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The shocking news of polygamous cults has sparked a national dialogue on religious sects. Splintered from and repudiated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, these secretive families exist in an insular world far removed from reality. Yet for Brian Mackert, life inside this world was all too real. As a son in a family of one father, four mothers, and thirty-one children, Brian experienced firsthand the devastating reality of the polygamous lifestyle: a reality that leaves thousands of children feeling hopeless and struggling to belong.

In just 176 pages, readers will learn 21 valuable tips on how to look and feel better. The topics will help the reader make healthy changes to their diet and lifestyle that will result in a more healthy and happy outlook on life! The tone of the book is encouraging and helpful and readers will immediately begin to gain peace of mind-and action plans for their new healthy lifestyle.

This "crash course" on money management offers instant, simple, and realistic answers to the universal problem of how to manage your personal finances. With the easy-to-grasp and fast format provided here, listeners will get a lot of information quickly and be able to start making progress immediately.

Getting Things Done Now will walk the reader through the causes, the excuses, and the steep costs that plague procrastinators, and then quickly transition into the positive action steps that are proven to help people get things done now, including realistic goal setting and everything else needed to start achieving great things today. The book even helps the reader understand how to respond and take charge if they slip back into patterns of procrastination.

If you follow the works of best-selling authors Malcolm Gladwell, Faith Popcorn, Daniel Pink, and other trend forecasters, you’ll appreciate learning about over 25 rings of fire that lie ahead for Christians around the world. Len Sweet once again maps the future for the church in this sweeping survey of the 21st century. In the face of eruptive and disruptive culture changes from economics and communications to bioethics and beyond, how do we fight fire with fire, not only catching up to our culture but leading our friends and neighbors toward the feet of Christ?

America began to breathe easy at the close of the Cold War and loosened its grip on the fear of nuclear confrontation for the first time since World War Two. Peace was palpable, but in retrospect the years between 1988 and 2008 were as rocky as they were uncertain. Turbulence, not tranquility, marked the turn of the century: the war on drugs, race riots, values debates, deep economic shifts, and the growing threat of terrorism on US soil that would tragically play out on September 11, 2001.

How should Christians navigate an increasingly polarized post-Christian world? There is strong evidence of the cultural shift away from Christianity in the United States, which has already happened in other parts of the world. Compounding the shift is the division among Christians in how this is handled. The authors have observed four basic responses: (1) assimilation and acceptance of new cultural norms, (2) withdrawal from cultural engagement, (3) anger directed toward society (and toward other Christians who don't seethe issues as they do), and (4) seeking power to “take back society.”