Africa's Choices After Thirty Years of the World Bank

Business & Money

Brown, Michael B.

Economics

Penguin

Though the title sounds like a promotional campaign for the U.S. Army, that's not its intent. Instead, what is contained in this book are road marks for the journey into a new and stronger sense of what it means to be fully alive. All people are created with inherent purpose, promise and potential. All are endowed with abilities to do more and be more than we sometimes dare imagine. Herein are sermons intended to help readers and listeners discover their own powers and possibilities, to own them, to cultivate them and to live within them. The chapters do not form an exhaustive list of human potentials. They do, however, provide an important inventory of what we all were created to become and can become, if we choose. Chapter titles include: You Can Be Articulate (Based upon Mark 7:31-37) You Can Be Intelligent (Based upon 2 Chronicles 1-11) You Can Be Like Children (Based upon Mark 10:13-16) You Can Be Beautiful (Based upon Hosea 14:1-7) You Can Be Well Fed (Based upon 1 Corinthians) You Can Be Eternal (Based upon 2 Corinthians) Readers will sense their own calls to be more than they have been thus far and the extraordinary power of One who promises to make the journey with them.

Be All That You Can Be: 12 Sermons On Developing God-Given Potential (Great American Preacher Series)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

CSS Publishing Company

This book is designed to help the general reader understand the economic reasons behind current social and political problems such as mass unemployment, cuts in living standards and the world-wide economic crisis. The fundamental differences, within the capitalist system, between the Keynesian, market and Marxist models are outlined, as are the alternatives presented by the feminist and green movements. Following this, several socialist economies - Soviet, Chinese, Yugoslav and African - are considered in detail and compared with Marx's original concepts. In the last section the author attempts to build models for understanding the future, with the current developments in capitalism, including the arms economy, and the possible transition of capitalism to socialism.

Models in Political Economy: A Guide to the Arguments

Lynne Rienner Pub

On Sunday morning wherever you worship, the odds are strong that you occupy a pew with other members of your own congregation who disagree with you about subjects varying from the Virgin Birth to the sacraments to whether or not the Bible is the literal or the inspired, poetic word of God. In one’s own house of faith, people are seldom of a single mind. Despite such differences, there are principles—God as Creator, the centrality of Jesus, grace, and sacraments, to name just a few—that are bedrock to the Christian faith, and these are the subject of Michael Brown’s Bottom Line Beliefs. Though individual denominations, congregations, and Christians may argue about how to interpret particular doctrines, all Christians accept and affirm some interpretation of them as central and vital to the practice of the faith. About each of these principles we say, “I believe in that. It is dear to me. It is nonnegotiable. It is indispensable to my faith." Though we may differ on the nuances of each of these doctrines, we still confess that they are central to our understanding of Christianity. They are the bottom line beliefs that form the body of our shared Christianity.

Bottom Line Beliefs: Twelve Doctrines All Christians Hold In Common (Sort of)

Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Incorporated

Sometimes the Christian journey is a stroll along quiet shores. Other times it is an uphill climb on narrow, snow-covered mountain paths. Usually, it is simply walking in the direction of wholeness, one step after another, sometimes even two steps forward and one step back. Learning what we believe about God and what God expects from us is an ongoing journey. In A Five-Mile Walk, Michael B. Brown considers paths our journey takes, exploring our attitudes, emotions, expectations, community, and faithfulness. Though these are not the only paths we travel on our Christian journey, they are indispensable if we are serious about living faithfully as followers of Jesus.

A Five-Mile Walk: Exploring Themes in the Experience of Christian Faith and Discipleship

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John each has his own way of telling the Story of stories—an account of the arrival of the Messiah into our world. Each author writes to a unique audience with a specific purpose in mind for addressing them as he does. But in every case, the author’s message connects not only with his specific readers back then, but also with us personally here and now. The Story becomes our story. A Long-Ago Birth in a Right-Now World brings the meaning of Bethlehem from a manger to our doorsteps, where it intersects with our personal needs and fears, hopes and dreams, 
guilt and grief, priorities, relationships, and spiritual journeys in an oftentimes challenging world.

A Long-Ago Birth in a Right-Now World: Reflections about the Christmas Story in Our Age and Lives

Wipf and Stock

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John each has his own way of telling the Story of stories--an account of the arrival of the Messiah into our world. Each author writes to a unique audience with a specific purpose in mind for addressing them as he does. But in every case, the author's message connects not only with his specific readers back then, but also with us personally here and now. The Story becomes our story. A Long-Ago Birth in a Right-Now World brings the meaning of Bethlehem from a manger to our doorsteps, where it intersects with our personal needs and fears, hopes and dreams, guilt and grief, priorities, relationships, and spiritual journeys in an oftentimes challenging world.

A Long-Ago Birth in a Right-Now World

Wipf & Stock Publishers

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