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Searching for a lover who has gone missing, a 1970s organ tuner discovers that he is the heir to the Kingdom of Septimania and spends half a century searching for his lost love while confronting such challenges as the pope, a color-changing elephant, and one of the 9/11 bombers.
22) Know My Voice IX
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What is God's plan for humankind? How does religion play into that plan? Each religion has its own thoughts on the subject. While the Bible speaks of many future events accurately, there is a writing that is a must-read. That writing is the Book of Daniel the Prophet. Daniel foretells of the rule of the Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Greek (Alexander The Great), and Roman kingdoms. He also tells of another Kingdom, The Kingdom of the Jewish Messiah. Jesus,...
23) So To Honor Him
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Arash is a slave drummer accompanying the Megistanes and other scholars on their journey to find the new king, whose star they have seen in the heavens. He does not understand their enthusiasm for this Jewish child, prophesied centuries before by one of their own, but each night he plays his drum for his master and dreams of earning his freedom.
When they reach Jerusalem, Arash is made an offer by King Herod himself: once they locate the child, return...
24) The Centurion
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An ambitious Roman soldier. A stunning crucifixion. An unlikely romance. A long war and a chance reunion—the moving parts that make The Centurion a gripping story of love, duty, and sacrifice.
Lucius has always dreamed of military conquest and Roman glory. Little does he know how a routine crucifixion will change him forever.
Curious about this "King of the Jews," Lucius seeks out His followers and falls for one
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The most common understanding of Jesus's death is that it was a substitutionary sacrifice, meaning that he died for the sins of the world. However, this is not the only Christian understanding of Jesus's death.
#2 The story of Jesus's death is often heard as a composite of the gospels and the New Testament as a whole. We must set aside these filters if we want to...
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The Messiah's Path (1st book of series) promises to enrage Christian dogma. For many centuries of recorded Biblical history, the Old Testament has told of men and women who prophesy the coming of the Jews' most revered Messiah. Finally, a man arises who, fed up with inaction, deems it his destiny to breathe life into these prophecies. This historic epic features a young rabbinical graduate, Nico (known as Nicodemus in the New Testament) who envisions...
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Paula Fredriksen is the author of Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, which won the National Jewish Book Award. She is also the author of Augustine and the Jews and From Jesus to Christ. The Aurelio Professor Emerita at Boston University, she now teaches as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Why the meaning of sin changed radically during the first centuries of Christianity
Ancient Christians...
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This book addresses truths other books on the subject appear to avoid in relation to a detailed investigation. It asks questions to determine what the kingdom is, such as:
• Is this physical? Is it spiritual? Is it Israel? Is it heaven?
• Who is the king of this kingdom? Who are the citizens of this kingdom?
• Is it something which has developed through the Old Testament, or the New or both?
• What is meant by the Old and New Testament references...
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A funny thing happened on the way to Bethlehem...
A pregnant Mary is being hunted by the king. Joseph has been captured by soldiers. She needs to escape Nazareth but doesn't know how. Three hard-drinking strangers claim they can help, but she isn't sure she can trust them. Oh, and let's not forget that the baby-daddy is God, The God, The Great 'I Am'. She's had better days.
Herod The Great has been king of Judaea for thirty years. He is losing his...
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In Daniel 7:1314 (NIV), the prophet Daniel had a vision in the night. He saw one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all peoples, nations, and men of every language worshiped him. Who was this son of man, and what were these clouds of heaven? They could have been dark storm clouds of Gods impending judgment or multitudes of heavenly angels. But there is one more cloud that I am the...
31) The Body
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A two-thousand-year-old skeleton discovered in Jerusalem, and believed to be the body of Jesus Christ, threatens to destroy the Church and plunge the world into chaos. In a hidden tomb in the ancient city of Jerusalem, the skeleton of a man who died two millennia ago is uncovered by Israeli archaeologist Sharon Golban and her team. The body bears the unmistakable marks of crucifixion; an inscription written in Aramaic identifies the remains as belonging...
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In this talk, you'll explore Matthew's distinct take on Jesus and his disciples. The first book of the New Testament, Matthew's writing sets the tone for the remainder of the Gospels. As you tune your thoughts to Matthew's contributions to Christology-or, the study of the person of Jesus-you will pay particular attention to the way in which Matthew introduces Jesus as fulfilling the Old Testament. The following questions will guide your discussion:...
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Following signs in the heavens, Artaban-a priest of the Magi-embarks on a journey to bring gifts of sapphire, ruby, and pearl to the newborn king of the Jews. Intending to meet the caravan bearing the other three wise men across the desert, he stops to aid a dying man and misses the caravan. Artaban is willing to do whatever he must to complete his journey, but it seems luck is not on his side. Despite his best efforts, the quest may not be one he...
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Russian tycoon Boris Kievsky is not mad but he is afraid of what money and power can do to his grip on reality. When pressures of work and marriage become unsupportable, he escapes into the fictional world of Renaissance, where he befriends Niccolo Machiavelli and commits heroic deeds to win the favor of the most brilliant women of the age. In this fantasy world Boris hires Machiavelli as his business adviser because Machiavelli has the knack of making...
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Are you prepared to die for your faith?
It is a difficult question and one that many Christians today are not forced to answer. However there was a time when belief in Jesus Christ brought harsh torture and brutal execution.
It began with the crucifixion of the one they called "The King of the Jews." It marked the first of many collisions between Rome and those who confessed allegiance to Jesus of Nazareth.
This course tells the story of how and why...
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Award-Winning Author Rebecca McLaughlin Explores Who Jesus Really Is in This Follow-Up to Confronting Christianity Jesus is the most famous human being in all of history. But while many people have a basic sketch of Jesus in their minds, comparatively few have taken time to read the four biographies of his life in the New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. In Confronting Jesus, Rebecca McLaughlin shares important biblical context...
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Against a background of the strife-torn land of Judea two thousand years ago, Mika Waltari has written what is certainly his most important novel.Seeking the meaning to his life in the study of philosophy, the young Roman. Marcus Manilianus, discovers in an Alexandrian library a vast number of predictions, all tending to confirm his own feeling that the world is about to enter upon a new era. Two chance encounters with Jews who proclaim the coming...
38) Search for Christian Relics: The History and Legends Surrounding Artifacts Related to Jesus and the
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That Jesus of Nazareth (ca. 4 BC-30 CE) was crucified is the closest to a historical fact anyone can say about him. Biblical scholars have spent centuries debating the details of what Jesus did and said, but this crude fact - that Jesus suffered capital punishment at the hands of the Roman authority by crucifixion - is accepted by the overwhelming majority of scholars. That there once was a cross where Jesus suffered and died is, therefore, the sequential...
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She sat up straight. Herod, your father was loyal to my interests. So if you really want to go to Rome, Ill provide a galley. But at this time of year, the sea can be treacherous. No more treacherous than returning to Judea. She laughed. You are so serious. That must be what Antony likes about you. What Antony likes about me is our mutual need for one another and my fortune. And Queen Cleopatra, the same is true for you and me. We have the same enemies,...
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This second part of the book explains about the signs of heaven that are related to the second coming of the Lord Jesus.
His first coming is marked by a sign in the sky in the form of a star in the east as explained in Matthew 2:2:
Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
God also gave signs in the sky relating to His second coming:
The sun shall be turned into darkness,...