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John 3:16 - Perhaps the best-known and most quoted verse of Scripture in the world. It is also universally misunderstood. On the surface, this verse, like so many others in the Word of God, appears simple. However, after much study and contemplation, we can reveal its many deep and complex meanings. Within this 34-chapter volume, we attempt to thoroughly cover each and every facet of this most important of verses.

To Concerned Americans discusses the economic, political, and Christian fundamentals that contribute to the success of our country, and how we strayed far from that foundation.The USA is the world's go to place for opportunity. What is the key to this attraction?What do you consider when you go to the voting booth? Learn why what you think you voted for is often the opposite of what you get. Do your public representatives understand how new jobs are created, or do they just make promises to spend more of your hard-earned money? What does Christian faith have to do with success of the economy? The stain of slavery and racial oppression disabled the hand of opportunity for some in our nation. How can reasoned evaluation of history and Christian fundamentals lead us to resolve disparities we see today?These and other questions are answered in this personal journey of observation by an American concerned for the future of his country. This is an essential journey of learning for all concerned Americans. Answers you encounter on the way may not be what you expect.

Prayers are windows--windows on eternity.Through the prayers in the Bible we look into the profoundest issues of life and death, and the deepest longings of our own hearts. And we learn about the God to whom we pray, the one who wants to talk with us, the one who takes the initiative in our relationship with him.In this classic book on prayer, John White helps us listen to Abraham plead for Sodom and Gomorrah. We watch Jacob wrestle with the Angel of the Lord. We hear David confess his sin. We also see him dance before the ark of the covenant. We hear Hannah ask for a child. Finally, John White shows how Jesus' prayers on the cross present a model for facing our last hours as well.The ten prayers in this book will take you near to the holy one of the universe, the personal God of each person in the world.

He Who Dares...Quizzes

Eleanor McFarland and John Wilson join Gaal, the Son of the High Emperor, in a battle to thwart the evil plans of Lord Lunacy. Book Two in John White's Archives of Anthropos. Winner of the 1989 C. S. Lewis Gold Medal from Christian Home & School.

It was John's birthday. He would be thirteen. And what's more, it was on this day that his grandmother would tell him the mystery of his locket . . . And of his parents.But it was not to be. Before he could find out, he was magically transported to the land of Anthropos where he was startled to be hailed as the Sword Bearer, the slayer of the Goblin Prince.Here, in the imaginative story of the early history of Anthropos, John White captures the excitement and wonder of another world.

Anthropos is in danger. So Wesley, Kurt and Lisa are once again magically transported from their home in Winnipeg to help save this threatened land. The Iron Sceptre, the source of King Kardia's power to rule, is in peril. The children, joined by their cousin Mary, are called on to stop Mirmah and her chief sorcerer, Archimago. But to do so, they must travel beneath the Northern Mountains, around Goldcoffin's Palace and into the very heart of Mirmah's kingdom. What awaits is much more than a mere adventure.

The king of Anthropos has a baffling illness and is threatened by the Dark Lord who has troubled that mysterious land so many times before. Once again Wesley, Kurt and Lisa are drawn to this strange country by the wondrous Gaal.Unexpectedly, an irritating neighbor, Betty, comes along with them. Despite the problems she causes--and despite being thrown into prison, attacked by a seven-headed ogre and lost in unnatural darkness, the group seeks to follow where Gaal leads. Together they battle Lord Lunacy in a final confrontation that holds the future of Anthropos in the balance.Here is the stirring conclusion to John White's mythical adventure series that has been beloved by tens of thousands.

It was supposed to be a big celebration. John McFarland (uncle to Wesley, Kurt, Lisa and Mary) and his long lost Eleanor were getting married. But a typhoon kept nearly every one of their friends and family from attending the wedding ceremony in Hong Kong. And by the time everyone did arrive for the reception at a downtown hotel, John and Eleanor had disappeared without a trace!While their parents and the Hong Kong authorities set about searching for the missing couple, Mary, Wesley, Kurt and Lisa begin their own investigation. Convinced that John and Eleanor have been transported to the mystical kingdom of Anthropos, the four amateur sleuths hit a dead end. How can they get to Anthropos? And once they get there, how will they know where to look?As Book 5 in John White's Archives of Anthropos unfolds, the sleuths are confronted with an even bigger challenge than finding Uncle John and Eleanor. In Anthropos an evil sorcerer plots the destruction of his eternal enemy--a tiny infant who (if he survives) is destined to become King of Anthropos and conqueror of Lord Lunacy.

John White has extensively interviewed many people, including those from John Wimber's Vineyard Christian Fellowship. His years of work as a psychiatrist and as a missionary in the Third World qualify him in a special way to analyze the experiences described in this book. In addition he has thoroughly studied revivals of the past, highlighting the differences and the similarities to what is happening today.As always, John White remains thoroughly biblical as he handles many controversial topics. The result is a book full of practical wisdom and remarkable insight with conclusions that are fresh and surprising.

This compilation of Maori oral literature was commissioned in 1879 by the New Zealand government to help preserve indigenous traditions. The ethnographer John White (1826-91) collected the texts and provided accompanying English translations. Volume 1 (1887) includes narratives about the Horouta canoe, the gods and the creation of humans.

It is a common assertion that the history of America is written in its Westerns, but how true is this? This guidebook discusses the evolution of the Western through history and looks at theoretical and critical approaches to Westerns such as genre analysis, semiotics, representation, ideology, discourse analysis, narrative, and realism.

A work on what the aims of education should be since Whitehead's Aims of Education of 1929. It draws on material from schools and colleges, and also from the broader educative or miseducative nature of the 'ethos' of society and some of its major institutions.

This book brings together John White's key writings in one place. Drawing on over 35 years of work, Professor White has selected his most seminal work, covering the mind; state and curriculum; well-being; politics and curriculum.