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Author: Andy Andrews
Title: The Travelers
Gift
Christian author and motivational speaker
Andrews effectively combines self-help with
fiction to catch readers' interest, sustaining
momentum while simultaneously passing on
instructions for positive thinking. With his
can-do style, Andrews (Storms of Perfection;
Tales from Sawyerton Springs) tells the
allegorical tragedy of one David Ponder, whose
woes begin when he loses his job, his confidence
and essentially his drive for living. After a
succession of losses, Ponder is rendered
unconscious after a car accident, and is
magically transported into seven key points in
history. At each stopping point, he is met by
historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Anne
Frank, King Solomon, Harry Truman and
Christopher Columbus, each of whom imparts one
of the seven key decisions that Andrews asserts
are essential for personal success. After his
travel through time, Ponder regains
consciousness in a hospital and discovers he is
holding letters given to him by the various
heroes. The letters offer familiar self-help
counsel: accept that the buck stops with you,
become a wisdom seeker and a person of action,
determine to be happy, open the day with a
forgiving spirit, and persist despite all odds.
Although Andrews writes from a Christian
perspective, his overall message (trust that God
is sovereign, but do your part in making your
future happen) will ring true with a broad
spectrum of inspirational readers. Some astute
thinkers may be put off by the simplistic story
line, but Andrews does an exemplary job at
providing positive suggestions for overcoming
life's obstacles.
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Author: Bill Shore
Title: Revolution of the
Heart
From Publishers
Weekly
Shore posits
that welfare programs, private charities and
nonprofit agencies fail to solve social problems
because many compete for the same limited funds,
operate inefficiently and/or use little
creativity. He proposes alliances with
businesses willing to dedicate part of their
profits to solutions. As examples, he cites
Working Assets and the enterprises of Paul
Newman, Joseph Kennedy, Ben & Jerry's and
his own Share Our Strength (SOS). These are
driven by people of social vision who, while
creating jobs and wealth, at the same time
provide new funding sources for social programs.
Sometimes a nonprofit, such as SOS?concerned
primarily with hunger?enters into a partnership
with an existing company, the one providing
products or skills, the other devising marketing
vehicles for them, and together creating new
resources for social projects. A former aide to
Senator Gary Hart, Shore offers timely analyses
of the failures of nonprofits and government
programs, and his examples of successful
coalitions with business are inspiring. Yet
critics will have many "yes?buts" in response to
his argument, which, though silken and
persuasive, seems long on idealism and short on
wide application, depending as it does on a
"revolution of the heart."
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Author: Max Lucado
Title: Cure for the Common
Life
From Publishers
Weekly
Bestselling
author Lucado (Come Thirsty) dedicates
his latest book to helping readers discover
their "sweet spot"—the job or life calling they
were created for. He guides readers on their
search to find the unique abilities God may have
built into them. First step: "read your life
backward" to see where you've been successful
and what you've loved in the past. Readers are
directed to find their personal
"S.T.O.R.Y."—strengths, topic, optimal
conditions, relationships and "Yes!" moments.
This acronym originates with People Management
Inc., whose theories helped Lucado find his own
strengths and form much of the foundation for
this book. For Lucado, discovering one's life
purpose is really about honoring the God who
gave the unique abilities in the first place, so
he instructs readers not to make decisions based
on greed. Instead, he exhorts them to "make a
big deal out of God" rather than worrying about
their own reputation and to trust God to use
their "small beginnings" in his overall purpose.
The book contains a "Sweet Spot Discovery Guide"
with detailed exercises from People Management
to help readers uncover their own personal
"S.T.O.R.Y."—though some will want further
guidance. As always, evangelical readers will
appreciate that Lucado is easy to read while
still substantive and orthodox, and many
struggling to find the work that's right for
them will find this book very helpful. (Jan.
3)
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Authors: Daniel Goleman, Richard
Boyatzis, Annie McKee
Title: Primal leadership
From Publishers Weekly
"The fundamental task of leaders...
is to prime good feeling in those they lead.
That occurs when a leader creates resonance a
reservoir of positivity that unleashes the best
in people. At its root, then, the primal job of
leadership is emotional." So argue Goleman
(Emotional Intelligence) and EI (emotional
intelligence) experts Boyatzis and McKee. They
use the word "primal" not only in its original
sense, but also to stress that making employees
feel good (i.e., inspired and empowered) is the
job a leader should do first. To prove that the
need to lead and to respond to leadership is
innate, the authors cite numerous biological
studies of how people learn and react to
situations (e.g., an executive's use of innate
self-awareness helps her to be open to
criticism). And to demonstrate the importance of
emotion to leadership, they note countless
examples of different types of leaders in
similar situations, and point out that the ones
who get their employees emotionally engaged
accomplish far more. Perhaps most intriguing is
the brief appendix, where the authors compare
the importance of IQ and EI in determining a
leader's effectiveness. Their conclusion that EI
is more important isn't surprising, but their
reasoning is. Since one has to be fairly smart
to be a senior manager, IQ among top managers
doesn't vary widely. However, EI does. Thus, the
authors argue, those managers with higher EI
will be more successful. (Mar. 11)Forecast:
Goleman already has a legion of fans from his
early books on EI. His publisher is banking on
his fame; the house has planned a $250,000
campaign and a 100,000 first
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Author: Patrick Lencioni
Title: The Five Dysfunctions of a
Team
From Publishers
Weekly
In keeping
with the parable style, Lencioni (The Five
Temptations of a CEO) begins by telling the
fable of a woman who, as CEO of a struggling
Silicon Valley firm, took control of a
dysfunctional executive committee and helped its
members succeed as a team. Story time over,
Lencioni offers explicit instructions for
overcoming the human behavioral tendencies that
he says corrupt teams (absence of trust, fear of
conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of
accountability and inattention to results).
Succinct yet sympathetic, this guide will be a
boon for those struggling with the inherent
difficulties of leading a group. 100,000 first
printing. |
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Author: Ira
Chaleff
Title: The Courageous
Follower
From
Publishers Weekly
Business consultant Chaleff points
out that most of us at different times are both
leaders and followers. Many books, he notes,
have explored and analyzed the former role but
almost none the latter. Following is often
stigmatized, he argues, as docility, weakness or
failure to excel. His handbook shows that a
courageous follower can be an enormous asset to
a leader, and he pinpoints five dimensions in
which that courage can be demonstrated: assuming
responsibility, serving, challenging,
participating in transformation and, given the
worst-case scenario, leaving. The book should be
of value for those working in businesses where
"committeemanship," or team playing, is now the
rule in executive ranks.
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Author: Robert J. Morgan
Title: The Red Sea
Rules
Ten God given
strategies for difficult
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Author: The Arbinger
Institute
Title: The Anatomy
of Peace
From
Publishers Weekly
The
premise of this follow-up to Leadership and
Self-Deception is simple: people whose
hearts are at peace do not wage war, whether
they're heads of state or members of a family.
In this semi-fictional narrative ("inspired by
actual events") illustrating the principles of
achieving peace, the setting is a two-day parent
workshop at an Arizona-based wilderness camp for
out-of-control teenagers, but the storyline is a
mere setting for an instruction manual. Workshop
facilitators Yusuf al-Falah, a Palestinian Arab
whose father was killed by Israelis in 1948, and
Avi Rozen, an Israeli Jew whose father died in
the Yom Kippur War, use examples from their
domestic lives and the history of their region
to illustrate situations in which the normal and
necessary routines of daily life can become
fodder for conflict. Readers observe this
through the eyes of one participant, a father
whose business is in nearly as much trouble as
his teenage son. The usefulness of the
information conveyed here on how conflicts take
root, spread and can be resolved more than
compensates for the pedestrian writing.
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Author: John Maxwell
Title: Failing
Forward
The author of 24 books on maximizing
personal and leadership potential, John C.
Maxwell believes "the difference between average
people and achieving people is their perception
of and response to failure." In Failing
Forward, he offers inspirational advice for
turning the difficulties that inevitably arise
in life into stepping stones that help you reach
the top. Noting that star performers are often
those who aggressively push forward after
encountering adversity, Maxwell shows how a
variety of well-known and not-so-well-known
people have forged ahead despite obstacles that
could have derailed them. They include: Mary Kay
Ash, who founded her cosmetics firm against
enormous odds when the direct-sales company she
toiled in for 25 years resisted her continued
corporate climb; Truett Cathy, who lost two
brothers (and business partners) in an airplane
crash and experienced his own serious medical
problems before establishing the Chick-fil-A
fast-food chain; Greg Horn, who reopened his
Kentucky grocery store just 21 days after it
suffered $1 million in flood damage; and Beck
Weathers, who lost his nose, half of one arm,
and the fingers on his other in the infamous
1996 Into Thin Air Mt. Everest tragedy, but now
takes a positive message of survival and
conquest to audiences around the world. --Howard Rothman |
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Author: Shil Silverstein
Title: The Giving
Tree
To say that this
particular apple tree is a "giving tree" is an
understatement. In Shel Silverstein's popular
tale of few words and simple line drawings, a
tree starts out as a leafy playground, shade
provider, and apple bearer for a rambunctious
little boy. Making the boy happy makes the tree
happy, but with time it becomes more challenging
for the generous tree to meet his needs. When he
asks for money, she suggests that he sell her
apples. When he asks for a house, she offers her
branches for lumber. When the boy is old, too
old and sad to play in the tree, he asks the
tree for a boat. She suggests that he cut her
down to a stump so he can craft a boat out of
her trunk. He unthinkingly does it. At this
point in the story, the double-page spread shows
a pathetic solitary stump, poignantly cut down
to the heart the boy once carved into the tree
as a child that said "M.E. + T." "And then the
tree was happy... but not really." When there's
nothing left of her, the boy returns again as an
old man, needing a quiet place to sit and rest.
The stump offers up her services, and he sits on
it. "And the tree was happy." While the message
of this book is unclear (Take and take and take?
Give and give and give? Complete self-sacrifice
is good? Complete self-sacrifice is infinitely
sad?), Silverstein has perhaps deliberately left
the book open to interpretation. (All ages) --Karin Snelson
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Author: Dr. Seuss
Title: Oh the
Places You'll Go
From
School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 3-- The master of
enjoyable didacticism offers a flight of fancy
into the future of a generic "you" who is
venturing out into the world, where he will have
ups and downs but will succeed and finally "MOVE
MOUNTAINS!" While doting relatives will find
this extended greeting card an ideal gift for
nursery school graduates, the story will have
less appeal for children than Seuss' story books
and easy readers. Seuss' characteristic drawings
carry and extend the text through mazelike
streets, over colorful checkerboard landscapes,
into muddy blue "slumps," through heady highs
when fame results from success at the game of
life, and through dark, lonely confrontations
with graveyard-like fears in times of solitude.
While the text gives a strong message of
self-determination and potential, the small,
male "you" pictured seems more of a passive
passenger on his journey through life, reacting
to things as they come and walking along with
his eyes shut on both the first and last pages
of the text. Although this does not rank among
the best of Seuss' books, its stress on
self-esteem and imaginative artwork make it a
good addition to picture-book collections.
--Louise L. Sherman, Anna C. Scott School,
Leonia, NJ
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Author: Dennis Bakke
Title: Joy at Work
From Publishers Weekly
Bakke cofounded international energy
giant AES in 1981 and was its president and CEO
from 1994 to 2002. This memoir-cum-inspirational
business book has an
everything-but-the-kitchen-sink feel; in
relaxed, roundabout prose, Bakke tells of his
first work experience (chasing cows to the barn
for milking at age five), his schooling, his
friendships and partnerships, and how it all
coalesced into a philosophy of work that puts
employee satisfaction ahead of profit as a
company's goal—a frightening thing for most
managers. Bakke believes worker autonomy and
self-determination to be the straightest path to
success. Most of the book takes AES as a case
study; his matter-of-fact descriptions of the
Houston power plant's experience with
"honeycombing"—or transition to egalitarian,
collective self-supervision, including
spending—or of humility as a managerial
necessity, are genuinely inspiring, though job
elimination is involved in the transitions he
proposes. Bakke argues that his values and
techniques did, in fact, lead to profit (until,
he says, the energy industry scandals of the
past few years), but that profit is not the
point of work. While most managers would not
dream of experimenting with Bakke's ideas, they
will find it difficult to deny their potential. 22-city author tour.(Mar. 8)
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Authors: Wind, Crook, and
Gunther
Title: The
Power of impossible thinking
The world you live in is all in your
mind, according to Wharton Business School
Professors Yoram Wind and Colin Crook. The
Power of Impossible Thinking is a witty and
lucid translation of neuroscience research about
"mental models"--the deeply ingrained
assumptions and images that shape our reality
and influence opportunities for success and
failure. "Our models are gated communities," say
Crook and Wind, who offer a superb crash course
on the power and limit of mental models.
The key
questions: How do you know when an old model is
worn out? How do you avoid "cognitive lock,"
filtering out information that conflicts with
your model? How do you know a new model will
live up to its hype? Many of the answers lie in
"Mind R&D"--developing an inventory of new
and old models and refining your intuition to
fit your current reality. These engaging ideas
are detailed with portraits of three impossible
thinkers (Oprah Winfrey, Starbucks CEO Howard
Schultz and Intel's Andy Grove) and vivid
examples (The music industry vs. Napster, a
French fry cancer scare, O-rings on the
Challenger). Wind and Crook make such a
brilliant case for new ways of seeing that
readers may wish for more coaching to recognize
the obsolete models that keep us from changing
our minds. --Barbara
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Author; Andy Andrews
Title: The Lost
Choice
From
Publishers Weekly
Bestselling author Andrews (The
Traveler's Gift) takes a cue from the
success of his previous book, built around time
travel, motivational ideas and historical
figures, and continues in the same vein. When
Mark and Dorry Chandler find an odd bronze
object in a ditch in their Denver backyard, they
begin to investigate its origin. Andrews
develops the theme of the importance of making
good choices, using the motif of four inscribed
ancient bronze objects that together form a cup.
Each fragment symbolizes choices that its
historic owner made, influenced by the object.
Using flashbacks, Andrews offers numerous short
vignettes of the different historical figures
who possessed each of the fragments, including
Oskar Schindler, Alfred Vanderbilt, John Adams
and George Washington Carver among others. The
flashbacks are simply presented, and they often
have the feel of fictional minibiographies for
young readers rather than meaty adult fare.
There's nothing particularly compelling about
the storytelling—the mechanics of fiction are
creaky in places—but that's not the point.
Rather, the book stands on the positive message
that one person by his or her decisions can
change the world. As he did in The Traveler's
Gift, Andrews should appeal to those readers
looking for an uncomplicated motivational read
with a dollop of history thrown in for good
measure.
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Author: Bill Shore
Title: The Light of Conscience
From Publishers Weekly
Shore, director of the antipoverty organization Share Our Strength and
philanthropic consultant, has previously written about social
entrepreneurs who introduce capital-generating techniques to the
nonprofit sector (The Cathedral Within). Here he offers a variant on the
concept in the form of moral entrepreneurs, people who "do what it takes
to bring morality to places where it hasn't been before." Offering
several prominent examples, he observes that such people often do the
most through the simplest of actions, like the gesture of friendship Pee
Wee Reese offered Jackie Robinson in front of racist baseball fans and
teammates. Each of us is likewise capable of following our conscience,
he claims, using his son to demonstrate the principle. After a strong
early emphasis on the boy's flair for "obfuscation and deception," a
proud father recounts his son's attendance at a rally shortly after
9/11. That tragedy underscores Shore's belief that we can no longer
afford to focus solely on our immediate surroundings, but must strive to
raise the quality of life throughout the world; injustice allowed to
fester elsewhere, he warns, will eventually play out to our own
detriment. Readers will likely perceive an intuitive validity to his
suggestion that the major news coverage of recent scandals involving
corporate fraud and sexual abuse by priests is "directly related" to
9/11, because our reaction immediately after "spawned a new premium on
conscientious and ethical conduct." The theory might not hold up to
scrutiny, but this and other doubts about the book's grasp on the big
picture are abated by Shore's sincere passion and attention to the small
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Author: Robert E. Quinn
Title: Change the World
From Booklist
A University of Michigan professor and author (Deep Change, among
others) has the audacity to state that previous strategies for change
are ineffective, positing a fourth--called ACT, or Advanced Change
Theory--that includes and transcends the rest. It is hard to argue with
someone who, through a combination of dense psychotherapeutic text and
lively examples, debates his own theory and its eight steps. In fact,
Quinn starts with a holy triumvirate of heroes who, in themselves, are
difficult to naysay--Jesus, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King--and then are
quoted at the beginning of each chapter. Yet, despite few graphics and
Germanic sentences, his message is clear: to become a change agent, you
must first change yourself and then immerse yourself in the common good,
disturb the system, and "set the truth free." Not intended as a popular
read but rather as a provocative challenge to nonleaders and leaders
alike. Barbara Jacobs Copyright © American Library Association. All
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Author: David Bornstein
Title: How to Change the World
From Publishers Weekly
Journalist Bornstein (The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen
Bank) profiles nine indomitable champions of social change who developed
innovative ways to address needs they saw around them in places as
distinct as Bombay, India; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and inner-city
Washington, D.C. As these nine grew influential when their ingenious
ideas proved ever more widely successful, they came to the attention of
Ashoka, an organization that sponsors a fellows program to foster social
innovation by finding so-called social entrepreneurs to support. As
Bornstein interviewed these and many other Ashoka fellows, he saw
patterns in the ways they fought to solve their specifically local
problems. To demonstrate the commonality among experiences as diverse as
a Hungarian mother striving to provide a fuller life for her handicapped
son and a South African nurse starting a home-care system for AIDS
patients, he presents useful unifying summaries of "four practices of
innovative organizations" and "six qualities of successful social
entrepreneurs." Bornstein implies that his subjects are in the tradition
of Florence Nightingale and Gandhi; the inspiring portraits that emerge
from his in-depth reporting on the environments in which individual
programs evolved (whether in politically teeming India or amid the
expansive grasslands of Brazil) certainly show these unstoppable
entrepreneurs as extraordinarily savvy community development experts. In
adding up the vast number of current nongovernmental organizations and
their corps of agents of positive change, Bornstein aims to persuade
that, "without a doubt, the past twenty years has produced more social
entrepreneurs than terrorists.". Copyright © Reed Business Information,
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Author: Dominique Lapierre
Title: The City of Joy
From Library Journal
What irony that one of Calcutta's most devastating slums should be known
as Anand Nagar, ``the City of Joy.'' By interweaving impressionistic
glimpses from the lives of a French priest, a rickshaw driver, and an
American doctor, Lapierre creates a searing vision of the struggle for
survival, the flashing violence, and the social and cultural practices
of the slum. His theme that from human misery can emerge joy might seem
to some readers as a bogus acceptance of a terrible evil. Yet Lapierre's
narrative slides skillfully in and out of both history and fiction to
create an effective but horrible montage of disease, death, and
destruction amid elements of charity, hope, and love. The City of Joy
should elicit strong reactions from readers. BOMC and Quality Paperback
Book Club alternates. John F. Riddick, Central Michigan Univ. Lib., Mt.
Pleasant
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Author: Khaled Hosseini
Title: The Kite RunnerFrom
Publishers Weekly
Hosseini's stunning debut novel starts as an
eloquent Afghan version of the American immigrant experience in the late
20th century, but betrayal and redemption come to the forefront when the
narrator, a writer, returns to his ravaged homeland to rescue the son of
his childhood friend after the boy's parents are shot during the Taliban
takeover in the mid '90s. Amir, the son of a well-to-do Kabul merchant,
is the first-person narrator, who marries, moves to California and
becomes a successful novelist. But he remains haunted by a childhood
incident in which he betrayed the trust of his best friend, a Hazara boy
named Hassan, who receives a brutal beating from some local bullies.
After establishing himself in America, Amir learns that the Taliban have
murdered Hassan and his wife, raising questions about the fate of his
son, Sohrab. Spurred on by childhood guilt, Amir makes the difficult
journey to Kabul, only to learn the boy has been enslaved by a former
childhood bully who has become a prominent Taliban official. The price
Amir must pay to recover the boy is just one of several brilliant,
startling plot twists that make this book memorable both as a political
chronicle and a deeply personal tale about how childhood choices affect
our adult lives. The character studies alone would make this a
noteworthy debut, from the portrait of the sensitive, insecure Amir to
the multilayered development of his father, Baba, whose sacrifices and
scandalous behavior are fully revealed only when Amir returns to
Afghanistan and learns the true nature of his relationship to Hassan.
Add an incisive, perceptive examination of recent Afghan history and its
ramifications in both America and the Middle East, and the result is a
complete work of literature that succeeds in exploring the culture of a
previously obscure nation that has become a pivot point in the global
politics of the new millennium.
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Author: Khaled Hosseini
Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns
From Amazon.com
It's difficult to imagine a harder first act to follow than The Kite
Runner: a debut novel by an unknown writer about a country many readers
knew little about that has gone on to have over four million copies in
print worldwide. But when preview copies of Khaled Hosseini's second
novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, started circulating at Amazon.com,
readers reacted with a unanimous enthusiasm that few of us could
remember seeing before. As special as The Kite Runner was, those readers
said, A Thousand Splendid Suns is more so, bringing Hosseini's
compassionate storytelling and his sense of personal and national
tragedy to a tale of two women that is weighted equally with despair and
grave hope.
We wanted to spread the word on the book as widely, and as soon, as we
could. See below for an exclusive excerpt from A Thousand Splendid Suns
and early reviews of the book from some of our top customer reviewers.
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Author: Stephen C. Sanders
Title: Built To Serve
From Back Cover
When You Empower People You Get Powerful Results
“[This book] inspires your spirit...The United Supermarkets model,
taught in a most excellent and successful way.”-Stephen R. Covey
“Built to Serve calls for a profound shift in the philosophy and
practice of business. We can all learn a great deal from Dan's
leadership and United's legacy.”-from the Afterword by Ken Blanchard,
coauthor of The One Minute Manager and Leading at a Higher Level
“Success in business requires a dedication to certain basic principles,
not the least of which is realizing a company's best asset is its
people. Dan Sanders has done a remarkable job of illustrating how this
philosophy, when applied consistently, can improve the health of any
business.”-Kenneth Cooper, M.D., Cooper Aerobics Center
“Leaders will profit from the groundbreaking principles advocated in
this book.”-Claude Dollins, Chairman, The Center for Corporate Culture
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Author: Max Lucado
Title: Facing Your Giants
From Publishers
WeeklyMegaseller Lucado, with 40 million books
in print, will draw more readers to his fold with this newest release,
which focuses on the life of the Old Testament hero David. David crashed
onto the scene in ancient Israel when he used a slingshot and one stone
to fell the giant Goliath. He went on to become Israel's greatest king.
Now Lucado has modern readers slaying their own giants using principles
gleaned from David's life. For example, David focused on God, not
giants; David's life was threatened by his nemesis King Saul, but David
worshiped God; David stole the beautiful Bathsheba from her husband and
then had him killed, but God forgave. Lucado goes beyond the
storytelling to offer readers concrete actions to help slay their giants
using the metaphor of the five stones David chose in his Goliath quest.
The stones represent the past, prayer, priority, passion and
persistence. Lucado's lively language ("Focus on giants—you stumble.
Focus on God—your giants tumble.") and casual style appeal to the most
reluctant readers, yet his spiritual depth will challenge and amaze.
Added value comes with the study guide keyed to each chapter. Lucado has
a giant winner here. (Nov. 21) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a
division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Author: Rosser, Dois I.
Title: The God Who Hung On The Cross
From Publishers
WeeklyFilled with stories of "kingdom
building," this book chronicles the work of octogenarian entrepreneur
Rosser, who helped build almost 1,200 churches in 19 different
countries. Told by Rosser himself in some chapters, and by veteran
co-writer Vaughn (The Strand; Gideon's Torch) in others, it is a story
that will indeed "stir up fresh possibilities of what [God] could well
do right here at home." The very best sections of the book, however,
come from the people they meet in dozens of other countries-Christians
who tell of amazing faith in the face of extreme deprivation. The story
of "The God Who Hung on the Cross," a tale of miraculous salvation from
Cambodia, will become a favorite sermon illustration for many pastors.
Readers will find themselves looking around for someone to tell, "You've
got to hear this story!" The perspective shifts between Rosser and
Vaughn, indicated at the start of each chapter, give the book a balanced
feel; while it is important to hear the story from Rosser himself, it's
also helpful to have the perspective of an observer without his
entrepreneurial drive. Although the commentary occasionally lapses into
clich‚s ("getting out of our comfort zones"), the book is filled with
powerful illustrations of God using ordinary people and meager resources
to do extraordinary things. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information,
Inc.
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Author: Ravi K. Zacharias
Title: The Lotus and The Cross
From AmazonHave
you ever wondered what Jesus would say to Mohammed? Or Buddha? Or Oscar
Wilde? Maybe you have a friend who practices another religion or admires
a more contemporary figure. Drop in on a conversation between Jesus and
some well-known individuals whose search for the meaning of life took
them in many directions -- and influenced millions. Popular scholar Ravi
Zacharias sets a captivating scene in this first in the intriguing
Conversations with Jesus books. Through dialogue between Christ and
Gautama Buddha that reveals Jesus' warm, impassioned concern for all
people, God's true nature is explored. It's a well-priced, eBook version
that you will enjoy owning.
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Make the choice to BE part of the solution to your communities most pressing demands. |
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DO take the time to share your energy, creativity and passion to make your community a safer, healthier,
more caring place to live. |
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GO and meet the needs of another with a generous heart and loving spirit. So together, we can help make the world a better place..one person at a time! |
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