The Narrow Path To Expansive Vision

Author : RD Oostra
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781664283237

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The Narrow Path to Expansive Vision by RD Oostra Pdf

"You can buy The Narrow Path to Expansive Vision online at any major online bookstore, or through the Westbow website." We live in a country deeply divided politically and culturally, and the chasm widens and deepens with each passing day. As a society, it seems like there is an increasing tendency to follow the wrong things and the wrong people. So where do we turn to find a leadership example in an “all about me” world? How do you live and lead a narrow-path (yet not narrow-minded) life in a wide-path world and society? You turn to the greatest leadership example in history: Jesus Christ. This may seem like an obvious answer, but it is not. In conducting original research for the book The Narrow Path to Expansive Vision, RD (Randy) Oostra completed a national online survey of business leaders, including those who identified as Christian leaders. One question on the survey asked those who identified as Christian leaders to name their top three leaders of all time. Only 13 percent mentioned Christ as one of their top three leaders. In addition, only 43 percent of these Christian leaders considered themselves to be servant leaders. As The Narrow Path to Expansive Vision unfolds, it weaves a narrative of Randy’s personal journey growing up in a rigorous Dutch Reformation background to his life as a CEO of a national health and well-being organization. Randy tells his story of how he has lived in and navigated through the science-based world of health care, as well as his frustrations with a Church leadership that frankly has not always been helpful in meeting the challenges he faced as a business leader, and in life in general. Based on these experiences, Randy offers a foundational approach to leadership inspired by the example of Christ. It is a hopeful message that both believers and non-believers will find meaningful and useful.

Author : R. D. Oostra
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1664283242

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The Narrow Path to Expansive Vision: Essays on Following the Light of the Greatest Leader Who Ever Lived-Jesus Christ by R. D. Oostra Pdf

We live in a country deeply divided politically and culturally, and the chasm widens and deepens with each passing day. As a society, it seems like there is an increasing tendency to follow the wrong things and the wrong people. So where do we turn to find a leadership example in an "all about me" world? How do you live and lead a narrow-path (yet not narrow-minded) life in a wide-path world and society? You turn to the greatest leadership example in history: Jesus Christ. This may seem like an obvious answer, but it is not. In conducting original research for the book The Narrow Path to Expansive Vision, RD (Randy) Oostra completed a national online survey of business leaders, including those who identified as Christian leaders. One question on the survey asked those who identified as Christian leaders to name their top three leaders of all time. Only 13 percent mentioned Christ as one of their top three leaders. In addition, only 43 percent of these Christian leaders considered themselves to be servant leaders. As The Narrow Path to Expansive Vision unfolds, it weaves a narrative of Randy's personal journey growing up in a rigorous Dutch Reformation background to his life as a CEO of a national health and well-being organization. Randy tells his story of how he has lived in and navigated through the science-based world of health care, as well as his frustrations with a Church leadership that frankly has not always been helpful in meeting the challenges he faced as a business leader, and in life in general. Based on these experiences, Randy offers a foundational approach to leadership inspired by the example of Christ. It is a hopeful message that both believers and non-believers will find meaningful and useful.

Author : T. L. Johnston
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000803341

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Economic Expansion and Structural Change by T. L. Johnston Pdf

Originally published in 1963, The Landsorganisationen I Sverige (LO – Swedish Confederation of Trades Unions), enjoys an international reputation as a trade union movement with progressive ideas on wage policy and collective bargaining. The authors of this volume who are trade union economists, deal critically with credit policy; plead for free trade; are outspoken on company taxation, wage policy, the labour market and the location of industry. Throughout the authors are outspoken in their emphasis on growth and change, which they interpret as change in the outlook of the unions as well as in that of industry and of the government.

Author : Christopher Yeomans
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199394548

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The Expansion of Autonomy by Christopher Yeomans Pdf

In one of his pieces of literary criticism Georg Lukács wrote that 'there is autonomy and 'autonomy.' The one is a moment of life itself, the elevation of its richness and contradictory unity; the other is a rigidification, a barren self-seclusion, a self-imposed banishment from the dynamic overall connection.' But it has always been difficult to see how rigidification can be avoided without making the boundaries of the self so malleable that its autonomy looks like a sham. Yeomans explores Hegel's own attempts to grapple with this problem against the background of Kant's attempts, in his theory of virtue, to understand the way that morally autonomous agents can be robust individuals with qualitatively different projects, personal relations and commitments that are nonetheless infused with a value that demands respect.

Author : Jennifer McBride
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199367948

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The Church for the World by Jennifer McBride Pdf

Drawing on the writings of German pastor-theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jennifer M. McBride constructs a groundbreaking theology of public witness for Protestant church communities in the United States. In contrast to the triumphal manner in which many Protestants have engaged the public sphere, The Church for the World shows how the church can offer a nontriumphal witness to the lordship of Christ through repentant activity in public life. After investigating current Christian conceptions of witness in the United States, McBride offers a new theology for repentance as public witness, based on Bonhoeffer's thought concerning Christ, the world, and the church. McBride takes up Bonhoeffer's proposal that repentance may be reinterpreted "non-religiously," expanding and challenging common understandings of the concept. Finally, she examines two church communities that exemplify ecclesial commitments and practices rooted in confession of sin and repentance. Through these communities she demonstrates that confession and repentance may be embodied in various ways yet also discerns distinguishing characteristics of a redemptive public witness. The Church for the World offers important insights about Christian particularity and public engagement in a pluralistic society as it provides a theological foundation for public witness that is simultaneously bold and humble: when its mode of being in the world is confession of sin unto repentance, the church demonstrates Christ's redemptive work and becomes a vehicle of concrete redemption.

Author : Robert Burns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000553176

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The Works ... Illustrated by an Extensive Series of Portraits and Authentic Views by Robert Burns Pdf

Author : Rosa Luxemburg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134408214

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The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg Pdf

Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvement in a workers' uprising in Berlin, she was brutally murdered by a group of right-wing soldiers. Her body was recovered days later from a canal. Six years earlier she had published what was undoubtedly her finest achievement, The Accumulation of Capital - a book which remains one of the masterpieces of socialist literature. Taking Marx as her starting point, she offers an independent and fiercely critical explanation of the economic and political consequences of capitalism in the context of the turbulent times in which she lived, reinterpreting events in the United States, Europe, China, Russia and the British Empire. Many today believe there is no alternative to global capitalism. This book is a timely and forceful statement of an opposing view.

Author : Andy Matheson
Publisher : Authentic Media Inc
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780782171

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We not Me by Andy Matheson Pdf

It is well known that individualism and consumerism are so pervasive that they have become the spectacles through which we view and understand our lives, including our spirituality. Sadly we keep these glasses on as we read our Bibles, and in the process we allow our reading to reinforce our individualism. Many readers and expositors of the Bible take verses without due concern for their context. In the process, verses that were originally intended to be understood within a community setting are made to mean something different from what their authors intended. One of the most serious consequences is that passages which refer to our community life are made to reinforce our individualism. This is not handling the 'Word of Truth' correctly. In We Not Me Andy Matheson argues that we need to embrace the perspective of 'the God who sees'. His vision is relational; he sees with communal lenses. Community is so core to God's nature and purposes that it undergirds everything that is implicitly inferred or explicitly stated on every page of the Bible. If we can rediscover what it means to be a community - the kind of community where all barriers are broken down and where our lives reflect the original vision of the gospel - then we play a much more effective part in ushering in God's Kingdom.

Author : N. Graham Standish
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664224512

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Discovering the Narrow Path by N. Graham Standish Pdf

In a time when competing and often irreconcilable belief systems seem to dominate all religious conversation in Christianity, N. Graham Standish offers an alternative for leading a spiritual and faithful life. Providing models that embrace elements of many spiritual traditions within Christianity, Discovering the Narrow Path seeks to hold all extremist positions in perfect tension, by integrating their essential truths yet also recognizing their flaws. In doing so, Standish surveys the wisdom of the mystics, the practice of forming a Trinitarian faith, the openness of healing traditions, and the value of balancing prayer and action, as well as spirituality, theology, and religion. Complete with two appendices, one a guide for group study and one an introduction to spiritual reading, Discovering the Narrow Path is an essential resource for those seeking spiritual fulfillment.

Author : Peadar Kirby,Padraig Carmody
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317966357

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The Legacy of Ireland's Economic Expansion by Peadar Kirby,Padraig Carmody Pdf

Ireland underwent a dramatic economic and social transformation from the 1990s onwards, earning it the title the "Celtic Tiger". Rapid economic growth was accompanied by substantial in-migration. However in the later 2000s Ireland is also experiencing a severe economic recession. This book examines the nature and geographies of the Celtic Tiger, focusing on the evolution of industries such as information and communication technology and pharamaceuticals. It also examines the changing nature of social ties in cities, trends amongst knowledge workers and the experiences of return migrants. It concludes with reflections on the nature of the Celtic Tiger phenomenon and how this will shape Ireland’s geography and society into the future. This book was published as a special issue of Irish Geography.

Author : Pray Now Group
Publisher : Saint Andrew Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780861539925

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People of the Way by Pray Now Group Pdf

Based on the Church of Scotland’s Heart & Soul theme for the whole Church for the whole year, these fresh, beautifully crafted prayers, meditations, blessings and prayer activities help you to deepen your relationship with God, allowing time to think and space to listen. They prompt action and movement when the words just don’t seem enough. At the 2016 General Assembly, the Church of Scotland will adopt the theme of People of the Way for all parts of the Church for the next 12 months. The theme and the book will be launched and promoted at the Church’s showcase Heart & Soul event in Princes St Gardens, Edinburgh Written for an ecumenical readership and to be used over any whole year. Based on the fresh edginess of Pray Now, there are prayers, meditations, blessings and prayer activities for 52 weeks.

Author : Shaojie Liu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811530944

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Origin and Expansion of Chinese Sociology by Shaojie Liu Pdf

This book reexamines Chinese sociology's point of departure and boundaries of western sociology from a new academic perspective, and offers a new definition of the essence and mission of sociology, drawing and critically reflecting on the ideological and theoretical theories of the classic sociologists. On this basis, it makes a careful study of the origin of Confucian classics and western sources of Chinese sociology and analyses the origin and evolution of Chinese sociology at the intersection of Chinese and western academic history. Further, it provides a deep and thorough discussion of the social theories of Chinese sociology pioneers and founders (such as Fu Yan, Youwei Kang, and Qichao Liang) and comments on Shuming Liang’s sociological theory, which emphasizes the Chinese culture and tradition as well as the particularity of the Chinese social structure. In addition, it also offers an in-depth analysis of Xiaotong Fei’s advocacy of the idea of expanding the traditional boundaries of sociology in his later years. With regard to promoting the development of a new Chinese sociology, the book is particularly important in terms of expanding academic research and promoting discipline construction.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030841373

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Routt National Forest (N.F.), Fish Creek Reservoir Expansion by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wilbur Abbott
Publisher : Jovian Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781537811079

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The Expansion of Europe 1642-1789 by Wilbur Abbott Pdf

WHEN in the last months of 1648 was signed the great peace which brought to an end the Thirty Years' War and with it the mediaeval polity which it finally destroyed; as the army of diplomats whose work it was dispersed to their respective governments, the awe-inspiring mass of documents which formed the fruit of their long labors might have led men to believe that Europe would hasten to enjoy the peace which she so needed and which her people for the most part so greatly desired. But whatever hopes of quiet were entertained, were already far on the way to disappointment; for the Europe to which the diplomats returned was even then altered or altering before their eyes and already shaping itself for new conflict. Scarcely a state of any consequence prepared to recruit its resources by the arts of peace; scarcely a royal house but faced a crisis in its fortunes; scarcely a people but was stirring in unrest or already engaged in revolution. So far from ushering in a period of peaceful progress the Westphalian treaties became the starting point for new and bloody rivalries...

Author : Elizabeth S. Dodd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317172925

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Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne's Poetic Theology by Elizabeth S. Dodd Pdf

The seventeenth-century poet and divine Thomas Traherne finds innocence in every stage of existence. He finds it in the chaos at the origins of creation as well as in the blessed order of Eden. He finds it in the activities of grace and the hope of glory, but also in the trials of misery and even in the abyss of the Fall. Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne’s Poetic Theology traces innocence through Traherne’s works as it transgresses the boundaries of the estates of the soul. Using grammatical and literary categories it explores various aspects of his poetic theology of innocence, uncovering the boundless desire which is embodied in the yearning cry: ’Were all Men Wise and Innocent...’ Recovering and reinterpreting a key but increasingly neglected theme in Traherne’s poetic theology, this book addresses fundamental misconceptions of the meaning of innocence in his work. Through a contextual and theological approach, it indicates the unexplored richness, complexity and diversity of this theme in the history of literature and theology.