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When we cut through all of the sentiment and marketing to the spiritual richness and vitality of Christmas, we not only discover who God is, but who we are as human beings.

When we become adults, and the wide-eyed wonder of childhood has passed, we need to replace what was once magical with something much more meaningful.

Now is the time to put first things first, and seek silence, if only for a few precious minutes a day. Now, ever more intently, we are to watch and listen for God.

Rose Book Of Bible Charts, Maps & Time Lines is an outstanding study, teaching and pastor reference resource for understanding biblical dates, geography, events, and much more. Compare Bible times and now at a single glance. Look inside the Tabernacle and Solomon s Temple. Compare religions. There are literally thousands of facts to enrich one s Bible study, understanding, and teaching.
Here is a sampling of the content found in this bestselling book:

• Full-color Bible Charts
  • Overviews of the Old and New Testaments
  • The Creation
• Maps that compare Bible and modern times
  • The Holy Land:
  • The Middle East;
  • Where Jesus Walked
  • Paul s Journeys
• Detailed illustrations of the Tabernacle, Temple and High Priest
  • The Tabernacle
  • Palm Sunday to Easter
• Biblical and historical Time Lines
  • Christian History Timeline
  • Bible Time Line
  • How We Got the Bible
• Christianity, Cults & Religions
• Denominations Comparison
• Islam & Christianity

Table of Contents

General Bible Charts

• 100 Well-Known People in the Bible
• 100 Well-Known Prayers in the Bible
• Table of Biblical Weights and Measures
• Books of the Bible
• Bible Overview--Old Testament
• Bible Overview--New Testament
• How We Got the Bible
• Christian History Time Line

Old Testament Charts

• The Creation
• 100 Well-Known Old Testament Events
• Family Tree of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
• Names of God
• Jesus & The Names of God
• The Ten Commandments and You
• Feasts & Holidays of the Bible
• The Cycle Pattern in Judges
• Kings and Prophets
• Kings
• Prophets
• The Statue in the Book of Daniel
• Archaeology & the Bible--Old Testament

• The Genealogy of Jesus Christ
• 100 Prophecies Fulfilled by Jesus
• Events in the Life of Jesus
• Miracles of Jesus
• Parables of Jesus
• The Beatitudes
• The Twelve Disciples
• Evidence for the Resurrection
• Biblical Descriptions of Heaven & Hell
• 100 Well-Known Events from Acts to Revelation
• 1 Corinthians 13
• The Armor of God
• The Fruit of the Spirit
• Acts of the Sinful Nature
• Seven Churches of Revelation
• Four Views of the End-Times
• Archaeology & the Bible--New Testament

• Middle East: Then (BC) and Now
• Middle East: Expansion by Assyrian Rulers
• Middle East: Babylonian and Persian Empires
• Middle East: Fascination Facts and Figures
• Middle East and Central Asia
• The Holy Land: Then and Now
• The Holy Land: The Exodus
• Exodus Time Line
• The Holy Land: United Kingdom
• The Holy Land: Divided Kingdom
• Where Jesus Walked: Then and Now
• Paul's Journey's: Then and Now
• Paul's First Journey
• Paul's Second and Third Journeys
• Paul's Journeys and Guide

• Noah's Ark
• The Tabernacle
• The Ark of the Covenant
• Solomon's Temple
• Herod's Temple
• Palm Sunday to Easter

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Subtitled: "One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible," Jacobs, or A.J., as his two-year-old son calls him, does just that. It is likely that no one but A.J. Jacobs could have accomplished such a feat. After all, his last book, The Know-It-All, chronicles his reading of the entire Encyclopedia Brittanica, from A to Z. No one but a smart, witty, self-deprecating, nitpicky kinda guy would undertake two such daunting tasks, and complete them with grace, no pun intended.

Jacobs, a New York Jewish agnostic, decides to follow the laws and rules of the Bible, beginning with the Old Testament, for one year. (He actually adds some bonus days and makes it a 381-day year.) He starts by growing a beard and we are with him through every itchy moment. Jacobs is borderline OCD, at least as he describes himself; obsessing over possible dangers to his son, germs, literal interpretation of Bible verses, etc. He enlists the aid of counselors along the way; Jewish rabbis, Christians of every stripe, friends and neighbors.

In an open-minded way he also visits with atheists, Evangelicals Concerned (a gay group), Jerry Falwell, snake handlers, Red Letter Christians--those who adhere to the red letters in the Bible, those words spoken by Jesus Himself, and even takes a trip to Israel and meets Samaritans. Through it all, he keeps a healthy skepticism, but continues to pray and is open to the flowering of real faith. Jacobs is a knowledge junky, to be sure. He enjoys the lore he picks up along the way as much as any other aspect of his experiment. One of the ongoing schticks is his meeting with the shatnez tester, Mr. Berkowitz. He is the one who determines whether or not your clothes are made of mixed fibers, in keeping with the Biblical injunction not to wear wool and linen together. The two become friends and prayer partners, in only one of the unexpected results of this year.

From top Jesus expert Marcus Borg, a completely updated and revised version of his vision of Jesus—as charismatic healer, sage, and prophet, a man living in the power of the spirit and dedicated to radical social change.

Fully revised and updated, this is Borg's major book on the historial Jesus. He shows how the Gospel portraits of Jesus, historically seen, make sense. Borg takes into account all the recent developments in historical Jesus scholarship, as well as new theories on who Jesus was and how the Gospels reflect that.

The original version of this book was published well before popular fascination with the historical Jesus. Now this new version takes advantage of all the research that has gone on since the 80s. The revisions establish it as Borg's big but popular book on Jesus.

D. A. Carson applies his masterful touch to this problem. He begins by exploring the classic typology of H. Richard Niebuhr and his five options for understanding culture. Carson proposes that these disparate options are in reality one still larger vision. Using the Bible's own story line and the categories of biblical theology, he attempts to work out what that unifying vision is. Carson acknowledges the helpfulness of Niebuhr's grid and other similar matrices but warns against giving them canonical force.

More than just theoretical, Christ and Culture Revisited is also designed practically to help Christians untangle current messy debates on living in the world. Carson emphasizes that the relation between Christ and culture is not limited to an either/or cultural paradigm -- Christ against culture or Christ transforming culture. Instead Carson offers his own paradigm in which all the categories of biblical theology must be kept in mind simultaneously to inform the Christian worldview.