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The Small Group Leader's Toolkit: Ten Power Tools For Personal Leadership Development

Dave Earley has done a brilliant job of sharing key principles of personal leadership development When employed, these principles allow a small group leader to develop others to lead his or her group, thus multiplying their ministry to others. The ten areas in which excellent leaders must focus are: prayer, personal integrity, passion, purpose, priorities, planning, people skills, persuasion, people development, and partnership.

If you've found Earley's other books for small group leadership enrichment helpful, you will also enjoy this book!.
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Eat Thy Neighbour: A History of Cannibalism

Cannibalism is unquestionably one of the oldest and deepest-seated taboos. Even in an age when almost nothing is sacred, religious, moral and social prohibitions surround the topic. But even as our minds recoil at the mention of actual acts of cannibalism there is some dark fascination with the subject. Appalling crimes of humans eating other humans are blown into major news stories and gory movies: both Hitchcock's "Psycho" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" were based on the crimes of Ed Gein, who is profiled, along with others, in this book. In "Eat Thy Neighbour", the authors put the subject of cannibalism into its social and historical perspective. They present a lively and informative account of cannibalism, and cannibals, from the earliest known incidents to the present day. They include cases of ritual cannibalism in early and primitive societies such the inhabitants of Papua New Guinea; cases where famine, poverty, disease or war has left no alternative; cases in mythology, legend, literature, and fairytales like "Hansel and Gretel"; and cases of individuals from the Middle Ages to the present - Mrs Lovett and Sweeny Todd, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Armin Meiwes, the recent German cannibal who found his victim via the internet.

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Trojans and Their Neighbours: An Introduction (Ancient Peoples)

The book surveys the entire history of Troy, from its beginnings c. 3000 BC until its decline and obscurity in the Byzantine era, incorporating recent research that has previously been published only in German. There is much emphasis on Troy's neighbors and contemporaries throughout this period, in order to provide a clear historical and cultural context for the city and its inhabitants throughout its lifespan. A detailed comparative chronology and a series of maps complement the discussion. The period of the alleged Trojan War serves as a focal point for the investigation, but the book ranges far beyond this, dealing, for example, with the reasons for Troy's new lease of life in the late Greek and Roman periods. Given the proliferation of "proofs" of the Trojan war, the book provides a sober and up-to-date assessment of what the most recent evidence tells us about the whole tradition recorded for us in Homer's epic The Iliad..
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The Naked Truth About Small Group Ministry: When it won't work and what to do about it. A practical guide for pastors, church leaders, and cell group leaders

Table of Contents

Introduction The sad American church vs. World-class small group-driven churches

Definition of healthy and holistic small groups (groups that give birth regularly)

Chapter 1 - Christianity and Consumerism: Small groups are not a silver bullet

Chapter 2 The Lead pastor s strategies that bastardize small groups

Chapter 3 Congregational Assimilation: How to screw it up in 2 easy steps

Chapter 4 - Leader Training: Moving members into leadership requires

Chapter 5 - It s not about small groups. It s about discipleship

Chapter 6 - The White Elephant in the room: Spiritual strongholds

Chapter 7 The true focus of a healthy group: Christ in the midst

Chapter 8 - Your children: The church of today or tomorrow?

Chapter 9 - The missing link: Highly relational coaching

Conclusion Stop the insanity: Doing small groups differently to get different results

Appendix A: Answers to frequently asked questions and baseless objections

Appendix B: Lead pastor s self-assessment tool

Appendix C: Coach s self-assessment tool

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The end is near!

Years ago, I saw a cartoon that I will never forget. The first block depicted homeless guy on the side of the road with a cardboard sign that read, The end is near. The second block showed a car falling off the edge of a cliff. Below the cartoon this caption appeared: Who would have dreamed that guy was talking about a bridge failure?

Guys like the one in the cartoon are ignored because people think he s crazy. He doesn t work for the county civil engineering department, and he s certainly not out by the side of the road in an official, respected capacity.

I am just like that poor man on the side of the road trying to convey a simple, yet important message to anyone who passes. This book is my cardboard sign for the road you are traveling, cautioning you to move forward cautiously and consider a new road that does not end abruptly.

Detours always take more time and are both frustrating and unexpected. However, the new route has been designed to move the drivers around the obstacles and get them on their way toward their original destination. Unlike the guy with the sign, I also provide a few practical ways to detour the road your church may be traveling. Many churches have found them helpful. If you can use them, great! If they spark ideas for your own innovative ways to fix the dead ends in small group ministry you are experiencing, that s even better! The end goal is to get to God s desired destination: transformational life found in the midst of biblical community.

FOR A SAMPLE CHAPTER OF THIS BOOK, VISIT THE PUBLISHER'S WEB SITE: TOUCHUSA.ORG.
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Svinia in Black and White: Slovak Roma and their Neighbours (Broadview Ethnographies & Case Studies)

Svinia in Black and White Slovak Roma and their Neighbours By David Z. Scheffel

Roma—or Gypsies as some people still call them—constitute Europe's largest, poorest, and most enigmatic minority. In spite of their centuries-long coexistence with mainstream Europeans, our picture of this people remains rooted in stereotypes and myths that have little in common with contemporary social reality. Full-fledged citizens of the European Union, and ostensibly protected by the world's most progressive human rights legislation, many Roma live under conditions that challenge our notions of Europe, modernity, and pluralism.

This book is about a Romani settlement in eastern Slovakia. It is a community that has grown to become one of the largest and most problematic townships of rural Roma in the entire district. The dark-skinned squatters on the margins of Svinia are segregated from the surrounding society by means of physical and social barriers entrenched in local ideology and enforced by rules and conventions reminiscent of apartheid.

David Scheffel offers a detailed ethnographic account of the social, cultural, and historical circumstances that have encouraged and supported inter-ethnic inequality in the region. In the process, he demonstrates the complexity of what is often referred to as Europe’s "Gypsy problem" with passion and sensitivity..
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