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Item The 10 Commandments What They Mean, Why They Matter, and Why We Should Obey Them(Crossway, 2018-08-18) Kevin DeYoungThe Good News of Law And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.” Exodus 20:1–2 Exodus 20:1–2 introduces one of the most famous sections in the Bible— indeed, one of the most important pieces of religious literature in the whole world—the Ten Commandments. Oddly enough, they are never actually called the Ten Commandments. The Hebrew expression, which occurs three times in the Old Testament (Ex. 34:28; Deut. 4:13; 10:4), literally means “ten words.” This is why Exodus 20 is often referred to as the Decalogue, deka being the Greek word for “ten” and logos meaning “word.” These are the Ten Words that God gave the Israelites at Mount Sinai—and, I’ll argue, the Ten Words that God wants all of us to follow. Whatever we call them, the Ten Commandments are certainly commands —more than that for sure, but not less. The problem people have is not with what they’re called but with what they contain. Studying the Ten Commandments reveals the very heart of human rebellion: we don’t like God telling us what we can and cannot do.Item The role of women in the Church in Africa(Maseno University, Kenya., 2010-10-20) Kasomo Danielcontemporary political, theological and social debate. Three relevant and universal documents declare the fundamental equality of the human beings. The Bible, The Vatican II and The Universal declaration of the human rights. Let us see: The Bible "All baptized in Christ, you have all clothed yourselves in Christ and there are no more distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female, but all of you are in Christ Jesus" Gal. 3:28. "And you are all brothers and sisters" Matt. 23:8.Item The Redemptive Self:Stories Americans Live(OXFORD, 2013-11-21) D A N P . M C A D A M SWho are the good people? When you think of the people you know or have known, when you think of the people you never knew but wished you had known, when you list your family members or check out your Facebook friends or take an inventory of the notable people who show up in the news, on tele vision, or as characters in your favorite movies or novels, who stands out as really, really good ? Probably not the richest people, right? Probably not the greatest celebri ties or sports stars. And probably not those more-or-less pretty good folks out there—the ones who follow the rules, more or less, stay out of jail, try to be honest in most things, pay their taxes and hold down good jobs, the more-or less well-functioning, psychologically okay, pleasant-enough-once-you-get-to know-them men and women in your world, living decent lives, more or less, and working reasonably hard to get by. Who are the good people, and what criteria might you use to decide? My guess is that you would choose people who tried to make the world a better place . Th ese might include famous people who operated on a grand scale—Martin Luther King, Jr., for example, Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, renowned religious, moral, and political heroes, or perhaps eminent scientists or doctors who made signifi cant contributions to the common good. But your list would also surely include people you have known personally—maybe a parent, a teacher, a coach, a dear friend, a neighbor, or some other individual, probably somebody older than you are, who has had a strong positive infl uence on you. My list of really good people will be diff erent from yours, of course, but I bet we will use pretty much the same main criterion in making our choices. Th at criterion is what psy chologists call generativity —and generativity is where this book begins.Item THE OFFICE POLITICS HANDBOOK WINNING THE GAME OF POWER AND POLITICS AT WORK(Career Press, 2013-11-12) JACK GODWIN, PhDThanks to Tracey Culbertson, Lori Harrison, Michelle Loew, Eric Merchant, Mlima Morrison, Caroline Peretti, Josef Preciado, and Janis Silvers, as well as Ben Amata, Ed Baranowski, Bernice Bass de Martinez, Jerry Blake, Judy Boliver, Ric Brown, Karyl Burwell, Kevin Cornwell, Tom Carroll, Emiliano Diaz, Louis Downs, Smile Dube, Virginia Dixon, David Earwicker, Beth Erickson, Buzz Fozouni, Don Gerth, Alex Gonzalez, Alan Haslam, Julian Heather, John Kepley, Tom Krabacher, Kazue Masuyama, Ed Mills, Kathy Mine, Joan Neide, Chevelle Newsome, Melissa Norrbom, Hakan Ozcelik, Jon Price, Joanne Reilly, Karlos Santos-Coy, Richard Shek, Joe Sheley, Suzanne Swartz, Don Taylor, Catherine Turrill, Ernest Uwazie, Leo Van Cleve, Lori Varlotta, and all my friends and colleagues in the CSU. Thanks to Dave Bewley-Taylor, Helen Fulton, Branwen Lloyd, Angela Jones, Jon Roper, Ieuan Williams, and everyone at Swansea University. Thanks to Steffan and Margarita Todorov and everyone in the village of Iskar, Bulgaria.Item The Making of a Leader Recognizing the Lessions and Stages of Leadership Development(NAVPRESS, 2012-10-20) Dr.J.Robert Clinton"Leadership" is a topic high on many agendas today, whether in politics, business, or the church. In part, this is because of a perceived leadership vacuum. In his leadership essays, John Gardner pointed out that at the time the United States was formed, the population stood at around 3 million. That 3 million produced at least six leaders ofworld class: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Hamilton. Today's American population of 240 million might be expected to produce eighty times as many world-class leaders. But, asks Gardner, "Where are they?" At a convention of the National Association of Evangelicals, college president George Brushaber spoke of "a missing generation" of younger leaders ready to take the places of the senior post-World War II group of evangelical pioneers. My own travels and observations have led me to believe this is a worldwide phenomenon. Yet I am encouraged to believe there is a new group of younger men and women, roughly forty and under, emerging into leadership around the world. In response to both the lack of and the new wave of leaders, there is an urgent need for the cultivation of godly and spiritual leadership. There are a number of responses to this challenge. The Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization has called several conferences for emerging younger leaders. My own ministry, Leighton Ford Ministries, is focused upon identifying, developing, and networking these younger people. A number of graduate schools are focusing some specific programs on leadership development. One is the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, where Dr. Bobby Clinton taught. It is out of his experience in teaching that his important book The Making of a Leader developedItem The Little Book of Conflict Transiformation: Clear Articulation of the guiding Principles by a Pioneer in the Field(Good Books, 2014-04-01) John Paul LederachWriting a Little Book was much harder than it appears. I had help along the way. First, I want to extend a warm and deeply appreciative thank you to Howard Zehr for conceptualizing this Little Book Series and encouraging my involvement. More importantly, he had the first crack at helping me move from a verbose text to one that got to the point. I appreciate the excellent editing and sharpening that this text received from Phyllis Pellman Good. It would not read this well without her advice and suggestions. I had a great boost on the computer-generated graphics from my good friends at the Consortium on Conflict Resolution from the University of Colorado, particularly from Heidi and Guy Burgess. Of particular note, I had the wonderful opportunity of having the Master’s students from the Kroc Institute’s (Notre Dame) class of 2002-2003 read my first draft and spend a full day of class improving and clarifying the concepts. Their ideas and suggestions are found throughout. I would like to extend a big note of gratitude to John and Gina Martin-Smith for the use of their house in Nederland, Colorado, where I got to watch the aspens turn from green to yellow at 8,500 feet as I wrote this text. Finally, I recognize that none of my writing would take place without the patient support and encouragement of my family, especially Wendy, with whom I have had many coffees while discussing the ideas found in this book and how to say them better.Item THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations(Jossey-Bass, 2012-02-22) JAMES M. KOUZES; BARRY Z. POSNERLEADERS GET PEOPLE MOVING. They energize and mobi lize. They take people and organizations to places they have never been before. Leadership is not a fad, and the leadership challenge never goes away. In uncertain and turbulent times, accepting that challenge is the only antidote to chaos, stagnation, and disintegration. Times change, problems change, technologies change, and people change. Leader ship endures. Teams, organizations, and communities need people to step up and take charge. That is why we first wrote The Leadership Challenge, and why we found it imperative to write this fifth edition. Change is the province of leaders. It is the work of leaders to inspire people to do things differently, to struggle against uncertain odds, and to persevere toward a misty image of a better future. Without leadership there would not be the extraordinary efforts necessary to solve existing problems and realize unimagined THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE opportunities. We have today, at best, only faint clues of what the future may hold, but we are confident that without leadership the possibilities will neither be envisioned nor attainedItem THE JOSSEY-BASS HANDBOOK OF NONPROFIT LEADERSHIPAND MANAGEMENT(Jossey- Bass John Wiley, 2016-06-16) DAVID O. RENZRikki Abzug is a professor and convener of management at the Anisfield School of Business, Ramapo College of New Jersey. A researcher of orga nizational governance, sector theory, social purpose organizations, and neo institutionalism in organizations, Dr. Abzug is co-author (with Jeffrey Simonoff) of Nonprofit Trusteeship in Different Contexts and (with Mary Watson) Human Resources in Social Purpose Organizations, as well as the author or co-author of a myriad of scholarly peer-reviewed articles in journals, including Organization Science, The Academy of Management Journal, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Management & Leadership, and Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations. Dr. Abzug has been a management and market research consultant and has also provided consulting services in nonprofit and board development to management groups in the United States, Poland, and the Ukraine. She served on the Board of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), was a founding leadership council member of the Alliance for Nonprofit Governance (now, Governance Matters), and has been active in a variety of other professional and trade associations. Before joining the faculty of Ramapo, Dr. Abzug was the chair of the Nonprofit Management Program at The New School for Social Research in New York City. Prior to her work at the New School, Dr. Abzug was the associate director of Yale University’s Program on Nonprofit Organizations and a faculty member at New York University’s Stern School of Business.Item The Holy Bible, New International Version(Zondervan, 2011-01-11) BiblicaThe goal of the New International version (NIV) is to enable English-speaking people from around the world to read and hear God’s eternal Word in their own language. Our work as translators is motivated by our conviction that the Bible is God’s Word in written form. We believe that the Bible contains the divine answer to the deepest needs of humanity, sheds unique light on our path in a dark world and sets forth the way to our eternal well-being. Out of these deep convictions, we have sought to recreate as far as possible the experience of the original audience—blending transparency to the original text with accessibility for the millions of English speakers around the world. We have prioritized accuracy, clarity and literary quality with the goal of creating a translation suitable for public and private reading, evangelism, teaching, preaching, memorizing and liturgical use. We have also sought to preserve a measure of continuity with the long tradition of translating the Scriptures into English. The complete NIV Bible was first published in 1978. It was a completely new translation made by over a hundred scholars working directly from the best available Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek texts. The translators came from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, giving the translation an international scope. They were from many denominations and churches—including Anglican, Assemblies of God, Baptist, Brethren, Christian Reformed, Church of Christ, Evangelical Covenant, Evangelical Free, Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Nazarene, Presbyterian, Wesleyan and others. This breadth of denominational and theological perspective helped to safeguard the translation from sectarian bias. For these reasons, and by the grace of God, the NIV has gained a wide readership in all parts of the English-speaking world. The work of translating the Bible is never finished. As good as they are, English translations must be regularly updated so that they will continue to communicate accurately the meaning of God’s Word. Updates are needed in order to reflect the latest developments in our understanding of the biblical world and its languages and to keep pace with changes in English usage. Recognizing, then, that the NIV would retain its ability to communicate God’s Word accurately only if it were regularly updated, the original translators established The Committee on Bible Translation (CBT). The committee is a self perpetuating group of biblical scholars charged with keeping abreast of advances in biblical scholarship and changes in English and issuing periodic updates to the NIV. CBT is an independent, self-governing body and has sole responsibility for the NIV text. The committee mirrors the original group of translators in its diverse international and denominational makeup and in its unifying commitment to the Bible as God’s inspired Word. In obedience to its mandate, the committee has issued periodic updates to the NIV. An initial revision was released in 1984. A more thorough revision process was completed in 2005, resulting in the separately published Today’s New International version (TNIV). The updated NIV you now have in your hands builds on both the original NIV and the TNIV and represents the latest effort of the committee to articulate God’s unchanging Word in the way the original authors might have said it had they been speaking in English to the global English-speaking audience today.Item The Handbook of Conflict Resolution Theory and Practice(Jossey-Bass, 2014-04-15) Peter T. Coleman; Morton Deutsch Eric C. MarcusIn this introduction, I give some examples of conflicts and indicate the kinds of questions one might pose to understand what is going on in the conflicts— questions that are addressed in many of the following chapters. It also includes a brief discussion of the orientations of both practitioners and researcher-theorists to provide some insight into the misunderstandings that often occur between these two groups. It concludes with an abbreviated history of the study of conflict from a social psychological perspective.