Unlocking the Idioms: An LDS Perspective on Understanding Scriptural Idioms

by George M. Peacock

2023 · Cedar Fort Publishing & Media

Idioms and idiomatic language are as real to the messages of holy scripture as are prophecies and parables. Idioms are words and phrases that express more than the actual words themselves. They paint mental or emotional images that bring events or feelings to the present quickly and with intensity. Like a cultural shorthand, they can describe things without using lengthy explanations. On the other hand, idioms can be meaningless and misleading if the reader has no experience with the culture and language from which the idioms originated. Mistranslation and cultural differences both contribute to the misinterpretation of many scriptural idioms. Phrases such as gird up your loins and salt of the earth will lose their intended effect if they are taken only literally. In these pages, George M. Peacock explains exactly what idioms are, how to identify them, and how learning their meaning can add to your understanding of the scriptures and their messages. Unlocking the Idioms will help bring you insight and knowledge as you feast upon the words of the Lord.

Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements

by George D. Chryssides

2012 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

New religious movements-commonly known as cults-are defined as organizations that have arisen within the last 200 years. Most treatments of these movements have typically resorted to sensationalism rather than objectivity, and New religious movements tend to receive negative media publicity. Despite their unfavorable portrayal in popular culture, however, new religious movements are a global phenomenon and much remains to be studied about these movements. In this newly updated second edition of the Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements, George D. Chryssides traces the rise and development of new religious movements throughout the world. An updated introduction summarizes the phenomenon of new religious movements and lays out the changes to the dictionary since the 2001 edition, while the main body of the dictionary consists of close to 600 cross-referenced entries on key figures, ideas, themes, and places related to various new religious movements. An index organizes the information in the dictionary, and a comprehensive bibliography leads the researcher to further sources. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about new religious movements.

Now Step into Glorious Light

by Emma St. George Ekeh

2011 · Author House

This book Now Step Into Glorious Light will start you on a journey you may have never been before, but a journey you have dreamed all your life to embark upon. This book will take you step by step, minute by minute, to your divine nature. It will be your daily companion in every facet of your life. Now Step Into Glorious Light is a book containing releases from the inner realm direct to the author and through other channels, never before exposed so openly and in so uncomplicated manner. It is meant to reveal to you who and what God is; who and what you are in God, the actual nature of God and how God relates with man. The book gives you a very rare gift: keys to answered prayers. When properly studied and applied these keys will enable you to grow stronger in faith. You will learn why prayers are not answered. It will teach you meditation in the simplest but most effective way. The book exposes you to yourself, makes you to understand the powers at your disposal and shows you how you can overcome difficult times and move those mountains in your life - all by your self. The book will help open you up to the light. Now Step Into Glorious Light guides your through the initiation into light, teaches you what supply is and how to increase your supply. You will also learn how consciousness changes your life from sadness and hardship to joy and abundance. You can now heal yourself. Written when the world is facing crushing economic depression and global social problems, your economic and social life will properly be guided by what you learn from this book. You will also learn what happens to you when it is time to leave this planet and after your material body drops. It explains what happens in the inner life after the physical life is gone. It is a book that every practitioner needs and every student of light will find indispensable no matter what religion one practices. It will help preachers redesign their teachings as they will discover the truth which they may not have been conscious of in the past. It suggests practical work which the reader needs to apply for rapid spiritual growth. I sincerely hope this book will help you rebuild your consciousness and enable you to step into Glorious Light.