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| Cristianos superocupados by Tim Chester |
 Book Description: "Cristianos superocupados Organiza tu vida. ¡No dejes que ella te organice a ti!" is the spanish version of "The Busy Christian's Guide to Busyness" by Tim Chester. This book is published and sold by Andamio for 14,00 €
¿Dices fácilmente “Sí”, cuando en realidad querrías decir “No”? ¿Te sientes atrapado y sin salida en una rutina de 24 horas diarias 7 días a la semana? Tim Chester propone maneras muy prácticas y directas de hacer frente a ese problema: Dar con la raíz y ¡cortar por lo sano! Si la raíz del problema es: “Necesito demostrar lo que valgo”, “Si yo no me ocupo, todo se descontrola”, “Me gusta trabajar bajo presión”, “Me atrae el éxito económico”... ¡Replantéate tu situación! La ‘esclavitud’ moderna suele tener su origen en una confusión de valores. Si de verdad queremos ser libres, será imperativo replantearnos nuestros objetivos a la luz de la Palabra de Dios. Gestionar bien el tiempo es una indudable prioridad. Y el ocuparnos debidamente de nuestro corazón es todavía más importante. Dios ha prometido descanso a todos los cansados y atribulados (Mateo 11:28). El aceptar ese ofrecimiento es cosa nuestra. Tim Chester pone al descubierto las múltiples apariencias engañosas que nos mueven a actuar, causantes además de continuas frustraciones. Este libro ofrece soluciones muy directas y consejos muy prácticos, a la hora de hacer frente a un problema que a casi todos nos afecta. |
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| Esto es vida by Paul Veller |
 Book Description: "Esto as vida: Decisiones que funcionan para gente que trabaja" is the spanish version of "Get a life: Winning Choices for Working People" by Paul Veller. It is published and sold by Andamio for 17,00 € ¿Agotado? ¿Agobiado? ¿Angustiado? ¿Problemas para conjugar tiempo y ocupaciones? Paul Valler sabe bien de qué se trata. Tomando como base su propia experiencia, va a la raíz de los problemas, mostrándonos el modo de recuperar el control perdido gracias a decisiones puntuales que marcan la diferencia. Con capítulos ricos en contenido y muy manejables en su extensión, el autor consigue que hasta la persona más adicta al trabajo se haga eco de sus consejos y pase a darse vida. Vivimos vidas ajetreadas, con múltiples demandas, exigencias y obligaciones. Ante un panorama así, debemos ser reflexivos y estratégicos en el uso de nuestro tiempo para poder asumir todas las responsabilidades profesionales y vitales de una forma sosegada, tranquila y con sentido. ¿Cómo realizarse en un mundo de ritmo vertiginoso, con mayores exigencias laborales y una variedad de opciones de vida en aumento? |
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| Por fin es lunes by Mark Greene |
 Book Description: Por fin es lunes. Ministerio en el lugar de trabajo is a Spanish version of "Thank God it's Monday. Ministry in the Workplace" by Mark Greene. This book is published and sold by Andamio for 16,00 € ¿Estamos intentando entablar relaciones con los vecinos desconocidos cuando nuestro prójimo es el que se sienta en la mesa de al lado? Este libro eminentemente práctico nos descubre cómo afrontar nuestro tiempo en el trabajo, ayudándonos a ver nuestra profesión, a nuestros compañeros y a nuestros jefes como Dios lo haría. Además, incluye un capítulo dedicado a integrar vida y trabajo, entendiendo como tanto nuestra vida laboral, como nuestra vida de fin de semana puede ser vivida fructíferamente para Dios. "Si el mensaje del evangelio irrumpe en nuestra semana laboral como Mark Greene propone, que no nos sorprendan las conversaciones ni los cambios que provoque a nuestro alrededor. Una reflexión atrevida y desafiante acerca de la teología del trabajo y la vocación, sembrada de historias reales, que va a cambiar la jornada laboral de muchos lectores". Jorge Saguar, Director General para Iberia Cardinal Health International |
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| Luna Juice Bar: Fueling Recovery, Impacting Community by Rodolpho Carrasco |
This is an article by Rudy Carrasco in PartnersWorldwide.org's blog
"The woman behind Luna Juice Bar embodies her unique name – Summer Shine – but that wasn’t always the case.
A few years ago, Shine was homeless in New Orleans with a husband about to leave her, a son who wouldn’t take her calls, and a mother who was planning her funeral..." |
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| Drivenness by R. Paul Stevens |
Sample Drivenness is behind one of the most respectable of all addictions—workaholism. But it is also expressed in a wide variety of addictive behaviors not covered in this article: chemical abuse, religious zeal, sexual addiction, perfectionism and fitness, which are all subject to the law of diminishing returns as people try to meet their deepest needs in these ways. The condition of drivenness usually arises from sources deep within the human personality, as well as systemic problems in our society. Drivenness reveals a spiritual dysfunctionality usually associated with a failure to accept the unconditional love of God. Driven people tend to focus all their energies on an activity that feeds their inner dysfunction, and this activity becomes an addiction. |
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| Day at Work: Love-Recovering the Christian Amateur by R. Paul Stevens |
Sample LOVE: RECOVERING THE AMATEUR STATUS OF THE CHRISTIAN "To discover God in the smallest and most ordinary things, as well as in the greatest, is to possess a rare and sublime faith. To find contentment in the present moment is to relish and adore the divine will in the succession of all the things to be done and suffered which make up the duty to the present moment."
Jean-Pierre De Caussaude[i]
"What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God."
Luther[ii]
"Does God work?" Willie MacMichael asks his father in George Macdonald's book for children. His father answered biblically: "Yes, Willie, it seems to me that God works more than anybody - for He works all night and all day and, if I remember rightly, Jesus tells us somewhere that He works all Sunday too. If He were to stop working, everything would stop being. The sun would stop shining, and the moon and stars; the corn would stop growing; there would be no apples and gooseberries; your eyes would stop seeing; your ears would stop hearing; your fingers couldn't move an inch; and, worst of all your little heart would stop loving." |
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| Day at Work: Hope-Making Our Mark in Heaven by R. Paul Stevens |
Sample HOPE:
MAKING OUR MARK ON HEAVEN
"How can Christianity call itself catholic if the universe itself is left out?"
Simone Weil[i]
"I cannot think of a greater tragedy than to think that I am at home on earth...."
Malcolm Muggeridge[ii]
"Only the heavenly-minded are of any earthly use."
C.S. Lewis[iii]
Years ago Leslie Newbigin said that "mankind is without any worthwhile end to which the travail of history might lead."[iv] A few believe we are heading into a new world order and paradise on earth but most people nurse a deep foreboding about the future, or refuse to think about it more than they must. The seeming resultlessness of history erodes the nerve of modern persons including, I must add, Christians who have more reason to embrace the future wholeheartedly than anyone. Whether world-weariness and future fright comes from the terrifying prospect of ecological doomsday, or, as is often the case with Christians like the Thessalonians, from the conviction that Jesus will probably come tomorrow, the result is the same for Christians: all work in this world except the so-called "ministry" is viewed as not very significant or enduring. [i]. Quoted in Matthew Fox, A Spirituality Named Compassion and the Healing of the Global Village, Humpty Dumpty and Us (Minneapolis, Mn.: Winston Press, l979), iv. Check for original reference - footnote 3 in Fox preface. [ii]. Malcolm Muggeridge, Jesus Rediscovered....p. [iii]. C.S. Lewis, .....p. [iv]. Leslie Newbigin, Honest Religion for Secular Man...p. |
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| Work by Gordon Preece |
Sample Work, whether in its presence or absence, is a pervasive part of everyday life. One of the first things we want to know about people is what they do. The waking time of most adults is taken up with work, and a person’s passing is often noted in terms of their workplace achievements. Work and worth, industry and identity, are very closely related in contemporary culture. This article deals with work in this modern context. It will examine (1) a wider definition of work, (2) a biblically integrated view of work, (3) the disintegration of work and faith, (4) reintegrating spirituality and work and (5) redirecting Sunday towards Monday. Over the last two centuries work has become equated with a job. This is a seismic shift in our understanding of ourselves, our world and even our God. It has had earthquake like effects on people’s emotional, family, social and spiritual life. The tremors have been felt hardest by the overworked, the unemployed, housewives, the forcibly retired and the attention-deprived children. |
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| Wealth – Blessing, Temptation or a Sacrament? by R. Paul Stevens |
Sample Wealth: A Blessing, Temptation, or a Sacrament? R. Paul Stevens Hardly anyone wants to be poor; most would like to be rich. Wealth brings power, standing in the community, increased leisure, and freedom from worry--so it is thought. Not surprisingly in the richest part of the world many Christians are preaching a "prosperity gospel"--that faithfulness to Jesus will lead to personal wealth. Tragically, this distorted message is now taking root in some of the poorest countries of the world. Is wealth a sign of God's blessing? Is money the main measure of wealth? Does the Bible endorse wealth, promote it or exclude it? How are we to respond in spirit and action? Our souls hang on our answers to these questions. |
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| Day at Work: Faith-Discovering the Soul of Work by R. Paul Stevens |
Sample "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
1 Corinthians 13:13
"We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ."
1 Thessalonians 1:3
FAITH: DISCOVERING THE SOUL OF WORK LOVE: RECOVERING THE AMATEUR STATUS OF THE CHRISTIAN HOPE: MAKING OUR MARK ON HEAVEN FAITH: DISCOVERING THE SOUL OF WORK "There is no work better than another to please God; to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a souter (cobbler), or an apostle, all are one, as touching the deed, to please God." William Tyndale[i] "Do you like your new job?" It was a foolish question, a very Western question to ask a Kenyan. But Esther had been my student in a rural theological college in East Africa for three years. She had hoped, like the others, upon graduation to be placed as a pastor of a church. Instead she was given the enormously demanding task of being matron for three hundred girls in a boarding school. It was a twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week job with little recognition and limited remuneration. So I had reason to ask. But her answer revealed a deep spirituality, one which I covet for Christians in my home country and myself. She said, "I like it in Jesus." [i]. William Tyndale, "A Parable of the Wicked Mammon," (l527) in Treatises and Portions of Holy Scripture (Cambridge: Parker Society, l848), 98, 104. |
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