Life Essentials for Knowing God Better, Experiencing God Deeper, Loving God More

Life Essentials for Knowing God Better, Experiencing God Deeper, Loving God More
Author: Tony Evans
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 157567422X

What exactly does "spiritual growth" mean? It's a common phrase thrown around in Christian circles, but many can not truly define it nor describe how to achieve it. Tony Evans helps readers get a grasp on this "life essential" topic in his new, powerful book. Based on 2 Peter 3:18, Evans helps readers understand and cooperate with God's plan for growth. The author's prayer is that by God's grace people will not merely learn about new growth but will discover a fresh motivation to strengthen and deepen their relationship with the Lord.

Rumours of a Better Country

Rumours of a Better Country
Author: Marsh Moyle
Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2023-10-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1789744695

Hyper-individualism and consumerism have failed to satisfy our hunger for meaning. We face an identity crisis in which people are lonely, and anxiety is high. Culture wars show our deep divisions over what our changing moral standards should become. Is it possible to find a vision for goodness that can bring us together? Rumours of a Better Country addresses our hunger for a better way of living by awakening a vision of trust and a trusting community. Drawing on the ancient wisdom of the Decalogue, it demonstrates how the freedom to trust and the call to trustworthiness are the most fulfilling of freedoms. From the author's chance encounter with the Palestinian Liberation Organization in a pub in Communist Czechoslovakia, to the questions and mysteries of Café Now and Not Yet, and to the ancient slopes of Mount Sinai, Rumours of a Better Country takes us on a rich and provocative journey into the heart of goodness and why it matters.

The (New and Improved) Loving Dominant

The (New and Improved) Loving Dominant
Author: John and Libby Warren
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2012-12-12
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0937609404

Previous editions of The Loving Dominant taught more than 40,000 people the fundamentals of safe, affectionate dominance and submisison. Now John and Libby Warren, two of the scene's most respected educators, have updated this seminal work for a new generation of pratitioners. Includes an all-new chapter on partner-finding, plus new information on electricity play, ethical play with multiple partners, watersports, kinky digital photography, and more!

Equitable School Improvement

Equitable School Improvement
Author: Rydell Harrison
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2024-04-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807782335

Promoting equity and improvement science has seen increased attention over the last several years as educators seek to expand the experiences, opportunities, and outcomes for marginalized students. This book shows school and district leaders how to create the conditions needed to use improvement science—with its robust collection of tools, resources, and processes—to achieve equity. Readers will find information about equity, continuous improvement, and the psychology of change that can be used to productively and respectfully engage all stakeholders. Chapters include the rationale for employing improvement science to pursue equity; advice for developing the dispositions of an equity-focused leader who thinks differently about power, possibility, and measurement; and guidance for facilitating conversations in the service of equitable improvement. Equitable School Improvement is important reading for teachers, coaches, principals, central office leaders, and any educator who wants to be part of creating a more socially just educational system for our children. Book Features: Elaborates on the habits and practices that need to be developed if educators are to overcome the significant barriers to talk about transformation in the service of equity. Focuses on the human side of change, including honoring people and their stories and dismantling power structures that interfere with change. Provides guidance to leaders at all levels for creating the conditions for equity-focused improvement work. Moves beyond deficit perspectives and outmoded tropes, such as goals have agency, teachers are resistant, and race causes low achievement. Makes the tools contained in improvement science more accessible to today’s equity leaders.

Sisters and Wives

Sisters and Wives
Author: Karen Brodkin
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1979
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780252010040

Extrait de l'introduction : "The search for women's overall ar fundamental position long ago ar far wawy is an outcome of the confrontation between social darwinist anthropology and the feminist and socialist movements over sexism here and now. ... Women have been fighting for equl rights for well over one hundred years. The center of the struggle lies in changing institutionalized pattterns of behaviors and allocations of social roles. All behavior is informed and shaped by ideas, by way of seeing the world, as well as by standards for what is right and wrong, moral and immoral. A marxist and feminist anthropology can affrim the reality of equality in other times and places and increase our understanding of how to obtain such a social order for ourselves. This book is an attempt to develop such a way of seeing and of informing our actions."

The Family in the New Millennium

The Family in the New Millennium
Author: Thomas B. Holman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 1345
Release: 2006-12-30
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 031308470X

A remarkable team of contributors based across 19 countries explores and explains events worldwide affecting the natural family—married father and mother with biological children —detailing concepts and benefits of natural family that have been taken for granted across centuries, but are now being challenged in many ways. These scholars—many admittedly taking stands that may be deemed politically incorrect—conclude that natural family is being threatened, and is vital to provide common ground among all societies, cultures and religious traditions. Psychologists, sociologists, economists, theologians, lawyers, health care professionals and award-winning journalists are among the chapter authors, as are Nobel Prize Laureate Gary Becker, U.S. Department of Health Assistant Secretary for Children and Families Wade Horn, and former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Bin Mohamad. Whether or not you agree with their arguments, science and conclusions, you'll want to know what these influential figures are saying. Addressing many lightning-rod issues, from divorce and abortion to euthanasia and same-sex marriage, writers here span the world from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom to Australia, Turkey, India, and China. Intellectuals included are associated with institutions from Brigham Young University, Georgetown School of Medicine and the Boston College School of Law, to the University of Geneva, and the Maxim Institute in New Zealand.