Religion

Lost Gifts: Miscarriage, Grief, and the God of All Comfort laments the grief of miscarriage, discovers God's gifts in spite of loss, and remembers our Good Shepherd, who weeps with those who weep. When we suffer, we are invited into deeper communion with Jesus. In the pain of miscarriage, we learn to treasure our suffering Savior who holds us.

Written by a team of experts on biblical geography and culture, the Lexham Geographic Commentary on the Historical Books, Volume 1, is a guide to the world of Israel in the promised land. Each article addresses a particular story, event, or subject in Judges through Ruth, with full-color maps and photos providing deeper layers of context. Historical and cultural insights give readers a richer understanding of the biblical story.

The Final Countdown: Jesus Is Coming -- Sooner Than You Think The clock is ticking, and the end of the age is closer than ever. As the world hurtles toward its ultimate destiny, the signs of Jesus' return areexploding into view. Believers everywhere are asking: Is the Rapture imminent? What are the stages of the Second Coming? Has the final countdown already begun? After Jesus appeared to Joseph Morris with a personal mandate to educate and equip the Church, he delivers a bold and urgent wake-up call to us all: Get ready! Jesus wants you to pick up your pace and accelerate doing the will of God. But more than anything, Jesus wants you prepared--never scared! He wants you to know how much He loves you and how excited He is to see you face to face. There's only good news ahead for the Christian! Drawing on over 35 years of prophetic insight, Joe delivers the truth you need to navigate these final moments of human history with fearless confidence. In this no-holds-barred guide, you'll discover: The timeline of the Rapture: if you read the Bible, you can know the time! The glorious details of the Second Coming--the granddaddy event of the universe where you return with Jesus, riding a white horse. The urgent call for you to fulfill your destiny before the final trumpet blares across the heavens. Jesus is coming back soon, and like the final act of a great movie, the hero--Jesus--will arrive to save the day. Every knee will bow before the King of kings in a public coronation. Don't just watch from the sidelines--get ready to join Him and spend eternity by His side!

Rebecca McLaughlin presents scientific evidence that weekly church attendance guards against depression, increases mental and physical well-being, and extends life expectancy. Most importantly, it gives people the chance to meet the Great Physician, who alone offers eternal life.

Over the course of 12 weeks, readers will study John 13-17-the Gospel passages recounting the night before Jesus' crucifixion-to understand how he taught, prayed, and lovingly reassured his disciples before his departure.

In this practical, winsome guide, Iain Duguid explores the continuing work of Jesus after the ascension in Acts 1-8, encouraging believers today toward gospel-driven, Spirit-filled mission.

Turn Your Eyes provides a structured, step-by-step method to help readers observe, interpret, and apply the Psalms, helping us turn to God in every season and circumstance of life.

Drawing from Galatians 5, Spirit-Filled Singing provides a biblical framework for intentional worship, exploring how singing and the fruit of the Spirit both work to glorify God and edify his church.

"This book is designed to tell the complex story of the changing place of religion in American higher education over the last 220 years"--

Christianity and Horror Cinema explores ways that Christian beliefs, spiritualities, practices, and symbols provide the religious and existential 'depths' out of which the monsters of Western horror cinema have emerged, arguing that they are, in several respects, the monsters for which Christians are responsible.

This book explores Lutheranism and its various expressions throughout the world. This volume demonstrates that a wide angle view can best be achieved through understanding national Lutheran expressions and the 'lived religion' of these churches and their adherents.

In Egypt during the first centuries CE, men and women would meet discreetly in their homes, in temple sanctuaries, or insolitary places to learn a powerful practice of spiritual liberation. They thought of themselves as followers of Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary master of ancient wisdom. While many of their writings are lost, those that survived have been interpreted primarily as philosophical treatises about theological topics. Wouter J. Hanegraaff challenges this dominant narrative by demonstrating that Hermetic literature was concerned with experiential practices intended for healing the soul from mental delusion. The Way of Hermes involved radical alterations of consciousness in which practitioners claimed to perceive the true nature of reality behind the hallucinatory veil of appearances. Hanegraaff explores how practitioners went through a training regime that involved luminous visions, exorcism, spiritual rebirth, cosmic consciousness, and union with the divine beauty of universal goodness and truth to attain the salvational knowledge known as gnosis.