New Israel

"The greatest story ever told" is more than just a cliché. God goes to great lengths to rescue lost and hurting people, and that is what The Story is all about: the story of the Bible, God’s great love affair with humanity. Filled with intrigue, drama, conflict, and redemption, listen to chapter 16 of this dramatized edition that sweeps you into the stories, poems, and teachings of the Bible.

What does it mean to be a new creation? What does it really mean to be a born-again Christian? It is not unusual to come across people, even Christians, who do not have a good understanding of what it means to be a new creation or to be truly born again. The New Me is a book that attempts to answer these fundamental, yet intriguing questions. Many people think to be born again means to change the way they live. Others think being born again is making good and fresh resolutions. These may be true only in part, but not far-reaching enough.

It was a Roman historian and writer, St. Augustine, who coined the phrase "City of God" in a book of the very same title. But the city of God that Augustine was referring to was not in Jerusalem. When Augustine wrote his book, it was hundreds of years after the Jewish city of Jerusalem had been overrun and destroyed by the Roman legions; he was writing of Rome as the city of God and the center of the Roman Catholic faith.