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Climate change, food insecurity, carbon footprints, environmental justice, global warming-questions of staggering consequence that inflame emotions, generate fierce debate, and resist quick fixes and easy answers.West tackles these complicated issues through fifteen timely and thought-provoking tales that explore how the problem affects everyone-from businesses and industry to workers, families, and endangered species-in big and small ways.Although there are no simple or convenient solutions, The Fragile Blue Dot-Stories from Our Imperiled Biosphere presents compelling narratives for change that will stay with you long after you've read the final page.

This volume is part of the "Understanding the New Testament" series. This series provides useful, brief studies on the books of the New Testament.The studies are aimed specifically at helping Bible study teachers and anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of the New Testament grasp the essentials of the text of each book. The emphasis is on interpreting each unit of Scripture in its context in the surrounding Scripture, in the book as a whole, and in first-century culture. The series is intended for use in individual or group study.

This volume is part of the "Understanding the New Testament" series. This series provides useful, brief studies on the books of the New Testament.The studies are aimed specifically at helping Bible study teachers and anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of the New Testament grasp the essentials of the text of each book. The emphasis is on interpreting each unit of Scripture in its context in the surrounding Scripture, in the book as a whole, and in first-century culture. Each of the books in the series is intended for use in individual or group study.

This volume is part of the "Understanding the New Testament" series. This series provides useful, brief studies on the books of the New Testament.The studies are aimed specifically at helping Bible study teachers and anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of the New Testament grasp the essentials of the text of each book. The emphasis is on interpreting each unit of Scripture in its context in the surrounding Scripture, in the book as a whole, and in first-century culture. The series is intended for use in individual or group study.The planned volumes are as follows:1.Understanding the Gospel of Matthew2.Understanding the Gospel of Mark3.Understanding the Gospel of Luke4.Understanding the Gospel of John5.Understanding the Book of Acts6.Understanding the Letter to the Romans7.Understanding 1 Corinthians8.Understanding 2 Corinthians 9.Understanding the Letter to the Galatians10.Understanding the Letter to the Ephesians11.Understanding the Letter to the Philippians12.Understanding the Letters to the Colossians and Philemon13.Understanding 1 and 2 Thessalonians 14.Understanding 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus 15.Understanding the Book of Hebrews 16.Understanding the Book of James17.Understanding 1 and 2 Peter and Jude18.Understanding 1, 2, and 3 John19.Understanding the Book of RevelationSee Ross West's author page for the volumes that are already available.

Memories are made at Christmas. Such memories might include receiving that toy or other gift you had wanted so badly, having a family member home after a long absence, cherishing a special time when all the family was together and happy, or marking a special celebration, like an engagement or a wedding. Memories like these are good. They can even sustain us when other times are not so good. May you have many good memories of your Christmases. One Christmas, though, always bears remembering. In a time when the secular celebration of Christmas tends to overwhelm the religious significance of the holy day, we would do well to focus again on the source of the celebration-the birth of Jesus. Much of the secular celebration of Christmas is delightful and can even contribute to the joy of the true meaning of Christmas. Even so, to celebrate Christmas best, there's no substitute for remembering the first Christmas and what it meant and means. The events of the familiar Christmas story are found in the early chapters of the Gospel of Matthew and the early chapters of the Gospel of Luke. These five meditations on the first Christmas are based on Scripture texts from those chapters. Focusing on these texts can remind us of the meaning of the first Christmas for this Christmas.

This volume is part of the "Understanding the New Testament" series. This series provides useful, brief studies on the books of the New Testament. The studies are aimed specifically at helping laypeople, including Bible study teachers, grasp the essentials of the text of each book by providing helpful comments on the book as a whole and by helping them understand each unit of Scripture in the book. The comments aim at answering the questions laypeople tend to ask and providing the information that laypeople tend to need and want. The studies are intended for use in individual or group study. The emphasis is on interpreting each unit of Scripture in its context in the surrounding Scripture, in the book as a whole, and in first-century culture. The information and understandings in this book and the others in this series come from a lifetime of studying the Bible. Over the course of my ministry, I have helped to plan and produce hundreds if not thousands of Bible studies for laypeople, written and published dozens of Bible studies, led numerous Bible study classes, taught college Bible courses, and preached many sermons. Through the years, I have observed a strong desire on the part of ordinary folks to understand the Scriptures better. This book is intended to provide basic assistance in doing that.

This volume is part of the "Understanding the New Testament" series. This series provides useful, brief studies on the books of the New Testament.The studies are aimed specifically at helping Bible study teachers and anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of the New Testament grasp the essentials of the text of each book. The emphasis is on interpreting each unit of Scripture in its context in the surrounding Scripture, in the book as a whole, and in first-century culture. The series is intended for use in individual or group study.Nineteen volumes are projected in the series, and more than two-thirds of them have been published and are available in both Kindle and print editions.(Click on Ross West's name above to go to his author page and see all the volumes currently available.)

This volume is part of the "Understanding the New Testament" series. This series provides useful, brief studies on the books of the New Testament. The studies are aimed specifically at helping laypeople, including Bible study teachers, grasp the essentials of the text of each book by providing helpful comments on the book as a whole and by helping them understand each unit of Scripture in the book. The comments aim at answering the questions laypeople tend to ask and providing the information that laypeople tend to need and want. The studies are intended for use in individual or group study. The emphasis is on interpreting each unit of Scripture in its context in the surrounding Scripture, in the book as a whole, and in first-century culture. The information and understandings in this book and the others in this series come from a lifetime of studying the Bible. Over the course of my ministry, I have helped to plan and produce hundreds if not thousands of Bible studies for laypeople, written and published dozens of Bible studies, led numerous Bible study classes, taught college Bible courses, and preached many sermons. Through the years, I have observed a strong desire on the part of ordinary folks to understand the Scriptures better. This book is intended to provide basic assistance in doing that.

This volume is part of the "Understanding the New Testament" series. This series provides useful, brief studies on the books of the New Testament.The studies are aimed specifically at helping Bible study teachers and anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of the New Testament grasp the essentials of the text of each book. The emphasis is on interpreting each unit of Scripture in its context in the surrounding Scripture, in the book as a whole, and in first-century culture. That is so with the Book of Revelation as with all of the other books of the New Testament.The series is intended for use in individual or group study.See Ross West's author page for all the volumes that are currently available.

This volume, Understanding 1 and 2 Thessalonians, is part of the "Understanding the New Testament" series. This series provides useful, brief studies on the books of the New Testament.The studies are aimed specifically at helping Bible study teachers and anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of the New Testament grasp the essentials of the text of each book. The emphasis is on interpreting each unit of Scripture in its context in the surrounding Scripture, in the book as a whole, and in first-century culture. The series is intended for use in individual or group study.

This volume is part of the "Understanding the New Testament" series. This nineteen-volume series provides useful, brief studies on the books of the New Testament.The studies are aimed specifically at helping Bible study teachers and anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of the New Testament grasp the essentials of the text of each book. The emphasis is on interpreting each unit of Scripture in its context in the surrounding Scripture, in the book as a whole, and in first-century culture. The series is intended for use in individual or group study.

Losing someone dear is never easy. If you're trying to see through tears into a future that seems unbearable even to look toward, I've thought of you as I've written this book. I've lived long enough, thought deeply enough, and tried to minister to enough grieving people that I've become wary of easy answers. But I do believe that the Scriptures provide help in moving through grief to hope. This book is intended for people who have suffered the loss of a loved one and are grieving that loss. The book will also be helpful to ministers who are called to prepare messages for memorial services. We may wonder why we feel grief, and the answer is simple. We grieve because we love. We feel grief when we lose someone we loved. That's diagnosis, which is a start. But that thought may not help us much when we are living-really, only going through the motions of living-with grief. What we are wondering as we grieve is what we are going to do without that person so dear to us. Grief is about lamenting one's loss. That includes lamenting one's loss of the future for which one had hoped.But it's important that we do more than lament our loss. We need not stop lamenting the loss, but at some point we need to do more than lament. Moving forward in life-again-in spite of our loss means forging a new future. How soon we are ready for this varies from person to person and situation to situation. No one can say how long that time should take. But sooner or later, one must begin to think about and move toward a new future.This new future does not mean abandoning the grief one feels as one moves toward it. Your loss will be forever a part of your life to one degree or another. So, moving toward this new future does not mean "getting over" your grief. Rather, to forge this new future means gaining insight into that grief and moving forward with it toward a greater sense of hope. Forging this new future is about seeking to come to terms with what to do now and next. The intent of the book is to connect the resources of faith to the troubling, disturbing, numbing, and maybe even terrifying experience of grief. May the thoughts of this book help you with your grief and enable you to find a measure of hope again even in the midst of your deep grief.

This volume is part of the "Understanding the New Testament" series. This series provides useful, brief studies on the books of the New Testament.The studies are aimed at helping Bible study teachers and anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of the New Testament grasp the essentials of the text of each book. The emphasis is on interpreting each unit of Scripture in its context in the surrounding Scripture, in the book as a whole, and in first-century culture. The series is intended for use in individual or group study.

Guidance for a Good Life consists of twenty-three meditations on Scripture texts from the Revised Common Lectionary Year A. These meditations are also indexed by Scripture text to provide convenient access to the texts from the various Bible books. The index should be especially helpful if one is simply looking for a meditation on a specific Bible book or text. This second edition provides additional meditations that were not included in the first edition.

Seven Words to Live By consists of meditations on Jesus' seven last words from the cross. These seven sayings Jesus spoke from the cross are eternal. At the same time, they penetrate to the heart of our human concerns.A factor that makes these words extraordinary is that they are the last words from a dying man. People have long been fascinated by such last words. Sometimes these last words have provided touching memories and revealed wonderful truths. That is infinitely and definitely the case with Jesus' words from the cross. These words certainly do provide touching memories and wonderful, meaningful truths. These seven last words deal with the heart of God's good news for our lives. May we listen and learn well, and may we apply their meaning to our lives. These seven last words of Jesus from the cross are indeed words to live by.

This volume is part of the "Understanding the New Testament" series. This series provides useful, brief studies on the books of the New Testament.The studies are aimed specifically at helping Bible study teachers and anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of the New Testament grasp the essentials of the text of each book. The emphasis is on interpreting each unit of Scripture in its context in the surrounding Scripture, in the book as a whole, and in first-century culture. The series is intended for use in individual or group study.The planned volumes are as follows:1.Understanding the Gospel of Matthew2.Understanding the Gospel of Mark3.Understanding the Gospel of Luke4.Understanding the Gospel of John5.Understanding the Book of Acts6.Understanding the Letter to the Romans7.Understanding 1 Corinthians8.Understanding 2 Corinthians 9.Understanding the Letter to the Galatians10.Understanding the Letter to the Ephesians11.Understanding the Letter to the Philippians12.Understanding the Letters to the Colossians and Philemon13.Understanding 1 and 2 Thessalonians 14.Understanding 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus 15.Understanding the Book of Hebrews 16.Understanding the Book of James17.Understanding 1 and 2 Peter and Jude18.Understanding 1, 2, and 3 John19.Understanding the Book of RevelationSee Ross West's author page on amazon.com for the volumes that are already available.

This volume is part of the "Understanding the New Testament" series. This series provides useful, brief studies on the books of the New Testament. The studies are aimed specifically at helping laypeople, including Bible study teachers, grasp the essentials of the text of each book by providing helpful comments on the book as a whole and by helping them understand each unit of Scripture in the book. The comments aim at answering the questions laypeople tend to ask and providing the information that laypeople tend to need and want. The studies are intended for use in individual or group study. The emphasis is on interpreting each unit of Scripture in its context in the surrounding Scripture, in the book as a whole, and in first-century culture.

This volume is part of the "Understanding the New Testament" series. This series provides useful, brief studies on the books of the New Testament. The studies are aimed specifically at helping laypeople, including Bible study teachers, grasp the essentials of the text of each book by providing helpful comments on the book as a whole and by helping them understand each unit of Scripture in the book. The comments aim at answering the questions laypeople tend to ask and providing the information that laypeople tend to need and want. The studies are intended for use in individual or group study. The emphasis is on interpreting each unit of Scripture in its context in the surrounding Scripture, in the book as a whole, and in first-century culture. The information and understandings in this book and the others in this series come from a lifetime of studying the Bible. Over the course of my ministry, I have helped to plan and produce hundreds if not thousands of Bible studies for laypeople, written and published dozens of Bible studies, led numerous Bible study classes, taught college Bible courses, and preached many sermons. Through the years, I have observed a strong desire on the part of ordinary folks to understand the Scriptures better. This book is intended to provide basic assistance in doing that.