills nor talents. God, the Master Creator molds us, sculpts us and creates us just to His specifications. Each of our journeys and experiences are specific to His creativity. Sometimes, that means we are broken, spilled out and remade. Whatever that journey is, join the author as she shares the possibilities of promise through the Word as we journey through the Masterpiece Price to discover not only are we His Masterpieces but He paid a heavy price to redeem us when we were broken and deemed unworthy.

In this enlightening and insightful guide, Madame McDermott shows you proven ways to create a powerful psychic connection to the tarot and hone your intuitive skills to help you find the answers you need. You will be able to provide your own opinions and explanations of the tarot readings you carry out for other people and yourself.