THE PERFECT GIFT & THE PERFECT SACRIFICE are stories of how the Lord Jesus might have impacted the lives of ordinary people. When baby Jesus was born in Bethlehem a little more than 2000 years ago, we know he was visited by shepherds and kings, but what about those at the inn? What about people who lived and worked in the village of Bethlehem? How would a touch from the Creator of the Universe feel? The words and touch of the Master changed many lives including the lame, the blind, lepers, and even a thief. The reality of Gods only begotten Son is a continuing adventure.

The new iWorship Personal Worship Bible (New Living Translation TM) includes 365 daily devotions that lead readers into profoundly creative worship experiences. Special features include study notes, special introductions to all the books of the Bible, 100 "words of worship," quotes, reading plans, special Scripture locator tools, and a two-color interior.

The Once-A-Day Worship and Praise Devotional leads you into 365 days of adoring God. With daily readings built around worship, this devotional book will open your eyes to new aspects of God and his creation, leading you to joyous praise of the Creator. Each daily reading includes: Scripture text from the most popular modern-English Bible translation, the NIV A devotional thought about worship and praise from the trusted team that brought you the Life Application Study Bible notes Daily prayer starters—open-ended prayers to help you connect with God

Anthropology as Ethics is concerned with rethinking anthropology by rethinking the nature of reality. It develops the ontological implications of a defining thesis of the Manchester School: that all social orders exhibit basically conflicting underlying principles. Drawing especially on Continental social thought, including Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Dumont, Bourdieu and others, and on pre-modern sources such as the Hebrew bible, the Nuer, the Dinka, and the Azande, the book mounts a radical study of the ontology of self and other in relation to dualism and nondualism. It demonstrates how the self-other dichotomy disguises fundamental ambiguity or nondualism, thus obscuring the essentially ethical, dilemmatic, and sacrificial nature of all social life. It also proposes a reason other than dualist, nihilist, and instrumental, one in which logic is seen as both inimical to and continuous with value. Without embracing absolutism, the book makes ambiguity and paradox the foundation of an ethical response to the pervasive anti-foundationalism of much postmodern thought. T. M. S. (Terry) Evens is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received his Ph.D. at the University of Manchester in 1971. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Chicago, the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, the University of Calcutta, and Asmara University, Eritrea. He is author of Two Kinds of Rationality: Kibbutz Democracy and Generational Conflict (1995), and co-editor of the collections, Transcendence in Society: Case Studies (1990) and The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology (2006). Drawn especially to theory and phenomenology, he has sought from the beginnings of his professional career to isolate, identify, and critically explore philosophical underpinnings of empirical anthropology.

God deals with us for His name's sake. We fail God because we live for our own reasons and desires. This purpose of this devotional journal is to help you live a victorious Christian life by listening to God explain to you who He is. Each day, He reveals to you the meaning of one of His Holy names. Come to Him with a humble heart and read, listen, pray, meditate, and write down your reflections on the implications of His name for your life. As you apply God's leading to your life, obey and live that day by bringing glory to His name. This practice will make you a lover of God's Word and take you into a deeper relationship with Christ. The results of this process will transform you into the worthy title of "child of God."

What I have written and put together has turned out to be such a hodge-podge of different subjects, even though not all my thoughts are included. Maybe this will be good, since it will bring variety as the accounts are presented. I never know from one day to the next where my wanderings with God will take me. This is what makes it such a wonderful adventure.

Bible doctrine is the absolute truth from God that reveals His character, His standards, and His infinitely superior wisdom. For fifty-three years, Pastor R. B. Thieme, Jr., dedicated his life to teaching Bible doctrine. He sought to clarify God’s Word through innovative vocabulary, categorical outlines, and practical illustrations, so that any believer could comprehend the majestic details of God’s plan. Now, drawn from Thieme’s personal notes and sermons, Thieme’s Bible Doctrine Dictionary presents over eight hundred terms and related doctrines. Biblical subjects—ranging from the eternal Trinity to the fall and salvation of man to the Christian way of life—are precisely defined, explained, and cross-referenced.