Kategoria BISAC: Music >> Religious - Christian

Handel called Britain 'The Ringing Isle' because he heard bells ringing everywhere he went. Behind the quintessentially English sound of bells ringing lies a unique way of hanging bells and a special way of ringing them that evolved in the late sixteenth century. Ringing has since developed and spread, with some 6,000 towers worldwide with bells hung in the English style, and most of them in England. Over 40,000 active ringers keep alive the traditions and skills of change ringing that have been handed down over many generations.

The book is an introduction to the world of bells and...

This new
book of congregational song will
include:

• Over 800 hymns,
  psalms,
  and spiritual
  songs.
• Approximately 50% of
  included hymns will be from the 1990
  Presbyterian hymnal. The remaining
  pieces will come from former
  Presbyterian hymnals, other
  denominational songbooks, and
  individual
  authors and composers.
• A
  musical
  setting of almost every Sunday
  lectionary psalm.
• Music from six
  different continents.
• Music
  covering all major historical and
  contemporary sacred genres, including...

With this new lectionary commentary series, Westminster John Knox offers the most extensive resource for preaching on the market today. When complete, the twelve volumes of the series will cover all the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, along with movable occasions, such as Christmas Day, Epiphany, Holy Week, and All Saints' Day.

For each lectionary text, preachers will find four brief essays--one each on the theological, pastoral, exegetical, and homiletical challenges of the text. This gives preachers sixteen different approaches to the proclaimation of the Word on any...

The page layout is truly unique. For each lectionary text, preachers will find brief essaysA--one each on the exegetical, theological, pastoral, and homiletical challenges of the text. Each volume will also contain an index of biblical passages so that nonlectionary preachers may make use...

This commentary on Revelation has Jesus teaching about the future in Matthew 24 as its interpretative key. Revelation is understood as a series of overlapping visions, that speak to the challenges faced by believers in the first century, as well as to issues in the centuries that have followed. The visions culminate in the final triumph of Jesus Christ over the powers of darkness that oppose the Kingdom of God. It has particular relevance to followers of Jesus in the majority world, who like the early Christians are seeing both the powerful spread of the gospel and the reality of...