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Unlock the hidden depths of John's Gospel. The leader guide contains discussion questions and session plans for a six-week study of The Gospel of John, by Amy-Jill Levine. It includes opening and closing prayers, optional activities, and session goals for each week and is designed to be used with the book and DVD. John's Gospel offers readers a new language--of being born anew, of living water, of wind and spirit, of the "I am"--that enhances how we understand the divine, how we experience the world, and how we participate in the mystery of faith. With her characteristic wit and charm, Amy-Jill Levine introduces readers to the world of the Gospel of John by unpacking the stories in their original context, along with examining how the text is read today. This book considers the Gospel of John in its entirety, moving through the Gospel and exploring the prologue, the wedding at Cana, the Samaritan woman at the well and the woman caught in adultery, the healing of the man at the pool and the man born blind, foot washing, Mary Magdalene and Doubting Thomas, and the Lamb of God.

When the Clemens family lands at the airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, the father of the clan, who has longed to visit the Holy Land ever since he was a college freshman, descends the escalator, walks briskly up to the tour guide awaiting their arrival and says, "Howdy, neighbor, do you know Jesus?"To his surprise, the guide replies that, yes, Jesus is his Lord and Savior. "I believe in Yeshua Messiah," says the young man, whose name is Ezekiel ("Zeke" for short).Thus begins a special relationship between Zeke and the Clemens family (Dad and Mom, teen Thomas, twelve-year-old twins Paul and Paula, and Zoe, eight).Over the next several days, fueled by Dad's and Zeke's shared interest in the prophet Ezekiel, the Clemens parents model Deuteronomy 6:6-7 as they talk with their kids about the book of Ezekiel and how it relates to other biblical passages.Join them in this forty-day conversational devotional, and learn more about an important Old Testament prophet known mostly for speaking to a valley of dry bones but who had a lot more to say - words of judgment, instruction and promise - from God to His chosen people.Each day's entry includes an activity, discussion questions and a prayer, and there is a leader's guide at the end of the book.

È soprattutto il Vangelo di Marco a caratterizzare il ciclo liturgico dell'anno B. I commenti alle letture della domenica, delle Solennità e di alcuni momenti-forti dell'anno accompagnano il cammino di fede dei credenti attraverso la liturgia. In questo anno del ciclo liturgico emerge in modo del tutto particolare la figura di Gesù. Un discorso immediato, ma incisivo e provocatorio, quello che fa l'autore, aiutando così il lettore ad accogliere la scrittura nella propria vita come lo specchio su cui ci si deve riflettere se ci si vuole dire cristiani. Il libro, utile per uso personale di ogni credente, è altresì adatto per sacerdoti o per i gruppi liturgici che vogliano approfondire la parola. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

To write on the Trinity is to enter a minefield of presuppositions-presuppositions of theology, exegesis, grammar, logic, philosophy, etc. However, at the heart of God¿s self-revelation in the Bible is God's tri-unity, that God is three, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Confessional Christians would identify this claim, that God is Triune, as a necessary condition of true Christian faith. To be Christian is to follow Christ who is the 2nd person of the Trinity. Yet, does following this Christ mean following the 2nd hypostasis who is eternally begotten of the Father, sharing with him his ousia? That is a more difficult question, isn't it? Indeed, many faithful men and women in my life could not make heads or tails of the latter claim while worshipping and following the Christ of the former. So, what does it mean to be Trinitarian? This book is about that question, what does it mean to be a Christian who worships a triune God, to be ¿Trinitarian¿? Is the Trinity a doctrine, arrived at through second-order reflection on the Biblical data several hundred years after the canon closed, or is it something else? Is it, perhaps, a presupposition about the reality of God that has shaped the Christain imagination, that has shaped the framework Christians bring to the world, throughout created history?

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¿ The story of Christmas like you've never heard before ¿ The Bible teaches us the real story of Christmas. The problem is people have taken this story and added on to it. Cultures have added on to it. It's passed through countries, and they've tacked on their little spin. We have thousands of years of a Christmas that is built around legends and myths. The Christmas we know is, in places, more a fairytale. It's an inspiring one for sure. But a fairytale, nonetheless. When you begin to unwrap the many layers of the first Christmas, you begin to see that there's more to Christmas than meets the eye. God is giving us a message-a gift to unwrap. This book helps us slow down and unpack the layers so we can see just how beautiful this gift really is. This is the story of Christmas. Christmas: God's gift to us. This book is a stand alone title of the Organic Faith series.

While it is true the Bible does relate important episodes in the history of the Jewish people, it is thought of as being much more than a history book. This is why many question the Bible's rationale for including a book such as Numbers, one that seems to be little more than a history book. In comparison, Genesis as a history book makes sense. It tells of the creation of the heavens and earth and the foundational stories of the Jewish people. Even Exodus, which relates the departure of the Jewish people from Egypt, has many legal sections. This thus begs the question: what exactly is the Book of Numbers, and what role does it play in the overall narrative of the Bible? Presenting Numbers as the book of character development is the major guiding principle of the pedagogical approach set forth in this book for teaching Numbers. This approach can also be used for teaching Genesis. However, the characters in Genesis are portrayed as either ""very good"" or ""evil."" Not so in Numbers, whose main personalities can and should be viewed in hues of grey, making it a very appropriate vehicle for teaching character development to high school students.

Curata da noti biblisti italiani, la collana riprende ex-novo e amplia il coraggioso progetto della Nuovissima versione della Bibbia dai testi originali. I singoli libri biblici vengono riproposti in una nuova versione che, oltre ad avere i testi antichi a fronte, è accompagnata da un accurato apparato testuale filologico e da un ampio commento esegetico-teologico. Questo primo volume dedicato alla Genesi comprende i primi 11 capitoli del libro, dalla creazione alla torre di Babele. Affrontare il primo dei libri del canone ebraico (come di quello antico testamentario cristiano) significa proprio penetrare nelle frontiere liminali degli inizi assoluti e archetipali: le origini del cielo, della terra e di tutto il mondo creato e, dunque, dello spazio, le origini del tempo, dell'umanità, della trasgressione, del lavoro, del culto, della violenza, della preghiera, dell'atto di fede, dell'agire pedagogico di Dio, della superba ribellione dell'uomo; dello stesso Israele, il popolo di elezione di YHWH. È proprio a tutto questo, infatti, che si viene a preludere e a introdurre con l'arcano reshit del Testo Masoretico, il "principio", l'arché della traduzione greca della Settanta, ovvero con il termine che inaugura sia l'intero libro della Genesi (cfr. 1,1a) che, di conseguenza, la totalità di tutte le altre parole contenute nella Scrittura.