Winner, 2022 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize While the idea that successful missions needed Indigenous revolts and missionary deaths seems counterintuitive, this book illustrates how it became a central logic of frontier colonization in Spanish North America. Missions Begin with Blood argues that martyrdom acted as a ceremony of possession that helped Jesuits understand violence, disease, and death as ways that God inevitably worked to advance Christendom. Whether petitioning superiors for support, preparing to extirpate Native “idolatries,” or protecting their conversions from critics, Jesuits found power in their persecution and victory in their victimization. This book correlates these tales of sacrifice to deep genealogies of redemptive death in Catholic discourse and explains how martyrological idioms worked to rationalize early modern colonialism. Specifically, missionaries invoked an agricultural metaphor that reconfigured suffering into seed that, when watered by sweat and blood, would one day bring a rich harvest of Indigenous Christianity.

In a horrific tale of faith and irony, the passions of both good and evil are tested and tormented as all try to make sense of the time now known as The Calm. Daniel Llanso, the HellSpawn from Curse of the Spawn, is overwhelmed by the feelings of Hell on Earth. What's left of humanity is truly tested, along with the depths of evil, as all reality is twisted into a storm of confusion and agony.

An uneducated youth, William Booth left home in 1849 at the age of twenty to preach the gospel for the New Methodist Connexion. Six years later he founded a new religious movement which succeeded to such a degree that the Salvation Army (which it became) is now a worldwide operation with massive membership. But that is only part of Booth's importance and heritage. In many ways his story is also that of the Victorian poor, as he and his wife Catherine made it their lives' work to battle against the poverty and deprivation which were endemic in the mid- to late 1800s. Indeed, it was Catherine who, although a chronic invalid, inspired the Army's social policy and attitude to female authority. Her campaign against child prostitution resulted in the age of consent being raised and it was Catherine who, dying of cancer, encouraged William to clear the slums -- In Darkest England, The Way Out. Roy Hattersley's masterful dual biography is not just the story of two fascinating lives but a portrait of an integral part of our history.

From accounts of healings, salvation, and miraculous deliverances, Hinn shares powerful experiences and stories that emphasize biblical concepts and explain how to apply foundational truths.

Here is a narrower, chronological format in which you can conceptualize this book as a work of translation: 1. Academia/Universities and Research Centers 2. Translation Studies discipline 3. Source text/material – the Bible and the dreams in the spirit realm 4. Target text/translation – this book 5. The spiritual effect/aftermath A possible spiritual consequence may arise from reading the Bible or from reading texts derived from the Bible, and that consequence is “conversion” – just the same way as one may become converted into the philosophy of capitalism as a result of reading works and ideas on capitalism. In other words, there are two-pronged dimensions that accrue from this book, or from several of my works on Bible Commentary: 1. The Bible is, for you, just as any rich academic literature book that you read, examine, explore, question, analyze, translate and interpret in as many myriad forms as possible, reading between the lines and seeing plausible messages, themes, communications, ideas, concepts, and hidden meanings that you discover, reveal, argue, and expatiate with copious underpinnings of versified exposition, demonstrating textual analysis skill to decipher parables, allegories, metaphors, similes, all forms and manner of poetic figures of speech, and dark sayings, and so on and so forth. Or 2. The Bible is, for you, not like any other book, but is rather spiritual and those words in it, as we say that words have power, do indeed have power to connect into your spirit, into your inner hidden self to reveal yourself to yourself in ways that no other book is able to accomplish! i. John 6:63 (KJV) It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. ii. Romans 7:14 (KJV) For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. iii. 2 Corinthians 3:18 (KJV) But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. iv. Hebrews 4:12 (KJV) For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. v. James 1:23 (KJV) For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: vi. James 1:24 (KJV) For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. vii. James 1:25 (KJV) But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. To those of you who adhere to the number 1 characterization of this book, or any of my several works on Bible Commentary, you will find plenty academic literature evidence just as those of you who adhere to the number 2 characterization of this book, or any of my several works on Bible Commentary, you will also find plenty spiritual effect and evidence.

Did you know that the prophets of old, inquired about and searched out this great salvation that was to be revealed to us? They could not imagine how this salvation would come to men…but we are blessed to receive this salvation! We have received salvation because someone told us about it. In this riveting book, Dag Heward-Mills, an evangelist in Africa leads us not only to understand our great salvation but also teaches us how to share this great salvation gospel with others. May each of us do the work of an evangelist!