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Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

by Parker J. Palmer

With wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teacher and follow its leadings toward a sense of meaning and purpose. Telling stories from his own life and the lives of others who have made a difference, he shares insights gained from darkness and depression as well as fulfillment and joy, illuminating a pathway toward vocation for all who seek the true calling of... (more)

The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

by Os Guinness

The Call continues to stand as a classic, reflective work on life's purpose. Best-selling author Os Guinness goes beyond our surface understanding of God's call and addresses the fact that God has a specific calling for our individual lives. Why am I here? What is God's call in my life? How do I fit God's call with my own individuality? How should God's calling affect my career, my plans for the future, my... (more)

The New Strong-Willed Child: Birth Through Adolescence

The New Strong-Willed Child: Birth Through Adolescence

by Dr. Dobson, James, James C. Dobson

2005 Gold Medallion Award finalist! Dr. James Dobson has completely rewritten, updated, and expanded his classic best seller The Strong-Willed Child for a new generation of parents and teachers. The New Strong-Willed Child follows on the heels of Dr. Dobson's phenomenal best seller Bringing Up Boys. It offers practical how-to advice on raising difficult-to-handle children and incorporates the latest research... (more)

God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life (Focal Point Series)

God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life (Focal Point Series)

by Gene Edward Veith

When you understand it properly, the doctrine of vocation--"doing everything for God's glory"--is not a platitude or an outdated notion. This principle that we vaguely apply to our lives and our work is actually the key to Christian ethics, to influencing our culture for Christ, and to infusing our ordinary, everyday lives with the presence of God. For when we realize that the "mundane" activities that consume... (more)

The Path: Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and for Life

The Path: Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and for Life

by Laurie Beth Jones

The author of Jesus, CEO combines powerful spiritual insight and inspirational, practical advice on how to achieve one's highest goals and potential in business and in life, discussing the three key elements of a successful mission statement and explaining how to fulfill a mission. Reprint. 75,000 first printing."

Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want

Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want

by Annie Gottlieb, Barbara Sher

Cindy Fox was a waitress. Now she’s a pilot. Peter Johnson was a truck driver. Now he’s a dairy farmer. Tina Forbes was a struggling artist. Now she’s a successful one. Alan Rizzo was an editor. Now he’s a bookstore owner. What they have in common—and what you can share—are Barbara Sher’s effective strategies for making real changes in your life. This human, practical program puts your vague yearnings and dreams... (more)

Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace (Vintage)

Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace (Vintage)

by Nora Gallagher

In the highly praised memoir Things Seen and Unseen , Nora Gallagher reflected on a year of spiritual renewal and the fact of mortality with uncommon wisdom and grace. We rejoin her in Practicing Resurrection as Gallagher searches for direction in the wake of her brother’s death. A desire to reclaim her own “wild life” and a sense of the sacred in the world compels her to assess everything: her marriage, her... (more)

By Love Refined: Letters to a Young Bride

By Love Refined: Letters to a Young Bride

by Alice Von Hildebrand

Courage & Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential

Courage & Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential

by Gordon T. Smith

A Formatio book. God has called you--first to himself, to know and follow him but also to a specific life purpose, a particular reason for being. This second call, to a defining purpose of mission in life, is often termed a vocation, from the Latin root meaning "calling." And while it has implications for your work or occupation, it also reaches wider. It includes your giftedness, your weakness, your life in... (more)

Preparing for Christian Ministry: An Evangelical Approach

Preparing for Christian Ministry: An Evangelical Approach

Encouragement for students to reflect on the nature and task of ministry in the 21st century and to seek education to equip them for ministry.

Toilet Training in Less Than a Day

by Nathan H. Azrin, Richard M. Foxx

THE CLASSIC GUIDE USED BY MILLIONS OF PARENTS! MAKE TOILET TRAINING A TOTAL SUCCESS -- IN ONLY A FEW HOURS! From two noted learning specialists, here is the amazing, scientifically proved Azrin-Foxx method that teaches toilet training quickly -- in less than four hours for the average child. And after that rewarding learning period, he or she will willingly use the toilet without assistance or a reminder!... (more)

The Meaning of VocationJohn Paul II

The Meaning of Vocation

by John Paul

Who Gets the Drumstick?Helen Beardsley

Who Gets the Drumstick?

by Helen Beardsley

Mountains Beyond Mountains the Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the WorldTracy Kidder

Mountains Beyond Mountains the Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

by Tracy Kidder

The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life

The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life

Reclaiming the "V" Word: Renewing Life at Its Vocational Core (Lutheran Voices)

Reclaiming the "V" Word: Renewing Life at Its Vocational Core (Lutheran Voices)

by Dave Daubert

Centered in a definition of vocation that flows from Luther's conviction that all Christians share the same vocation but live it out in various occupations and roles, Reclaiming the &#34V7334 Word challenges readers to see themselves as instruments of God's mission as - church - wherever they are. From a strong foundation of Lutheran theology (reframed for twenty-first century application), the authors use... (more)

This Flowing Toward Me: A Story of God Arriving in Strangers

This Flowing Toward Me: A Story of God Arriving in Strangers

by Marilyn Lacey

What began in 1979 as a response to a random bulletin board posting would ultimately change Sister Marilyn Lacey's life--and the lives of countless refugees. In vivid prose, Sister Lacey narrates her twenty-five year spiritual journey of work with those displaced by conflict and disaster. In the spirit of Dead Man Walking , she invites us to solidarity with some of the world's most vulnerable. Timely and... (more)

First Things First

by Stephen R. Covey, A.Roger Merrill

Applies the insights of "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" to the daily problems of people who must struggle with the ever-increasing demands of work and home life. Rather than focusing on time and change, this book emphasizes relationships, results and effectiveness.

The Way

by Josemaria Escriva

A pocket-sized paperback book.

The Total Money Makeover

A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

by Dave Ramsey

The success stories speak for themselves in this book from money maestro Dave Ramsey. Instead of promising the normal dose of quick fixes, Ramsey offers a bold, no-nonsense approach to money matters, providing not only the how-to but also a grounded and uplifting hope for getting out of debt and achieving total financial health. Ramsey debunks the many myths of money (exposing the dangers of cash advance,... (more)

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