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Cada uno de nosotros está en la tierra para descubrir su propio camino y ser feliz. Pero sucede que jamás alcanzaremos la plenitud si seguimos el sendero de los otros en lugar de recorrer el que Dios nos tiene preparado a cada uno.
A su vez, la realización personal y la felicidad duradera también están asociadas a los modelos familiares heredados y aprendidos. A ellos debemos aprender a mirarlos con serena objetividad y revalorizar la herencia...
2) Understanding Racial Challenges African-American Adolescents Face: How You Can Make A Difference!
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"I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me." Philippians 4:13
According to the Pew Research Center, a majority of Americans say race relations in the United States are bad, and of those, about seven in ten say things are getting even worse. Roughly two-thirds say it has become more common for people to express racist or racially insensitive views over the past five years.
This book will be a blueprint and a map of ideas that will...
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Con su estilo cercano, y "picardía cordobesa" la hna. Silvia actualiza, con pasión evangelizadora, verdades a gritos que resuenan con fuerza y son una prolongación del magníficat en la voz profética de María: "Dios dispersa a los soberbios de corazón, derriba del trono a los poderosos y a los ricos los despide vacíos" (cf. Lc 1, 51-53).
Esta obra es una lectura tentadora para "quienes se saben invitados a 'hacer lío', de ese 'lío' que busca,...
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"El dolor es ese límite contra el que todos, alguna vez, chocamos. Ante él, muchos llegan a cuestionarse el sentido de la vida y la misma existencia de Dios... No se puede permanecer imparcial ante él". La Autora, a modo de una amiga muy querida, dedica unas breves reflexiones cargadas de aliento y comprensión a quien se halla desconcertado y en la profunda tristeza. No pretende dar razones ni motivos, sino ser una compañera en el espinoso camino...
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Es posible que sientas el deseo de acompañar a quien se encuentre caminando solo y no vea clara la huella. Seguramente lo hagas porque recuerdas la generosidad de cómo otros lo han hecho por ti. El P. Meana nos ofrece un itinerario para ir descubriendo en la propia interioridad esa vocación de la entrega.
El autor sintetiza en esta obra años de escuchas, aprendizajes, discernimientos, hasta retratar los rasgos fundamentales del alma de quienes...
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Christianity Today Book Award winner
Imagine the scenarios:
• a CEO successfully negotiates a corporate merger, avoiding hundreds of layoffs in the process
• an artist completes a mosaic for public display at a bank, showcasing neighborhood heroes
• a contractor creates a work-release program in cooperation with a local prison, growing the business and seeing countless former inmates turn their lives around
• a high-school principal...
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The Messy Middle addresses something that is far too often ignored: the struggle that always comes when doing something significant to advance the Kingdom of God. Stephanie O'Brien shares a wide variety of true stories that will encourage and inspire the readers to work through the challenging parts of important work. She provides encouragement and empowers readers to help them make it through the challenges that come when doing any great work. Readers...
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Secret Freedom is a practical guide to help any individual overcome keeping secrets.
Ilonka Deaton explores the pitfalls and struggles people carry when they keep secrets and the resulting effects. She guides each reader into a journaling experience to not only explore their own story but to walk deeper into a place of healing and freedom. Secret Freedom provides real life stories as examples and readers find a meaningful avenue to explore their own...
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Broken Lenses reveals the truth of who God made people to be and the freedom that results from living out that truth.
A rape survivor, Emily Bernath's life quickly turned away from having everything to feeling hopelessness and worthlessness. It was during that time of being open about her experience that it became apparent to her just how many other people experience those same feelings and so easily allow things that aren't true about them define...
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Proven Player serves as an instructional manual to be used by coaches and athletes to strengthen the development of their character as it pertains to sports and life. In this life there seems to always be a need to prove one's self and with that thought a person needs to know what it takes to demonstrate the accurate character traits that makes one a "Proven Player." If a person is to know how to handle certain situations on the plateau of their given...
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Relationships. We know that we need them, but busy schedules, financial pursuits, and self-serving agendas often distract us from the people God has placed in our lives.
Overcoming a childhood that lacked true relationships, CEO David Hoffman successfully broke the rules of a transaction-based world by founding a real estate company focused on meeting people where they are. In Relationships over Rules, David shares his journey and seven principles...
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Is it possible to know the world and still love the world?
Of all the questions we ask about our calling, this is the most difficult. From marriages to international relations, the more we know, the harder it is to love. We become cynics or stoics, protecting our hearts from the implications of what we know. But what if the vision of vocation can be recovered―allowing us to step into the wounds of the world and for love's sake take up our responsibility...
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In our modern world, we have compartmentalized Christianity and removed it from the public square and our own daily lived experience.
This can leave Christian business leaders feeling like they have to wear their "business hat" from nine to five and save their "Christian hat" for Sundays.
But what if you could integrate your faith into your business, no matter what type of business you're in? How can you bring Kingdom principles into all you...
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Best-selling author of The One-Minute Manager, Ken Blanchard, along with Phil Hodges, offers guidance for how to become a successful modern-day servant leader modeled after Jesus Christ. Based on years of leadership study and proven leadership styles, Blanchard gives established and up-and-coming business leaders solid examples, tools, and methods for life-changing results in their leadership of others.
Servant Leader summarizes the Four Dimensions...
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The Carrot Chaser is a thrilling, heartwarming story of how to follow God in a busy world Matthew Swift is a young, brash, and arrogant executive who seems to have it all. His image graces the covers of all the top business magazines. He's got money, power, and of course, lots of toys. But when Matthew's unscrupulous business practices and his disregard for the people around him finally catch up with him, his world comes crashing down. In this...
16) Amazing Grace
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As a ninety-year-old, Vernon Bittner reflects on the life lessons learned through God's amazing grace. He has experienced the healing of the trauma of abuse and the transformation of weaknesses into strengths. Grace has expressed itself through dreams with answers to his questions and the healing of his brain of PTSD. Every instance of grace is a way to feel the presence and power of God and to know that the Divine is active in one's life and in the...
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This book provides hope to anyone who has tried to grow in their christian life, only to be disappointed with the results. There is no easy formula for spiritual growth presented in this book, as true christian growth requires time and effort on our part.
Life qualities of mature christian leaders (men or women) are introduced in this book. Each of the twenty-one life qualities is based on biblical principles and discussed in detail, with a personal...
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Leadership is, inherently, a management of tensions. The individual and (or versus!) community. Inclusions and boundaries. Structure and creativity. Each pulls at the other-helpfully at times, harmfully at other times, and always with complexity. Leadership scholar and author Sarah B. Drummond provides a framework for leading tension, intentionally, especially within religious communities and institutions.
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If you could spend a few minutes with the giants of faith in the Old Testament in person, what lessons would they share with you? In Learning From The Giants John C. Maxwell draws on fifty years of studying the Bible to share the stories of Elijah, Elisha, Job, Jacob, Deborah, Isaiah, Jonah, Joshua and Daniel. These people fought and won epic battles, served kings, and endured great hardships for God to come out on the other side transformed through...
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Bestselling author and master communicator Charles Swindoll has been effectively speaking to others for over fifty years. In SAYING IT WELL: Touching Others With Your Words he shares his secrets on how to talk so people will listen.
Filled with techniques, stories, and models that clearly explain the formulas for successful speaking, Swindoll teaches readers the foundational principles for how to communicate, from preparing for a speech, organizing...
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