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Jesus Got His Hands Dirty. What About You? Jesus did not share the gospel with the poor, profane, and rebellious where they lived just so that we would share it only with the prim and proper, in churches. He did not suffer the agony of the cross so that we would live safely within the church walls, untouched by the hurting world around us. He was not raised from the dead to new life so that we would keep ourselves, His message, and His power out of reach of the people who need it. Jesus got His hands dirty, interacting with a messy world to reach those He loves. Today, our church services, music, look, attitudes, and actions are all are so clean and proper, it’s hard for anyone to be touched by them. In trying to be clean, we have forgotten how messy life can be. To be effective for Him, we must start serving as He did, where life is messy. Dirty Christians is a call for the people of Christ to... • Leave the safety of the church to venture out into the messiness of the real world of people with deep hurts, serious issues, and torn apart lives, and love them as He did • Chase after the life of service and love—the standard to which He has called us • Discover in the messiness of serving God why being Christlike cannot be an option, but must be a necessity • Experience the power of God as never before as we do what Jesus did and love as He loved Dirty Christians is not a “let’s feel good about ourselves” kind of book. If you’re up for the challenge to live Jesus out to this world, read it...and see what God can do through you when you dare to live out a messy faith. A native of southeastern Michigan, Daniel Brown lives in South Alabama where he and his wife, Debbie, pastor Anchor Assembly of God in Bayou La Batre. The father of two, and grandfather of five (so far), Daniel encourages Christians to get a little dirty while serving. He is currently working on his next book, Crude Church. www.dirtychristians.org Follow us on Twitter @dirtychristians Like us on Facebook at dirtychristiansministries

One December evening the Brown family have guests over for fun in the snow at Sunnybank farm. When one of the children falls into a crack in the ice Chipper acts quickly to rescue him. Taylor, Blake and Wesley rush to help. Read Book Eight and see why children of all ages love following the Adventures of Chipper and his animal friends.

A deadly strain of hydrophobia is spreading through the area. Some of Chipper''s friends are sick. Little Jonathan introduces Chipper to his brothers, Blake and Wesley. They search far and wide for the elusive ingredients required for a cure. Evil John Henry IXL Baldo Leach sends his cronies to wreck the lab and steal the existing formula. Tip is very sick and is sinking fast. Read Book Seven and learn why children of all ages eagerly follow the Adventures of Chipper.

When Grandpa is trapped under a fallen tree, Chipper and Little Jonathan go for help. Then Schleakly, the mean bobcat, finds the two small friends and confronts them. Chipper and Little Jonathan gather their courage to stand up to Schleakly. But will their animal friends hear their calls for help? And will they arrive in time? Read Book Six and see why children of all ages love following the Adventures of Chipper and his animal friends. Check out the Look Inside feature.

When a tornado picks up Chipper and dumps him into a river, life may never be the same. While he continues to be as brave as ever, he doesn''t recognize his family or friends. Will they ever be able to help him remember them and restore their relationships? Read Book Four and see why children of all ages love following the Adventures of Chipper and his animal friends. Check out the Look Inside feature.

Chipper can''t believe his eyes as a delivery type truck pulls in the drive of Sunnybank farm. Two men jump out of the truck, tie up Chipper''s friend Sabre, the collie, and whisk him away to parts unknown. Chipper and Simon, the Siamese cat, know they have to do something and quick. They jump on the antlers of their friend Bucky, the magnificent deer, and the trio follow the van ... and get into more trouble than any of them expected. Read Book Two and see why children of all ages love following the Adventures of Chipper and his animal friends. Check out the Look Inside feature.

Like other youngsters before them, Chipper and his friends want to prove their worth, their skills, and their strength. When accepting a dare from his friends causes Chipper to become injured, strange people and their animals capture and put him in a cage. Will Chipper''s family and friends be able to rescue him? Or will the people injure him more? Read Book One and see why children of all ages love following the Adventures of Chipper and his animal friends. Check out the Look Inside feature.

The scope of Erika Fromm''s profound contributions to the clinical and research literature in hypnosis and related areas is reflected in this volume, which consists of chapters written by those who have worked closely with the noted psychologist and/or have been significantly influenced by her. The subject matter presented here ranges from detailed accounts and personal observations relating to Fromm''s distinguished career, to some very new and valuable data on the psychophysiological correlates of hypnosis, the phenomenology of self-hypnosis, and an integrative model for short-term therapy. Several extensions of clinical technique for the treatment of trauma and severe psychopathology are also discussed. Professional therapists with an interest in personal growth, self-awareness, and creative mastery, whether or not they already have an interest in hypnosis, will derive significant benefits from this book. Readers who have previously eschewed hypnosis may find that this volume stimulates an interest that enriches their clinical practice and/or research.

Every Thursday evening Dan and his two buddies meet in his garage to practice their music. They''ve been searching for a bass player for quite a while. So when Dan''s friend Mark meets a new guy at church who plays bass guitar, Mark invites him over unknowing his dark secrets!Follow Dan''s emotions, and see how he handles this unwelcomed guest!This Christian fiction short story includes Scripture and inspiration with a little mystery and suspense... You''ll love it!

As Dan starts his new job, he is paired up with Tom for on-the-job training. Unfortunately, Tom is a bitter old man full of bitterness and rage. Follow Dan as he seeks to understand the pain behind Tom''s anger, and delve into what''s really eating at him!This Christian fiction short story includes Scripture and inspiration with a little mystery and suspense... You''ll love it!

A surprising number of Victorian scientists wrote poetry. Many came to science as children through such games as the spinning-top, soap-bubbles and mathematical puzzles, and this playfulness carried through to both their professional work and writing of lyrical and satirical verse. This is the first study of an oddly neglected body of work that offers a unique record of the nature and cultures of Victorian science. Such figures as the physicist James Clerk Maxwell toy with ideas of nonsense, as through their poetry they strive to delineate the boundaries of the new professional science and discover the nature of scientific creativity. Also considering Edward Lear, Daniel Brown finds the Victorian renaissances in research science and nonsense literature to be curiously interrelated. Whereas science and literature studies have mostly focused upon canonical literary figures, this original and important book conversely explores the uses literature was put to by eminent Victorian scientists.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Bath''s inscription with UNESCO as a World Heritage site. It is recognised for a number of Outstanding Universal Values (OUVs). This richly illustrated book will focus on 25 locations throughout the city that have been identified as embodying elements of these OUVs.

In The Eagle and the Archer, the reader is swept up in a gripping tale of forbidden love, betrayal, heroics, and redemption.... Niklas Adler fights every day for one thing... honor. A rising star in Hitler''s Alpenkorps, he lays his life on the line repeatedly for the lives of his men and the success of his mission in Norway. As his audacity escalates, it seems that nothing can stop him. Günther Schütze lives in the shadow of Niklas, his childhood friend. Not quite the athlete or the scholar. Günther possesses one quality in excess...animal cunning. His killer''s instinct in chess will soon play out in real life. As a Gestapo inspector, he stokes the fire of his ambition white-hot, fueled by his worship of the Reich. Nothing will stand in his way. Niklas plunges into jeopardy when he discovers a chilling famlily secret; it will be only a matter of time before Günther discovers it as well, and from then on Niklas will be in Günther''s crosshairs. He must dig deeper than ever to save his family, his lover, and his soul. As they become locked in struggle, Niklas and Günther both near the realization of their respective ambitions, but only one can triumph.

The Unity of Scripture is different from any other book on the Bible. It is divided into three distinct sections (Origins, Symbolism, and Prophecy). Understanding each of these, in context, is necessary for a correct understanding of the Bible. This book shows how these three aspects interconnect. Daniel Brown takes a rational approach concerning the Bible without diminishing its authority or questioning its correctness. There are many diagrams and illustrations which very effectively clarify the author''s assertions. The author''s ability to graphically diagram scriptural passages in order to compare them to other biblical passages is unique and makes their interconnectedness more readily apparent. This book also illuminates many of the mysteries in the Bible in a simple and understandable way. The Unity of Scripture will inspire awe at the perfection demonstrated by the Word of God. Topics include: The creation week, The Tabernacle of Moses, The ancient calendar, The Holy days, and the lineage of Jesus, The timing of the crucifixion, The prophecies of Daniel, Revelation and Jesus and the theories of Einstein.

Great Britain''s passage of the Transportation Act of 1718 was intended to relieve Great Britain of an unwanted criminal element while at the same time providing much needed labor for her North American colonies. This thesis argues that the legislative body of Virginia initially responded by passing legislation intended to limit the dangers presented by the introduction of convict servants into the colony. However, the significant demand for labor in Virginia resulted in the colony receiving a substantial share of those convicts transported to North America. Contemporaries argued that the importation of convict servants led to an increase in crime. This study employs the court records of eighteen counties in Colonial Virginia. The author contends that the evidence reveals that theft was the most common criminal activity of convict servants in Virginia. However, despite claims to the contrary, convict servants did not commit crimes in excess of their percentage of the tithable population. Moreover, over the course of the eighteenth-century justices county justices increasingly relied on providing lighter sentences than that prescribed by the law. This enabled planters to punish the criminal while maintaining control over their labor. The last chapter moves away from the legal system of Virginia and examines the opportunities the American Revolution provided to convict servants.

"From its opening lines, Daniel Brown''s Taking the Occasion sounds a new note in poetry. In poem after poem, Mr. Brown plays urban speech rhythms across the back-beat of meter and rhyme. Distinctive in matter as well as in manner, Taking the Occasion addresses topics ranging from baseball to the birth of God. In a time when subjects are viewed by many poets as suspect, Mr. Brown demonstrates the abiding power of an arresting premise. His work repeatedly sounds emotional or philosophical depths yet isn''t above eliciting a laugh in the process. If contemporary poetry has lost the large and enthusiastic audience a vital art requires, the pleasure-giving profundity of Taking the Occasion just may help forge a reconnection."--BOOK JACKET.

When Prophecy leads you to be killed, would you go along quietly? Would you see yourself as merely a pawn in some larger game? Or, would you fight it with your all? Even that which was set in stone was carved into the living rock first. Brenna''Adun''Kial is set by Prophecy to unite the Beasts of Wold under one leader. but others have set store in said Prophecy. Now, they seek her death. Will Prophecy be set true? Or will Death claim her first?

This volume offers a glimpse at what Providence citizens found important, funny, and poignant during the early 20th century, when postcards were a popular medium of communication. Within Providence, people frolic during Old Home Week and enjoy the entertainment of the WJAR Kiddie Revue. Important landmarks like the Brown & Sharpe and Gorham companies stand proudly when they were the largest toolmaker and silver maker, respectively, on the planet. Views of buildings long gone but fondly remembered, such as the Outlet Store and the E. F. Albee Theater, are also displayed. Through stunning postcards, readers will delight in seeing more than 200 fantastic views of this fascinating city.

&¿Cu&áles son las claves de una personalidad emprendedora? Lo primero que debemos aprender es que el &éxito de un proyecto est&á &íntimamente relacionado con el crecimiento personal: debe cimentarse sobre nuestras pasiones, talentos y virtudes. La Gu&ía del emprendedor nos ense&ña c&ómo generar ideas innovadoras a partir del capital m&ás valioso de que disponemos: nosotros mismos. El secreto reside en combinar de forma transgresora elementos que han estado siempre a nuestro alcance. No importa cu&ál sea su &ámbito profesional: usted podr&á crear algo realmente valioso si se atreve a romper esquemas, a alterar el orden de los factores y a relacionar lo aparentemente inconexo. Los caminos conocidos, nos dicen Hern&án Herrera y Daniel Brown, conducen a destinos predecibles, y no siempre se obtienen los resultados deseados. Nuestra meta no debe consistir en aspirar a ser mejores, sino en hallar el camino que nos haga &únicos.&

Aimed at information managers in organisations including local/state government, libraries and financial services. Mastering Information Retrieval and Probabilistic Decision Intelligence Technology reviews the management of information and its focus to people empowered to make decisions. It provides managers and students of information with the resources to understand and start to deploy information retrieval systems throughout their organisation and the tools to respond effectively to the enormous developments in new technologies. - Written by an expert practitioner in the field - Helps to summarise and explain the basic issues - Covers both benefits and challenges likely to be encountered in implementing an Information Retrieval system

This book introduces Hopkins'' poetry and prose through its wide-ranging engagements with nature, language, science, philosophy, theology, prosody and social issues. Gerard Manley Hopkins did not write his poetry for his fellow Victorians nor indeed for the huge readership it has acquired since it was first published in 1918, almost forty years after his death. The present study argues that Hopkins'' fascinatingly original poetry is the most complete expression of his life''s work and that it becomes accessible when it is read with his prose writings as a passionate exploration of nature, language, philosophy, contemporary science, theology, and prosody, all of which are also drawn together in his central ideas of inscape and Sprung Rhythm. These contexts yield compelling new readings of the full range of his work, including his early poetry and his neglected poetic fragments, as well as those poems, such as The Windhover, by which he is best known. A final chapter steps back from the intensely private contexts in which the poetry was produced to examine its interactions with social issues of class and gender.

Written in an engaging style, this text introduces students not just to what Muslims believe and practise, but also to the history and development of Islamic studies as a discipline. Provides a thought-provoking account of the origins, major features and lasting impact of the Islamic tradition. Introduces students to the history and development of Islamic studies as a discipline. Examines how monotheism in the Near East produced a unique and brilliant intellectual and religious tradition spanning the fields of Islamic law, theology, philosophy and mysticism. Surveys the ways in which Islamic tradition has enriched the world and in turn been enriched by interaction with other civilizations, from the Mongols to the modern West. Considers the opportunities and challenges facing Muslims today. Includes detailed chronologies, tables summarizing key information, and useful maps and diagrams.

In this book the author walks the reader through the nature of the arts, the nature of Christian faith, and the historical factors which have brought us to our current crises of faith and imagination. There is a connection between religious faith and artistic expression which rests in the archetypal images of human culture. In our era, that connection seems to be more of a disjunction. Current artistic expressions do not seem to project the same images as religious faith confesses. This is especially true in Western civilization. Both the arts and religious faith (specifically Christianity) are approached as manifestations of the activity of human beings. Only later do these activities become intellectualized in aesthetics and theology. Understanding the artist and the believer as existing human beings, the perceived disjunction can be eclipsed when we grasp the context in which the human artist and the human believer in this century find themselves at odds. The crux of the disjunction is not so much the artists'' disbelief (as religious believers seem to assume) as it is the failure of traditional expressions of belief in meeting human needs and a concurrent tightening of the grip by believers on the traditional metaphors of their faith. Perhaps the resolution will come in the new metaphors of the artists and a simultaneous turning by believers to give attention to the attempts of artists to speak mystery anew.

The arts have the power to reach our innermost feelings. We can harness this healing power to foster self-development, increase confidence and work towards greater happiness.

The conventional picture of the young Hopkins as a conservative High-Church ritualist is starkly contrasted by this study which draws upon his unpublished Oxford essays on philosophy to reveal a boldly speculative intellectual liberal