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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Author's, Note, United with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'For the Love of God'
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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled For the Love of God about Word, Sherrie, God's with the genre: Religion & Spirituality?
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conversations.value: Sherrie the author is a gifted communicator of God's Word and is committed to teaching the truth of the Word and allowing God's Spirit to use it in the lives of its hearers. She enjoys helping those to whom she is speaking see His Word in a fresh way. It is the Word that changes people, nothing else. Sherrie shares from the overflow in her own life as she speaks with a desire that her listeners would find the overflow of Jesus in their own hearts. Sherrie speaks to a diversity of groups through her itinerate speaking ministry, and uses each opportunity to teach God's Word in a way that is straight forward, challenging, and easy to understand. A native of the Philadelphia (PA) area, she enjoys the beach, chicken cheese steaks, and Philly soft pretzels! The aunt of 17 nieces and nephews, she loves any time spent with her family. A member of the Baptist Bible College (PA) faculty since 1986, Sherrie has seen God do amazing things in her own life as well as the lives of those she has coached, taught, and mentored. It is her desire to intentionally and fully LIVE life, and to provide refreshment from God's Word that will allow others to live in the overflow of what God is doing. Checkout www.wellspringoverflow.com to see some of what God is doing in Sherrie's life and to learn more about Wellspring Overflow Ministries.
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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled For The Love Of God about amp, Writers, Creative with the genre: Biographies & Memoirs?
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conversations.value: the author is an English &amp; Creative Writing instructor who holds an MFA in nonfiction from The University of North Carolina Wilmington, AWPs 2nd ranked nonfiction program in the country. She is the three-time winner of Creative Nonfiction Magazines tiny truths contest and her work has been featured multiple literary magazines such as The Beat, Del Sol, Charlotte Viewpoint &amp; WB Magazine as well as six anthologies: So Long, Writers Block, Yes I Can, Christmas, Christmas, Real &amp; Thoreaus Rooster. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in both nonfiction and fiction, and has sat on panels for both the American Writers and Poets Convention &amp; The Southern Womens Writers Convention. She currently resides in coastal North Carolina with her Rottweiler, Zen.
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conversations.value: What is the first two paragraphs for the book? Start with the sentence 'For the Love of God
  ONE OF THE STRIKING FEATURES OF the Psalms, especially the psalms of David, is the theme of enemies'.
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conversations.value: For the Love of God
  ONE OF THE STRIKING FEATURES OF the Psalms, especially the psalms of David, is the theme of enemies. This makes some Christians nervous. Does not the Lord Jesus tell us to love our enemies (Matt. 5:43-47)? Yet here David prays that God will not let his enemies triumph over him ( **Ps. 25** , especially v. 1), calls them "treacherous" (25:3), and complains that they have increased and fiercely hate him (25:19). It is inadequate to ascribe the two stances to differences between the new covenant and the old.
  MANY A CHRISTIAN HAS experienced the almost ineffable release of being transported from despair or illness or catastrophic defeat or a sense of alienated distance from God, to a height of safety or health or victory or spiritual intimacy with our Maker and Redeemer. Certainly David had such experiences. **Psalm 30** records his pleasure during one of those transports of delight.
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conversations.value: No one can hold back his hand" (4:35). So there is space for conflict, resolve, perseverance—and for faith and utter confidence.
  THE ACTUAL CONTENT OF THE VISION disclosed by the heavenly messenger to Daniel occupies **Daniel 11** and the first part of Daniel 12. Although the meaning of many of the details is not easy to sort out, the main lines of thought are reasonably clear.
  The Persian Empire is in view in 11:2. The standpoint of the vision, according to 10:1, is the reign of Cyrus. Who are the other four kings? The Persian Empire lasted two more centuries and produced nine kings (not counting usurpers between Cambyses and Darius I). Are the four the most prominent? The ones mentioned in Scripture (Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes [=Ahasuerus], Artaxerxes)? We do not know.
  The Greek conqueror (11:3-4) is Alexander the Great, and the four kingdoms into which his empire was broken up have already been mentioned (Daniel 8; see meditation for October 23). The running struggles between the king of the south (the Ptolemies) and the king of the north (the Seleucids) found Jews squeezed between the two. The one who sent out the tax collector (11:20) is almost universally recognized to be Seleucus IV, who died in 175 B.C. The "contemptible person" (11:21-39 [or possibly 21-45]) is undoubtedly Antiochus IV Epiphanes, a Seleucid monarch we have met before (October 23).
  THE FIRST VERSE OF **HOSEA** **1** establishes that this prophecy came during the eighth century, which also witnessed the prophets Jonah and Amos (mainly, like Hosea, in the northern kingdom of Israel), and Micah and Isaiah (in Judah in the south). Early in the century both kingdoms, materially speaking, were doing pretty well, but both sank into decadence and moral and religious indifference. While Hosea appears in the canon immediately after Daniel, it thus deals with a period centuries earlier. Nevertheless the canonical association is helpful. If Daniel's prophecy constantly discloses a God who is in sovereign control, Hosea discloses a God who is passionately moved by his fickle people. We need to nurture both portraits of God—God the transcendent sovereign, God the passionate person—if we are to be faithful to what the Bible says about him.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about Eventually, prevailed.
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conversations.value: No one can hold back his hand" (4:35). So there is space for conflict, resolve, perseverance—and for faith and utter confidence. 
  THE ACTUAL CONTENT OF THE VISION disclosed by the heavenly messenger to Daniel occupies **Daniel 11** and the first part of Daniel 12. Although the meaning of many of the details is not easy to sort out, the main lines of thought are reasonably clear. 
  The Persian Empire is in view in 11:2. The standpoint of the vision, according to 10:1, is the reign of Cyrus. Who are the other four kings? The Persian Empire lasted two more centuries and produced nine kings (not counting usurpers between Cambyses and Darius I). Are the four the most prominent? The ones mentioned in Scripture (Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes [=Ahasuerus], Artaxerxes)? We do not know. 
  The Greek conqueror (11:3-4) is Alexander the Great, and the four kingdoms into which his empire was broken up have already been mentioned (Daniel 8; see meditation for October 23). The running struggles between the king of the south (the Ptolemies) and the king of the north (the Seleucids) found Jews squeezed between the two. Eventually the north prevailed (11:5-20). The one who sent out the tax collector (11:20) is almost universally recognized to be Seleucus IV, who died in 175 B. C. The "contemptible person" (11:21-39 [or possibly 21-45]) is undoubtedly Antiochus IV Epiphanes, a Seleucid monarch we have met before (October 23). 
  THE FIRST VERSE OF **HOSEA** **1** establishes that this prophecy came during the eighth century, which also witnessed the prophets Jonah and Amos (mainly, like Hosea, in the northern kingdom of Israel), and Micah and Isaiah (in Judah in the south). Early in the century both kingdoms, materially speaking, were doing pretty well, but both sank into decadence and moral and religious indifference. While Hosea appears in the canon immediately after Daniel, it thus deals with a period centuries earlier. Nevertheless the canonical association is helpful. If Daniel's prophecy constantly discloses a God who is in sovereign control, Hosea discloses a God who is passionately moved by his fickle people. We need to nurture both portraits of God—God the transcendent sovereign, God the passionate person—if we are to be faithful to what the Bible says about him.
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conversations.value: There is something attractive and stable about a society in which, if a person gives his or her word, you can count on it. Huge deals can be sealed with a handshake because each party trusts the other. Marriages endure. People make commitments and keep them. Of course, from the vantage point of our relatively faithless society, it is easy to mock the picture I am sketching by finding examples where that sort of world may leave a person trapped in a brutal marriage or a business person snookered by an unscrupulous manipulator. But if you focus on the hard cases and organize society on growing cynicism, you foster selfish individualism, faithlessness, irresponsibility, cultural instability, crookedness, and multiplied armies of lawyers. And sooner or later you will deal with an angry God.
  For God despises faithlessness ( **Mal. 2:1-17** ). Within the postexilic covenant community of ancient Israel, some of the worst examples of such faithlessness were bound up with the explicitly religious dimensions of the culture—but not all of them:
  PEOPLE MAY BE FAITHLESS, but the Lord does not change. That changelessness threatens judgment; it is also the reason the people are not destroyed (Mal. 3:6). Hope depends on God's gracious intervention, grounded in his changeless character ( **Mal. 3** ).
  OF ALL THE RESURRECTION APPEARANCES of Jesus, doubtless the one that probed Peter most deeply is the one reported in **John 21**.
  It starts off with seven disciples going fishing, catching nothing overnight, and then pulling in a vast catch at Jesus' command. It continues with a breakfast over coals on the beach (21:1-14). There follows the memorable exchange that reinstates Peter after his ignominious disowning of his master.
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conversations.value: Delete the first sentence.
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conversations.value: Huge deals can be sealed with a handshake because each party trusts the other. Marriages endure. People make commitments and keep them. Of course, from the vantage point of our relatively faithless society, it is easy to mock the picture I am sketching by finding examples where that sort of world may leave a person trapped in a brutal marriage or a business person snookered by an unscrupulous manipulator. But if you focus on the hard cases and organize society on growing cynicism, you foster selfish individualism, faithlessness, irresponsibility, cultural instability, crookedness, and multiplied armies of lawyers. And sooner or later you will deal with an angry God.
  For God despises faithlessness ( **Mal. 2:1-17** ). Within the postexilic covenant community of ancient Israel, some of the worst examples of such faithlessness were bound up with the explicitly religious dimensions of the culture—but not all of them:
  PEOPLE MAY BE FAITHLESS, but the Lord does not change. That changelessness threatens judgment; it is also the reason the people are not destroyed (Mal. 3:6). Hope depends on God's gracious intervention, grounded in his changeless character ( **Mal. 3** ).
  OF ALL THE RESURRECTION APPEARANCES of Jesus, doubtless the one that probed Peter most deeply is the one reported in **John 21**.
  It starts off with seven disciples going fishing, catching nothing overnight, and then pulling in a vast catch at Jesus' command. It continues with a breakfast over coals on the beach (21:1-14). There follows the memorable exchange that reinstates Peter after his ignominious disowning of his master.