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| William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a truly inspiring man. An evangelical Christian, he was the key voice that led to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, which ten led it's ultimate abolition worldwide. Abolishing slavery wa, according to Wilberforce's critics, impractical, idealistic and fantastically uneconomic. But Wilberfoce was convinced that slavery was an evil that needed to be eradicated, and was finally fulfilled a mere three days before his death.What would have happened if William Wilberforce had followed the conventional wisdom of today and kept his religious beliefs separted from his politacal opinions? Or not tried to "impose his beliefs on others"? Or had allowed the desilre to be "relevant", "tolerant", and "popular" to outweigh any desire to stand for what was right? |
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| Life and death hang in the balance in hometown Baxter as officials from the Centers for Disease Control race to contain a deadly virus that threatens all.Caught in the throes of a fever-induced delirium, young missionaries Blake and Melissa Thomas fight for their lives-and the life of their unborn child-in a hospital isolation chamber while fear and violence incubate outside.Vital Signs is the riveting story of people hit hard by circumstances that cause them to question the very purposes of God. As they battle against flesh-and-blood realities-and confront an enemy that could prove more lethal than the virus-can their faith prevail in the struggle? |
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| Vital Signs summarizes the research on American mainstream Protestantism in the twentieth century and assesses the significance of that research for these denominations as they confront the twenty-first century. Written primarily for church members and pastors or priests, this book will be a valuable resource for congregations and denominations, helping them to understand the trends of the past, the realities of the present, and the opportunities for renewal in the future. |
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| The Four Seasons The Huberman Festival brought together the world's most illustrious violinists to play together for the first and only time with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. This program features Vivaldi's masterpiece performed by four of the greatest violinists of this century. Isaac Stern begins by playing Spring; Pinchas Zukerman performs Summer, Shlomo Mintz plays Autumn and Itzhak Perlman concludes the work with Winter. |
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| Gil Shaham Perhaps the most popular musical work ever composed, The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi is an enduring, timeless masterpiece celebrating the special qualities of each of the four seasons with unique qualities of music composition by Vivaldi that make this truly a work for all seasons. Gil Shaham, a world renowned violinist gives a refreshing performance that, together with the Orpheus Orchestra, make this one of the best-selling Four Seasons of all time (played often on the Weather Channel). |
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| Vocabulary from Classical Roots encourages you to look at words as members of families in the way astronomers see stars as parts of constellations. Here you will become acquainted with constellations of words descended from Greek and Latin, visible in families that cluster around such subjects as the human being, kinds of mental activity, and aspects of daily life. |
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| Beginning in the late 19th century, large numbers of Greek papyri dating to the early Christian period were discovered in Egypt. Some of these contain biblical texts or fragments of Hellenistic literature, but many others are nonliterary: private letters, records of business transactions and civil proceedings, etc. New Testament scholars soon recognized that this corpus of new material could in many cases illuminate usages in the Greek New Testament for which exact parallels had never been located in classical Greek literature. For the first time it was possible to recognize that "New Testament Greek" was not a peculiar Hebraic-Greek dialect but an expression of the "Koine" Greek commonly used in everyday life throughout the eastern Mediterranean world.In the first decade of the 1900s James Hope Moulton asked George Milligan to join him in assembling data from the papyri regarding particular New Testament words. After Moulton's death in 1915 Milligan continued the work. The result was the publication of The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament in fascicles between 1914 and 1929 and in a single-volume edition in 1930. This work has been reprinted a number of times, and New Testament scholars still consider it a standard reference.Milligan's 14-page introduction describes the papyri and their significance for our understanding of the language of the New Testament. Then, after a table of abbreviations, follow 705 pages of entries in alphabetical order. The entries are given in Greek script, but in this new Hendrickson reprint Strong's numbers have been added to make the work more accessible to those with limited knowledge of Greek.Another important new addition to this Hendrickson edition is an index of New Testament passages. This thorough index, meticulously prepared under the direction of Professor Daniel B. Wallace of Dallas Theological Seminary, will greatly enhance the usefulness of this classic work for scholars, pastors, and all who wish to delve more deeply into the meanings of New Testament words. |
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| Introduce your student to various ways to learn word meanings and use Latin word parts to teach recognition of word families. Topics include synonymns, antonyms. homonyms and positive and negative context clues |
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| Continues the study of Latin word parts and presents new words in word families that share a prefix, root, or suffix. |
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| Concludes the special emphasis on Latin word parts and discusses the difference between denotative and connotative meaning. Expands the discovery of word meaning through context. |
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| Introduces some of the ways English acquires words--such as allusions, coining, back-formation, folk etymology, and borrowing from other languages, especially French |
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| Teaches recognition of native English words and words borrowed from other languages. Presents changes in word meaning and discusses euphemisms and metaphorical words. |
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