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Excerpted from OT and NT Biblical Studies, Student Edition -- Who are the Essenes? Where is the Nag Hammadi Library? Can sacred texts be found in a desert dump? What does an island in the Nile have to do with Ezra and Nehemiah? Was Miles Coverdale the Main Man of the Age of English Bible translations? Follow the history of the Bible, its translations and manuscripts, from Cuneiform Tablets to the Spanish inquisition and see the miraculous preservation of God's Word.

Karin Arthur meets her Christmas Eve blind date and stumbles on a battle to save covert agents and stop a cybercriminal. Reference librarian Karin Arthur decides Murali Nanda is handsome, intelligent, and passionate about Christian causes she also loves. But she's only known him through his online research projects. Turmoil descends when Karin and Murali plunge into a plot to torture and murder espionage operatives and disseminate a computer infection that could bring vital intelligence agencies to their knees. A courtship beyond whirlwind and a desperate race to stop a cyberkiller leaves ...

A Civil War Novella -- Carrie Wilkes, a Northern woman married to a Southern man, has had enough of stares and shunning. Robert Salinger might be handsome and a friend of her dying husband. But why is he either boring his eyes into her or ignoring her? He blames himself for Ben's death. He swears he will look after Carrie and the children, but they go home from the funeral alone. Will that deaf and dumb stranger, Robbie, be any real help to save her farm?

An earl's son tempts seventeen-year-old-Hope to rebel against an arranged marriage in medieval England. Colchester Manor is attacked and Hope's family is missing. Only two men, one a memory-keeper for a thousand missing Crusaders, the other a nameless champion know Hope isn't mad when she says she names the attacker. But only one of them wants her alive to get justice.

Trust the Tuckers -- A cop and a photographer husband and wife team who are not your average relationship counselors! 1. Sam helps a young man who risked his marriage to try a little role-playing. 2. Vivian tells Sam to get tough with a two-fisted female taking out her money pressures on her husband. 3. Sibling squabbles continue beyond the grave when a friend of Sam's accuses his brother's former caregiver of being a gold digger. 4. The Tucker's housekeeper needs their help to survive adultery and a family secret the women have kept for generations. 5. When child traffickers show up at ...

Understand what takes your breath away in a book while breathing the pure air of God's truth. Using Philippians, Numbers, Proverbs, and Ephesians, learn to apply eternal standards to reading and writing, fiction and non-fiction. Learn how to be a discerning reader and a godly writer. Discover positive and negative criteria for entertaining as well as teaching. Learn what's actually being taught and also what should be taught. It's not all about inspiration or objectionable elements. Learn to sniff out where the bad air of secularism wants to lead you.

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Small town science teacher Keith Bradley climbs into a red Tesla with English teacher Talia Ramin for the field trip of a lifetime. At stake is a missing copy of the Scriptures on gold tablets. At risk is the trust of an ancient order sworn to keep the tablets safe. Talia's archaeologist aunt and uncle may have lost their last clue to artifact thieves. A government ultimatum might undo every lesson they have taught their students about keeping the Word safe. from Chapter Eighteen – “Are You So Selfish?” “What?” Keith jumped up. “What are you saying? We’re supposed to take the ...

Russet faithfully follows her grandmother's clockwork path through the dangerous woods and tries to heed her warnings about the deadly Ravagers. The Benefactress and the Songster prepare their apprentices for the LastNight Festival. Russet encounters an unlikely rescuer and discovers a dying race. She is ordered to stop her childhood friend Gareth from rebelling or pay a terrible price. People are disappearing from her village. A lost race of shining teachers might be their only hope ... but will they have to go through with the Song and the Dance to save their village?

Sam and Vivian Tucker take on emotions that can make or break relationships. They tackle an angry vet searching for sheep rustlers while hiding a thirty-year-old family secret; a terrified rape victim searching for a one-of a kind cat; screaming peacocks tormenting a grieving widow, a bitter bookstore owner trying to understand why an author won't come to her store; two young entrepreneurs trying to catch a con man; and a jeweler stunned to discover her heirloom brooch may have a dangerous past. Red: Sheep Gone Astray Yellow: Kittens in My Kiln Blue: As the Peacocks Scream Orange: ...

The two-part Teacher's Edition contains the complete student text plus answer keys. In this 250+ page guide Teachers can explore exposition and commentaries with students and assign as many or as few review questions as desired. Choose from among a rich selection of special projects and optional essay assignments. Link to YouTube videos directly from the text.

Jonathan, Captain of the King's Guard, has no hope that his best friend Prince Tristan survived an attack at the hands of his half-mad brother, the newly-crowned king Dunstan. Jonathan is relieved to sail on a quest to fulfill Tristan's long-held wish: To build a navy to protect their country from pirates. Jonathan's search for a shipbuilder lands him on an island kingdom in the grip of devilish wickedness. A veiled stranger claims she is a shipbuilder in a land where women are mere slaves and marriage chattel. He also meets an exotic woman mercenary who demands information but keeps her ...

Spies, lies, and Texas freedom throw a wounded war hero and a celebrity singer into a marriage of convenience and a passionate alliance they never dreamed possible. As much as Hamilton Jessup hates Texas high society and pity as a wounded war hero, marriage to the wealthy Maeve Collinswood solves his mysterious financial crisis. Ham's cynicism about his service, past and present, keeps Maeve Collinswood at arm's length. While solving the puzzle of who's supplying guns to Mexico's army, he is baffled to learn that his sham wife has valuable intel he's missed. When she disappears he's got to ...

Prince Tristan found a new life in a foreign land. He will pay any price to free his princess from the wicked witch, but it will cost him more than he can imagine to save his kingdom. Tristan already despairs for his kingdom in the hands of his drunken, idolatrous older brother. A raging river whips him a hundred miles away to an impoverished, isolated village in a foreign land. No one believes who he is and he can find no way to return home. Finally Tristan manages to make a place in his new home as a teacher, and perhaps has found the beginnings of love. In one agonizing night, Tristan is...

Ten souls in a clinic where people with powers are forced to "fit in" to society learn that one group session can be more therapeutic than they thought possible ... if they live through it. Blue is a tree fairy who's been bullied for her "disability," a double set of wings. Of all the roommates she could have been stuck with, Sydeera Gibbor, a sharp-tongued time weaver, has to be the worst. But Blue has no choice. None of the residents of the Emerge clinic do, forced, as they are, because of their special abilities, to receive counseling and deal with their difficulties fitting into normal ...

Follow a trail from ancient manuscripts to modern Bible translations. Explore Bible Doctrines, Proverbs, Revelation, complete book studies. Dig through historical background topics. Watch free YouTube Videos linked right in the text. Commentary by colorful puppets can help even young students understand that these are more than just "Bible Stories."

The mystery archaeologists suddenly appear and Keith learns firsthand about the quest for the Golden Testaments.He finds himself with more questions than answers. What do these people want with him?. He doesn't see how he can travel to Greece, Turkey, and who knows where without neglecting his family. The lure of ancient technology and the chance to unravel a mystery like no other can't make up for the deadly peril of an underwater attack and a terrifying phone call. Is he really ready to pay the price for preserving and spreading the Word if it means putting his family in danger?

Drew Goddard and Nomie Harker land headfirst in the middle of a supernatural war over an ancient evil. Nomie gets a sign of her own, but they aren't sure it can stop the self-destruction of an ancient race. The Sethites are locked in civil war with their far-gone dragon kin. Ordinaries are the bait to trap and remove the only obstacle to the ultimate act of rebellion. Hope may lie in the wedding of a most unlikely couple. A traitor tries to destroy the peace but they might be wrong about the real enemy. Drew is about to relive the history of a certain Bible king, coming face to face with a ...

Drew Goddard's war against evil began long before someone tried to shoot him and he got a strange, lighted symbol bursting from his chest. Blacklisted from his intelligence contracting career, he thought paranoia or insanity explained his ruined life, until a golden-eyed woman with tattered wings and interdimensional powers helped open his eyes to a spiritual battle raging over him. A discouraged minister, a handful of manna, and a trip to Abraham's Bosom convince him that Christians waiting for a sign need to wake up and acknowledge God's working in the life they live every moment. Drew's ...

As soon as Violet arrives with the wagon train Ben can finally be married. But is she truly in love with Ben, or with the five or six trunks of things her letters say she can’t do without? When trouble stalks the widowed young schoolteacher, will Ben go past protecting her and threaten both their futures? What will it take to stop a violent drunk determined to possess his dead brother’s wife? How can Ben save Violet and himself from a ruthless outlaw gang? Will he ever stop paying for that headline, or even live to tell it at all? An avenger of blood looking to settle scores is not the ...