This "Stringfellow reader" collects the most significant of William Stringfellow's works--currently all out of print--plus important material not previously published. A thorough bibliography of his writings is appended.

Stewards, prophets, keepers of the word-these roles reflect the hierarchical social structures, religious experiences, and faithfulness to tradition found in ancient Mediterranean cultures, and, as Ritva Williams argues, influenced the development of early Christianity. The linear progression of leadership (apostles to bishops or apostles to presbyters or charismatics to office holders, etc.) commonly thought to have emerged in the early church does not appear in early Christian texts from the mid-first to early second centuries. Instead, what these texts reveal is a variety, diversity, and plurality of ways that Christ-followers adopted and adapted these dynamic roles from antiquity as they struggled to organize and live in their local situations. Book jacket.

In a world where magic can only be found by a careful eye looking behind the words of a well written novel, only one has mastered how to absorb, and later on, use this magic.

God has you in His net and His desire is to keep you. He has created a system for doing exactly that. Find the answers to these questions: Does God use sickness and calamity to correct His wayward kids? Does grace mean I can do whatever I please and still go to Heaven? Why do some seem to get away with living immoral lives? How does God correct His children?

God's word is essential to a believer's life. This one-year diary lets you record what God says to you, and how to apply His word to your life. When you write down the Word, you write it upon your heart.