One Size Fits All: Making Healthy Choices, Stepping Into a Meaningful Life by Michele Howe
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In One Size Fits All, you will discover that much of life and health is about making good choices. What we say yes to, as well as what we say no to, matters in our everyday decisions. Information, no matter how valuable, remains worthless unless we grab hold of its principles and put them to use in our lives. Each one of us determines the quality of life as it pertains to our health. Throughout every chapter of One Size Fits All, discover how much influence you have over your life despite periodic seasons of setback, illness, or injury. As you read, you will learn how every individual’s unique lifestyle plan includes making meaningful choices to build a healthy life. One Size Fits All provides comprehensive prescriptions for life that will encourage, strengthen, and fortify you to be your healthy best: mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
Hope for the Hollow: A Thirty-Day Inside-Out Makeover for Women Recovering from Eating Disorders by Jena Morrow
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Approximately eleven million Americans suffer from anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive overeating. Among those not counted in that statistic are those who fall outside of the diagnostic criteria but struggle daily with a poor body image, a fear of gaining weight, and a sense of being out of control. Not merely worldly vanity, these struggles are very much an issue among women in the church, who love and serve the Creator, while struggling to appreciate and care for their bodies as His creation.
Hope for the Hollow is a practical, relevant devotional/ journal guide to gently encourage and inspire daughters of God to dare to believe what their Creator says about them, and to replace the lies of their enemy with the glorious, revealing truth of God’s word as it applies to their bodies, the temples of the Holy Spirit. Each of the thirty devotionals includes an applicable passage of Scripture dealing with underlying themes of eating disorders such as guilt, shame, control, fear, and pride. Drawing upon her own experiences as a believer recovering from anorexia, Jena candidly shares her heart and relays the lessons she has learned along the way.
Jena plans to promote this devotional through her blog, Facebook pages, twitter and via her speaking engagements at churches, women’s groups, treatment centers, and recovery groups. Few devotionals have been published dealing specifically with eating disorders and the issues they present. This is a war that is fought and won with both God’s word and loving, heart-penetrating encouragement, both of which speak from the pages of Hope for the Hollow.
Best Season Yet: 12 Weeks to Train: Coach’s Edition
by Rebekah Trittipoe
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It’s the first practice. Your back against the cold, dented locker, you take your spot on the floor, waiting. A posse of other hopefuls surrounds you. A tense excitement is palpable. Or maybe you’re the coach, and you feel that same electricity. “What will the season bring?” you ponder. “How will these kids perform? How can I lead them and help them find their potential?” Inhaling deeply, you scan the faces and begin.
There is nothing like a new athletic season, full of promise for both coach and athlete. Goals are set, commitments made. But as the season progresses, it’s all too easy to lose focus in the fray. Best Season Yet: 12 Weeks to Train is a book (with integrated journal) that guides the coach and team to embrace their God-given talents, discover a purpose beyond winning and losing, and spur each other to that place where fear and dreams collide. For a dozen weeks, the entire team will visit themes such as commitment, submission, goal setting, pain and suffering, and pursuing excellence. It offers an opportunity to discuss and journal practical ways to set the principles in motion. The format of five easy-to-read stories is ideal for use in a Monday-through-Friday school setting.
Best Season Yet, Coach’s Edition, is a resource for the coach who desires to lead his or her team to an exceptional season. Each chapter contains supplemental material that offers the coach additional perspective on the week’s theme, complete instructions (including a supply list, when necessary) for a team activity that illustrates the theme, and suggestions for bringing focus to the wrap-up.
Best Season Yet: 12 Weeks to Train: Athlete’s Edition
by Rebekah Trittipoe
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It’s the first practice. Your back against the cold, dented locker, you take your spot on the floor, waiting. A posse of other hopefuls surrounds you. A tense excitement is palpable. Or maybe you’re the coach, and you feel that same electricity. “What will the season bring?” you ponder. “How will these kids perform? How can I lead them and help them find their potential?” Inhaling deeply, you scan the faces and begin.
There is nothing like a new athletic season, full of promise for both coach and athlete. Goals are set, commitments made. But as the season progresses, it’s all too easy to lose focus in the fray. Best Season Yet: 12 Weeks to Train is a book (with integrated journal) that guides the coach and team to embrace their God-given talents, discover a purpose beyond winning and losing, and spur each other to that place where fear and dreams collide. For a dozen weeks, the entire team will visit themes such as commitment, submission, goal setting, pain and suffering, and pursuing excellence. It offers an opportunity to discuss and journal practical ways to set the principles in motion. The format of five easy-to-read stories is ideal for use in a Monday-through-Friday school setting. Best Season Yet is a resource for the coach, team member, or individual athlete who desires to experience an exceptional season.
Preparing Tax Returns for Ministers: A Handbook for Tax Professionals by Kay K. Mortimer
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Ministers sit in a unique seat when it comes to their tax-reporting requirements. As a dual-status taxpayer, ministers require proper tax handling of items pertaining particularly to them.
Tax professionals should be aware that, in many cases, churches use volunteers to function as treasurers. Such volunteers may be unfamiliar with tax law and the implications of tax treatment for items pertaining to their ministerial staff.
Tax professionals who learn the correct handling of ministers taxes set themselves apart from average tax preparers unskilled in this arena. So, who is a minister? These and other legal questions are answered in Preparing Tax Returns for Ministers: A Handbook for Tax Professionals.
This book covers:
The Unique Challenge of Ministers’ Taxes
Definition of Minister
A Minister’s Vow of Poverty
Determining a Minister’s Employment Status
Exemption from Social Security and Medicare
Housing, Rental, or Parsonage Allowances
Office in Home Deduction
Car and Mileage Allowances
Retirement Considerations
When a Minister Might Receive a 1099-MISC
Baseball’s LOST Tradition: Two Eight-Team Leagues, by Eric Thompson
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BASEBALL’S LOST TRADITION: Two Eight-Team League is a chronological history of the turmoil and consequences involved in baseball’s first self-imposed expansion for the 1961 and 1962 seasons- the problems encountered in forming two ten-team leagues, and the struggles players faced as Major League Baseball replaced the traditional two eight-team leagues. Author Eric Thompson reveals obscure facts regarding baseball’s first self-imposed expansion? For example, which teams were the original expansion teams? Did the American League expansion draft and National League expansion draft use the same format for selections? What did major league baseball promise the Continental League? Was the promise fulfilled? Which league first announced their expansion? Did the American League and the National League expand during the same year?
These questions and many more are answered in BASEBALL’S LOST TRADITION: Two Eight-Team Leagues. In the second half of the book Thompson moves beyond the facts and weaves a compelling story with two eight-team leagues playing a traditional 154-game schedule in the fictional Adirondack Valley League. In the style of “The Natural” and “A League of Their Own” Thompson weaves facts with fiction and presents player transactions and plausible, detailed statistics are presented for the 1961 and 1962 seasons as if expansion had never taken place.
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Transformed: Inspiring Stories of Freedom, by Anita Estes
A transformed life is the greatest need of the world today. With all the brokenness and pain in people’s lives, a transformed life provides hope and healing and the evidence that total change is possible. After three years of using drugs, my life was devastated. They had to give me shock treatment therapy and tie me in a strait jacket. Satan was not just a theoretical concept but had total control of my life. Demons not only controlled me, but they were using me to hurt other people. I was not only using but also selling marijuana, opium, hashish, cocaine, heroin, LSD, and pills of every kind. My life was totally self-centered.
The saddest thing about the drugs was that it was destroying every relationship in my life. I became cynical of my parents, my brother, my sister, my girlfriend, my teachers, and friends. I didn’t trust anyone. It was at this time that I heard John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” That moment I put my trust in Jesus Christ and God to forgive me and to save me from all my sin. I began to read the Bible and saturate my thoughts with the Word of God. This was the key that began to transform my life. The Holy Spirit of God used the Holy Word of God to transform me into the image of the Holy Son of God. My philosophy of life was being transformed as God explains in Romans:
I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect (Romans 12:2).
We are beggars who found bread. We want to tell other beggars where to find it. That’s why we share these stories of transformation. That’s why I began Transformation Life Center twenty-five years ago. We found the bread of life—Jesus Christ and want to share it with others who are hungry. We sat at the feet of Jesus and like the demoniac in Luke 8 we were transformed. Spiritually, physically, mentally, domestically, and socially we were transformed. Now we are telling others what great things Jesus did for us.
The Christian’s Guide To College Admissions: Senior Edition
by Glenda Durano
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College planning should be a time of excitement and expectation, not fear and frenzy! The Christian’s Guide to College Admissions (Senior Edition) is a faith-based, weekly, what-to-do-when guide for the final year of the college application process. By breaking college planning into manageable, weekly assignments such as developing college criteria, planning university visits, and brainstorming for essays, students gain control over this often overwhelming yet necessary responsibility. Not only does the book instruct students what to do when, it also provides specific directions about how to do the job. This book is unique because each week, students also work through a corresponding devotional in order to focus on God during this stressful time. For example, if the week’s lesson concerns standardized testing, the devotional may be about the tests God allows in our lives. Created to be used within the constraints of a college application timeline, the book is best utilized when started in June prior to the student’s senior year, but it can be accelerated in order benefit any student in the final phases of college planning.
The Christian’s Guide To College Admissions: Junior Edition
by Glenda Durano
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Don’t be overwhelmed by college planning. Overcome it! The junior year is the most critical year in the college admissions process. In an easy week-by-week,what–to-do-when format, The Christians Guide to College Admissions (Junior Edition) takes students through the processes and pitfalls of college planning. Through weekly assignments, students manage the practical tasks of college admissions and gain valuable insights about standardized testing, college identification, financial aid, and much more. Most importantly, however, with devotions that correspond to the week’s task, students discover how they can glorify God in the college planning process by focusing on Him and allowing Him to lead the way.
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Glenda is a member of the Independent Education Consultants of America and the Higher Education Consultants of America, Glenda’s professional background is in marketing, management, education, and communication. Her younger daughter attends a private university on full scholarship and is in an honors nursing program. Glenda’s older daughter graduated Summa Cum Laude in May 2010 and, after completing research as a Fulbright Scholar, began working as an international broadcast correspondent in southeast Asia.
Making Ends Meet: 7 Ways Your Can Find More Money at the End of the Month
by Barbara Mang Kois
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Do you find more month at the end of your money? Have you prayed, clipped coupons and saved, only to find yourself sinking under a weight of worry and debt as you write that “big book?” Making Ends Meet: 7 Ways Writers Can Find More Money at the End of the Month offers proven tips for improving your income, outflow, and resources.
This book provides a straightforward approach to developing new sources of income for yourself and your family as you pursue your dreams. Read how to “Find Your Financial Feet” with “Simple Budgeting Gems” – How the “Proverbs 31 Woman” is the “Gold Standard” for “Lifelong Learning” and what it means to put “Family First,” the importance of planning “Party Time!,” and why “Becoming the Boss” could be the best move you ever make. (As a special bonus we’ve also included a special section called: “More ideas for Increasing your Income,” PLUS, links and descriptions to websites that NEED–No, are begging!– for freelance writers!)
As a single mom who started learning about money after her divorce, Barbara Mang Kois shares lessons learned during her quest to earn money and provide for her family during tough economic times. Barbara will help you stand on your financial feet and find secure footing by making sometimes subtle, other times radical, changes to your budgeting priorities.
Barbara Mang Kois is a freelance writer, editor, author coach and corporate communication consultant. She has written or co-written five books, including Help Wanted for Busy Moms (Harvest House), Life According to Jesus with Jack Graham, and Starved for Affection and The Power of One Thing to Change your Life with Randy Carlson (Tyndale). She has written for Moody magazine, Today’s Christian Woman, Nursing Spectrum and Psychology for Living, as well as writing more than 500 articles published by the Chicago Tribune.