When Love Commands

When Love Commands
Author: Jennifer Wilde
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2015-01-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1497698189

The New York Times–bestselling third book in Jennifer Wilde’s acclaimed trilogy takes Marietta Danver to the dazzling palaces of imperial Russia, on a dangerous quest for passion, redemption, and love Marietta Danver is on her way to London to reunite with the man she loves when her coach crashes. She awakens ten days later in a village inn under the care of Lucie Orlov and her uncle. Tall, mesmerizingly handsome Count Gregory Orlov was Catherine the Great’s uncrowned emperor and one of the most powerful men in the realm—until the possessive, wildly jealous empress banished her lover from the court. Marietta too has been betrayed. Jeremy Bond has left the city—with another woman and all of Marietta’s money. Heartbroken, with nowhere else to turn, she takes the position of companion to Lucie and travels with the Orlovs back to Russia. At their lavish country estate in St. Petersburg, she becomes trapped in a different kind of prison. Caught up in the dangerous intrigues of the imperial court, she fights for her freedom and her life—and a love she’ll move heaven and earth to claim. The Marietta Danver Trilogy also includes Love’s Tender Fury and Love Me, Marietta.

At Love's Command

At Love's Command
Author: Karen Witemeyer
Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
Total Pages: 523
Release: 2020-12-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781432883133

Ex-cavalry officer Matthew Hanger leads a band of mercenaries who defend the innocent, but when a rustler's bullet leaves one of them at death's door, they seek out help from Dr. Josephine Burkett.

The Language of Love and Respect

The Language of Love and Respect
Author: Dr. Emerson Eggerichs
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2009-10-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 141858049X

Why does communication between couples remain the number one marriage issue? Because most spouses don't know that they speak two different languages. Communication expert Dr. Emerson Eggerich says that the problem is couples are sending each other messages in 'code,' but they won't crack that code until they see that she listens to hear the language of love and he listens to hear the language of respect. Dr. Eggerichs' best-selling book, Love and Respect, launched a revolution in how couples relate to each other. In The Language of Love and Respect, you will discover: The basic communication differences between men and women A biblical perspective with easy-to-use tips and advice A quick review and summary for each chapter This book offers a practical, step-by-step approach for how husbands and wives can learn to speak each other’s distinctly different language -- respect for him, love for her. The result is mutual understanding and a successful, happy marriage. Previously released as Cracking the Communication Code.

Three Commands

Three Commands
Author: Bruce Pagano II
Publisher: Ink Publishing House LLC
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2020-04-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780578654546

How do you love God? Like, really, tangibly, and practically participate in a loving relationship with God? Is it through more prayer? More Bible reading? Spiritual disciplines? Since the second command is like the first, is it by loving and serving your neighbor? What happens when you just become tired and burned out and never feel loved back? Mother Theresa served the poorest of the poor in Kolkata for 40 years and wrote often about how she didn't feel loved by God.? how are we supposed to do something that the Israelites couldn't do over hundreds of years? What if we're not supposed to? What if instead Jesus knew the heaviness in the burden of all that and sought to give us a new way; a new command??? His new command changed everything about the way we love. It's only through learning to love each other that we are able to live in the fullness of a loving relationship with God; one in which we are moved toward loving our neighbor as a means of inviting them into His kingdom of love.

Christian Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century

Christian Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Thomas M. Crisp
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2014-09-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0802871445

The Christian tradition provides a wealth of insight into perennial human questions about the shape of the good life, human happiness, virtue, justice, wealth and poverty, spiritual growth, and much else besides -- and Christian scholars can do great good by bringing that rich tradition into conversation with the broader culture. But what is the nature and purpose of distinctively Christian scholarship, and what does that imply for the life and calling of the Christian scholar? What is it about Christian scholarship that makes it Christian? Ten eminent scholars grapple with such questions in this volume. They offer deep and thought-provoking discussions of the habits and commitments of the Christian scholar, the methodology and pedagogy of Christian scholarship, the role of the Holy Spirit in education, Christian approaches to art and literature, and more. CONTRIBUTORS Jonathan A. Anderson Dariusz M. Brycko Natasha Duquette M. Elizabeth Lewis Hall George Hunsinger Paul K. Moser Alvin Plantinga Craig J. Slane Nicholas Wolterstorff Amos Yong

Ethics in the Gospel of John

Ethics in the Gospel of John
Author: Sookgoo Shin
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2018-10-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004387439

In Ethics in the Gospel of John Sookgoo Shin seeks to challenge the dominant scholarly view of John’s ethics as an ineffective and unhelpful companion for moral formation. In order to demonstrate the relevance of John’s ethics, Shin argues that the development of discipleship in John’s Gospel should be understood as moral progress, which was a well-known moral concept in the ancient Mediterranean world. Having drawn an ethical model from the writings of Plutarch, this study aims to identify the undergirding ethical dynamic that shapes John’s moral structure by bringing out the implicit ethical elements that are embedded throughout John’s narratives, and thus suggests a way to read the whole Gospel ethically and appreciatively of its literary characteristics.

Stories with Intent

Stories with Intent
Author: Klyne R. Snodgrass
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 917
Release: 2018-02-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467449636

Winner of the 2009 Christianity Today Award for Biblical Studies, Stories with Intent offers pastors and students a comprehensive and accessible guide to Jesus' parables. Klyne Snodgrass explores in vivid detail the historical context in which these stories were told, the part they played in Jesus' overall message, and the ways in which they have been interpreted in the church and the academy. Snodgrass begins by surveying the primary issues in parables interpretation and providing an overview of other parables—often neglected in the discussion—from the Old Testament, Jewish writings, and the Greco-Roman world. He then groups the more important parables of Jesus thematically and offers a comprehensive treatment of each, exploring both background and significance for today. This tenth anniversary edition includes a substantial new chapter that surveys developments in the interpretation of parables since the book's original 2008 publication.

The Gospels

The Gospels
Author: John Muddiman
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2010-04-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 019162585X

The Oxford Bible Commentary is a Bible study and reference work for 21st century students and readers that can be read with any modern translation of the Bible. It offers verse-by-verse explanation of every book of the Bible by the world's leading biblical scholars. From its inception, OBC has been designed as a completely non-denominational commentary, carefully written and edited to provide the best scholarship in a readable style for readers from all different faith backgrounds. It uses the traditional historical-critical method to search for the original meaning of the texts, but also brings in new perspectives and insights - literary, sociological, and cultural - to bring out the expanding meanings of these ancient writings and stimulate new discussion and further enquiry. Newly issued in a series of part volumes, the OBC is now available in an affordable and portable format for the commentaries to the four canonical Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Includes a general introduction to using the Commentary, in addition to an introduction to study of the New Testament, and a detailed comparison of the four gospels in synopsis.

Mimesis in the Johannine Literature

Mimesis in the Johannine Literature
Author: C. Bennema
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2017-09-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567678415

Mimesis is a fundamental and pervasive human concept, but has attracted little attention from Johannine scholarship. This is unsurprising, since Johannine ethics, of which mimesis is a part, has only recently become a fruitful area of research. Bennema contends that scholars have not yet identified the centre of Johannine ethics, admittedly due to the fact that mimesis is not immediately evident in the Johannine text because the usual terminology for mimesis is missing. This volume is the first organized study on the concept of mimesis in the Johannine literature. The aim of the study is to establish that mimesis is a genuine Johannine concept, to explain its particulars and to show that mimesis is integral to Johannine ethics. Bennema argues that Johannine mimesis is a cognitive, creative process that shapes the believer's identity and behaviour within the context of the divine family. Besides being instrumental in people's moral transformation, mimesis is also a vital mechanism for mediating the divine reality to people