Take a ride-along with Sergeant Mark Tappan and his amazing K9 partner Mattis, whose heroic actions will inspire you to live courageously, serve selflessly, and love passionately because every human (and dog) has a purpose.
This tenth-anniversary edition of The Hole in Our Gospel features a new chapter and updated statistics, along with full-color photo and infographic inserts, a study guide, a concordance of scripture on poverty and justice, and personal accounts from readers whose perspectives have been changed by The Hole in Our Gospel.
Acclaimed church leader, blogger, founder, and chief strategic officer of The Unstuck Group, Tony Morgan unpacks the lifecycle of a typical church, identifies characteristics of each phase, and provides practical next steps a church can take to move towards sustained health.
A dream in which a man has sex with his mother may promise him political or commercial success--according to dream interpreters of late antiquity, who, unlike modern Western analysts, would not necessarily have drawn conclusions from the dream about the dreamer's sexual psychology.
The United States is know as the ';Great Melting Pot,' yet a survey of our churches on Sunday Morning would reveal a noticeably different portrait of our ethnic make-up.
A unique account of a peasant girl's mental illness in nineteenth-century FranceHysteria Complicated by Ecstasy offers a rare window into the inner life of a person ordinarily inaccessible to historians: a semiliterate peasant girl who lived almost two centuries ago, in the aftermath of the French Revolution.
'A rich and subtle exploration of the sacredness of nature, filled with a timeless wisdom and deep humanity' Guardian In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that it isn't enough to change our behaviour to avert environmental catastrophe - we must rekindle our spiritual bond with the natural world.
In the hurly burly of this busy world, simple kindness and goodness can get left behind in the rush to be first in line, at the top of the corporate ladder and have the most "e;likes.
Most of us long for intimate relationships, and though texting and emailing may keep us superficially connected, it ultimately cannot create the kind of intimacy necessary to sustain a deep, fulfilling, and lasting partnership.
La sexualidad no solo se ha convertido en un campo esencial de la historia, también se ha apoderado del léxico político: igualdad, dominación, discriminación, libertad, liberación, revolución, etc.
Zeit ist kein stabiler, überzeitlicher Faktor mehr, sondern selbst dem zeitlichen Wandel unterworfen: Unübersichtlichkeit, Beschleunigung und Flexibilität sind die temporalen Stichworte der Gegenwart.
Das Verhältnis von Evangelisation und Diakonie, Verkündigung und sozialem Engagement, Wort und Tat wird in unterschiedlichen theologischen Diskursfeldern seit vielen Jahrzehnten kontrovers diskutiert.
Was geschieht, wenn ein junger Spitzenathlet und seine Highschool-Liebe in Florida beginnen, auf Entdeckungsreise nach innen zu gehen, und den Entschluss fassen, alles Nötige zu tun, die Geheimnisse romantischer Liebe, göttlicher Ekstase und spiritueller Transformation des Menschen zu erforschen?
';A transition will be one of the greatest tests of your leadership, but it will also serve as one of the greatest rewards and testimonies of your legacy.