How do you grow as a leader in the church? Should you read church growth books? Take a few seminars? Or just wing it? Scott Thomas, former President of Acts 29, church planter, and pastor has a different approach. He unpacks how leaning on Jesus empowers not just your teaching, but also grows the humility and biblical wisdom you need to lead.Through many years of ministry experience, Thomas has seen the importance of the "soft skills" of leadership—empathy, kindness, and listening—...

This book tells the story of 1960—a tumultuous, transitional year that unleashed the forces that eventually reshaped the American nation and the entire planet, to the joy of millions and the sorrow of millions more.In 1960, attitudes were changing; barriers were falling. It was a transitional year, during which the world as we know it today was beginning to take shape. While other books have focused on the presidential contest between Kennedy and Nixon, A New W...

America grew rapidly after World War II, and the national pastime followed suit. Baseball dramatically changed from a 19th century pastoral relic to a continental modern sport. Six Major League clubs relocated to new cities, capped by the coast-to-coast moves of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants. Four expansion teams were created from thin air. Dozens of black stars emerged after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. The players formed a union--higher salaries materialized.

GREEN MAGIC -- Book 4 of the Black Magic trilogy.In the Australian outback, Elina survived her encounter with Araceli and Inessa Black, but being a morph does not equate to living a perfect life.Thinking she killed her best friend, Elina flees the Bluedom that was her home to put an end to her unfair life. But instead, she finds other survivors in the jungle of New Guinea, and the struggle is on to save them. Things don't work out as Alina plans and it is not long before it...

Melody Thomas Scott admits she is nothing like her Young and the Restless role, who has seen it all in her forty-year tenure on America's highest-rated daytime serial. But the high drama, angst, and catastrophes aren't confined to her character's plotlines. In this captivating memoir, Melody reveals behind-the-scenes tales of her own riveting journey to stardom.As Nikki went from impoverished stripper to resourceful, vivacious heroine, Melody became a household name, enthr...

Twelve-year-old Sarah prefers fantasy books to real life—until her bedroom clock strikes thirteen and she awakens in Greystone Valley, where magic is real but nothing works quite right. The wizard Kay can barely cast spells, the warrior Dax predicts doom at every turn, and the fearsome dragon Keeley is only six inches long.When an evil warlord threatens the valley with his army of beast-men and mercenaries, Sarah and her unlikely companions must embark on a quest through fey forest...

Where do we end up after we pass on? Does grief follow us to the afterlife? Theodore is about to find out the hard way in a strange new land as death, denial, and danger push his mind and body to the limits. Join Theodore, his guide, and a bunch of animal friends on a journey of self-discovery...and regular, non-self discovery.

Mason Boone. A former Navy SEAL who lives in isolation in the Alaskan mountains. He’s rugged, untamed...and gorgeous. I'm an FBI agent; he’s a fugitive on his way to prison. But when our plane crashes deep in the Alaskan wilderness, Mason becomes my only hope.To survive the cold, the wild animals and the terrain, we’ll need to stay close. But every time he touches me, I melt inside. He makes me feel protected like no man ever has and the way he looks at me, as if he just wants to p...

An almost universal driving force for contemporary change in universities is the shifting view of higher education as more of a private than a public good. Towards the Private Funding of Higher Education presents a contemporary global picture of this move towards the privatisation of higher education, and examines how these shifts in ideology and funding priorities have significant policy implications.The resulting developments, such as the imposition and escalation of stu...

The universe that science reveals to us can seem far outside the comfort zone of the human mind. Subjects near and far open up dizzying vistas, from the infinitesimal to the colossal. Humanity, the unlikely product of uncountable coincidences on unimaginable scales, inhabits a tumultuous universe that extends from our immediate environs to the most distant galaxies and beyond. But when the mind balks at the vertiginous complexity of the universe, science unveils the elegance amid the chaos...

An in-depth account of the Civil War people and events that left their mark on the city at the heart of the Union, shaping its historic legacy.When the first shots of the Civil War were fired in 1861, Washington, DC, was a small, essentially Southern city. The capital rapidly transformed as it prepared for invasion—army camps sprung up in Foggy Bottom, the Navy Yard on Anacostia was a beehive of activity, and even the Capitol was pressed into service as a barracks....

In this collaborative work, three leading historians explore one of the most significant areas of inquiry in modern historiography — the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slaveowners, and the societies in which they lived. Their contributions take us beyond the familiar portrait of emancipation as the end of an evil system to consider the questions and the struggles that emerged in freedom’s wake.Thomas Holt focuses on emanci...