An easy to understand full-color guide providing simple, straightforward, and current information on the growing AIDS pandemic.

In this easy-to-understand, full-color guide, Dale Hanson Bourke sheds light on key places, terms, history and current issues surrounding HIV/AIDS. The crisis that became a pandemic is now something different, and this third edition provides an up-to-the-minute perspective on this complex issue.

Using the biblical story of Naomi, as well as a wealth of personal experiences, Bourke offers essential principles that will help older women blaze new trails in their best years and mentor younger women, encouraging them to build for the future with wisdom and strength.

2010 Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year award winner: justice category Every day we are confronted by challenging societal problems, from poverty and institutional racism to AIDS and homelessness. It can all seem so overwhelming. But while none of us can do everything, all of us can do something. This handbook will help you discover what you can do. Mae Elise Cannon provides a comprehensive resource for Christians like you who are committed to social justice. She presents biblical rationale for justice and explains a variety of Christian approaches to doing justice. Tracing the history of Christians in social engagement, she lifts out role models and examples from the Great Awakenings to the civil rights movement. A wide-ranging catalog of topics and issues give background info about justice issues at home and abroad, such as sex trafficking domestic violence living wage initiatives debt relief environmental stewardship bioethics and much, much more This handbook includes dozens of practical exercises for taking action, as well as profiles of key figures and movements like William Wilberforce, the Salvation Army and Bono, highlighting how Christians and churches can make a difference. Also included are spiritual practices and resources to help us move from immobility to advocacy. God has always worked through his people to accomplish improbable tasks, and he can use you too. This handbook will be an essential companion for living justly, loving mercy and walking humbly with your God.

A simple and approachable guide to understanding the causes consequences and possible cures of poverty.

A woman's guide to the second half of life. Do you ever wonder if the best of life is in the past? Are you longing for more passion and purpose in the second half of your life? Take a deep breath and prepare for a great adventure as Dale Hanson Bourke resoundingly affirms that midlife is a time for reflection but also a time for action. In Embracing Your Second Calling, she challenges women to respond to God's call specifically for this season of life and offers practical ideas for finding new meaning. Bourke's vulnerability and story-driven approach offers essential principles and specific suggestions as well as interactive elements including: Questions for reflection and going deeper Ideas on how to become more involved Prayers for wisdom and commitment Action steps for moving forward For women searching for God's purpose and passion in middle age and beyond this book offers an inspirational road map to meaning and adventure.

Grab a cup of coffee, pull up a chair, and join the conversations that Matt and Joe have as they try to understand and follow the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. As Matt and Joe work at putting into practice the teachings of Jesus, they are amazed at the changes in their lives-in their marriages, families, jobs, and their relationships with God. If you join Matt and Joe, perhaps similar changes can happen in your life too. Matt and Joe demand not only your mind but your soul. -Kevin Candow, High School Student As a business and executive coach, I stay informed on the latest management, motivational, leadership, and positive psychology books to continually bring new ideas to my clients. I am lucky enough to also bring my faith into my client sessions quite often. Coffee With Matt & Joe brings all of those topics to bear with real life issues and solutions to those issues. You will not find another book that deals with more real life issues and solutions for those issues. Whether you are a seasoned servant for Jesus Christ or someone who has never picked up a Bible, you will find comfort, solace, and solutions for the issues in life we encounter daily. And, if you are someone new to Jesus Christ, you have just picked up a book to take you into a new life of patience, contemplation, comfort, and joy. -Robert C. Meyer, MBA, CBC, President, Executive Strategies, Inc. Dr. Jim McClaren has been serving the local church as a United Methodist minister since 1981. During that time, he has been helping people discover and follow Jesus. He and his wife, Gail, have 4 children. www.coffeewithmattandjoe.com