Author: Robert Hichens
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: vine, fruitful
Number of Pages: 532
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1434483169
ISBN-13: 9781434483164

Robert Smythe Hichens (1864-1950) was an English journalist and novelist of note. Born in Speldhurst in Kent, he was educated at Clifton College, the Royal College of Music, and the London School of Journalism. He wrote lyrics for music, stories, and collaborated in successful plays. He is best remembered for his satire on Oscar Wilde, The Green Carnation (1894) and his novels that were made into films, including "The Garden of Allah" (1905) and "The Paradine Case" (1933) as well as the frequently anthologized story, "How Love Came to Professor Guildea."

Author: Robert Schnase
Publisher: Abingdon Pre
Keywords: congregations, fruitful, practices, five
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0687645409
ISBN-13: 9780687645404

Schnase contends that sucessful congregations often have certain characteristics in common. These fundamental practices demonstrate congregational health, vitality, and fruitfulness. They also help churches fulfill their mission to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the tranformation of the world. The five practices of fruitful congregations: -Radical Hospitality -Passionate Worship -Intentional Faith Development -Risk-Taking Mission and Service -Estravagant Generosity

Author: Samuel M. Stone
Publisher: Xulon Press
Keywords: life, fruitful, secret
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 2007-08-14
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 1602666334
ISBN-13: 9781602666337

We are created to be fruitful. A fruitful life, according to Jesus, is the present manifestation of the future kingdom of heaven. Until we discover how we can be fruitful, nothing will give us true satisfaction and fulfillment. In his famous Sermon on the Mount, Jesus revealed the secret to fruitful life and disclosed its path in his teaching of the Beatitudes. Few people realize that Jesus was using the Beatitudes to reveal to us the process of significant personal and social transformation that leads us to fruitfulness. In this book we are not only going to unwrap but also embody this t

Author: Joan Halifax
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Keywords: earth, reconnecting, darkness, fruitful
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1994-05
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0062503138
ISBN-13: 9780062503138

Celebrated world traveler Joan Halifax’s report from the spiritual frontier on how contemporary searchers can rediscover the interconnectedness of all life. " . . . a warm and potent testament to the author’s beliefs and to a life lived vigorously for the sake of the spirit."--Kirkus Reviews.

Author: Craig Clunas
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Keywords: china, envisioning, asia, dynasty, ming, sites, garden, culture, fruitful
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-04-15
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0948462884
ISBN-13: 9780948462887

This innovative, beautifully illustrated book grounds the practices of garden-making in Ming Dynasty China (1368-1644) firmly in the social and cultural history of the day. Craig Clunas provides a rich picture of a complex cultural phenomenon, one that was of crucial importance to the self-fashioning of the Ming elite.Craig Clunas is the Percival David chair of Chinese art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and the author of Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China (Reaktion, 1997).

Author: Robert Schnase
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Keywords: five, practices, congregations, fruitful, radical, hospitality
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $7.00
ISBN-10: 0687654238
ISBN-13: 9780687654239

Focus on the Five Practices: A Congregation-Wide Initiative Based on the book, Five Practices of a Fruitful Congregation by Bishop Robert Schnase Imagine a congregation-wide focus on these practices that includes a five week sermon series, five weeks with every household reading daily devotions and sharing prayers on these practices, five weeks of leadership teams and small groups stimulated to take new initiatives, five weeks of conversation and commitment focused on the mission of the church. These are the practices that lead to excellence and fruitfulness, and they can change your chu

Author: Howard Leifman
Publisher: Vault, Inc.
Keywords: letters, vault, cover, interviewing, resumes, guide, job, search, fruitful, three, master, keys
Number of Pages: 45
Published: 2003-10-25
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 158131258X
ISBN-13: 9781581312584

From writing top-notch resumes and sending tailored cover letters to going on winning interviews, this best-selling Vault guide is a comprehensive one-volume job search source.