Download or read book Missionshift written by David Hesselgrave and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2010 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on modern missions issues by Charles Van Engen, Paul Hiebert, and Ralph Winter, with responses from other missional leaders, edited by David Hesselgrave and Ed Stetzer.

Download or read book The Four Vs of Leadership written by Peter J. A. Shaw and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-08-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Four Vs - Vision, Values, Value-added and Vitality – are the essential ingredients of effective leadership. They provide a framework for life and work that interrelates professional and personal priorities. In The Four V’s of Leadership, experienced executive coach Peter Shaw leads you through difficult career and life situations using the four Vs, helping you to vision where you want to be, harness the values that drive you, release the value-added you bring to a role and grow your sources of vitality. By working with this framework, your vision will become clearer. It might be a specific vision in terms of your work or your community. You will enable change to happen. Your values will be consistent across each aspect of your life. You will be looking at all your decisions in relation to your values. Your value-added will become clearer in each aspect of your life. You will not be daunted for long by setbacks but will develop the resilience to maintain your value-added whatever the pressures. You will move on from rigid definitions of work-life balance. You will find new sources of vitality and energy and use your time to influence others constructively. You will experiment with different ways of ensuring freshness and joy in your life. Be ready to be challenged and inspired.

Download or read book Captured by Vision written by George W. Bullard Jr. and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will you keep drowning worms in the pond of possibilities, hoping to yank a vision from the water that will feed your church for a day? Or will you immerse yourself on a spiritual and strategic journey that will lead to your capture by God’s vision for your congregation? This book will help your congregation understand what it means to be captured by God’s empowering vision. Through vision, God will empower congregations and pull them forward toward their full Kingdom potential so you don’t have to be behind them pushing! Through 101 insights this book explains how you do not seek and find a vision, as much as you put yourself into a spiritual position to be captured by God’s unique, empowering vision. Does your congregation long to embark on such a journey? Do you want to be more than you are? Do you want to move beyond “good enough” to “exceptional” in meeting the real needs of real people in real time? Anyone who is positively passionate about congregations being mobilized by God’s empowering vision for their future ought to devour this book. If it is important to you that congregations not settle for “good enough” but seek to move prophetically into God’s full Kingdom potential, you ought to read this book.

Download or read book Untenable written by Gary Covert and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Untenable helps identify untenable situations, describes the barriers to addressing them, and suggests novel ways to approach them. Even the best of us can find ourselves enduring situations that are negative and unsustainable. Too often, we ignore the situation or just make incremental moves. The boiling frog considers installing a ceiling fan. The deck chairs are arranged on the Titanic. High-performing people can boost their own performance even further by developing their skills to identify and remove their untenable situations. Untenable situations at best sap our creativity, vitality, and energy, at worst; they can be serious threats to our well-being or health of our organizations. Untenable helps identify untenable situations, describes the barriers to addressing them, and suggests novel ways to approach them. This book is perfect for leaders who would like to be even more effective, see that effectiveness cascade into better organizational results, and would like to see their businesses grow. The author describes what untenable situations are, what they look like for leaders and organizations, and why we do not address them appropriately. The book contains useful and practical insights for leaders to help coach themselves and others to identify their untenable situations, remove barriers that may be preventing those situations from being addressed, and prevent untenable situations from occurring in the first place.

Download or read book Organizational and Educational Change written by Jean M. Bartunek and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a theoretical book on organizational change looking at a group aimed at fostering the empowerment of teachers.

Download or read book The Power to Speak written by Rebecca S. Chopp and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2002-11-22 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a calm, sustained style, the author breaks new ground in the ongoing feminist theological pilgrimage, one that will make traditionalists squirm and liberationists cheer. 'Choice' In 'The Power to Speak', Rebecca Chopp offers an exhilarating defense of feminist theology as proclamation and good news for all. Arguing for a critique and transformation of language, subjectivity, and politics, this thoughtful, engaged book opens new directions in feminist thought. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese A provocative treatment of feminist theology's deepest potential to transform the discipline through language. 'WATERwheel' Rebecca Chopp is developing an original theological position. Her interpretation of Christian faith and Christian theology as having to do primarily with 'emancipatory transformation' breaks through the individualistic pietism of modern liberalism as well as the provincialism of many of the liberation theologies. Gordon D. Kaufman

Download or read book Introducing Christian Education written by and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the success of his 1992 collection Foundations of Ministry (over 17,000 sold), Michael Anthony offers Introducing Christian Education to fill the need in the C.E. curriculum for an introductory foundations textbook--one that provides an overview and understanding of the broad range of subjects included in C.E.--for college and seminary use. Thirty-one chapters are offered under the following sections: 1) Foundations of C.E.; 2) Developmental Perspectives of C.E.; 3) Educational Implications of C.E.; 4) Organization, Administration, and Leadership; 5) C.E. Applied to the Family; and 6) Specialized Ministries. Contributors include Robert Pazmiño, Jim Wilhoit, Julie Gorman, Klaus Issler, and Ted Ward. FROM THE FOREWORD BY LESTER C. BLANK JR. Introducing Christian Education will become a major resource text for church leaders and Christian education leaders who are professors of Christian education. It will be a valuable resource in my personal library. The desired outcome will be Psalm 78:72: "He cared for them with a true heart and led them with skillful hands."

Download or read book Unsettling Nature written by Taylor Eggan and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German poet and mystic Novalis once identified philosophy as a form of homesickness. More than two centuries later, as modernity’s displacements continue to intensify, we feel Novalis’s homesickness more than ever. Yet nowhere has a longing for home flourished more than in contemporary environmental thinking, and particularly in eco-phenomenology. If only we can reestablish our sense of material enmeshment in nature, so the logic goes, we might reverse the degradation we humans have wrought—and in saving the earth we can once again dwell in the nearness of our own being. Unsettling Nature opens with a meditation on the trouble with such ecological homecoming narratives, which bear a close resemblance to narratives of settler colonial homemaking. Taylor Eggan demonstrates that the Heideggerian strain of eco-phenomenology—along with its well-trod categories of home, dwelling, and world—produces uncanny effects in settler colonial contexts. He reads instances of nature’s defamiliarization not merely as psychological phenomena but also as symptoms of the repressed consciousness of coloniality. The book at once critiques Heidegger’s phenomenology and brings it forward through chapters on Willa Cather, D. H. Lawrence, Olive Schreiner, Doris Lessing, and J. M. Coetzee. Suggesting that alienation may in fact be "natural" to the human condition and hence something worth embracing instead of repressing, Unsettling Nature concludes with a speculative proposal to transform eco-phenomenology into "exo-phenomenology"—an experiential mode that engages deeply with the alterity of others and with the self as its own Other.

Download or read book A Transforming Vision written by George Westhaver and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Christian theology in the last half century has seen a major renaissance in Trinitarian thought which has attempted to connect Trinitarian theology to all aspects of Christian faith and practice. This revival has often addressed the unfortunate split which has haunted much modern theological endeavour between theology and both prayer and practice, the disjunction between thought about God and the movement of the heart toward God in transformed lives. Drawn from papers given at a Pusey House conference in 2015, the contributors to this collection explore what it means to know and love the Triune God, and how the knowledge of God can be a transforming and saving knowledge.

Download or read book Reviewing Leadership Engaging Culture written by Robert J. Banks and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluating Current Approaches to Leadership This book offers a comprehensive evaluation of current approaches to leadership from a discerning Christian perspective. Combining expertise in leadership, theology, and ministry, the authors take a historical look at leadership and how it is viewed and used in today's context. The book is informed by both biblical and leadership studies scholarship and interacts with a number of popular marketplace writings on leadership. It also evaluates exemplary role models of Christian leadership. The second edition has been updated and revised throughout.

Download or read book Drugs and the drug habit written by Harrington Sainsbury and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Literature Ethics and the Emotions written by Kenneth Asher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently there has been a renewed interest in the ethical value of literature. However, how exactly does literature contribute to our ethical understanding? In Literature, Ethics, and the Emotions, Kenneth Asher argues that literary scholars should locate this question in the long and various history of moral philosophy. On the basis of his own reading of this history, Asher contends for the centrality of emotions in our ethical lives and shows how literature - novels, poetry, and drama - can each contribute to crucial emotional understanding. Individual chapters on T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and George Bernard Shaw give detailed analyses of how this contribution takes shape even in modernist authors who try to reconfigure the very nature of the self.

Download or read book 20 21 Vision written by Bill Emmott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can the successes and failures of the twentieth century teach us about an uncertain future in the twenty-first? Bill Emmott argues that the best way to think about the future is to look back at the past, at the forces that have shaped our world and at what they tell us about the things that really matter. Two questions ultimately rise above all others: Will America continue to lead the world and to protect its peace? And will we continue to accept capitalism or will it be challenged once again? 20:21 Vision provides the answers that matter for all our lives in the twenty-first century.

Download or read book Beyond the Tragic Vision written by Morse Peckham and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1981-03-12 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An attempt to understand the nineteenth-century's need to derive order from the individual rather than the objective world.

Download or read book The Power of your Vision written by David De Angelis and published by David De Angelis. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of us has the full right to be fulfilled and to achieve our secret desires. The desires of the heart are those to which our soul aspires and for which we are born. This book wants to inspire you to find inside yourself what makes your heart beat and follow it with passion and trust, knowing that somewhere it will take you, even if at this moment you don't know how and don't see the end of the "road". One of the greatest things in life is to recognize and embrace one's vision and to follow it with passion and enthusiasm. This small but precious book will reveal to you how to use powerful tools and "powers", almost unknown to the mass of people, whose conscience is asleep in front of the TV and the innumerable distractions of life. The power of Intention and Imagination to influence that powerful force that guides our every step in life: the Subconscious. What distinguishes you and the great characters of history or your neighbor who seems to possess everything and have a rich and "lucky" life, is only and only what exists in the depth of consciousness, formed by fears and doubts or, on the contrary , from empowering beliefs. The subconscious is like a system file that exists in every computer and allows it to work. Just format, change and "upgrade" this software and you're done. Very beautiful things will begin to appear, almost by "magic", in your life.

Download or read book Henry Ford s Lean Vision written by William A. Levinson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese manufacturers have made concepts like kaizen (continuous improvement), poka-yoke (error-proofing), and just-in-time famous. When the Japanese began to adopt these techniques from the Ford Motor Company during the early twentieth century, they knew exactly what they were getting: proven methods for mass-producing any product or delivering any service cheaply but well. Henry Ford's methods, however, went well beyond the synergistic and mutually supporting techniques that constitute what we now call lean manufacturing. They included the "soft sciences," the organizational psychology that makes every employee a partner in the drive for success. In Henry Ford's Lean Vision, William A. Levinson draws from Henry Ford's writings, the procedures in his factories, and historical anecdotes about the birth of lean in Japan to show that the philosophy that revolutionized Japanese manufacturing was the same philosophy that grew the Ford Motor Company into a global powerhouse -- and made the United States the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth. Levinson reveals how Ford was ahead of other modern visionaries and discusses why the very ideas that made his company such a success were abandoned in his own country, and why they finally found acceptance in Japan. Henry Ford's Lean Vision is a hands-on reference that provides the reader with proven principles and methods that can be applied in any business or service enterprise. It covers all aspects of building and running a successful enterprise, including Ford's principles for human relationships and the management of physical resources.

Download or read book Divine Doctor with Super Vision written by Xiao BaiCai and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 1043 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The top quality little Daoist gained unparalleled inheritance went down the mountain to help the world, cured the sick and saved the world, and obtained the hearts of all kinds of beauties. He played the pig to eat the tiger, and finally reached immortality.