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Hungering Dark
$13.00These powerful reflections on biblical themes by one of today’s most popular religious writers point up the truth that the darkness of doubt is often necessary to provoke a hunger for God. The Hungering Dark towers as one of Fredrick Buechner’s best statements on contemporary belief challenged by doubt.
Drawing on texts from the Old and New Testaments, The Hungering Dark invites us to discover the hidden face of God, the manifestation of his grace, revealed in stillness, in unexpected places, often “through a glass, darkly.” It invites us to say yes to “the possibility of God”, and to recover “this fantastic hope that the future belongs to God…that holiness will return to our world.”
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Readings In Christian Theology
$44.00From Augustine to Gutierrez, from Creation to Eschatology, this volume provides a rich selection of the most important readings from classical, modern, and contemporary theologians. Covering all the major doctrines of Christian belief, it is carefully edited to provide key passages and concentrated readings. Also contains a wide variety of theoA logical perspectives: Hodge, Rahner, Kelsey, Tillich, Bult mann, Pannenburg, Kant, Niebuhr, Spinoza, Ricoeur, and many others.
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Book Of Job
$75.00In this volume, Norman Habel takes on the humbling task of writing a commentary on such a classic work as the book of Job–a text that is complex and unclear at many points.
The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing
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Jesus And Judaism
$39.00The purpose of this book is to take up two related questions with regard to Jesus: his intention and his relationship to his comtemporaries in Judiasm. The reason for his death (did his intention involve an opposition to Judaism which led to death?) and the motivation force behind the rise of Christianity (did the split between the Christian movement and Judaism originate in opposition during Jesus’ lifetime?).
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Book Of Job A Commentary
$80.00SKU (ISBN): 9780664218317ISBN10: 0664218318Norman Habel | Editor: James Mays | Editor: Carol NewsomBinding: Cloth TextPublished: May 1985Old Testament LibraryPublisher: Westminster John Knox Press Print On Demand Product
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Prayer Stress And Our Inner Wounds
$13.99The first step for transforming the world’s pain is to look with honesty at our own pain and to begin to open the door to God’s love,” writes Wuellner. She describes several types of pain–physical pain, painful memories, forgotten wounds, the pain of uncertainty, and the pain of stress and anxiety–and reminds us that the passion to heal was central in Jesus’ ministry. God’s grace moves through this caring book to work in the lives of readers as they confront their own needs and pains.
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Parables At Work
$23.00John C. Purdy looks at familiar aspects of daily work in an unfamiliar way, that is, in relation to the parables of Jesus. In each of twelve chapters, Purdy examines one of the parables to see what it has to say about God’s kingdom–its present demands and future rewards. Then, he shows what the parable means in the workplace. Finally, in a refreshing and practical way, he combines insights from the parable and insights from work experiences to draw forth a concrete message, a distinct pattern for being faithful to God.
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Pastoral Care With Children In Crisis
$28.00In this helpful book, Andrew D. Lester, noted teacher and experienced counselor, challenges ministers to take up and often neglected task–caring for the children of the parish. It is the pastor’s role, Lester says, to make “spiritual sense out of the chaos and crisis.” He looks to the ministry of Jesus as the model for faithful, effective ministry and illustrates how a pastor’s relationship with troubled children can have a significant impact on their spiritual and psychological development.
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Daniel : A Bible Commentary For Teaching And Preaching
$45.00The Interptretation Bible Commentary Series is designed to help the modern pastor better communicate the scriptures. This volume on Daniel by W. Sibley Towner begins with an introductory section which discusses the audience, structure, literary elements and characters as well as theology of the book. The commentary is not scholarly but focuses on helping the preacher better communicate the meaning of the text. This is a good text for any minister.
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Presbyterian Creeds : A Guidebook To The Book Of Confessions
$35.00This book provides clergy, laity, and students with a thorough introduction to their faith as set forth in the Book of Confessions. Jack Rogers explains technical terms and places current issues in perspective by examining the meaning of the creeds, confessions, and declarations found in the Book of Confessions. He examines their role in history, their full meaning, and their continued relevance to the Christian community.
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Bible Speaks To You (Revised)
$30.00The Bible isn’t “just another book” with a lot of interesting information about God. It is a book in which people find God “coming alive,” making His way into their hearts and demanding that they do something about Him. If you want a better understanding of the Bible, this is an excellent work destined to surprise you with information you may never have known. It will challenge you to return to the Bible itself and let it speak to you, as it has spoken to many people before you.
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Compassionate Visitor : Resources For Ministering To People Who Are Ill
$19.00Here is practical help for anyone involved in congregational visitation ministry. Examples of actual hospital visits illustrate the basic dos and don’ts of caring for patients personal and spiritual needs. Whether you are jusg beginning or are sharpening your visitation skills, this book will be an invaluable resource in your ministry of hope and encouragement.
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Professional Ethics : Power And Paradox
$25.99Karen Lebacqz here offers a logical yet eminently human framework for ethical decision making. Quoting and clarifying the thoughts of the field’s top authorities, Dr. Lebacqz summarizes the issues and questions that have, until now, served as the boundaries of debate. Then she moves beyond that; formulating new questions, demonstrating why the answers to those questions are critical, laying the groundwork for what eventually emerges–a new way of perceiving and resolving complex ethical questions.
Professional Ethics: Power and Paradox utilizes the “praxis” method of analysis. An actual ethical dilemma is offered, then treated theoretically throughout the text in order to demonstrate how a professional decision involving the dilemma might be reached.
Central to the ethical framework offered here is the focus on three steps toward a decision: action (what are the available alternatives?); character (what does it mean to be a professional in relation to the question?); and structure (how do structures limit or modify the alternatives?). The resolution of these and related, subordinate questions, Dr. Lebacqz asserts, is the foundation of a new framework for ethical decision making.
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Women Freedom And Calvin
$29.00Freedom, as understood by John Calvin, and as applied to the role of women in church and society, is the subject of this provocative book. Putting into perspective discussions about women in the church, particularly their ordination, Jane Dempsey Douglass looks not only at Calvin’s Institutes but also at the work of humanists who were contemporaries of the Reformer, along with writings by and about women that could have influenced him.
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Job
$24.00One of the most exciting and challenging books of the Bible, Job is a literary work of great majesty and power. In this commentary, John C. L. Gibson helps contemporary readers explore the timeless story of the afflicted Job and its meaning for today.
Carrying forward brilliantly the pattern established by Barclay’s New Testament series, the Daily Study Bible has been extended to cover the entire Old Testament as well. Invaluable for individual devotional study, for group discussion, and for classroom use, the Daily Study Bible provides a useful, reliable, and eminently readable way to discover what the Scriptures were saying then and what God is saying today.
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Gods Managers : A Budget Guide And Daily Financial Record Book For Christia (Rev
$11.99The authors developed this popular family budget guide and daily record books to help readers discover where their money goes and how they can manage their spending, saving, and giving in a healthier way.
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Smoke On The Mountain
$23.00Each chapter of this brief book is based on one of the Ten Commandments, but with a modern appropriation of the familiar ancient words. Though Davidman writes for laypeople, preachers will find inspiration in her penetrating and passionate insights. With a foreward by C.S. Lewis, Davidman’s husband.
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12 Prophets 2 (Revised)
$24.00The author of Twelve Prophets, Volume 1 completes his study with a commentary on Micah, a contemporary of Isaiah, who foretold the birth of the Messiah; Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah, prophets who spoke for God in the last days of the Kingdom of Judah; and Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, whose messages were directed to those reforming the community of God’s people after the Babylonian Exile. Individuals who proclaimed different messages according to the times in which they lived, these prophets nevertheless have in common the task of speaking the Word of God to the people of God. Through his insightful commentary, Peter C. Craigie shows the persistent meaning of this Word through the ages.
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Paster As Person
$24.00Pastors are persons. Most of the problems pastors experience in the parish are not caused by the pastor forgetting he or she is a pastor. Most difficulties pastors face in the parish arise when the pastor forgets that he or she is a person. This book is about the pastor as a person. It is a book about the experience of people who are pastors – their thoughts and feelings and behaviors. But this is also a reflective book, bringing to bear upon the pastors and their situations the perspectives of anthropology, the behavioral sciences, and philosophy, as well as theology.
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Social Teaching Of The Black Churches
$24.00In African American culture, the church is instrumental in establishing and maintaining social order. Professor Paris shows that a study of black church teachings reveals black social ethics. These ethics aren’t “abstract moral principles, but sociopolitical quests for liberation and freedom.”
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Deuteronomy
$24.00In his perceptive commentary, a part of the Daily Study Bible series, David F. Payne helps readers see the importance of this pivotal biblical book and guides them in applying its message to today’s world.
Carrying forward brilliantly the pattern established by Barclay’s New Testament series, the Daily Study Bible has been extended to cover the entire Old Testament as well. Invaluable for individual devotional study, for group discussion, and for classroom use, the Daily Study Bible provides a useful, reliable, and eminently readable way to discover what the Scriptures were saying then and what God is saying today.
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Theology For A Nuclear Age
$30.00The possibility of a nuclear holocaust has brought humankind into a radically new, unprecedented, and unanticipated religious situation. Gordon D. Kaufman offers a cogent and original analysis of this predicament, outlining specific proposals for reconceiving the central concerns and symbols of Christian faith. He begins with an account of a visit to Peace Park in the rebuilt city of Hiroshima. Reflecting upon this experience, Kaufman foresees that further use of nuclear weapons will result not in rebuilding but in annihilation of the human enterprise.
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Generation To Generation
$89.00This groundbreaking volume applies the concepts of systemic family therapy to the emotional life of congregations and their leaders. Challenging many of the conventions of pastoral counseling, Edwin H. Friedman shows how family theory points to a less stressful approach to the full range of the clergy’s responsibilities. He also illuminates how congregational dynamicscan be a useful model for the study of any family enmeshed in larger systems, and how such systems can themselves be viewed as “families.”
Friedman compares the emotional processes at work within individual families to those in church and synagogue, suggesting that clergy can often do more to help families by the way they lead their congregations than they can through specific counseling interventions. Specific topics examined in depth include leadership through self-differentiation, managing separations in families and in congregations, and the influence of previous generationsupon life cycle events. The power of the family model is clearly demonstrated in numerous examples drawn from Friedman’s own extensive experience as a rabbi and practicing family therapist and from many other rabbis, priests, nuns, and ministers with whom he worked.
Both clergy and lay leaders will find that this book directly addresses the dilemmas and crises they encounter daily, while family therapists and other helping professionals may wish to recommend it to students and clients as a lucid introduction to family processes.
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Lectionary Worship Aids Series C
$21.95Heth H. Corl is a United Methodist pastor in Dayton, Ohio. A graduate of Bluffton College and the United Theological Seminary, he previously served congregations in Perrysburg, Upper Sandusky, Peoria, Findlay, Dunkirk, and Van Wert, Ohio. He has served on various committees of the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church. He is married to Karen (nee Dunn) of Fostoria, Ohio, and they are parents of three children, Deborah, Kathi, and Rebekah.
Lectionary Worship Aids, Series C is a complete worship planning resource. You may plan your entire worship service around the theme of one of the lessons, then use this book for the Call to Worship, Collect, Prayer of Confession, hymn selections, all based upon the scripture text you have chosen to unify your service. Topical and scriptural indexes make it easy for you to select worship elements for any celebration.
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Power Of Darkness Series C
$14.95This preaching resource for Lent and Easter, Cycle C, provides model sermons based on nine texts from Luke and nine from John. In addition to the Sundays in these liturgical seasons, messages are also provided for Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Ascension Day (or Ascension Sunday). Included in these pericopes are familiar texts including Jesus’ wilderness temptation; the lament over Jerusalem; parables of the unproductive fig tree, the lost son, and the rebellious stewards; Luke’s narratives of the Passion of Our Lord, the Upper Room, and Jesus’ Ascension; John’s Resurrection account; Thomas’ shaky faith; and Jesus’ prayer of Christian unity.
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Helping When It Hurts
$12.00Robert L. Hunter offers practical insight into how to be a friend to someone in crisis. He contends that a focus on change, an emphasis on the future, a respect for people, and the faith in God are all crucial in the helping process. Anyone experiencing hurt over a major loss, illness, or injury needs, in his opinion, to hear four key messages: you are not alone; your feeling matter; all is not lost; and you can still help yourself. To this end, he sets out fourteen fundamental skills which the helper can use in effectively communicating these messages to the person in crisis.
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New Testament In Its Literary Environment
$40.00This volume in the Library of Early Christianity examines the literary techniques that were common during the development of the New Testament, and how these techniques influenced Scripture.
The Library of Early Christianity is a series of eight outstanding books exploring the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts in which the New Testament developed.
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Feminist Interpretation Of The Bible
$31.00This book is the result of a collaborative effort on the part of a group of outstanding theologians, historians, and biblical scholars within the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature. Clarifying for themselves and others the distinctive character of feminist interpretation, they continue the process of liberating the word that concerns the whole church.
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Ezra Nehemiah And Esther
$24.00Set in the Persian Empire, one of the greatest kingdoms the world has ever known, the stories contained in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah provide the most comprehensive scriptural account of the restored Judean community after the Babylonian exile. The book of Esther is also set in the Persian period of Israel’s history, although the concern is for a different community.
Carrying forward brilliantly the pattern established by Barclay’s New Testament series, the Daily Study Bible has been extended to cover the entire Old Testament as well. Invaluable for individual devotional study, for group discussion, and for classroom use, the Daily Study Bible provides a useful, reliable, and eminently readable way to discover what the Scriptures were saying then and what God is saying today.
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Joshua-Ruth
$24.00The three books considered in this volume constitute the principal biblical witness to Israel’s early history. According to A. Graeme Auld, “they tell the story of how under Joshua the land was first taken by Israel and then apportioned to her various tribes. They tell how after Joshua there was a long period of ups and downs; of religious apostasy within the community and repeated harassment from abroad answered by a series of divinely impelled ‘Judges’ or ‘Deliverers.’ They offer some samples of life in Israel, ‘in the days when the Judges ruled’ or ‘when there was not yet a king in Israel.'”
Carrying forward brilliantly the pattern established by Barclay’s New Testament series, the Daily Study Bible has been extended to cover the entire Old Testament as well. Invaluable for individual devotional study, for group discussion, and for classroom use, the Daily Study Bible provides a useful, reliable, and eminently readable way to discover what the Scriptures were saying then and what God is saying today.
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Bonhoeffer And South Africa
$21.99In this stimulating book, John W. de Gruchy points out the relevance of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s thought for the life of the church in South Africa, engaging in dialogue the theology of Bonhoeffer and the theology of South Africa. Both Bonhoeffer’s theology and his life bore witness to the need for Christians to come face to face with the pressing political and social issues of the day. Bonhoeffer believed that to bear an authentic witness to Christ in certain settings was to go against the stream; the church in South Africa, says de Gruchy, faces the challenge to be just such a “troublesome witness.” He finds in Bonhoeffer’s theology direction and liberation for the oppressed as well as for the privileged, who need to be “freed for others.” Throughout, the book demonstrates the abiding significance of Bonhoeffer’s theology, which, according to de Gruchy, derives from the fact that he was, before all else, a witness to Jesus Christ.
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Usted Se Enoja Porque Quiere – (Spanish)
$14.99Anger is everybody’s problem, but it need not be yours. In reality, it is a problem when we don’t know where it is coming from, how to handle it, and what we can do with it. We need to control it or else it will control us.
The decision is ours.
The authors mention that we need to control our outbursts of anger.
They examine the process from beginning to end, and they help us to evaluate our own “Quotient of Irritability” with practical exercises.
Learn how to confront anger and conflicts.
You will learn how to heal old relationships and help others control their anger.
This book will help you have a peaceful, happier life.
When you see your life from these author’s perspective you will discover that “Anger is a Choice”.
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In His Steps
$16.99The penetrating and provocative question “What would Jesus do?” in all of life’s complex situations, is the central theme of this book. It is the soul-stirring novel of men and women torn between their faith and the demands, compulsions, and temptations of life. Dr. Henry Maxwell, respected pastor of the First Church of Raymond, struggled with the idea that Christian discipleship demanded more than mental assent. He vowed to preface every attitude and action of his own life with the question: What would Jesus do in this situation if He were me? Electrifying his congregation with the same challenge, people responded with agreement to try it for one year. This book is the moving, dramatic story of a handful of Americans–a newspaper editor, a college president, a railroad executive, a pastor, a singer, a writer, a wealthy philanthropist–who pledge to walk in “the steps of Jesus.” At each turning point in their daily lives, they must ask: “What would Jesus do?” For decades, readers have been gripped by this narrative and have been challenged by its implications for their own lives. In His Steps is a convincing testimony to the worth and influence of Christian witness in all of life. A Christian classic every Christian should read!
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Daniel A Print On Demand Title
$21.99In his introduction to Jewish apocalyptic literature, Collins examines the main characteristics and discusses the setting and intention of apocalyptic literature. He begins his discussion of Daniel with a survey of the book’s anomalies and an examination of the bearing of form criticism on those anomalies. He explores the book’s place in the canon and the problems with its coherence and bilingualism. Collins provides a section-by-section commentary with a structural analysis (verse-by-verse) of each section.
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Isaiah 40-55 : Servant Theology
$26.99“George Knight has produced a very fluent and readable commentary on these important chapters of the book of Isaiah, which, more than any other part of the Old Testament, anticipate the Cross of Christ. By concentrating on the theological issues that are raised and by adopting a non-technical style of presentation, Knight introduces the reader to some of the leading motifs of biblical theology. In view of the complex questions which relate to the structure and unity of the book of Isaiah, I believe that all who share an evangelical faith and who have regard for the theological importance of the Old Testament will find this commentary rewarding and enriching.”
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Como Vencer El Temor – (Spanish)
$8.99Fear can produce misery, slavery, and destruction. It is overwhelming to find out how many from all social classes live in fear. Read this book with the expectation that all the fear that you have is going to disappear. Along the way you will reach faith, confidence, courage and true mental peace. Find how to overcome fear!
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Hiding Place
$8.99Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner.”Oh, the poor woman,” Corrie cried.”Yes. May God forgive her,” Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that it was for the souls of the brutal Nazi guards that her sister prayed.
Here is a book aglow with the glory of God and the courage of a quiet Christian spinster whose life was transformed by it. A story of Christ’s message and the courageous woman who listened and lived to pass it along — with joy and triumph!
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To Walk And Not Grow Weary (Student/Study Guide)
$10.99NavPress Print On Demand Title
When your resources are at low ebb, you’re susceptible to depression-and none of us is fully exempt from its inner grip. You may be struggling to stay above water, all the time fighting off factors from within and without-emotional fatigue, loneliness, discouragement, pressure to succeed, oppressive guilt, circumstances you can’t change.
Take heart! Scripture shows us that men and women of God have gone through the same depressing circumstances that plague us today-yet they triumphed through God’s grace. To Walk and Not Grow Weary contains twelve Bible studies that present cameos of God’s people under pressure. You’ll learn how to identify human problems and welcome God’s solutions in chapters such as:
* Job-When the Lights Go Out
* David-Dealing with Guilt
* Jesus-How to Handle Rejection
* Barnabas-Encouraging Others:The Alternative to Self-preoccupation Let God renew your strength as you place your hope in Him. He has promised that you will “soar on wings like eagles … run and not
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Helping Youth Interpret The Bible
$30.00This dynamic approach to biblical study and interpretation gives pastors, Christian educators, parents, and young people the tools with which to work together in sharing a new adventure in Chirstian faith. Biblical interpretation is more than just Bible study. It is part of the growth process that young people go through as they develop physicaly, mentally and spiritually. Their future lives as Christians are dependent on their abilities to read and understand the Scriptures and how they speak to all Chirstians. This book provides the setting in which young people share in the task of learning. It gives them the opportunity to be active participants in interpretation as part of life, learning, and living as Christians. How adolescents interpret the Scriptures is a profound influence on their Chirstian development.
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New Testament And Mythology And Other Basic Writings
$29.00“The volume begins with a new . . . translation of Bultmann’s original programmatic essay of 1941, ‘New Testament and Mythology’. . . It is followed by ‘Theology as Science’. . . {Two} essays on hermeneutics, ‘The Problem of Hermeneutics’ and ‘Is Exegesis without Presuppositions Possible?’ are here combined with ‘Science and Existence’ and a 1961 essay, ‘On the Problem of Demythologizing.'” (Christian Century) Bibliography. Index.
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Dictionary Of Angels
$24.99The result of sixteen years of research in Talmudic, gnostic, cabalistic, apocalyptic, patristic, and legendary texts, the classic reference work on angels is beautifully illustrated and its reissue coincides with the resurgence of belief in angels in America.
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Jesus And Community
$34.00This book seeks to reflect the author’s interest in Jesus’ public aims with regard to Israel and the basic intentions which he had for his community of followers. Unless otherwise noted, biblical quotations are from the Revised Standard Version.
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Social Style Management Style
$19.99What is social style, and how can you make it work for you in a business situation? Your success at any management level depends largely on your ability to deal with other people. In this business-oriented approach to interpersonal relationships, management experts Robert Bolton and Dorothy Grover Bolton show you how to assess various behavior patterns and how to use that knowledge to capitalize on your strengths, minimize your weaknesses, and get the results you want from others. Are you predominantly an Amiable, an Analytical, an Expressive, or a Driver? Nearly everyone, according to Boltons’ extensive research, uses on of the four basic social styles more often than the others. No style is better than any other, but each does bring with it a unique pattern of strengths and weaknesses. This book shows you not only how to recognize your particular style but also how to use that knowledge to manage others more effectively, set appropriate life goals and career paths, plan a sound self-improvement plan, increase your creativity, and more. Te best managers, claim the Boltons, excel at being what they are rather than at trying to be what they are not. If you feel that your effectiveness at work could be increased by better interpersonal skills but are tired of theories that want you to overhaul yourself to fit some uncomfortable, impersonal “”management style,”” then let Social Style/Management Style improve your dealings with others and still let you be yourself.
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