The question is asked, is there more to life than meets the eye? The Universe responds and takes us on an enthralling journey. Led by Spirit Guides, we travel with the author through past lives, meditations, and challenging lessons of the heart. Using life on Earth as a classroom for lessons—woven together by land and water—animals advise, stones speak, and plants provide. Teachings include Love Never Dies, I Am Not My Body, Forgive Yourself, Peace Begins with Me, Listen to the Animals, and Lighten Up. SPIRIT GUIDE GEORGE ENTHUSES: “When humans become confused, they are at the brink of a new understanding. The spirit either soars with the prospect of exploring new territory or retreats to hide until the feeling of safety returns. Allow your confusion to be your teacher.” LION ROARS: “Embrace the animal kingdom. Watch us. The behavior we display is a lesson for you. We ask not to be tamed, but to be heard. Know that every time you look at us, we are looking back at you. Walk like the mighty cat you are—with silent strength, determination, and courage in each step; with patience and experience in your pace; and with your purpose gleaming in your eyes. Remember the rhythms and heartbeats of life in the wild.” GREAT SPIRIT ADVISES: “Find the doorway within. Wisdom is the key that unlocks the door from the physical world to spiritual realms. There are many ways to reach enlightenment. Experience the magnificent, universal aspect of your being. You have the permission and power to do this, and need only the will—it is up to you. Uncover your past to understand your present situation. The answers lie within you, and await your discovery.”

This is the second volume in a comprehensive three-volume set of commentaries on all of the lectionary texts for Sunday reading (including the Psalms) and for special days in all communions, treating the readings for each year in a single volume. Preaching Through the Christian Year volumes are based on the newly revised The Common Lectionary (1992) together with other readings kept in the Episcopal, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic churches. The set will prove useful also for those who do not follow the lectionary, since each volume provides commentaries on a vast number of texts and includes a complete index of those texts. "Simply put, the best commentary series on the best lectionary. An unusual blend of biblical and homiletical skills." --James F. White "This could be the Interpreter's Bible for our generation. The comments are succinct and satisfying on all counts." --David H. C. Read The authors of this important series teach at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, Atlanta, and are renowned scholars in their particular disciplines-preaching and Hebrew Bible and New Testament studies.

This book is about the coronavirus and the pandemic it spawned, and what this outbreak means for future pandemics. It analyses the official response and sees where improvements can be made, for example, the World Health Organization waited till March to designate the coronavirus a pandemic and a full year before confirming its airborne transmission. The book looks at the specific nature of the virus, its origins and how it was transmitted, why it was so deadly to predisposed individuals, how it compares to previous pandemics, what measures were taken mitigate the disease and how to protect ourselves against it in future. The book also looks into the wider implications of the pandemic and its causes, for example, how climate change and biodiversity are coming into direct conflict with ever expanding needs of population growth and urban sprawl has conspired to bring us into ever closer contact with these viruses, for example, Nipah virus outbreak from the deforestation of the Indonesian Rain Forest, and Ebola from settlement expansion in the Congo. Lastly the book looks at the wider nature of viruses and their historical significance to the tree-of-life of the planet, and their relationship to our evolution. This book is a timely search into the nature of viruses and how they will affect us going forward, and what measures we can take to protect ourselves and mitigate the dangers from future outbreaks by integrating our industrial society into an ecological friendly setting, thereby accommodating these viruses.

This collection examines the relationship between Augustine and Wittgenstein and demonstrates the deep affinity they share, not only for the substantive issues they treat but also for the style of philosophizing they employ. Wittgenstein saw certain salient Augustinian approaches to concepts like language-learning, will, memory, and time as prompts for his own philosophical explorations, and he found great inspiration in Augustine’s highly personalized and interlocutory style of writing philosophy. Each in his own way, in an effort to understand human experience more fully, adopts a mode of philosophizing that involves questioning, recognizing confusions, and confronting doubts. Beyond its bearing on such topics as language, meaning, knowledge, and will, their analysis extends to the nature of religious belief and its fundamental place in human experience. The essays collected here consider a broad range of themes, from issues regarding teaching, linguistic meaning, and self-understanding to miracles, ritual, and religion.

This book has been written with the following objectives in mind. •Shares the principles of living a lifestyle of purpose by creating and designing action-oriented goals. •Helps to open up your heart so that you can partake as a co-inheritor with Christ in the Heavenly Father’s riches. •Guides in the process of turning any ordinary situation into one of extraordinariness by the power and ability to focus. As well as in applying even a little mustard seed-like faith, to take action and how to measure your outcomes of undertaking these steps. •Guides in transcending from merely surviving into learning how to partake into the MORE abundant lifestyle that our Lord Jesus Christ has promised. •Guides through the process of applying the 3Ps principle of Patience, Perseverance and Persistence in all the areas of life thus turning your financial vision and dreams into a reality. •Shares the secrets of wanting nothing for the Lord will be your greatest treasure. •Shares principles of building an exceptionally beautiful and financially sound Better Lifestyle that stands on the solid rock, Jesus Christ, empowered by the Holy Spirit.