Signs Books

The author starts out by acknowledging the major divisions between the Evangelical/Fundamentalist camp and the Pentecostal/Charismatic camp over this subject. While acknowledging errors on all sides, his goal is to promote true unity by examining the Bible to stop the contention.

The book is structured by taking an overview of different periods of time: Pre-Mosaic, Joshua through the Kings, Jesus himself, the early church etc. He asks the question: How did new believers come to faith? And he lets the Bible speak for itself.

For me this had the gripping ability to make a clear case that God has a strong purpose behind using signs and wonders. While some Bible giants--Ruth for instance, came to faith without any known evidence of signs and wonders, the vast majority were brought to faith in God with some sort of demonstration of the supernatural power of God.

The style is clear and readable. I couldn't put the book down and read it in one day. It will pull together scattered points that you've heard all your life.

This is an excellent book on the subject of modern-day miracles and equipping you to be able to test them Biblically. The book perhaps is out-of-print, but picking up a used copy would surely be beneficial.

I found particularly valuable the chapters on

- "Psychological or Supernatural", which deals with placebo effects, biofeedback, hypnosis, stress-related illnesses, and other things that the mind can influence vs. organic diseases;

- "Is there a Yardstick for Miracles" containing an excellent explanation on "testing everything, holding onto what is good" (1 Thessalonians 5:21), particularly as it applies to Biblical miracles. Upon closer examination, I was very surprised to find out that Biblical miracles are very different than what passes today for "miracles", such as they are always immediate (or very close to it), there are no relapses, they are always successful, God is always that one being glorified by confirming his nature or his Word, a miracles are always associated with truth, etc.

This book teaches very well how experience needs to be judged by the Bible, not the Bible by your experience. While miracles surely occur today, we have to be very careful not to fall for counterfeit miracles, without testing them carefully and Biblically. This book will help you learn and understand how to test miracles, Biblically.

Finally, it also looks at miracles and healings in other faiths (such as Hindu) and by other non-Christians, who can obtain the same results as the results of the reported "miracles" often shown in Charismatic/ Pentecostal circles. Did God of the Bible become universalistic? Of course not!

Other excellent books on this subject matter are: Samuel E. Waldron's To Be Continued?: Are the Miraculous Gifts for Today?, Dr. Ron Rhodes' Miracles Around Us: How to Recognize God at Work Today, and Kevin Reeves' The Other Side of the River. For further thoughts and suggestions, please see my Amazon Listmania! "Continuationism or Cessationism?".

I'm often dissatisfied with modern American poetry which to me appears narcissistic in content and undistinguished in its craft. Then I come across a book like Ger Killeen's 'Signs Following' and I breathe a sigh of relief.
Not only does this poet show a real mastery of poetic technique (amazingly varied); his poems are actually about something other than himself-- profound meditations on all the big questions of love, death, violence, God... in language that is stunningly gorgeous (See the poem 'Lorca Leaving' if you want to know the meaning of gorgeous).
In the heart of the book there is a group of sonnets called 'Chemical Wedding' which I suspect could become a classic sequence: it's almost as if Jung meets Yeats and produces these weird, unsettling moments of unsparing psychological clarity.
I'm not sure I know of any contemporary poet who sounds quite like Killeen (maybe the early Paul Muldoon?). His new book gives me great hope for the future of kind of poetry from which you come away with a new understanding of yourself and the world...and many new questions.

Actually, I'd give this 4 1/2 stars if I could. Each page has a photograph of the named/signed animal and a drawing showing how to do the sign. I'd give it 5 full stars if they had a photo of a child doing the sign. On the other hand, the books that do that use two pages for each word, so I guess this way you get more words. The words:

cat, kitten, dog, puppy, mouse, bunny, bird, turtle, fish, frog, duck, cow, horse, pony, lamb, pig, squirrel, bear, elephant, monkey, lion, tiger, camel, alligator, spider, snake

Since we have chickens, I wish they'd done that sign. Also, they incorrectly used the word "pony." What they picture is a foal. A pony is a different beast.

Overall, a good book that I'm looking forward to sharing with my baby when he's old enough.

I bought this book for a CHICANO/A studies course that I had and it really sank inside of me. It shows pictures of the beautiful murals that can be found in CALIFORNIA by some well known chicano/a muralists and others by popularly known organizations such as SPARC. Coincidentally SPARC which stands for SOCIAL PUBLIC ART RESOURCE CENTER are also the community artists that pained a 2, 435 foot long "GREAT WALL OF LOS ANGELES" which can be viewed at Coldwater Cyn and Oxnard St near Los Angeles Valley College. Very inspirational as well. These murals are also depicted in the book, but I recommend breathing in the life of the murals on your very own. It creates a sort of "ZEN" between you and history. Very powerful images!

It includes inspirational and pride-filling pictures from "CHICANO PARK" in San Diego, East Los Angeles Ramona Gardens MURALS, murals from BERKELEY, murals from freeway underpasses, and San Francisco. These of course are only a couple of localities, there are more. It is an empowering book that really lets you see what struggles the Latino people have had to overcome. It depicts scenes from earlier pre-colonial struggles to recent political views. It is a book that you will pick up and want to add to your collection. This is a 2nd copy that I own and thought that I would share the knowledge with others. It really makes you want to go out and see for yourself what beautiful pieces of art lay within the urban chaos that we live in.

Ron Podmore creates an excellent biography of five Deaf individuals. I have always been bored with biographies but Ron really knows how to create a wonderful book! It was enjoyable, creative, and interesting on many levels. His work points out biases and misconceptions that the hearing public has when it comes to Deaf people. Ron Podmore is also the author of the book "a sign to remember" which is about a Deaf 15 year old who finds out he may also lose his sight to a genetic disease. Both are wonderful books ... Ron does it again! -Tyler Young

I didn't understand how/where the zodiac came from. I should have realized it was of the devil (since he cannot create, but prevert).. Where the zodiac comes from is truly amazing (and explains how the Gospel could have been proclaimed to adam, seth and enosh).. truly interesting and HIGHLY recommended.

Pastor John Abent has broken significant ground with Signs in the Heavens, a comprehensive and exhaustive survey of The Revelation of Jesus Christ specifically and eschatology in general. He was one of the first that I know of to recognize that the resurrection/rapture event will take place at the opening of the sixth seal, and that the tribulation/wrath of God will take place after the opening of the sixth seal, not the first seal.

Pastor Abent also presents excellent information regarding the signs in the heavens that provide clues for prophetic events. This book is full of meat for the student of Bible prophecy and I recommend it highly.

Horses give us everything they have; their strength, power, grace, beauty and unconditional love. This wonderful collection of stories (including my own) show how those gifts can enhanced lives, both human and equine. It is a book of overcoming the obstacles life throws at us all, with a little help from your friends.

In this work, the author's have contributed something of profound depth (without being obscure) that empowers the individual to meet the challenging times in which we live - with greater understanding. The author's accomplish this difficult task by sharing their researches into the cosmological themes that, unknown to most, serve as the back-drop to daily life, and connect us to the Divine-Spiritual Powers. It is hoped that, in the future, there will be more works of this caliber - that address the recondite concepts of Astrosophy (Star Wisdom), in a manner that is both accessible to the general reader, and useful to the specialist.