The Podtastic Playbook: How to Build, Grow, and Monetize Your Podcast ️Podcasting is one of the most powerful ways to share your voice, build a community, and create a lasting impact. But how do you launch, grow, and monetize a podcast that stands out?The Podtastic Playbook is your step-by-step guide to creating a high-quality podcast, growing an engaged audience, and turning your passion into profit. Whether you're just starting or looking to ta...

Scholars and journalists have paid significant attention to the contemporary Fundamentalist tendencies of southern Protestantism. However, many studies neglect to consider how the Fundamentalist controversies that roiled the Baptists and Presbyterians of the North during the 1920s affected the Southern Baptist Convention schism of 1970–2000.Fundamentalism, Fundraising, and the Transformation of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1919–1925 explores the scope and character of ...

Grab your Bible, a cup of something warm, and settle in with this diverse collection of classic and contemporary poetry, meant to stir your imagination and deepen your experience of scripture in the season ahead.Corresponding with the Revised Common Lectionary Year A (November 2025-May 2026), this volume includes 4 classic and 4 contemporary poems for every week of the church year, from Advent through Pentecost Sunday.Poets include Paul Laurence Dunbar, Emily Dickinson, Mar...

Choosing ten films that were considered "suspicious," "un-American," or even "dangerous" by the conservative media, and especially the infamous "House Un-American Affairs Committee" (HUAC) between 1947-1953, each chapter briefly outlines how progressive Christians should have supported the message of the film rather than condemned it. Each chapter explains why the film was considered controversial, and then proposes a number of arguments drawing heavily on Scripture, arguing that Christian...

STEPHEN KING on Christopher Smith: "Put me down as an enthusiastic Christopher Smith fan. Smith is a cultural genius."In her past, Cheryl Dunning died once.A violent act killed her, but heroics brought her back. Now, if she can't save herself from two serial killers hunting her in the Maine woods, she's about to die again, this time from two men armed with a Bible, guns, a deep belief in God, and their twisted interpretation of his word.

Stephen King: "Put me down as an enthusiastic Christopher Smith fan. Smith is a cultural genius."In Christopher Smith's international best-seller BULLIED, the relentlessly bullied 18-year-old Seth Moore is gifted an amulet that ignites within him a wealth of supernatural powers.If Seth uses the amulet properly, it will protect him from those determined to crush him. But after so many years of being beaten down and humiliated, the question is whether Seth ca...

An incredible opportunity is becoming available due to the retirement of baby boomers who currently own HVAC, plumbing, and electrical companies. As many of these owners retire the opportunity to build incredible wealth is opening up for those individuals in the know. This book puts you in the know and shows you how to take advantage of this opportunity to build wealth that will have a generational impact on your family. Get Rich Selling & Buying HVAC, Plumbing, & Electrical Companies is y...

Christopher Smith is a 29-year safety professional whose passion and experience for creating excellence has provided him with unique insight into the creation of excellence and the effectiveness of leadership in fostering that excellence. Chris answers the question, "if excellence is claimed to be understood by so many people, then why is true excellence so rare?" There is so much incomplete information in the infosphere about creating organizational excellence and how growing excellence r...

Get Rich in HVAC - The Insider Secrets takes the reader through three different areas for building wealth in HVAC. The first one is how to grow the business to get more sales and a higher profit. The second is how to run an HVAC business with the goal of selling the business at some point. The third area is how to sell the HVAC business and when to sell the HVAC business. As a bonus, Christopher also explains how to quickly and significantly increase the value of your HVAC business by usin...

The essential guide to growing any HVAC business no matter the size or location. The proven steps in this book come from hundreds of successful HVAC businesses over more than 13 years. Six Steps To Grow Your HVAC Business concepts have made many wealthy HVAC business owners across the United States regardless of service territory, average household income, or local economy. Stop struggling and start making money with these proven six steps to grow your HVAC business. This easy to read supe...

Readers' Choice Award WinnerBest Books About the Church from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds BookstoreFast food. Fast cars. Fast and furious. Fast forward. Fast . . . church?The church is oftenidealized (or demonized) as the last bastion of a bygone era, dragging our feet as we're pulled into new moralities and new spiritualities. We guard our doctrine and our piety with great vigilance. But we often fail to notice how quickly we're ...

A moving account of how one church learned to center their life together around the practice of conversation and became a beacon of hope along the way.Englewood Christian Church was once a thriving megachurch, but as its surrounding urban neighborhood declined, so did the church.Today, both the church and neighborhood are thriving, and ECC's impact far outweighs the size of its congregation. The ECC story upends the common wisdom ab...