The Old Testament is a problem for many Christians. Some find it puzzling, or even offensive; others seem to glibly misuse it for their own ends. There are few resources aimed at enabling ordinary Christians to understand the OT and use it in their lives as followers of Jesus.In this book At Home in a Strange Land: Using the Old Testament in Christian Ethics, Andrew Sloane seeks to address this need. He outlines some of the problems that ordinary Christians face in reading...

Imagine being able to live, work and travel wherever you want to in the world and knowing how to finance yourself along the way! Yes, it’s possible and the options are more plentiful than you might think. Permitted to Stay: How YOU Can Work and Travel Anywhere in 2024/25 is your comprehensive guide on working and travelling—no matter your education, nationality, or skill level—and is for anyone from 18 to 80!Drawing on his own experience of working on every inhabited continent over...

Twelve-year-old Penny is despondent after her fathers death. The young girl is forced to live with her abusive sister and her sisters drug dealer boyfriend. Just when she thinks life is at its lowest, Penny is saved by a fallen angel summoned by dark forces.----Penny uses her knowledge of the supernatural to trick the angel Argus to stay with her and guard over her throughout her life. Penny is an intelligent but shy girl with hidden bravery and daring. She is kind and generous, but can be...

Are you dissatisfied with life, despite achieving the things you were told would make you happy - the career, the relationship, the house?What if you've tried to follow that path, only to find it wasn't built for you - or that it's far harder to access than promised?Are you stuck, burnt out and disconnected?Do you feel . . . lost?You are not alone, and you are not broken.The world is.The world is chaotic and constantly changing, leaving us fe...

Medical and bioethical issues have spawned a great deal of debate in both public and academic contexts. Little has been done, however, to engage with the underlying issues of the nature of medicine and its role in human community. This book seeks to fill that gap by providing Christian philosophical and theological reflections on the nature and purposes of medicine and its role in a Christian understanding of human society.The book provides two main 'doorways' into a Christian phil...

Are you dissatisfied with life, despite achieving the things you were told would make you happy – the career, the relationship, the house?What if you've tried to follow that path, only to find it wasn't built for you – or that it's far harder to access than promised?Are you stuck, burnt out and disconnected?Do you feel . . . lost?You are not alone, and you are not broken.The world is.The world is chaotic and constantly changing, leaving us fe...

In a remarkable literary career, Andrew Lang challenged the increasing specialism that accompanied the advance of modernity and science in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, authoring an extraordinary body of rigorous, scholarly works in the fields of social anthropology, folklore, Homeric studies, history, and religion, while simultaneously turning out novels, poems for periodicals, and inexhaustible columns of prose journalism to make money. He was widely regarded as one of the ...

The Hating Game meets Legends & Lattes in this captivating and hilarious fantasy rom-com with a twist about two enemies who must work together to return to their reality.Courtney’s only goal in life is to have no goals. A reformed overachiever, she’s content with her dead-end job and simple existence. And her “feud” with her neighbor Bryce brings her immense joy. Everything is perfect.Until Courtney and Bryce are pulled th...

There has been an explosion of publishing in the faith-work movement in the last twenty years. Work is increasingly seen as the new frontier for Christian mission. However, the church and theological colleges have failed to keep up with the interest among, and needs of, workplace Christians. This book is the urgent corrective that is needed, moving past Theology of Work 101 to much deeper encounters with God's word as it relates to daily work. These twelve academic papers look at work thro...

The Mindset Revolution by Michael Sloan is an empowering guide that unifies three transformative approaches to reshape your life. This comprehensive volume combines the wisdom of Sloan's three previous works into a singular, dynamic resource.In "The Art of Problem Solving 101," Sloan takes you on a journey to unlock your innate problem-solving abilities. This part of the book is not just about solving problems but transforming you into a problem so...

Evangelical and feminist approaches to Old Testament interpretation often seem to be at odds with each other. The authors of this volume argue to the contrary: feminist and evangelical interpreters of the Old Testament can enter into a constructive dialogue that will be fruitful to both parties. They seek to illustrate this with reference to a number of texts and issues relevant to feminist Old Testament interpretation from an explicitly evangelical point of view. In so doing they raise is...

Andrew Lang (1844–1912) made his name in the last quarter of the Victorian era in a remarkable number of literary and intellectual fields, as popular poet, influential literary critic, editor of the classic series of Fairy Books for the young, and as author of groundbreaking books on anthropology, Homeric scholarship, folklore and history. This is the first annotated edition of Lang’s poems, bringing together his books of verse and over 150 additional poems, many of them collected for the ...