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What form did Christianity take in the first 30 years? Before the Jewish Christians were slaughtered by Rome and before the emergence of the Pauline sect, while the faith was still under the guiding hand of James, the brother of Jesus, what did the pure and unaltered church look like? By examining the Didache, the "Q" document, and the book of James we will look back into the first years of the faith.

In this book, we will explore Gnosticism and the Divine Feminine through the lens of two great Gnostic texts. We will see the influence of Gnosticism and how their idea of the Divine Feminine effected orthodox or mainstream Christianity. The treatise of Eugnostos the Blessed (50-150 AD) and the gospel called The Sophia of Jesus Christ (50-200 AD) are presented together in a single volume, due to their close and undeniable connection.

Joseph Davis — founding pastor of GraceLife Church in Sarasota, Florida, and author of The Grace Life: What Philippians Teaches Us About Loving One Another Relentlessly — has been where you are. Drawing from his own in-depth study of this psalm more than two decades ago, as well as numerous journal entries and personal stories, Pastor Davis shares the redeeming work Psalm 119 did in his own life and the incredible change it can make in yours.

If the apostle Paul wrote a letter to your church, what would it say? If you want to see God’s powerful love at work in your community, listen to this audiobook and find out how Paul’s words will revitalize your church’s outlook and relationships - starting with you!

We will examine the true place of women in the Bible and how translators diminished the place and accomplishments of women by mistranslating words and phrases. We will look at the true meaning of many Bible verses, as well as the complete text of Paul and Thecla, with an eye toward how women were a driving force in religion and family in the early church.

This audiobook reflects upon the martial arts as it was hundreds of years ago, before it became popular in the West and people were awarded ranks in astonishingly short periods of time. This audiobook speaks about the true spirit of the martial arts...when it should be used and when it shouldn't; it accurately recounts the history of a number of mainstream martial arts and then goes on to put forth the philosophy of "Christians in the Martial Arts".

This self-help bundle includes two audiobooks in one: Habit Stacking and Growth Hacking.

There is nothing that depresses productivity and stunts personal development more than procrastination. Yet, procrastination creeps slowly and meekly into our lives through the very same shortcuts we engaged to allow us comfort and convenience - bad habits. This audiobook has been specifically created to enable you to kick out procrastination, regain your productivity, and achieve your full potential.

This audiobook is about sharing innovative marketing tactics to grow faster and smarter. The audiobook does not assume your level of knowledge and understanding of what growth hacking is all about. Thus, it starts with a beginner’s approach by introducing you to what growth hacking is all about and builds upon this foundation to guide you into a more detailed perspectives. Knowledge without application is redundant. This audiobook gives you practical hands-on techniques on how you should apply growth hacking to achieve great success.

This book is a daily companion that enables you to easily, and practically, apply a good set of habits in small, yet powerful, doses into your routine, so you can overcome procrastination and eventually double your output. It starts off by helping you lay the foundation of your habit stacks. With this foundation, it goes further by proposing great habits that you should implement and the order in which you should implement them.

The extremes to which the church and its leaders have gone in order to protect and justify various decisions regarding points of faith is fascinating, but tends to obscure the truth. Revisionist history, coercion, greed, lust, and propaganda were the order of the day when the major items of doctrine were being decided. In fact, many of those truths that we hold so dear in our Christian faith were decided, if not invented, through or because of political and financial aims, and not by theological insight. Many doctrines went well beyond what the early church held as truth.