Raymond Scully
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It's more common in youth ministry than we want to admit-burnout and failure. Exhaustion, frustration, disappointment, and conflict bring many youth workers to a point where they either choose a new church, a new career, or someone makes that choice for them. After thirty years of youth ministry experience, Len Kageler wants to help youth workers avoid the pitfalls that are common to their calling, and give them the tools to not only survive, but...
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Our world is marked by unprecedented degrees of multiculturalism, ethnic diversity, social shifts, international collaboration, and technology-driven changes. The changes are profound, especially when you consider the unchecked decline in the influence, size, and social standing of the church. There is an undercurrent of anxiety in the evangelical world, and a hunger for something new. And we're sensing the urgency of it. We need fresh, creative counterintuitive...
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"Eamon Javers has produced a remarkable book about the secret world of business warfare-a world filled with corporate spies and covert ops and skullduggery… An important book that has the added pleasure of reading like a spy novel." -David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z
Award-winning reporter Eamon Javers's Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy is a penetrating work of investigative and historical journalism about the evolution of corporate espionage,...
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Multiculturalism isn't a trend, it's a reality. Evidence of this country's rich racial mix is all around us in our schools, our stores, our neighborhoods, our recreational facilities-everywhere except our churches. Heaven may include every culture, tongue, and tribe, but in the United States, Sunday morning remains one of the last bastions of ethnic separatism. It's time to stop merely talking about multicultural worship and start living it.
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"When are you going to become a real pastor?""When are you going to get your own church?""How long will you be here?"During his thirty-one years serving in churches across the country, Doug Fagerstrom has both known the joys of being a ministry staff member and experienced many misconceptions of the role. In The Ministry Staff Member, he draws on his vast experience to correct false notions and provide a clear, accurate understanding. This comprehensive...
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What will you say when your child asks how Jesus can fit inside his heart? Here's help with responding in words your little one will understand. Leading Your Child to Jesus equips you with the simple, effective communication tools that will help you discuss salvation with your child. They've been proven through David Staal's years with Willow Creek Community Church's Promiseland children's ministry and through his personal experiences as a parent....
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For anyone looking for a practical blueprint in creating an additional stream of home-based income, this book is for you. Control Your Financial Future will offer a fresh look at the home based business industry offering an original step-by-step plan for home business success that will include a detailed look at the network marketing industry. By combining specific, turnkey strategies with inspiring stories of successful home based entrepreneurs readers...
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Organizational life is fraught with problems: turf wars, conflict between departments, lack of vision, poor execution - these so-called people problems are knotty and often incomprehensible and claim a startlingly large portion of our energy. It’s not the numbers or the vicissitudes of the market that leads to sleepless nights, but the political, cultural and people issues that worry leaders most. The peculiar thing about these habitually dysfunctional...
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Just when you thought paper couldn’t be more exciting, this book comes your way! This book - jammed full of paper - unites philosophy with one of the best shows ever: The Office. Addressing both the current American incarnation and the original British version, The Office and Philosophy brings these two wonders of civilization together for a frolic through the mundane yet curiously edifying worlds of Scranton’s Dunder-Mifflin and Slough’s Wernham-Hogg....
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You've seen it on the news too many times to count. School shootings, adolescent addictions, bullying, eating disorders, depression and suicide, cutting, pregnancy. There is no lack of bad news to be told about teenagers today. Maybe you believe that will never happen to "my child." And maybe it won't. But crises aren't always the stories that make the evening news. The spectrum of crises an adolescent may face can range from something as (seemingly...
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Based on Startup Weekend's evolution to a major global initiative, as well as the numerous startups that have been created as a result, Startup Weekend will contain best practices, lessons learned, and examples for individuals and small organizations that would to empower others and begin large-scale movements. Two powerful examples of successful Startup Weekend companies are Memolane, an application that captures a user's online life in one timeline...