Best Selling Books by Paul Kent

Bible study can become more illuminating with an understanding of the meaning and story behind some 2,000 Bible names, which cover more than 3,400 individuals in Scripture.

In just 5 minutes, you will Read (minute 1-2), Understand (minute 3), Apply (minute 4), and Pray (minute 5) God''s Word through more than 90 challenging, focused Bible studies.

These 180 devotions will help you successfully maneuver through the often awkward, difficult, embarrassing, confusing, frustrating teen years. "Survival guides" for teens are nothing new. . .but this much-needed book is unique. Rather than approach the topics from a secular worldview, The Devotional Survival Guide for Teen Guys tackles issues with practical truth and guidance--all from God''s Word. Every devotion includes a related scripture and prayer starter to help you develop the habit of daily quiet time with God. A topical index is also included for ease of use. With each turn of the page, you will be equipped to approach difficult issues with wisdom and confidence. . .and you''ll be challenged to grow up God''s way! This devotional guide is a must-read as you navigate the complexities of growing up. Features: 180 Biblically Rooted Devotions and Prayers Relatable, Real-Life Wisdom on Every Page Readings Touch on Themes like Social Media Habits, Setting Healthy Boundaries, Being Resilient and Courageous, Self-Control, Mental Health, Dating, and More Overflowing with Practical Truth, Guidance, Encouragement, and Inspiration Bonus Topical Index for Ease of Use

Imagine a television quiz show where all the questions came directly from the Bible--how well would you do? Find out with A to Z Bible Trivia! Each letter of the alphabet features four brand-new quizzes of five questions each...a point system for scoring...and a Bonus Question to potentially double your total. From "Abel" and "Also Known As," to "Z Inside" and "Zion," more than one hundred quizzes and five hundred questions will challenge and entertain readers for hours. A to Z Bible Trivia is perfect for personal reading or Christian education classes--and a tremendous value at only $2.97. How well would you do on a quiz show where all the questions came from the Bible? Find out with A to Z Bible Trivia

These 100 devotions tackle issues you face daily, from relationships to money and possessions, and from knowing God to communication--including social media.

This is Jolly old Fame is the first volume in a three-volume biography on the lives and works of comic writer P.G. Wodehouse, and explores the origin of his comic vision

Western Linguistics has come a long way since its beginnings with the grammar of Classical Greek attributed to Dionysios Thrax. Unfortunately, during this journey a cross-roads was reached and a decision had to be made. Instead of taking the path of scientific principles which a few linguists did, most linguists instead took the path of scientific ignorance and least resistance, ending up in the dark and murky forest of pseudoscience. To their credit, though, they adapted extremely well to this scientific darkness.This book tells the tale of these two linguistics and their journeys. It is a tale of two distinct paths taken by these two linguistics and their encounters with other actors along the way. Here we meet, among others, falsification, confirmation bias as well as selection bias and see firsthand just how dangerous it can be to trust the wrong source of data. We find that when the going gets tough no progress is ever made along the journey without the help of ''exceptions''. Along the way we also stumble upon parsimony, Occam''s razor as well as the fallacy of special pleading and the difference between explaining more data with less assumptions versus less data requiring more assumptions. Motivated reasoning teaches us that there are two different directions research can take: (i) going forward and following logic and evidence wherever it may lead or (ii) starting already with the conclusion and then working backwards from there, backfilling in justifications and making evidence fit into preconceived notions. We learn about performing experiments and that the purpose of doing this is to determine cause and effect relations between variables in a system. We also see just how easy it is to confuse correlation with causation and what the consequence of this is: if we establish a cause and effect relationship between two or more variables, then outcomes are predictable; this is most definitely not the case with correlation relationship between variables. Our encounter with coherence teaches us how to determine, even without data, whether one can possibly be correct, or most likely wrong. Most important of all, though, is the very cornerstone of science, i.e. the scientific method itself, accepted and relied on without question and without hesitation by one linguistics, rejected and thrown overboard by the other.

P.G. ''Plum'' Wodehouse is the greatest humorous writer England produced in the 20th century. The creator of Jeeves and Bertie, the Blandings saga, Ukridge, Mr Mulliner, Psmith and Uncle Fred, his output totalled almost 100 volumes of peerless comic invention. But where did all that material come from? Not just out of his head, no matter how large his hat size: in Wodehouse''s case, much arrived courtesy of his voracious reading habits, everything from Shakespeare to W.S. Gilbert via the Bible, Tennyson, Sherlock Holmes, gung-ho schoolboy fiction, gory pulp thrillers, the gloopiest romances and literally hundreds of other writers - even T.S. Eliot. No other writer had a broader range of influences. In his latest groundbreaking study, Paul Kent, author of the Pelham Grenville Wodehouse trilogy of literary biographies teases out Plum''s literary roots, and how he expertly blended elements from all these writers and genres into the heady cocktail that keeps the world laughing over a hundred years on from when he first created it. It''s an alternative history of English Literature that will also make you laugh out loud.

Fun multiple-choice quizzes based on familiar Bible stories that are challenging and entertaining for kids ages 6 to 10.

Get more from your personal Bible time by understanding the meaning and story behind some 3,100 Bible names, featuring both people and places! Covering more than 2,000 people names (some 3,400 individuals) and 1,100 place names--every proper name in scripture--The Complete People and Places of the Bible provides the number of times each name is mentioned, the meaning of the name, a description of the person or place, and the first, last, and key references--chapter and verse--for further study. The Complete People and Places of the Bible is perfect for personal Bible study, Sunday school or small group preparation, or just fascinating pleasure reading.

Here''s Bible trivia to challenge your memory and your skills of deduction! This book features two kinds of questions--matching and "connect the thoughts."

This keepsake collection of photographs, correspondence, and extracts from his books is tied together by a storyline revealing the life of a distinctive servant of God.

In both Classical Greek and Latin, there were two and only two sets of personal inflectional endings. Each and every finite verb in Classical Greek and Latin was unconditionally conjugated by using one or the other of these two sets of inflectional personal endings. There were no verbs which were not conjugated in this manner, nor was there ever a third alternative. The Greek and Roman grammarians (Thracians) not only understood this, but they also understood that these two distinct sets of inflectional personal endings represented the very same categories in both languages. For some strange and inexplicable reason those grammarians coming after the Greeks and Romans (non-Thracians) took it upon themselves to take the form of the verb túptomai which was unanimously regarded as the passive form of the verb in Greek and relabeled it the "middle" form of the verb. They did this moreover without changing the labels in Latin. So, in effect, they took a single morphological category "passive" and reinvented it as two separate categories, namely the "middle" and the "passive". In non-Thracian linguistics, changing labels entails changing reality at the same time and thus they were forced to reinvent the Latin language without a middle voice. In non-Thracian linguistics this is simply a matter of making claims such as the following: "In Latin ... the old middle voice ''became'' a passive, i.e., was used only in passive functions, while intransitive (/stative) functions were expressed by other morphological means" (Hock 1991: 348). "This active: middle semantic contrast, such as it is, was retained for longer in Greek than in Sanskrit and is totally absent in Latin" (Lightfoot 1979: 241).Then all one needs to do is to repeat such claims three times and they automatically become facts; from there the Woozle effect takes over: "The Woozle effect, also known as evidence by citation, or a woozle, occurs when frequent citation of previous publications that lack evidence misleads individuals, groups, and the public into thinking or believing there is evidence, and nonfacts become urban myths and factoids" (Google).The purpose of this book is threefold: (í) to demonstrate that the set of personal inflectional endings labeled ''passive'' in Latin represents the very same category as that expressed by the set of endings labeled ''middle'' in Classical Greek, (ii) to present an investigation of all five (sic!) grammatical voices recognized by the Roman grammarians - Palaemon (Keil v: 542.26-27): "And now the principle verbs are actives, pas-sives, neuters, commons, and deponents."Donatus (Keil iv: 383.1-2): "The classes (genera) of verbs, which are called to-kens (significationes) by others, are five: actives, passives, neuters, deponents, and commons."Servius (Keil iv: 413.35-36): "Of verbs there are five classes (genera): actives, passives, neuters, commons, and deponents."Audax (Keil vii: 346.6-7): "How many classes (genera) of verbs are there? Five, that is: active, passive, neuter, common, and deponent."Pompeius (Keil v:227.3): "The classes (genera) of verbs are these: actives, pas-sives, neuters, commons, and deponents."Consentius (Keil v: 367.14-16): "The classes (genera) or tokens (significationes) are five: active as lego scribo, passive as legor scribor, neuter as sto curro, depo-nent as loquor luctor, and common as consolor criminor." -and (iii) to continue the research within Thracian linguistics in order to discover at least two more morphological means of expressing the middle voice in Latin. This will include a form of the verb in Latin corresponding to the so-called ''aorist passive'' in Classical Greek which had nothing at all to do with the aorist and is conjugated unconditionally for the active voice.

Here''s a fun and fascinating book of twenty, six-question quizzes for 6-10-year-olds. Each quiz starts easy, with questions from the most familiar stories, then gets progressively harder.

For each of 66 names and attributes of Jesus, you''ll find a ten-word summary, a longer description, a listing of key verses, and a practical application.

Since 2008, Know Your Bible has sold more than three million copies--now it''s available in large print! Still concise and easy to understand, it provides clear, memorable overviews of all 66 books.

This is yet another investigation of grammatical voice in Classical Greek, but this time with a twist and a chaser. It will be based on empirical evidence collected from 44 original Classical Greek texts by 15 different authors. As such, the results of this investigation could not be any clearer: after decades of intensive research by generations of modern linguists, no one has even come close to scratching the surface of grammatical voice in Classical Greek. This is particularly disappointing, since Classical Greek was the very first language for which the category grammatical voice was established and one would expect this language, among all others, to be the most researched. It is furthermore rather disappointing that, as far as we can determine, not a single modern linguist has ever actually read what Thrax wrote about grammatical voice in Classical Greek, what the later Greek grammarians wrote, much of which represented commentaries on Thrax, and what the Roman grammarians wrote about grammatical voice in Latin. Our investigation revealed at least 6 distinct morphological means of expressing grammatical voice as well as numerous ways grammatical voice is combined and exploited in Classical Greek. But perhaps the most important result of our investigation was the discovery of 24 distinct grammatical expressions (syntactic constructions) that can have the sense of the passive, 9 of which were main clause constructions, 11 were subordinate clause constructions and 4 were nominalizations. More interesting was the discovery that in 14 of these expressions grammatical voice was morphologically expressed twice. Yet, there is no empirically valid evidence nor scientifically and logically sound argument that could possibly support the contention of their being passive morphology in the Classical Greek language.

This Multi-Million Bestseller Will Help You Know Your Bible Better! Since 2008, Know Your Bible has sold 3.2 million copies--now it''s available in a great daily edition! Still concise and easy to understand, it provides clear, memorable overviews of all 66 books, plus: data on authors and time frames ten-word synopses longer (50-100 word) summaries unique or unusual aspects listings of key verses "So, What?" sections of practical application You''ll love it for yourself, or to give away in ministry.

Imagine a television quiz show where all the questions come directly from the Bible--from "Abel" and "Also Known As" to "Z Inside" and "Zion."

Don''t ever think the Bible''s boring. . .it''s packed with amazing, mysterious stories--exactly the kind of wonders you''ll find in Bible Curiosities. This fully illustrated guide to the amazing, odd, and shocking stories of scripture contains almost five dozen informative, intriguing, often humorously written entries. Find out more about the Bible''s "Terminator". . .the other Noah. . .the "lost letter" of Paul. . .bad apples on Jesus'' family tree. . .the mysterious death of Judas Iscariot. . .and much, much more. Appropriate for readers from junior high and up, Bible Curiosities promises entertainment, education, and edification--as every amazing story in scripture points us back to God''s power and love.

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