Bøger af Daniel Mann

God and His righteous nature and character are being maligned ceaselessly in the culture of the West. Like so many others, Daniel was tormented by these seeming attacks on the righteousness of God. "All of the questions I have raised in this book...were, in a very tangible sense, quite real for me...I found myself compelled to face them. Although I have not been able to provide my doubts with comprehensive answers, Christ has been able to give me what I have needed to silence their roar." This book is the record of what Daniel discovered that tamed his doubts!

How did the Israeli military learn to cope with the ubiquity of media technologies that routinely document their power abuses? Why did they re-appropriate these to tighten their grip on Palestinian civilians? This book explains why a high-tech nation with advanced military technologies came to rely on the everyday media habits performed by soldiers and civilians. Daniel Mann argues that the intensification of the security regime in Palestine, and the increasingly personal use of media technologies by both soldiers and civilians, are deeply entangled. The book traces how, beginning in the 1990s, the integration of media into the lives of civilians and Israeli soldiers enabled Israel to transfer responsibilities to individual users, who in turn became legally and ethically liable for state abuses of power. Drawing on declassified documents, found footage, and social media, Mann shows how both media and warfare have been remodelled around the figure of the defensive, isolated, and insular 'individual'. Mann suggests that the focus on representations and their close visual analysis paradoxically hinders our ability to understand media. Instead of zooming into fine details, we must step back to reveal the assemblage of images, users, and infrastructure that together serve to maintain the racial, legal and aesthetic divide between Israel and Palestine.

Prayer is merely conversation with God. Therefore, it shouldn't require a book to explain how to do it. However, prayer can also be a source of perplexity, doubt, confusion, and even discomfort. It was for me. When I tried to pray, I was plagued with doubts. Did my doubts disqualify me? Did I doubt too much to be able to receive anything from God? It seemed like my mind was continually wandering. Did this mean that I wasn't in touch with God, or worse, that He was rejecting me?Did I have enough faith? What was faith supposed to feel like? Was there a particular faith experience? I knew that without faith, it is impossible to please God. Perhaps I wasn't very pleasing to Him.And the doubts didn't stop there. How was I to pray? Did I first need to quiet my mind? Was I supposed to visualize God? Was I supposed to hear His voice? The Christian mystics convinced me that if my prayers weren't being answered, it meant that I wasn't connecting with God. Should I therefore practice some of their techniques? Should I repeat one "sacred word" over and over again?These confusing doubts and questions and many others tormented me. For years, they continued their debilitating work until I was able to come up with biblical answers that satisfied me. This book is not a book of techniques. Instead, it presents a theology of prayer that answers these tormenting questions, thus enabling Christians to find peace and assurance when they pray. I feel privileged by my Lord to have been given these comforting, biblically coherent answers. It has been a great privilege to pass these truths on to my students. And now, through this book, I trust that more students and many others will be strengthened in their faith and blessed as they pray.