Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Biblical Biography - New Testament

One of the most remarkable Christian testimonies of recent years -- this is the dramatic story of a former alcoholic street dweller's conversion to Christianity. Fostered, abused and sent to prison, Angie Taylor has suffered more than most. Her decline into the gutter is vividly told in this action-packed and moving true story. Lurching from one hopeless relationship to another, Angie hit rock bottom. Living on the street, hooked on drugs and unable to take care of herself she cried out in anguish. Then God came in. This powerful and moving book charts her extraordinary road to recovery...

The apostle Paul. The converted terrorist, inspired author, amazing teacher, and patient mentor.This colossal figure strode boldly onto the stage of the first-century world and left an indelible signature of greatness never to be forgotten. His life? Magnificent And his ministry? Impressive. While assigned sainthood by some today, by his own description he was "the chief of all sinners." No other person in the Bible, aside from Christ Himself, had a more profound influence on his world and ours than Paul.

He was a man of real grit, with a firmness of mind and spirit and unyielding...

Human beings are embedded in a set of social relations. A social network is one way of conceiving that set of relations in terms of a number of persons connected to one another by varying degrees of relatedness. In the early Jesus group documents featuring Paul and coworkers, it takes little effort to envision the apostle's collection of friends and friends of friends that is the Pauline network. The persons who constituted that network are the focus of this set of books. For Christians of the Western tradition, these persons are significant ancestors in faith. While each of them is worth...

Madsen was inspired by the sacramental language used in his work as a priest, as well as by Emil Bock's translation of the Gospels. Like Bock, he is convinced that the living wisdom of the Gospels needs to be revealed. In his rendering, Madsen has attempted to recover the overtones and subtleties...

Es el liderazgo un titulo?, Autoridad?, Carisma?, Lo que obtiene los mejores resultados?
John MacArthur, autor de best sellers, pastor y maestro, senala las 26 caracteristicas poderosas del liderazgo en la vida del apostol Pablo.

Mas que nunca, los cristianos necesitan un modelo de liderazgo que se basa en la Palabra de Dios, que le de gloria a El pero que al mismo tiempo alcance el exito, crecimiento, servicio a los demas, desarrollo personal y profesional, y mucho mas.

En Llamado a liderar, John MacArthur explica las caracteristicas de un lider usando como...

All the furniture in the house got wrecked except this one old wooden china cabinet in my grandmother's kitchen, which somehow remained standing despite all odds. One night, in the midst of a prayer, I glanced over at it and thought, If this cabinet could talk... What madness it had seen. The Lord spoke to me then. -You're both here, and you both survived, and just like this cabinet, you remain unbroken.-

Tracy Elliott led a rough life. This honest memoir takes you into the heart of the gritty realities of the street and a life of addiction. But it is the story of a broken person's...

Their odds were 100,000 to one.

Her faith was 1 in a million.

In The Gift of Love, bestselling fiction author Amy Clipston shares her story of almost losing the love of her life to kidney disease and the ultimate sacrifice that kept their family together. An ordinary woman who cherishes family above all else, Amy was challenged in every way--from her strength of character to the depths of her faith to the close-knit family that surrounds her. Enduring the good, the bad, and the really bad, she was determined to help her husband once...

Unlike other New Testament persons described in the Paul's Social Network Series, Peter was a member of Jesus' inner circle during his life and ministry in Galilee. In "Peter," Eric Stewart explores the depictions of Peter that appear throughout the New Testament for insights into who he was. Readers will learn what it means that Peter was a villager and a fisherman, a holy person, an authorized change agent, a moral entrepreneur, a healer, a speaker, and a writer. In the end, they will understand Peter's message, and the message of his Master, far more deeply.

What does it mean to think, believe, and act like an American? Get the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and other important United States historical documents all in one book

The soul of America is far more than a concept--it is a people. Even the most sacred principles mean very little unless lived out passionately by an informed citizenry. In The Portable Patriot you'll find a carefully assembled sampling of American history's most formative words, written by the people who made that extraordinary history--George...

A true-life adventure sure to shock as well as inspire.

AK47s, masked thugs, and brutal urgency erupt from Roy Hallums' account of his abduction in Iraq, shredding through those frequently sterile cable news reports revealing that another -American contractor is being held hostage . . .-

Hallums was the everyman behind that report?a 56-year-old retired Naval commander working as a food supply contractor in Baghdad's high-end Mansour District.

His abduction was transacted in a matter of minutes, amidst a hail of gunfire and a handful of casualties. For the first few...