Worship Together in Your Church as in Heaven is a practical and foundational resource for pastors and worship leaders of all kinds. It addresses an urgent need in the church today: as our communities become increasingly diverse, how can we offer worship that is authentic and engaging for all of God’s people, including longtime church members? The authors offer an empathetic, step-by-step approach, providing readers with knowledge, skills, and strategies to successfully introduce inclusive, multicultural worship in any setting. Davis and Lerner are expert practitioners and pioneers who invite us to break new ground with them, making worship that more closely reflects God’s kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. “Multicultural is more than a buzzword. It is God’s desire for the church. Davis and Lerner’s practical approach shows us how to truly reflect God’s multicultural kingdom in worship.”—Rosario Picardo, Executive Pastor of New Church Development, Ginghamsburg Church, Tipp City, OH “This is an essential and practical guide that every worship leader, pastor, and church leader needs to read, learn, digest, and practice.” —James R. Hart, President, Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies, Orange Park, FL “Lerner and Davis’s superb book is a practical resource for connection and community-building in any environment.” —Lance Winkler, Director of Contemporary Worship, The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, Leawood, KS “Worship Together in Your Church as in Heaven offers a wealth of good theology, encouraging case studies, life-tested models, and strategies for developing multicultural worship in all kinds of communities. We’ve been waiting a long time for this book!” —Robin P. Harris, President, International Council of Ethnodoxologists; Director, Center for Excellence in World Arts “Worship Together in Your Church as in Heaven will help you identify the critical questions, take intentional steps, and promote a spirit of inclusion in your church. Your worship will reflect God’s love for all people, not just one kind of people, in an increasingly diverse society.” —Mark DeYmaz, Lead Pastor, Mosaic Church of Central Arkansas; author of Leading a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church

Is Christ worth pursuing? Is faith worth saving, worth fighting for? The Point of Faith is for the Christ seeker on all stages of the journey, seeking to strengthen their understanding against the onslaught of anti-Christian thought. The Barna group stated 73% of Americans identify as Christian and that faith is personally important to them. Yet only a small portion have a biblical worldview or paradigm. This book is an invitation to free the mind from assumption, step back and examine the viewpoint of Christ and the Bible. If we think of life as a journey, then we see that for the Christian, Atheist, and Agnostic alike, each use a kind of road map, or paradigm as a guide. It is my assertion that each of these worldviews is based on some degree of faith, trust, or belief. If ones paradigm fails to guide them to a good destination, then what good is it? I believe we need to ask what I call the seven fundamental questions of life, which are: Identity, origin, meaning, purpose, ethical value, love, and consciousness. These questions apply to any worldview. I believe through the recovery of true, Biblical faith that Christ will transform lives. Christs own words bid us; I came that they may have life and have it in abundance. 10:10.

Sometimes, to beat monsters, you must become one. Venture through the crime-ridden city of Molder as one mother risks everything to protect her baby. Margo, a single mother, agrees to housesit for her best friend in a not so friendly neighborhood for a bit of extra cash. Everything is fine until she becomes a witness to a horrendous crime, forcing them into a night of violence, endurance, and above all else, redemption.

Ronny, a down-on-his-luck bingo hall owner has just advised a scheme to score some quick cash. Sure, it includes mayhem, murder, and racketeering, but the rich will benefit so who cares? But, as the incapable slowly transition into the capable, they soon realize there is more to life worth fighting for, and their lives as a whole may just be beginning. From Josh Davis, author of UNHOLY COCK, comes a heartfelt splatterfest on what it is getting old and useless, and finding that inner fighter once again! Grab your bingo cards and melee weapons! It's time to rumble!

Two Awesome Hours reveals how to use science-based strategies to tap into your abilities to efficiently accomplish your daily tasks. Feeling overwhelmed with work and life demands? Rushing, multitasking, or relying on fancy devices and apps won't help. The answer is to create the conditions for two awesome hours of peak productivity per day. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience, Josh Davis, director of research at the NeuroLeadership Institute explains clearly that our brains and bodies operate according to complex biological needs that, when leveraged intelligently, can make us incredibly effective. From what and when we eat, to when we tackle tasks or disengage—how we plan our activities has a huge impact on performance. Davis shows us how we can create the conditions for two awesome hours of effective mental performance by: * Recognizing when to effectively flip the switch on our automatic thinking * Scheduling tasks based on their “processing demand” and recovery time * Learning how to direct attention, rather than avoid distractions * Feeding and moving our bodies in ways that prep us for success * Identifying what matters in our environment to be at the top of our mental game We are capable of impressive feats of comprehension, motivation, thinking, and performance when our brain and biological systems are functioning optimally. Two Awesome Hours will show you how to be your most productive every day. “Exceptionally practical. Davis offers suggestions that are straightforward, easy to apply, and immediately useful. I spent two awesome hours reading this book last night and it changed the way I’m working today.” —Peter Bregman, bestselling author of 18 Minutes and Four Seconds

How far are you willing to push to see another day? A domestic abuse survivor becomes desperate after her Silverback gorilla begins showcasing signs of extreme dementia, forgetting key aspects that made the primate one of a kind. After an unexpected, violent attack, Shelly is left broken and damaged while trapped inside the animal's sprawling nature enclosure. She must use every wit and ounce of strength she has, in order to stay alive. Weaving through the past and present, PRIMALS tells the story of unrelenting courage in the face of monsters, and what it truly means to be a survivor.

Take control of your life and create profound change today using NLP and the science of positive change! Learn why people resist change, why they sometimes embrace change, and how to lead change quickly and in lasting ways. It all comes down to finding the difference that makes the difference for each person and context. Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) is great for finding that difference. NLP helps us understand what makes people tick. When we understand how they think, feel, and act in key situations, we have the raw material with which to make change happen, often quickly and profoundly. In the 1970s, a linguist and his partner studied the language patterns and nonverbal cues of great psychotherapists, as well as how people are affected by the systems they’re part of. The two pinpointed key aspects of what enables human beings to change. Their findings formed the basis of NLP. Since then, NLP has often been taught to therapists and life coaches aiming to master one-on-one interactions in those contexts. When the lawyer Greg Prosmushkin discovered NLP, he realized how incredibly valuable these tools could be outside a therapy context. How to communicate with confidence, model excellence, and influence your own and others’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are useful for many people in many situations. Greg used NLP to make huge breakthroughs in his trials and to step into his own as an entrepreneur. In 2022, Greg met Josh Davis, PhD, a Columbia University PhD who studied psychology and neuroscience, and the Founder and Director of the Science-Based Leadership Institute. Josh is an NLP expert who grew up in the 1970s and 80s as the child of two pioneers in the field of NLP. He’s an NLP native. He’s been training others to use NLP for over a decade. Josh is also the internationally best-selling author of Two Awesome Hours, a science-based set of strategies to work less and get your most important work done. Greg and Josh set out to make NLP easily accessible for everyone. They show how the tools of NLP can be used by anyone in their daily work and personal lives, and connect these actionable tools to the science of change. The Difference that Makes the Difference is a result of their rigorous and dedicated collaboration. In this book, readers learn how to: -Communicate with confidence -Model excellence, to learn and master new skills -Influence their own and others’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in positive ways -and much more! You’ll get: -Step-by-step instructions with tips -Guided prompts to follow that help you apply these time-tested tools to your own specific needs -Examples of how to use the tools in everyday situations -Simple explanations of the theory and science behind the tools -Clear explanations of why the tools are so powerful NLP has been time-tested for fifty years, but until now it has only been accessible for a select few. Books and methods of teaching NLP were complex because the subject matter was highly sophisticated and derived from the work of professional psychotherapists. Greg Prosmushkin and Josh Davis, PhD have spent a combined 35+ years studying and unlocking the value of NLP. Josh has been teaching these concepts and tools in specialized NLP trainings, as well as one-on-one and group coaching settings, to Fortune 500 audiences and beyond. They have been using these concepts and tools in their professional practices of trial law, entrepreneurship, and leadership development. They have made a careful study of how to make the complex simple to learn and apply. It’s time to move past simply waiting and wishing for your life to be different―dive into the tools of NLP and the science behind change that supports those tools, to make a real impact in your life, right now.

**2022 SPLATTERPUNK AWARD NOMINATED** COUNTING BODIES LIKE SHEEP 18 authors tread through the muck and mud to add their own stories to the every-growing meat-pile of carnage and chaotic aftermath when bad decisions come full-circle. COUNTING BODIES LIKE SHEEP is the fourth extreme horror anthology from The Evil Cookie Publishing. Pushing the limits with fast-paced, high-gore elements and plots, this anthology holds no punches and blurs the line between sanity and insanity. FEATURING ALL NEW STORIES BY: - Edward Lee & Roman Neznayu - Stephen Kozeniewski - Gerard Houarner - Armand Rosamilia - Christine Morton - Robert Essig - Lucas Milliron - Dustin LaValley & Daniel J. Volpe - Jeremy Megargee - Sarah Budd - Bridgett Nelson - Richard Dansky - Josh Davis - Mike James Davis - Trevor Newton

The Muse and the Mechanism: Love, sex, drugs, death, life, comedy, dreams, pop culture, racism, class, religion, 9/11, crime, failure, and epiphany, but not necessarily in that order. Old tongues blend with new actions as the modern hipsinisters vie to create a new language of the literary lost. At the Center is Charlie Fell, a twenty-something who can't make up his mind on his medium, his lovers, and his position in life.

埋頭苦幹，可能不是最好的辦法！ 5個有效策略，創造你自己的最佳狀態，擺脫被工作追趕的窒息感！ ◤專門寫給創意工作者、自由接案者、一般上班族、專業人士的工作策略書！◢ ★Amazon.com商業理財／個人成長類百大暢銷書 ★《富比士》、《金融時報》、800-CEO-READ專文報導 ★艾爾文 作家／知識內容創作者、洪仲清 臨床心理師、Zoey 佐編茶水間創辦人──高效推薦！ 『看完這本書，我希望你不再想盡辦法要在一天當中擠出更多時間工作， 而是懂得調整一些做法，讓自己每天都能有穩定高工作成效的時段， 留一點時間來品味生活、從容過日子。』 ──喬許．戴維斯博士Josh Davis, Ph.D ★跳脫「效率陷阱」，學會駕馭工作與生活★ 「要做的事太多了，時間根本就不夠用！」 如果你覺得這聽起來很熟悉，別沮喪，不是只有你這樣。 不論你喜歡或討厭自己的工作，多數人每天的工作量已經達到難以負荷的程度。許多談時間管理的書籍、專家都試圖幫助我們花更少時間做更多事，我們追求以最快、最有效率的方法工作，落入了「效率陷阱」中：強迫自己長時間、不間斷地工作；如果有部屬的話，也要求他們這麼做。結果在一天結束時，我們感受到的不是成就感，而是窒息感。 哥倫比亞大學心理學博士喬許．戴維斯從長期的科學研究，以及自身與高效率且快樂的人共事所獲得的啟示是：人體不是電腦，想要真正擁有高生產力和創造力，最好拋開常見的效率迷思與工作模式。配合人體的生理系統，當生理系統處於最適運作狀態時，我們在理解、幹勁、情緒控制、解決問題、創意、決策等方面都能有優異表現。 本書結合神經科學和心理學的研究，提出5個有效且容易執行的策略，不論你是在辦公室或在家工作，都能夠幫助你在每個工作天，創造做事卓有成效的幾個小時，完成當日最重要的工作，讓你的作表現更好、生活更有品質。 策略1 辨識每個決定點── 利用做完一件事或被打斷後的5分鐘，想一下後續該處理哪件事。別讓趕快做事的急迫感，致使我們把時間誤用在不重要的事上，消耗我們的心力。 策略2 管理心智能量── 所有事都會消耗心智能量，我們必須在心智疲勞之前，先集中精神做最重要的事。感受並善用當下情緒，就算是壞情緒，也可以提升我們的工作表現與成果。 策略3 停止對抗分心── 專注是成功的要素，但人類的注意力系統天生善於留意分心事物。學會放自己一馬，適度地讓心思漫遊，對提升創意和思考未來都有幫助。 策略4 善用身心關連性── 適量、溫和的運動可以提升專注力和心智能量；吃什麼、怎麼吃、一次吃多少，也會影響你的表現。掌握運動和飲食的訣竅，你能表現得更出色。 策略5 打造最有益的工作環境── 辦公環境中的噪音、光線和桌邊雜物，都會影響我們的工作效能。你可以根據不一樣的工作需求，調整你的工作環境。 各界好評 做得多，不代表做得好，因為人的專注力並非時刻處在高檔。本書提出許多高效工作的實用技巧，讓讀者學會如何匯聚注意力，在一天中最關鍵的幾個小時內達成高品質的工作成果。──艾爾文，作家、知識內容創作者 關於如何提升個人生產力的建議非常多，大多數的建議彷彿要你像轉輪上的倉鼠般跑得更快……但你不是倉鼠，這本書教你如何別再這樣。──海蒂．格蘭特．海佛森Heidi Grant Halvorson，哥倫比亞大學商學院動機科學中心副主任、《成功人士都在做的9件事》作者 非常有趣又實用的一本書。作者戴維斯提供的建議很簡單，容易實行，而且立刻就可以看到成效。我昨晚花了高效率的兩小時閱讀此書，改變了我今天的工作方式。──彼得．布雷格曼Peter Bregman，《關鍵18分鐘》作者 本書作者戴維斯告訴我們，企圖以效法電腦效率的方式來管理我們的時間，注定要失敗。他以淺顯易懂且有趣的文筆生動地解釋行為科學，告訴我們一天當中真正有效率的關鍵時刻，而且一樣重要的是，他也告訴我們如何用更好的方式，安排其他效率沒那麼好的平凡時刻。──麥克．亨里克斯R. Michael Hendrix，IDEO合夥人兼全球設計總監 戴維斯為困擾我們所有人的問題提供了一個反直覺的解方：我們不可能完成「每一件事」，無論再怎麼賣力，都還差得遠呢！所以，我們或許不該試圖追求完成所有事，應該改而根據研究發現，設法每天創造高效率的幾個小時，做好真正重要的事。這是一本重要著作，裡頭有扎實的研究根據，每章都有生活化的小故事，教我們把科學方法落實到日常生活中。──大衛．洛克David Rock，神經領導力研究院院長 突破生產力水平的關鍵，與我們的生物學息息相關。戴維斯並不是認為你一天只應該工作兩個小時，而是透過設置理想的條件，只要你設置好場景，就可以在這狀態最佳的兩個小時，完成最重要的工作並獲得成功。──凱文．克魯斯Kevin Kruse， LEADx學院總裁