Sentences with phrase «of our old books on»

Someone wrote the other day and said they found a copy of one of our old books on a bus.

With Halloween coming up I thought this owl would be fun to use on top of some old books on the coffee table or bookcase.

Not exact matches

This was required reading in my family, and I think perhaps the only book all of us kids (meaning my older brother) agreed on being essential.

And while some older people may discount Mulcahy's strategy of using a chat box on her website as impersonal, she sees it as a way to communicate with customers on their time table — maybe at 11 p.m. when they happen to need a tutor or want to book an appointment.

In the past few years, it's become clear that old technologies like vinyl records, analog cameras, and print books are managing to hang on in the world of streaming music, smartphones, and ebooks.

When President Trump has his physical exam on Friday, there is little chance he will repeat the same story within a span of 10 minutes or fail to recognize old friends, as the explosive new book «Fire and Fury» by Michael Wolff asserts he has done in the past.

In his book, Making the Corps, Tom Ricks described putting his life in the hands of a 22 - year - old Marine on a patrol in Somalia.

Or if you're looking for a deeper dive there's a whole book on the subject by Peter Cappelli, director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources, entitled Managing the Older Worker: How to Prepare for the New Organizational Order.

The definitive example is Sun Tzu's The Art of War, a 2,000 - year - old book on military strategy that still resonates with entrepreneurs.

«There's an old saying that goes, «If you paid for porn, you flunked the Internet,»» says Patchen Barss, author of The Erotic Engine, an upcoming book on the way pornography shaped modern technology.

If you're old enough to remember a time before mobile devices existed, you may wistfully yearn for the days when people were head - up, paid better attention to conversations and read books or the newspaper instead of scrolling through a Facebook feed on their phones.

It's been going on in the world of finance since day one, with insider trading and stock manipulation some of the oldest tricks in the book.

Just keep your eyes on the mempool chart, which as my 4 year old daughter pointed out, oddly resembles the cover of a Dr. Seuss book.

When asked if their old firms» male culture led them to go off on their own, Fonstad stated that it has been challenging at times and mentioned that she's experienced some of the «penalties women take for being aggressive and tough» that were highlighted in Sheryl Sandberg's book, Lean In.

It's missing the point on a scale that is arguably worse than someone reading the Book of Genesis and concluding that the earth is less than 10,000 years old...

Really... what kind of idiot would base philosophical, intellectual, sexual, financial, social, medical, and other lifestyle decisions on a musty, old, outdated book surrounded by such controversy?

If I said Bill Gates gathered up two of every species and put them on a boat, you'd laugh because it is impossible, yet because it is in a 2,000 year old book written by uneducated men, it somehow makes it fact.

Faith is based on a 2,000 - year - old book and assumption is frequently based on laws of science which can easily be reproduced.

Well, your first problem is relying on a book of 2000 year old nonsense to tell you how to live.

I happen to care that what I believe can be substantiated with verifiable evidence, you on the other hand accept things based off of a 2000 + year old book that can be and has been debunked numerous times over.

They are discrediting bible through their wit, intellectual, articulate, scientific and logical but sly arguments to convince every people here on earth that it's a 2000 year old hoax and everything written in it which includes the prophecies in Revelations and the book of Apocalypses that had prophecized their comming.

Get rid of Old Testament and New Testament departments and teach the Bible as one book, centered on Jesus.

They are discrediting bible through their wit, intellectual, articulate, scientific and logical arguments to convince every people here on earth that it's a 2000 year old hoax and everything written in it which includes the prophecies in Revelations and the book of Apocalypses that had prophecized their comming.

This is a few hundred years old at best and as pointed out «Because both sides of the fragment have writing on them, King said it could have come out of a book rather than a scroll.»

(14) So unto this (religion of Islâm alone and this Qur» ân) then invite (people)(O Muhammad SAW), and stand firm [on Islâmic Monotheism by performing all that is ordained by Allâh (good deeds), and by abstaining from all that is forbidden by Allâh (sins and evil deeds)-RSB-, as you are commanded, and follow not their desires but say: «I believe in whatsoever Allâh has sent down of the Book [all the holy Books, — this Qur» ân and the Books of the old from the Taurât (Torah), or the Injeel (Gospel) or the Pages of Ibrâhîm (Abraham)-RSB- and I am commanded to do justice among you.

However, in what is probably the oldest book of the Bible, Job, living in an ancient culture that knew nothing about space or planets, asserted that God hung the earth on nothing (1500 B.C.) or, in other words, the earth free floats in space.

A little later, packing up his manuscripts, Ford happened to see «the page and the very commended phrase «old - eyed», and to notice that somehow in the rounds of fatigued retyping that used to precede a writer's final sign - off on a book in the days before word processors, the original and rather dully hybridised «cold - eyed» had somehow lost its «c» and become «old - eyed», only nobody'd noticed since they both made a kind of sense.»

Based on the best - selling book of the same name, the film tells the real - life story of Colton Burpo, a 4 - year - old boy who awakens from surgery with eye - popping tales of the great beyond.

I realized the other day why I am having such a struggle writing this book on the violence of God in the Old Testament.The reason is because the process of grappling with this issue is requiring me to rethink, rewrite, and redo nearly all of my theology.

According to the Bible God hated more than he loved, and the crap that is the 1st few books of the old testament, which s barbaric and evil, not only to those men that are an abombanation, but those that not only eat pork, but touch a football, shellfish, work on the sabbath, blasphamy, slaves who do nt allow there master to sleep with there wifes / daughters, and those that dared not idolise him because he is a jealous and vengeful God!

Esther, along with the Old Testament books Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, and Ecclesiastes, are five scrolls that are read on various Jewish holidays.

Recently I watched the PBS series on the Book of Genesis with a dozen older women at a retirement home.

He desires here to record his deep appreciation of the service of these men: Dr. Henry E. Allen, University of Minnesota, read the chapter on Moslem Sacred Literature; John Clark Archer of Yale University, on the Sikh Scriptures; Swami Akhilananda of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society of Boston, and Swami Vishwananda of the Vedanta Society of Chicago, on Hindu Scriptures; Dr. Chan Wing - Tsit (W. T. Chan), Dartmouth College, on the Chinese Literature; Dr. Clarence H. Hamilton, of Oberlin Graduate School of Theology, on Buddhist Scriptures; Dr. D. C. Holtom, on the Japanese Sacred Books; Dr. Charles F. Kraft, of Garrett Biblical Institute, on the Old Testament; Dr. George E. Mendenhall, of Hamma Divinity School, on the Babylonian Literature; Dr. Ernest W. Saunders of Garrett Biblical Institute, on the New Testament; and Dr. John A. Wilson of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, on the Egyptian Literature.

He said nothing of a book that would combine the old covenant scriptures with the account of His life on earth and letters that were written to people who lived under the law, that people who have never lived under the law would have to try to discern and apply to their lives until He returned, or they died.

The present volume is really a collection of studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.

And yet, as often happens, Jesus» advice is also based on common sense — the sort of down - to - earth, practical wisdom that is dispensed today by people like Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren, and that fills the Old Testament book of Proverbs.

Adding insult to injury — and an instance of unplannable irony — O'Reilly's latest book, Old School, released earlier this month, a kind of manifesto on «old school» character — and, yes, chivalOld School, released earlier this month, a kind of manifesto on «old school» character — and, yes, chivalold school» character — and, yes, chivalry.

He recommended a few books that I plan to order on my oh - so - old - school Kindle: The Myth of Certainty by Daniel Taylor and Faith at the Edge by Robert Wennberg.

The Book of Deuteronomy, which in many passages gives color to Lord Bacon's saying that «prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament,» («On Adversity,» No.

There is something of a boom going on these days in Melville studies, with Kelley's book and at least half a dozen other major academic monographs appearing from university presses, and with two new full - length biographies published last year: Laurie Robertson - Lorant's relatively unimportant but informative Melville: A Biography (Potter, 752 pages,, $ 40) and the first volume of the endlessly detailed Herman Melville (Johns Hopkins University Press, 941 pages,, $ 39.95) by Hershel Parker, the grand old man of Melville studies.

Then Joseph Stanford, commenting on Robert Louis Wilken's discussion of Christological interpretation of the Old Testament, noted that the Book of Mormon is replete with the affirmation that the Old Testament prophets actually foresaw Christ.

He placed little or no value on the Old Testament --»... the faith of the Old Testament is not a religion of salvation» (Letters and Papers from Prison, S.C.M. Press edition, Great Britain: Fontana Books, 1953, p. 112).

This is one reason why I love combining Episcopal worship on Sundays, with good, old - fashioned Bible studies on weeknights, with private «quiet time» with my Bible and a book of hours each morning and / or evenings.

This book is now published only after two of my colleagues, Professor Julius A. Bewer and Professor James E. Frame, one an authority on the Old Testament and the other on the New, have read the manuscript with painstaking care.

You're simply crazy if you think your 2000 year old book of fairy tales holds more evidence than the scientific research done on this subject, research that is within this decade.

Also, the Bible has largely been proven to be just what it is, a book written by some old white guys who remembered history their way regardless of what was going on for other people and other groups.

Mathew, I have no problem with gays, because everyone on this earth is responsible for his, or her own righteousness, Ezekiel 14 vs. 14 - 21, but how are you able to dispel the old test, is beyond me, for the new test, should fulfill the old, when one read a book, they don't begin at the back of it do they?

With these pastors, priest, popes, and elders all lying to the people, misleading the flocks, as was prophesied they would in Ezekiel 20, Malachi 2, Jeremiah 23:1 - 5, we are all a lost generation of pestilence, greed, and poverty, and this is not old people, as taught to us in Isaiah 43:11,13 - 19; that this book gives us the past, present, and future of what is going on, then, and now, it's juxtapose, meaning one must «compare» what is going on today with what went on long ago, for it has not changed any, not a bit from how people went astray then, full of pride, and are doing the same thing now, calling it good, or right, prophesied in Malachi 3:13 - 15.

How sad that you deny real evidence for a 2000 year old book that has never been updated and can be proven to be false on numerous things... a book written by primitive man to fool the gullible out of money and make them live in fear.

This is why, at one point in the book, I grant the Gnostics of old the validity of their questions, though I go on to revile the answers at which they arrived.