NATIONAL BESTSELLER On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death comes a new perspective on one of the most compelling icons of our time In early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from the underground music scene in Seattle. He had no idea that the band’s leader, Kurt Cobain, would become a pop-culture icon with a legacy arguably at the level of that of John Lennon, Michael Jackson, or Elvis Presley. Danny worked with Kurt from 1990 to 1994, the most impactful period of Kurt’s life. This key time saw the stratospheric success of Nevermind, which turned Nirvana into the most successful rock band in the world and made punk and grunge household terms; Kurt’s meeting and marriage to the brilliant but mercurial Courtney Love and their relationship that became a lightning rod for critics; the birth of their daughter, Frances Bean; and, finally, Kurt’s public struggles with addiction, which ended in a devastating suicide that would alter the course of rock history. Throughout, Danny stood by Kurt’s side as manager, and close friend. Drawing on Goldberg’s own memories of Kurt, files that previously have not been made public, and interviews with, among others, Kurt’s close family, friends, and former bandmates, Serving the Servants sheds an entirely new light on these critical years. Casting aside the common obsession with the angst and depression that seemingly drove Kurt, Serving the Servants is an exploration of his brilliance in every aspect of rock and roll, his compassion, his ambition, and the legacy he wrought—one that has lasted decades longer than his career did. Danny Goldberg explores what it is about Kurt Cobain that still resonates today, even with a generation who wasn’t alive until after Kurt’s death. In the process, he provides a portrait of an icon unlike any that has come before.

With careful biblical exposition and keen cross-cultural awareness, Duane Elmer offers principles and guidance for avoiding misunderstandings and building relationships in ways that honor people in other cultures.

This tribute focuses on the Queen's own words to draw out the central role of her trust in Jesus Christ in shaping her life and work, offering us an inspiring multi-faceted insight into a life well lived for others. (Backcover)

The public does not view the minister’s wife as a woman with the same feelings as the other women who are married. A minister’s wife is not supposed to show that he has frailties or feelings or that she can fail to uphold her responsibilities to her household, her husband and her family, and, definitely, not the church. The minister’s wife is not to show her emotions as other women do. She has to remain true to the cause without breakdown and not be discouraged with all the negatives that are tossed her way, especially when it involves her children. Yet she is to handle all things as a Christian regardless of how much she has to endure. The responsibility is not the church members, society, or family. Some of the responsibility lies with the woman that serves the servant of God. She is so filled with responsibilities of doing the right thing that she forgets who she is and her role to the man she is married to. She is so occupied with the role of the minister’s wife that she forgets that she has a role more rewarding and more important—that is, serving the servant and being responsible to herself and for her own soul.

Combines in one volume classic works on servant-leadership and its relationship to the art of teaching and the act of learning.