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In terms of literature, music, and film, it would be hard to outdo the sheer genius and creativity of Russia. These things constitute the soul of the nation, and it is this that Morris Berman explores in his latest work, The Soul of Russia. His central argument is that at the heart of this brilliance lies a particular idiosyncratic theme: the peasant-shamanic-folkloric tradition of the Russian people, which these artists, from Pushkin to Tarkovsky, drew upon for their inspiration.

Luther examines the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church in the light of his interpretation of the Bible. With regard to the Eucharist, he advocates restoring the cup to the laity, dismisses the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation but affirms the real presence of the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist, and rejects the teaching that the Mass is a sacrifice offered to God.

COVID changed everything. Mayo Clinic's Edward Creagan, MD, addresses critical changes in the healthcare delivery system and survivorship in this revised third edition of his award-winning book for empowered patients.

People leaders everywhere are spinning their wheels trying to come up with new ways to attract and keep top talent only to be ghosted again by the best candidates or get hit with another superstar’s resignation notice. Join award-winning people leader Merrylue Martin, who has decades of experience in developing leaders. Merrylue’s humor, down-to-earth style, and master storytelling are but a few of the attributes that make her a sought-after leadership guru. Her firsthand practical knowledge can be put into action on day one! 

In a compilation of fascinating stories, Dr. Jim Webb shares a view of visionary leaders who defied the odds to create extraordinary, lasting results in diverse environments. While guiding listeners on a journey through some of the world’s finest institutions and the influencers who produced and directed radical improvements, he shines a light on a variety of these exceptional leaders. Innovators Who Changed the World profiles the history of those who created, built, and guided organizations and people through transformation and changed the world in the process.

Doubt dims and chills the day. A fog is over all things, and men move about like Egypt’s ancients when they felt the darkness. Oh that this mist would lift! The best we can hope is that the present gloom may pass away right speedily, and that the cloud may leave a dew behind, to nourish a more intelligent and unquestioning faith. In this clammy scepticism no race but the puniest can be nurtured. Men who are greatly good are hill-born, and love the fresh air of the mountains of truth.

The way of salvation is stated in Scripture in the very plainest terms, and yet, perhaps, there is no truth about which more errors have been uttered than concerning the faith that saves the soul. Well, has it been proved by experience that all doctrines of Christ are mysteries—mysteries not so much in themselves but because they are hid to them that are lost, in whom the God of this world hath blinded their eyes.

Here hast thou, dear listener, an exposition upon the fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of Matthew, wherein Christ, our spiritual Isaac, diggeth again the wells of Abraham: which wells the scribes and Pharisees, those wicked and spiteful Philistines, had stopped and filled up with the earth of their false expositions.

Although the technologies of war will always change, the insights of great leaders are timeless. And at no time are those lessons more important than in the heat of combat with lives on the line. The key is in preparation before a conflict.

Is real estate part of your investment portfolio? Why not? Real estate is one of the strongest assets to create wealth. The authors grew their multimillion-dollar real estate portfolio by starting as penniless, yet frugally savvy college kids, because they figured out how to use leverage and common financial tools to grow their real estate assets.

Delving into the incredible history behind four of America’s most renowned founding fathers, this captivating biographical collection retells their stories, painting an inspiring picture of daring battles, genius political maneuvering, and rags-to-riches tales that irreversibly shaped the course of American history. Ranging from the Revolutionary War and the intrepid fight for independence to the birth of America’s political system, The Founding Fathers of America recounts the events that continue to impact our world to this day.

I have not read these words as a text but as an introduction to what I desire to say, as God shall help me concerning the most recent manifestation of the Pentecostal power. I refer to the great work of God that is going on in Wales at this time, and I trust that something more than curiosity makes you desire to hear of this work, for I am not speaking with any intention to satisfy curiosity. I want now in the simplest way to speak to you first, very briefly and as far as it is possible, of what my own eyes have seen, my own ears heard, and my own heart felt.

This work is not a personal history. For 15 years, I was a layman in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and having had my attention called to the subjects and mode of Baptism, after two years of careful study of the subject I deemed it my duty to unite with the Baptists.

Clarence Larkin was born October 28, 1850, in Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. He was converted to Christ at the age of 19. He was a mechanical engineer, teacher, and manufacturer by trade. In 1884, at the age of 34, he became an ordained Baptist minister.

To understand the pith of the sacraments, how they came up, and the very meaning of them, we must consider diligently the manners and fashions of the Hebrews, which were a people of great gravity and sadness, and earnest in all their doings, if any notable thing chanced among them; so that they not only wrote, but also set up pillars, and marks, and divers signs to testify the same unto their posterity, and named the places where the things were done with such names as could not but keep the deeds in memory.

For many Christians, "church" is defined by attending an occasional Sunday service mired in an audience mentality. Virtually ineffective and having no impact, we have become a cultural Christianity that creates passive believers. Yet the Church is meant for so much more!

Give diligence, listener, I exhort thee that thou come with a pure mind, and as the scripture saith, with a single eye, unto the words of health and of eternal life by the which, if we repent and believe them, we are born anew, created afresh, and enjoy the fruits of the blood of Christ.

William Tyndale, the man chosen of God to be one of his chief instruments in the blessed work of restoring the knowledge of the way of salvation amongst the inhabitants of our island, was fitted for this work by being endowed with such ability and learning, as it enabled him to lay the foundation of our authorized version of the scriptures.