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Giving Away the Collection Plate

Author : John Richardson
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1620241056
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Giving Away the Collection Plate written by John Richardson and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Giving Away the Collection Plate...gives a great apologetic for believers and the church to be generous agents engaged in God's mission.' Ed Stetzer, President of LifeWay Research 'This book will confront you with the clear biblical mandates of what the church, as the body of Christ, is to be in the world.' Jerry Rankin, President Emeritus, International Mission Board, SBC 'Read this book only if you want your norm to be wrecked by the generosity of Jesus.' Jason C. Dukes, Author of Live Sent: You Are a Letter and Beyond My Church What would happen in your church if you gave away all of the tithes and offerings for a week? What if God pushed you further and asked you to give everything away for an entire year? One small church plant in Mississippi felt that push from God. As they prayed about how to accurately depict Christ to their community, they were prompted to give away their tithes and offerings for an entire year. Giving Away the Collection Plate exposes the work of Traceway Church and explores the dynamic relationship between generosity and spiritual growth. Regardless of your background, this book will inspire you to consider missional generosity. It will force you to ask, 'How can our church become a better physical representation of Christ in our community?' It may even provoke you to the point that you become radically generous, as God is generous toward us.

Paul Pletka

Author : Amy Scott
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080615912X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Paul Pletka written by Amy Scott and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Art Book and Best of Show—2018 New Mexico–Arizona Book Award Born in San Diego in 1946 and raised in the American Southwest, painter Paul Pletka has created a body of work that owes much to the West of his childhood, and more to the West of his imagination. Infused with an operatic sense of theater and drama, his paintings conjure scenes from the cultures, history, and religions of the American West and Mexico—diffused, as Pletka writes, “through the lens of personal experiences, dreams, research, and ancestral memory.” In Paul Pletka: Imagined Wests, the first book on this major American artist in over thirty years, readers will encounter the full range of Pletka’s oeuvre through more than eighty color reproductions of his best-known and most influential works. Images of warriors and shamans are paired with depictions of George Armstrong Custer, Christian saints, and the lost gods of North and South America, their forms rendered in a distinctive style that mixes classical drawing and expressionist distortion with elements of surrealism and European symbolism. An artist statement and notes on selected paintings provide rare insight into Pletka’s creative process, and an introductory essay by art historian Amy Scott discusses how Pletka’s studies of indigenous cultures of the American West and Mexico, as well as art historical and critical influences, have informed his work. Complex, mysterious, and mesmerizing, Pletka’s paintings are designed to make it almost impossible to look away. In their boldly conceived subject matter, vivid color, and ethnographic detail, these works—and their creator—are true originals in the rich artistic landscape of the American West.

Worship that Works

Author : Kathleen Rolenz
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
ISBN 13 : 9781558965928
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book Worship that Works written by Kathleen Rolenz and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wayne Arnason and Kathleen Rolenz ... embarked on an eighteen-month sabbatical road trip in search of the cutting edge of innovation in worship culture. They attended services and interviewed worship leaders at thirty congregations of diverse sizes and traditions. ... Worship that Works provides practical, spiritual resonance of worship through symbols, music, cultural sensitivity, inclusion and more."--Pbk. cover.

Passing the Plate

Author : Christian Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199887551
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Passing the Plate written by Christian Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-29 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passing the Plate shows that few American Christians donate generously to religious and charitable causes. This eye-opening book explores the reasons behind such ungenerous giving, the potential world-changing benefits of greater financial giving, and what can be done to improve matters. By illuminating the social and psychological forces that shape charitable giving, Passing the Plate is sure to spark a much-needed debate on a critical issue.

The Robber Girl

Author : Franny Billingsley
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763669563
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book The Robber Girl written by Franny Billingsley and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Robber Girl has a good dagger. Its voice in her head is as sharp as its two edges that taper down to a point. Today, the Robber Girl and her dagger will ride with Gentleman Jack into the Indigo Heart to claim the gold that's rightfully his. But instead of gold, the Robber Girl finds a dollhouse cottage with doorknobs the size of apple seeds. She finds two dolls who give her three tasks, even though she knows that three is too many tasks. The right number of tasks is two, like Grandmother gave to Gentleman Jack: Fetch unto me the mountain's gold, to build our city fair. Fetch unto me the wingless bird, and I shall make you my heir" -- Jacket flap

Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King

Author : Anupreeta Das
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1668006723
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King written by Anupreeta Das and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the finance editor of The New York Times, an examination of Bill Gates—one of the most powerful, fascinating, and contradictory figures of the past four decades—and an eye-opening exploration of our national fixation on billionaires. Few billionaires have been in the public eye for as long, and in as many guises, as Bill Gates. At first heralded as a tech visionary, the Microsoft cofounder next morphed into a ruthless capitalist, only to change yet again when he fashioned himself into a global do-gooder. Along the way, Gates forever influenced how we think about tech founders, as the products they make and the ideas they sell continue to dominate our lives. Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he also set a new standard for high-profile, billionaire philanthropy. But there is more to Gates’s story, and here, Das’s revelatory reporting shows us that billionaires have secrets and philanthropy can have a dark side. Drawing upon hundreds of interviews with current and former employees of the Gates Foundation, Microsoft, academics, nonprofits, and those with insight into the Gates universe, Das delves into Gates’s relationships with Warren Buffett, Jeffrey Epstein, Melinda French Gates, and others, to uncover the truths behind the public persona. In telling Gates’s story, Das also provides a new way to think about how billionaires wield their power, manipulate their image, and pursue philanthropy to become heroes, repair damaged reputations, and direct policy to achieve their preferred outcomes. Insightful, illuminating, and timely, Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King is an important story of money and government, wealth and power, and media and image, and the ways in which the world’s richest people hold us in their thrall.

The Chair: Volume IV

Author : Robert McKenzie
Publisher : Fresh Ink Group
ISBN 13 : 1958922099
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (589 download)

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Download or read book The Chair: Volume IV written by Robert McKenzie and published by Fresh Ink Group. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chair Volume IV, Punt, Pass, & Kick tells of a gala retirement ceremony for an employee held on a railroad trestle, a fishing expedition under the Idlewood Arch & Aqueduct, the bravery, battles, and bastions of the Texas Revolution, a quinceañera celebration near Matamoros, a standoff gun-boat battle on the Rio Grande between the Armada de Marina de México and Americans, an all-girl rock band from Topeka, a Thanksgiving dinner in 1971 Beverly Hills, a brunch with mimosas at the Pierre Hotel on 5th Avenue, a lunch at The Horse tavern in Baltimore, a docu-drama about a high-school football team in East Texas, intimate mother and daughter correspondence, an English suffragette who becomes an ocean-liner titan, four brothers from Italy creating a family olive-oil and wine-exporting company, the creator of synonym, antonym, and hyponym awareness for women entrepreneurs, a courageous cattle drive from South Texas to Wyoming, a seascape watercolor painter, and a teenage writer whose unpublished manuscript is found and read by Lana McCracken, the prime character in The Chair pentalogy, a story that can only be found in an old trunk between the real and imagined, a story for all times.

This is Philosophy of Religion

Author : Neil A. Manson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470674288
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book This is Philosophy of Religion written by Neil A. Manson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reader-friendly introduction to the essential concepts, theories, and questions in analytic philosophy of religion Does God exist? If so, what is God's relationship to us? Do we have free will? This is Philosophy of Religion surveys foundational topics in the philosophy of religion using a clear and accessible style. Straightforward and easy to comprehend for those with no prior philosophical background, this engaging introduction familiarizes readers with the vocabulary, methods, and major concepts in the philosophy of religion, and invites them to think through questions which arise in the intersection of philosophy, theology, and religious studies. Part of the popular This is Philosophy series, this book applies the basic investigative methods of philosophy to questions of religion, faith, and morality. Chapters offer a framework for thinking about religion, present arguments for and against the existence of God, discuss religious diversity, consider the intellectual co-existence of faith and reason, and examine different theories about why people are religious. Examples and illustrations taken from popular culture reinforce the subject’s contemporary relevance, and are complemented by a wealth of online resources for instructors on the This is Philosophy series site that encourage further reading and strengthen student comprehension of key concepts. A dependable introduction to the philosophy of religion, This is Philosophy of Religion is an ideal gateway to the discipline for readers who want to engage with questions about religion and contemplate the philosophical implications of religious belief.

Simple Heuristics in a Social World

Author : ABC Research Group
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195388437
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Simple Heuristics in a Social World written by ABC Research Group and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title invites readers to discover the simple heuristics that people use to navigate the complexities and surprises of environments populated with others.

Simple Heuristics in a Social World

Author : Ralph Hertwig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199729247
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Simple Heuristics in a Social World written by Ralph Hertwig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple Heuristics in a Social World invites readers to discover the simple heuristics that people use to navigate the complexities and surprises of environments populated with others. The social world is a terrain where humans and other animals compete with conspecifics for myriad resources, including food, mates, and status, and where rivals grant the decision maker little time for deep thought, protracted information search, or complex calculations. Yet, the social world also encompasses domains where social animals such as humans can learn from one another and can forge alliances with one another to boost their chances of success. According to the book's thesis, the undeniable complexity of the social world does not dictate cognitive complexity as many scholars of rationality argue. Rather, it entails circumstances that render optimization impossible or computationally arduous: intractability, the existence of incommensurable considerations, and competing goals. With optimization beyond reach, less can be more. That is, heuristics--simple strategies for making decisions when time is pressing and careful deliberation an unaffordable luxury--become indispensible mental tools. As accurate as or even more accurate than complex methods when used in the appropriate social environments, these heuristics are good descriptive models of how people make many decisions and inferences, but their impressive performance also poses a normative challenge for optimization models. In short, the Homo socialis may prove to be a Homo heuristicus whose intelligence reflects ecological rather than logical rationality.

Win

Author : Dr. Frank Luntz
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1401396542
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Win written by Dr. Frank Luntz and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author and top pollster Dr. Frank Luntz comes an unprecedented examination of communication excellence and how top performers win in all areas of human endeavor by utilizing superb communication skills. From Mike Bloomberg and Arnold Schwarzenegger to business icons Rupert Murdoch, Steve Wynn, and Fred Smith; to the CEOs of MGM Resorts, J. Crew, and Gibson Guitar; to legendary sports superstars like Larry Bird, Jimmy Connors, and Mike Richter; to media legends Roger Ailes, Don Imus, and dozens more, Luntz tells their stories--in their own words--and demonstrates how their style of operation and communication is absolutely essential to their success. Luntz makes it clear that following the rules of effective communication is indispensable in any successful human endeavor. Dr. Luntz offers more than seventy new "words that work" for private one-on-one meetings with your boss, for public presentations to hundreds of colleagues, or for television appearances that reach millions. There are more than three dozen specific lessons and recommendations--and each one directly illustrates the nine essential action-oriented principles of winning at every level: People-Centered, Paradigm-Breaking, Prioritizing, Perfection, Partnerships, Passion, Persuasion, Persistence, and Principled Actions. Do you have what it takes Win is an unprecedented examination of the art, science, and language of winning, and a must-have for people who want to understand and emulate the winners of today. THE DEFINITION OF WINNING The ability to grasp the human dimension of every situation The ability to know what questions to ask and when to ask them The ability to see the challenge, and the solution, from every angle The ability to communicate their vision passionately and persuasively The ability to connect with others and create an enduring chemistry and 10 other universal attributes of winners.

Walking Gently on the Earth

Author : Lisa Graham McMinn
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830832998
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Walking Gently on the Earth written by Lisa Graham McMinn and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociologist and author Lisa McMinn and Megan Anna Neff invite you to rediscover, through new eyes, the beauty and goodness of our earth, and to make faithful choices that will help it prosper. Each chapter uniquely begins with a prelude by Megan Anna that highlights an African perspective or practice, and Lisa's fluid, passionate writing then offers both the truth about the state of the earth and inspiration to get back to shalom--a peace that allows all things to thrive.

gods with a little g

Author : Tupelo Hassman
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374719543
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book gods with a little g written by Tupelo Hassman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Triumphant . . . as heartwarming as it is beautifully written." —Michael Schaub, NPR From the acclaimed author of Girlchild, this gritty, irreverent novel sees a young misfit grow into hope Unsinkable and wrecked by grief, motherless and aimless and looking for connection, Helen Dedleder is a girl with a gift she doesn't want to use and a pack of friends who are all just helping each other get by. So cut off from the rest of the world that even the internet is blocked (never mind traffic in and out), Rosary, California, is run by evangelicals but was named by Catholics. It’s a town on very formal relations with its neighbors, one that boasts an oil refinery as well as a fairly sizable population of teenagers. For Helen and her gang of misfits, the tire yard, sex, and beer help pass the days until they turn eighteen and leave town. Her best friends, Win and Rainbolene, late arrivals to Rosary, are particularly keen to depart—Rain because she’ll finally be able to get the hormones she needs to fully become herself. Watching over them is Aunt Bev, an outcast like the kids, who runs the barely tolerated Psychic Encounter Shoppe and tries to keep Helen connected to her own psychic talents—a gift passed down from her mother. Tensions are building, though, in every way. Threats against the Psychic Encounter Shoppe become serious actions. One of the kids gets in trouble, and then another. And Helen can see some things before they happen, but somehow can't see the most important things happening right in front of her. Tupelo Hassman's gods with a little g bursts and splinters with flawed, lovable characters whose haphazard investigations into each others's hearts will reshape your understanding of trust, how to build a family, and how to make a future you can see.

Kill the Pain Away

Author : Jennifer L. Sanchez; Edward A. Hall
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450097634
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Kill the Pain Away written by Jennifer L. Sanchez; Edward A. Hall and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-05-21 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destoni Rain started out as a young misguided teenage girl, born into a life of lies, deception, and greed. She tries to find love and acceptance in all the wrong places, only to find that she is all alone. She eventually tries to change for the better, but always seems to find herself down a path that’s deeper and darker than the one before.

Not Your Parents’ Offering Plate

Author : J. Clif Christopher
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426723385
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Not Your Parents’ Offering Plate written by J. Clif Christopher and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearing a young attorney speak of the faith-based reasons for which he had just made a substantial monetary gift to a community youth center, Clif Christopher asked the speaker if he would consider making a similar contribution to the congregation of which he was an active member. "Lord no, they wouldn't know what to do with it" was the answer. That, in a nutshell, describes the problem churches are facing in their stewardship efforts, says Christopher. Unlike leading nonprofit agencies and institutions, we too often fail to convince potential givers that their gifts will have impact and significance. In this book, Christopher lays out the main reasons for this failure to capture the imagination of potential givers, including our frequent failure simply to ask. Written with the needs of pastors and stewardship teams in mind, Not Your Parents’ Offering Plate provides immediate, practical guidance to all who seek to help God’s people be better stewards of their resources.

Strongholds

Author : Vanessa Davis Griggs
Publisher : Dafina Books
ISBN 13 : 9780758217349
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Strongholds written by Vanessa Davis Griggs and published by Dafina Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pastor George Landris, the dreadlock-wearing minister of the new mega-church, Followers of Jesus Faith Worship Center, urges his congregation to approach the altar and cast off their strongholds - also known as their weaknesses - it's the start of intense soul-searching for many. With an intensely varied cast of characters, this superb text takes us behind the scenes of mega-churches to show the amazing power that redemption and faith can have on people's lives.

The small BIG

Author : Steve J. Martin
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1455584231
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The small BIG written by Steve J. Martin and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At some point today you will have to influence or persuade someone - your boss, a co-worker, a customer, client, spouse, your kids, or even your friends. What is the smallest change you can make to your request, proposal or situation that will lead to the biggest difference in the outcome? In The small BIG, three heavyweights from the world of persuasion science and practice -- Steve Martin, Noah Goldstein and Robert Cialdini -- describe how, in today's information overloaded and stimulation saturated world, increasingly it is the small changes that you make that lead to the biggest differences. In the last few years more and more research - from fields such as neuroscience, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and behavioral economics - has helped to uncover an even greater understanding of how influence, persuasion and behavior change happens. Increasingly we are learning that it is not information per se that leads people to make decisions, but the context in which that information is presented. Drawing from extensive research in the new science of persuasion, the authors present lots of small changes (over 50 in fact) that can bring about momentous shifts in results. It turns out that anyone can significantly increase his or her ability to influence and persuade others, not by informing or educating people into change but instead by simply making small shifts in approach that link to deeply felt human motivations.