Author: Rob Hay Publisher: William Carey Publishing ISBN: 1645080668 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 429
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"Worth Keeping is more than worth just reading. I urge church and missional leaders to reflect on the research and absorb the principles contained in this important volume. I am convinced if we put into practice its recommendations we will see more effective missionaries who feel valued as servants of the living God. Worth Keeping should be required reading for all mission leaders and local church mission teams." - Geoff Tunnicliffe, International Director, World Evangelical Alliance, Canada This book was published in partnership with the World Evangelical Alliance.
Author: Henry Cloud Publisher: Zondervan ISBN: 0310359260 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 240
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De-mystify dating once and for all! Dr. Henry Cloud addresses common dating issues and presents a "how to" guide for getting to know yourself and your date, so you can find (and keep) the love of your life. Let's face it--dating isn't always fun. But starting today, you can begin a journey that will bring fun and interesting people into your life, broaden your experience of others and yourself, and lead you toward that date of all dates--a date worth keeping. This book is for YOU if . . . You want to get more dates or better dates. You wonder where "the good ones" are. You keep repeating the same old cycle in your dating life and want to change it. You wonder why people who aren't as nice as you get all the dates. You're attracted to the wrong kind, while the right kind lack the "chemistry." You're waiting for God to bring you the right person--and you've been waiting an awfully long time. You wonder what it is about you that fails to attract dates. With over ten years of experience personally coaching singles on dating, Dr. Henry Cloud shares his proven, very doable, step-by-step approach to overcoming your sticking points and getting all the dates you could want. The results speak for themselves. Filled with true-life examples you'll identify with instantly, How to Get a Date Worth Keeping will prove its worth to you many times over in the exciting months ahead.
Author: Christine Harold Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 1452963878 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 249
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A timely examination of the attachments we form to objects and how they might be used to reduce waste Rampant consumerism has inundated our planet with pollution and waste. Yet attempts to create environmentally friendly forms of consumption are often co-opted by corporations looking to sell us more stuff. In Things Worth Keeping, Christine Harold investigates the attachments we form to the objects we buy, keep, and discard, and explores how these attachments might be marshaled to create less wasteful practices and balance our consumerist and ecological impulses. Although all economies produce waste, no system generates as much or has become so adept at hiding its excesses as today’s mode of global capitalism. This book suggests that managing the material excesses of our lives as consumers requires us to build on, rather than reject, our desire for and attraction to objects. Increasing environmental awareness on its own will be ineffective at reversing ecological devastation, Harold argues, unless it is coupled with a more thorough understanding of how and why we love the things that imbue our lives with pleasure, meaning, and utility. From Marie Kondo’s method for decluttering that asks whether the things in our lives “spark joy” to the advent of emotionally durable design, which seeks to reduce consumption and waste by increasing the meaningfulness of the relationship between user and product, Harold explores how consumer psychology and empathetic design can transform our perception of consumer products from disposable to interconnected. An urgent call for rethinking consumerism, Things Worth Keeping shows that by recognizing our responsibility for the things we produce, we can become better stewards of the planet.
Author: Kaya McLaren Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin ISBN: 1250145112 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 249
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"A book as wise and unflinching as an old growth forest, filled with the capricious beauty and brutality of life. Kaya McLaren gives us a powerful, deeply moving story of a family in desperate need of healing and the paths each of them must walk to find it, and shows us how we might all find hope if we can pause long enough to listen to the whispers of nature." —Barbara O'Neal, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Amazon Charts #1 bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids In Kaya McLaren's What's Worth Keeping, during one unforgettable summer, three generations of one family receive the best gift of all time: a second chance... The day her doctor says the one word that no one wants to hear, Amy Bergstrom discovers a secret that her husband of 25 years has been keeping from her. Now that the months of treatment and surgeries are behind her, she escapes her claustrophobic life seeking healing, peace and clarity in an ancient forest in Washington State, a forest that holds memories of her childhood summers. After dropping off his daughter at Amy’s Aunt Rae’s horse ranch in the mountains of New Mexico, Officer Paul Bergstrom visits the fixer-upper he had bought years ago as a place to retire with his family. Although it appears fine on the outside, the inside is a disaster—just like his marriage. When he finds himself with more off-duty time than he expected, he lovingly repairs his dream home, building the future he so desperately wants. Witnessing her mother’s health crisis had been terrifying enough, but learning the cause was genetic leaves Carly with the sense that all of her dreams are pointless. With the help of her eccentric great aunt and a Clydesdale named T. Rex, Carly just may find her faith in her future again. Amy, Paul, and Carly discover that love and family are worth keeping in this powerful, emotional, and hopeful novel.
Author: Victorya Michaels Rogers Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416542515 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 230
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How to Find the Man of Your Dreams How to find the man of your dreams is no longer a matter of mystery and frustration. Victorya Michaels Rogers has done her dating homework, and in this upbeat book she shares the wisdom from her dating experiences with more than one hundred men -- ninety-seven of whom asked her out for a second date. After having found Mr. Right, Victorya will help you, too, find a man worth keeping as she shares secrets, such as how to be a great date, how not to freak him out, how to know when to call it quits, and much more. Don't give up. Refuse to settle. This book can teach you how to find a man who is truly worth keeping.
Author: Russell Fraser Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351321986 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 239
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In this new volume, Russell Fraser assembles fourteen twentieth-century writers he judges "worth keeping." All were famous in their time, but many outlived it, enduring an eclipse that Fraser intends this book to dispel. Each of the authors differs in background and in the kinds of writing practiced, and while together they do not constitute a modern canon, Fraser persuasively presents them as a group distinguished by a more than ordinary affiliation for language. Leading off are Oscar Wilde and J. M. Synge, both of whom were Irish and principally known as playwrights. The Scottish poets Edwin Muir and G.M. Brown are complemented by three great Europeans: Paul Valery, Eugenio Montale, and Osip Mandelstam, "mandarins" who wrote for an elite of their time, not a social elite, but readers who could read. The New Critics, who gave language first place in their writing, loom large in this account. R.P. Blackmur and Allen Tate are followed by Delmore Schwartz, Austin Warren, and Francis Fergusson, lesser stars orbiting those greater than themselves. Kingsley Amis the novelist and James Dickey the poet, with whom the book concludes, had a great run at fame and fortune, but ended bleakly. The world was livelier for these writers' presence, and what they left us still gives satisfaction. This heterogeneous group may be said to be our saving remnant. In a time of coarsened feeling, its members possess in high degree the ability to discriminate, seeing acutely, and inspiring feeling where it was dead. Their function is therapeutic, even restorative for the life of letters. To give them a hearing is the principal purpose of the book.
Author: Joyce Livingston Publisher: Barbour Publishing ISBN: 1620298856 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 176
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Tessa Garrett only wanted her husband Mike to put his family first. Yet night after night, Detective Garrett left to protect the people of San Diego. Now, after eight years of separation, their daughter's wedding has brought them back together. Mike can't understand Tessa's anger. Her many activities with their church and Katie's school make it abundantly clear she had no time for him. By accepting the promotion to detective, he thought he gave Tessa what she wanted... and it ended up costing him his marriage. Will the preparations for a Christmas Day wedding drive the wedge of unforgiveness deeper? Or will they surrender their pride and discover their love is worth keeping?
Author: Jill Lyna’ Albanys Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 1512782947 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 288
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In this inspirational novel, Alex wonders if there will ever be a place she would truly belong as she realizes she just cant fit into the stuffy confines of the social ton in France. When Alex is faced with her mothers death and her betrothal to a man she despises, her life changes suddenly. She finds herself on an adventure that leads her to tumultuous seas, abduction and other faith testing obstacles. A Promise Worth Keeping is filled with intrigue, romance, and a message that reminds the reader to keep believing that the events in our lives will somehow work together in a greater plan designed by the One that always has our good in mind.
Author: Marie Patrick Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1440575681 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 300
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Caralyn McCreigh has always believed in three things: that her father, Daniel, would never force her into marriage; that she could have a storybook romance with a man who sweeps her off her feet and a loving marriage like the one her parents share; and that Queen Isabella’s legendary lost treasure, Izzy’s Fortune, exists. When her father tells her that her marriage has been arranged, all her beliefs are shattered, and she does exactly as he hopes she will - embarks on a quest to find Izzy’s Fortune. She believes that if she finds the treasure, she’ll be able to buy herself out of a marriage to a man she doesn’t know or love. And who better to help her than Captain Trey, the infamous treasure hunter? Tristan Youngblood, captain of the Adventurer and future Earl of Winterbourne, would much rather sail the oceans and search for lost treasure than settle down and take over the reigns of the Winterbourne estates. However, when he receives news that his future has been decided for him, he knows he has no choice. He has no qualms against marriage itself, except for what he witnessed in the misery of his parents' union. He does not desire the same for himself, so instead of rushing home to England to court his future wife, Tristan accepts Caralyn’s proposal and embarks on one last grand adventure to search for Izzy’s Fortune.
Author: Rob Hay
Author: Henry Cloud
Author: Christine Harold
Author: Kaya McLaren
Author: Victorya Michaels Rogers
Author: Graham Willmore
Author: Russell Fraser
Author: Joyce Livingston
Author: Jill Lyna’ Albanys
Author: Marie Patrick