Winter Of Redemption

Revisit a classic tale about the true meaning of Christmas from New York Times bestselling author Linda Goodnight… It's the most wonderful time of the year. And for schoolteacher Sophie Bartholomew, nothing is better than celebrating the holiday season. So when she meets mysterious and jaded Kade McKendrick and the abandoned boy he's taken charge of, Sophie is determined to help the hurting pair find their Christmas spirit. Before long, the town of Redemption, Oklahoma, is embracing Kade and little Davey, both of whom have burrowed themselves deep in Sophie's caring heart. Now, as the days grow shorter and the nights turn colder, Sophie and Kade form a connection they cannot deny—to each other and to a rescued little boy who evokes the true meaning of Christmas. Previously Published as THE CHRISTMAS CHILD.

In the intricacy of creation, we see the proclamation of God's redeeming love at work. Kadlecek pieces together a tapestry of essays that reveal God's constant though sometimes innocuous works of reclamation. These stories can inspire a new sensitivity to God's work in this postmodern world.

He's killing again. He's killing Winter...over and over. The Preacher--the sadistic serial killer who slaughtered Winter's parents--has come out of retirement, leaving the bloody evidence in his wake. Special Agent Winter Black has spent her entire life preparing for this moment, and she intends to see it through--no matter the cost. When she's taken off the case, that cost just might be her FBI career. She doesn't care. Winter won't stop until she ends the man responsible for destroying her family. And since she isn't sure who she can trust anymore, she plans to do it alone. It doesn't take Winter long to discover that The Preacher isn't after just another victim. He's after her. And he won't let anything get in the way of his sadistic plans.

- This book contains edited versions of five pre-recorded lectures viewed during the 2020 Winter Bible Conference, the focus being on the theme verse of Exodus 20:2 (Deuteronomy 5:6). - Unless otherwise indicated, the Bible verses cited in this book are from the New King James Version. Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved. - The lecturer did not follow a prepared script; he spoke with only Bible in hand, reading the relevant verses with his listeners. These edited versions seek to present the lectures in a readable form without detracting in any way from the original spoken word.

Offers prayers, sources, rituals, and stories to help understand and celebrate the Jewish holidays.

Dostoyevsky's antisemitism, manifested in his writings of the 1870s, seems to contradict his humanism, and many critics have tended to dismiss it as a marginal detail of the writer's views. Argues, however, that antisemitism held an important place in Dostoyevsky's ethical system, and was linked to his vexed relationship with Christianity. Notes that he staunchly held three ethical principles: sanctity of children, incompatibility of ethics with utilitarianism and calculation, and the view that every kind of authority was bound by the same moral strictures as individuals. Thus, he could not accept a God who had sacrificed his "son" or a redemption brought about by the suffering of a child (Jesus). Dostoyevsky invented the image of a Jew onto whom he could project everything that was unacceptable to him in religion and Western ethics. He considered the "merchant ethics" of both liberalism and socialism to be a Jewish idea and, in particular, regarded the politics of the "Jew" Disraeli as an embodiment of such ethics: to sacrifice innocent Balkan Slavs in the name of supreme political principles. In the 1870s, Dostoyevsky increasingly contrasted the Russian conception of God and compassion for the weak with the Jewish-Western "merchant God" and the idea of obtaining benefits for one person from the suffering of another, innocent person. He developed a conception of principal opposition between things Russian and things Jewish.

While hundreds of books have been written about slavery, in the main they tend to be either microhistories of individual slaves and slave families or broad social histories of the peculiar institution. Redemption Songs uniquely features both approaches. VanderVelde not only knits together the stories of a dozen distinct individuals with one thing in common-their status as litigants-and little else, she also provides a rich and eye-opening account of the legal foundations of the larger system.