Guaranteed for game site success, this 48-page guide has more than 30 exciting, interactive games to help kids connect to the Bible stories and God's promises. On Promise Island, kids discover God's lifesaving love. Amid swaying palm trees, exotic wildlife, and welcoming sunshine, kids will learn that God promises: * I am with you * I care about you * I give you what you need * I will save you * I will answer you Kids will see God at work in the lives of Old and New Testament Bible characters and realize that God's promises are for them too! Whether you create an exciting site-based experience or a fun-filled classroom outreach, Promise Island gives you complete resources for both. Kids will love the games at Fun Time Falls, memorable Bible songs at Seaside Celebration created by popular Christian music artist Yancy, creative crafts and service projects at Project Pointe, tasty snacks at Coconut Café, life-changing Bible stories at Lifeguard Lagoon, and more. So what are you waiting for? Come explore Promise Island . . . God's promises never change, but your life definitely will!

This revised edition of the Tough Questions series of small group curriculum faces head-on the difficult and challenging questions seekers ask about the Christian faith.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Provocative and appealing . . . well worth your extremely limited time." —Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks. Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we could do things differently.

Thirteen lessons, edited by the Mobilization Dept. of the U.S. Center for World Mission, intended to be used to teach church members what mission tasks remain to be done and how the church can do them.

Your children are gone or leaving soon. It's time to focus once again on your own future and your marriage. What's in store for the second half? David and Claudia Arp provide answers and practical help in this groundbreaking book. Drawing on their national survey of hundreds of "second-half" couples, the Arps reveal eight marital challenges every long-term marriage faces, and they offer strategies and exercises for meeting each of them. The Second Half of Marriage will challenge you to create a vision for the rest of your life together and inspire you to make that vision a reality. The second half of marriage can be a time of fulfillment, no matter what challenges a couple previously faced. Couples can rediscover each other and build a more mature, satisfying, and romantic life together. The Second Half of Marriage ZondervanGroupware is a unique resource designed to facilitate this rediscovery and rebuilding.

A fresh, effective, and enduring way to lead—starting with your next interaction Most leaders feel the inevitable interruptions in their jam-packed days are troublesome. But in TouchPoints, Conant and Norgaard argue that these—and every point of contact with other people—are overlooked opportunities for leaders to increase their impact and promote their organization's strategy and values. Through previously untold stories from Conant's tenure as CEO of Campbell Soup Company and Norgaard's vast consulting experience, the authors show that a leader's impact and legacy are built through hundreds, even thousands, of interactive moments in time. The good news is that anyone can develop "TouchPoint" mastery by focusing on three essential components: head, heart, and hands. TouchPoints speaks to the theory and craft of leadership, promoting a balanced presence of rational, authentic, active, and wise leadership practices. Leadership mastery in the smallest and otherwise ordinary moments can transform aimless activity in individuals and entropy in organizations into focused energy—one magical moment at a time.