Download or read book Power of the Pew Warmer written by Charles Pearce and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heart of Charles Pearce, the author, is to know that each reader will be encouraged to embrace their unique purpose within the local church. This manual traces the struggles and triumphs of a consecrated soldier of God. His personal struggles centered on his low self-esteem that began in childhood and worsened as he became an adult who compared himself to others. His ministerial struggles emerged from the discrepancy between his expectations for the people who frequently warmed the pews of his early churches and their perceptions of their Christian responsibilities.
Download or read book The Pew Warmers written by Gene Jackson and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jackson examines the underlying motivations behind why people attend church, including self-interest, personal gain, recognition, and a hope of heaven. (Social Issues)
Download or read book Discovering the Power of God in You written by Dr. Kazumba Charles and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering the Power of God in You is an inspiring and hopeful spiritual guidebook that encourages believers to recognize the gifts and talents that God has blessed them with and to be an active part of the Christian change that the world—and God’s coming kingdom—so desperately need. Providing a roadmap grounded in the scriptures, the author invites fellow believers to listen for God and heed the call he has placed in their lives, such that they will overcome adversity with strength and with faith that with God, anything and all things are possible.
Download or read book The Impact of Global Warming on Texas written by Jurgen Schmandt and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When The Impact of Global Warming on Texas was first published in 1995, it discussed climate change as a likely future phenomenon, predicted by scientific studies. This entirely rewritten second edition presents evidence that early climate change impacts can now be observed and identifies the threats climate change will pose to Texas through the year 2050. It also offers the hopeful message that corrective action, if taken now, can avert unmanageable consequences. The book begins with a discussion of climate science and modeling and the information that can be derived from these sources for Texas. The authors follow this with an analysis of actual climate trends in the various Texas climate regions, including a predicted rise in temperatures of 5.4 degrees F (plus or minus 1.8 F) by the end of the century. This could lead to less rainfall and higher evaporation, especially in regions that are already dry. Other important effects include possible changes in El Niño (climate variability) patterns and hurricane behaviors. Taking into account projected population growth, subsequent chapters explore likely trends with respect to water availability, coastal impacts, and biodiversity. The authors then look at the issues from a policy perspective, focusing on Texas's importance to the national economy as an energy producer, particularly of oil and gas. They recommend that Texas develop its own climate change policy to serve the goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing energy independence, ensuring regional security, and improving management of water, air, land, and wildlife.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Global Warming Science and Technology 2 volumes written by Bruce E. Johansen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-20 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this two-volume encyclopedia for general readers and students of all levels, Bruce E. Johansen marshals scientific work on global warming into 300 articles presented in clear and understandable language. Comprehensive in scope and accessible to all reader levels, The Encyclopedia of Global Warming Science and Technology covers a vast range of topics, concepts, issues, processes, and scientists sifted and melded from the many scientific and technological fields. These include atmospheric chemistry, paleoclimatology, biogeography, oceanography, geophysics, glaciology, soil science, and more. Bruce E. Johansen digests the explosion of scientific work on global warming that has been published since 1980 and presents it in a set that is sure to be the indispensable standard reference work on the topic. The information here is of importance to just about everyone on the planet—for the findings of global warming science and technology should dictate the choices we make today to secure our common future. This encyclopedia will prove useful for many different types of professionals, inasmuch as global warming science informs public policy debates, applied science, and technology in such fields as energy generation, architecture, engineering, and agriculture.
Download or read book Chinese Soft Power and Its Implications for the United States written by Carola McGiffert and published by CSIS. This book was released on 2009 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China in recent years has been pursuing its national interests through its exercise internationally of soft power and economic power as it projects nonconfrontational, friendly diplomacy to states in developing regions. Using its soft-power projection to promote its own national interests, China has not sought to replace or supplant the United States in its role of security provider in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, or Latin America. U.S. policymakers must recognize China's objectives of maintaining its own internal stability and economic growth as they craft policies to ensure the United States promotes its own policies effectively. The United States can do more to collaborate with China in the developing world, particularly in the areas of energy, health, agriculture, and peacekeeping. If such collaboration were to take place, both nations would find themselves working toward a great global public good.
Download or read book The United States in a Warming World written by Thomas L. Brewer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balanced factual and conceptual analysis of the political and economic factors that shape the United States' responses to climate change.
Download or read book Back to the Garden written by Melissa Heflin Peden and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you tired of 'church as usual?' Do you believe that there is more to God than what you've been taught in most churches? Do you believe that there is more to 'Christian life' than what we are living? In Back to the Garden, you will discover that Jesus wants to be a part of everything you do. You can do what He did, have what He had, and be like He was! Think about it: wouldn't it be great to walk in the authority that Jesus had when He walked on earth. This book is THE discipleship training manual that ALL believers should have in their library, car, purse, and office. It is your guide to understanding your identity, value, and purpose in the Kingdom of God. The best part is that once you understand these things, it is your 'how-to' guide to living as a Christian. Most Christians receive salvation and wonder, 'what's next?' This book illustrates the Kingdom of God as it was designed to be when the Garden of Eden was created. It is time that we GET OFF OF OUR PEWS, and be REAL Christians! Jesus promised you abundant life. He's waiting to show it to you. . . Get ready -- you are about to be amazed at what you've been missing!
Download or read book Crisis and Communion written by John R. Mabry and published by Apocryphile Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every time the church has encountered crises, its understanding and performance of the Eucharist has shifted to help it meet that crisis. This book documents those shifts and asks the important question: what crisis is the church facting today, and how must the Eucharist change again to meet the challenge?
Download or read book Power and Superpower written by Morton H. Halperin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Century Foundation and Center for American Progress publication The United States entered the twenty-first century as a global leader, emulated for its ideals as much as it is respected for its power to shape events. American leadership served as the bedrock for the international order, promoting prosperity and peace both at home and abroad. But in the first years of the new century, U.S. foreign policy--exemplified by war in Iraq, the rejection of international treaties, and disregard for traditional allies--gave the impression to many that the United States had abandoned that leadership role in favor of one premised on military power. In Power and Superpower, some of the United States' most distinguished and experienced policymakers and experts outline a foreign policy that would allow America to reclaim its status as a reliable and visionary global leader. The essays identify the pressing foreign policy issues currently facing the United States and provide analysis to underpin a progressive foreign policy that would call upon all of America's strengths and respect the commitments we share with the rest of the world. Contributors include Madeleine Albright (former secretary of state), Yaeli Bloch-Elkon (Columbia University), Nancy Birdsall (Center for Global Development), Mark Malloch Brown (deputy secretary general, United Nations), Wesley K. Clark (U.S.Army, ret.), Eileen Claussen (Pew Center on Global Climate Change), Ivo H. Daalder (Brookings), Elliot Diringer (Pew Center on Global Climate Change), James Dobbins (RAND Corporation), David P. Forsythe (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Ken Gude (Center for American Progress), Charles A. Kupchan (Georgetown University), Robert Kuttner (American Prospect), Robert Z. Lawrence (Harvard University), Jim Leach (former U.S. representative, Iowa), Richard C. Leone (The Century Foundation), Michael McFaul (Stanford University), Stewart Patrick (Center for Global Development), John D. Podesta (Center for American Progress), Susan Rice (Brookings Institution), John G. Ruggie (Harvard University), William F. Schulz (Center for American Progress), Robert Y. Shapiro (Columbia University), Gayle Smith (Center for American Progress), George Soros (Open Society Institute), James B. Steinberg (Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas), Daniel Tarullo (Georgetown University), Peter L.Trubowitz (University of Texas at Austin), and Milan Vaishnav (Center for Global Development).
Download or read book Pew written by Catherine Lacey and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER of the 2021 NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. Finalist for the 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize. Longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. One of Publishers Weekly's Best Fiction Books of 2020. One of Amazon's 100 Best Books of 2020. “The people of this community are stifling, and generous, cruel, earnest, needy, overconfident, fragile and repressive, which is to say that they are brilliantly rendered by their wise maker, Catherine Lacey.” --Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers A figure with no discernible identity appears in a small, religious town, throwing its inhabitants into a frenzy In a small, unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives for a service and finds a figure asleep on a pew. The person is genderless and racially ambiguous and refuses to speak. One family takes in the strange visitor and nicknames them Pew. As the town spends the week preparing for a mysterious Forgiveness Festival, Pew is shuttled from one household to the next. The earnest and seemingly well-meaning townspeople see conflicting identities in Pew, and many confess their fears and secrets to them in one-sided conversations. Pew listens and observes while experiencing brief flashes of past lives or clues about their origin. As days pass, the void around Pew’s presence begins to unnerve the community, whose generosity erodes into menace and suspicion. Yet by the time Pew’s story reaches a shattering and unsettling climax at the Forgiveness Festival, the secret of who they really are—a devil or an angel or something else entirely—is dwarfed by even larger truths. Pew, Catherine Lacey’s third novel, is a foreboding, provocative, and amorphous fable about the world today: its contradictions, its flimsy morality, and the limits of judging others based on their appearance. With precision and restraint, one of our most beloved and boundary-pushing writers holds up a mirror to her characters’ true selves, revealing something about forgiveness, perception, and the faulty tools society uses to categorize human complexity.
Download or read book Is There Really a Purpose written by Michael A. Straessle and published by . This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Following Jesus in a Warming World written by Kyle Meyaard-Schaap and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever looked at the effects of climate change and the apathy of so many around you and wondered, "What are we missing here?" Climate activist Kyle Meyaard-Schaap understands this feeling from personal experience. But in his years of speaking to and equipping Christians to work for climate action, he's seen the trend begin to shift. More and more young Christians are waking up to the realities of climate change. They want to help, but they're not sure how. Through stories from the field, theological and scriptural exploration, and practical advice, Meyaard-Schaap offers hope to Christians paralyzed by the scale of the crisis, helping us turn our paralysis into meaningful action. Following Jesus in a Warming World is a field guide for Christian climate action—one grounded not in a sense of guilt or drudgery, but in the joy of caring for creation.
Download or read book Invading the Impossible written by and published by New Nature Publications. This book was released on with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change written by S. George Philander and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2008-04-22 with total page 1505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2008 Best Reference, Library Journal "The impact of global warming is rapidly evolving. This valuable resource provides an excellent historical overview and framework of this topic and serves as a general resource for geography, oceanography, biology, climatology, history, and many other subjects. A useful reference for a wide audience of business professionals and government officials as well as for the general public; essential for both academic and public libraries." —Library Journal "This is a useful set because of the individual country entries as well as the general-audience language . . ." — Booklist (Starred Review) The Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change helps readers learn about the astonishingly intricate processes that make ours the only planet known to be habitable. These three volumes include more than 750 articles that explore major topics related to global warming and climate change—ranging geographically from the North Pole to the South Pole, and thematically from social effects to scientific causes. Key Features Contains a 4-color, 16-page insert that is a comprehensive introduction to the complexities of global warming Includes coverage of the science and history of climate change, the polarizing controversies over climate-change theories, the role of societies, the industrial and economic factors, and the sociological aspects of climate change Emphasizes the importance of the effects, responsibilities, and ethics of climate change Presents contributions from leading scholars and institutional experts in the geosciences Serves as a general resource for geography, oceanography, biology, climatology, history, and many other subjects The Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change provides a primarily nonscientific resource to understanding the complexities of climate change for academic and public libraries. READER'S GUIDE Atmospheric Sciences Climate climate and Society Climate Change, Effects Climate Feedbacks Climate Models Countries: Africa Countries: Americas Countries: Asia Countries: Europe Countries: Pacific Glaciology Government and International Agencies Institutions Studying Climate Change Oceanography Paleo-Climates People Programs And Conventions
Download or read book Crop Circles and Climate Change written by Jerry Lesac and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all of the arguments ever given by science regarding faith and religion that it is really nothing more than conjecture and it would be that God can't be observed to exist. Looking at the topic of climate change and what we are presented with is something altogether different. For according to the bible it makes no bones about the fact that when it comes to the weather and it is Almighty God who is ultimately responsible for it all. Industrial pollution, however it may aggravate the environment in which we live, is not the real reason behind what is happening. Rather it has got everything to do with another kind of pollution that the bible calls SIN. This is what is really happening to our weather and by all appearances {these crop circles now} and it is reaching a place wherein like Noah's generation could have some serious implications for our own. Jerry Lesac is a cook by trade and a layman in the church. Considered by many to have the gift of a prophet he comes to the bible with a unique perspective born not out of any formal education but rather taught by God. In fact if there was one scripture that could possibly sum up this man's life it would have to be what St. Paul said to young Timothy; "Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through a prophetic message." {1Tim. 4:14} That and perhaps what St. John said as well; "As for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as His anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit -just as it has taught you remain in Him." {1 John 2:27}
Download or read book The Comfortable Church written by Samuel Alimo and published by Samuel Alimo. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s church is declining in its commitment to the Master’s final charge. The legacy of personal evangelism that the early church left for us is being lost. We have been distracted with the things that men esteem – positions, titles and affiliations. The Church is reposing in Zion while lost souls troop into Hell. How can we be confined to the four walls of church buildings and expect the lost souls to come to us? We are doing too little to reach out to the lost world yet we say we are expecting a great harvest. It seems we no longer appreciate the comparison Jesus made about men on the broad and the narrow roads. If we did, we would be alarmed by the ratio of people who are slipping daily into hell to the number being saved and be propelled to go into the world and evangelize. If we are expecting God to send angels to come and preach to the lost, then we have missed it. He will not. This book seeks to – Awaken the Church to personal evangelism Awaken the Church to prayer and love for the lost Revive the zeal and passion of the early Church Equip the saints for the Great Commission For people who delight in the souls of men, and mean business to see them saved, this is a must read.
