Ministers often find themselves caught in the day-to-day pressures of leading a congregation and yearn to experience the unfolding of their professional lives from a larger perspective.
A Ready Hope: Effective Disaster Ministry for Congregations is an introduction for people of faith who are new to the ministry of disaster preparedness and response.
In this new collection of sermons she summons with piercing clarity and wit the Old and New Testament stories that have the power to mend our spirits, strengthen our weaknesses, and restore us to wholeness.
"e;Reading of God's silence in the Bible gives me courage to explore the practice of restraint in preaching-not as a deliberate withholding of God's word nor, I hope, as a rationale for my own reticence, but as a sober reaching for more reverence in the act of public speaking about God.
A scholar's memoir of growing up and the powerful forces that shaped her as a woman and a writer; "e;her story will inspire all women"e; (Library Journal).
The historian and author of Lillian Gilbreth examines the "e;Great Man"e; myth of science with profiles of women scientists from Marie Curie to Jane Goodall.
Riverbend, the young Iraqi woman whose “articulate, even poetic prose packs an emotional punch,” continues her blog from her hometown of Baghdad (The New York Times).
The first volume of the New York Times-bestselling author's monumental and unprecedented history: "e;Consistently thought-provoking"e; (The New York Review of Books).
The Stronger Sex, a study of the women in the fiction of Lawrence Durrell, argues that Lawrence Durrell envisioned a new woman, self-confident, free of male domination, and able to serve, direct, and protect her dependent man.
Children's spiritual development is currently a hot topic in Christian circles, as well as in other fields and disciplines such as educational psychology, medicine, developmental psychology, education, and sociology.
After nearly three decades of wilderness dwelling far from neighbours and roads, with the nearest community accessible only via float plane or days of hiking, Czajkowski purchases a derelict homestead with rough road access at Ginty Creek, an hours drive south of Anahim Lake.
The Value of a Teacher is not just a book but a library joining together dozens of writings on history, stories, songs, poetry, and speeches on illegal trade in wildlife, air quality, environmental rule of law, the green economy, chemicals and waste, and marine debris.
The book was inspired by my experiences as a Christian, and I pray it will be a blessing to you, the reader, in your walk with the Lamb of God, our Lord Jesus Christ.
It is very scary to find that some believers of this end time live as though Christ is never coming back while the devil effectively uses his most subtle weapon, distraction, to destroy them.
This book was written with one goal in mind: showing people that with medicine and the proper application of their spiritual and mental abilities, they can lengthen their lives and possibly even cure their Cancer.
The truth of our day in the era of the revolving door is that men and women keep on repeating the division within themselves and within our structure, which is from 5,008 thousand years ago, and is still causing harm to ourselves and our structure.
Overcoming Obstacles: The Journey of Project WeHOPE details the life of Pastor Paul Bains and his journey to marrying the love of his life, becoming a successful entrepreneur, and starting Project WeHOPE, a nonprofit organization that has touched thousands of lives and made an enormous impact in the San Francisco Bay Area and is located in East Palo Alto.
After her twenty-year-old daughter dies in an automobile accident the author finds herself on a journey of grief that, until then, she could not even imagine.
