After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered if she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement made her antsy, and nothing excited her more than a challenge. What she coul...more

Just as God used words both to create the world and to give us commandments, we too use words for many different purposes. In fact, we use the same language to talk to each other and to talk to God. Can our everyday speech, then, be just as important as the words and prayers we hear from the pulpit? Eugene Peterson unequivocally says Yes! Tell It S...more

Look at what's happened to the usual how-are-you exchange. It used to go like this: "How are you?" "Fine." Now it often goes like this: "How are you?" "Busy." Or "Too busy." Or simply "Crazy."Without intending for it to happen or knowing how, when, or why it got started, many people now find that they live in a rush they never wanted. If you ...more

SUCCESS CAN BE YOURS WITH MICHAEL BROOKS'INSTANT RAPPORTPOSSESS THE POWER OF RAPPORTInstant Rapport allows you to forge an immediate bond with anyone, anywhere. It will literally reform the way the world sees you. Author Michael Brooks -- nationally acclaimed communications expert -- shares the same Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) techniques he h...more

In the world of business, kindness is regarded as weakness—so the development of it as a leadership trait is sorely overlooked. It turns out however, that being kind is a crucial attribute of some of the world’s most successful business leaders—leaders whose success is anchored in their integrity, credibility, vision, insight, inclusion, and ...more

Having already written Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places and Eat This Book as the first two volumes of his five-book series on spiritual theology, Eugene Peterson continues his theological conversation with the church in The Jesus Way. Here he considers all the ways that Jesus is the Way compared to the distorted ways the modern American ...more

In a book certain to be as controversial as Harold Bloom's The Book of J and Elaine Pagels's The Gnostic Gospels, David Noel Freedman delves into the Old Testament and reveals a pattern of defiance of the Covenant with God that inexorably led to the downfall of the nation of Israel, the destruction of the Temple, and the banishment of survivors fro...more