this study can be used for a five, seven or thirteen week small group study.  It will walk you step-by-step through the journey of letting go, pressing on and plugging into the power, the highest potential that dwells in every believer.  As a companion to Finding Your Greater Yes!  this study will help you open yourself up to the plan God has for you, and provide you with the resouces to start living a life that echoes in eternity.

Finding Your Greater Yes!: Study Guide

Dan Erickson

Reference

Credo House Publishers

<p>More than two decades ago Professor Pamela J. Shoemaker reviewed 15 introduction to mass communication/media textbooks and concluded that their self-described purpose is to provide a global view of mass communication to neophytes, and their approach is largely descriptive. The textbooks contained little information about how media content (1) helps people, government and business leaders achieve their personal and professional goals and (2) reinforces dominant values and institutions. In other words, the textbooks have ignored or underplayed what sociologists call the social control function of the mass media. Drawing on decades of mass communication research as well as our own research, this book attempts to correct for these shortcomings. It shows that, contrary to popular wisdom, mass media and the content they produce play a crucial role in maintaining dominant values and social institutions. In similizing terminology, media produce the thread that helps hold the fabric of modern society together. But the social control function does not mean mass media are simply lap dogs of powerful elites. Media produce, from time to time, content that is critical of dominant values and elites. That content can legitimize and promote ideas that benefit nonelite or disadvantaged groups and individuals; that is, it can stimulate social change. In analyzing the role and function of the media, this book advocates neither a radical left nor a radical right perspective. But it does assume there is much more that mass media could do to eliminate injustice and inequity in the world. Social control and social change can result in both good and evil, and that determination often depends on who benefits and who does not from media coverage. This book was written to appeal to undergraduate and entry-level graduate students in the United States. The focus is interpretive it seeks to explain the why rather than the what.</p>

How the Mass Media Really Work: An Introduction to Their Role as Institutions of Control and Change

Politics & Social Sciences

David Demers

Taehyun Kim

Social Sciences

Marquette Books

<p>Dr. Dan Erickson is a grandparent seven times over (so far) and will be the first to admit that he wasn't the parent he wanted to be.Grandparenting is a second chance and an opportunity to learn from mistakes."Grandfathering is a do-over," he likes to say. "It's not too late to dust off our regrets - and all parents have them - and get a fresh start. Let's call it parenting 2.0.""GrandFathering: Live to Leave a Legacy" is the latest book from the author, speaker and pastor.Erickson, founder of People Matter Ministries, has been sharing material on grandfathering to men's groups as he speaks around the nation. He's noticed that he is the only speaker who addresses the topic at the many conferences he attends."The response has been phenomenally positive and overwhelming," he said. "Our culture tells grandpa to spend his later years in a rocking chair or on the golf course, but there are lives to be changed and disciples to be made. There are grandkids to love."In addition, today's culture of family brokenness has often left grandfathers as the only stable, spiritual men in the lives of their grandchildren. In these cases, their roles are not optional but critical in saving a generation.Erickson experienced this himself when his daughter, who is now a happily married mom of five, had her first child as a single parent."That began a journey of grandfathering that changed my destiny," Erickson writes. "I have to admit that I was a preoccupied father. I struggled with my own insecurities, seeking to please others, and often lost sight of those people in my life who really mattered most. In many ways I got a do-over and a fresh start."This short book is rich with personal and practical stories from Erickson's life. It's written for the short-attention-span type who needs to get straight to the bottom line.Learn more at www.grandfatheringbook.com and www.peoplematterministries.com.</p>

Grandfathering: Live to Leave a Legacy

Parenting & Relationships

Credo

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