Thursday Sep 09

AIM Resource Links

p2250194.jpg

From AIM Reading List

"Authentic Christian faith has taken many different shapes and can be expected to assume still other shapes in the future."

Mark A. Noll, Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity, 2nd ed.


Newsflash

Upcoming AIM Session on October 9-10, 2010

The next AIM session will be Spiritual Life.  It has been scheduled in Georgia for Saturday and Sunday, October 9-10, 2010 so that most who want to attend should be able to make it without having to take off of work.  Our special guest teacher will be Guy Hammond, founder and Executive Director of Strength in Weakness Ministries and an expert in the field of counseling people with same-sex attraction and their families.

 SPIRITUAL LIFE 

The Bible places far more emphasis on who we are inside than on how we behave or appear to others.  We have all seen too many comrades-in-arms fall, not rebounding but remaining fallen, due to a weak walk with the Lord—while others continue to go forward to do great things despite formidable obstacles.  The course covers character, sexual issues, financial responsibility, and so much more.  The secret of a follower of Christ:  the inner spiritual life.

The goal: to shift the focus of personal ministry training from personality and performance to true Christian character.

Bibliography for full-time students for this session:

SESSION IV

The Minister’s Spiritual Life

• J. Oswald Sanders, Spiritual Leadership (Reading: Marshal Pickering, 1967)

• Sam Laing, Mighty Man of God: A Return to the Glory of Manhood (DPI, 1999)    OR

_____, Be Still, My Soul: A Practical Guide to a Deeper Relationship with God (DPI, 1998)

• Thomas Jones and Mike Fontenot, The Prideful Soul’s Guide to Humility (DPI, 1998)

• Richard Taylor, The Disciplined Life: The Mark of Maturity (Grand Rapids: Baker House, 2002)

Extra Credit: 3 points each

• R. Kent Hughes, Set Apart: Calling a Worldly Church to a Godly Life (Wheaton: Crossway, 2003), 978-1-58134-491-2

• Gordon MacDonald, Ordering Your Private World (Nashville: Oliver Nelson, 1985).

• Mike Taliaferro, The Lion Never Sleeps: Preparing Those You Love for Satan’s Attacks (DPI, 1996).

• _____, The Killer Within: An African Look at Disease, Sin and Keeping Yourself Saved (DPI, 1997)

• John Eldredge, Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2001)

• Thomas Jones, Ed., A Man in All Seasons: A Handbook for Faithful Living, Volumes 1-2 (DPI, 2001)—6 pts

Missionary Faith (part of Church-building series)

David Bercot, Let Me Die in Ireland: The True Story of Patrick (Scroll, 1999) 

 

 
News
Biblical Archaeology Review
Unearthing the World of the Bible

  • Six arrested in Archaeology Conference Protest in Jerusalem
    Six demonstrators from the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity group were arrested for seeking to disrupt an archaeology conference in the City of David in Jerusalem last week. The demonstrators believe that the organizing body of the archaeology conference, Eldad, wants to create a Jewish presence outside the Old City of Jerusalem, in the area known as Silwan. According to archaeologists, Silwan was the site of Jerusalem during the reign of King David.

  • Attempts to Cultivate Balsam Yield Promising Results
    Balsam saplings that have been cultivated in a botanical garden at Kibbutz Ein Gedi in Israel may lead to a re-introduction of the famous bush to the ecosystem of the Dead Sea region. Despite numerous failed attempts since the 1970s to acclimate balsam, commonly identified by scholasrs as the African species , to the modern Dead Sea area, two scholars from Bar-Ilan Univeristy believe the current project will succeed.

  • 2,000-year-old Stolen Artifacts Recovered in Raid in Israel
    The Israel Antiquities Authority recovered several tons of stolen artifacts, some dating back 2,000 years, in a raid near Tel Aviv last week. Workers used a crane to seize three truckloads of artifacts including parts of olive presses, capitals and bases of stone pillars, lintels, a stone gate and two engraved stone sarcophagi.

  • Discovered in Jordan: 3,000-year-old Iron Age Temple
    A 3,000-year-old temple from the Iron Age containing statuettes of ancient deities and ritual clay pottery has been found at Khirbat ‘Ataroz, near Madaba, Jordan. In the announcement of the find, Jordanian antiquities chief Ziad al-Saad stressed that the structures and material remains found at Khirbat ‘Ataroz demonstrate the sophisticated religious practices of the Biblical Moabites.

  • 21st-century Internet Tools to Aid Jordanian Archaeologists
    A new internet-based tool named MEGA (Middle Eastern Geodatabase for Antiquities) will be unveiled next month that will aid in the protection of Jordan’s antiquities and archaeological sites. The Getty Conservation Institute, the World Monuments Fund and the Jordanian Department of Antiquities have worked together for the past four years to construct a Web system designed to deliver years of accumulated information about Jordan’s archaeological sites to archaeologists and conservators, and to facilitate monitoring the condition of the sites.

  • 2,000-year-old Onyx Cameo Discovered in Givati Parking Lot Excavation
    Archaeologists excavating the Givati Parking Lot under the direction of the Israel Antiquities Authority have discovered a carved blue onyx cupid cameo from Jerusalem’s Roman Period. This and other recent discoveries will be presented today, September 1, at the 11th Annual City of David Archeology Conference in Jerusalem.

  • Did Ancient Israelites Drink Beer?
    According to the Hebrew Bible, the Israelite God Yahweh drank the equivalent of a six-pack of beer each day (through ritual libation offerings) and even more on the Sabbath. So why doesn’t the word “beer” appear in English translations of the Bible? In “Did the Ancient Israelites Drink Beer?” author Michael M. Homan says that they did—and lots of it—but because of some mistranslation, mistreatment and misidentification on the part of Bible scholars and archaeologists, the important role of beer in Israelite daily life has been largely overlooked.

  • Temple Mount Repairs Leave Eyesores
    Two unsightly scaffolds hang from the walls of the Temple Mount, one on the southern wall and a second on the eastern wall. BAR editor Hershel Shanks asks whether they will be there forever.

  • The Economics of Family: Changing Biblical Norms
    As our modern economy has changed, so have the messages that we internalize about the “right” family structures. The changes are evident in our own society, but they also can be traced through the various periods of ancient Israelite history. Columnist Julia M. O’Brien points out that the Hebrew Bible does not reflect only one norm for the family, but several—each arising from a distinct economic situation.

  • The Mystery Remains: Who Leaked the Scroll Pictures to BAS?
    At the 1993 Jerusalem trial in which Israeli scholar Elisha Qimron sued BAR editor Hershel Shanks, Shanks’s daughter Elizabeth, a 23-year-old graduate student at the time, served as his unofficial translator. Elizabeth Shanks Alexander recalls a dramatic moment in the history of the Dead Sea Scrolls that took place during the trial, and shares a mystery in scroll history that remains to this day.

  • The Bible in the News: Turn, Turn, Turn
    Columnist Leonard J. Greenspoon traces the popular usage of the Biblical phrase, “turn the other cheek.”

  • Deir el-Balah, by Trude Dothan
    Reviewed by Carol A. Redmount. Part memoir, part excavation report and part object catalogue, this is an enjoyable read and an important volume from a grande dame of Israeli archaeology.

  • Beasts of the Bible, by Simcha Jacobovici
    Reviewed by Leonard J. Greenspoon. All your favorite Biblical beasts—the serpent of the Garden of Eden, Jonah’s whale/large fish, Behemoth and Leviathan—predictably, and often frighteningly, make an appearance in this DVD.

  • Angels and Demons: Jewish Magic Throughout the Ages, by Filip Vukosavovic.
    Reviewed by Michael D. Swartz. In 2010 the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem recognized the importance of the magical tradition in Jewish history and culture with an exhibit of amulets, objects, books, manuscripts and ephemera from classical antiquity to modern times. This handsome volume is the exhibition catalogue.

  • Shards of Flint Found in Israel Believed to be Disposable Knives
    Archaeologists working in a cave near Tel Aviv have discovered what they believe to be the world’s first known examples of disposable knives. The numerous 200,000-year-old shards of flint were found around a fireplace containing charred animal bones. Archaeologists were able to use the bones to date the knives, which were made from recycled materials such as other larger knives and tools used to butcher animals and scrape hides.

  • A Closer Look at the Restoration of Israel’s Antiquities
    Discover the delicate process of restoring Israel’s antiquities with a behind-the-scenes glance at the work of the 6-member Israel Antiquities Authority restoration team. This team pieces together objects and implements such as potsherds, cloths, weapons, coins and glassware dating from the beginning of human habitation in Israel. A ceramics restoration expert, Elisheva Kamaisky, likens the reconstruction of ceramic jugs to the process of piecing together a complex jigsaw puzzle. Lena Kuperschmidt works in a neighboring lab opening rolled lead talismans from Caesarea containing curses against horses designed to influence horse races at the local hippodrome.

  • Introducing the Scholar’s Study
    Join top scholars as debates from the pages of BAR continue in the newest section of our award-winning Web site, the Scholar’s Study. In the March/April 2010 issue of BAR, egyptologist Orly Goldwasser explained how the very first alphabet was invented by illiterate Canaanite miners on the Sinai peninsula. But Goldwasser did not convince everyone. Scholar Anson Rainey promptly responded with his doubts that this watershed moment in human culture had been brought about by illiterate miners. Join us in the brand new Scholar’s Study to read “Who Really Invented the Alphabet--Illiterate Miners or Educated Sophisticates?”.

Search the Bible

Lookup a word or passage in the Bible



BibleGateway.com
Include this form on your page

Archive