College Study #55: "God's Wisdom: the most Precious Element"

‘Behold, the Lamb of God’

ide o amnos tou theou

College Study

55th teaching

11.25.2013

 

“God’s Wisdom: the most Precious Element”

 

 

the Literary Victories of 2013

 

 

 

THE CONQUERED

Dune

   by Frank Herbert

Batman: No Man's Land

   by Greg Rucka

Fahrenheit 451

   by Ray Bradbury

Sphere

   by Michael Crichton

A Tale of Two Cities

   by Charles Dickens

the Naked Sun

   by Isaac Asimov
Ico: Castle in the Mist
   by Miyuki Miyabe

HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER

Watership Down

   by Richard Adams

the Four Loves

   by C.S. Lewis

 Peter Pan
   by J.M. Barrie

the Measure of a Man
   by Gene Getz
God's Undertaker
   by John Lennox




 

Name that Book #002

 

Challenge!

Guess the titles of the books wherein the following hook sentences appear.

Leave any guesses in a comment below.

 

 

 

 

 

"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'"



 

"Call me Ishmael."

 

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”  

 

“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.”

   -norton

College Study #54: "the Time/Grace Continuum"

‘Behold, the Lamb of God’

ide o amnos tou theou

College Study

54^th teaching

11.11.2013

 

“God’s Grace, part III: the Time/Grace Continuum”

 

Name that Book #001

 

Challenge!

Guess the titles of the books wherein the following hook sentences appear.

Leave any guesses in a comment below.

"All children, except one, grow up."

"In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D---."

"The primroses were over."

"The Mole had been working very hard all morning spring-cleaning his little home."

 

 

 

 

-norton

 

 

 

 



 

College Study #53: "Grace vs. the Law"

‘Behold, the Lamb of God’

ide o amnos tou theou

College Study

53^rd teaching

11.4.2013

 

“God’s Grace, part II: Grace vs. the Law”