This book examines Paul's descriptions of his conversion experience in Galatians and 1 Corinthians, and argues that the mission to the Gentiles is best viewed as Paul's response to the rejection of his claim to be an apostle.

Back in 1926 when the town of Marren was just starting to boom, a lumber Baron named Author Blackwood was on top of the world as the richest man in town. Well, until one fateful night when the grounds keeper Mr. Parnell murdered him, his daughter, and his housekeeper. The authorities searched but never found Mr. Blackwood or his daughter's bodies. Now over 80 years later, Mr. Parnell's grandson is convinced that his grandfather was innocent and that a mysterious curse killed the Blackwoods and everyone who has lived in the Manor since 1926. Now a new family has moved into town and into the...

Ambitious young Mage Samara hits a dead end in her research to unlock the secrets of a recently unearthed arcane manuscript. Out of options, she commissions Darian, a warrior of the Manu tribe, to lead her to one of his people's renowned seers. The secret they discover, however, leaves them hunted at every turn as they become entangled in a plot to tear open a portal to Hell, releasing a legion of bloodthirsty demons upon the world. Thrown into a struggle neither fully understand, and complicated by a mutual attraction that neither will acknowledge, the pair must race hundreds of miles before...