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Chad Sanders is a writer on the brink of wealth, whose world is changing fast around him. He goes from sleeping on a mattress on the floor of his Brooklyn apartment to Hollywood pitch meetings with his mentor, Spike Lee, to riding around Los Angeles with Kanye West. He lands a staff writing gig for Issa Rae’s new show, Rap Sh!t. His phone is ringing nonstop and he can feel his burgeoning success, but can't stop checking his bank account and obsessing over how he's going to make more money without losing himself.

Learn basic English phrases like “how are you?” and “what time is it?” through this adorable audiobook. Meet Philip and Martha, two young students who meet at school and become friends. Young learners will find the simple greetings, questions and statements easy to understand. This simple audiobook includes the questions: How are you? Where are you going? What is your name? What time is it? The appropriate answer is given for each question.

Owen Cross’s father is a hard man, proud in his brokenness, who wants nothing more than for Owen to succeed where he failed. With his innate talents and his father’s firm hand guiding him, Owen goes to college with dreams of the major leagues—and an emptiness full of a girl named Micky Dullahan. Owen loved Micky from the first time they met on the hill between their two worlds: his middle-class home and her troubled Shantytown. Years later he leaves her for the dugouts and the autographs, but their days together follow him.

His name is carved in granite, his likeness cast in bronze, his legend as large as the role he played as America's first president. But before he was a commander-in-chief, George Washington was a general in a revolution that would decide the future of the people and land he called his own. Author Paul Vickery tracks the unlikely rise of Washington, a man whose stature in command of a young army became prelude to a presidency. As Vickery writes, "He learned to become the father of our country by first being the father of our military."

The American church has become Toxic. Not just to those outside of its walls, but to those inside as well. And we shouldn't be surprised. The history of Christianity is fraught with instances of the church going off the rails. And always in the past, there has come a reform, a change, a decontamination, as it were, that course corrects. In that, we may find hope that perhaps that moment of change is at hand. The answer to detoxifying the church is no further away than a simple turn toward the very thing that Christ offered in his message and his ministry: grace.

Why would a leader ever want to be mean? It's all about the vision. Almost every organization has a vision, but few stick to it over time. Even after short-term success, visions tend to blur, drift, and fade. Why does this happen? Accomplishing the vision requires intentionality. It requires consistency. It requires commitment. It requires courage. In Be Mean About the Vision, author Shawn Lovejoy challenges leaders to stay true to the vision—regaining and sustaining its trajectory over time. The kindest, godliest thing we can do is Be Mean About the Vision.

Prince Selas, the 13th and last prince of King Nenmon and Queen Mutali, accidentally falls asleep in the percot field as his kingdom is ravished by Frukan warriors. When he returns to the palace, he sees that his city is utterly destroyed and his parents and 12 brothers killed. Prince Selas narrowly escapes with his own life and must sojourn through the entire western territory to build a new army to reclaim his kingdom.

Chad Ellis’ Faith over Fame takes a detailed look at six biblical characters who went unnamed in the Gospels. At first glance, you might wonder why Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John didn’t share the names of the six characters whom Ellis explores in this book. Faith over Fame plainly reveals the answer to this question: Faith triumphs over fame!

Chad Hyams is here to help you define those peaks, plan your ascents, and reach one summit after another with purpose and meaning. Filled with the sound advice, no-nonsense principles and concrete tools Chad shares with audiences and clients around the globe, Achieve Your Apex is designed to challenge and encourage you to become your very best you.

Being a Baby Busy Bee is fun! But what do you do when there is work to be done? Get this book and learn how to have fun and work as a team.

Is your life centered on the glory of God? Do you live in the power of the Holy Spirit? In the audiobook Kingdom Come, Pastor Chad explains each word though each verse of the Lord's prayer.

Eternal Escapes Cemetery - a place of eternal rest for some and escape for others. After all once you're dead what can come after you?

It's no longer news to most of us that our society has a deep-seated racism problem. Christians of all ethnic and economic backgrounds are tired of seeing the ugly legacy of racism play out before their eyes and feeling ill-equipped to respond. Racism presents itself as an undefeatable foe - a sustained scourge on the reputation of the church. In Faithful Antiracism, Christina Barland Edmondson and Chad Brennan take confidence that Christ has overcome the world, including racism, and offer clear analysis and interventions to challenge and resist its pernicious power.

Kingston is a secluded East Texas town surrounded by a lake and giant pine trees. Except for Friday night football, there is not one thing worth getting excited about. Until Ronnie Javorsky runs onto the field after the national anthem and is shot to death by an unseen assailant. But Ronnie is just the first victim. A macabre game of murder has begun in the quaint town, a challenge to see which sadistic killer can rack up the most kills and do the most destruction before the sun rises. All at the invitation of a mysterious figure known as the Host.

Taking care of your mental health is a huge decision, as important as any other aspect of your life. Part of our mental health develops around our social needs, and discovering how to deal with the repercussions brought by the Pandemic has never been so essential. Toxic thoughts, depression, anxiety...our mental mess is frequently aggravated by a chaotic world and sustained by an inability to manage our runaway thoughts. But we shouldn't settle into this mental mess as if it's just our new normal.

Do the letters Christ wrote to his Seven Churches in The Book of Revelation have relevance to today's Christian? Pastor Chad will takes you on a journey navigating you through ancient biblical times. The churches that Christ addressed where literal and physical congregations that were scattered throughout Asia Minor. This book is packed with rich biblical content as Pastor Chad shows you how each letter has historical and prophetic meaning for each church of every generation, including our own.

In the Philippines, there are shape-shifting creatures known as aswang. Among them, none are more feared than the manananggal, a vile creature that rips itself in half as it takes to the night to hunt for its favorite prey—the unborn.

She's 22 or 39. She's from Texas or from Alaska. Her mother left her when she was little...or was she abducted? She's stalked by a loan shark, but she's never taken a loan. And him? A soft-spoken, SLR-wielding hero, passionate and sincere - yielding, even...except in love. When David decides to take the wacky, quirky Kalifornia Mooney as his housemate, he doesn’t expect his world to be turned upside down. As their mutual affection grows, so does the inexplicable chasm between the two friends.

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