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Tested with thousands of users, this in-depth study guide discusses new and useful ways to interpret and work through Twelve Keys to an Effective Church. It also discusses the key principles outlined in Twelve Keys and their biblical connections.
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Book Description
Tested with thousands of users, this in-depth study guide discusses new and useful ways to interpret and work through Twelve Keys to an Effective Church. It also discusses the key principles outlined in Twelve Keys and their biblical connections.
TIMING: Purchase one book for each member of your planning group
Customer Reviews:
Twelve Keys.......2006-03-10
This book has become a vital instrument in the revitalization of my place of worship.
What is an Effective Church?.......2004-02-01
The Idiot's Guide to Choosing the Right Church?
Beware! Most churches only have a limited knowledge about the concept of God and how to earn the best reward in Heaven.
The very best church for you to join is the one that a) knows the most about God and b) has the most "resources" to help you and your family
grow closer to God and c) sets the highest standards to prepare you to excel at this important test of faith called mortal life by
encouraging you to do your best to stay physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.
When we stand before God at the final judgement bar, what question will we ask us? You can bet that the first question will sound
like this - did you love Me with all your heart, might, mind and strength? And did you love your neighbor as thyself?
Please remember this tidbit of divine wisdom, none of us mortal men/women are perfect, however,
the more you strive to better fulfill these two key commandments, the greater will be your joy when you enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Now wouldn't you want to join that church which has the most answers and resources about how to excel in life and to take you the farthest along
to path to prepare you for the greatest reward with God? One sign of a true church is its capacity to open up the blessings of God to significantly bless and improve
the quality of life for its followers here in mortality. Also, when we die we cannot take with us any earthly treasures, But we will retain with us
the knowledge, good works and relationships that we have cultivated here on earth. And while most churches are based on the dogmas of men
who wrestle and debate the interpretation of an old book called scripture, the best church is the one that holds the keys to all of the knowledge
and wisdom of God that ever been revealed, that is now being revealed and prepares you for even greater things that have yet to be revealed.
Twelve Keys to an Effective Church: The Planing Workbook.......2001-03-29
As a church pastor I have used this and it works! A very practical, straight foward way to evaluate the potential for your church and where you church is currently in its' mission. It also enables participants discover where their church should go. Very effective for leadership retreats or as the model for a five or ten year plan for a church. This puts Callahan's Twelve Keys to an Effective Church into "workbook" form, so that the church board may develop a clear vision of ministry. This should be, not on every pastor's bookshelf, but on his or her desk. Two thumbs up, way up!!!
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In this indispensable companion volume to Twelve Keys to an Effective Church, Kennon Callahan offers a practical, step-by-step guide for the most productive long-range planning. This guide will help both pastors and church leaders assess the strengths and weaknesses of their churches in 12 areas -- ranging from specific mission objectives to solid financial resources -- and shows leaders how to determine which methods will work best to advance their church and move their congregations toward action, accomplishment, and success.
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Well worth serious study.......2007-09-03
I have read, studied and utilised the work of Kennon Callahan as a church consultant. Apart from an outdated approach to church/parish visitation (which Callahan covers in a later book "Visiting in an Age of Mission" - very practical) this book with its companion volume is hard to beat.
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Kennon Callahan shares a new understanding of leadership, and helps missionary pastors grow their leadership by cultivating new understandings and practices in seven key areas. Callahan guides pastors and key leaders in building on their creativity and imagination in order to revitalize their local churches and advance their missions.
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- More Callahan, please
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What's Jake Stonebender's standard fee for saving the universe? That's easy: "A bar, and enough money and clout to run it." It's time for Jake to save the day yet again, with a lot of help from the rest of his pun-happy, cosmically strange crew. And no more kiddie stakes like in the previous Callahan books, when mere humanity was on the line. Nope, Jake needs to save the totality of the universe. From, of all things, the quest for knowledge. What does that mean? Well, it's got something to do with a classified satellite called the Deathstar, a hurricane named Erin, a superenergetic cosmic ray in the wrong place at the wrong time, the Soviet space station Mir, and a shamelessly enormous volume of Irish coffee. But as any Callahan fan will duly attest, all of this is really beside the point.
Books in this series (this one included) showcase the Münchhausen-style storytelling skills of Nebula- and Hugo-winner Spider Robinson. Putting one of cinema's most robust tropes into service--calling the team back together, à la Oceans 11--and doing a bang-up job at it as usual, Robinson should please old fans and win new ones. If nothing else, you'll surely come to love the eclectic cast of dozens, including everybody from a talking baby (Jake's teleporting, superhacker daughter) to a talking German shepherd (Ralph Von Wau Wau) to--why not?--the forgotten father of the 20th century, Nikola Tesla. --Paul Hughes
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Nobody blends good science with bad puns as brilliantly as Spider Robinson, as his legion of devoted fans will attest. Now he's back with the latest chapter of the Callahan saga -- an improbable tale of impending doom, a road trip, space, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.
The universe is in desperate peril. Due to a cluster of freakish phenomena, the United States' own defense system has become a perfect doomsday machine, threatening the entire universe. And only one man can save everything-as-we-know-it from annihilation.
Unfortunately, he's not available.
So the job falls instead to bar owner Jake Stonebender, his wife, Zoey, and superintelligent toddler, Erin.
Not to mention two dozen busloads of ex-hippies and freaks, Robert Heinlein's wandering cat, a whorehouse parrot, and misunderstood genius-inventor Nikola Tesla, who is in fact alive and well....
Customer Reviews:
I should have saved my money.......2007-08-17
This is the first Spider Robinson I have tried to read. I'll take other's word for it that previous books were better. This one is smug, self-indulgent and boring. I kept waiting for them to save the universe and then skimmed through it because it was too silly. I like weird people but these were not interesting. The parrot was a stupid plot device, the baby is creepy (but that dancing baby always creeped me out, too), but I liked being reminded of Pixel. I kept picturing Hans Conried when we saw Nikola Tesla and I don't think that was the image we were supposed to get. I short, I didn't finish it. I should have checked these reviews before I bought it.
Too clever by half. No, more than that........2007-08-17
This is the first book by Spider Robinson I've tried to read. Tried. I couldn't try hard enough to get past the incessant cleverness of the dialog and characters. The phrase "too clever by half" doesn't cover it.
Worst Spider Robinson book I have read.......2007-06-25
I have loved Callahan books.
I have lover almost everything by Spider Robinson before this book.
I had great expectations before I started to read this one. Sadly I had to be very disappointed. It seems Spider has material for a short story, and got a contract for a novel. Never have I encountered such amount of padding in any book before. There literary pages and pages of pure, unadulterated padding. There are paragraphs full of names, which are repeated a few pages later. There are sidetracks in the story which lead nowhere, and have no relation with the main plot of the story, and have practically no entertainment value at all.
This might have been a fine short story, but this is a horrible novel.
How are the mighty fallen...........2004-06-17
I am a HUGE fan of Spider Robinson, but this excursion strained my fanhood beyond belief. The first three Callahan's books (collections of short stories) were witty, compelling, and worth re-reading. The rest, such as The Callahan Touch and Callahan's Key (Callahan's Lady and Lady Slings the Booze are exempted) were masturbatory crap. Mr. Robinson has forgotten the lessons he learned at the master's knee (that would be Heinlein) and engaged in a witless journey to the Florida Keys (albeit a location that deserves attention) that promotes purposeless drug use and fornication with minors (granted, super-genius minors). Mr. Robinson, I loved both you and Heinlein. But Heinlein knew how far was too far. A man traveling 2000 years into the past to court his mother was plausible. A toddler propositioning her father is not. And frankly, people who smoke dope are just not that amusing, unless you are interested in debating the relative merits of various brands of potato chip. You are in a select in-group that is composed of intelligent people--don't make the rest of us feel stupid by peppering your books with references to other readers, writers, musicians, etc., without explaining them. Heinlein educated us, you just flaunt your "superior" knowledge. I have an IQ of 163, but your tangents left me clueless as Heinlein's never did. I think you need to go back to the rules you had to follow when writing the short stories. And guess what--you can't make the world more accepting of sex by creating a toddler with a foul mouth.
More Callahan, please.......2003-09-29
If insanity is your thing, try the group that hang out with Jake Stonebender and whatever bar they haven't destroyed yet. The puns come fast and furious and the friendship is always on tap at the place where the motto is "shared pain is lessened, shared joy increased."
In Callahan's Key, the third entry from the second Callahan series (i.e., not starring Mike Callahan, proprietor of Callahan's Place in the first series), Jake Stonebender (the proprietor of Mary's Place until it was destroyed by a small nuclear weapon), his wife Zoey, and their superintelligent toddler Erin, take off with the usual gang of misfits to Key West to find a location for another bar. While in Travis McGee Land, they meet up with a whole new bunch of misfits, including Robert Heinlein's cat, Pixel, star of The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. Travel along with them in their two dozen buses on a Keseyesque journey to their new home, wherever that is.
Spider Robinson specializes in this kind of light SF, where the characters matter more than the plot (such that there is). He makes writing look easy as the words just roll off his mind into yours with no need for any real processing. But as we all know, being funny stuff usually takes more work than being serious. Thus, the talent of Spider Robinson is awed the world over.
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Imagine picking up the morning paper and seeing a banner headline that reads: miraculous new anti-aging pill discovered. In The Fitness Factor, Lisa Callahan, M.D., shows us that such a magic pill already exists in the form of regular daily exercise. As cofounder and medical director for the country's premier sports medicine center for women and a well-known medical spokeswoman, Dr. Callahan is uniquely qualified to write this book. She has treated thousands of patients-from housewives to professional athletes-and has helped them change their lives forever by instilling in them the knowledge that an essential connection exists between fitness and health. She speaks honestly and intelligently to women, helping them understand that the benefits of regular exercise go well beyond the cosmetic. Fitness, in fact, is the single most important factor when it comes to:
-preventing heart disease
-beating osteoporosis
-lowering cholesterol
-decreasing cancer risk
-losing weight
-increasing energy
-reducing stress
-having better sex
-and much more
In her authoritative yet congenial style, Dr. Callahan addresses women of all ages (from 18 to 98) and abilities (from couch potato to elite athlete) helping them:
-Evaluate individual health and fitness goals
-Develop a lasting positive attitude about exercise
-Design an individualized exercise program (based on interest and ability) that has guaranteed staying power
-Understand the major factors of fitness including cardiovascular, flexibility, and muscle strength and endurance
-Get in touch with the athlete within and more
Throughout, she offers readable and reliable information on weight loss; nutrition for the active woman; exercise and pregnancy or menopause; training for endurance competition; prevention and treatment of injuries; and dispels dozens of myths about diet and exercise that have pervaded our culture. No woman can afford not to exercise. The Fitness Factor is an important new book will help make fit, healthy living a reality for everyone.
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The goal of all classrooms is to maximize the learning of all students; therefore, correctly assessing what students have learned is an integral part of good instruction. This book provides an overview of the most common and successful assessment methods, including formal and informal assessments, student self-assessments, and preassessment strategies for planning instruction.
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The discreet little bar that Jake Stonebender established a few blocks below Duval Street was named simply The Place. There, Fast Eddie Costigan learned to curse back at parrots as he played the house piano; the Reverend Tom Hauptman learned to tend bar bare-chested (without blushing), Long-Drink McGonnigle discovered the margarita and several sentilde;oritas, and all the other regulars settled into comfortable subtropical niches of their own. Nobody even noticed them save the universe.Over time, the twice-transplanted patrons of Callahan's Place attracted a collection of local zanies so quintessentially Key West pixilated that they made the New York originals seem, well, almost normal. The elfin little Key deer, for instance-with a stevedore's mouth; or the merman with eczema; or Robert Heinlein's teleporting cat.For ten slow, merry years, life was good. The sun shone, the coffee dripped, the breeze blew just strongly enough to dissipate the smell of the puns, and little supergenius Erin grew to the verge of adolescence. Then disaster struck. Through the gate one sunny day came a malevolent, moronic, mastodon of a Mafioso named Tony Donuts Jr., or Little Nuts (don't ask). He'd decided to resurrect the classic protection racket in Key West-and guess which tavern he picked to hit first? Then, thanks to very poor accessorizing (she chose the wrong belt-and no, we're not going to explain that one), Jake's wife, Zoey, suddenly found herself in a place with no light, no heat, and no air. And no way home. The urgent question was whereprecisely where-but that turned out to be a problem so complex that even the entire gang, equipped with teleportation, time travel, and telepathic syntony (you can look it up) might not be able to crack it in time.And while all this was going on, Death himself walked into The Place. But this time he would not leave alone. . . .
Customer Reviews:
Spider!.......2006-09-15
Having read this book makes me want to go back in time myself and visit Key West during the time period he was writing about! It will be interesting to see if Spider writes himself into a corner eventually with all of Erin's and Nikky's time traveling. There have been some errors I have noticed over time (the fate of Lady Macbeth, for example) in the Callahan's series. But being allowed time travel and aliens (both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial) can really save the world (and have a lot of fun doing it), or the universe, but it cannot keep loved ones from dying when it is their time, so things stay interesting. There are also some storylines that could be "fleshed" out (i.e. "Joe" Quigley and Arethusa's marriage/work and un-named child -- see "Lady Slings The Booze"). One of the things I like best about Spider is that he turns us on to writers, musicians, and geniuses some people have not heard of before (MacDonald, Koerner, and Tesla, etc.). For that he has earned a special place in the afterlife (if he doesn't spill too much whisky in the meantime)!
Why novels, Spider? Why?.......2005-06-05
The Callahan's short stories have always been among my favorites -- they're funny, uplifting, clever and sometimes deeply moving. Spider Robinson has written a wide variety of other short stories that are also intelligent and witty.
Unfortunately, none of the Callahan's novels are particularly good; it wasn't fun when Heinlein went off for a hundred-odd consecutive pages about how cool his characters were, and at this point that's what the Callahan's novels have degraded into.
The plot here is that Jake's new bar in Key West has been targeted by Tony Donuts, Jr., the son of an unmemorable villain from one of the Lady Sally books. They come up with this silly, over-elaborate plan to get Tony's mobster boss to whack him, focused on the time travel powers of Jake's irritating precocious daughter. The subplot also revolves around said daughter, as a Child Protection agent shows up, a bizarre cariacture of conformity who's identical to (and turns out to be related to) the bizarre cariactures of conformity that got Jake's previous bar shut down.
After a long sequence of Robinson trying and failing to write a sci-fi Carl Hiaasen novel, there's a wholly manufactured crisis that has nothing to do with the previous story -- because every Callahan's novel has to end with a repeat of the super-empath sequence from "The Mick of Time."
Save yourself some tsuris and go re-read the original stories -- or pick up one of Robinson's compilations of short stories, such as By Any Other Name. That's where he really shows his strength.
One of the best of a classic series........2004-09-14
The last few of the books derived from the old "Callhan's" series had seemed somewhat of a letdown from the older books; not that they were bad, but I didn't enjoy them nearly as much as I had the originals. I was beginning to wonder if it was me, not them; if I had changed sufficiently as I aged from my twenties into my forties that I could no longer appreciate the kind of story I'd enjoyed then.
I'm still not sure, but this book was definitely back on a par with the older entries in the series; it was flawed (so were they, if you looked hard enough) but it was good enough to overcome its flaws. More, it was good enough to overcome one of the flaws that really bothered me about the previous entry, "Callahan's Key"; I can't say too much without giving a spoiler, but suffice it to say that I don't expect Jake and the other Callahan's regulars to be insensitive jerks; they don't prejudge people simply because they're alien cyborgs, or sentient computer networks; it seemed wrong that they would prejudge someone just because she was (A) ugly and (B) had a silly name. The fact that they did made it pretty clear that Spider was, and that bothered me; in this book, we get his apology (via Jake).
If you've tried the Callahan's books before and found them pointless and silly, your opinion of this one will be the same. If you loved them all, you'll certainly love this one. If you've felt that they'd been slipping for a while, give this one a try; you may enjoy it. If you've NEVER tried the Callahan's books before, then if you like your science fiction WEIRD, well-written and moving in spite of being silly, you will probably enjoy this book, but you might want to read some of the earlier entries in the series first.
Callahan's Con is aptly named, cuz readers get conned fr 30.......2004-02-22
This is the first of Spider Robinson's books that I can honestly say sucked. Cal's Legacy wasn't real good, and I thought it time to retire Callahan's, but then Spider found the "key" and put out a fine installment. Yahoo, I bought his next book -- The Free Lunch -- in HC, and while not great, not bad, good enough to warrant shelling out for the HC of Cal's Con. Ohhh, if this were my intro to the wonderful world of Robinson, I would not return. If you haven't read, but are thinking of/wanting to, then may I suggest waiting for the SC; at least at ten bucks the disappointment won't be quite as monumental. Better idea, check it out from the library, cuz crap like it -- juevenile, illogical, and unimaginative -- should not be paid for. Bad enough it takes four hours to read. Heh Spider, I want a refund, or at least a discount on your next non-Callahan novel (I'm not giving up on him yet, but he's on, well, call it double-secret probation.)
Spider has done better in the past.......2004-02-01
I have loved all of Spider Robinson's books about the Callahan bunch! However, this book just didn't meet the standard of his other works..
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Discover which gifts you really have. . .
mission, compassion, hope, community, leadership, simplicity, joy, wisdom, encouragement, creativity, health, generosity
. . . claim your strengths
. . . and develop your possibilities!
Living a full, healthy life is about recognizing your natural gifts?the ones God has given you. In Twelve Keys for Living, an alternative to the many programs that prescribe rules and outline models to live by, Kennon Callahan helps us discover that our strengths are gifts from God.
Through stories and parables Callahan has collected through the years and with the help of teachers, salespersons, cooks, clerks, rich, poor, housewives, philosophers, factory workers, ministers, and many others, Callahan teaches us that claiming our gifts is the first step toward a whole, healthy future.
The Twelve Keys for Living helps us recognize what we are put here to do--and who we are meant to be. Share in the wisdom, experience, prayers, and scripture contained in Twelve Keys for Living.
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Anything self help has to have the magic number twelve in it somewhere.......2007-01-30
Twelve....twelve....its like a mantra. I'm still waiting for numerologist Calypso Louis Farakahn's contribution to the field.
Other than the tiresome extension of stretching some "keys" to fit the Procrustean bed of twelve, the healthy living goals outlined here actually have some pretty ancient philosophical and spiritual roots, sometimes mapping with Ignatian exercises and other ancient Catholic spiritual disciplines. So of those smarmy self-help books that are churned out with such regularity, this one isn't bad and is actually classicism updated with a fresh voice.
For those who'd like to start with some easy ways for whole, healthy living, here are three: go to Mass every day, go to Confession once a week, and keep the Church's feasts and fasts. You'd be surprised how rich your life will become by following the Church calendar. The false gods in your life will fall away.
Join in the feast of heaven and earth in joy and compassion.......1998-09-27
I've had the opportunity to meet Dr Callahan at his workshops. This book tells some of his best stories and reflects on them to the deeper issues troubling Christians today. Dr Callahan is gentle with our human human weaknesses and yet provides us with a cloud of witnesses for getting the ministry well done. He insists that we focus on the things we have fun doing well. A wonderfully Catholic and Jesuitical notion from a Protestant writer.
His selection of the 12 keys is a familiar format for those familiar with his writing, but he takes an entirely new tack with this book. He invites the Christian (though certainly his invitation is not exclusive) to a self-diagnosis of life and service. Having identified one's strengths, Dr Callahan provides 4 helpful ways to continue building that strength. Of course, all of the keys are interlocked, and one will rarely make progress in one area without making progress on at least some of the others. But Dr Callahan's focus on simply choosing 1 or 2 keys keeps us from most Christians' tendencies to perfectionism. All in all, an excellent and stimulating read. Easily done in a night or two, but food for plenty more after that.
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