A dark power has usurped the throne and schemes to extend its corruption throughout the Land. The last city of free men and a mountain rumored to be the home of the Dwarves are all that stand in his way. Unknown to both, a far older power works to restore the rightful King to the throne through a young man who must overcome foes without and fears within. The Power of the Promise is that which leads to the defeat that occasions victory. The future is at stake as the Hamar, dread servants of the Dark One, set out to destroy the Land's Deliverer and with him the last hope of the Land. Will the Last Promise be enough for the free peoples to win through to the Day of Deliverance?

This book provides a consistent examination of the primary biblical texts used in the current debate over spiritual gifts and the charismatic experience. Dr. Edgar affirms that believers can indeed be satisfied and fulfilled by the Spirit apart from miraculous gifts.

The Caribbean is made up of a complex, enigmatic region, characterised by great disparities in size, population, geography, history, language, religion, race and politics. This is a region in which harmony and discord work in tandem, trying to link economic logic with political logic. This book is a useful tool not only for those specialists and students of regionalism but for all those putting their hands to the task of nation-building and those interested in the development processes of small states and economies. At the same time, this book is a comprehensive historical record especially highlighting hindrances to development in this region. This study raises two important issues: the ’political imperative of convergence’ and the need for ’appropriate correcting mechanisms’ that align the needs of the local with the regional. It is a volume that underlines the need for a change in strategy and makes proposals as to how to go about making those changes.

William Barclay explores the doctrine of the Holy Spirit as presented in the Old Testament, the Gospels and the book of Acts. This reissue of an older Westminster Press title makes a welcome addition to the highly popular William Barclay Library series. The William Barclay Library is a collection of books addressing the great issues of the Christian faith. As one of the world's most widely read interpreters of the Bible and its meaning, William Barclay devoted his life to helping people become more faithful disciples of Jesus Christ.

To date, most constructivist international relations studies have characterized the influence of transnationalism on domestic forms of activism as uniformly positive. In particular, transnational interactions are viewed as positive factors for the development and daily impact of gender activism. Benjamin Stachursky’s book questions the unvarying positive view of transnationalism on domestic forms of activism, arguing for a more nuanced analysis that permits an understanding of the enabling and restricting effects of transnationalism. Stachursky also challenges the dominant view of civil society as normatively homogenous by illustrating the complex relationships and conflicts that exist between NGOs and other civil society representatives. He grounds his theoretical arguments with a comparative case study on women’s rights activism in Egypt and Iran, which uses semi-structured interviews with women’s rights activists in the two countries and analysis of documentation by local political and societal actors. Looking at the period from the mid-1980s up to present developments such as the Arab Spring, Stachursky analyzes the emergence and development of NGO activism in Egypt and Iran, the social, political, and legal context of NGO activism, and key domestic debates on the impact and legitimacy of the actors operating in women’s rights activism. By closely examining the ambivalent relationship between transnationalism and human rights organizations, Stachursky proves that transnationalization has both enabling and constraining effects on the domestic legitimacy of women’s rights activists and on their ability to create meaningful social and political change.

Experience spiritual renewal and self-rejuvenation. Turn the pages of this book into the pages of your life. A chronicle of hope and inspiration, A Year of Promise opens the doorway to each day with ringing words of inspiration from thirteen religious leaders inviting you to join them in a walk through your day-365 days of the year. It has been said, "We learn nothing from experience, we learn from reflection." It is those quiescent moments that open the way to lasting accomplishments in our life. A Year of Promise gives you the opportunity to connect the dots of your life, reviewing and capturing thoughts from the days before and carrying them forward to learn what your heart is telling you today. Your life is a living biography in which you animate to others the very essence of your being. If no one else ever writes a book about your life, you, through journaling in A Year of Promise, can give the world a snapshot of the life you lived while passing through this wonderful journey. Don't let another moment go by without capturing your thoughts and making a commitment to the most important person in your life-yourself.

Under what conditions are some developing countries able to create stable democracies while others have slid into instability and authoritarianism? To address this classic question at the center of policy and academic debates, The Promise of Power investigates a striking puzzle: why, upon the 1947 Partition of British India, was India able to establish a stable democracy while Pakistan created an unstable autocracy? Drawing on interviews, colonial correspondence, and early government records to document the genesis of two of the twentieth century's most celebrated independence movements, Maya Tudor refutes the prevailing notion that a country's democratization prospects can be directly attributed to its levels of economic development or inequality. Instead, she demonstrates that the differential strengths of India's and Pakistan's independence movements directly account for their divergent democratization trajectories. She also establishes that these movements were initially constructed to pursue historically conditioned class interests. By illuminating the source of this enduring contrast, The Promise of Power offers a broad theory of democracy's origins that will interest scholars and students of comparative politics, democratization, state-building, and South Asian political history.

BOOK: ONE VERSE AT A TIME PROMISE BOOK IS ONE MORE WEAPON TO USE IN THE BATTLE OF LIFE. WITH A KEY WORD REFERENCE SECTION YOU CAN LOOK UP SUBJECT MATTERS AND DEAL WITH THEM ONE- SCRIPTURE VERSE AT A TIME WHEN YOU PRAY GOD'S WORD PROMISES. THIS BOOK IS A WINNING RESOURCE BECAUSE GOD CALLED YOU TO THE BATTLE THAT JESUS HAS ALREADY WON. SO RISE UP AND ACTIVATE YOUR PRAYER VOICE TO SEE VICTORY IN YOUR LIFE. AUTHOR: LAWANDER HARRIS IS PRESIDENT OF LAWANDERDH MINISTRIES AND FOUNDING PASTOR OF IN THE LIGHT OF HIS WORD INSTITUTE. SHE TEACHES A P5 STRATEGY OF BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES SURROUNDING PRAYER, PRAISE, PROPHECY, PROSPERITY AND PURPOSE. IN THE LIGHT OF HIS WORD INSTITUTE WORKS WITH GROUPS OF TEENS AND YOUNG WOMEN AGES 13 through 37. THE INSTITUTE MAKES DISCIPLES FOR CHRIST AND USES ECONOMICAL AND SPIRITUAL COMPONENTS TO TRAIN, DEVELOP AND BUILD THE NEXT GENERATION OF FEMALE LEADERS. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT LAWANDER AND THE MINISTRY, PLEASE VISIT WEBSITE AT WWW.LAWANDERDH-MINISTRIES.COM.

The Promise Of Eden is the story of Gregory Coleman, a boy caught in a maze of deception, who has been reared in the company of ghosts. When his imaginary friend, Anna, reveals to him that she is a spirit trapped in his home, she requests his help for one simple duty: to help her find heaven. To aid him in this task, she introduces him to Sylvia, a centuries-old poltergeist with aspirations of godhood and to Joseph, a hermit with mysterious ties to the small town of New Harmony, Indiana-once the site of a failed Utopian experiment. The trio form an alliance to groom Gregory to be a powerful medium in the hopes of delivering Anna to her final resting place. As Gregory matures he discovers the truth about Anna's bizarre death and uncovers the secrets of a long-dead cult that is attempting to ressurect itself. For Anna is not what she seems, nor is she the benign playmate he always thought her to be.

This inter-disciplinary collection explores the wealth of nuances surrounding the concept and practice of forgiving. The essays within this work ask what it means to forgive, what constitutes an appropriate space to forgive, what is to be expected of the victim and wrongdoer, what actions must be connected to political forms of forgiveness?