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The Little Flowers of St. Francis (Italian Fioretti di San Francesco) is a florilegium (excerpts of his body of work), divided into 53 short chapters, on the life of Saint Francis of Assisi which was composed at the end of the 14th century. The anonymous Italian text, almost certainly by a Tuscan...

John Chrysostom preached 8 sermons to his congregation against the Jews. These were transmitted to us in the Greek manuscripts of his works, but the 2nd sermon was much shorter than the others, leading scholars to suppose that most of that sermon was lost. This belief was confirmed in the 1990's...

A lot has happened since the The Complete Book of Everyday Christianity was first published in 1997 by IVP. We felt that for the book to be really useful for the reader today, we had to add a few critical articles. Some of them include (author’s names in brackets): Climate Change (Byron Smith) Global...

A breathtakingly beautiful saga spanning from eternity to eternity, presented from the view of angels. Experience creation, the crucifixion, and the resurrection from this unique viewpoint, and gain a better understanding of the majestic love of God. Gene Edwards’s classic tale is the greatest love story ever told.

The Apostle John lived in the midst of a savage persecution. Many of God's churches were being taken over by traitors. When he wrote his epistles, John thought it was "the last hour" before Christ's Second Coming. In fact, it was only a type of our time today. Every detail of what John prophesied...

The good news of Jesus Christ is a subversive gospel, and following Jesus is a subversive act. These notions were embodied in the literary work of American author Flannery O'Connor, whose writing was deeply informed by both her Southern context and her Christian faith. In this volume in IVP Academic's...

The following Observations took their Rise from a Pamphlet entitled, The Resurrection of Jesus considered, in Answer to the Trial of the Witnesses. By a Moral Philosopher. The Author of which, in order to overturn the Testimony of the Evangelists, hath attempted to shew that they contradict each other...

This collection of lives is taken from what we should call the martyrology of the Church in Serbia. There were, at one time, a number of these martyrologies in use in Europe containing different lists of saints, together with their lives. In the West these tended to give place to a calendar and lives...

When you are conscious of the importance of prayer, your prayer life becomes very meaningful. It brings you the same joy and perseverance Paul, Epaphras and thousands of other prayer heroes have had thoroughout history. In Prayer Changes Nations Ulf Ekman teaches on what characterizes the...

Breaking the Family Curse is about how I am fighting desperately to break all of my family’s negative generational cycles. I already have broken some of them with the help of God. I had to overcome a lot of trials and tribulations that began in my early teenage years. I became influenced by the...

Revelation of Jesus Christ. That is to be the object of our occupation at this time and while it will come to us through the book which bears that name, it is not the book, as such, that we are to study but that central, inclusive, underlying theme - revelation of Jesus Christ. We can drop out the...

God wants you to prosper in all things. That thought sometimes meets with resistance. The world, your own flesh, and even religious thinking can cause you to doubt the goodness of God’s plans and to question whether things really will turn out well for you. But God desires only good for you....

The Apostle Peter was crucified around A.D. 67-68 - some two or three years before the A.D. 70 holocaust in Jerusalem. That disaster was only a type of the coming Great Tribulation, about to explode on the world scene today. Peter knew that he was going to be crucified shortly after his epistles were...

In the light of the situation in the world, and in the Church, and churches, I have been very greatly exercised about one thing. I have put it aside as being too difficult, but I am compelled to face it. It is concerning Divine order. Of all the ways in which Christ is to be known unto life and unto...