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It's easy to get discouraged by the headlines. It can often feel as if God has left the building, like we are on our own. We want to believe God's promises to us, and we search for signs of his continuing restoration of the world in which we live. Now, with passion and heart, two leading experts on Christianity and culture cut through the chaos and uncertainty to show listeners how God is powerfully active and intensely engaged in fulfilling his promise to restore all things unto himself.

Josh lost his parents in a drunk-driving accident and lost track of his two brothers after a tragic fire. By age eighteen, he is an angry young man who only wants a job, an apartment, and to be left alone. Instead, he meets Mike and Anna, an unusual son-and-mother team who draw him into their lives. For the first time, Josh receives unconditional love and something every human being craves, the gift of “the blessing.”

The Jamestown settlers imagined life in the New World would be flowing with abundance, but things were not as they expected. Not only were they agriculturally inexperienced, but they had bad luck negotiating with the natives and faced delays of their food shipments from England. In “The Starving Time”, Captain John Smith recounts the bleak conditions of the winter of 1609-10, including tales of people so desperate they resorted to cannibalism. It was a time of starvation indeed - of the colony’s 500 residents, only 60 lived till spring.

It begins with just a few people falling ill. Another flu virus that spreads around the globe. And then the reports begin that people are dying.... When most of the world's population is wiped out, a handful of survivors are left to pick up the pieces. Cities become graveyards. Technology becomes largely obsolete. Mankind must start again....

The year is 2016. Not our 2016. Theirs. Earth is dying, the result of a worldwide nuclear holocaust caused by America’s dictatorial President-for-Life Lewis Henderson, a man who will use any means necessary to maintain power and survive. Enter: The Splitter. A machine capable of splitting off an exact replica of Henderson’s world. A world where the cataclysmic events causing its destruction have yet to occur. That world is ours.

Legendary University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith tells the full story of his fabled career and shares the life lessons taught and learned over 40 years of unparalleled success as a coach and mentor.

In partnership with Texas Monthly, the following articles highlighting Texas business and culture are now available in a bundle as an audio download: "The Slow Life and Fast Death of DJ Screw" by Michael Hall, "Dreaming of Her" by Pamela Colloff, "He Ain't Going Nowhere" by John Spong, "A Home of Last Resort" by Sonia Smith, and "The Shelf Life of John Mackey" by Tom Foster.

Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan. When Captain John Smith was captured by these Indians in 1607, he was brought before Powhatan, who sentenced him to death. Sixteen-year-old Pocahontas convinced her father to spare Captain Smith's life, thus becoming a friend of the settlers and eventually influencing her father to be friendly, too.

Fast cars. Fast and furious. Fast forward. Fast...church? The church is often idealized (or demonized) as the last bastion of a bygone era, dragging our feet as we're pulled into new moralities and new spiritualities. We guard our doctrine and our piety with great vigilance. But we often fail to notice how quickly we're capitulating, in the structures and practices of our churches, to a culture of unreflective speed, dehumanizing efficiency, and disintegrating isolationism.

Three dramas surrounding the murder of a young teacher in Japan. PART 1 - THE PARENTS Jennifer and Peter Whitelock arrive in Japan to help find their daughter’s murderer. Frustrated with the progress of the police investigation, Peter puts his trust in TV producer Norio Ito, who promises to champion their cause on his popular ‘news and entertainment’ show, while Jennifer tries to discover what her daughter’s life in Tokyo was like… Then she starts getting calls from a man claiming to be the killer.

For 40 years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina basketball team with unsurpassed success. Now, in The Carolina Way, he explains his coaching philosophy and shows listeners how to apply it to the leadership and team-building challenges they face in their own lives.

Open Wounds is a podcast that focuses on coping with the emotional and spiritual wounds millions of Christians suffer from all across the country and beyond. Often times these wounds are the reasons why so many faithful men and women stop attending church. This podcast is intended to be a journey we can take together. Because Jesus is our Healer, the host of this podcast has no intentions of healing or fixing anyone. However, facing our pain and having open discussions on the hurt we have gone through, is a necessary step in moving towards towards the healing process.

Thirty years ago, the world ended. Giant electrovoric ants and pterodons came through a rift in space-time, millions of humans died, and that was that. Thirty years later, humanity has rebuilt … to an extent. Human ingenuity has provided some creative solutions to life without electricity, but most folks survive at the subsistence level, farming to keep themselves and their families fed.

Join John Sabol and Scott Sabol as they breakdown Cleveland sports from a historical perspective.

How To Make Your Networking Really Work! Networking Expert, Andrew Smith breaks down the four stages of networking - Before, During, After and Ever After, explaining how to make the journey from fearful networking novice to accomplished pro! Full of hints, tips and plans to ensure you're never stuck for something to say, unable to remove yourself from a conversation AND master the perfect pitch - Andrew will allay your fears and help you win business.

The Distance Learning Playbook for School Leaders applies the wisdom and evidence of the VISIBLE LEARNING® research to understand what works best. Spanning topics from school climate at a distance, leader credibility, care for self and colleagues, instructional leadership teams, stakeholder advisory groups, and virtual visibility, this comprehensive playbook details the research- and evidence-based strategies school leaders can mobilize to lead the delivery of high-impact learning in an online, virtual, and distributed environment.

Smith elevates one’s thinking about how to help others to have a better life for yourself, providing the practical tools to do so.

Embarking on a quest to discover his past, John quickly realized that uncovering family history can reveal far more than simple dates and places. Battling scarce records in the pursuit of truth, he found something unexpected waiting for him in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. John's story will have you asking questions about how we define "belonging" as societal norms continually shift. His journey of self-discovery began with the mysterious name, Catherine Kessler - an ancestor from Mount Crawford, Virginia, who held secrets to John's German past. With the help of our AI-guide, CK, who can...

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