Exiled for their beliefs, the faithful have been imprisoned deep inside the salt mines of ancient Rome. For the empire, salt is a symbol of life and prosperity; for the Christian slaves who mine it, its only meaning is death. Barbaric persecution and cave-ins threaten to stamp them out entirely, but beyond the shafts their outlawed religion is growing more quickly each day.

"Developing a Secret History with God" is a book written by Margaret M. Bass to help us understand and develop an intimate relationship with God. Indeed, Margaret leads us through prayers that will mature us, change our hearts, transform our thinking and mold us to our Father's image. She also invites each of us to personally embark on a journey that will urge us to deepen our secret history with God. "The words chronicled in this book, 'Developing a Secret History with God', are more than how to's, they are life giving and transformational kingdom principles. They challenge you to invite the Lord to go deep into your CORE... your very Heart. May you embark on this journey that will provoke you to deepen your secret history with God" (Pastor Randy Landis, Founder & Senior Pastor of Lifechurch - Allentown, Pennsylvania).

A number of books have addressed ordination and the priestly life from a devotional or vocational vantage point, but few books have considered ordination from a truly theological perspective. Meanwhile, our time is obsessed with the more general question of leadership. 'Being Salt' addresses both ordination and leadership by taking as its point of departure the most distinctive yet often overlooked feature of ordination: indelibility -- being ordained for life. Being Salt offers several answers to the question, What is the church? Sumner wholeheartedly agrees with the Reformation emphasis on the ministry of the whole people of God. Still, he argues that we can only understand priesthood if we understand what one is ordained for. Indelibility -- lifetime ordination -- provides an entrŽe to the question of what sets the ordained apart. In sum, Being Salt offers an evangelical argument for a catholic practice and so goes to the heart of what Anglicanism understands itself to be.

Here is an expanded perspective of Greek History and aspects of both old and Modern Greek history that you would not find elsewhere. Greek and Hebrew languages and writing have nothing in common, yet their alphabets are identical. What does this mean? Where was the Greek language developed? Was it developed in Athens? No, not really. Pythagoras left his country to learn. He learned mathematics to teach us even in our days. But he also found the existence of a true and caring God and wanted his people to know it also. As Pythagoras of old in a similar fashion, the author of this book left Greece and immigrated to the United States to learn electronics. He used to think that religion was the knowledge of stories about good men God loved, but only in the old days, not today. Two young missionaries knocked on his door and taught him that a true religion is a set of principles we needed to strive to learn and follow. How can a person know if a church is true? The author's life combined with the discovery of such principles gave him a happier way of life and his children are blessed because of it also. Faith, humility, honesty, integrity, and many other principles are what our world is in need of today and are well documented in this book. These principles make everyone a better person, a happier person in a better society. Is Salt Lake City a good milestone? It has been for this author and for many other people from all walks of life.