Everyday Matters Bible for Women

Everyday Matters Bible for Women

Author: Hendrickson Publishers

Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers

Published: 2012-09-17

Total Pages: 1634

ISBN-13: 1619700123

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Today's Christian woman is so busy handling the challenges of day-to-day life that spending time in the Word can easily become yet another "should" buried in that growing list of daily "musts." Created in partnership with Christianity Today's women's magazine, the Everyday Matters Bible for Women is designed to help women develop spiritual practices that will make their lives richer, not harder. It offers practical encouragement and tools to renew, reinvigorate, and restore meaning to everyday life. This Bible features 24 disciplines--or practices--that position us to receive power and strength to do those things that we cannot possibly do on our own and make everyday life fuller and deeper. Each discipline is represented by a colorful icon whose illustration is a reminder of its meaning. The contemporary language of the New Living Translation combines with content from today's foremost Christian leaders to help readers understand and apply spiritual discipline. Every discipline is explored in four ways: Everyday Matters: Two-page articles introduce major themes and focus on an essential part of understanding and practicing a discipline. Everyday Profiles: Profiles of 25 biblical women highlight a particular discipline. Everyday Q & A's: Short articles delve into a difficult aspect of the spiritual practice and offer practical help on incorporating the discipline into your daily life. Everyday Reflections: Selections illustrate ways to personalize and apply God's Word to your own situation. More than 300 articles and features by more than 140 of today's most well-known Christian leaders and writers, including Kay Warren, Priscilla Shirer, Elisa Morgan, Nancy & John Ortberg, Richard Foster, Liz Curtis Higgs, and Lauren Winner. Features: 4-color printing throughout Book introductions Color-coded icons identify each spiritual discipline addressed in contributors' material Article, "How to Use This Bible in a Small Group Study" Index of spiritual practices Resources for further reading Presentation page Ribbon marker Enjoy having overviews and articles on 24 key spiritual practices that renew meaning in everyday life, including prayer, forgiveness, worship, and more! Perfect for individuals, group use, and gifts!


Make Time

Make Time

Author: Jake Knapp

Publisher: Crown Currency

Published: 2018-09-25

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0525572422

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From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint comes “a unique and engaging read about a proven habit framework [that] readers can apply to each day” (Insider, Best Books to Form New Habits). “If you want to achieve more (without going nuts), read this book.”—Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit Nobody ever looked at an empty calendar and said, "The best way to spend this time is by cramming it full of meetings!" or got to work in the morning and thought, Today I'll spend hours on Facebook! Yet that's exactly what we do. Why? In a world where information refreshes endlessly and the workday feels like a race to react to other people's priorities faster, frazzled and distracted has become our default position. But what if the exhaustion of constant busyness wasn't mandatory? What if you could step off the hamster wheel and start taking control of your time and attention? That's what this book is about. As creators of Google Ventures' renowned "design sprint," Jake and John have helped hundreds of teams solve important problems by changing how they work. Building on the success of these sprints and their experience designing ubiquitous tech products from Gmail to YouTube, they spent years experimenting with their own habits and routines, looking for ways to help people optimize their energy, focus, and time. Now they've packaged the most effective tactics into a four-step daily framework that anyone can use to systematically design their days. Make Time is not a one-size-fits-all formula. Instead, it offers a customizable menu of bite-size tips and strategies that can be tailored to individual habits and lifestyles. Make Time isn't about productivity, or checking off more to-dos. Nor does it propose unrealistic solutions like throwing out your smartphone or swearing off social media. Making time isn't about radically overhauling your lifestyle; it's about making small shifts in your environment to liberate yourself from constant busyness and distraction. A must-read for anyone who has ever thought, If only there were more hours in the day..., Make Time will help you stop passively reacting to the demands of the modern world and start intentionally making time for the things that matter.


Language Matters

Language Matters

Author: Donna Jo Napoli

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-07-08

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0199889929

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Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day. Most of us have very definite opinions on these questions one way or another. Yet as linguists Donna Jo Napoli and Vera Lee-Schoenfeld point out in this short and thoroughly readable volume, many of our most deeply held ideas about the nature of language and its role in our lives are either misconceived or influenced by myths and stereotypes. Language Matters provides a highly informative tour of the world of language, examining these and other vexing and controversial language-related questions. Throughout, Napoli and Lee-Schoenfeld encourage and lead the reader to use common-sense and everyday experience rather than preconceived notions or technical linguistic expertise. Both their questions and their conclusions are surprising, sometimes provocative, and always entertaining. This thoroughly revised second edition updates the book with a new co-author, and includes new chapters on language and power, language extinction, and what it is linguists actually do. Language Matters is sure to engage both general readers and students of language and linguistics at any level.


Today Matters

Today Matters

Author: John C. Maxwell

Publisher: Center Street

Published: 2008-11-16

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1599952068

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Most of us look at our days in the wrong way: We exaggerate yesterday. We overestimate tomorrow. We underestimate today. The truth is that the most important day you will ever experience is today. Today is the key to your success. Maxwell offers 12 decisions and disciplines-he calls it his daily dozen-that can be learned and mastered by any person to achieve success.


Stuff Matters

Stuff Matters

Author: Mark Miodownik

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0544236041

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An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surround us, from concrete and steel to denim and chocolate, packed with surprising stories and fascinating science.


When Every Day Matters

When Every Day Matters

Author: Mary Jane Brant

Publisher:

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 9780981780900

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In her courageous book, Brant chronicles the first year of living without her beloved daughter who died of brain cancer. She shares not only the story of a life lost through tragedy, but the legacy of a renewed life filled with grace, compassion, wisdom, and choice.


What's a Person To Do? Everyday Decisions That Matter

What's a Person To Do? Everyday Decisions That Matter

Author: Mark S. Latkovic

Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor

Published: 2013-09-20

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1612782884

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Moral decision-making made easier From Internet access to lottery tickets, from pet ownership to R-rated entertainment, we're faced with more ethical decisions than we might realize, every single day. What's a person to do - especially when there is no definitive Catholic teaching on a subject? Do we just brush off these pesky moral dilemmas? Do we happily live in the gray areas of life and simply go along with conventional wisdom? Or do we make an honest attempt to face these moral questions head on? The way we deal with these seemingly small ethical decisions can have a huge impact on our own lives as well as those of our children and families. This book is an ethical toolbox, providing you with a process for making confident choices, asking yourself challenging questions, developing moral virtue, and discovering deeper happiness. "A bracing wake-up call to those of us who often overlook the moral dimensions of the decisions we make in everyday life. Mark Latkovic gently guides us through the ethical minefield of contemporary society." - Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School "The book will be particularly welcome to parents and catechists, as they fulfill their responsibilities for giving moral guidance to the next generation of believers." - Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron, Detroit "Not only a reliable guide to resolving some of the ethical questions we face in our everyday lives, it is a guidebook to thinking well about decisions that shape our characters." - Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University About the Author Dr. Mark S. Latkovic is professor of moral and systematic theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, Michigan, and the author of numerous articles, essays, and other writings on moral theology. He is also a nationally known speaker, panelist, reviewer, and consultant. Dr. Latkovic and his wife, Christine, have four children.


Matters of Care

Matters of Care

Author: María Puig de la Bellacasa

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2017-03-21

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1452953473

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To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, María Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical and political obligation for thinking in the more than human worlds of technoscience and naturecultures. Matters of Care contests the view that care is something only humans do, and argues for extending to non-humans the consideration of agencies and communities that make the living web of care by considering how care circulates in the natural world. The first of the book’s two parts, “Knowledge Politics,” defines the motivations for expanding the ethico-political meanings of care, focusing on discussions in science and technology that engage with sociotechnical assemblages and objects as lively, politically charged “things.” The second part, “Speculative Ethics in Antiecological Times,” considers everyday ecologies of sustaining and perpetuating life for their potential to transform our entrenched relations to natural worlds as “resources.” From the ethics and politics of care to experiential research on care to feminist science and technology studies, Matters of Care is a singular contribution to an emerging interdisciplinary debate that expands agency beyond the human to ask how our understandings of care must shift if we broaden the world.