"Who do you say that I am?" This question that Jesus asked of his disciples, so central to his mission, became equally central to the fledgling church. How would it respond to the Gnostics who answered by saying Jesus was less than fully human? How would it respond to the Arians who contended he was less than fully God? It was these challenges that ultimately provoked the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325.In this Ancient Christian Doctrine volume covering the first hal...

The Lux Radio Theatre was a one-of-a-kind OTR show. Imagine the greatest Hollywood stars doing one-hour versions of their biggest motion pictures, complete with full orchestra, live on stage with a studio audience.Cecil DeMilleThe one-and-only Cecil B. DeMille was your host ('36-45) for a lavish production of what was to become a veritable film checklist of many of Hollywood's best films from the mid-30s right through the mid 50s. The first Lux film adaptation was "The Legionnaire ...

Devon West is a professional Dom who runs his own club, doesn't believe in romance, and has never been in a long-term relationship. All this changes when he rescues Chase Mackenzie. Chase is a runaway who has been kept as a slave since he was sixteen. Now twenty-three, he's still innocent and sweet despite being severely abused and left behind by his Dom. When Devon finds out that the man who held Chase hostage is the same man who hurt him terribly when he started learning about the sub/Do...

John Anthony McGuckin, one of the world's leading scholars of ancient Christianity, has synthesized a lifetime of work to produce the most comprehensive and accessible history of the Christian movement during its first thousand years. The Pathof Christianity takes readers on a journey from the period immediately after the composition of the Gospels, through the building of the earliest Christian structures in polity and doctrine, to the dawning of the medieval Christian establishm...

Everything you need to know to sharpen your speed reading is included in this introductory book:How Speed Reading WorksTechniques to Improve Reading SpeedThe Importance of PlanningTests to Improve Reading SpeedTips and TechniquesBeginner LessonsI leave absolutely nothing out! Everything that I learned in order to sharpen my speed reading I share with you!This is the most comprehe...

The early Christian monks of Egypt, Syria, and Palestine were the spiritual heroes of their age—fleeing the security of civilization for the desert, where they sought God in lives of prayer, contemplation, and radical simplicity. This book is a portable collection of their teachings, and those of their contemplative contemporaries, ranging from the fourth through the eleventh centuries. It is arranged to the traditional model of three ascending "books": Praktikos (practice), T...

John Anthony West's revolutionary reinterpretation of the civilization of Egypt challenges all that has been accepted as dogma concerning Ancient Egypt. In this pioneering study West documents that: Hieroglyphs carry hermetic messages that convey the subtler realities of the Sacred Science of the Pharaohs. Egyptian science, medicine, mathematics, and astronomy were more sophisticated than most modern Egyptologists acknowledge. Egyptian knowledge of the universe was a legacy from a highly s...

The harrowing adventure-at-sea memoir recounting the heroic search-and-rescue mission for lost Montauk fisherman John Aldridge, which Daniel James Brown calls "A terrific read."I am floating in the middle of the night, and nobody in the world even knows I am missing. Nobody is looking for me. You can't get more alone than that. You can't be more lost.I've got too many people who love me. There's no way I'm dying like this.In the dea...

Sundays are for Sauce is an Italian-American home cook's reflection on a time when food was more than something placed on the table. It was family, culture, memory, pride, and love.For generations, Sunday dinner was a sacred and mandatory gathering. The table was where stories were told, traditions were carried forward, and the roots of a family were honored one meal at a time. It was where children learned to respect their elders, understand their family's journey to Amer...

Thank you for your interest in the for self help series.The self help series is a series of books aimed and designed for your personal development and to help you improve in various aspects of your life. As such the books are more like booklets in that they are short but made so that they could be easily digested, easy to understand and easy to apply. The goal is for you to take action. The only way that any book or booklet would help you is if you take action.This one in p...

Like the series' trademark pie, John Anthony Dunne and Kris Song's exploration into David Lynch's Twin Peaks leaves you hungry for more.This volume investigates the religious, theological, spiritual, and supernatural elements across the series' two original seasons (ABC, 1990), the Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) film*,* and its third and final season, often referred to as The Return (Showtime, 2017). Zooming in on iconic aspects like...

Origen of Alexandria is the most influential thinker and writer of the Christian church after John the Evangelist and Paul the Apostle. This book charts his momentous impact on the structures, mindset, and doctrines of Christianity, from the third century when he wrote to the twenty-first century when his work has been enthusiastically revisited. It has been a long and enduring influence that has seen his star rise and wane many times over past centuries, but at each critical juncture of C...