Books
Upside Down Evangelism : Fabio Muniz
Upside Down Evangelism: How Not to Manipulate People in a Post-Modern, Post-Christian, Spiritually Alive Globalized World
Over the centuries, people have been turned off by Christianity because of its role in institutionalized religion.
What if the person of Jesus could be separated from two thousand years of horrendous acts committed by people who say they follow Him? What impact would that have on a society that is increasingly global-minded, cynical, and post-Christian?
Fábio Muniz was raised in Brazil and has spent years in Canada, Spain, the U.S. and Japan. Learn from his experience with atheists, agnostics and people burned out on religion around the world as he demystifies one of the most controversial people of all time.
By living out our lives as the people we were created to be, we can allow evangelism to happen organically. Read this book to see why Jesus was not the founder of Christianity, how our life is our mission and our mission is our life, the reason our lives should never be compartmentalized, and why it’s not always necessary to talk about the Old Testament when talking about the historical person of Jesus Christ.
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The Focus of Faith : Blake Western
The Focus of Faith is a book of messages about the heart of the Christian faith. Each chapter can be read independently. The messages are based on the Bible. They are meant, not only for believers in Christ, but also for people who may be searching for a faith to anchor their life. You will find messages to encourage but also point the way to Christ.
There are chapters with titles such as the following: The Question that is the Answer, Love that is Big Enough, The Hope that Excites, Making Good News into Bad News, and many more. Altogether there are 25 chapters that cover a variety of topics. If you are interested in the Bible or would like to know more about it, these messages should appeal to you.
Many of these messages were first delivered in Japan where the author was a missionary. The aim of the author is to write simply in order that it is easy to understand. In other words, put the fodder down where the sheep can get to it. It is not the kind of book where you have to read from beginning to end. You can find chapters that appeal to you and jump from chapter to chapter.
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The Murder of a Memory : Paul Beattie
The Murder of a Memory
Avery Goodchild is a spook out on a limb. At the height of the Weimar Republic, Berlin is the reddest city in Europe but what has the march of Marxism brought? For him, not much. It’s time to cut his ties with the Party. The freshly covered corpse of that failed operation in Albania is starting to smell. It’s time to run. If he plays his cards right, he can sell what he knows in London, it might just save his life.
In London, Jasper Lewingdon can’t forget or forgive. Over a year has passed since he helped strangle that squalid little plot in Albania. A year to mull over what happened while those that sent him could forget it ever happened, pretend it never did. He can’t pretend. He has to get close to the clique that controlled the conspiracy, expose them, make up for his mistakes. Most importantly, he has to atone for not putting a bullet in Avery Goodchild when he had the chance.
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Valhalla’s Whisper : Cameron Stone
Valhalla’s Whisper: One man, one lover, one daughter, a new life – but terror is in their midst
One man’s personal plight to win back his former lover and the heart of the daughter he never knew.
But this is no ordinary man.
Returned wounded from the Falklands War and suffering with chronic Post Traumatic Stress, Special Forces Commando Robert Stirling unhappily tries to come to terms with a new life working on his parents’ hill farm in the stunningly beautiful English Lake District.
Add one Provisional IRA safe house, one arms cache, and one sinister double secret agent to ignite a fast and furious SAS manhunt that will leave you breathless.
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Talon, come fly with me : Gigi Sedlmayer
Talon, come fly with me
An inspirational, highly emotional and entertaining read for all ages.
This book is a lovely adventure with an amazing heroine. Matica is a strong, brave girl, who battles with her handicap and how others view her. But this isn’t a story only about her gaining acceptance or overcoming her challenges. Rather, it’s a tale packed full of exciting moments and tons of emotions. Matica comes across naturally as does the village and world around her. It’s beautifully set in the mountains of Peru, South America, and an easy landscape to dive into.
Each situation is easy revealed and fun to read and it made one anxious to see what’s next. Acceptance was eloquently woven into the story without being blatant. And the other thing this story reveals is, that when certain things happen, you don’t always know why and just maybe something good will come of it.
So, take on wings and escape the reality and enter into the magical world of Matica.
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Keeping The Balance : Sue Churchill
Keeping the Balance is a glimpse into the world of paranormal activity and negative entities. The book explains the spiritual clearance work Sue has carried out with her husband Mick over many years.
With over 20 years’ experience of developing and working as spiritual mediums and healers, Sue and Mick found themselves on a more unusual path resolving spiritual problems that people had. It is an area undertaken by only a small percentage of mediums and lightworkers.
People who are experiencing spiritual activity may have a number of things happening to them: unexplained noises or voices; seeing shadows or spirits; feelings of terror or being watched; nightmares; objects being moved or going missing; physical touches or even violence. The victims often don’t know where to go for help and fear being ridiculed.
The book includes factual accounts of some of the cases which they have dealt with; from psychic attack, attachment and spirit rescue through to full spiritual possession. Sue explains the possible reasons and causes of spiritual problems and the different types of spiritual energies they have encountered including lost souls, negative entities, demononic and residual energies.
Sue also describes the process of how they work to clear and resolve problems, which usually involve different types of energies or entities and is like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle. She has developed a deep knowledge and understanding of spiritual subjects evolved from her lifelong interest and experience which she shares. You can find information and advice on spiritual protection and well-being, spiritual development and paranormal investigation, along with background and thoughts on exorcism and deliverance, beliefs and philosophies.
For anyone interested in the paranormal or spiritual fields who is keen to discover more and likes to view different perspectives, it is an eye-opening read.
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Truthing The Fake News : Robert Houseman
Learn How To Extract The Truth From Fake News In One Day
Reading this book will increase your understanding of the people who fuel these fake news stories and the reasons behind them doing so.
Have you ever stopped and thought what rewards all that effort reaps? Some of these stories have been filtered through so many layers of deception that it can take investigators years to trace the initial source!
Are you under the impression that fake news is a modern phenomenon? While it is true that the social media culture we live in has increased the rate and speed the stories reach us.
This book will show you that history is littered with examples of misinformation and deception. There are examples of fake news that will make you chuckle and yet other stories have been so influential that they have become dangerous.
Read how people’s lives have been affected and then arm yourself with the tips included here which will help you filter your own news supply. Make sure you know what a genuine piece of information is and let Robert Houseman ensure you never become an Internet user who shares fake news!
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The Cigar Cutter : Harrison West
The Cigar Cutter: A Beginner’s Guide To Selecting The Best Cigar & Cutting The Rest
Want To Avoid Common Mistakes With Cigars?
Select The Best Cigar For You & Enjoy Your Cigar Experience!
Wrappers, sizes, colors…there is LOTS to know about cigars. And each choice will impact your enjoyment. Did you know just how much cigar sizes vary from brand to brand? Do you know what color and packing you’ll like? Take a look inside and get to know exactly what cigar will work for you.
˃˃˃ Avoid a bad choice
This book teaches you how to select something you’ll like. Start getting to know cigars and avoid the coughing spells that come when you select something wrong for you early on!
˃˃˃ Concise and clear
The Cigar Cutter walks you through cigar basics quickly and briefly…it keeps things easy for you to get to know cigars and to get you to the fun!
˃˃˃ Don’t get left behind
Cigars are popular for their flavor, mystery, and the ambience they create. Learn about cigars today and pick up on the trend!
Scroll up and grab a copy today to help make a memory for your next big event or special night out.
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Company-wide Agility : Jutta Eckstein & John Buck
Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy: Survive & Thrive on Disruption
Today companies are expected to be flexible and both rapidly responsive and resilient to change, which basically asks them to be Agile. Lack of an overarching theory about how to expand the Agile Manifesto has led to many fragmented attempts to apply Agile company-wide.
Enjoy insights in the book shared by Jez Humble, Diana Larsen, James Shore, Johanna Rothman, and Bjarte Bogsnes. Find out what Spotify, ING, Ericsson, and Walmart say in the book.
Notice, how they emphasize that doing Agile (the mechanics) is different from being Agile (the mindset). The mindset lets you apply flexible Agile patterns not only for software development teams but for the whole company. Many experts are looking into implementing company-wide Agility. Yet, they work from one perspective. For example:
- A Beyond Budgeting expert might say, “Stop fixing the budget annually, because otherwise you won’t have the flexibility to react to frequent market changes.”
- An Open Space expert might say, “You need to make space for what you don’t know and can’t control, for totally new things to emerge. If people can follow their passion, you will be able to implement company-wide Agility, otherwise people will just do what they are asked.”
- A Sociocracy expert might say, “You first need to resolve the power structure, because as long as you have a hierarchy defined as top-down you will not become agile.”
- An Agile expert might say, “You need to start inspecting and adapting by using regular retrospectives in order to react flexibly, otherwise you will neither be able to learn from the market nor from within your company.”
All of these perspectives are true, but the perspective is always from within the discipline. Our new perspective synthesizes these approaches and invites you to take a new, overview perspective that can truly address the challenges of doing business in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world.
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Unlocking The Mystery of Intentional Leadership : Todd Woodfill
Unlocking The Mystery of Intentional Leadership is the culmination of Todd Woodfill’s career, spanning decades of work for multiple Fortune 500 companies and leading facilities in the United States, Ireland, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and United Kingdom.
Woodfill is also a certified international coach and speaker on leadership. Woodfill shares the ideas behind Intentional Leadership for readers to use to bring out the best in their teams and themselves.
Throughout Woodfill’s varied career, he has learned some valuable lessons about leadership–and not the kind one learns in a seminar or graduate school. Leadership requires taking the wisdom that you gain throughout your life and using it to bring out the best in your team, and in yourself.
Woodfill shares many of these moments through personal stories about how he learned to be an Intentional Leader the hard way.
He also couples many teachings from the “Leadership Greats” such as John Maxwell, Zig Ziglar, Andy Stanley, Craig Groeschel and more.