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Has your Church been Hijacked?

Millions of people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies feel their churches have been hijacked by church-growth movements characterized by loud praise bands, constant PowerPoint presentations, and cavernous megachurches devoid of any personal touch. They are bewildered by the changes, and are dropping out after thirty, forty, or fifty years in a congregation. It's a crisis!

In this fictional story, pastor and author Gordon MacDonald uses topical examples and all-too-familiar characters to reassure readers that it is possible to embrace change, and to demonstrate how that change can actually be a positive influence in their church. The church, he says, has always been in a state of change; it has been changing for the last two thousand years. It is time to embrace that change and use it further the Kingdom of God

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Dear Lord, I pray that all limitations, weaknesses, defects, pain, hurt, mistakes, embarrassment, and imperfection in my personal and public life, relationships and circumstances be eliminated This book is for any woman who has ever prayed this prayer or for the one who has even thought it. Joan Webb, a self-proclaimed recovering perfectionist, knows how hard it is for determined and caring women to step into the relief of imperfection. And yet, this is exactly what God wants for us. The Relief of Imperfection encourages the reader to believe the truth about God, others, herself and her reality, thus eventually releasing her from the pursuit of perfection to relax in the relief of imperfection. Webb provides real-life stories, including how Jesus lived in the midst of imperfect surroundings, to show that it is OK with God to cease trying to appear perfect and have all the right answers all the time. Readers will find permission to stop pretending and start enjoying authentic, intimate relationships with others, with themselves and with God..
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Are you trying to make things better for others at your own expense? Learn how to say no and break the habit of pleasing everybody but yourself .
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"The communications we transmit through touch constitute the most powerful means of establishing human relationships, the foundations of experience."—Ashley Montagu

Touch dominant people are those for whom the sense of touch is the sense that works the best—the one that helps them the most. Unfortunately, ours is a "Don't touch!" and "Keep your hands to yourself!" culture, in which people frequently react negatively to touch, and even to the language of touch. For touch dominant people this tends to mean a life filled with confusing interactions and mystifying rejections.

Now help is at hand from bestselling communications expert Suzette Haden Elgin. Dr. Elgin explains how to identify touch dominance in yourself and others. Using real-life scenarios dealing with a wide variety of typical problems—at home, in school, in the office—Elgin offers advice and easy-to-use techniques for improving communication, including specific problems related to intimate relationships. .
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This book focuses on the complex, and often incomprehensible, world of power struggles between adults and acting out kids in their care. Adults who could benefit from this book include parents, foster parents, public and special education teachers, therapists and counselors, child care staff and case workers. Topics include: who is really responsible for power struggles, why these struggles occur, the different reasons kids start them, what kids (as well as us as adults) ‘get’ from being in them, how to prevent them, and how to respond once they have started. The author discusses a range of techniques to prevent, avoid and defuse such struggles. These are some of the key strategies she and her colleagues have used with consistent success over the past twenty-seven years in both residential and day settings with thousands of defiant children and teens. This book is easy reading as well as a practical resource for parents and/or professionals who want to look at their own roles in the dynamics of power struggles with kids and expand their repertoire of positive responses..
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Are you in a relationship that is confusing, uncomfortable and unpredictable? Do certain people make your life hell? Is your self-esteem suffering at the expense of certain relationships? If the answers are $#145;yes', you are probably a victim of manipulative behaviour and caught in the cycle of emotional abuse from a boss, a lover, a family member or even a best friend. You can learn to escape this cycle, stop the bullying and put stability and confidence back into your life.

If you are suffering at the hands of a bully, you need quick access to specific information. Bullies come in all shapes and sizes, using different patterns of manipulation to get what they want. Each chapter of People Who Make Your Life Hell is focused on a pattern of manipulation; you only need to read the chapter that relates to your situation. You'll find that bullies range from those who use ridicule disguised as humour to those who try to shout you into submission to those who pretend you are intellectually inferior. Look at the list of characters at the start of the book, find your abuser and you'll discover why they do it, how they get away with it, and how you can stop their abuse yet still give them a chance to play fair. You may also develop the clarity to know when it's time to leave a relationship..
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