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Why are some leaders more effective than others? Effective leaders
follow The Leadership Strategy of Jesus personally and in the
organizations they lead. In the gospels, Jesus demonstrates the key
elements necessary to advance His kingdom-in life, church, and
work. The Leadership Strategy of Jesus shows leaders how to live
out these principles and positively impact the world. As a seasoned
ministry leader, Dr. Rich Halcombe's, The Leadership Strategy of
Jesus, is designed to help leaders discover their personal purpose
in order to better serve their communities. Halcombe encourages
leaders to establish a clean plan for future growth and invest time
and energy into those plans, while remaining open to continuous
improvement and adjustment. The Leadership Strategy of Jesus will
increase any leader's effectiveness by identifying the strategies
of Jesus and applying them to everyday experiences.
For a generation, the Catholic Church in Brazil has enjoyed
international renown as one of the most progressive social forces
in Latin America. The Church's creation of Christian Base
Communities (CEBs), groups of Catholics who learn to read the Bible
as a call for social justice, has been widely hailed. Still, in
recent years it has become increasingly clear that the CEBs are
lagging far behind the explosive growth of Brazil's two other major
national religious movements--Pentacostalism and Afro-Brazilian
"Umbanda."
On the basis of his extensive fieldwork in Rio di Janeiro,
including detailed life histories of women, blacks, youths, and the
marginal poor, John Burdick offers the first in-depth explanation
of why the radical Catholic Church is losing, and Pentecostalism
and "Umbanda" winning, the battle for souls in urban Brazil.
What is a knowledgeable, faithfully biblical response to
transgenderism? In Affirming God's Image, J. Alan Branch takes a
fair, respectful, and factual tone in addressing this complex issue
through a biblical lens. You'll learn: Scientific research around
the transgender experience An Overview of the history of
transgenderism Important terminology surrounding gender issues Why
people pursue gender reassignment surgery, and what happens after
How to navigate conversations around this topic The book ends with
two practical chapters for families and churches, giving you
guiding principles for how to address this issue in a loving,
Christ--honoring way. The first step to responding well to any
situation is understanding it. Affirming God's Image equips you
with the biblical, scientific, and practical knowledge you need for
a wise response.
"Preeeeep." The sound of the peepers, tiny frogs an inch or two
long, penetrated the dusk. Beneath the jack pines at the edge of a
small pond in the northern Michigan woods, the males were calling
their mates. A professor and a group of ecology students sat
speechless as closer and closer, louder and louder, more and more
peepers joined in chorus. There was just light enough to see them,
crawling up a bracken fern to find a singing perch, filling their
throats with air like tiny balloons about to burst and then giving
forth at close range an ear-splitting 'preeeeep.; . . . Now we were
immersed in the peepers' lives, not ours. And when the concert
ended and the peepers had gone away, we laughed together for the
sheer joy and power of life displayed for a moment in the grand
efforts of one tiny creature to be fruitful and multiply."
Combining compelling stories with both biblical and scientific
investigation, Redeeming Creation addresses the ecological crisis
we face today. population explosion rain forests stripped bare
destruction of animal habitat the death of entire species depletion
of the ozone layer global warming The authors, four biologists and
teachers, believe that we can face these dilemmas with hope. Moving
beyond a mere survey of the planet's ills, they bring Scripture
into fruitful dialogue with current scientific findings and
commitments. They both inspire and inform our individual and
corporate response to God's creation.
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Buried Seeds
(Hardcover)
Alexia Salvatierra, Brandon Wrencher
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