How can we carry on when we are weary and overwhelmed by the unjust world around us? God is a God of justice who cares for people in distress. By looking to God's perspective, Bruce Strom shows how we can find direction for what God has in store for us. If you're running on empty, discover how God's persevering power can renew your soul.

This edited collection highlights how people connected with friends and family, students and colleagues, and leaders and communities, in their quest to persevere during the pandemic. The chapters describe how people enjoyed their passions for the arts in new and unexpected ways, given the restrictions of COVID-19 safety protocols, and how scripted and reality television programming helped them escape, however briefly, from the traumas of the pandemic, the racial injustice, the political machismo and divisiveness of this time. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of communication, media studies, sociology, cultural studies, and gender studies.

The title of Susan Hirsch's study of disputes involving Swahili Muslims in coastal Kenya reflects the image of gender relations most commonly associated with Islamic law. Men need only "pronounce" divorce to resolve marital conflicts, while embattled and embittered wives must persevere by silently enduring marital hardships. But Hirsch's observations of Islamic courts uncover how Muslim women actively use legal processes to transform their domestic lives, achieving victories on some fronts but reinforcing their image as subordinate to men through the speech they produce in court. Pronouncing and Persevering focuses closely on the language used in disputes, particularly how men and women narrate their claims and how their speech shapes and is shaped by gender hierarchy in postcolonial Swahili society. Based on field research and court testimony, Hirsch's book debunks the conventional view that women are powerless under Islamic law and challenges the dichotomies through which Islam and gender relations are currently understood.

Framed against the current church preoccupation with quantity, The Persevering Church considers a New Testament church in its quest for quality and numbers. Pauls letter to the Ephesian church reveals its trials and triumphs in its desire for both. In this book the author seeks to focus on the primacy of Christ and the priority of serious biblical preaching and teaching: We must return to and invest in our biblical roots. For you have exalted above all things your name and your word (Ps 138:2b). We need to be as the Emmaus disciples. Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures (Lk 24:32)? Acts two shows that quality and quantity will coexist if only they are united by Spirit empowered teaching and preaching!

Christ is forming his church all the time, since the day of Pentecost, they have continued to build the church all over the world. In this book you will find the value of the direction of the HOLY SPIRIT principles and purposes that constitute a guide for the supernatural growth of the spiritual man, established for all cultures and peoples. As you read this book, allow the HOLY SPIRIT to show you the plan He has for your conversion and the edification of your supernatural life to the spiritual man, allow Him to reveal to you the blessing and value of eternal life within the larger, worldwide context of the body of Christ. This book will teach you to transmute with the help of the HOLY SPIRIT and with a character of urgency to change your life, from a state of fallen nature, sinful in crimes and sins with the Inheritance that we are born by the disobedience of our first parents Adam and Eve, these are: Pride, envy, lust, gluttony, anger, sloth, greed, to a state of the Inheritance of Christ, of grace and eternal life by faith in Christ, these are: Humility and obedience, love and charity, chastity and purity, temperance and prudence, patience and forbearance, diligence and labor, generosity and generosity. Christ is our shepherd and we shall not want, even though we pass through the valley of the shadow of death, Jehovah will defend us, offering us his total and absolute protection, Psalm 23. We are already living the end times, when the antichrist is approaching and it is urgently necessary to repent and be reconciled with God, with our Lord Jesus Christ, intercessor between God and man and the anointing of the Holy Spirit who is the love of God and our protector, and accepting each other as we are, as God accepts us as we are, producing the miracle of unity, harmonizing the body of Christ, in love, faith and obedience. For now the Bible announces that we are in the end times, and we must prepare ourselves to await the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, to go in the rapture to eternal life

In every season of our lives, regardless of challenges, victories, or uncertainties, we have an innate ability for dusting off our knees, picking ourselves up, and getting back up again in the newness and strength of God. But the choice of perseverance and living a life of abundance for 365 days is solely ours to make. Virginia Wiggins-Motton shows you how to: Embrace the five key principles of persevering Implement a renewed mindset based upon God’s Word Learn to speak life and monitor the power of spoken words Welcome paradigm shifts for greater in every life season Each chapter focuses on the essence of learning how to persevere 365 days, season after season in order to live a life of abundance. This book is not about denying our testing moments. It is a tool of many that will help you to walk through any season with a more refined perspective and outlook for greater and better.

Vol. 1, 3-15, 17-18 contain Proceedings of the 1st-15th, 17th-18th annual meetings of the Illinois State Teachers' Association, 1854-71.

Grace Isn't Finished When We Are Forgiven, Grace Carries Us to Completion! In our current culture, people are riddled with pressures to perform and ashamed when they do not measure up. We often view our relationship with God through the same lens of performance pressure, trying to merit God's favor. This is a dangerous way to walk with God and a miserable way to live life's journey! "Scandalous Grace" gives a fresh and insightful perspective from Paul's letter to the Ephesian Church. As you journey, through these pages, you will discover God isn't finished with you once He has forgiven you. He cleanses you, and then He carries you to completion. Grace grants the true disciple of Christ endless freedom! Freedom is not the lack of challenge or even chains in your life. You may still be in some chains yet experiencing the liberating power of God's grace. Journey slowly through this book and bask in the scandalous grace of God. Your enemy can't steal your freedom because your freedom doesn't come from your enemy, your freedom comes froth Christ! This is "Scandalous Grace." Through these pages you will discover: - God's plan is more powerful than your prison. - Nothing goes to waste in God's plan. - True unity doesn't require uniformity; it unleashes diversity. - Grace assures that no matter what comes against us when the-battle ends and the dust settles, we will still be standing.