tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36335898581686515372024-03-05T09:04:05.001-08:00Finnish Bookworm's Ecuadorian BookcaseKiittäkää Aina ja Kaikestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12264486975627673705noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633589858168651537.post-63046040130817959092016-03-30T01:30:00.000-07:002016-04-07T12:06:57.883-07:00An Exhibition of the Law, the Gospel and the Holy Spirit by Charles Simeon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Can we understand the
gospel if we don't understand the law?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #181818; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Why do most people
settle for a shallow religion? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And could preaching the
law and gospel, as they are presented in the Bible, lead to more and deeper
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What does the
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What does the Holy
Spirit really want to do for us, (and have we missed it today)?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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is wonderfully simple and humble. He seeks to explain profound truths but does
not want to exalt his own importance by knowing them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the book Charles Simeon talks about the meaning of the law and its importance
to us, reborn Christians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He shows that all our
faith and Christianity depends on the fulfilling of the law, by Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The knowledge of law,
the moral law, is as important today as it was when God created the universe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Gospel and its significance in Christian living and the lives of all
Christians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sacrifice and explains how we are only saved by the grace of God and His never-ending
love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Gospel is the most important happening of human
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its significance trough the knowledge, and confession, of law and our
sinfulness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">According to Simeon, there can be no Christian who
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Christian belief and in what we base our faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kiittäkää Aina ja Kaikestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12264486975627673705noreply@blogger.com1Ecuador-1.831239 -78.183405999999991-17.8706155 -98.837702999999991 14.2081375 -57.529108999999991tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633589858168651537.post-24005363692858062682016-03-23T01:30:00.000-07:002016-03-23T01:30:02.843-07:00The Path of Celtic Prayer: An Ancient Way to Everyday Joy by Calvin Miller<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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their own rustic kingdom of God in what would later be the British Isles, their
fervor in prayer washed their world in a vital revival." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and plagues, the Celts breathed candid prayers out of the reality of their
lives: Desperate prayers for protection. Praise for the God who was king over
all creation. Honest prayers of confession. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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research into the spiritual patrimony of the Celtic peoples, and presents the
reader with six distinctive 'types' of prayers that were fundamental to the
Celtic Christians and their way of discipleship. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Prayer, Nature Prayer, Lorica Prayer and Confessional Prayer - are examined in
some detail, yet, as Miller observes, cannot be separated from each other since
the Celts themselves had no notion of them being separate 'types' of prayer.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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feelings of separateness from God," says Miller. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Christ keeps us talking to God till our separation is swallowed up in our
unending togetherness with him." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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path that gives guidance for present and future prayers, until the day the
Celts longed for, when all separation is gone and we live forever in the
presence of God.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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the elements and it permeates their prayers.</span> <span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #181818; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"'The earth is the
Lord's and the fullness thereof' (Psalm 24:1, KJV). And we have been given a
mandate to care for God's property (Genesis 2:15). If we allow our environment
to deteriorate, not only will we have disobeyed God but humans will have no
place to live and worship. ...Never did the sun rise but what the Celts saw the
triune God in the light." Miller explores Celtic prayer in nature, in
journey and in pilgrimage, as lectio divina, and more.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #181818; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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spiritual people like the Celts prayed and developed a prayer life that was
real and natural, this book provides an easy entrée into their way of being
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Kiittäkää Aina ja Kaikestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12264486975627673705noreply@blogger.com7Ecuador-1.831239 -78.183405999999991-17.8706155 -98.837702999999991 14.2081375 -57.529108999999991tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633589858168651537.post-50092650387662295822016-03-21T01:30:00.000-07:002016-03-21T01:30:24.615-07:00Classical Children's Fantasy Books by Diana Wynne Jones<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Diana
Wynne Jones was the author of more than thirty critically acclaimed fantasy
stories, including the Chrestomanci series and the novels Howl's
Moving Castle and Dark Lord of Derkholm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was one of my favorite authors in my childhood and I cannot honestly tell how
many times I have read the first book of Chrestomanci series, A Charmed Life,
or my other favorite, The Fire and Hemlock.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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started writing during the mid-1960s "mostly to keep my sanity", when
the youngest of her three children was about two years old and the family lived
in a house owned by an Oxford college. Beside the children, she felt harried by
the crises of adults in the household: a sick husband, a mother-in-law, a
sister, and a friend with daughter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jones'
books range from amusing slapstick situations to sharp social observation (Changeover is
both), to witty parody of literary forms. Foremost amongst the latter are The
Tough Guide To Fantasyland, and its fictional companion-pieces Dark Lord
of Derkholm (1998) and Year of the Griffin (2000), which provide
a merciless (though not unaffectionate) critique of formulaic sword-and-sorcery
epics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For Charmed
Life, the first Chrestomanci novel, Jones won the 1978 Guardian Children's
Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime award by The Guardian newspaper
that is judged by a panel of children's writers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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times she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from
the Library Association, recognizing the year's best children's book: for Dogsbody (1975), Charmed
Life (1977), and the fourth Chrestomanci book The Lives of
Christopher Chant (1988). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, children's section, in 1996 for The
Crown of Dalemark (concluding that series) and in 1999 for Dark Lord
of Derkholm; in four other years she was a finalist for that annual literary
award by the Mythopoeic Society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1986 novel Howl's Moving Castle was inspired by a boy at a school she
was visiting, who asked her to write a book called The Moving Castle. It
was published first by Greenwillow in the U.S., where it was a runner-up for
the annual Boston Globe–Horn Book Award in children's fiction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2004, Hayao Miyazaki made the Japanese-language animated movie Howl's
Moving Castle, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated
Feature. A version dubbed in English was released in the UK and US in 2005,
with the voice of Howl performed by Christian Bale. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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year Jones and the novel won the annual Phoenix Award from the Children's
Literature Association, recognizing the best children's book published twenty
years earlier that did not win a major award (named for mythical bird
phoenix to suggest the book's rise from obscurity).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and Hemlock had been the 2005 Phoenix runner-up. It is a novel based
on Scottish ballads, and was a Mythopoeic Fantasy finalist in its own time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Fantasy Society recognized her significant impact on fantasy with its
occasional Karl Edward Wagner Award in 1999. She received an honorary D.Litt from
the University of Bristol in July 200 and the World Fantasy
Award for Life Achievement in 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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normal: school, home, friends. The other, stranger memories begin nine years
ago, when she was ten and gate-crashed an odd funeral in the mansion near her
grandmother's house. Polly's just beginning to recall the sometimes marvelous,
sometimes frightening adventures she embarked on with Tom Lynn after that. And
then she did something terrible, and everything changed.<br />
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But what did she do? Why can't she remember? Polly mustuncover the secret,
or her true love — and perhaps Polly herself — will be lost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Gwendolen, the most promising young witch ever seen on Coven Street. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But trouble starts
brewing the moment the two orphans are summoned to live in Chrestomanci Castle.
Frustrated that the witches of the castle refuse to acknowledge her talents,
Gwendolen conjures up a scheme that could throw whole worlds out of whack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Kiittäkää Aina ja Kaikestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12264486975627673705noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633589858168651537.post-65125252354434846912016-03-17T01:30:00.000-07:002016-03-17T01:30:12.460-07:00Top 5 Mystery Books For Young Readers<div class="MsoNormal">
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looking for that perfect book to satisfy their appetite for books and mystery? </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Or
even one to enjoy along with them? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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around for our countdown of the top 5 of classical mystery books written
specifically for children between the ages of 8-12, and find out what
constitutes the cream of the crop in children’s curiosities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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many people's hearts; the Famous Five is typically remembered fondly by those
who read it in their youth. Introducing us to Julian, Dick, Ann, their cousin
George (who is actually a girl called Georgina, but she is a tomboy who prefers
George) and their dog Tim. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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holiday on Kirrin Island, upon which they find a shipwreck and learn about the
legend of the gold ingots. The Five embark on an adventure to find the
treasure, but with others also on the trail, it's a race for the gold. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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venture, and easy to see why the books became so well-loved. Great for children
to read alone, the descriptions of outdoor activities and beautiful and
interesting locations may even inspire your young reader to venture outside
themselves once in a while and have some adventures of their own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Aldens begin their adventure by making a home in a boxcar. Their goal is to
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in an abandoned boxcar in the forest. They eventually meet their
grandfather, who is a wealthy and kind man (although the children had believed
him to be cruel). The children decide to live with the grandfather, who moves
the beloved boxcar to his backyard so the children can use it as a playhouse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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school teacher<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boxcar_Children#cite_note-1"></a> Gertrude
Chandler Warner. Today, the series includes well over 100 titles. The series is
aimed at readers in grades 2–6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Based on a
2007 online poll, the National Education Association named the
original book one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". In
2012 the original novel was ranked among the all-time "Top 100 Chapter
Books", or children's novels, in a survey published by School Library
Journal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Nancy Drew is a children’s mystery classic,
most specifically a girls' classic. In her first outing the socially adept Miss
Drew, whilst running errands for her father meets a series of people who are
connected to a man who has recently passed away and there is some contention
over the will. The will which is found is not quite what was expected and Nancy
now sets out to find the (real) missing will. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This book is a
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The biggest
allure of the Nancy Drew Mysteries is the woman herself, a smart and spunky
young woman who drives a convertible and is a perfect young lady. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Nancy
is considerate and a social butterfly, with a strong sense of morality and a
highly inquisitive nature. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">These qualities make the female flatfoot a fantastic role model for
young girls, and this is how she is often remembered by her fans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Nancy Drew
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mystery itself is both highly suspenseful and completely predictable, but
wonderful because of it. Whilst the books are not likely to be enjoyed by young
boys (it's not impossible, but still unlikely), but definitely a series that
smart young girls will love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The Happy Hollisters is a series of
books about a family who loves to solve mysteries. The series was published by
the Stratemeyer Syndicate and entirely written by Andrew E.
Svenson (1910–1975) under the pseudonym Jerry West.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This series recounts the adventures of a
young American middle-class family solving mysteries from their home on Pine
Lake in the city of Shoreham (no state is ever provided). The Hollister family
includes five children, their parents, a family of cats, a dog and a burro.
Pete is the oldest of the Hollister children and is 12 years old. Pam, or
Pamela, is 10 years old and very adventurous. Ricky is a red-headed,
rambunctious 7-year-old and Holly is a 6-year-old tomboy. The youngest is Sue,
age 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mr. John Hollister, owns a general store named The Trading Post, where he sells
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Hollister tries to help her children solve mysteries and is always ready with handy
tips for solving cases.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Will Wilson appear as rivals of the Hollister family in most books. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">While
not actually villains, they appear as obstacles and annoyances to the
Hollisters' mystery-solving efforts in most plots. Usually their disruptive
actions are shown to be the result of lack of awareness, apathy, or
indifference, rather than malicious motives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is book 1 in The Mystery Series. The adventure novel will suit people who
enjoy Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys or the Famous Five.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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middle grade mystery series which follows four children having adventures in
1950's Britain.<br />
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Smugglers Cove for the summer holidays, they get caught up in a thrilling
adventure that is beyond their wildest imagination.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">When the book
challenge I’m following this year told me to read a book that someone tells has
“changed their life”, I found it quite impossible.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I don’t have
conversations with people where they talk about the books that have changed
their lives. Ecuadorians in general don’t read many books. And when I lived in
Finland I was still in High School and people’s lives weren’t changed by books
at that age.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">So I found myself in
Facebook. Where else could a pose a question like that to as many people as
possible, and hope to get an answer.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I got the usual
answer that Bible had changed people’s lives. It is the book that has changed,
and keeps changing my life. But I think writing a book review of Bible just is
beyond my abilities. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I could write book
reviews on specific books of Bible. But nobody told me of a specific book in
Bible that had changed their life. So that wasn’t possible.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The one answer that aroused
my curiosity was by a friend who told me that Tarzan books had changed her
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I won’t tell why the
books changed her life but it has to do with the work she does now, as an
adult. But I will tell that Tarzan books did affect my life also.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I read them quite
many times as a child and even as a teenager. My dream was to live in Africa
myself, to see the lions and elephants, the jungle and the apes.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">You can imagine my disappointment
when I found out that real Africa wasn’t exactly as Edgar Rice Burroughs
describes it. Or that the great apes he writes about don’t even exist. I don’t
know till this day which was the more painful disappointment of the two.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I think I stopped
reading the books partly because of my disappointment, although I did continue
reading Edgar Rice Burroughs’s other books. As a teenager I was especially fond
of his Mars and Center of the Earth books. And later on, as an adult, I was delighted
when I found his Venus books.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Another reason to
stop reading Tarzan books was because I grew up and they seemed too two dimensional
and childish to me.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It was a great
delight to read the first four books of the series again. The characters are
two dimensional and cartoonish; Edgar Rice Burroughs was the great master of
pulp fiction after all. And there is undoubtedly much more racism and pure
ignorance in the books than I remember from my childhood. But at the same time,
the books are enjoyable and a fun, light read.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Something I must also confess, is that I never really enjoyed the Tarzan movies. Especially the old ones, where Tarzan can't even really speak and is always just swinging around undressed with the jungle animals. They completely miss the side of him as an English lord, posh, polished and cultured as any of them. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">My all-time favorites
have always been the Tarzan of the Apes and The Son of Tarzan, both of which
describe the struggle to survive in the jungle. And I can’t really describe how
many times I played Tarzan myself in my childhood.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I never accepted to
be Jane, she was too boring. I was Tarzan, so were my friends, and my little
sister, and any other little siblings there were, would be the apes. It did
take negotiations but we made it do, and had a lot of fun too. Luckily our
parents considered playing in the forest a healthy exercise for us, as well as
climbing to trees and jumping from one to another. And nobody ever broke any
bones.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Small Catechism</span></span></h4>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Small
Catechism </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">is the
abridged version of Luther's <i>Large Catechism</i>. Written in the traditional
catechism form of a query followed by an answer, these brief Q and As explain
the backbone of Lutheran theology. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The question
asked for each section of the Ten Commandments, Apostle's Creed, and Lord's
prayer is "What does this mean?" while the sections on the sacraments
include questions like "What does baptism give?" and "How can
physical eating and drinking do such great things?" </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For over
nearly five centuries, the <i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Small
Catechism</span></i> has served as the basic instruction book for the church
bearing the name of the great Reformer, Martin Luther. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicfT84VgEIExZiZknhctlX7QChYBRER8OC30QKThFITUo7WLeec4eEF2UbmaUh0eV1g5lOb5sN8J8P9-_hrVRNm7RREdQsvL76mq2Lc2gwS4BrPdw-La9AIJ3OjkzHn-AkgX5wXaCrjyMZ/s1600/Small-Catechism-Luther-1529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicfT84VgEIExZiZknhctlX7QChYBRER8OC30QKThFITUo7WLeec4eEF2UbmaUh0eV1g5lOb5sN8J8P9-_hrVRNm7RREdQsvL76mq2Lc2gwS4BrPdw-La9AIJ3OjkzHn-AkgX5wXaCrjyMZ/s320/Small-Catechism-Luther-1529.jpg" width="243" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Its staying
power goes beyond love for tradition. The<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> Catechism</span></i> directs us to clear passages from
God’s Word. It distinguishes carefully between the two chief teachings of
the Bible: the Law and the Gospel. It also points to the only source for
spiritual life, the Means of Grace: the Word and Sacraments. </span></div>
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the <i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Catechism</span></i>
should be led to see the importance of the truths from God’s Word for their
lives and should grow in their deep appreciation for all that the Lord Jesus
Christ has done as their Savior.</span></div>
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sermon is designed and undertaken that it might be an instruction for children
and the simple-minded." So begins Martin Luther's preface to his book <i>Large
Catechism</i>. </span></div>
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declaration should not scare away any readers, be they old or young, because <i>Large
Catechism</i> is a masterpiece of doctrine that clearly explains the basic
tenets of Luther's theology. He intended the writings to be read to children in
order that they might learn the catechism and begin to memorize it, but the
volume has become a beloved tool for teaching new Lutherans of all ages. </span></div>
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canonical texts, published in April of 1529. This book was addressed
particularly to clergymen to aid them in teaching their congregations. </span></div>
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broken down in the <i>Catechism</i> are: The Ten Commandments, The Apostles'
Creed, The Lord's Prayer, the sacrament of baptism, and the sacrament of
communion. Each is broken down further into its parts (each commandment, the
articles of the creed, etc.) and the fundamentals are explained in simple
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which Luther proceeds in the <i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Large
Catechism</span></i> is deliberate, with a distinct theological rationale; the
Commandments express God’s expectations; the Creed proclaims God’s promise; the
Lord’s Prayer translates law and gospel into a personal discourse with God; and
the sacraments offer tangible expressions of God’s grace and signs to lean on
in faith.</span></div>
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of Lutheran doctrine has survived the centuries, and the relatively short
document is a necessity for Lutherans and those interested in the founding
father of Protestantism.</span></div>
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Lutheran Church. Martin Luther wanted to remind his followers that they should
live a godly life instead of a worldly life. </span></div>
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though, nowhere in this book does Luther suggest that anyone should leave their
worldly life behind in order to pursue their godly life. Blunt and
straightforward, this book is remains an inspiration.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">William Strunk was a
professor of English at Cornell about a hundred years ago, and E.B. White,
later the much-admired author of Charlotte's Web, took English with him in 1919.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This style manual
offers practical advice on improving writing skills. Throughout, the emphasis
is on promoting a plain English style. This little book can help you
communicate more effectively by showing you how to enliven your sentences.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"The Elements of
Style" is one of the definitive texts on all elements of English language
style, usage, and composition. Strunk covers such topics as "elementary
Rules of Usage," "Elementary Principles of Composition," "A
Few Matters of Form," "Words and Expressions Commonly Misused,"
and "Words Often Misspelled."</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Strunk asserts that
one must first know the rules to break them. This classic reference book is a
must-have for any student and conscientious writer. It is intended for use in
which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature, and
it gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and
concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most
commonly violated.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Outspoken <em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">New
York Times</span></em> columnist, and the professor of humanities and law at
Florida International University</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> ,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Stanley Fish offers
an entertaining, erudite analysis of language and rhetoric in this
delightful celebration of the written word. Drawing on a wide range of great
writers, from Philip Roth to Antonin Scalia to Jane Austen and beyond, Fish’s <em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">How to Write a Sentence </span></em>is
much more than a writing manual—it is a penetrating exploration into the art
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Fish treats the sentence as more than a purely
utilitarian construct. His interest is piqued primarily, he tells us, by
“skill” — admiring sentences is like watching sports highlights, with “a rueful
recognition that you couldn’t do it yourself.” That said, he believes one
should try one’s best, and his aesthetic appreciation is matched by a practical
drive. Having taught composition courses and workshops at universities since
the ’60s, Fish has long insisted, against the grain of many an English
department, that writing should be taught as an end in itself, that learning to
write involves learning to think.</span></div>
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suggests, <em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">How to Write a
Sentence</span></em> is in part a how-to manual; it’s also a book of analysis,
and a paean to the written word and the ways it can be organized. Fish is a
personable and insightful guide with wide-ranging erudition and a lack of
pretension: To illustrate his points, he trots out sentences by writers and
rhetoricians from Edgar Allan Poe to Martin Luther King, from John Milton to
Elmore Leonard.</span></div>
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practices as a remedy. Thus, no one interested in becoming more devout can
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adult preparing for university studies, Law had written a list of 18 rules to
guide his living. They included the commitment to the will of God, the primacy
of Scripture, the value of time, a distrust of the world, temperance in all
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Clearly Law
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the world. It is only, 'We love him, because he first loved us.' So far as you
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vigor and holiness. Some writings were responses to published works; others
were more broadly addressed, such as The Absolute Unlawfulness of Stage
Entertainment. But most of his works were in the area of Christian
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eighteenth-century and Enlightenment was a time when rationalist criticism of
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The book is
much more than simply articulating a set of rules to live by. Law's book
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Devotion, as
William Law defined it, should involve all of life—living according to God’s
will and not for one’s own selfish desires. If religion covers all of life,
then it follows that Christians must observe rules that govern all their
actions and not merely times of worship. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Scripture does
not contain a single instruction regarding worship, but almost every verse
gives something on the ordinary actions of life. If we do not practice
humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and
heavenly affection, therefore, we do not live as Christians.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Why do we
Christians fail to live devout lives? Law asks. We can plead neither ignorance
nor inability, for we have the same knowledge and the same Spirit early
Christians did. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">What prevents
us, rather, is a lack of intention. Failure of intention puts us in real
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unavoidably, we cannot count on that mercy when we sin through a lack of
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contention is that we can please God only by intending and devoting all of life
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">From the beginning,
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poverty, virginity, devotion, and withdrawal so they might live wholly for God.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Winner of the 1921
Pulitzer Prize, <i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The Age of
Innocence</span></i> is <b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Edith
Wharton</span></b>’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the
sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded
scandal more than disease.”</span></span></div>
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This is Newland Archer’s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but
conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska
returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love
with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision
that will either courageously define his life—or mercilessly destroy it.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I read Age of Innocence
first when I was in High School. While I was fascinated by the novel and the
language, I couldn’t understand the choices the people made. Why they didn’t
just do what they wanted? Why they were such slaves of convention, society and
public opinion? Why did Archer marry May when he was in love with Ellen? Why
didn’t Ellen just divorce her horrible husband? Why everything had to be so
difficult?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I read the book
again, over twenty years later, and I can see the subtle critique and loving
fondness to the gilded New York and social conventions. I can also see the good
in those conventions.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I don’t agree with
married couples not communicating and just understanding what other is
thinking. As we can see in the book, it lead to many confusions. And finally
Archer didn’t even know who really knew his heart, May, before she was already
dead.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In my opinion we will
never see a perfect world, before Heaven. But I think that perfect world will
have the quality of making sacrifices and knowing to wait and do what is right
that Archer possess in the book.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Not everyone in New
York is as good. Not everyone in Europe is corrupted. But there is goodness in
Archer, as Ellen can see, and she is right to love that goodness. And to run
away from the man.</span></div>
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story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world
literature. Generations of readers have been enthralled by his
magnificent heroine, the unhappily married Anna Karenina, and her tragic
affair with dashing Count Vronsky.<br /><br />In their world frivolous
liaisons are commonplace, but Anna and Vronsky’s consuming passion makes
them a target for scorn and leads to Anna’s increasing isolation. The
heartbreaking trajectory of their relationship contrasts sharply with
the colorful swirl of friends and family members who surround them,
especially the newlyweds Kitty and Levin, who forge a touching bond as
they struggle to make a life together. <i>Anna Karenina</i> is a
masterpiece not only because of the unforgettable woman at its core and
the stark drama of her fate, but also because it explores and
illuminates the deepest questions about how to live a fulfilled life.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span id="freeText7249927690524159821"><i>'I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.'</i></span></div>
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and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees
no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her
more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she
ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to
arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully
laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected.
With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle
exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen's most
flawless work.</span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined
to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure
hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only
to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the
destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas'
epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of
wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first
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is the story of a young man’s adventures on his journey from an unhappy
& impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a
successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he
encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his formidable
aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep;
frivolous, enchanting Dora; & the magnificently impecunious
Micawber, one of literature’s great comic creations.<br /> In <i>David Copperfield</i>—the
novel he described as his “favorite child”—Dickens drew revealingly on
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Kiittäkää Aina ja Kaikestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12264486975627673705noreply@blogger.com10Ecuador-1.831239 -78.183405999999991-17.8706155 -98.837702999999991 14.2081375 -57.529108999999991tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633589858168651537.post-39374787394156513912016-02-19T08:49:00.000-08:002016-02-19T08:49:54.506-08:00The Interior Castle by Teresa of Avila<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Her book Interior Castle is one of
the most celebrated books on mystical theology in existence. It is the most
sublime and mature of Teresa of Avila's works, and expresses the full flowering
of her deep experience in guiding souls toward spiritual perfection. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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content, it is also a treasury of unforgettable maxims on such ascetic subjects
as self-knowledge, humility, detachment, and suffering. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Teresa of Avila was an instigator of
the sixteenth-century reform of the Carmelite monastic order. She wrote several
volumes that articulated her understanding of mystical union with God for the
benefit of her cloistered sisters. The most notable of her books is The Interior Castle, her mature work.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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a Spanish author have received such wide popular acclaim as the Life and
Interior Castle of St. Teresa of Avila. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lived in the sixteenth century, who spent most of her life in an enclosed
convent, who never had any formal schooling and never aspired to any public
fame, should have won such an extraordinary reputation, both among scholars and
among the people.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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descriptions appear to be strange to the modern mind, her words still have
something to give to this present age, an age of narcissism and selfishness.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Interior Castle, the obstacle to union with God for the human person is the
space that exists between where the soul lives outside of itself and where God
is at the soul’s center. For Teresa, this distance exists because “we do not
understand ourselves, or know who we are”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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metaphorical, suggests that the center is the destination, the place where the
soul should be. And therefore the center is the place where we must travel to,
through prayer, in order to experience full intimacy with our Creator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pilgrimage toward mystical union, Teresa images the soul as a spacious
translucent structure containing many mansions, in the center chamber of which
lives “His Majesty,” God. The task of the contemplative is to journey inward
through the soul’s many mansions until he or she can be unified with God in the
soul’s most inward chamber.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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clear that self-entry occurs through prayer. Prayer is the vehicle by which the
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function of prayer is one of the most complex and revealing aspects of her
teaching on union because it is both something the soul does and something God
does in the soul on the journey toward mutual union, and it is also,
mysteriously, union itself.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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indirect telling of Teresa’s own inward journey, and as such it is unwise to
set it up as an exact map for every pilgrim. She also wrote it as a guide book
for the nuns of her order, people who have chosen to live in prayer and
mystical contemplation of God their whole life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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at leisure to explore its own mansions, implying that not everyone will explore
the same mansions on their way toward union with God. But the end is the same
for all souls who enter themselves and persevere through the dynamic work of
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union is a gift to be sought now, for it is by seeking and receiving that
gift that the soul also becomes a gift to others, and better still, to God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">All of Grace is Charles Spurgeon’s best-selling book. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It is a clear and
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19 June 1834
– 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly
influential among Christians of different denominations. He is still known as
the "Prince of Preachers". <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the Church in agreement with the 1689
London Baptist Confession of Faith understanding, and opposing the liberal and
pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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congregation of the New Park Street Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle)
in London for 38 years, despite the fact he was part of several controversies
with the Baptist Union of Great Britain and later had to leave the
denomination. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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organization called Spurgeon's which now works globally, and he also founded
Spurgeon's College, which was named after him posthumously. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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many types of works, including sermons, an autobiography, commentaries, books
on prayer, devotionals, magazines, poetry, hymns and more.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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salvation through grace alone. Spurgeon wants readers only to consume his work
and ponder it, he asks nothing in return because he believes in the power of
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the saved alike. In the last line, Spurgeon beseeches readers to accept
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ought to do so at least once. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It’s also a great book to give to a friend or
loved one that you’ve been witnessing to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Potter growing up, then Red Rising is for those who have reached adulthood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fiction tale of becoming a man in a society that enslaves its sons and
daughters and makes their owners to war each other – to see who is deemed more
worthy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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uneducated workforce, the case of slaves. The red are abused and despised by
all. And he is a low red, a rusty, a worker of helium mines of Mars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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secret garden, reserved for higher colors. They are both sentenced to whipping.
Then the ArchGovernor of Mars, a Peerless Scarred, one of the ruling Golds,
comes to witness the whipping and record it. In defiance Eo sings a prohibited
song, and is hanged.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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himself. But instead of dying, he is saved by the Sons of Ares, a mysterious
group of rebels that wish to cast down the Society and its order.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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He has left the Institute and has been studying in the Academy, doing his best
for his new sponsor, Nero Augustus the ArchGovernor of Mars, and for the Sons
of Ares. Only that he has not gotten a communication from the Sons since he
left the Institute.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fell in love with Mustang, a Golden girl and the daughter of Nero Augustus, in
the Institute. She has left her and her father for the Sovereign and is living
in her court in Luna, the Moon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bellona, he is abandoned and has to choose to ally with the Jackal, his old
nemesis from the Institute.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sons of Ares and finds himself together with his friends – Sevro and the
Howlers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rebellion and civil war. The clan Augustus and its allies war against the
Sovereign and her power. How will it play out for Darrow?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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delivers it all. For me this is the Sci-Fi book of the year and definitely the
most exciting trilogy I have read in a good while. If you are going to buy one
book, this is it. I really hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I have.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Darrow. His identity as a red and Son of Ares has been revealed. He has fallen
into to the hands of his worst enemy, who he taught his ally, the Jackal. And
he has been tortured beyond his ability.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rise again. But he rises, and finds a strength that he didn’t have before the
pain and suffering. He also finds a peace that he wants to bring to the whole
Society. He understands that it isn’t enough to throw over the old power but
there needs to be a plan for the future also.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti Nazi dissident, and key founding
member of the Confession Church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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world have become widely influential, and his book “The Cost of Discipleship”
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genocidal persecution of the Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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attempt against Hitler’s life, he was sent to a Nazi concentration camp and
executed by hanging on April 9, 1945.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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imprisioned at Tegel prison for one and a half year. During this time his
family and friends could visit him and he kept in contact with them, and his fiancé,
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after being associated with the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, he was
quickly tried and executed. His death happened on the verge of the collapse of
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accept the truths of Old and New Testament, of Israel being the chosen people
of God, and support an anti-Jew regime that souk the death and destruction of
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stay quiet and to quiet accept what was happening in his country. He also had
opportunities to stay outside of Germany. He was offered a job as theology
teacher in United States just before the start of the war. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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actively tried to find a way for him to avoid the fate they saw happening to
him for certain in Germany. The death that finally did come to him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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country and his fellow citizens at such a critical moment. He said it would be
against his principals, his theology and his God, not to help the Jews in
Germany. And not to fight against the evil incarnate – Hitler and Nazi
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life and draws them together to tell a searing story of incredible moral
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including personal letters, detailed journal entries, and firsthand personal
accounts, to reveal dimensions of Bonhoeffer’s life and theology never before
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Bonhoeffer’s heart-wrenching 1939 decision to leave the safe haven of America for
Hitler’s Germany. He uses extended excerpts from love letters and coded
messages written to and from Bonhoeffer’s Cell 92 to tell, for the first time,
the full story of Bonhoeffer’s passionate and tragic romance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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life-changing months at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. And about
Bonhoeffer’s radical position on why Christians are obliged to stand up for the
Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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reaction to Kristallnach, his involvement in the famous Valkyrie plot and in “Operation
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with a man determined to do the will of God. A man who is prepared to follow
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">So I would like to live these days together,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Oh Lord, to our souls, so scared and sore,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">with our shining sun and wondrous world,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Warm and bright be our candles' flame today,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">since into gloom you brought a gleaming light,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and lead again us, if you will, together!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">We know it: you are beaming in the night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">When silence now will snow around us ev'rywhere,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">so let us hear the all-embracing sound</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">of greater things than we can see and wider,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">your world, and all your children's soaring hail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">God is with us at dusk and in the morning</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">and most assuredly on ev'ry day.</span></div>
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other words, offending God is the essential consideration, not killing man or
imperiling a nation. That is what made Wilberforce tick. He was not a political
pragmatist. He was a radically God-centered Christian who was a politician. And
his true affections for God based on the ‘peculiar doctrines’ of Christianity
were the roots of his endurance in the cause of justice” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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became the voice of the abolition movement in Parliament. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He was a
slightly built man, about five foot three in height,
and suffered from bouts of bad health.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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age of 21, Wilberforce was elected to Parliament. He was well suited to
politics, as he was an extremely eloquent speaker and very witty. In 1783, he
met James Ramsay and, for the first time, discussed slavery. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Around 1784-86, he underwent a gradual but 'intense
religious conversion' whilst travelling with a friend. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He considered leaving
Parliament but his friend and mentor, John Newton, advised him againt this; so,
instead, he decided to serve God in public life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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his conversion to evangelical Christianity, he gave up his racehorse, gambling
and attendance at clubs. His new beliefs affected his public life. Before, he
had usually voted with Pitt but now he was guided by his conscience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He and his evangelical friends were nicknamed
"the Saints" by upper class circles but he won widespread respect. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He championed many
causes but it was the fight against the Slave Trade and slavery that
he worked most tirelessly for. His interest was rekindled by a letter from Sir
Charles Middleton, suggesting he should represent the cause in Parliament. William
Pitt also encouraged him to take up the cause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1789, Wilberforce regularly introduced bills in Parliament to ban the Slave
Trade. He was fiercely opposed by those making fortunes from the trade, who
used all kinds of delaying tactics. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The first time a bill was introduced, Wilberforce lost
the debate by 163 votes to 88 but he never gave up. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A bill to cease the
trade was passed by the House of Commons in 1792 .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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late 30's, Wilberforce married Barbara Spooner (also an evangelical
Christian). He remained devoted to her throughout his
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Finally on 25th March, 1807, the Abolition of the
Slave Trade Act abolished the Slave Trade in the British colonies. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It was carried
by 267 votes. The house rose to its feet and cheered wildly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">However,
this was not a vote to abolish slavery as a whole throughout the Empire, just
the trade in enslaved people. William Wilberforce continued to work for the
abolition of all slavery within the British Colonies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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26th July, 1833, the Abolition of Slavery bill passed its third reading in the
House of Commons. A messenger rushed to Wilberforce's house. They told him that
slavery in British colonies would finally be abolished. Just three days later,
on 29th July, William Wilberforce died.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">John Piper concentrates in his book “The Amazing Grace
In The Life Of William Wilberforce” on the essence of Wilberforce, in the cornerstone
of his being and the truth that guided his personal and political life, his
faith in Jesus Christ as his Savior.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The actual events of his life are glanced through but
what is found truly interesting are the reasons behind his actions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the historical events of Wilberforce’s life, his career in British Parliament
or his role in the abolishment of slave trade and slavery in Britain this is not
the book to do it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This is the book for the person who wants to learn
about the most important thing in Wilberforce’s life, his faith in God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are aware of Wilberforce's role in bringing an end to slavery in Great Britain,
but few have taken the time to examine the beliefs and motivations that spurred
him on for decades. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In this
concise volume, John Piper tells the story of how Wilberforce was transformed
from an unbelieving, young politician into a radically God-centered Christian,
and how his deep spirituality helped to change the moral outlook of a nation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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made Wilberforce the foremost opponent of slavery and slave trade at a moment
when it was an unpopular choice and he was going against everyone else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Even when it seemed impossible to ever happen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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book, Piper provides countless reports from both friends and enemies who
received great encouragement from Wilberforce's company, and how his testimony
of Christ was immediately evident even on his countenance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As one of his political detractors once quipped,
"His mirth is contagious, regularly transforming the devious and
manipulative nature of the political environment."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Behind all his work was Wilberforce’s firm belief that
God had put him into a special place in the society to be able to change it and
its morals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As he
writes in his diary on Oct. 28, 1787,<span style="color: #660000;">"God Almighty has placed before me
two great objects, the Suppression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of
Manners [morals]." </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Wilberforce had the responsibility to fight for this
change and follow the mandate God had given him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Through his faithfulness thousands’ of people’s life
was changed for better and huge injustice corrected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #660000;">"Therefore, in all our zeal today for racial
harmony, or the sanctity of human life, or the building of a moral culture, let
us not forget these lessons: Never minimize the central place of God-centered,
Christ-exalting doctrine; labor to be indomitably joyful in all that God is for
us in Christ by trusting his great finished work; and never be idle in doing
good--that men may see our good deeds and give glory to our Father who is in
heaven (Matt. 5:16)."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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The Life Of William Wilberforce”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="author notFaded" data-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="contribution" spacing="none" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-color-secondary" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Way of a Pilgrim, or The Pilgrim's Tale is
the English title of a 19th-century Russian work, recounting the narrator's
journey as a mendicant pilgrim across Russia while practicing the Jesus
Prayer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Readers of The Way of a Pilgrim quickly
discover two levels of narration in this simple and unassuming
nineteenth-century religious classic. The first level presents a heartfelt
apologia for silent prayer in the Orthodox Christian tradition, namely, the
"ceaseless" prayer or the so-called Jesus prayer. Cited as the
authority for the Jesus prayer is the Philokalia, a literary collection of
writings of the Greek-speaking Church Fathers supporting the tradition of hesychasm.
Yet The Way of a Pilgrim does not pursue theological argument. It is
imminently practical in its advice to simply start praying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The second level of
narration, which underlies the entire work and arguably is the main reason for
the work's simplicity and attraction, is the literal but subtle presentation of
the hermit life. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The narrator is a solitary and a wanderer
calling himself a pilgrim. The wandering hermit's example is presented as the
model existence for those who would truly lead a spiritual life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The pilgrim's inner
journey begins when he is struck upon hearing the words of Paul (in I
Thessalonians 5:17) to "pray without ceasing." </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He
visits churches and monasteries to try and understand how to pray without
ceasing. His travels lead him to a starets (a spiritual father) who
teaches him the Jesus Prayer—"Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me"—and
gives him practical advice on how to recite the prayer uninterruptedly, as a
type of mantra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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struggles of the narrator, and the effect the narrator's spirituality has
on those around him. The sequel is entitled The Pilgrim
Continues his Way. Translations of both documents were published together in
some English editions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It is unknown if the book is literally an account of a
single pilgrim, or if it uses a fictional pilgrim's journey as a vehicle to
teach the practice of ceaseless inner prayer and communion with God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">According to Thomas Hopko, the origin of The Way of a
Pilgrim is in many ways a mystery. No one knows for certain if it is a
literally true story written by the narrator, or an account cast in the first
person about a particular pilgrim (or perhaps based on several), or even a
marvelously creative piece of spiritual fiction intended to propagate a certain
understanding of the practice of the Orthodox Christian faith, and the prayer
of the heart, particularly the Jesus Prayer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Russian original,
or a copy of it, was present at a Mount Athos monastery in Greece in
the 19th century, and was first published in Kazan in 1884, under the
Russian title that translates as "Candid Narratives of a Pilgrim to
His Spiritual Father.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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composed in 1859 (the Crimean War is mentioned in the text). The famous starets Ambrose
of Optino told a correspondent that a peasant had once visited the late starets Macarius.
The peasant was so advanced in the spiritual life that Macarius was dumbfounded
as to what to tell him and simply repeated "Be humble, be humble."
This testimony conforms to the style of the narrative, and the sequel's mention
of starets Ambrose is another clue to the probability that the Mt.
Athos copy is genuine, while the sequel was added later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Critical scholarship has investigated the authorship of
the four original and three supplementary tales. Aleksei Pentkovsky has argued
that the first four tales survive in the form of a later redaction of an
original work by Archimandrite Mikhail Kozlov (1826–1884), The Seeker of
Unceasing Prayer, and that the supplementary tales are the work of Arsenii
Troepolskii (1804–1870). Both of these men spent time as wanderers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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narrative but the narrator reveals very little about himself -- not even his
name. The pilgrim is the universal Everyman, and is on a pilgrim's journey
without real destination on earth, a pilgrim journey in which "the
way" is itself the whole point.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Way of a Pilgrim
isn’t an easy book to read. And its sequel The Pilgrim Continues His Way is
even harder. The reason I started to read the book was that I read about it in
A. W. Tozer’s book The Pursuit of God. It is mentioned as one of the books that
he read and was inspired by.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I was inspired by
curiosity and many times by skepticism. The Way of a Pilgrim is an Eastern
Orthodox book and many times, for an evangelist protestant, it felt too
strange.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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could agree with the message, the prayer is essential to our lives. And we need
to learn to pray continually.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I have not started to
pray the Jesus prayer all the time. I do pray it occasionally but I feel that
we have freedom in prayer. Freedom to express ourselves and seek what is inside
us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Even though that
freedom is actually a lot more responsible and scary than praying continually
the Jesus prayer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I think there are
many things in the book I will continue meditating about. And it has made me
hunger for more about prayer and even mysticism.<span style="color: #555555;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Kiittäkää Aina ja Kaikestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12264486975627673705noreply@blogger.com4Ecuador-1.831239 -78.183405999999991-17.8706155 -98.837702999999991 14.2081375 -57.529108999999991tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633589858168651537.post-58742545733585465432016-01-21T16:33:00.000-08:002016-01-21T16:33:01.192-08:00The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The Everlasting Man is a Christian
apologetics book written by G. K. Chesterton.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In The Everlasting Man G. K. Chesterton proclaimed anew
to the doubters of the age that the key to history had arrived nearly two
thousand years before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It was published in 1925. And it is, to some extent, a
deliberate rebuttal of H. G. Wells' The Outline of History.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In his book Chesterton disputes Wells' portrayals of
human life and civilization as a seamless development from animal life and of
Jesus Christ as merely another charismatic figure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Chesterton detailed his own spiritual journey
in Orthodoxy, but in this book he tries to illustrate the spiritual
journey of humanity, or at least of Western civilization.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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perhaps his greatest, for he eloquently and concisely packs the whole human
story between the covers of one book. He begins by pointing out that the main
problem with the critics of the Church is that they are too close to it to see
it properly. They cannot see the big picture, only the small picture that
directly affects them. With their sulks and their perversity and their petty criticism
they are merely reacting to the Church. What they need to do is back
up. And that’s what Chesterton has the reader do in this book.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rises on a play already in progress. He argues that it was religion that
advanced civilization. It was religion that dealt with the meanings of things,
with the development and interpretation of symbols, which advanced
communication and knowledge, or what we call the arts and the sciences.</span></div>
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groaning and travail of the ancient world was answered, precisely and
definitely, in the still night of Bethlehem and the Birth of our Lord.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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the event be seen with fresh eyes: God as Child - a claim no other religion
dares to make.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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another human leader and Christianity and the Church are simply another human
religion, one is forced to the conclusion that he was a bizarrely unusual
leader, whose followers founded a bizarrely and miraculously unusual religion
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pictured as a thing in which humanity merely fades away into nature, or
civilization merely fades away into barbarism, or religion fades away into
mythology, or our own religion fades away into the religions of the world. In
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comes decay. Chesterton says men do not grow tired of evil, but of good. They
become weary of joy. They stop worshipping God and start worshipping idols,
their own bad imitations of God, and they become as wooden as the thing they
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man, made in the image of God. And of the God-Made-Man who fully reveals this
fact to him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chesterton the path that leads to man's true home begins with the Nativity and
ends with the Resurretion, and in between is contained all life and all
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extremes meet. It is where heaven meets earth. God comes to make a home in the
world and finds himself homeless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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if we approach the Gospel objectively we will see that it is not a book of
platitudes. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It paints a picture of a man who was indeed a
wonder-worker, but who spoke in riddles and rebukes. His teachings were as
difficult to accept in his own time as they are today. None of the critics of
Christianity seem to appreciate the fact that Christ’s teachings were not
dependent on the social order in which he lived but transcended their time
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dogma of the Christian faith is that God died, that, in Chesterton’s
phrase, God was for one instant for one instant forsaken of God, that God
sacrificed himself to himself, is more mysterious than anything, even the
mystery of creation itself. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And those who object to this dogma do
so not because the dogma is bad, but because it’s too good to be true. The
gospel does not end with God’s death; it ends with the most startling
episode of all. An empty grave. And God again walking in a garden, as on the
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Lewis credited The Everlasting Man with "baptising"
his intellect, so as to make him more than half-converted well before he could
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calls the book "the best popular apologetic I know," and in 1947 he
wrote to Rhonda Bodle :"the [very] best popular defence of the full
Christian position I know is G. K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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cited by The Christian Century in a list of 10 books that "most
shaped [Lewis'] vocational attitude and philosophy of life".</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span>
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Kiittäkää Aina ja Kaikestahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12264486975627673705noreply@blogger.com6Ecuador-1.831239 -78.183405999999991-17.8706155 -98.837702999999991 14.2081375 -57.529108999999991tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3633589858168651537.post-59683847515694741082016-01-19T19:30:00.000-08:002016-01-19T19:30:01.315-08:00Reading Challenge for 2016<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">There is something magic about books. Something that allows you to transport to another place, or even to another universe, or galaxy. Something that lets you to live someone else’s life, or lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">I have always read a lot. I haven’t read books that people recommend me. I actually don’t like very much being recommended a book. Because I want to be like an archeologist, or adventurer, or a character in the books, who finds something special, a rare treasure, a book. But not just any book, a special book, a magical book, a book that nobody else has read, the best book in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">I hope you take the challenge too and discuss your books with me. And even suggest a book or two to me. And I might even read them (or maybe I’ve already read them, lol). But I promise to be open about your books and any suggestions you have for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;"><br />_ 14. A book written by a Puritan<br />_ 15. A book recommended by a family member<br />_ 16. A book by or about a missionary<br />_ 17. A novel that won the Pulitzer Prize<br />_ 18. A book written by an Anglican<br />_ 19. A book with at least 400 pages<br />_ 20. A book by C.S. Lewis or J.R.R. Tolkien<br />_ 21. A book that has a fruit of the Spirit in the title<br />_ 22. A book with a great cover<br />_ 23. A book on the current New York Times list of bestsellers<br />_ 24. A book about church history<br />_ 25. A graphic novel<br />_ 26. A book of poetry</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;"><br />_ 27. A book from a theological viewpoint you disagree with<br />_ 28. A book written by an author with initials in their name<br />_ 29. A book that won a ECPA Christian Book Award<br />_ 30. A book about worldview<br />_ 31. A play by William Shakespeare<br />_ 32. A humorous book<br />_ 33. A book based on a true story<br />_ 34. A book written by Jane Austen<br />_ 35. A book by or about Martin Luther<br />_ 36. A book with 100 pages or less<br />_ 37. A book with a one-word title<br />_ 38. A book about money or finance<br />_ 39. A novel set in a country that is not your own<br />_ 40. A book about music<br />_ 41. A memoir<br />_ 42. A book about joy or happiness<br />_ 43. A book by a female author<br />_ 44. A book whose title comes from a Bible verse<br />_ 45. A book you have started but never finished<br />_ 46. A self-improvement book<br />_ 47. A book by David McCullough<br />_ 48. A book you own but have never read<br />_ 49. A book about abortion<br />_ 50. A book targeted at the other gender<br />_ 51. A book by a speaker at a conference you have attended<br />_ 52. A book written by someone of a different ethnicity than you</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;"><br />_ 53. A book published by The Banner of Truth<br />_ 54. A book about the Reformation<br />_ 55. A book written by a first-time author<br />_ 56. A biography of a world leader<br />_ 57. A book used as a seminary textbook<br />_ 58. A book about food<br />_ 59. A book about productivity<br />_ 60. A book about or relationships or friendship<br />_ 61. A book about parenting<br />_ 62. A book about philosophy<br />_ 63. A book about art<br />_ 64. A book with magic<br />_ 65. A book about prayer<br />_ 66. A book about marriage<br />_ 67. A book about a hobby<br />_ 68. A book of comics<br />_ 69. A book about the Second World War<br />_ 70. A book about sports<br />_ 71. A book by or about a pastor’s wife<br />_ 72. A book about suffering<br />_ 73. A book by your favorite author<br />_ 74. A book you have read before<br />_ 75. A book about homosexuality<br />_ 76. A Christian novel<br />_ 77. A book about psychology<br />_ 78. A book about the natural world<br />_ 79. A book by or about Charles Dickens<br />_ 80. A novel longer than 400 pages<br />_ 81. A historical book<br />_ 82. A book about the Bible<br />_ 83. A book about a country or city<br />_ 84. A book about astronomy<br />_ 85. A book with an ugly cover<br />_ 86. A book by or about a martyr<br />_ 87. A book by a woman conference speaker<br />_ 88. A book by or about the church fathers<br />_ 89. A book about language<br />_ 90. A book by or about a Russian<br />_ 91. A book about leadership<br />_ 92. A book about public speaking<br />_ 93. A book by Francis Schaeffer<br />_ 94. A book by a Presbyterian<br />_ 95. A book about science<br />_ 96. A book about revival<br />_ 97. A book about writing<br />_ 98. A book about evangelism<br />_ 99. A book about ancient history<br />_ 100. A book about preaching<br />_ 101. A book about the church<br />_ 102. A book about adoption<br />_ 103. A photo essay book<br />_ 104. A book written in the twentieth century</span><br />
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