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Are you wanting to nurture healthy, emotionally safe churches? Do you want to belong to a community defined by its emotionally healthy leadership? Maybe you are done with the try harder/burn out approach and you want to join a Christ movement that nurtures sustainable transformation and viral multiplication

From mid-August to mid-September 1863, Union major general William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland maneuvered from Tennessee to north Georgia in a bid to rout Confederate general Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee and blaze the way for further Union advances. Meanwhile, Confederate reinforcements bolstered the numbers of the Army of Tennessee, and by the time the two armies met at the Battle of Chickamauga, in northern Georgia, the Confederates had gained numerical superiority.

NEW: Full-length ENGLISH episodes every THURSDAY (and other days too) - One short CHINESE episode on TUESDAY. The history of Taiwan (1600 C.E. - 2000) told through interesting stories in a non-chronological order. John Ross is an author and publisher of works on Taiwan and China, while Eryk Michael Smith has worked as a writer and journalist for several media outlets in Taiwan. Both hosts have lived in Taiwan for well over 20 years and call the island home. Email: formosafiles@gmail.com

T.S. Eliot tells us in his poem “The Hollow Men” that the world will end not with a bang, but with a whimper. Well, he was wrong. Dead wrong. When death and destruction come, the screams of terror, horror, and excruciating pain will rend the blood-red sky and be heard across the world. When your number is up, there’s nowhere to run and no place to hide. You can't cheat death; death will find you. It always does.

Sam Ross is a psychotherapist - she spends her days helping people, but she can barely help herself. She’s still grieving over the recent death of her sister, her mother Barbara offers little support and she’s professionally challenged. One of her clients is Keith, a man whose life story changes with every session. And Keith has a secret - one that will rock Sam’s world to the core and place her in the most terrible danger.

If you love axe-wielding barbarians, shape-shifting dragons, possessed toys, or cryptic assassins, then grab your traveling pack and join in the adventures.

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.

Locked On Sooners podcast is the daily podcast that keeps you ahead of the games and the first to know the latest news, analysis, and insider info for the Oklahoma Sooners. Hosted by John Williams, the managing editor of The Sooners Wire at USA TODAY Sports and Jay Smith of Unfair Sports, the Locked On Sooners podcast provides your daily Oklahoma Sooners fix with expert opinions, big-name guests, interviews, recaps, local analysis, and coverage of all things Boomer Sooner. From the thunderous roar of the crowds at the Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium to the pursuit of victory in the ...

If you suffer from insomnia, getting to sleep at night can become a real pain. Overthinking is the primary reason people struggle to get a good night's sleep. You get stressed out during the daytime, and your brain refuses to let things go when you get into bed at night. This is why nonsensical sleep stories can make a radical difference for everyone. Listening to a story that doesn't make sense confuses your brain, and it gives your mind the jolt it needs to stop thinking about the stresses of your day.

Getting caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time never stopped John Winter from doing the right thing. But when a covert mission unravels with fatal consequences, the SAS man decides he’s had enough. Forging a new life as a pilot-for-hire, Winter wants to put his violent past behind him. But his former enemies have tracked him down. And the arrival of the US Army to provide protection for an upcoming US presidential visit has provided them with cover for a bold and elaborate plan to exact their revenge.

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.

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 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.

A podcast diving in to everything about modern and historical espionage stories. These are the true stories of the evolution of riveting international espionage.

FNH Audio presents the third in a series of short story collections. In this collection: A Earth passes through a poisonous space-cloud. Beneath the civilised crust of Venus a dark horror awaits. The slaves of Titan are about to wake. The first four spaceships disappeared, the fifth went to hell. During the war, one man demands government money to reach the moon. Storm Cloud suspect that everything going wrong is very suspicious. The beautiful girl is dying, and only space can offer hope. A survey team are hunted on a barren world. And many more stories...

Wagons of Destiny is the saga of heroic men and women whose slogan was 'Oregon or Bust.' The setting of this novel is an amazingly beautiful country. These pioneers courageously pushed forward to make history in this magical Oregon land that challenged their hearts and minds.

Some 100,000 soldiers fought in the April 1862 battle of Shiloh, and nearly 20,000 men were killed or wounded; more Americans died on that Tennessee battlefield than had died in all the nation's previous wars combined. In the first book in his new series, Steven E. Woodworth has brought together a group of superb historians to reassess this significant battle and provide in-depth analyses of key aspects of the campaign and its aftermath.

Research suggests the best strategy for overcoming the problem of racing thoughts at night is to snap the process by giving your brain somewhat of a jolt. Listening to nonsensical stories like the one in this book is a great way to break the pattern of racing thoughts and distract your brain long enough for you to drop off to sleep. When you listen to stories that make sense at night, your brain becomes more active because your imagination runs wild as you think about the characters, plot lines, and cliff-hangers. This sleep aid is perfect for those who suffer with insomnia.

One of the ambitious dreams that Reclaiming Adoption and its authors share with the Apostle Paul is that when Christians hear the word adoption, they will think first about their adoption by God. As it now stands, Christians usually think first about the adoption of children. Reclaiming Adoption sets out to change this situation by providing breathtaking views of God's love for and delight in His children - views that will free you to live boldly in this world from God's acceptance, not in order to gain it.

During the onslaught of legal actions during the Savings and Loans crisis of the 1980s, John Smith came to realize the extent of his employer's wrongdoing, and that he too had been one of many deceived. He discovered that you don't have to commit a crime to be convicted of one, and after years of turmoil, he discovered the relief when the FBI finally informed him 15 years after his sentencing that he should never have been prosecuted in the first place.