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Author : Barry L. Cameron
Publisher : College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780899009445
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Contagious Generosity written by Barry L. Cameron and published by College Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Willard
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310893143
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Contagious Generosity written by Chris Willard and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The general practices related to church funding aren’t producing the same results they have in the past. There is a general acceptance that something has changed but little talk or interest is coming from traditional church leader training sources such as denominational entities and seminaries. Pastors are largely left to their own devices to “figure this out.” They need a lifeline. While some churches are experiencing exponential growth, some churches - despite their best efforts - have been unsuccessful at moving beyond survival mode. Coupled with increased competition from other nonprofits and a decline in the commitment to give to the church first, churches risk losing the funding they need. A growing number of leaders are beginning to discover there is another way and are struggling to understand what makes one church generous and another not. There is a need in the market to offer a simple, working definition of “generosity” and reveal the “secrets” some church leaders seem to have simply stumbled upon which are resulting in unexplainable ministry growth and unprecedented church funding even in the midst of tough economic times. The content of this material was developed and refined by Jim Sheppard and Chris Willard through years of ministry leadership in the local church, consulting with church leaders across a broad spectrum of church settings, and through participation in and leadership of the Generous Church Leadership Community facilitated by Leadership Network. Of particular benefit will be the collection of observations and best practices gleaned during the Generous Church Leadership Community that originated within real-life church leadership situations and scenarios by highlighting specific challenges, methods, and successes.
Author : Art Rainer
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1496473760
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (964 download)
Download or read book Money in the Light of Eternity written by Art Rainer and published by Tyndale House Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You Are Created for More. Our hearts are filled with all types of longings--yearnings for contentment, satisfaction, and happiness. We all want to be part of something greater than ourselves. Yet our biggest temptation is to try to satisfy those longings by seeking after more money and more stuff. That is junk food for our souls, full of quickly fading pleasure that leaves us unhealthier than we were before. We deeply desire God and the good gifts that come from him alone. It's the way we're wired. Does your heart long to be a part of something greater than yourself? God's most ambitious mission is ready for you to join. When was the last time you used money in a way that brought about deep, refreshing happiness and satisfaction for yourself and for others? Money in Light of Eternity helps you see money the way God views it. When you follow God's design for your life, you will find what no large bank account, big house, or fast car could ever provide. You will find your true heart. You were created for so much more.
Author : Jim
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491770791
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Download or read book World-Changing Generosity written by Jim and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people would like to change the world for the better, and World-Changing Generosity is the book that will show you how to do it. Through amazing stories of people just like you—with jobs and other commitments—you can find your place as part of a global movement of caring, generous people who are changing the world for the better every day. World-Changing Generosity: How You Can Join the Movement of Ordinary People Making an Extraordinary Difference for Those in Need examines the amazing opportunity we have to eliminate the deepest poverty, hunger, and health issues in the world today. Authors Jim and Nancy Cotterill share how people can make a difference sometimes without donating money, and they give guidance on how to get started, when you need professional advice, how the big givers give, and how science is proving that living generously affects our happiness throughout life. This book is not about what you have to give away. Rather, it is a book that will help you to reap the most impressive and powerful personal benefit of your life. Loaded with inspiration, you’ll also get the hard facts through relevant statistics and a serious look at where our country’s largest religious and non-religious thought groups come down on the subject of generosity. Don’t put this book down.
Author : Barry Cameron
Publisher : College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780899009582
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The ABC's of Financial Freedom written by Barry Cameron and published by College Press. This book was released on 2008-01-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John D. Garr
Publisher : Golden Key Press
ISBN 13 : 1940685230
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Generosity written by John D. Garr and published by Golden Key Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generosity: The Righteous Path to Divine Blessing answers the question of why so many Christians cheat themselves out of God's blessing on their lives by being so stingy with their money? Why is it that the average Christian gives less than 3% of his income to religious and humanitarian causes? Why is it that the average Jewish person gives more than twice as much of his financial increase to charity as the average Christian does? The answers will probably surprise--and may well shock--you! God has set out a righteous path to divine blessing that anyone can walk. This is the narrow way of generosity, the gift of giving that every Christian should manifest continually. It's really quite simple when you choose to do what Jesus said, "Give and you shall receive." Here are some of the challenging and inspiring truths that Generosity: The Righteous Path to Divine Blessing will confirm for you: The Motive for Generosity, The Medium of Generosity, Treasure in the Bank of Heaven, Wealth and the Kingdom of God, Poverty Gospel/Prosperity Gospel, The Blessing of Health and Prosperity. As you read this volume, you will be reconnected with the Hebraic foundations of the Christian faith as they relate to the subjects of money, giving, health, and prosperity. You will be amazed as you discover the secure, balanced positions that God's Word has always taught on these important subjects. Then you will have the freedom to give joyfully and to receive abundantly God's promised provisions of health and prosperity. Get ready for a revolution in your life--and an amazing blessing when you learn to do God's thing God's way.
Author : John D. Griffiths
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004504435
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Spirit as Gift in Acts written by John D. Griffiths and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holy Spirit, being given as a gift in the opening chapters of Acts, initiates and sustains the early Jesus community, empowering their teaching, unity, meals, sharing of possessions and worship.
Author : Barbara Bonner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614291306
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Inspiring Generosity written by Barbara Bonner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiring stories and beautifully typeset quotations about generosity. WARNING: This book might change your life. The desire to act generously arrives like an uninvited guest, unexpectedly, like a lightning bolt, in a mere moment. A gesture, a news story, a quotation in a book, a passing remark can change everything. For many, that moment is enough for generosity to move into their hearts and minds and become central to their lives. This book will help readers open their hearts to the power of their own innate generosity, their desire to make a difference in the world, to help make someone's day a little brighter or their world a bit more secure. It will kindle a spark in readers' hearts that moves them into the sunshine of a more generous life. If one life is more generous, we all prosper. That is one of generosity's most wonderful qualities: it is utterly contagious. Inspiring Generosity is an invitation to savor a sampling of the very best inspirations on the subject of generosity. It includes fourteen contemporary stories of "generosity heroes" whose lives have been transformed by the power of generosity. Sprinkled throughout these stories are writings, poems, and quotes from Shakespeare, Hafiz, Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, Wendell Berry, Sharon Olds, Naomi Shibab Nye, Donald Justice, Winston Churchill, Mother Teresa, Maya Angelou, Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., John Steinbeck, James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Goethe, Seneca, Albert Schweitzer, Anne Frank, and many others.
Author : Lovett H. Weems
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538135345
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Generosity, Stewardship, and Abundance written by Lovett H. Weems and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God’s purpose in calling us to lives of faithful stewardship and generosity isn’t merely to sustain the church. Rather, the continued existence of the church is essential to sustain the powerful, transformative message of our faith. Lovett H. Weems Jr. and Ann A. Michel present the Bible’s redeeming and transforming message of generosity, stewardship, and abundance in this comprehensive guide to Christian financial responsibility. The book provides practical advice to pastors and church leaders tasked with funding ministry and inspiring others toward responsible stewardship and greater generosity. It addresses church fundraising, stewardship campaigns, budgets, financing capital needs, endowments, and innovative approaches to economic sustainability. The book integrates the theological and practical dimensions of finance to empower congregational leaders to think critically about stewardship from a Christian perspective, help them use their personal and congregational possessions in the light of faith.
Author : Brian Jacobs
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1512729639
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Acts 29 written by Brian Jacobs and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As long as people have heard the name of Jesus and believed his teachings, the Holy Spirit has been at work in the hearts and minds of people. If you have heard the good news about his life, death, resurrection, and the gift of the Holy Spirit, you are part of the continued work of Jesus Christ in the earth. This book has been written for those who desire to better understand the role of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Christian. The book of Acts contains more than a historical record of the early followers of Jesus; it contains the last words and instructions of Jesus to his closest followers before his ascension into heaven. As his last words, Jesus made a clear emphasis on the power and indwelling of the Holy Spirit upon which generations of his disciples would depend on. The central focus of this book is the nature and power of the Holy Spirit within and among his followers. In the end, the proof of Acts 29 is found in our living! In a variety of ways, the truth continues to provide an unmistakable bond between each generation of Jesuss disciples. The message Jesus spoke directly to his disciples in the beginnings of Lukes historical record continues to be boldly lived out by millions of believers today. Jesuss mandate to believe and be saved and then to be baptized in the Holy Spirit is still relevant for us today.
Author : Bruno Gonçalves
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319140116
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Social Phenomena written by Bruno Gonçalves and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the new possibilities and approaches to social modeling currently being made possible by an unprecedented variety of datasets generated by our interactions with modern technologies. This area has witnessed a veritable explosion of activity over the last few years, yielding many interesting and useful results. Our aim is to provide an overview of the state of the art in this area of research, merging an extremely heterogeneous array of datasets and models. Social Phenomena: From Data Analysis to Models is divided into two parts. Part I deals with modeling social behavior under normal conditions: How we live, travel, collaborate and interact with each other in our daily lives. Part II deals with societal behavior under exceptional conditions: Protests, armed insurgencies, terrorist attacks, and reactions to infectious diseases. This book offers an overview of one of the most fertile emerging fields bringing together practitioners from scientific communities as diverse as social sciences, physics and computer science. We hope to not only provide an unifying framework to understand and characterize social phenomena, but also to help foster the dialogue between researchers working on similar problems from different fields and perspectives.
Author : Lucinda Vardey
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0676978843
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (769 download)
Download or read book Being Generous written by Lucinda Vardey and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary little book has the power to heal and foster relationships, console and empower individuals, create community and help save the world by providing a spiritual ecology for our daily lives. Think that’s a bold claim? It is, but it’s also true. We can all be generous with our money when an occasion like Christmas rolls around, or when disaster strikes as it did with the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004. But Lucinda Vardey and John Dalla Costa say that this kind of giving segregates generosity, and makes it a special activity only for special times. If we’re truly going to help this troubled world, as individuals we must investigate other possibilities for being generous as well, by helping those we interact with every day: our children, colleagues, parents, friends and the homeless men and women we encounter when out and about in our cities. We learn that the four most generous words in the English language are “I’m sorry” and “Thank you.” We learn that if we ask, “What do you need?” we may be surprised how readily we can provide assistance, and how a single generous act may turn into something that circulates to include many. Lucinda and John are a married couple who have committed–they say “humbly and imperfectly”–to making generosity a central practice in their daily lives. What they refer to as their art of right living, within family, work and community, is both a mode of being and a value that infiltrates all others. Generosity inspires and guides them, and continually tests and teaches them. This book is filled with true stories they’ve collected about generosity in action. Being Generous is their gift to readers, written to enable and encourage us to follow the generous way. She was famous for her work with the poor in the streets of Calcutta. One day a beggar by the road ran up to her with a small coin–financially worthless to anyone but him. It was his day’s take on a long, hot and humid day, and he wanted to give it to her. She pondered what to do. If she took the money then he would have nothing at all, but if she rejected him, it would not only hurt him but insult his generosity. She stretched out her hand–he, who never had the chance to give, could give to Mother Teresa. The joy on his face said everything to her. The Lesson: Saying no to another’s offer denies them the joy of giving. Accepting what they wish to give–even if you don’t need it–is what practising true generosity is about. —from Being Generous
Author : Larry Stoess
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725271680
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Think Red written by Larry Stoess and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what the church would look like if Christians began to take the words of Jesus seriously--the words some Bibles print in red? What if Jesus actually meant for us to do the things he said? What if those who "believe in Jesus" really did value the things he valued? Would the church look different? Would your neighborhood stay the same? In Think Red, Larry Stoess takes a close look at the values, the vision, and the mission of Jesus, and then holds up a mirror for us to see if our communities look anything like Jesus. If we dare look in the mirror we may be inspired to leave behind our obsession with consumer-based religion and follow the way of Jesus. Those who do will be set free to imagine creative and whimsical expressions of community.
Author : Leonard Michael Koff
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838638002
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales written by Leonard Michael Koff and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That resistance, informed by a model of literary influence grounded on the idea of interruption, would keep the Canterbury Tales away from the Decameron, though not the rest of Chaucer from other works by Boccaccio. In the end, of course, that resistance tells us more about Chaucer's reception since the fifteenth century than about Chaucer himself or his sources."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Brent Yates
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1637630085
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (376 download)
Download or read book The Gravity of Up written by Brent Yates and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Gravity of Up, Brent Yates offers proven ways to help others reject the negative mindsets that are holding them down to live healthy, happy lives. Your life is designed to be the ultimate adventure. What holds you back from realizing that potential right now? What is pushing you down instead of pulling you up? Moving up might feel like something too daunting to achieve, but the good news is that up is a direction not a destination. Today is the day you begin moving forward as author Brent Yates shows you how to unshackle and propel yourself into a more abundant life. From the outside, Brent Yates had it all—money, success, a beautiful wife and family—but inside, he was dying. One by one, everything that he valued was taken from him until he was suicidal and crippled with a mysterious malady that no doctor could identify. Instead of giving up, he decided to pinpoint what wasn’t working in his life and embark on a quest to discover happiness. By implementing a holistic approach, Brent found the three pillars of a healthy life to be rooted in the spiritual, mental, and physical. You might be battling with some of the same issues that Brent had—depression, loneliness, and feeling life was without purpose—or maybe you simply feel stuck right now. The Gravity of Up is a blueprint to lose the old, negative thoughts and embrace a new world-altering mindset. Now, happy and healthy, Brent is living proof that the formula works and is eager to help you move up!
Author : Robert Wolgemuth
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418562254
Total Pages : 1441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)
Download or read book NCV, Dad's Bible written by Robert Wolgemuth and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2007-04-29 with total page 1441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can be a great Dad! Find instruction and encouragement The Dad's Bible is filled with challenging and helpful information designed to encourage and uplift fathers whose lives will be a priceless legacy for generations to come. Lessons and other Features include: Walking in authority Godly character Passing it on Dads in the bible Building your children Question and answer resources topical index Type Size point 8.5 This is the perfect gift and resource for all ages of dads!
Author : David Watson
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0529112213
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (291 download)
Download or read book Contagious Disciple Making written by David Watson and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is hard to deny that todayÆs world can seem apathetic toward Christians. Some may look down at their iPhones when we mention God, motion for the check when we bring up church, or casually change the subject when we talk about prayer. In a world full of people whose indifference is greater than their desire to know Christ, how can we dream of growing the church? In Contagious Disciple Making, David Watson and Paul Watson map out a simple method that has sparked an explosion of homegrown churches in the United States and around the world. A companion to Cityteam's two previous books, Miraculous Movements and The Father Glorified, Contagious Disciple Making details the method used by Cityteam disciple-makers. This distinctive process focuses on equipping spiritual leaders in communities where churches are planted. Unlike many evangelism and church-growth products that focus on quick results, contagious disciple-making takes time to cultivate spiritual leadership, resulting in lasting disciple-making movements. Through Contagious Disciple Making readers will come to understand that a strong and equipped leader will continue to grow the church long after church planters move on to the next church. Features include: Engagement tools for use in the field Practical techniques to equip others to make disciples
