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Churches will learn a biblically based method for sharing the Gospel along with motivating "on-the-job" training on how to share Christ and disciple new believers. This expanded fourth edition features a new section on friendship evangelism and how to build a vision for worldwide discipline. Through this book, churches will experience what can take place when its leaders and members take seriously the command of Christ to equip the saints to do the work of ministry. Chapters include "Training Laymen for Evangelism," "A Presentation of the Gospel," and "The Proper Use of Testimony."
America is in the throes of a cultural war-one that threatens us
from within and without. So-called "progressive" individuals and
organizations are falsely using the words of our founding fathers
to achieve the antithesis of their design for our nation. The first
Americans sought freedom of religion; today we face freedom from
religion. The framers of the constitution sought liberty; modern
interpretations promote licentiousness. The early settlers believed
in absolute morality; today's liberals advocate relative morality.
What If America Were a Christian Nation Again? offers
encouragement about God's providential hand on our nation-and hope
that it's not too late to save. The authors provide a specific
blueprint to preserve and restore our country to its original
intent. In three sections (Where We Came From, Where We Are, Where
We Are Going), they offer concrete examples from history, in-depth
analysis of current conditions, and strategies for developing "a
new birth of freedom."
This is an inspiring book full of hope. It pulls no punches. The
gates of Hell are clearly seen in all their horrific might. Yet
against that black backdrop the irresistible strength of Christ
tears through and destroys the darkness in ways that surprise and
embolden every reader. D. James Kennedy is one of the most
brilliant defenders of Judeo-Christian values in America today.
A young woman's secretive midwestern town is engulfed by a
mysterious plague of tornadoes every generation and she must escape
it before it claims her. Stephen King s The Mist meets David Lynch
s Twin Peaks in this surreal, mind-bending horror-thriller. In a
small town tucked away in the midwestern corn fields, the adults
whisper about Tornado Day. Our narrator, a high school sophomore,
has never heard this phrase but she soon discovers its terrible
meaning: a plague of sentient tornadoes is coming to destroy them.
The only thing that stands between the town and total annihilation
is a teen boy known as the tornado killer. Drawn to this enigmatic
boy, our narrator senses an unnatural connection between them. But
the adults are hiding a secret about the origins of the tornadoes
and the true nature of the tornado killer and our narrator must
escape before the primeval power that binds them all comes to claim
her. Audaciously conceived and steeped in existential dread, this
genre-defying fever dream of a novel reveals the mythbound madness
at the heart of American life.
This book is about how Christian women can identify and focus their
leadership skills on tasks that need to be undertaken in the
church. It is about how Christian men can recognize and use the
leadership talents of the women in the church. Finally, it is about
how local churches, those with denominational affiliation and those
without, can integrate the full range of women's abilities with the
tremendous needs in the kingdom of God.
The tale that follows is not another cliched collection of
rock'n'roll debaucheries (sorry) nor is it another tired fable of
triumph over adversity (you're welcome). It's the story of a
half-deaf kid from a tiny, remote village in South Wales who was
hailed as a genius by the UK's biggest radio station and headhunted
by major record labels, only for the music industry to collapse. It
crashed hard, taking with it an entire generation of talented
artists who would never now get their shot. CNN called it 'music's
lost decade'. Along the way, there are goodies, baddies, gun-toting
label execs, life-saving surgeons, therapy, true love, loyalty,
hope, breakdowns, suicidal managers, betrayal, drummers and way too
many hangovers. James Kennedy shows that the best lessons are to be
learned from good losers. It really is all about the journey. Part
memoir, part expose of the music world's murky underbelly, Noise
Damage is emotional, painfully honest, funny, informative and
ridiculous. It's also a celebration of the life-changing magic of
music.
In this powerful declaration of what Christians believe and why,
Kennedy explores the foundations of the Christian faith. For new
believers and seasoned Christians alike, this book will strengthen
their faith by answering that all consuming question, "Why?"
A razor-smart sci-fi corporate noir nightmare. Dare to Know is what
happens when Willy Loman sees through the Matrix. A heartbreaking,
time-bending, galactic mindbender delivered in the mordantly funny
clip of a doomed antihero. Daniel Kraus, co-author of The Shape of
Water. Dark Matter meets Annihilation in this mind-bending and
emotional speculative thriller set in a world where the exact
moment of your death can be predicted for a price. Our narrator is
the most talented salesperson at Dare to Know, an enigmatic company
that has developed the technology to predict anyone s death down to
the second. Divorced, estranged from his sons, and broke, he's
driven to violate the cardinal rule of the business by forecasting
his own death day. The problem: his prediction says he died
twenty-three minutes ago. The only person who can confirm its
accuracy is Julia, the woman he loved and lost during his rise up
the ranks of Dare to Know. As he travels across the country to see
her, he s forced to confront his past, the choices he's made, and
the terrifying truth about the company he works for. Wildly
ambitious and highly immersive, this mind-bending thriller explores
the destructive power of knowledge and collapses the boundaries
between reality, myth, and conspiracy as it races toward its
shocking conclusion.
Traditional methods for creating intelligent computational
systems have
privileged private "internal" cognitive and computational
processes. In
contrast, "Swarm Intelligence" argues that human
intelligence derives from the interactions of individuals in a
social world
and further, that this model of intelligence can be effectively
applied to
artificially intelligent systems. The authors first present the
foundations of
this new approach through an extensive review of the critical
literature in
social psychology, cognitive science, and evolutionary computation.
They
then show in detail how these theories and models apply to a
new
computational intelligence methodology particle swarms which
focuses
on adaptation as the key behavior of intelligent systems. Drilling
down
still further, the authors describe the practical benefits of
applying particle
swarm optimization to a range of engineering problems. Developed
by
the authors, this algorithm is an extension of cellular automata
and
provides a powerful optimization, learning, and problem solving
method.
This important book presents valuable new insights by exploring
the
boundaries shared by cognitive science, social psychology,
artificial life,
artificial intelligence, and evolutionary computation and by
applying these
insights to the solving of difficult engineering problems.
Researchers and
graduate students in any of these disciplines will find the
material
intriguing, provocative, and revealing as will the curious and
savvy
computing professional.
* Places particle swarms within the larger context of
intelligent
adaptive behavior and evolutionary computation.
* Describes recent results of experiments with the particle
swarm
optimization (PSO) algorithm
* Includes a basic overview of statistics to ensure readers
can
properly analyze the results of their own experiments using
the
algorithm.
* Support software which can be downloaded from the
publishers
website, includes a Java PSO applet, C and Visual Basic
source
code."
A razor-smart sci-fi corporate noir nightmare. Dare to Know is what
happens when Willy Loman sees through the Matrix. A heartbreaking,
time-bending, galactic mindbender delivered in the mordantly funny
clip of a doomed antihero. Daniel Kraus, co-author of The Shape of
Water. Dark Matter meets Annihilation in this mind-bending and
emotional speculative thriller set in a world where the exact
moment of your death can be predicted for a price. Our narrator is
the most talented salesperson at Dare to Know, an enigmatic company
that has developed the technology to predict anyone s death down to
the second. Divorced, estranged from his sons, and broke, he's
driven to violate the cardinal rule of the business by forecasting
his own death day. The problem: his prediction says he died
twenty-three minutes ago. The only person who can confirm its
accuracy is Julia, the woman he loved and lost during his rise up
the ranks of Dare to Know. As he travels across the country to see
her, he s forced to confront his past, the choices he's made, and
the terrifying truth about the company he works for. Wildly
ambitious and highly immersive, this mind-bending thriller explores
the destructive power of knowledge and collapses the boundaries
between reality, myth, and conspiracy as it races toward its
shocking conclusion.
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