No Safe Route - Couverture souple

Linders, Robert H.

 
9781475968897: No Safe Route
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1475968892 ISBN 13 : 9781475968897
Editeur : iUniverse, 2013

Synopsis

High school junior Eris Miller thinks she's having a bad day when her roommate's boyfriend catches her stepping out of the shower wearing nothing but a towel. Then she gets abducted by scaly six-armed aliens with a strange fondness for the color blue, and her day suddenly gets a whole lot worse. Trapped on a spaceship bound for the slave markets of Sirius B, Eris fears she'll never see her home again. But then fate whisks her away from her reptilian captors and into the arms of Varrin, a fast-talking space pirate who promises to deliver her safely back to Earth. He claims to have her best interests at heart, but Eris soon discovers that her charming rescuer has a hidden It takes a gifted speaker to turn the philosophical into the practical, the theological into themes for daily living. Author Robert H. Linders has done just that for more than thirty-five years as the pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. In No Safe Route, he shares a collection of his sermons and other essays gathered from throughout his career. For Linders, most subjects are fair game, providing spiritual guidance on everything from novels, fathers of the Church, poetry, popular movies, a visit to his college-town diner, and the current political landscape. In these sermons, the Bible and today's news sit side by side, and humor illuminates ancient biblical truths. "Bob Linders addresses the concerns of living in a world that tries to do without God" -Donald Mathews, former librarian and preaching instructor at Gettysburg Theological Seminary "In the Land of Linders, Bible hermeneutics meet today's news, and memorable jokes confront philosophical wisdom in such rapid succession that one needs at least a good week of conversation at home to sort them out" -Robert C. Williams (PhD, Harvard), Pulitzer Prize Nominee in Russian History Lovell, Maine. agenda. As they race across the galaxy, outrunning a villainous

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Présentation de l'éditeur

High school junior Eris Miller thinks she's having a bad day when her roommate's boyfriend catches her stepping out of the shower wearing nothing but a towel. Then she gets abducted by scaly six-armed aliens with a strange fondness for the color blue, and her day suddenly gets a whole lot worse. Trapped on a spaceship bound for the slave markets of Sirius B, Eris fears she'll never see her home again. But then fate whisks her away from her reptilian captors and into the arms of Varrin, a fast-talking space pirate who promises to deliver her safely back to Earth. He claims to have her best interests at heart, but Eris soon discovers that her charming rescuer has a hidden It takes a gifted speaker to turn the philosophical into the practical, the theological into themes for daily living. Author Robert H. Linders has done just that for more than thirty-five years as the pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. In No Safe Route, he shares a collection of his sermons and other essays gathered from throughout his career. For Linders, most subjects are fair game, providing spiritual guidance on everything from novels, fathers of the Church, poetry, popular movies, a visit to his college-town diner, and the current political landscape. In these sermons, the Bible and today's news sit side by side, and humor illuminates ancient biblical truths. "Bob Linders addresses the concerns of living in a world that tries to do without God" -Donald Mathews, former librarian and preaching instructor at Gettysburg Theological Seminary "In the Land of Linders, Bible hermeneutics meet today's news, and memorable jokes confront philosophical wisdom in such rapid succession that one needs at least a good week of conversation at home to sort them out" -Robert C. Williams (PhD, Harvard), Pulitzer Prize Nominee in Russian History Lovell, Maine. agenda. As they race across the galaxy, outrunning a villainous

Biographie de l'auteur

Robert H. Linders is a Senior Pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. After graduating Gettysburg College, he earned four graduate degrees. He has lectured or preached ay Catholic, Princeton, Cornell, and Penn State Universities as well as at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1475968892
ISBN 13 
9781475968897
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
110
Coordonnées du fabricant
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