**The cross is good news for us today.**With the expertise of a veteran biblical scholar and the wisdom of a seasoned pastor, Christopher Wright skillfully guides us on Jesus' journey from the Last Supper to the cross. Through the lens of the Old Testament, Wright navigates the Gospel accounts of events that include the meal in the upper room, Peter's denials, the taunts and jeers of soldiers and bystanders, and the anguish of crucifixion, inviting us to meditate on their significance for ...

Embracing Queer Students’ Diverse Identities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Primer for Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty is both a call to action and a resource for historically Black college and university (HBCU) leaders and administrators, focusing on historical and contemporary issues related to expanding inclusionary policies and practices for members of HBCU communities who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+). The essa...

Ever since his first sermon in 1925, Martyn Lloyd-Jones consistently emphasized the significance of Christ's sacrifice for our sake.This new collection of sermons reveals this theme in Lloyd-Jones' classic expository style, showing his gift for combining a warm, personal devotion to Jesus Christ with deep theological insight. His grasp of Scripture still causes the maturest believer to ponder, yet he brings a simplicity of thought to his preaching that even a child can understand a...

Every victory begins with a sacrifice.Major Levi Cohen readies to retire after twenty years of peacetime service to the Terran Coalition. With mere weeks remaining, he allows the luxury of imagining days alongside his wife and eight-year-old son instead of separated by duty. He promised that this year he wouldn’t miss another one of David’s birthdays – and he intends to keep his word.His plans are cut short when the League of Sol sends a massive force of wa...

That happened to be the last that either of us actually saw of Alysia Rimmell—alive.Ludovic Travers, associate of Scotland Yard, and the director of his own detective agency, is brought into a new case, and finds something very much wrong with an attempt at blackmail, an unsolved theft, and a murder . . . they all seem to link up. The more he studies them the more he is convinced that the diamonds from an elaborate pendant Russian Cross are the root of the whole business, ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Crossing The Chasm With Category Science is where traditional data analysis meets its daring counterpart. Forget the old-school approach of projecting past trends into the future. This audiobook teaches you to wield Category Science like a swashbuckling pirate, using a forward-looking lens to spot where the real treasures lie—in the anomalies and extremes of data. Learn how to transform dusty numbers into dynamic strategies that push bu...

It is known how Emmett Corbin stood off twenty men at Mekelumne, and how he walked alone into the fire of Saul Bassett and his brothers at Steamboat Springs. What happened at Spanish Crossing was far less dramatic, but far more harrowing and, for Emmett Corbin, far more terrifying.

**From the USA Today Bestselling author of The Sword of the Templars and The Aztec HeresySome secrets are too great to bear...**Retired Army Ranger Lt. Col. John Holliday has reluctantly settled into his teaching position at West Point when young Israeli archaeologist Rafi Wanounou comes to him with desperate news.Holliday's niece—and Rafi's fiancé—Peggy has been kidnapped. Holliday sets out with Rafi to find the only family he has left. B...

In His last six hours, Jesus Christ, already struggling to breathe, weighs His words carefully and issues SEVEN proclamations from the Cross. These seven sayings, when properly understood,they draw us to Him and to His Salvation. In this book, the author takes these seven sayings and shows you how he invites you to be with him in death and in life.

They came to earth—Pestilence, War, Famine, Death—four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth, and they came to end us all.Ana da Silva always assumed she’d die young, she just never expected it to be at the hands of Famine, the haunting immortal who once spared her life so many years ago. But if the horseman remembers her at all, he must not care, for when she ...

Part guidebook, part travelogue but definitely all adventure, join author Richard Williams and photographer Manish Maharja as they cross the Nepalese Himalayas on a mountain bike.Originally from Pembrokeshire, but now resident in Switzerland, Richard details this most remarkable of journeys through some of the most stunning, and most challenging, landscapes and environments the world has to offer. Along with the remarkable textual and photographic account, the book also contains map...

Let us follow our dear Lord Jesus as he travels the Way of the Cross. He is asking us to follow him.Are you afraid?Jesus himself was afraid to walk this painful journey, but out of love for us, he did so. So for love of him, we follow.This fully illustrated version of the traditional Stations of the Cross contains new meditations by children's author Regina Doman (Angel in the Waters) along with:Scripture verses that point to each station,tra...