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By Mel Lawrenz. 2013
«La influencia espiritual es provocada por el Espíritu de Dios, cuya obra consiste en transformar al espíritu humano, devolviéndonos la…
forma original con la cual Dios nos diseñó. Esto sucede cuando el Espíritu logra influir —in–fluir— en nosotros. Y se produce a lo largo de miles de pasos escondidos e imperceptibles.» En este novedoso estudio de lo que es el liderazgo, Mel Lawrenz sostiene que necesitamos mirar más allá de la superficie, hasta el núcleo mismo de la dinámica espiritual de la vida, para comprender mejor cómo los líderes pueden tener una influencia duradera en la vida de las personas y de las organizaciones que dirigen. Aprovechando la experiencia adquirida en más de veinte años de ministerio pastoral, Lawrenz escribe para los cristianos que tienen algún tipo de liderazgo, cualquiera que este sea, aunque se centra de una manera especial en los líderes más jóvenes. Este libro nos facilita un nuevo punto de partida para el liderazgo cristiano del siglo veintiuno. En él se incluyen las claves para llegar a logros y capacidades que son necesarios para un liderazgo eficaz, entre ellos los siguientes: ü edificar integridad en su persona y sus relaciones ü aprovechar las oportunidades ü explorar nuevos horizontes ü resolver las crisis ü recibir poder ü aceptar la autoridad ü fomentar la verdad ü controlar las expectativas ü enfrentarse a las críticasBy Elaine Pagels. 1995
From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle…
Award comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Pagels turns Satan's story into an audacious exploration of Christianity's shadow side, in which the gospel of love gives way to irrational hatreds that continue to haunt Christians and non-Christians alike.From the Trade Paperback edition.By Gretel Ehrlich. 2013
A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return…
to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all shelter and hope seemed lost. In an eloquent narrative that blends strong reportage, poetic observation, and deeply felt reflection, she takes us into the upside-down world of northeastern Japan, where nothing is certain and where the boundaries between living and dying have been erased by water. The stories of rice farmers, monks, and wanderers; of fishermen who drove their boats up the steep wall of the wave; and of an eighty-four-year-old geisha who survived the tsunami to hand down a song that only she still remembered are both harrowing and inspirational. Facing death, facing life, and coming to terms with impermanence are equally compelling in a landscape of surreal desolation, as the ghostly specter of Fukushima Daiichi, the nuclear power complex, spews radiation into the ocean and air. Facing the Wave is a testament to the buoyancy, spirit, humor, and strong-mindedness of those who must find their way in a suddenly shattered world.By Kay Arthur, David Lawson, Bj Lawson. 2010
What Are Spiritual Gifts?The subject of spiritual gifts can seem complicated: Who has spiritual gifts--""spiritual people" or everybody? What are…
spiritual gifts anyway?Understanding Spiritual Gifts takes you straight to God's Word to discover answers from the Gift-Giver Himself. As you dig into Bible passages about God's design for each of us, you'll find out that spiritual gifts aren't complicated--but they are life-changing. Here you will uncover what spiritual gifts are, where they come from, who has them, how they are received, and how they work within the church. As you study, you will have a new vision for how you can use your God-given gifts to bring hope to your home, your church, and a hurting world. 40 Minutes a Week Could Change Your Life!The 40-Minute Bible Studies series from the teaching team at Precept Ministries International tackles the topics that matter to you. These inductive study guides, designed to be completed in just six 40-minute lessons with no homework required, help you discover for yourself what God says and how it applies to your life today. With the leader's notes and Bible passages included right in the book, each self-contained study is a powerful resource for personal growth and small-group discussion.From the Trade Paperback edition.By Kate Bowler. 2018
Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study…
of the prosperity gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a blessing from God and misfortune as a mark of God’s disapproval. At thirty-five, everything in her life seems to point toward “blessing.” She is thriving in her job, married to her high school sweetheart, and loves life with her newborn son. Then she is diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. The prospect of her own mortality forces Kate to realize that she has been tacitly subscribing to the prosperity gospel, living with the conviction that she can control the shape of her life with “a surge of determination.” Even as this type of Christianity celebrates the American can-do spirit, it implies that if you “can’t do” and succumb to illness or misfortune, you are a failure. Kate is very sick, and no amount of positive thinking will shrink her tumors. What does it mean to die, she wonders, in a society that insists everything happens for a reason? Kate is stripped of this certainty only to discover that without it, life is hard but beautiful in a way it never has been before. Frank and funny, dark and wise, Kate Bowler pulls the reader deeply into her life in an account she populates affectionately with a colorful, often hilarious retinue of friends, mega-church preachers, relatives, and doctors. Everything Happens for a Reason tells her story, offering up her irreverent, hard-won observations on dying and the ways it has taught her to live. A New York Times BestsellerBy Sarah Smarsh. 2018
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest. During Sarah…
Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country’s changing economic policies solidified her family’s place among the working poor. By telling the story of her life and the lives of the people she loves, Smarsh challenges us to look more closely at the class divide in our country and examine the myths about people thought to be less because they earn less. Her personal history affirms the corrosive impact intergenerational poverty can have on individuals, families, and communities, and she explores this idea as lived experience, metaphor, and level of consciousness. Smarsh was born a fifth generation Kansas wheat farmer on her paternal side and the product of generations of teen mothers on her maternal side. Through her experiences growing up as the daughter of a dissatisfied young mother and raised predominantly by her grandmother on a farm thirty miles west of Wichita, we are given a unique and essential look into the lives of poor and working class Americans living in the heartland. Combining memoir with powerful analysis and cultural commentary, Heartland is an uncompromising look at class, identity, and the particular perils of having less in a country known for its excess. A New York Times BestsellerBy Karen R. Keen. 2018
WHEN IT COMES TO SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS, this book by Karen Keen contains the most thoughtful, balanced, biblically grounded discussion you’re…
likely to encounter anywhere. With pastoral sensitivity and respect for biblical authority, Keen breaks through current stalemates in the debate surrounding faith and sexual identity.The fresh, evenhanded reevaluation of Scripture, Christian tradition, theology, and science in Keen’s Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships will appeal to both traditionalist and progressive church leaders and parishioners, students of ethics and biblical studies, and gay and lesbian people who often feel painfully torn between faith and sexuality.By Giancarlo Amorosa. 2018
Este libro contiene 16 oraciones dirigidas a Jesús Embrión, luz caída del cielo y encarnada por obra del Espíritu Santo…
en el vientre de la Inmaculada Virgen María. La segunda persona de la Trinidad, Jesús, verdadero Dios y verdadero hombre, se aniquiló a sí mismo asumiendo la naturaleza humana para sumarse a su naturaleza divina. Jesús se inclinó hacia nosotros para que pudiésemos elevarnos a sus alturas vertiginosas y convertirnos en sus hermanos e hijos del Dios vivo. La Santísima Virgen María, la criatura más bella y pura jamás creada por Dios, a través de su consentimiento aceptó el plan divino de convertirse en madre de Cristo y madre nuestra.By Ruth Spencer Johnson. 2018
When Thomas Edison was a boy, he loved performing experiments and coming up with new inventions. His curiosity sometimes got…
him in trouble, though, like when he accidentally burned down his dad’s barn! By the time he turned 12, he had found ways to make a living by learning how to print newspapers and send telegraphs in Detroit, Michigan. Imagine what he did as an adult!By Joseph D. Small, Craig Dykstra. 2018
How can we reconcile the ideal church described by theology with the broken church that we see in the world?…
In this book Joseph Small argues that the church’s true identity is known somewhere in the tension between the two. Small revisits familiar ecclesiological concepts—people of God, the body of Christ, the communion of the Holy Spirit—but rather than focusing on theological abstractions or worldly cynicism, he carefully evaluates the church in its scriptural, historical, theological, and social contexts. Both sociologically honest and theologically discerning, Flawed Church, Faithful God offers a constructive Reformed yet ecumenical ecclesiology for the real world.By Kathie MacIsaac. 2018
Kids have always had amazing ideas, like how to keep your ears warm on a cold winter day or an…
icy treat to enjoy on a hot summer day. Learn about four young inventors and their inventions that helped to change people's lives.By Robert Schultz. 2012
In Autobiography of a Baby Boomer you'll follow the journey of a post-modernist baby-boomer from Father Knows Best middle class…
Fair Lawn, New Jersey to the hippy trail through Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The overland journey in search of something more than he could find at Cornell University Medical College covers four years during a time when "dropping out," "turning on," and "free-love" were the gospel. Through his travels, drugs, séances, very far-out "Road People," and his parents' unremitting love, author Robert Schultz comes to truly appreciate the American way of life. In an admittedly unconventional way, Schultz discovers the rather conventional joy of having a family and the awesome responsibility that comes with it.By Elizabeth Turnbull. 2017
Through the true story of Wallace Turnbull, one of Haiti’s pioneers in development and missions, Say To These Mountains takes…
readers on a journey where grace and beauty shine into even the tightest crevices of brokenness, poverty, and loss.Over the course of 70 years, Wallace’s work changed countless lives and influenced national policy in both Haiti and the United States. For his contributions, he was decorated with the National Order of Honor and Merit, Haiti’s highest honor.As told by Wallace’s granddaughter, this eloquent biography reveals the life of a complex man and his adopted country, painting a picture of hope and mercy vastly different from the often-grim stories shared about the island nation and her people.“How many children, how many elderly, how many generations were touched—how many survived—because of the work the Pastor has done?” –President Michel Martelly of Haiti during the bestowing of the Order of Honor and Merit to Wallace TurnbullBy Roets Magdel. 2015
Stephan Howard Hammond knew he could count on his children to squander the fortune he would leave them in his…
will. His anguish over their future left him no choice but to find someone dependable to provide for them when the money ran out. This meant he had to reveal some deep hidden secrets, not knowing what the effect would be, unaware that Francine had already discovered part of the truth. Struggling through her own shock and disappointment she decided to keep quiet about what she had found until it was too late. With more secrets revealed, she must still go through with the plans her father's will provided for her; throw their inheritance to the wind. And withstand their unsympathetic treatment of her. How My Father's Will Came About: Enjoying a slice of cheese cake and an espresso in a coffee shop one day, Magdel overheard two men behind her boasting about all the things they planned to do with the money they were about to inherit from their late father's estate. One wanted a speedboat; the other wanted to get his private pilot's license. Oh, how the girls would love them. Right at this point the idea for a story was born in her mind. She took out her notebook and started making notes to research boats and airplanes, and a number of other things, like private companies and estates. She decided there had to be five children to share an inheritance. Being some sort of artist herself, she chose the main character, Francine, to be an artist, but a much more professional one than Magdel. From there she worked out the plot and built the characters.By Laura Brown, Eleanor Turnbull. 2017
In Those Who Passed By, veteran missionary Eleanor Turnbull traces the story of Haiti’s development by what happens along the…
Kenscoff Road and those who travel its bumps and curves.Throughout her nearly 70 years working in development and rural medical care, Eleanor met countless men and women who were just “passing by.” She soon learned that many of them had been “sent” for a greater purpose. Some came for research, others to find themselves; a wise few sought to widen their worldview. Each of them left an indelible mark on Haiti and her people. These are their stories.Many fantasize about dramatically changing their lives — living in accordance with their ideals rather than the exigencies of job,…
bills, and possessions. William Powers actually does it. In his book Twelve by Twelve, Powers lived in an off-grid tiny house in rural North Carolina. In New Slow City, he and his wife, Melissa, inhabited a Manhattan micro-apartment in search of slow in the fastest city in the world. Here, the couple, with baby in tow, search for balance, community, and happiness in a small town in Bolivia. They build an adobe house, plant a prolific orchard and organic garden, and weave their life into a community of permaculturists, bio-builders, artists, and creative businesspeople. Can this Transition Town succeed in the face of encroaching North American capitalism, and can Powers and the other settlers find the balance they’re seeking? Dispatches from the Sweet Life is compelling, sobering, thought-provoking, and, no matter the outcome, inspiring.By Leslie Marsh. 2018
Though Walker Percy is best known as a novelist, he was first and foremost a philosopher. This collection offers a…
sustained examination of key aspects to his more technical philosophy (primarily semiotics and the philosophy of language) as well as some of his lesser known philosophical interests, including the philosophy of place and dislocation. Contributors expound upon Percy’s multifaceted philosophy, an invitation to literature and theology scholars as well as to philosophers who may not be familiar with the philosophical underpinnings of his work.By Livingstone Corporation. 2011
The Once-A-Day Bible Promises Devotional highlights the areas of the Bible in which God speaks to his people and promises…
his peace, his power, and his presence. Written by the same trusted group that created the Life Application Study Bible, this book will allow you to more clearly and intuitively see the promises contained in Scripture--promises that connect to your life today to give you help and hope.Each daily reading includes:• Scripture text from the most popular modern-English Bible translation, the NIV• A devotional thought about God’s promises• A reflection question to ponder, with room to jot down your thoughtsBy Elsa Kok Colopy. 2012
When you think of purity, what comes to mind? Perfect behavior? Impossible standards? Everything focused on waiting for that special…
guy? If so, you’re not alone. The good news is purity isn’t just a list of don’ts—don’t think that way, don’t look that way, don’t act that way. It’s a God-designed plan for a happy life. Honest, humorous, and real, Pure Love, Pure Life provides practical tools to help you navigate the temptations and frustrations you face every day, stories from girls who have been there, and tips on what to do if your pure life takes a detour. Discover a new vision of purity, how you can live it in today’s broken reality, and why it’s worth the effort. “This nonfiction book is real and honest, and should be required reading for teenage girls and their parents.” – Christian Library JournalBy Various Authors. 2007
Jonah and the Big Fish, part of The Beginner’s Bible™ series, is now one of the I Can Read® books…
for early readers. In this story, children will discover what happened when Jonah ran away from God. And they’ll smile when they read that Jonah prays for and receives forgiveness. This easy-to-read book serves as a steppingstone to encourage early readers to learn about God.