{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"ItemList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Decision making & the will of God : a Biblical alternative to the traditional view \/ Garry Friesen, with J. Robin Maxson.","author":"Friesen, G.; Maxson, J. R.","isbn":"0880700246","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Multnomah Press"},"datePublished":"1980","inLanguage":"English","description":"Introduction : Is it worth another look? -- Part 1. You have heard it said : the traditional view presented. On marriage and missions -- Hitting the bull's eye -- Reading the road signs -- Letting the umpire rule -- Part 2. The case of the missing \"dot\" : the traditional view critiqued. Does God have three wills? -- Does scripture teach the \"dot\"? -- More doubts about the \"dot\" -- Impressions are impressions -- Part 3. The way of wisdom : the wisdom view explained. Thy Word is truth -- Free to choose -- Competent to choose -- God only wise -- God's sovereign will and decision making -- Guidance : a biblical model -- Guidance is personal -- Making a good thing better -- Part 4. Deciding the big ones : the wisdom view applied. Singleness, marriage, and wisdom -- Marriage and wisdom -- The ministry and wisdom -- Missions and wisdom -- Vocation, education, and wisdom -- Giving and wisdom -- Wisdom when Christians differ -- Weaker brothers, Pharisees, and servants -- Conclusion.\n\nPublished in: Portland, Or.\n\nPhysical description: 452 pages ; 23 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Encountering missionary life and work : preparing for intercultural ministry \/ Tom Steffen and Lois McKinney Douglas.","author":"Steffen, Tom A.; Douglas, Lois McKinney","isbn":"9780801026591","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Baker Academic"},"datePublished":"2008","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents: \tThe changing scene -- Remembering the past -- Understanding key ideas and terms -- Home-front preparations -- Decision making and the will of God -- Spiritual formation -- Personal readiness -- Ministry readiness -- Avenues to cross-cultural ministries -- Finding your niche -- Getting going -- On-field preparations -- What is culture? -- At home in the culture -- Culture and language acquisition -- Missionaries and their lives -- Women in missions -- Missionary families -- Crises in missions -- Reentry -- What's next?\r\n\r\nAbstract:  \tThis new volume in the award-winning Encountering Mission series is for current and future missionaries. It provides practical guidance regarding getting ready for the mission field and the realities of life on the field. The authors are well qualified to write such a manual, each having served as a missionary for more than twenty years and each having taught missions in seminary.\r\nOther Notes: \tIncludes bibliographical references (pages 365-378) and indexes.\r\nElectronic version: \tTable of contents http:\/\/catdir.loc.gov\/catdir\/toc\/ecip084\/2007045046.html\n\nPublished in: Grand Rapids, MI\n\nPhysical description: xxi, 390 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Healing is a choice : ten decisions that will transform your life & ten lies that can prevent you from making them \/ Stephen Arterburn.","author":"Arterburn, S.","isbn":"0785212264","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Nelson Books"},"datePublished":"2005","inLanguage":"English","description":"Includes bibliographical references (page 225).\n\nPublished in: Nashville\n\nPhysical description: xxvi, 226 pages ; 24 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Human communication handbook : simulations and games \/ Brent D. Ruben [and] Richard W. Budd.","author":"Ruben, Brent D.","isbn":"0810455242","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hayden Book Co."},"datePublished":"1975","inLanguage":"English","description":"1. Personal communication -- Self-disclosure and listening -- Self perception and value orientation -- Seeing and not seeing -- Closure -- Experience and language -- Environmental awareness -- Categorization -- Perceptual context -- Object awareness -- Perceptual set -- Learning and change -- Assumptions -- Observations and inferences -- Predicting attitudes -- Silence -- Personal space -- Paralanguage -- Eye contact patterns -- Situational geography -- Kinesics -- 2. Social Communication -- Rumor: serial transmission of information -- Feedback -- Prediction and interpersonal perception -- Behavior differences -- Group-to-one feedback -- Group formation -- Grouping -- Communicator credibility -- Cooperative and competitive communication -- Trust -- Minority and majority communication -- Group problem-solving -- Group initiation and membership -- Group decision making -- Leadership -- 3. Communication systems -- Intergroup organization -- Task planning and intergroup coordination -- Conflict, confrontation and conflict resolution -- Mass communication and community decision-making -- Communication and intra-community problem-solving -- Society, communication and power -- Cross cultural communication: introductions and departures -- Cross cultural awareness and stereotyping -- Time, timing and culture -- Communication and development -- Hypothetica: a social action game -- Communication and social integration -- Political communication -- Mass communication and the pressbox -- Communication system simulation. \r\nCommunication observation and recording guides -- Descriptions of common roles in interpersonal and group communication -- Role behavior recording form -- Interpersonal and small group role description form -- Group communication observation form -- Recording information networks -- Small group interaction content guide -- Intra-group perception guide -- Verbal interaction recording guide -- Seating arrangement recording guide -- Interpersonal communication observation form -- Guidelines for providing useful feedback -- Barriers to communication -- Intra-group evaluation form -- Group climate inventory -- Personal and group meeting reaction form -- Individual and group climate guide.\n\nPublished in: ROCHELLE PARK\n\nPhysical description: 174 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Mediation therapy : short-term decision making for couples and families in crisis \/ by Janet Miller Wiseman.","author":"Wiseman, Janet M.","isbn":"0669204218","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Lexington Books"},"datePublished":"1990","inLanguage":"English","description":"Why mediation therapy? -- The mediation therapy agreement: Shaping the process -- The beneficent overall structure of mediation therapy -- The rational structures -- Sensory and instructional structures -- Conflict negotiation skills: The cornerstone of mediation therapy -- Decision making -- Children's needs -- Selection of clients -- Appendix A: Distribution of structures in mediation therapy -- Appendix B: The twenty rational structures -- Appendix C: Bias sorters -- Appendix D: Stages of a couple relationship.\n\nPublished in: Lexington Mass\n\nPhysical description: xiv, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":6,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Secret choices : personal decisions that affect your marriage \/ Ed Wheat and Gloria Okes Perkins.","author":"Wheat, Ed.","isbn":"0310425018","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Mich. : Zondervan"},"datePublished":"1989","inLanguage":"English","description":"Harnessing the power -- Who's at the controls? -- Consulting the marriage map -- Distance or intimacy -- Neglect or nurturing -- Indifference or loving -- In conflict: choices that make you a winning team -- Power struggles: the secret war -- Confusion or order: a master plan -- Strategies for your master plan -- The way to financial freedom -- In-laws and other challenges -- If you'd like to change -- The alpha and omega choice -- How to use the power of your secret choices: twenty steps toward a wonderful marriage.\n\nPublished in: Grand Rapids, Mich.\n\nPhysical description: 219 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":7,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Values, ethics, legalities, and the family therapist \/ James C. Hansen, editor ; Luciano L'Abate, volume editor.","author":"Hansen, James C.","isbn":"0894436007","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Aspen Publishers"},"datePublished":"1982","inLanguage":"English","description":"1. Ethical, value, and professional conflicts in systems therapy \/ Michael O'Shea \/ Edgar Jessee : Conflicts among therapist, colleagues, and system members ; Therapist-family-societal conflicts -- 2. Linear versus systemic values: implications for family therapy \/ Morris Taggart : The epistemological renewal ; Linear values and the epistemological challenge ; Systematic approaches to values ; The pragmatics of systemic values -- 3. Counselor\/therapist values and therapeutic style \/ Warren R. Seymour : Counselor\/therapist values ; Values and the family therapist ; Implications for family therapy -- 4. Ethical divorce therapy and divorce proceedings: a psycholegal perspective \/ Florence W. Kaslow and Joseph L. Steinberg ; One client unit: two professionals. \r\n5. Ethical conflict in clinical decision making: a challenge for family therapists \/ James K. Morrison \/ Bruce Layton \/ Joan Newman : Ethical issues within the general clinical field ; Ethical issues and family therapy ; A survey of ethical conflicts among Christians -- 6. Ignorance of the law is not excuse \/ Barton E. Berstein ; The elderly and terminally ill ; Serving the survivor ; Cohabitation ; The child as witness ; The premarital agreement ; Divorce\/family counseling -- 7. Issues in family law: implications for therapists \/ R. Barry Ruback : The legal process ; History and present context of family law ; Law of marriage ; Dissolution of marriage ; Establishing the parent-child relationship ; Parents' rights and duties to children ; Child custody in divorce ; Juvenile justice ; Role of the family therapist in legal proceedings ; Implications for the family therapist -- 8. The regulation of marital and family therapy \/ Michael Sporakowski : Regulation of marital and family therapy ; Significance to the practitioner ; A broader perspective.\n\nPublished in: Rockville, Md.\n\nPhysical description: xvi, 134 pages ; 22 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}}]}