This is an expanded, 624-page reference tool for the 8-stage transition process found in How Do We Get There From Here? (formerly titled, Making Cell Groups Work). This sizable compilation is filled with hundreds of articles by pastors and experts, including helpful articles such as how to transition your church's calendar and budget to allow for a growing holistic small group (cell group) ministry, how to choose team members to implement the transition; tips on how to prototype groups; and much much more! One of the most valuable tools found in this resource is a revealing readiness assessment tool, which will help you determine weaknesses (if any) in four key areas of church health, all of which are required for a successful transition.
Tired of reading books by pastors of large churches who could put a stick in the mud and it would grow a fruit-bearing tree in a week? Exhausted with doing ministry the same way, expecting different results? Exasperated by the lack of ownership among the members of your existing groups? Then this book is for you! Pulling no punches, Neighbour diagnoses the problems surrounding small group and cell group ministry in America today, offering practical suggestions that work.
If you have searched for a simple, concise booklet to put in the hands of each of your group members to fully explain what cell life is all about, you've found it! This easy-to-read booklet is filled with stories about healthy cell life and how to interact with fellow cell members and unchurched people. Topics include: - Developing a personal prayer life - Investing time with other members between meetings - Reading out to unchurched people and connecting them to the group - Discovering their own leadership potential and using it in the group - Helpful information on how to host a group meeting Each chapter ends with ways to share what has been learned as well as experience it. Additional resources are also included for deeper reading. If your cell group members don't seem to get it, or you want to put something in the hands of every incoming cell member so they'll know what to expect (and what cell life involves when it's done right), you will love this book.
As voyeuristic and prurient as today's tabloid newspapers, early modern crime pamphlets and broadside ballads about women murderers tell of furtive love affairs and domestic poisonings, of battered wives who kill their abusive husbands, and of troubled mothers who murder their children. On first acquaintance, many pamphlets leave an impression of shallow sensationalism yoked to idealised repentance, and for that reason modern critics and historians have often discounted their importance as culturally significant artifacts. This volume presents a selection of over forty texts and is intended to encourage a reconsideration of these views. In his Introductory Note to the volume, Randall Martin discusses the narrative content and social commentary of these ballads, pamphlets and trial reports, and the contribution that they make to the discursive construction of the early modern female murderer through their representational strategies and evolving legal and gender contexts.
This book fills a significant gap in current process scholarship by providing a detailed exposition of Whitehead's and Hartshorne's social and political writings, reconstructing their ideological commitments in depth, and placing them in their historical context. It focuses on four areas of inquiry: the individual and society; the ideals of freedom, equality, and democracy; the use of coercive force within and between societies; and the theory of social progress. As each feature of their political though is examined, Morris shows how Whitehead's and Hartshorne's political commitments are reflected in their metaphysical principles.
In the sacred pages, recorded in bygone ages, the prophet Daniel wrote cryptic passages about a Sanctuary system he had seen in a series of startling visions. We will explore Daniel's prophecies to capture their meaning and to test their accuracy. Various interpretations of Bible prophecy line the shelves of bookstores. Many are spine-tingling thrillers that are the product of a colorful imagination. Our study does not offer popular predictions and entertaining fiction. A solid interpretation of prophecy is founded on the rock of Scripture and is a revelation of what God wants us to understand in our sojourn through life. Seventh-Day Adventists and other earnest seekers have inherited a historical interpretation based on Bible study. Therefore, we will thoroughly test the Adventist interpretation and dates. We will see how the early prophecy pioneers wove together a tapestry of truths, and we will explore how the Adventist author, Ellen G. White, impacted the interpretation. Respectful Christians from every denomination hold different views on prophecy, but everyone should be familiar with the historical perspective. Daniel used a Hebrew calendar to mark his prophecy. Therefore, we must discover how Daniel's calendar measured time in those distant lands thousands of years ago. Amazingly, God buried papyri proof in the dry sands of Egypt to solve this marvelous time mystery. An ancient Hebrew civilization placed double-dated Papyri documents in earthen vessels and buried them on Elephantine Island. Our study provides a treatise on twenty papyrus contracts to establish their dates in absolute time so that we can reconstruct the old Jewish calendar. Our calendar reconstruction helps us to easily discover the timing for Passover, Christ's crucifixion, His timing, the birthdays of the twelve patriarchs, the sign of Jonah, and other biblical events. Bible symbology, historical accounts, ancient artifacts, and astronomical evidence work together to bring Daniel's prophecies to life. Ultimately, however, our prophetic studies must stand on the Sword of Truth, the Holy Writ. Early prophecy pioneers pieced their arguments together like a gifted jeweler arranges gemstones to form a sparkling crown, but their findings differ from the current popular consensus of events. The current consensus does not possess the same luster. Something is out of place. Therefore, we turned our attention to Passover Week in 31 AD to see if Daniel’s prophetic gemstones fit together to form a brilliant arrangement. We focused our monocle scope on the field of evidence, like biblical types and shadows, as though we were looking for the perfect gems. Consider the Bible Passover type. The biblical imperative required that feasters eat the sacrifice and consume all its remains by a smoldering fire during the night. Burning a sacrifice to ashes implies total surrender to the will of God. After the Seder ended, Jesus exclaimed, “… My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death” (Matt. 26:38). On that night, at midnight, with the crushing weight of the world pressing out blood from His pores like the sieve of an olive press, He prayed repeatedly that the cup He was about to drink might pass from Him. Every being in the universal realm possesses the power of choice, and the Lord is no exception. All the hosts of heaven waited to see if He would confirm the covenant vow He had struck with the Father at the foundation of the world. The tempest was fierce. An astonishing gust of agony assailed the Lord with blasting fury, and the “horror of great darkness” and depression smothered Him in that decisive hour. The fate of humanity swayed in the stormy gales. Jesus suffered intense mental anguish. “His visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men” (Is. 52:14). The broad and full Passover moon bore silent witness to the solitary scene. At last, in lonesome resignation, the Lord surrendered to the Father for the third time. The matter was settled. His will was consumed by the fiery flames of affliction into the will of His Father, which closed the Passover. Follow along while we brush away the sands of time to reconstruct the old Hebrew calendar. Discover how Jesus fulfilled those prophecies with precise accuracy.
Secrets. What secrets are hidden at the heart of family life? Deceit. The lies we tell ourselves are often more dangerous than the truth. When forty-one-year-old Sarah Price is reported missing after having arranged a date with a man she met on the internet, her son is distraught. Meanwhile, Glasgow based Detective Inspectors Kat Wheeler and Steven Ross attend the scene of a murder. Michael O'Donnell, a widower and devoted stay-at-home dad to his daughter, Paula, has been brutally killed. And Paula, who is vulnerable and dependent on daily medication, is missing. As Wheeler and Ross race to find Michael's killer and Paula's abductor, they are drawn into a tangled web of deceit. Soon they come to realise that the killer is watching them. And is always one step ahead... Praise for Anne Randall: 'Brilliant' The Sun 'Randall has grown in confidence since her debut, and this is as assured and clever a novel of "tartan noir" as you could hope to find' Daily Mail
Cervantes in Seventeenth-century England garners well over a thousand English references to Cervantes and his works, thus providing the fullest and most intriguing early English picture ever made of the writings of Spain's greatest writer. Besides references to the nineteen books of Cervantes's prose available to seventeenth-century English readers (including four little-known abridgments), this new volume includes entries by such notable writers as Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, William Wycherley, Aphra Behn, Thomas Hobbes, John Dryden, and John Locke, as well as many lesser-known and anonymous writers. A reader will find, among others, a counterfeiter, a midwife, an astrologer, a princess, a diarist, and a Harvard graduate. Altogether this broad range of writers, famed and forgotten alike, brings to light not only sectarian and political tensions of the day, but also glimpses of the arts-of weaving, singing, acting, engraving, and painting. Even dancing, for there was a dance called the "Sancho Panzo". The volume opens with a wide-ranging Introduction that among other things traces the English reception of both Cervantes's Don Quixote and his Novelas ejemplares, including the part they played in English drama. In the main body of the work, individual items are arranged chronologically by year and, within that framework, alphabetically by author, thus providing little-known seventeenth-century evidence regarding the nature and breadth of British interest in Cervantes in various decades. Thorough annotation helps readers to place individual entries in their historical, social, political, and in some instances religious contexts. The volume includes twenty-nine germane seventeenth-century pictures, an index of references to chapters in Don Quixote, and a full bibliography and index.
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of eugenics in North America focused on the second half of the twentieth century. Based on new research, Randall Hansen and Desmond King show why eugenic sterilization policies persisted after the 1940s in the United States and Canada. Through extensive archival research, King and Hansen show how both superintendents at homes for the 'feebleminded' and pro-sterilization advocates repositioned themselves after 1945 to avoid the taint of Nazi eugenics. Drawing on interviews with victims of sterilization and primary documents, this book traces the post-1940s development of eugenic policy and shows that both eugenic arguments and committed eugenicists informed population, welfare, and birth control policy in postwar America. In providing revisionist histories of the choice movement, the anti-population growth movement, and the Great Society programs, this book contributes to public policy and political and intellectual history.
This groundbreaking new core textbook encourages students to take a more critical approach to the prevalent assumptions around the subject of macroeconomics, by comparing and contrasting heterodox and orthodox approaches to theory and policy. The first such textbook to develop a heterodox model from the ground up, it is based on the principles of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) as derived from the theories of Keynes, Kalecki, Veblen, Marx, and Minsky, amongst others. The internationally-respected author team offer appropriate fiscal and monetary policy recommendations, explaining how the poor economic performance of most of the wealthy capitalist countries over recent decades could have been avoided, and delivering a well-reasoned practical and philosophical argument for the heterodox MMT approach being advocated. The book is suitable for both introductory and intermediate courses, offering a thorough overview of the basics and valuable historical context, while covering everything needed for more advanced courses. Issues are explained conceptually, with the more technical, mathematical material in chapter appendices, offering greater flexibility of use.
This book represents 50 years of collecting anecdotes, starting at Oxford University at the end of its golden age of developing the personality as well as the brain. So different from nowadays where Britains left wing conservative government requires the worlds best known University to waste its money and time explaining to stupid schoolchildren who wont apply because they think they will be murdered because the Inspector Morse murder mysteries are set In Oxford, that they are fiction- pupils this stupid dont deserve any university education. It goes forward to 2013, with a big airport denying there is an airline called British Airways, and the potential sighting of the ghost of a cowled monk in an ancient churchyard. Geographically it includes the little visited countries of Kazakhstan (a real anecdote, not the silliness of Borat) and the tiny coral Cook Islands in the middle of the Pacific.
National Bestseller An enlightening and utterly convincing re-examination of the allied aerial bombing campaign and of civilian German suffering during World War II–an essential addition to our understanding of world history. During the Second World War, Allied air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany, destroying some 60 cities, killing more than half a million German citizens, and leaving 80,000 pilots dead. Much of the bombing was carried out against the expressed demands of the Allied military leadership. Hundreds of thousands of people died needlessly. Focusing on the crucial period from 1942 to 1945, and using a compelling narrative approach, Fire and Fury tells the story of the American and British bombing campaign through the eyes of those involved: military and civilian command in America, Britain, and Germany, aircrew in the sky, and civilians on the ground. Acclaimed historian Randall Hansen shows that the Commander-in-Chief of Bomber Command, Arthur Harris, was wedded to an outdated strategy whose success had never been proven; how area bombing not only failed to win the war, it probably prolonged it; and that the US campaign, which was driven by a particularly American fusion of optimism and morality, played an important and largely unrecognized role in delivering Allied victory.
A gripping debut psychological novel you won't want to put down. 'Assured and clever' The Sun First he kills. A psychologist is found brutally murdered, an addict jumps to his death and a student is found dead. These are the facts. And they are all that DIs Wheeler and Ross have. He waits. As Wheeler and Ross weave through the layers of Glasgow's underbelly they find a subculture where truth and lies are interchangeable commodities and violence is the favoured currency. He watches. The killer stays one step ahead of them as Wheeler uncovers a web of deceit in which her own nephew is entangled. He leaves his legacy... And as the case draws to a close, Wheeler has to confront her own integrity and face the dilemma: is justice always served by the truth? Praise for Anne Randall 'Brilliant' The Sun 'For fans of Stuart MacBride, this is a delight to read. Anne Randall is a welcome addition to the Scottish crime scene. Glasgow is in very dangerous hands' Crimesquad 'As assured and clever a novel of "tartan noir" as you could hope to find' Daily Mail
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