What does it really mean to be "saved"?Many Christians are familiar with the language of salvation—but few have explored what Scripture truly teaches about being justified, sanctified, chosen, and predestined in Christ. In More Than Saved, James Yu offers a clear and accessible look at these essential doctrines, tracing how each contributes to the rich tapestry of God's redemptive work.Rooted in Scripture and wri...

Are you wondering why, after years of following Christ, your life still feels stuck?You know the truth—yet somehow, it doesn't seem to transform your inner world. Maybe the issue isn't a lack of faith or effort. Maybe it's that you've been living in an illusion you didn't even realize was there.From Illusion to Reality is a deep soul journey that helps you uncover the hidden distortions shaping your identity—distortions born of culture, emotion, sp...

What if the gospel you've always heard is only part of the story?For many Christians, the gospel means this: Jesus died for my sins so I can go to heaven. It's true—but it's not the whole picture. A truncated gospel leads to a truncated faith: focused on personal forgiveness, disconnected from Scripture's sweeping story, and unable to sustain a life of genuine transformation.The Whole Gospel traces the Bible's single, unbroken story of good news—fr...

Do you often feel busy, yet strangely empty inside? Have you ever wondered, "Am I truly living as myself?"From Slumber to Awakening is a deep journey into the soul—an invitation to recognize the subtle illusions and self-deceptions that shape our daily lives. It gently guides you out of the "autopilot mode" of the old self and into a renewed alignment with God, your true self, and reality.Blending biblical wisdom, psychological insight, and practical exercises, this book wi...

The September/October 2020 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by T. Kingfisher, Samantha Mills, Kenneth Schneyer, Lavie Tidhar, Marie Brennan, and James Yu. Reprint fiction by P. Djèlí Clark. Essays by Del Sandeen, Marissa Lingen, Nibedita Sen, and Christopher Mark Rose, poetry by Terese Mason Pierre, Beth Cato, Rita Chen, and Lora Gray, interviews with Kenneth Schneyer and Lavie Tidhar by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Christopher Jones, a...

The lovely Bo Lien is forced by her father’s debts to marry the cruel Zhou Hua, whose pleasure is to torment beautiful girls like her. All that sustains her is her love for Morning Star, Zhou’s lovely young concubine. An erotic masterpiece set in the exotic world of ancient China with erotic bondage scenes by Commander James Bondage that are as exciting anything this master of BDSM erotica has ever written.

“Here be dragons . . . and a lot of stories that would make a dragon blink. A fascinating kaleidoscope of people and places and Things That Might Have Been—or Might Be.” —Diana Gabaldon, New York Times bestselling authorFrom Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to Journey to the Center of the Earth, from the fabled island of Avalon to the lost oasis of Zerzura, from The Land That Time Forgot to the golden city of El Dorado, storytellers have long imagined...

The Dream Team is a heartwarming children's adventure about friendship, courage, and the magic of working together.In the icy world of Snowflake Bay, Penny the Penguin dreams of exciting adventures and mysteries to solve. When the magical Snow Crystal suddenly disappears, Penny knows she cannot find it alone. She gathers her brave friends, Freddy the Fox, Bella the Bear, Lily the Owl, and Sam the Seal, each with a special gift that can help along the way.Together, the frien...

Creative exploration of how the encounter between Confucianism and western (neo)liberalism necessarily leads to the unlearning of both.Pluriversalism within International Relations and the literature on Chinese international relations each embrace ideas of relation and difference. While they similarly strive for recognition by Western academics, they do not seriously engage with each other. To the extent that either succeeds in winning recognition, it ironically re...

Baguaquan and xingyiquan are two styles that complement each other as yin does yang. Bagua is known for its circular movements and its practice of “circle walking.” Xingyi embodies characteristic linear movements said to be derived from the logical strategies for using spear and staff. The rich content in this anthology comes from the rare academic and hands-on experience of those presented in chapters here. Readers will no doubt benefit from the practical...

When the Duke of Yu falls into debt, the only way he can avoid disgrace and the loss of his ancestral land and was is to offer to the hand of his daughter, Bo Lien, the lovely Lotus of Yu, in marriage to his creditor, Zhao Hua. But Zhao is a hard, unloving man, whose greatest pleasure is to torment and humiliate beautiful girls like Bo Lien.. It looks as if the Lotus of Yu is doomed to a life of misery. The she meets Zhou's young concubine, Morning Star, and begins to hope that she may sti...

Analyzes international and cultural relationships informed by "China," a category that is becoming ever more indispensable and yet unstable in everyday narratives.There have been few efforts to overcome the binary of China versus the West. The recent global political environment, with a deepening confrontation between China and the West, strengthens this binary image. Post-Chineseness boldly challenges the essentialized notion of Chineseness in existing sc...