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This brief video will demonstrate how to use the Greater Phoenix Digital Library Overdrive product for audiobooks.

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Buy this book today at your local Christian bookstore, OR buy online now from Xulon Press at this address: http://www.xulonpress.com/bookstore/bookdetail.php?PB_ISBN=9781615797202

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Michael Clairborne is the author of, “A Christian’s Guide to Overcoming Sexual Struggle.” This book has not been released to the public. Please check with your local bookstore as to the books release date.

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Greetings in this Easter Season. I am Uri Brito. This is our fourth book review.
I have concluded James Jordans essay entitled Crisis, Opportunity, and the Christian Future. The book was published by Athanasius Press. You can find other books by Jordan by visiting athanasiuspress.org

The premise of this book is that we are living in a time where there is a tremendous opportunity for Christians to lay the foundations for the culture and civilization of the next several thousand years. (v)
This book implies an optimistic view of history. You cant speak in these terms without assuming the overwhelming success of the gospel in the Church and in Civilizations.

Christians need to understand the times like the men of the tribe of Issachar. We need to see how God guides the development of human history.

According to Jordan, there is an age of the Father, followed by an age of the Son, and the Age of the Spirit. Jim provides a helpful overview of redemptive history proving the necessity of this three-staged Age.

Culturally, we find three types. First, there is the culture of tribes. We see examples of this tribal system in Judges 5. In a tribal culture, the people are warriors and also farmers. They are a festive people gathered in small groups. They fight other tribes, not other nations. These tribal cultures have their own worship, laws, and signs.

The second culture is characterized by nations or cities. In Kings and Chronicles Israel becomes one nation and then two. Their enemies were other nations. Again, they have their worship, laws, and signs.

The third culture is characterized by empires. They created (33) a common civilization embracing many nations. Again, they have their own distinctive.

The Christian worldview must embrace all three cultures, but look at these cultures in light of the coming of Messiah. With each new cycle, there is a refining that takes place.

The Church needs to think in these terms. It needs to offer, in the words of James Jordan, a wholistic life to wholistic people(66).

The Church needs to know how to address each age and how to re-address each new age. We need to abandon the cold intellectualism, which very often leads to the breaking of the Second Word and embrace the warm, festive, and a biblically saturated life.

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Do Hard Things is an epically awesome book by Alex & Brett Harris.

The Rebelution (Alex&Brett’s Website):

http://www.therebelution.com/

Josh’s Dollar For Drink Organization:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Aq1fuAiNEo

Go buy it now:
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Encyclopædia Americana 1845

http://books.google.com/books?id=UqI_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA427&dq=#v=onepage&q=&f=false

“Meroe was the centre of the great caravan trade between Ethiopia, Egypt, Arabia, Northern Africa and India. Several colonies went from Meroe, and the first civilized state in Egypt, that of Thebes, which, as a resort for the caravans, always remained intimately connected with Meroe, and was governed by priests, must have originated thence……Ammonium (see Amman, and Oasis) also was a small priestly state, with a king, founded by Egyptians and by Ethiopians from Meroe. Meroe and Axum (in Abyssinia) which appears to have been also a colony from Meroe, remained the centre of the southern commerce till the time of the Arabians.”

The “Ethiopians” According to Diodorus Siculus

http://wysinger.homestead.com/diodorus.html

“They say also that the Egyptians are colonists sent out by the Ethiopians, Osiris having been the leader of the colony….

…And the larger part of the customs of the Egyptians are, they hold, Ethiopian, the colonists still preserving their ancient manners. For instance, the belief that their kings are gods, the very special attention which they pay to their burials, and many other matters of a similar nature are Ethiopian practices, while the shapes of their statues and the forms of their letters are Ethiopian; for of the two kinds of writing which the Egyptians have, that which is known as “popular” (demotic) is learned by everyone, while that which is called “sacred” is understood only by the priests of the Egyptians, who learn it from their fathers as one of the things which are not divulged, but among the Ethiopians everyone uses these forms of letters…

….These, then, are the customs which prevail among the Ethiopians who dwell in their capital (Napata) and those who inhabit both the island of Meroe and the land adjoining Egypt.

Related video: Black and White, old allies part 2 Lost glory of Christian Nubia

Also watch the two videos about the book ‘Before the Slave Trade: African World History in Pictures,’ to learn about Ethiopia and other contributions by African Civilizations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP5uGB_aYWo

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Unfortunately most of the Christians just read what they call the Bible/Old Testament in English or their own mother language, without ever trying to really go in the language those books were written. In Biblical Hebrew one of the main discoveries these Christians would do is that there is not 1 time the word “God.” There are many gods, because here we must understand history, what we call Israel or Palestine was formed by many different tribes living on hills in a huge area which was what today we would call: Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and surely part of modern Egypt. These tribes would have their own dialect, true also for modern languages like the Arabic used in Egypt, which is not the same one used in Saudi, and while today the television is able to make modern language more homogeneous (because people in Egypt are able to watch Saudi tv-programs and viceversa) in the past this was not the case. So the books of the Tanakh (what the Christians call the Old Testament) have been written by different authors, living in different places and in different historical periods. Now as you can understand they didn’t have the same gods. The story that every Christian reads in Genesis is the story of the creation of the universe by 2 sets of gods. One is Yahweh and the other are El and the Elohim (mirroring the idea of Zeus and the Olympian gods which was common in the ancient world), but in reality we must understand that the singular god, yahweh, who created the universe have been likely substituted by the copyists, because he could be a she! A female god who created the universe, which evidently couldn’t be accepted by the men who ruled a patriarchal society. Always reading in Hebrew is possible to understand how the society changed. The classical example is the story of Abraham and the sacrifice of the son. In that time surely there were human sacrifices, because one of the gods, Moloch, asked the sacrifice of the first born, and of this we have archeological evidence (often the first born was buried in front of the door to enter the house, to protect the house from demons and other entities they did believe, which would likely make us smile). We can see how the gods believed by these tribes changed when they passed from sacrificing the first born to sacrifice animals and just offer the smoke to the gods believed by the people of that time (in this case they would offer sacrifices also to Baal). The people who copied those books had problems in translating the names of gods nobody knew anymore, and often they changed the names in something everyone knew e.g. Adonai, the Lord, the most high El shaddaj and so on. But in those passages we have lost, there was the name of a god which was believed by a tribe/village/area, which was forgotten, so it doesn’t make sense that Christians as well as atheists use the singular “god” when in those books there are plenty of gods. And here it comes the brainwashing, why in English they translated with a generic name something which in the original language is not generic? Why they didn’t leave the name of the gods in original? Afraid also the Christians would start to use their brains?
Here some titles to understand more about the subject:
Mark S. Smith: the early history of God
Thomas L. Thompson – The mythic past: biblical archeology and the myth of israel
Thomas L. Thompson: The messiah myth

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John Bevere talks about his new book – Extraordinary – and the reasons he hesitated on coming to Christ.

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