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Who Do Deacons Need to Be? What Do Deacons Need to Know? What Do Deacons Need to Do? These three questions form the basis for Exemplars: Deacons as Servant and Spiritual Leaders. They are designed to encourage robust conversation within diaconates as well as between deacons, clergy, and other laity. All of us grow spiritually as we listen and speak to one another with open minds and loving hearts. For deacons to reach their full potential as spiritual leaders, thoughtful and prayerful conversation must happen. This workbook was born from years of pastoral experience and a growing conviction...

You wanted the jolly fat man to bring Yuletide joy, but the season has gifted you with a heart breaker and a life taker—Badass Santa. Grab your eggnog and camouflage candy canes, strap on your bulletproof holiday stockings, and prepare for thrills and kills.

Earth depends on its mercenaries to survive... Merc company taxes prevent mankind from starvation... Could any mercs be so greedy as to cheat the starving? Ronald Gerard didn't score high enough to join the companies. But he can still be a hero. Financial mischief fills the news, and Gerard knows the mercs are hiding things. Proving their guilt was just the beginning...

Two weeks of freedom hasn’t been enough for Eli to rebuild his life. While he races to prepare for looming winter, a killer’s crusade to exterminate Seufert Fells’s homeless drives a knife into the city’s criminal elite. Forced to hunt a killer disguised by magic, Eli’s world becomes a house of mirrors. Friends become enemies. Deceptions abound, and the magic that saved Eli threatens to consume him. With the serial killer targeting everything he loves, even new dumpstermancer spells might not be enough.

Millions of fans have enjoyed the life-changing secrets from James Allen's 100-year-old classic best-seller, As Man Thinketh. Now USA Today and New York Times best-selling author of such works as The Last Valentine, The Lighthouse Keeper, Ticket Home and Paradise Bay gives voice to the book that changed his own life as a young man and set him on the journey he finds himself on today. A must read for all those seeking lasting personal growth and permanent improvements in their life and surroundings.

Soon after birth, tiger cubs are instinctively drawn to wrestling. Eventually their play transforms into real skills of potentially lethal efficiency. Humans have done the same. In this anthology, you will find unique combative techniques found in some cultures as well as some techniques that are universal. Allen Pittman gives a portrayal of Dr. Tim Geoghegan’s particular blend of Eastern and Western wrestling, and his formidable arsenal for grappling and throwing. In anther chapter, Pittman focuses on the shoulder throw. The technical variations seem endless for this valued movement. ...

When a hero comes home from the war, he finds his world went on without him, and now he has a new war to fight as a corrupt network threatens the only person he has left in his life.

You don't need Hollywood. No, seriously. When we first started making movies, we were broke college kids with no connections or experience. Fast forward five years and we were producing a million-dollar movie with well-known Hollywood stars. We wrote The Break In to share all the most valuable lessons (and hilarious stories) from our experience so that you can launch a promising career on your own terms.

When a near-fatal accident separates a single father from his daughter, fate has a way of finding her a good home. While Chris fights for his life in a coma for nine years, his daughter Krista is raised by a well-intentioned couple who have no idea how to properly raise a child. Gilmer has wild ideas that he doesn't think through. Maggie knows the basics, and figures the rest out as she goes.

When a father noticed the look in his daughter's eye the day her mother came to get her after a weekend together, he knew there was a sense of loss and loneliness. She loved both of her parents and she didn't understand why things had changed. That was when he decided to create something for her that not only would she be able to hold dear to her heart, but she would also find a way to hold him dear when they were no longer together. This is the perfect gift for the child who is missing a loved one. Whether you are the parents of divorce or one of you is in the military while your child is ...

The Fate of Eleven Universes Rest in the Hands of a Hapless Trucker who Can’t Read a Map… Eleventh World is widely considered the largest waste of magic and technology ever perpetrated by a governing body. We call it Earth. Humanity? We’re a bad joke told only in posh backrooms by the raunchiest politicians. Even so, when villainous forces threaten to destroy our universe, the beings profiting off Eleventh World take notice. They summon their best cybernetic dwarf problem solver to find the bomb and save the day.

If you're looking for a powerful story of homelessness, healing, and starting over, A Work in Progress will stay with you long after the final page. When Traylor loses his home, he doesn't give up. He sleeps in airports, hotel rooms, and then he lives in his van when he finally finds the resources to buy one. He's desperately clinging to dignity in a world that has looked the other way. What begins as survival slowly becomes transformation when he discovers an abandoned warehouse and turns it into something more than shelter. He turns it into a new beginning. Told with emotional honesty, ...

In the dark ages, women were property and nobles took whatever they wanted. When a peasant girl is forced to travel through a dark and foggy night filled with ill omens, fortune and misfortune ambush her on the road home. Beneath the glare of the red star, she discovers a rare treasure. Pursued by a mad lord and stalked by a mysterious stranger, her whole world is turned upside down. When everything she loves comes under attack, she must choose between running away and revealing a gift that could alter the kingdom forever....

In this Printed Words anthology, the lines merge between crime and horror, fiction and poetry. So, you’ll be kept guessing whether the villain is human or monster. Sometimes, the worst monsters are those who pass as human.

Fiction. Poetry. Opinions. Conversations. Thoughts. Irrelevant and Beautiful. Let’s talk. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/purpledonutspodcast/support

Life is hectic and fast paced today. Traffic congestion, picky customers, demanding bosses, house cleaning, kids' activities, and all the rest that make up your busy day. Wouldn't it would be nice to relax and find a few moments peace? Health experts are will tell you that stress is one of the most serious health problems we have today. Stress Less is a fabulous audio program developed by Michael Steelman M.D., which will put you in a state of complete relaxation.

This is a wonderful way to improve your self-esteem, lose some weight without dieting, and feel better about yourself. Listen to this program about 12 minutes a day and you will notice a remarkable change in not only how you feel about yourself, but how you perform on the job and in your other life's activities. In just a few days your self-image will improve, your effectiveness will increase, and your interaction with others will be far more satisfying.

Set in the autumn of 1960 in upstate New York, retired theremin musician Sid Kottler has been living alone in his oversized home for the past 13 years and cannot handle even the slightest of human interaction. He is visited by someone he recognizes from a recent encounter of sorts, and realizes that he may not be alone anymore. In fact, Sid may even play party host to an ensemble of "friends"... but not by invitation.

A menacing presence lurks around the town of Bridgeport, a small college town nestled in the mountains. Everyone either goes to the college or is connected to it in some way except for Jeph who lives alone and works as a delivery guy at a sub shop where even his co-workers don’t seem to notice him. His growing loneliness is spiraling him into a ruthless rage where he has already claimed two victims who had the misfortune of crossing his path. When he meets Tracy, his thoughts take a turn. Where there was once a dark void, there’s now a renewing hope. She sees him and she talks to him. ...

In the Walk is a deeply personal journey through questions that many are afraid to ask out loud. Blending religious texts, reflection, and lived experience, this book explores the nature of God, faith, sin, forgiveness, science, religion, and the tension between truth and tradition. It does not follow a typical religious path. Some of what is written here may challenge what you have been taught. That is not an attack. It is an invitation. An invitation to think, to wrestle, and to walk forward with honesty. This is not a book that tries to impress. It is not written for theological approval...