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Item Fighting for Your Marriage Positive Steps for Preventing Divorce and Preserving a Lasting Love(Jossey Bass, 2001-01-11) Howard J. MarkmanThings change. Because of that simple fact, we’ve updated our work in order to bring you what we consider to be an even more practi- cal and potent version of Fighting for Your Marriage. What you hold in your hand is a major revision of the book we published in 1994. We wrote the original version to help couples build and nurture happy and strong marriages. This book is based on PREP®, which stands for the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program. PREP is based on over twenty years of research at the University of Denver as well as on research from universities around the world. PREP is a program we developed to help couples beat the odds. PREP workshops use specific steps and exercises to teach couples the skills and attitudes associated with good relationships. Because of its roots in solid research and its straightforward approach, PREP has received a great deal of attention from couples across the coun- try, professionals in the field of marital counseling, and the media. PREP is one of the most extensively researched programs for cou- ples ever developed. The strategies in PREP are based on our study of the key risks couples face as well as the most promising avenues for helping couples lower the risks. Marriage in our culture is risky business, and the costs of marital failure are staggering.Item An Expositional Commentary ACTS(Zondervan, 1996-06-26) James Montgomery BoiceIn the last few years I have come across a number of disturbing books that ring a loud alarm for the church establishment known as evangelicalism. Evangel means "good news," or "the gospel," and the evangelical churches are those that assume they know the gospel and are defending it in a day when liberal churches are not. The books I am referring to say that this is not so, that evangelicals are actually in the process of abandoning the gospel along with many other theological convictions on which the church has been built. One outstanding book is David F. Wells's No Place for Truth: Or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology? Michael Scott Horton edited Power Religion: The Selling Out of the Evangelical Church.Item A Survey of the New Testament(Zondervan, 2012-02-12) Robert H. GundryA textbook surveying the New Testament should bring together the most salient items from New Testament background, technical intro duction, and commentary. Nearly all surveys of the New Testament suffer, however, from a deficiency of comments on the biblical text. As a result, study of the survey textbook often nudges out a reading of the primary and most important text, the New Testament itself. Reading the New Testament Itself Since many beginning students have never read the New Testament sys tematically or thoroughly, if at all, the present survey prompts them to read it in its entirety, passage by passage, and carries on a dialogue with each passage in the form of brief commentary. By tracing the flow of thought from passage to passage, students will gain a sense of narratival and logical progression. Thus it has proved possible to move at least some of the background material concerning intertestamental history, Judaism, and other matters — which seem tortuous to many students — from the first part of the book to later parts, where such material elucidates the bib lical text directly. This procedure reduces the discouragingly long intro duction to the typical academic course in New Testament survey, better enables students to see how background material helps interpret the text, and above all keeps the textbook from supplanting the New Testament.Item A History of the Ancient Near East(Wiley Blackwell, 2016-06-16)In the year 334 BC, a young king from Macedon and his well-trained army crossed from Europe into Asia, confronted the vast empire of Persia, and conquered it in the course of a decade. Alexander's troops marched through an antique world that contained the remains of thousands of years of earlier history. Their previous encounter with Greece could not have prepared them for what they saw in the Near East and Egypt. They entered cities like Uruk that had existed for three millennia, and visited pyramids and temples that had stood for almost as many years. This was a world steeped in history, not a world in decline, waiting for fresh inspiration. The city-dwellers knew their traditions were so ancient that they claimed they dated from the beginning of time itself. People wrote in scripts that had been used for almost thirty centuries, they read and copied texts that were hundreds of years old. These were not idle claims, as for a long time their lands had indeed been home to the most advanced cultures in the world, well before Greece had developed its great classical civilization. It is in the Near East and northeast Africa that many of the elements we associate with advanced civilization first originated, including agriculture, cities, states, writing, laws, and many more. Because this region lies at the juncture of three continents, practices and concepts from numerous and diverse people came together there, inspired and complemented one another, and were used by the inhabitants to manipulate their surroundings. They created their environment rather than reacting to it.Item A hand book of New Testament Exegisis(Baker Academic, 2010-10-20) Craig L. Blomberg“This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Those who do not do what is right are not God’s children; nor are those who do not love their brothers and sisters” (1 John 3:10). This sounds pretty cut and dried, but don’t most people fall somewhere in between doing what is right and not doing so? “Son though he [Jesus] was, he learned obedience from what he suffered and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him” (Heb. 5:8–9). Christ had to learn to obey God? He was made perfect? Wasn’t he God from all eternity past and therefore always perfect? And doesn’t this passage, like the last one, clearly teach salvation through obedience to God’s commandments? Isn’t salvation entirely by grace through faith? “But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety” (1 Tim. 2:15). Good grief! Now half the human race is saved not only by good works but by one particular deed— having kids? What about all those women who can’t or don’t have children? “Peter replied, ‘Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit’” (Acts 2:38). Here it sounds like all people, including women and men alike, must be baptized to be saved. At least that’s easier than having children. Moreover, then we’ll receive a gift from the Spirit. Hmm, I wonder which gift it is. The Scriptures certainly seem confusing.Item Christian Ethics: An Introduction to Biblical Moral Reasonin(Crossway, 2018-08-28) Wayne GrudemI have written this book for Christians who want to understand what the Bible teaches about how to obey God faithfully in their daily lives. I hope the book will be useful not only for college and seminary students who take classes in Christian ethics, but also for all other Christians who seek, before God, to be “filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,” with the result that they will live “in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God” (Col. 1:9–10). This book as a whole is an invitation to experience the great blessing of God that comes from walking daily in paths of obedience, knowing more of the joy of God’s presence, and experiencing his favor on our lives (see chap. 4). It is an invitation to delight in the goodness and beauty of God’s moral standards because we understand that delight in those standards is really delight in the infinitely good moral character of God himself (see chap. 2). To delight in God’s moral standards should lead us to exclaim with the psalmist, “Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day” (Ps. 119:97).Item Theories of Educational Leadership and Management(SAGE Publications, 2011-11-21) Tony BushThe significance of effective leadership and management for the suc- cessful operation of schools and colleges has been increasingly acknowledged in the twenty-first century. The trend towards self-man- agement in the United Kingdom, and in many other parts of the world, has led to an enhanced appreciation of the importance of managerial competence for educational leaders. More recently, there has been a growing recognition of the differences between leadership and man- agement and an understanding that school principals and senior staff need to be good leaders as well as effective managers. The leadership dimension embraces concepts of vision, values and transformational leadership. Managing capably is an important requirement but leader- ship is perceived to be even more significant in England, and in some to heads and middle managers. other countries. The first edition of this book was published in 1986, before the seis- mic changes to the English and Welsh educational system engendered by the Education Reform Act and subsequent legislation. The second edition, published in 1995, referred to the ‘tentative steps’ being taken develop the managerial competence of senior staff, particularly headteachers. The School Management Task Force (SMTF, 1990) had set the agenda for management development in its 1990 report but, unlike many other countries, there was no national programme of manage- ment training for heads and very little provision of any kind for deputyItem UNDERSTANDING CHURCH GROWTH(Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1970-09-29) DONALD A. McGAVRANOne of the greatest privileges of my life has been to associate closely with Donald A. McGavran. After sixteen years as a missionary to Bolivia, I ac cepted his call in 1971 to join him on the faculty of the Fuller Theologi cal Seminary School of World Mission in Pasadena, California. For ten years, until his retirement in 1981, we worked together teaching church growth, supervising graduate theses and dissertations in the field, train ing missionaries and pastors, and consulting with churches and mission agencies. I was honored in 1984 to be invited to become the first incum bent of the Donald A. McGavran Chair of Church Growth. Understanding Church Growth is one of those classics which has be come the indispensable foundational text for an academic field. No one can claim to be a serious student of church growth who has not read and absorbed the content of Understanding Church Growth. I was one of the first to be introduced to the content of this book, in classroom lectures in the late 1960s while it was yet being written. The first edition was pub lished in 1970, and the revised edition was expanded and updated by McGavran in 1980. In this 1990 edition the language has been modern ized, the flow of ideas somewhat streamlined, the content also reduced, mostly by eliminating redundancies, ideas and illustrations updated, and a bit of new material such as the chapter on divine healing introduced. But through it all, Donald McGavran is the one who speaks.Item transformational leadership(LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS Mahwah, New Jersey, 2006-06-26) Bernard M. BassThere has been an explosion of interest in leadership. Each day stories appear in the newspapers discussing instances of successful leadership, as well as signifi cant failures of leadership. The stories usually concern world class and national politicians and statesmen, chief executive offi cers (CEO) of business and industry, directors of government and health care agencies, or generals and admirals. Sometimes the stories are of high-level leaders who are often in the spotlight. Carly Fiorina was the CEO of Hewlett Packard (HP) from 1999 until ousted in early 2005. As one of only a handful of women CEOs of Fortune 100 companies, she was often in the news, but no more so than when she led HP through the choppy waters of its merger with Compaq. Through a contentious fi ght to win over the support of HP’s board of directors, Fiorina kept her eyes on the vision of transforming HP into a “full service” technology company to rival IBM (Lashinsky, 2002). To make this a reality, Fiorina had to fi rst persuade board mem bers and inspire rank and fi le employees to buy in to her vision: Indeed, the day after the merger, she and Michael Capellas, the CEO of Compaq—now the No. 2 at HP—spent two hours simply marching through the one-mile-plus walkway that connects Compaq’s 17-building corporate headquarters in Houston, meeting and greeting as many people as they could. “She was like this massive fi gure,” recalls HP employee Antonio Humphreys, who worked for Compaq before the merger. “She took pictures and put on hats. The fact that she was willing to do that for the common folk—that earned her a lot of points.” (Lashinsky, 2002, p. 94) CEO Fiorina immediately focused on implementing the vision by empowering subordinates and providing an example of the hard work needed to transform an organization, its culture, and its trajectory.Item Together in the Land A Reading of the Book of Joshua(Sheffield Academic Press, 1993-03-23) Gordon MitchellThe text of Joshua presents the reader with a puzzling contradiction. One the one hand, there are commands to slaughter all of the enemy, descriptions of complete destruction and statements recording the success of the conquest, and on the other hand, Rahab's family, the Gibeonites and others continue to live in the land. To this puzzling contradiction, several explanations have been offered.