You're an achiever. You get things done. You're visionary, creative, and entrepreneurial, with twenty new ideas a week. You're successful. So why do you feel like something's missing? Creative, driven people have a hard time turning it off. You get ideas in the shower, at breakfast, at a ball game, at 1:00 a.m. Most are worthwhile. Some are breakthroughs. It's far too easy to lose yourself in trying to chase them all. Stop Chasing Squirrels lays out a step-by-step system to uncover your tr...

As their story progresses in The Shepherd’s Staff, Bill & Elaine Westover with three children, Jennifer, Betsey and Peter move from their successful inner-city ministry to a church in desperate need of revitalization. Through teaching in word and deed, Bill leads the church in renewed outreach. Engendering opposition from members who are not actually believing Christians and from the denominational leaders. Meanwhile, Elaine is hired by an attorney. Her work as their staff psychologist lea...

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"Public Power in California" examines the structural and economic issues affecting the expansion of municipal electric power utilities in the state of California. Although the discussion centers on specific examples in California, the implications of the analysis presented in this book are relevant for the viability of future municipalization of utilities in the United States.

The Story: We know next to nothing of the man Saul of Tarsus. Sauls home was Tarsus. He was a Jew and proudly a Pharisee. More importantly, he was a zealot. He studied under the great rabbi Gamaliel. We know nothing of his father, not even his name, except he was a Roman citizen. Since Sauls living came from tent-making, we can speculate that his father was a tent-maker I have endeavored to recreate Sauls early life and experiences on the basis of what we do know from the scriptures and fr...

Authors Ted and Charity Bradshaw don’t claim to be marriage experts, but they do know what it takes to put marriage first—ahead of children, extended families, jobs, debt, differences of opinion, and everything else that life hands out.In Staying I Do: Committed, Connected & Crazy in Love for a Lifetime, they offer their personal stories and advice on communication, money matters, intimacy, family values, and more.The Bradshaws share their trials and triumphs with ho...

Bill Westover faced an unlooked for and unwelcome ministry. He was not prepared by background, by education or by previous ministry experience. And yet Christ called him, confirmed Bill in a tough inner-city ministry. He was caught between two warring gangs, threatened, shot at and beaten seriously. Through it all the Holy Spirit empowered Bill. With the support of Elaine who feared for her husband, Bill he returned each day to the Bawdy District to seek to snatch souls from the jaws of He...

You’re an achiever. You get things done. You’re visionary, creative, and entrepreneurial, with twenty new ideas a week. You’re successful. So why do you feel like something’s missing?Creative, driven people have a hard time turning it off. You get ideas in the shower, at breakfast, at a ball game, at 1:00 a.m. Most are worthwhile. Some are breakthroughs. It’s far too easy to lose yourself in trying to chase them all.Stop Chasing Squirrels lays out a step-by-step system to u...

A leading economist's exploration of what our economic arrangements might look like if we applied basic principles without ideological blinders.There is nothing wrong with economics, Dean Baker contends, but economists routinely ignore their own principles when it comes to economic policy. What would policy look like if we took basic principles of mainstream economics seriously and applied them consistently? In the debate over regulation, for example, Baker—one of ...

Prominent economists reconsider the fundamentals of economic policy for a post-crisis world.In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policymakers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures the state of macroeconomic thinking at a transformational moment.The crisis and the weak recovery that has followed raise fundamental questions concerning macroeconomics a...

Bible Promise books have long been (and will always be) a staple of our gift line—because we want to be sure that people who may rarely hear it anywhere else have a way to experience the power of God’s Word speaking right in their ear, right by their bedside, right where they live. And now we’re rolling out our best value ever on an all-new set of Bible promise books—for Moms, Dad, Grads, and Teachers—just in time for the annual Spring holidays and special occasions. Each book features up ...

This book focuses on how the demand for microfinance can be met on a global scale. It documents the contributions of institutions and of people who have led the development of commercial finance for the poor, and it analyzes the principles on which the microfinance revolution is based. In sum, this work offers a detailed overview of the development of microfinance over the past 20 years; a global view of microfinance in the developing world (largely excluding Eastern Europe); a thesis on the ...