Sir Isaac Newton knew about the Bible code 300 hundred years ago when he described it as “a cryptogram set by the Almighty?.The riddle of the God-head, the riddle of past and future events divinely fore-ordained.”
Newton was captivated with the idea that the Torah could contain a code that could foretell future events, but until [...]
America´s 220 years of Democracy (of its 400 years) is longer than the Greek 100 (of 1000), the Roman 150 (of 1000), or the British 180 (of 1600.) These European democracies are the only large ones ever. Two collapsed as demoralized empires. Two moderns with one heritage of basicly Christian, Northwest European tradition, have been [...]
Author: Thomas C. Oden
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco; 1st ed edition (May 1, 1983)
Language: English
ISBN: 0060663537
Book Content:
Introduction: What is Pastoral Theology?
I. Becoming a Minister
The Discovery of Pastoral Identity
The Call to Ministry
The Meaning of Ordination
Women in the Pastoral Office
II. The Pastoral Office
Shepherding as Pivotal Analogy
The Offices and Gifts of Ministry
III. What Clergy Do and Why
The Pastor of [...]
Win-Win Partnerships - Be on the Leading Edge with Synergistic Coaching
Win-Win Partnerships takes Coaching and Partnering to a new level. This book explores much more than employer/employee relationships. One gets a sense of the power that can come only through synergistic partnerships whether they be in or out of the workplace. The coaching process is [...]
The Big Idea
A lot of people consider selling a very difficult task. Unfortunately for them, selling is an activity that forms part of everyone’s daily routine. It occurs not only at work, but also when you are at home with your family, or when you are enjoying a cup of coffee with a friend.
Types of [...]
If writing was a religion, it shall be easy to deem ‘Harry Potter and the half-blood prince’ as the penultimate blasphemy, an utmost sacrilege. A book that discredits its own magnitude, it is a joke in the Queens’ English that bravely illustrates the argument for its painful ineptitude. J.K. Rowling seems to have found the [...]
This large (about 378 pages), fantasy-adventure novel should give best selling authors like Stephen King heavy competition. Fantastically interwoven with elements of King Arthur’s realm, including a little Arthurian romance, Arturo el Rey will keep the reader captivated.
The main character, Art Reyes, escapes gang life and joins the Marines - but when terrorists release the [...]
“This has to be one of the best detective novels I have read in some time - right up there with Lawrence Sanders! P.J. Lawton is far from new to the world of writing and he displays excellent story-writing skills in Lethal Option. He shares much of the same history as his main character, giving [...]
“Why Malta?” my new Maltese friends kept asking me when they find out that my mystery-thriller The Cellini Masterpiece is set on Malta. Mind you, only the Maltese ask that question. (Some kind of national inferiority complex?) Americans ask “Malta Who?” or “Where the heck is Malta?” or “Is it about the Maltese Falcon?” (They [...]
Washington Historian Remembers Harriet Lane, the Greatest First Lady
WASHINGTON DC: She was the first White House Hostess to be called “First Lady.” Enough said.
“Harriet Lane was a century ahead of her time,” says Washington Historian and Biographer Milton Stern. “She used her intelligence, political skills, charm and beauty to push legislation through Congress when she [...]