Böcker av Stephen Harrison

What does it mean to be a man? Ask 100 people, and you're likely to get 100 answers. Men are often consumed and defined by their hobbies and vocation. The world is often silent in how to mature from boyhood to manhood and be a godly man, faithful husband, and devoted father. Society usually ascribes a man's worth based on external qualities such as possessions, strength, and ability (or lack thereof) instead of inward qualities such as humility, selflessness, and servanthood. The challenging culture tends to portray and promote a skewed and lacking perspective opposed to God's design for biblical manhood. Here's a better question than the first: What does it mean to be a GODLY man? "The Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel" (Proverbs 1:1) helps men better understand how to become a godly man of Christ-like character. While Solomon doesn't spend much time contrasting men and women, he does help boys grow into men. Guys of all ages and stages need wisdom from the Lord to mature as men who no longer act like boys. With wisdom from a father and mother instructing a son (Proverbs 1:8), the Proverbs give actionable "how-to" practical and sensible advice and skills needed for living out biblical manhood. This book is designed as a 30-day devotional to model and hopefully establish and encourage the daily discipline of spending time with God in His Word and presence. Every man can apply the practical advice and answers from the Proverbs on the critical issues facing men today, such as conduct, decision-making, sexual purity, finances, charity, business, contentment, and relationships.

The presence and plurality of New Testament elders is necessary for today's local church. That's true for deacons as well. The Apostle Paul addressed both a plurality of overseers (elders) and deacons in the church at Philippi (Philippians 1:1). Jesus' church (Matthew 16:18) should have the same leadership structure today as seen in His Word. Sadly, the New Testament standards and practices of these two offices are often missing, mutated, and even mutilated in the local church! Elders are not simply board members, and deacons are not glorified janitors. Both are needed and must be understood and implemented to lovingly lead and serve the local church body. Some churches operate in a single elder (senior pastor) leadership structure often accompanied by deacons with elder-like responsibilities. Sometimes churches are led by a power-hungry board called deacons that fail to be lead servants of Jesus. By functioning incorrectly (unbiblically), quasi-deacons/elders often overlook the biblical responsibilities needed from each New Testament office. The result can produce an under-led and underserved church. What a mess that can be!This twelve-lesson workbook was designed to help the church and its leaders understand biblical deacons. It can be used to identify, train, and commission biblical deacons in a mentoring relationship while retaining (or starting) the plurality of eldership. This workbook will help local churches distinguish between the needed responsibilities of both elders and deacons and discover how these offices function harmoniously. May the result be a well-led and well-served flourishing local church that glorifies Jesus and makes disciples of Him.

We establish that although symbols arisespontaneously out of questions that seek to providemeaning for life's events, that paradoxicallysuch symbols themselves need to be questionedand adjusted I order to sustainuniversal and eternal meaning.

A fascinating insight into the most talented Latin poets to occupy the Papal throne after Pius II Piccolomini in the 15th century, this book offers translations of and commentaries on the major poems of the three popes (all Italians): Urban VIII Barberini, Alexander VII Chigi and Leo XIII Pecci. Their highly accomplished Neo-Latin poems owe much to the major Latin poets and are significant instances of classical reception, but also cast an interesting light on their lives, times and papacies.Urban (elected pope in 1623) published a mixture of secular and religious verse, drawing on the hexameter epistles of Horace and the lyrics of Catullus and writing Horatian material in praise of Alessandro Farnese, governor of the Netherlands for Philip II of Spain, and the Spanish martyr St Laurence. Alexander (elected pope in 1655) like Urban combines secular and religious themes and often uses Horatian frameworks, writing hexameter accounts of some of the journeys he made as a papal diplomat in Germany and an Horatian ode on the fall of the Protestant stronghold of La Rochelle (1628). Leo's poetry was mostly religious and published during his papacy (1878-1903); his Horatian ode on the new millennium of 1900 was widely read, and other works include an elegy which links a shrine of the Virgin with the Battle of Lepanto; an Horatian satire on moderate diet; and hymns to saints which combine early Christian and Horatian forms.

The world has commercialized Christmas to the point that we can miss the reason for the season: Jesus! This interactive book of devotionals, one for each day of December till Christmas Day, is designed to help you and your family keep your eyes on Jesus, the Savior of the World. Use it daily leading up to Christmas to grow closer to Jesus and closer to one another. Ask the Spirit of God to fill you more and more and cause you to fall more in love with Jesus. "For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace" (Isaiah 9:6).

The Job story involves a paradoxical confrontation with his friends that he doesn't want and doesn't get the confrontation that he does want with God. The whirlwind representing God allows a multi-sensory experience not only for Job but for those of us in the audience of this morality play. We are meant to see the devastation in Job's life, feel his boils and cutting on himself, taste his losses including the imagined loss of his support system, smell the stench of his wounds, to hear simultaneously his pleas to confront God while Job whines endlessly about his lost reputation. That lost reputation will feel the deep sting of having to make sacrifices for friends who have hurled accusations at him. Paradoxically Job's reputation cannot be restored until he reconciles with people and situations unexpected. Join us in this greatly expanded story from our first book Dissecting Job.

It is often claimed that the kind of love that is variously deemed 'romantic' or 'true' did not exist in antiquity. Yet, ancient literature abounds with stories that seem to adhere precisely to this kind of love. This volume focuses on such literature and the concepts of love it espouses. The volume differs from and challenges much existing classical scholarship which has traditionally privileged the theme of sex over love and prose-genres over those of poetry. By conversely focusing on love and poetry, the present volume freshly explores central poets in ancient literature, such Homer, Sappho, Terence, Catullus, Virgil, Horace and Ovid, alongside less canonized, such as the anonymous poet of The Lament for Bion, Philodemus and Sulpicia. The chapters, which are written by world-leading as well as younger scholars, reveal that Greek and Latin concepts of love seem interconnected, that such love is as relevant for hetero- as homoerotic couples, and that such ideas of love follow the mainstream of poetry throughout antiquity. In addition to the general reader interested in the history of love, this volume is relevant for students and scholars of the ancient world and the poetic tradition.

The gospels, in a nutshell, are an offensive paradox where absurd and seemingly contradictory statements reside such as in order to live we have to die to self. The gospels seek to reconcile unmerited grace with the necessity of social engagement simultaneously to people who may themselves not be deserving as well. We are welcomed home like the Prodigal, but we are not off the hook for work we are called to do. The beauty of the gospels is that as eternal as they are in their ability to inspire, that type of inspiration may manifest in as many ways over time as there are interpretations. Explore ours as you ∩¼ünd yours.

The first collection dedicated to the subject of expurgation in the Classics, exploring the strategies used to deal with obscene and other textual material in conflict with Christian and other post-classical values.

Provides an understanding, in the light of both political and economic developments, of what has been happening to NHS managers and professionals in the last decade. The book also explains the basis for various recommendations and related developments.

Written by leading academics in their field this book provides a clear and considered overview of the politics of health care in Britain. Bringing together a wide range of material on both past events and recent developments, the chapters cover issues such as the politics of health professionalism, clinical knowledge, and organization and management.