Nothing is more important than hearing, understanding and obeying God’s Word. Our lives and local churches depend on this for their life, health and growth. John Stott is well known worldwide for the commitment he had to the Bible, both in his preach- ing and in his living. In this persuasive book, Stott concisely demonstrates the power, authority and relevance of the Bible for every Christian – in every culture and generation. What is the purpose of God’s Word? How does it point us to Christ? What is its relationship to the Holy Spirit? How does it shape the church? And what does it mean for Christian discipleship? The author answers these questions with simplicity and clarity, urging us to hear and obey God’s Word in today’s world.

This book provides an original translation methodology applicable to the New Testament, one that remains rooted in the literal Greek; considers its paleographic and philological characteristics as well as its socio-historical context; understands the text as part of a canonical whole; reflects its reception history in church doctrine and liturgy; accounts for “classical” formulations of its translation-tradition; yet speaks with contemporary literary style. In developing a new methodology, the book appropriates ancient and modern insights into the relationship of thought and language not previously considered in the context of translation. Further, the book is premised on the understanding that Scripture is the divinely communicated Word of God made incarnationally present in the words of the Bible. As the viva vox evangelii, biblical texts thus have ongoing effects in the continuum of church history and tradition. The book argues that contemporary translators of the Bible should therefore be aware of their own situatedness in and shaping by this continuity of linguistic and cultural transmission. As such, the book provides a pathway to translating the Scriptures in such a way as to capture, recapitulate, and incorporate the living sweep of the timeless Word in words that cross time.

One of the fundamental enigmas of our existence, and for that matter, God’s existence, is the act of creation. Has the cosmos been created ex nihilo or was it an intelligent design by God? Does God, having created the world, let it evolve and develop on its own, subject to the rules of evolution and chance; or does God intervene in every step of evolution in a deus ex machina manner? What is the role of man in creation? Is it as central as existentialism and quantum mechanics assure us: that without human consciousness interacting with energy-matter, there would not be any objects and life forms? Is man the crown of creation permanently, or once evolution forms a more effective connecting agent between spirit and energy-matter, will man be relegated to the world of fossils? The book concludes with a thorough examination of human norms, values and morals. As such, this book constitutes a comprehensive treatise on the genesis of the world, the birth of God, and the role of man.

This handbook addresses words in all their multifarious aspects and brings together scholars from every relevant discipline to do so. The many subjects covered include word frequencies; sounds and sound symbolism; the structure of words; taboo words; lexical borrowing; words in dictionaries and thesauri; word origins and change; place and personal names; nicknames; taxonomies; word acquisition and bilingualism; words in the mind; word disorders; and word games, puns, and puzzles. Words are the most basic of all linguistic units, the aspect of language of which everyone is likely to be most conscious. A 'new' word that makes it into the OED is prime news; when baby says its first word its parents reckon it has started to speak; knowing a language is often taken to mean knowing its words; and languages are seen to be related by the similarities between their words. Up to the twentieth century linguistic description was mainly an account of words and all the current subdivisions of linguistics have something to say about them. A notable feature of human languages is the sheer vastness of their word inventories, and scholars and writers have sometimes deliberately increased the richness of their languages by coining or importing new items into their word-hoards. The book presents scholarship and research in a manner that meets the interests of students and professionals and satisfies the curiosity of the educated reader.

Hunger for the Word provides weekly reflections on the lectionary readings for Year A from the standpoint of a concern for hunger and justice. Drawing on the insights and stories of pastors, professors, and other theologically grounded people who are active in anti-hunger advocacy through Bread for the Word, Hunger for the Word explores the scriptural witness with an openness to seeing how God's Word can nourish us in the struggle to feed the hungry.

What is the Magic-Word? Great advances in technology meant development of new weapons. A never seen before weapon the Word-Command, is now being executed by word of mouth to kill. Watch out who you mess-up with some can get you killed

Rewrite the Sentences in the correct word order – EXERCISES -- Sentences With ‘Past Verbs’, Sentences With ‘Present Verbs’, Sentences with the verb ‘BE’ [Am, Is, Are, Was, Were], Sentences With Verb ‘Do’ [Do, Does, Did], Sentences With Verb ‘HAVE’ [Have, Has, Had], Sentences With ‘Modal Verbs’, Causative Sentences, Conditional Sentences, Correlation/Comparison In A Sentence, Sentences With Verb ‘Get’, and other exercises Sample This: Rewrite the following Sentences in the correct word order: [1A. Sentences With ‘Past Verbs’ – 1 – 10] 1A. ‘Past Verbs’ – 01 - 10 (Exercise 01) Rewrite the following Sentences in the correct word order: WRONG ORDER 01. ‘Gang war’ to a two-way gun led battle. 02. Bomb left scare in the city residents in panic. 03. Government today the opposition the for reached cooperation. 04. He bleeding in the developed lungs. 05. He police a plea for witnesses to contact issued the. 06. He to break free and managed raised an alarm. 07. He open to cut the managed steel vault. 08. He strongly of smelt alcohol. 09. He after hearing noises woke up from his sleep in the wee hours of Monday from another room in his house. 10. Heavy stormed police force the market area. ANSWERS TO THE EXERCISE 1A (CORRECT WORD ORDER) 01. ‘Gang war’ led to a two-way gun battle. 02. Bomb scare in the city left residents in panic. 03. The government today reached the opposition for cooperation. 04. He developed bleeding in the lungs. 05. He issued a plea for witnesses to contact the police. 06. He managed to break free and raised an alarm. 07. He managed to cut open the steel vault. 08. He smelt strongly of alcohol. 09. He woke up from his sleep after hearing noises in the wee hours of Monday from another room in his house. 10. Heavy police force stormed the market area. 1B. ‘Past Verbs’ – 11 - 20 (Exercise 02) Rewrite the following Sentences in the correct word order: WRONG ORDER 11. His us to led bust arrest another racket. 12. His grew back hair. 13. The inspector detailed general discussions with held officials. 14. Them neighbors as quiet, religious and knew ‘normal’. 15. Police all three on the day arrested the case in the matter was brought to their notice. 16. Power officials $1 million in payments collected and fines. 17. The president media to a volley of questions replied by the persons. 18. She stop her lip to bit herself crying. 19. She wearing from the plane the printed descended dress, teamed with a matching coat and black pumps. 20. She window him to a tied with a nylon cord. ANSWERS TO THE EXERCISE 1B (CORRECT WORD ORDER) 11. His arrest led us to bust another racket. 12. His hair grew back. 13. The inspector general held detailed discussions with officials. 14. Neighbors knew them as quiet, religious and ‘normal’. 15. Police arrested all three on the day the case in the matter was brought to their notice. 16. Power officials collected $1 million in payments and fines. 17. The president replied to a volley of questions by the media persons. 18. She bit her lip to stop herself crying. 19. She descended from the plane wearing the printed dress, teamed with a matching coat and black pumps. 20. She tied him to a window with a nylon cord.

In Word Across the Water, Tom Smith brings the histories of Hawai'i and the Philippines together to argue that US imperial ambitions towards these Pacific archipelagos were deeply intertwined with the work of American Protestant missionaries. As self-styled interpreters of history, missionaries produced narratives to stoke interest in their cause, locating US imperial interventions and their own evangelistic projects within divinely ordained historical trajectories. As missionaries worked in the shadow of their nation's empire, however, their religiously inflected historical narratives came to serve an alternative purpose. They emerged as a way for missionaries to negotiate their own status between the imperial and the local and to come to terms with the diverse spaces, peoples, and traditions of historical narration that they encountered across different island groups. Word Across the Water encourages scholars of empire and religion alike to acknowledge both the pernicious nature of imperial claims over oceanic space underpinned by religious and historical arguments, and the fragility of those claims on the ground.

1188 sermon suggestions -- One from every chapter in the Bible. Morgan's expositions sparkle as they enhance Bible texts from every chapter in the Bible. Concise and delightfully free of redundancy, these selections reveal the master expositor's keen, analytical insight into God's Word. To encourage preachers and Bible teachers to develop their own sermon and lesson themes creatively, the author mentions that these are sermon suggestions -- not sermons or sermon outlines. He intentionally left the notes untitled, "preferring to let the text of Scripture be their only caption." These penetrating truths, firmly anchored in Scripture, are best described by G. Campbell Morgan himself: On every page of...the "God-breathed Writings" there are many thoughts which stretch out like long, clear arms of light across the darkness, discovering things which otherwise were hidden, and often illuminating wider areas than those of the immediate context. They are searchlights. From the multitude of these, I have selected one in each chapter of the Bible. Perhaps the work will also serve to illustrate a method of showing how focal points of radiating light gather their radiance from the context.