Roots Religion

Tracing his ancestory through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the New World, who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past.

Roots is a groundbreaking story of history and family that spanned continents and touched generations. One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots galvanized the nation and created an extraordinary political, racial, social, and cultural dialogue that hadn’t been seen since the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The book sold more than one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

What do Adam, Abraham, Jacob, Judah, Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Boaz, David, Bathsheba, Solomon, Joseph and Mary have in common? Everyone has a family tree, even Jesus! Come back in time with us to learn Jesus' lineage, starting with Adam. Some of Jesus' family my even suprise you!

We communicate through a multitude of pathways, including our minds, bodies, spirits, souls, and sounds. The Root of Awareness aims to activate, focus, and integrate each of these methods of communication. By activating ancient wisdom, you'll discover the link between behavioral gestures, past traumas, and how habits are revealed in communication. Focusing on each of the human energy centers, you'll perceive the connection between vocal placement and energetic imbalance.

John Newton, Charles Simeon, and William Wilberforce suffered lifelong opposition and endured for the causes of gospel truth, missionary zeal, and political justice. They found, in solid doctrine and humble joy, the tough roots for habitual tenderness in response to their adversaries - without doctrinal or moral flinching. They are examples of remarkable grace. In the third book of the Swans Are Not Silent series, best-selling author John Piper looks at the lives of these three great men and how they not only endured great opposition but did so with joy and without bitterness.

This book reveals the ancient Egyptian roots of Christianity, both historically and spiritually. This expanded version of the book consists of three parts. The first part demonstrates that the major biblical ancestors of the biblical Jesus are all ancient Egyptian prominent characters. The second part demonstrates that the accounts of the “historical Jesus” are based entirely on the life and death of the Egyptian Pharaoh, Twt/Tut-Ankh-Amen. The third part demonstrates that the “Jesus of Faith” and the Christian tenets are all Egyptian in origin.

What if the key to a more connected and mindful life lies in ancient wisdom, we've overlooked? This audiobook explores the spiritual traditions of Indigenous Australians, with a focus on the practice of Dadirri—a deep form of listening and contemplation. It also examines parallels between Indigenous spirituality and other global wisdom traditions, such as Zen Buddhism, Vedic traditions, and Christian mysticism.

In the late 1820s, John Nelson Darby abandoned his career as a priest in the Church of Ireland to become one of the principal leaders of a small but rapidly growing religious movement that became known as the “Plymouth Brethren.” Darby and other brethren modified the Calvinism that was common among their evangelical contemporaries, developing distinctive positions on key doctrines relating to salvation, the church, the work of the Holy Spirit, and the end times.

The destiny of Israel and the Christian church is bound together, evident in the scriptures. Learning this truth is essential for survival. Jewish Roots: Understanding Your Jewish Faith is an introduction to biblical theology from a Jewish contextual point of view, plus practical evaluation and council for the Messianic Jewish communities and the Christian church. This new edition considers recent biblical scholarship and evaluates the progress of the Messianic Jewish community - a pulsating grass roots movement.

What is a soul? This question has fascinated humanity for as long as we've been able to contemplate our existence. Across cultures, religions, and philosophies, countless ideas have emerged, each attempting to define this intangible essence that seems to set us apart – not just as individuals, but as beings who are part of something far greater than ourselves.

The establishment of nations, governments, and the shaping of our world system evolved around historical incidents of good and evil. Roots of the Kingdom is a captivating chronology about humans, heavenly hosts, and supernatural phenomena that unveils the spiritual network. Revealed is the chain of rebellious episodes that undermined the pinnacle of creation–Yahweh’s beloved humans. Unfortunately, modern Biblical teachings usually omit or gloss over these insights.

This is a topical study of the basic fundamentals of the Christian faith. This 15-message series is great for a new believer or anyone wanting to study what Biblical Christianity is really all about.

Often in the deepest struggles of life, we find ourselves in a place that feels dark. For many of us, it feel like our spiritual roots are in dry ground. We can’t understand what God is doing and wonder if he even cares. There’s a troubling feeling of distance that we just can’t ignore. We long to be sure that we know what God wants from this spirit he has placed inside of us. Roots in Dry Ground is a cry to your heart, God loves us, God provides for us, and God wants all of us to spend eternity in heaven with him!

Reading the Bible to Meet Jesus, part of the Sacred Roots Spiritual Classics series, is a refreshed English version and study guide for the ancient work Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, written by early church leader Irenaeus of Lyons. Irenaeus captures a sense of the epic scope of God’s plans being worked out in history, culminating in the ministry of Jesus Christ. Irenaeus interacts deeply with Scripture to show how this grand story of God’s activity and presence is demonstrated throughout the Bible.

This introduction to the roots of many Catholic beliefs and practices provides a sense of connection to our brothers and sisters who have gone before us and helped shape the faith. Mike Aquilina makes it clear that as far as the essentials are concerned, a time-travel trip back to the beginning of the church would reveal a church familiar to Catholics today. Just as an acorn grows into a tree and yet remains the same plant, the Catholic church is a living organism that has grown from the faith of the earliest Christians into the Body of Christ we know today.

El hoodoo es una poderosa forma de magia popular utilizada durante generaciones para mejorar la vida de quienes la practican. Entonces, ¿Es relevante hoy en día? La respuesta rápida es sí, ciertamente lo es. Los poderes de las raíces y las hierbas son solo la punta del iceberg una vez que se domina el arte del hoodoo.

Covering all 150 psalms, this companion to the "Prayerbook of the Bible" contains key devotionals from the Great Tradition. This book will help us learn to pray as Jesus prayed; after all, He quoted from the Psalms more often than any other book.

The little volume breathes a holy discontent with the merely formal and superficial aspects of organized Christianity. It tantalizes listeners with the possibility of replacing external religion with direct encounter with the very presence of God. This newly revised edition of The Pursuit of God faithfully expresses Tozer's original thoughts in slightly updated and more simplified modern language forms. It highlights Tozer's extensive use of Scripture and adds resources to help make study of this little classic of Christian spirituality genuinely transformational for contemporary listeners.

In ‘The Roots Lost Their Vigor,’ author Samuel Mohanraj Ebenezer delves deep into one of the most enigmatic moments of the New Testament: Jesus cursing the fig tree. This thought-provoking exploration uncovers the profound spiritual and theological meanings behind this mysterious act, revealing layers of significance that echo throughout the Scriptures.

In Books Jesus Read, Robert "Dr. Bob" Lay takes his listeners on a guided tour of the Apocrypha—Jewish history, stories, and wisdom written in the 400 years between the Old and New Testaments. These are some of the writings Jesus and other first-century Jews would have known. For anyone wanting to better understand Jesus and the New Testament, look no further than the books Jesus himself may have read.