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What if the solution for the decline of today's church isn't more
money, people, programs, innovation, or busyness? What if the
answer is to stop and wait on God? In When Church Stops Working,
ministry leaders Andrew Root and Blair Bertrand show how actively
watching and listening for God can bring life out of death for
churches in crisis today. Using clear steps and practices, they
invite church leaders to stop the endless cycle of doing more and
rather to simply "be" in God's presence. They tell the story of two
congregations who did this--and found new life in the process. When
Church Stops Working distills the core themes of Root's critically
acclaimed Ministry in a Secular Age series in a more accessible
form. Leaders and churchgoers who are burned out and hopeless will
experience affirmation, encouragement, and empowerment as Root and
Bertrand turn to the book of Acts as well as examples from
contemporary congregational life to show what "active" waiting
looks like and the saving grace it can hold.
Ligand-gated ion channels mediate fast synaptic transmission in the
central nervous s- tem (CNS) and at ganglionic and neuromuscular
synapses. The nicotinic acetylcholine - ceptor (nAChR) is a member
of the ligand-gated ion channel superfamily, which includes the
5-HT , glycine and GABA type A and C receptors. These receptors are
known as Cys- 3 loop receptors, as all of them have a conserved
sequence containing a pair of cysteines separated by 13 residues
and linked by a disulfide bridge. nAChRs can be divided into two
groups: muscle receptors, which are found at the skeletal
neuromuscular junction where they mediate neuromuscular
transmission, and neuronal receptors, which are found throughout
the peripheral and central nervous system. Many of the early
studies carried out on the subunit composition and structure of the
nAChRs were performed on receptors isolated from the electric organ
of Torpedo californica, as this tissue is very rich in nAChRs, and
they were found to have a high degree of homology with the
embryonic v- tebrate muscle type receptor. Muscle nAChRs are made
up of five subunits arranged around a central pore (Fig. 1A, B). In
Torpedo electric organ and vertebrate fetal muscle, the subunit
composition is (a1) b1gd, and in adult muscle the g subunit is
replaced by the e to give an (a1)b1ed 2 2 composition (Mishina et
al. 1986).
In the last five years there has been very significant progress in
the development of transcendence theory. A new approach to the
arithmetic properties of values of modular forms and
theta-functions was found. The solution of the Mahler-Manin problem
on values of modular function j(tau) and algebraic independence of
numbers pi and e DEGREES(pi) are most impressive results of this
breakthrough. The book presents these and other results on
algebraic independence of numbers and further, a detailed
exposition of methods created in last the 25 years, during which
commutative algebra and algebraic geometry exerted strong catalytic
influence on the development of the s
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