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Book When Moses Meets Aaron

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Beaumont
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2007-10-15
  • ISBN : 1566996996
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book When Moses Meets Aaron written by Susan Beaumont and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the number of large congregations rising in the U.S., these congregations are increasingly dependent upon a greater number of staff to meet the needs of their diverse collection of members. As leaders of multi-staff teams, senior clergy must play the dual role of both Moses and Aaron—both visionary and detail-oriented leader—in order for their large congregations to thrive. They need to be skilled with the tools of human resource management, while at the same time setting a vision and inspiring both staff and congregation. Unfortunately, until now there have been few resources for senior clergy who lead multi-staff teams. Working without adequate models and tools, senior clergy of large congregations often find themselves with passionate, dedicated staff members who are moving in different directions, competing over limited resources and attention. They end up with questions of how to evaluate the performance of staff and direct their efforts. They find themselves using time, attention, and resources to care for staff rather than using staff as a resource to care for the mission of the congregation. Longtime Alban senior consultant Gil Rendle and Alban senior consultant Susan Beaumont have developed When Moses Meets Aaron to help clergy responsible for several-member staff teams navigate these unknown waters. They have taken the best of human resource practices and immersed them in a congregational context, providing a comprehensive manual for supervising, motivating, and coordinating staff teams. Rendle and Beaumont give both detailed and big picture guidance on hiring, job descriptions, supervision, performance evaluation, staff-team design, difficult staff behavior, and more. Their combined experience in consulting and training with staff and leaders of large congregations proves invaluable in this manual for today's leadership demands.

Book The Priest

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  • Author : Francine Rivers
  • Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • Release : 2004-05-01
  • ISBN : 141432328X
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book The Priest written by Francine Rivers and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1 in the 5-book biblical historical fiction series by the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and A Voice in the Wind. His courage covered his brother’s fear. His sacrifices atoned for the people’s sin. His voice carried the words of God. Moses parted the Red Sea. But in his shadow stood Aaron, a man who symbolizes forever our great High Priest. Be challenged by this faithful man whose story we must never forget. The Priest is the story of Aaron and book one in the popular Sons of Encouragement series about five men who quietly changed eternity. “Rivers convincingly envisions the emotions and intrigue that surely permeated the biblical events.” —Publishers Weekly “Rivers delivers. Those two words say it all. Rich characterization and gripping plot are contained between the hard covers of this neatly crafted novella.” —RT Book Reviews This novella includes an in-depth Bible study perfect for personal reflection or group discussion.

Book Inside the Large Congregation

Download or read book Inside the Large Congregation written by Susan Beaumont and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For five years, Alban Institute senior consultant Susan Beaumont has been giving voice to the organizational and leadership demands of large congregations. Through her work, she has identified five basic leadership systems that need to stay in alignment for the large church to function well for its size: clergy leadership roles, staff team design and function, governance and board function, acculturation and the role of laity, and forming and executing strategy. She has also learned that these five systems operate with some important but subtle distinctions in what Beaumont calls the professional church (400-800 in worship attendance), the strategic church (800-1,200), and the matrix church (1,200-2,000). Often, she has discovered, problems in a large congregation are related to the fact that one or more of the five systems is inappropriately structured for the size of the congregation. In other words, the church isn't acting its size. Beaumont is invested in helping large congregations 'rightsize' their leadership systems to better serve their ministry context. This book articulates why size matters and how it matters in the world of large congregations. It is written for anyone who wants to better understand the leadership and organizational dynamics of the large church anyone seeking to understand the challenges of leading from inside the large congregation.

Book How to Lead When You Don t Know Where You re Going

Download or read book How to Lead When You Don t Know Where You re Going written by Susan Beaumont and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you lead an organization stuck between an ending and a new beginning—when the old way of doing things no longer works but a way forward is not yet clear? Beaumont calls such in-between times liminal seasons—threshold times when the continuity of tradition disintegrates and uncertainty about the future fuels doubt and chaos. In a liminal season it simply is not helpful to pretend we understand what needs to happen next. But leaders can still lead. How to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You’re Going is a practical book of hope for tired and weary leaders who risk defining this era of ministry in terms of failure or loss. It helps leaders stand firm in a disoriented state, learning from their mistakes and leading despite the confusion. Packed with rich stories and real-world examples, Beaumont guides the reader through practices that connect the soul of the leader with the soul of the institution.

Book Moses and Multiculturalism

Download or read book Moses and Multiculturalism written by Barbara Johnson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countering impressions of Moses reinforced by Sigmund Freud in his epoch-making Moses and Monotheism, this concise, engaging work begins with the perception that the story of Moses is at once the most nationalist and the most multicultural of all foundation narratives. Weaving together various texts—biblical passages, philosophy, poems, novels, opera, and movies—Barbara Johnson explores how the story of Moses has been appropriated, reimagined, and transmitted across cultures and historical moments. But she finds that already in the Bible, the story of Moses is a multicultural story, the story of someone who functions well in a world to which he, unbeknownst to the casual observer, does not belong. Using the Moses story as a lens through which to view questions at the heart of contemporary literary, philosophical, and ethical debates, Johnson shows how, through a close analysis of this figure's recurrence through time, we might understand something of the paradoxes, if not the impasses of contemporary multiculturalism.

Book The History of Moses Practically Considered  Thirty nine Lectures     by the Late Rev  J  G  Breay     Compiled from the Notes of the Deceased  Etc

Download or read book The History of Moses Practically Considered Thirty nine Lectures by the Late Rev J G Breay Compiled from the Notes of the Deceased Etc written by John George BREAY and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Moses and Aaron

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  • Author : Thomas Godwin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1641
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Moses and Aaron written by Thomas Godwin and published by . This book was released on 1641 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philo s Portrayal of Moses in the Context of Ancient Judaism

Download or read book Philo s Portrayal of Moses in the Context of Ancient Judaism written by Louis H. Feldman and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philo's Portrayal of Moses in the Context of Ancient Judaism presents the most comprehensive study of Philo's De Vita Mosis that exists in any language. Feldman, well known for his work on Josephus and ancient Judaism, here paves new ground using rabbinic material with philological precision to illuminate important parallels and differences between Philo's writing on Moses and rabbinic literature. One way in which Hellenistic culture marginalized Judaism was by exposing the apparent defects in Moses' life and character. Philo's De Vita Mosis is a counterattack to these charges and is a vital piece of his attempt to reconcile Judaism and Hellenism. Feldman rigorously examines the text and shows how Philo presents a narrative of Moses's life similar to that of a mythical divine and heroic figure, glorifying his birth, education, and virtues. Feldman demonstrates that Philo is careful to explain in a scientific way those portions of the Bible, particularly miracles, that appear incredible to his skeptical Hellenistic readers. Through Feldman's careful analysis, Moses emerges as unique among ancient lawgivers. Philo's Portrayal of Moses in the Context of Ancient Judaism mirrors the organization of Philo's biography of Moses, which is in two books, the first, in the style of Plutarch, proceeding chronologically, and the second, in the style of Suetonius, arranged topically. Following an introductory chapter, Feldman's study discusses the life of Moses chronologically in the second chapter and examines his virtues topically in the third. Feldman compares the particular features of Philo's portrait of Moses with the way in which Moses is viewed both by Jewish sources in antiquity (including Pseudo-Philo; Josephus; Graeco-Jewish historians, poets, and philosophers; and in the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Samaritan tradition, Dead Sea Scrolls, and rabbinic tradition) and by non-Jewish sources, notably the Greek and Roman writers who mention him.

Book LESSONS FROM THE LIFE OF MOSES

Download or read book LESSONS FROM THE LIFE OF MOSES written by GODSWORD GODSWILL ONU and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Moses

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  • Author : Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2016-11-22
  • ISBN : 0300225121
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Moses written by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar No figure looms larger in Jewish culture than Moses, and few have stories more enigmatic. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, acclaimed for her many books on Jewish thought, turns her attention to Moses in this remarkably rich, evocative book. Drawing on a broad range of sources—literary as well as psychoanalytic, a wealth of classical Jewish texts alongside George Eliot, W. G. Sebald, and Werner Herzog—Zornberg offers a vivid and original portrait of the biblical Moses. Moses's vexing personality, his uncertain origins, and his turbulent relations with his own people are acutely explored by Zornberg, who sees this story, told and retold, as crucial not only to the biblical past but also to the future of Jewish history.

Book Lily and Me

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  • Author : Moses Aaron
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780091830311
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Lily and Me written by Moses Aaron and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the friendship between Moses the storyteller, and Lily, a young girl with leukemia.

Book Egypt   From Joseph to Moses

Download or read book Egypt From Joseph to Moses written by Anne de Graaf and published by Scandinavia Publishing House. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 3 covers Genesis chapter 41 to the end and the first 11 chapters of the book of Exodus. Twenty stories pick up the thread of Joseph in Egypt, describe Pharaoh's palace, and depict the plight of the Hebrew people as Egyptian slaves. God sends ten plagues as Moses begs for their release.

Book The Jerusalem Bible

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  • Author : Alexander Jones
  • Publisher : Image
  • Release : 2000-02-15
  • ISBN : 0385499183
  • Pages : 1698 pages

Download or read book The Jerusalem Bible written by Alexander Jones and published by Image. This book was released on 2000-02-15 with total page 1698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to Bible translations, readability and reliability are what count; and on both counts, the original JERUSALEM BIBLE stands alone. A product of the age of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), THE JERUSALEM BIBLE (published in 1966) was the first truly modern Bible for Catholics. Using definitive original language texts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, biblical scholars of L'École Biblique in Jerusalem produced a meticulously accurate, wonderfully readable French translation of the complete canon of Scripture (La Bible de Jérusalem). From this French original came the English edition, edited by renowned Bible scholar Alexander Jones. For all the people around the world who are discovering or revisiting the mysteries contained in the Scriptures, only a clear, understandable Bible translation will do. With language as exquisite but more modern than the King James Version, THE JERUSALEM BIBLE is the one they can trust.

Book Moses as Political Leader

Download or read book Moses as Political Leader written by Aaron B. Wildavsky and published by Shalem Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aaron Wildavsky, a giant of American political science, brings his profound understanding of human affairs to bear on the founding of the world's most enduring political community, the nation of Israel. At a time in which we are rediscovering the indispensability of resolute and perspicacious leadership, Wildavsky's brilliant study of Moses as founding father illuminates not only the Jewish past but the enduring political questions of how to build and preserve a decent, righteous, and stable community, here and hereafter. A marvelous book! -- Leon Kass, University of Chicago

Book The Bible Reading book

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  • Author : Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1854
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book The Bible Reading book written by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Moses and Pharaoh in the Bible  Qur an and History

Download or read book Moses and Pharaoh in the Bible Qur an and History written by Maurice Bucaille and published by The Other Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: