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Over 50 years, Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that is one of the indisputable glories of American popular culture. Some 20 years after the last strip appeared, the characters Schulz brought to life in Peanuts continue to resonate with millions of fans, their beguiling four-panel adventures and television escapades offering lessons about happiness, friendship, disappointment, childhood, and life itself. Here, 33 writers and artists reflect on the deeper truths of Schulz’s deceptively simple comic, its impact on their lives and art and on the broader culture.

"The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door." A new crop of writers emerged from the dawning of the nuclear age, grappling with humankind's place in the universe. While imagining the wonders of space exploration and the rise of technological advancements, they questioned whether we were prepared to encounter aliens, or even control the machines and weapons we'd built ourselves.

For months, thousands around the globe prayed for a miraculous healing for Beni, beloved wife of pastor Bill Johnson, that never came. At Bethel Church, a global outpost of revival known for its signs and wonders, her passing thundered through the community like an avalanche in the valley.

Author Bill Johnson reveals the secrets of using God's unlimited supply of everything to transform your family and community, your job or business, the nation and the world. You were created to be a "design star" by using your unique imagination, creativity, wisdom, and dreams. There are rooms in your world that need your special touch - your child's classroom; your coworker's office; your neighbor's heart. There are regions in your world that need your inspiration - your community's poor; your state's policies; your nation's leaders.

The Holy Spirit is Bill Johnson’s foundational book on the Spirit, including both introductory and deep truths about the third person of the Trinity. He describes what he has learned about seeking God, hosting His presence, and seeing His Spirit change the atmosphere of families and communities—bringing peace where there was anxiety and discord, salvation where hope was gone, and restoration where purpose was lost.

Today's believer is faced with situations unknown 50, 30, even 20 years ago. To stand in victory and enter our hour of promotion is to learn how to Strengthen Yourself in the Lord. How can you “count it all joy” when facing turmoil at home, work, or within your family? Author Bill Johnson tells you how through Scripture and personal experience. You can be strong when you know the keys to encouraging yourself - looking past failure and into a successful future.

Ah, the sweet, sweet singing of the whip-poor-wills. Surely one of the most innocent, purest bird songs one can know, plaintive and perfect in the clean morning light. Unless, of course, you happen to live near the decayed New England village of Dunwich, have seen the mad fires blazing from the ancient stone circles atop Sentinel Mountain, and remember the horrible events of 70 years ago.

Prepare for the ultimate assignment. In this eight-week audio seminar, Bill Johnson takes you on an unforgettable journey, answering these questions from scripture and showing believers what it looks like to host God's presence in their everyday lives. Prepare to encounter God like never before and transform the world around you by hosting his presence!

Changing Your World: The Effect of Praise on Our Surroundings takes listeners into the sanctuary where they receive teaching that creates a desire to learn how to change their world by worshiping the Lord with passion and priority. Unpacking Psalm 84, Bill Johnson teaches what it means to long for God with our entire body, soul, and spirit: “How lovely is Your tabernacle, O Lord of hosts! My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God” (vs. 1-2).

The Longevity Series takes listeners into the sanctuary where they receive teaching that creates an awareness of why some people who started out so well finish so poorly. Exploring the pitfalls of four biblical people, we are better equipped to examine our own hearts and how to live faithfully to the Lord so that we can say with the apostle Paul, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”

As a prolific author and passionate pastor, Bill Johnson’s series on living in an ongoing outpouring of God’s glory will speak to those who are hungry for revival. This is a transcription of audio messages that were given before an audience of thousands, touching individual hearts, souls, and minds to encounter God’s glorious presence and steward the demonstration of God’s power.

From the grand old man of comedy, George Burns, to the up-to-the minute observations of today's everyman, Dave Barry, these great humorists share one thing in common: their very individual, often raucously funny perceptions of the world around them.

"The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit Of Prophecy." This verse from Revelation reveals one of the primary purposes behind declaring the works of God among man. By doing so we open up the possibility of the miracle in testimony being duplicated. In this message the hearer will also discover how rich their inheritance is in God.

Faith Anchored in the Unseen takes listeners into the sanctuary where they receive teaching that creates an appetite to hear God’s voice in the midst of impossible circumstances. Even though we are called to plan from Kingdom principles, we must learn to live from God’s presence and voice, knowing that we are already accepted in him. Since faith is a product that can grow, each one of us is responsible to exercise our faith by believing for those things that are probable and possible, so that when we face the impossible, we’ll have the faith to see God move.

If the Watergate scandal was a national nightmare, then maybe the Clinton scandal was a national wet dream, and who better to narrate it than the screenwriter Joe Eszterhas? In American Rhapsody, Eszterhas, whose credits include Basic Instinct and Showgirls, takes us through the events that threatened to topple a president. From scandalmongers Matt Drudge and Ken Starr, to his final, unimpeachable witness, Willard - none other than President Clinton's talking penis - Eszterhas gives us the goods.

The essays gathered in The Early Imperial Republic move beyond the question of whether the new republic was an empire, investigating instead where, how, and why it was one. They use the category of empire to situate the early United States in the global context its contemporaries understood, drawing important connections between territorial conquests on the continent and American incursions.

The Church of Power takes listeners into the sanctuary where they receive teaching that boosts their awareness of God and reveals his perspective of who they are called to be. The insights Pastor Johnson shares are meant to motivate, encourage, and grow believers, creating a desperate desire to see God’s power manifested in their generation.

Abundance with a Purpose takes listeners into the sanctuary where they receive teaching that boosts their awareness of God and reveals his perspective of the natural and supernatural, the world and the local church, and the creation and the created. The insights Pastor Johnson shares are meant to motivate, encourage, and grow believers. And that is exactly how every listener emerges - stronger, excited to produce fruit, and with a deeper more intimate closeness with their heavenly Father.

Hear the voices of old-time boxing greats, including Jack Dempsey, Luis Firpo, Al Mayer, Nat Fleisher, Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, Jack Johnson, Jim Jeffries, Tony Galento, Benny Leonard, and Bill Corum.

The greatest commission Jesus gave us is found in the Lord's Prayer: "Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven." It is the mandate expressing his heart - that his world would infiltrate, influence, and shape our world. We must discover how heaven functions so we can cultivate heaven's values and realities on earth. As we embrace our assignment from the Lord to represent him, we shape our culture by carrying his glorious presence into the world.