In his celebrated and engaging style, Gordon transports you back to the fictional setting from his critically acclaimed book, Who Stole My Church? He identifies the crucial missing component in his community: people of true depth and real influence. He offers insights on how to cultivate spiritual maturity and exhibit life-altering faith.
Stationed as a paratrooper in Northern Ireland in the late 1980s, Stuart Griffiths assembled an extraordinary archive of personal snapshots. These photographs were made before Griffiths received any formal training in photography and document his experience of soldiering towards the end of the Troubles. Raw snapshots made for his own personal album, but powerfully evoking the boredom, frustration and fear felt by the group of very young men he served alongside.This book presents these images with Griffiths' first-person narrative describing his changing feelings towards his choice to become a soldier and the validity of the British Army's position in the conflict
Joachim Schmid began his career as a critic, arguing passionately against prevailing notions of "art photography" and in favor of a broad, encompassing view of the medium as a form of cultural practice. In the late 80s, he shifted his focus to making those arguments in his own art, which is based primarily on found photography. At the time, Schmid lived near one of the largest flea markets in Berlin, and his broad collection of vernacular photography formed the raw material for many of the works included here. His oeuvre reflects a close observation of photographic history and a fascination with the images themselves, in all their bizarre and conventionalized aspects, but its fundamental richness--along with the sardonic wit he so often displays--derails any attempt to read it as academic.
Best-selling author Gordon MacDonald links resilience to a more productive and vibrant life, then shows readers how to develop it.
In When Men Think Private Thoughts, you'll travel the inner recesses of a man's mind to unravel the complex, centuries-old questions that shape a man's identity and self-concept. You'll learn how a man's sense of self begins to form even before birth and how the terrain between childhood and manhood affects his adult relationships, spiritual life, and more.
Focusing on Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota and North Dakota, this guide discusses cultivation of a wide variety of fruit including apples, pears, plums, apricots, strawberries, blueberries, cherries, grapes, currants, gooseberries, brambles and others.
While this illuminating book focuses on marriage, it also examines other important relationships: child-parent, family, friendships, and business associates. The MacDonalds define and discuss the five building blocks on which all good relationships are established: commitment, transparency, sensitivity, communication, and enablement.
Many men and women are apparently dropping off the edges of our horizons because of deep personal tragedy or even dramatic failure. they sink into a quiet personal despair, "robotic lifestyle" where each day becomes aimless and survival-oriented. Sometimes silently, sometimes loudly, they cry for help, and they're not heard in or out of the church. So, bewildered and confused, tey wander off to the side, and we ignore them-deliberately. We don't notice they're not around any longer until its too late. The sadness is compounded because the Bible, along with God's people living out biblical principles, offers a remarkable promise of rebuilding and renewal from which no one is ever exempt.
Is there a genuine inner life, a private, inner world that each of us possess? The Scriptures and the experiences of the great saints say that there is and that the inner life can be ordered and regulated. Where people live with disorder within, there is anxiety and little growth, but where the private world is constantly realigned to the image of God, there is remarkable personal development and Christian witness.