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DAVE TOYCEN, President and CEO of World Vision Canada, believes that generosity can save your life. He knows it can build community and help bring social justice and peace to our troubled world. He has seen it in the most unlikely places, witnessing the freedom individuals have gained simply through acts of giving. He tells of Deborah, a mother in Rwanda whose son was murdered, but whose faith and courage brought her to a place of reconciliation with the killer. In another anecdote, he int...

Counting Our Blessings: Wonderful Thanksgiving Tales for Children gathers a capacious range of holiday narratives in which gratitude becomes both moral practice and imaginative occasion. Domestic sketches, historical episodes, animal stories, comic incidents, sentimental tales, and folkloric fables create a varied literary landscape for young readers. The volume places the Thanksgiving tradition within the broader nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century culture of children's literature, wh...

Do you want to become more fluent in English?Do you want to understand everyday language and not just 'textbook' English?I taught English for many years and saw that many students get stuck at the high beginner/intermediate stage. They learn the basics and then can't move forward. This problem used to really frustrate me because I had lots of excellent students who were just stuck and eventually they would give up.I thought for a long time about what was wrong and th...

"Rejoice, readers, as you receive the generosity of Luci Shaw's 76 new grace-infused parable poems. Autobiography once more merges with theology as these poems illuminate in splendored natural detail how the seasons of creation parallel and explain the seasons of her life as a poet. Again and again, these poems shower us with glorious epiphanies from the natural world as it reflects God's generosity at work such as "spring's impossible news of green." These poems confirm that in poetry as ...

The Greatest Christmas Stories & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated) gathers a capacious nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Christmas tradition: domestic realism, fairy tale, moral fable, ghostly fantasy, devotional verse, and children's literature converge around generosity, memory, wonder, and social responsibility. Its range extends from intimate household scenes and comic reversals to winter landscapes, supernatural visitations, and enduring seasonal poems. The illustrations deepen ...

WHERE GOD IS THE GIVER AND GIVING DEPENDS ON WHAT GOD PUTS INTO YOUR HANDS.Given the choice, every one of us wants to be more generous, but fear holds us back. Audacious Generosity shows you how to exchange any sense of pressure and regret about giving for genuine confidence and satisfaction.Gone are the days where you feel pressured to be the giver. Instead, Audacious Generosity will empower you to give limitlessly—as God gives through you.By reading this book, you...

MATTHEW KELLY'S BOOKS AND IDEAS have been inspiring men, women, and children of all ages for thirty years. Now he directs our attention toward a single idea that has the power to inject our lives with limitless meaning and purpose, while at the same time transforming the world. That single idea: generosity. The Generosity Habit is built on a simple and profound principle: give something away every day. It doesn't need to be money or material things. It could be complimenting a stranger, te...

In the tradition of the bestselling book The One Minute Manager, authors Ken Blanchard and S. Truett Cathy, entrepreneur and founder of Chick-fil-A restaurants, present The Generosity Factor--a parable that demonstrates the virtues of generosity.It's the story of a meeting between the Broker--a young man on his way up the corporate ladder who has the illusion of success, yet deep inside feels insignificant--and the Executive--the CEO of a very large and successful...

WHERE GOD IS THE GIVER AND GIVING DEPENDS ON WHAT GOD PUTS UNTO YOUR HANDS. Given the choice, every one of us wants to be more generous, but fear holds us back. Audacious Generosity shows you how to exchange any sense of pressure and regret about giving for genuine confidence and satisfaction. Gone are the days where you feel pressured to be the giver. Instead, Audacious Generosity will empower you to give limitlessly—as God gives through you. By reading this book, you will learn to enjoy ...

Andrew Carnegie wrote his original "Gospel of Wealth" in 1889, during the height of the gilded age, when the country's 4,000 richest families held almost as much wealth as the other 11.6 million American families combined. His essay laid the foundation for modern philanthropy.Today, we find ourselves in a new gilded age—defined by levels of inequality that far surpass those of Carnegie's time. The widening chasm between haves and have-nots demands our immediate att...

One cold Christmas Eve can change a life forever. Miserly and cold-hearted, Ebenezer Scrooge cares for nothing but money—until a haunting night transforms him. Visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come, Scrooge must confront his life's choices and discover the meaning of compassion, generosity, and joy. First published in 1843, A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens's timeless holiday masterpiece, blending heartwarming redemption with sharp social commentary. Its endu...

As we move away from the legalism and heavy - handedness of religious Christianity, many New Covenant leaders have struggled with how to receive offering on Sunday mornings. That is why this book was written. With 52 short chapters, it can be followed year round and you can always feel prepared to take up a offering