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You've been told to "just have faith." But has anyone told you what faith actually is? Most of us carry a version of faith that was handed to us secondhand—believe hard enough and God will come through, never doubt or you're failing, close your eyes and jump. It sounds spiritual. But it's not biblical. And it falls apart the moment life gets heavy. Real Faith strips away the greeting-card theology and replaces it with what Scripture actually teaches: faith is not a feeling, not a quantity, and not blind.

With the help of his friend, JR Diminski, retired FBI profiler Sean Kruger rescues a female graduate student after she is kidnapped from the university campus where he teaches. He finds the abduction too familiar. From 1999 through 2002 six female college students vanished, without a trace, from four different college campuses across the country. As the lead FBI investigator on those now cold cases, his failure to find the women and the person responsible still haunts him.

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Black and Miri just want some alone time. Instead, they get thrown into a high-profile murder case when one of Miri's patients shows up dead. When the body is found, beheaded and tied to a pier, Los Angeles detectives descend on San Francisco, convinced it's the serial killer they've been hunting, known only by his media name of "the Templar". When the Templar continues to cut a swath through San Francisco, his victims begin to show a new pattern, however - a pattern that appears to have Miri at its center.

As one of the foremost performers in the kingdom of Rescalin, Liv Equitor has come a long way from the gutters of Pastira. She’s fought tooth and nail for her reputation and its protection: she’s determined that nothing and no one will take her choices from her again. But despite all her careful staging, she can’t get her handsy troupe leader to give up the sense he’s entitled to her. With their caravan headed to the capital of Pastira to compete for the coveted status of Royal Theatrical Troupe, Liv devises a new plan to match her ambitions.

Attending the funeral, Tori confronts a past that still haunts her and questions the text messages haunting her now. Her investigation leads to a fact she suspected all along: Her old friend didn’t commit suicide, but was murdered. There’s no shortage of suspects either. Tori knows one of them has Brooke’s cellphone and is texting her from it. Others are convinced it’s Brooke reaching out from the great beyond. Either way, someone from her past is playing a deadly game of Hangman.

After vanquishing the last dragon with the power of her voice, all Kaiya wants is a quiet life of anonymity. Instead, the emperor sends her to negotiate peace with the aggressive Teleri Empire. The critical mission reunites her with her childhood friend, Tian, now an assassin-spy who loathes killing. He is no longer the adorable, gullible boy from her memories, any more than she is the adventurous, sweet girl from his. Instead of rekindling nostalgia for a youthful innocence they both yearn for, their reunion ignites a mutual hatred.

Susan hates going to the doctor...with a passion. She hates being made to undress and spread her legs for a man so he can feel her most intimate recesses. She finds it humiliating, degrading, and dehumanizing. She can't stand the feeling of a man having so much power and domination over her. So when she needs a complete physical exam for an important new job, she arrives at the appointment already flustered.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Kelli's Desperation: A Shy Freshman, a Perverted Professor, and the Unspeakable Acts She Must Perform to Pass Her Exam and experience the compelling world of trickery and humiliation.

Accursed items. Some people believe in them, some people don’t. With a truly cursed item, belief doesn’t matter. It’s gonna get you anyway. You might survive. Or you might not. Maybe you'll be compelled to do things you never would without its influence. Maybe it helped you at the casino. Did you think that was free? There’s always a price to pay, and one you can’t afford. That little lucky charm in your pocket may be doing more damage than good

Milk on the Move explores milk’s deep cultural roots, evolving scientific narratives and the systems that shape its production today. Hosts Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp and JC Niala uncover the fascinating interaction of tradition, knowledge and morality that makes milk so much more than just an everyday drink. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Biosocial criminology—and biosocial criminologists—focuses on both the environmental and biological factors that contribute to antisocial behavior. Importantly, these two domains are not separate parts of an equation but pieces of the same puzzle that fit together for a complete picture of the causes of crime/antisocial behavior.

The latest discussion about football schools. Predicting win and loses. Teams that are heading in the right direction and wrong direction.

Suzanne Palmer, a fetching but modest forty-eight-year-old woman, is as thrilled as any woman could possibly be! The teacher of a Photography for Men class at a retirement community in Florida, she is always in search of successful photographers to come and teach one of her classes. But today, she’s hit the jackpot! The legendary and world-renowned Matthew Rodgers has agreed to come in! Suzanne is on cloud nine! Matthew Rodgers is her all-time hero, and when he arrives, she discovers that he is strikingly handsome as well! But what starts off as thrilling quickly turns to mortifying.

Music professor Abbie Miller is at her wit’s end! The six men in her piano class at Rowan-Jeffries College for Men are playing abominably! So, although it is not this sweet, modest woman’s nature to be assertive, this time, she really lets them have it.

College junior (and pervert upstart) Derek Monroe can’t believe his eyes! While waiting in the airport security check line in Budapest on his way home from a class trip, he sees a foxy young woman being intimately patted down by a trio of male guards right out in the open! Well, he can’t resist—he videos the embarrassing procedure on his phone as a souvenir. But if he thought that was the highlight of his trip, he's happily mistaken! Minutes later, his gorgeous teacher, Kathy Windsor, is pulled out of line for a "random cavity search"—and right out in the open!

In this story of deplorable humiliation, janitor Forrest Franklin is asked to cover for an overly busy Dr. Thompson by heading over to a nearby grocery store where one of the cashiers needs a complete physical as per state requirements. But this isn’t just any clerk. No, sir. Twenty-three-year-old Casey Collins is as beautiful and shapely as they come. She is also as modest, nervous, and embarrassed as they come. Well, she has every reason to be embarrassed. It’s bad enough that this shivering maiden needs to be examined in the not-so-private stockroom in the back of the store.

At only twenty-eight, Lynn McKenna is one lucky young woman. After years of study and hard work, she now has a job teaching astrophysics at the Hughs-Orbitron Astronaut Training Center. As NASA’s chief competitor, Hughs-Orbitron is a key player in the astronautics industry, and Lynn is grateful that a company of this stature would take a chance on someone with almost no experience like her.

It’s a snowy and chilly Christmas eve, and Cassie Meriwether, having just finished the last of her gift shopping, just wants to go home, have some hot tea, and curl up by the fire with her husband, Bobby. Except that when she arrives, he’s not there. Well, sort of. In the kitchen, Cassie finds a note from “Santa” telling her that because she’s been a naughty girl this year, she needs to go upstairs and put on the cuddly pajamas he’s left for her.

教科書で扱われている古典作品について、授業の時間だけでは語り尽くせないところまで踏み込んでお話しします。興味を持ってもらうことが主眼のため、学問的な厳密さに欠ける大雑把な説明も多いです。あしからず。 Beyond the Textbook explores Japanese classics beyond what textbooks can cover. We dive into stories, themes, and perspectives in an accessible, lecture-style format.