Sentences with phrase «book chapter at»

We offer contests, workshops and a free weekly book chapter at our site.

There certainly could be some issues with authors offering individual book chapters at exorbitant prices to increase revenue by strong borrow volume.

Not exact matches

They liked the idea of checklists at the end of the chapter, but couldn't we tell them what they should do about what they just read, and why did the book need to be so wordy?

But before heading to that kegger and meeting the One, before the romance and the first apartment and the wedding and the kids, one hopes that those undergrads get through at least the first chapter in Mankiw's book.

(It's freely available online, and I recommend reading at least the first three chapters of Book 1, Volume 1.)

It's an homage to the bygone era when writers like Charles Dickens published their novels in newspapers one chapter at a time before collecting the work in book form.

Van Biema's book also includes a lengthy chapter on Lou Simpson, a former GEICO investment manager and eventual successor to Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway, who is famous for saying, «The stock market is like the weather in that if you don't like the current conditions all you have to do is wait awhile.»

My new book Fix Your Business, features top business experts at the end of each of the chapters.

She sat at her desk — I can still see her — holding the open book and reading aloud to us, chapter by chapter.

He calls the book's longest chapter «Twelve Categories Not to Be Too Sharply Distinguished,» but he distinguishes them sharply even in explaining that some passages point in two or more directions at once.

I'm surprised she concludes this way, because the early chapters of her book poke fun at her family and church's frequent involvement in protests against abortion and homosexuality.

The book consists of ten chapters of about twelve pages each, and although its argument is at times subtle, allusive, and demanding of full and total concentration, it also marches briskly along.

The chapter covering this period is one of the best in the book, with its careful account of how Bonhoeffer's censorious judgment of the superficiality of American religious liberalism gradually gave way to admiration for the central place of social justice and for the vital religious faith of the oppressed black Christians whom he met at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem.

Also, I was preaching at this time through the book of Ephesians, and my research and study on Ephesians 1 helped me to see that this chapter does not teach Unconditional Election as many Calvinists claim.

I could not narrow down the books properly, so the compromise is this: a post now for picture books, and a post later today of the chapter books for the 4 - 7 year old kids, and no baby board books at all.

I was invited by John La Grou over at microclesia to contribute a chapter to an online cooperative book that will be available for download in just a matter of weeks from Amazon.

St. John at the end of his Gospel, remembering perhaps the third verse of his first chapter, makes a charming acknowledgment of this necessary incompleteness: «And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written everyone, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.»

The strength of the book is not only in the story that is told, but in the facts, statistics, and reports that the author includes at the end of each chapter.

Coming to Nazareth, Luke says, Jesus went to the synagogue on the Sabbath and «stood up to read»; and, being given a scroll of the book of Isaiah, he opened it at the beginning of chapter 61 and read the first verse and part of the second.

Not only did I thoroughly enjoy the book, but I also appreciate the various blogs managed by Helen (see chapter 5 in the book) over at Off The Map.

This is a consistent theme throughout the book --(be nicer to the gays whose civil rights you oppose, be nicer when you evangelize relentlessly, be nicer to the sinners you keep at arm's length)-- save for the bonus contributions that appear at the end of each chapter.

To this point the last two chapters of Book One will be largely devoted; at the moment it is enough to say that the connection was close and continuous.

As a sort of proof, I would ask you to look at the three accounts of St. Paul's conversion, to be found in The Book of Acts, chapters 9, 22, and 26.

I just finished a book on a new form of psychological therapy that has at least four chapters with demons in a chapter title.

I seem to recall he has a chapter in a book or maybe he did a talk at a church called «Jesus is not my girlfriend.»

According to the ancient Book of Jasher which is mentioned in Joshua 10:13 and 2 Sam 1:18, Chapter 9, Abram went to Noah and Shem at the age of ten, where he remained for 39 years and was taught the ways of the Lord.

There are entire chapters that we subsequently discover are wrongheaded (like the speeches made by Job's three friends, for example; at the end of the book, God gives them all a good telling off).

At the same time, he (1) carefully introduces sections which are to come in his book; Revelation 1:12 - 20 prepares the reader for the letters to the churches already mentioned in 1:11; chapters 4 and 5 lead up to chapter 6; and (2) on the other hand, introduces various matters without explaining them until later (the «morning star» of 2:28 is not explained until 22:16; the «seven thunders» of 10:3 are never explained).

My favorite chapters in the book were the few where Kerouac was barely mentioned (if at all).

David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.

The best chapters in this book recount O'Connor's time at the Iowa Writers» Workshop and later at Yaddo, where she met Robert Lowell (to whom she may have felt a romantic attachment) and her editor, Robert Giroux.

After reading this comment I looked at your book on Amazon and read some of the introduction and part of John chapter 1.

No book deal or contract yet — it's still just a proposal with a few chapters, making the rounds of publishers, at this stage of the process.

I'm reminded of the chapter in Donald Miller's book Blue Like Jazz in which he and his friends set up a confession booth at Reed College.

Toward this end, students of Scripture will find the guidelines and reference material suggestions helpful in the chapters on interpreting and communicating the Pauline letters, as well as the helpful commentary guide at the end of the book.

The authors are clearly aware that the subject matter is complex and have tried to make this a book for «the ordinary person in the pew», with simplified explanations and summaries at the end of each chapter.

«14 He adds,»... we must break once for all with the idea of death as simple destruction of an individual... individuals are eternal realities... «15 Using the illustration of a book he says, «Death is the last page of the last chapter of the book of one's life... «16 And he comments,»... death, like «finis» at the end of a book, no more means the destruction of our earthly reality than the last chapter of a book means the destruction of the book.

Chapters 2 - 5 in this book reflect the research that I originally did in the dissertation at Southern, and the permission to quote reflects that school's gentle love for its graduates.

For a much more in - depth look at this passage and others in Wisdom literature, see Bruce Waltke's The Book of Proverbs: Chapters 15 - 31 and Ellen F. Davis» Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs.

To enter, all you need to do is leave a comment below this blog post with your favorite quote or chapter from the book, or just a general comment about why you want in on the giveaway, by Monday April 18th at 9 a.m. EST..

Not only does the book include easy, practical recipes at the end of each chapter, it also includes a really helpful appendix with entertaining tips, sample menus, and a pantry list.

In The Challenge of Jesus, chapters 1 — 5 are essentially a summary of one of Wright's other books, Jesus and the Victory of God, and chapter 6 is a preview of a book that at the time of writing had not been published, but which is now available, The Resurrection of the Son of God.

Of course, Jim recognizes this tension, and spends a couple chapters at the end of the book saying that while this tension exists, we can still move toward unity by focusing not on doctrines and dogmas, but on Jesus Christ and the grace of God.

I can not blame him if I have read more of his books than he has of mine, and it might have escaped his notice that I have written on this matter at length - in my book, First Things (Princeton, 1986, Chapters XVI - XVII), and in numerous articles before and since, including a monthly column in a magazine in which he has stood now, for some time, as a member of the Publication Committee.

The bibliography at the end of each chapter will direct the reader into deeper study, though even here, there are glaring omissions from the lists of books about the various topics.

It was Wheeler who was asked to write the closing chapter, assessing the import of congregational studies for the future of the church, of the upcoming book reporting on the findings presented at the Atlanta conference (Building Effective Ministry: Theory and Practice of the Local Church, to be published by Harper & Row in early 1983).

In truth the Revelation of St. John the Divine is the Ark of the Testament; and the Revelation of Jesus Christ was the Book hidden in this Ark and carried to me through the 2,000 years that seperated the time when John first got it; and then; (as it is written at chapter 10 of his own Revelation) at the very last sentence of that chapter; when it is said to him by the angel of the Covenant Jonathan (who John the Baptist was named after, by the way) that he «would have to prophesy again»; as to explain what his Revelation was all about: otherwise the Revelation would have absolutely sered no purpose at all; and it does; as all will soon shortly know.

Also, the chapter at the end of the book on Violence and Peace was extremely challenging.

At the outset the author lets us know that this book is a revised version of chapters that appeared in his earlier Ethos and the Oxford Movement published in 2007.

In one chapter of his book, Engaging the Powers (which is a book every Christian should read), Walter Wink lays out the history of nonviolent resistance and shows how when it is properly used, nonviolent resistance is more successful than war at stopping evil and violence.