L Mckenzie: 14 books
King David
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2000
One of the most important and complex characters in the Bible, King David has been the subject of innumerable portraits, both artistic and literary. Michaelangelo's magnificent sculpture of him is perhaps the single best known work of art in the world, and the story of the humble shepherd who slew...
How to Read the Bible: History, Prophecy, Literature--Why Modern Readers Need to Know the Difference and What It Means for Faith Today
History, Prophecy, Literature--Why Modern Readers Need to Know the Difference and What It Means for Faith Today
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
McKenzie argues that to comprehend the Bible we must grasp the intentions of the biblical authors themselves--what sort of texts they thought they were writing and how they would have been understood by their intended audience. In short, we must recognize the genres to which these texts belong. McKenzie...
by J.L. McKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
This book of gothic prose transcends the reader into a world darker than they ever imagined possible. Vermilion Dreams is a blend of utter sadness, despair, light, love and passion that is sublime. It is a look deep into the psyche and you will never forget what you have experienced. Your world will be colored black and desolate by J.L. McKenzie's words and you will never be the same again.
Age-Dissimilar Couples and Romantic Relationships
Ageless Love?
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
There has been a widespread fascination with age-dissimilar couples in recent years. This book examines how the romantic relationships of these couples are understood. Based on qualitative research, McKenzie investigates notions of autonomy, relatedness, contradiction, and change in age-dissimilar relationships and romantic love.
by Steven L. McKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
The Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries provide compact, critical commentaries on the books of the Old Testament for the use of theological students and pastors. The commentaries are also useful for upper-level college or university students and for those responsible for teaching in congregational...
For Posterity's Sake
Legacy of an American Couple
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
When they met, Raymond Jay Wright and Margie Moselle Brooks had at least one thing in common: humble beginnings. He was the son of an early twentieth-century Texas sharecropper. Her father owned a farm just outside of Midland. With the advent of World War II, they embarked on what would become a military...
Sister States, Enemy States
The Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
The fifteenth and sixteenth states to join the United States of America, Kentucky and Tennessee were cut from a common cloth -- the rich region of the Ohio River Valley. Abounding with mountainous regions and fertile farmlands, these two slaveholding states were as closely tied to one another, both...
African American Fraternities and Sororities
The Legacy and the Vision
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
The first African American fraternities and sororities were established at the turn of the twentieth century to encourage leadership, racial pride, and academic excellence among black college students confronting the legacy of slavery and the indignities of Jim Crow segregation. With a strong presence...
The Frontier of Patriotism
Alberta and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
With the centenary of the First World War, communities across Canada arranged commemorations of the war experience to honour local servicemen who, through their triumphs and sacrifices, were presented as laying the foundation for a free and independent country. Often overlooked are the triumphs and...
Occupational Health Services
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Workers and their families, employers, and society as a whole benefit when providers deliver the best quality of care to injured workers and when they know how to provide effective services for both prevention and fitness for duty and understand why, instead of just following regulations.
Designed...
Alpha Phi Alpha
A Legacy of Greatness, the Demands of Transcendence
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
On December 4, 1906, on Cornell University's campus, seven black men founded one of the greatest and most enduring organizations in American history. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. has brought together and shaped such esteemed men as Martin Luther King Jr., Cornel West, Thurgood Marshall, Wes Moore,...
Parental Guidance Advised
Adult Preaching from the Old Testament
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
When we learn Old Testament Bible stories as children, the stories are stripped of their complexity. But, as adults, hearing the entire stories-the stories of our past-reminds us who we are in God's plan. Parental Guidance Advised shows the Old Testament to be a creative, humorous, insightful, bawdy,...
Seven by Seven
Seven Virtues to Teach Your Child by Age Seven
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Praise for Seven by Seven
A clear guide for parents.
This work does a lot of the heavy lifting for parents. It is a clear and simple guide on how to raise children with Christian values in a time of great moral and spiritual confusion.
Grace Virtue, Ph.D.,
Author of How...
Have You 101?
101 Delectable, Devotional Nuggets for the Pilgrim's Soul
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
Archbishop Leighton
Some hearts, like evening primroses, open more beautifully in the shadows of life.
F.B.Meyer
Jesus is no security against storms, but He...