by Rand Hummel (2024)
What does it mean to be contagious? The Thessalonian believers were contagious. They were real. They were passionate. The gospel spread because their lives were attractive to the unbelievers around them. If you had the strong faith, sincere love, and secure hope of the Thessalonians, how would you impact the world around you? The meditations in this little book will help you apply God's Word in a practical and meaningful way, so that you too can become contagious. -- Back cover.
David Hansen
In this significantly revised new edition, Hansen includes new insights into his view of pastorate as parable and adds a new postlude in which he comes clean on his "constant attempts to leave the ministry." --from publisher description
Joyce Meyer
The depth of our relationship with God is not dependent on his pursuit of us, but on our pursuit of him and our willingness to be obedient to his Word.
Donna M. Gollnick, Philip C. Chinn
An overall goal of multicultural education is to help all students develop their potential for academic, social, and vocational success ... This text is designed to examine ... group memberships and ways in which the educator can develop educational programs to meet the needs of those groups and the nation.-Pref.
Michel Foucault
"Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them. Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent - and terrifying - portrait of society that he was patiently compiling. For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives" Foucault's investigations of prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, cities, lodgings, families, and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time -- and, as this book proves, one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds."