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Does your life ever feel like one series of rushed moments after another?Do you want to feel more present and connected to those you love? Do you want to be able to listen without thinking the whole time of what you're going to say next? Do you want to feel less distracted, less busy, and more whole? Most of us spend our distracted lives longing to get to the next, better moment and fail to notice the present one. We lack space between one task and the next, one thought and the next, one email and the next. Social media, TV, work deadlines, and family stress steal our enjoyment and engagement in the moment. Holy Noticing will teach you how to: become more aware of your thoughts, emotions, and environmentrecognize Christ's presence in the momentreduce your stress by developing the ability to focus on God and people rather than tasks Many today think mindfulness is dangerous, unchristian, or associated with Eastern religions--and often it is But Dr. Charles Stone reveals that the art of holy noticing--purposefully paying attention to God as he works in us, our relationships, and our world--is a spiritual discipline Christians have practiced for millennia. Holy Noticing explores the historically Christian and biblical roots of this lifestyle, as well as Dr. Stone's BREATHe model, which teaches you to be more engaged with Christ in the everyday moments that too often slip right by us. Discover the lost spiritual discipline of holy noticing today and learn to engage the world like Christ.

We're living in a stressed-out world. According to a poll from the American Psychological Association more than a quarter of U.S. adults say they're so stressed they can't function. But it's not just adults. Teenagers and children are also experiencing the negative effects of stress. Blending brain science, biblical truth, and best practices, Stress Less provides hope and healing. From his PhD research, pastor Charles Stone presents nine actionable insights for those battling stress or who have friends or family with fear and anxiety. Stone writes about biblical characters who successfully and unsuccessfully navigated stress and shares how he's responded to the stresses in his life, including a cancer diagnoses, heart issue, pre-diabetes diagnosis, and depression.Stone answers the questions: What is stress?What does stress do to the body and brain?How do we build resistance to stress? He shows how changes in thinking, feeling, sleep, spiritual practices, and relationships can help us thrive through life's stresses. Readers learn how gratitude and soaking your soul in Jesus can cultivate a life of greater well-being and joy. While we can't eliminate the stressors of life, we can learn to navigate them with courage and grace. This timely resource is a practical guide for anyone who feels the creep of stress, who desires freedom and peace, and who wants to Stress Less.

Leadership is tough. Church leadership can be even tougher. Leadership demands constant reframing and reappraisal of the situation, focus, objectivity, honest appraisal of yourself and others, and astute evaluation of available resources. Church leadership is all that and more. To be an effective church leader, you also have to love and have others' best interest at heart. You have to align yourself and your church with God's desire to transform lives for the better, both within and beyond your reach. Using up-to-date research from brain science in easy-to-understand language, author Charles Stone will help you increase your personal productivity, handle stress and your emotions in constructive ways, create and sustain collaborative teams, and manage change in your church. Using illustrations and acronyms, Dr. Stone will show you how brain science can complement and reinforce what the Bible says about life and leadership. He will show you how basic brain processes affect leadership and your team's ability to follow while becoming more cohesive and collaborative. Each chapter gives practical tips and actionable steps to help leaders improve personal and organizational skills.

«In this readable and closely argued study, Charles Stone sheds light on a phenomenon that has baffled generations of scholars: why did plays about Christian martyrs grip seventeenth-century French audiences? After all, these tragedies are not very tragic. Stone unravels this mystery of the plays’ success, showing how martyr-themed plays tackled wider questions of theology, language and performance. In this thought-provoking book, Stone relates not only why these plays mattered to their first spectators but also why they should matter to us.» (Professor Paul Scott, University of Kansas, USA) This study examines the genre of tragedy through the lens of one of its most curious manifestations: the martyr play. The equation of Christianity with tragedy has often been seen by literary and theological scholars as specious at best, sacrilegious at worst. During the mid-seventeenth century, however, a group of French playwrights saw fit to produce tragedies that drew not on Roman or Greek mythology, as was the norm, but on stories of Christian heroism. The author examines a broad corpus of plays ranging from the famous works of Pierre Corneille to near-forgotten examples of female-authored tragedy. Drawing on the writings of Michel Foucault as well as a host of contemporary and modern-day theologians, the author shows the martyr to be a major figure in theatrical performance and religious thought alike, exposing the porosity of the boundary separating the spaces of stage entertainment and church worship. The martyr plays, whether they threaten to destabilize the genre or define it, are ultimately shown to be integral to our understanding of what constituted tragedy in early modern France.

180 days--that's the critical time every pastor has to establish their role in a new church position. That first six months can make an enormous difference and give them a powerful foundation to impact the Kingdom of God in a positive way, or it can present them with growing challenges that linger for years to come.Pastor Charles Stone draws on 40 years of ministry service to present an easy-to-read guide for new and seasoned pastors alike who want to make the most of those first 180 days.

12th Annual Outreach Resource of the Year Recommendation (Leadership) Pastors and church leaders often fall into the trap of people-pleasing. Charles Stone?s research on thousands of pastors and ministry leaders demonstrates the dangers of approval-motivated leadership. Bringing together biblical insights and neuroscience findings, Stone shows why we fall into people-pleasing patterns and what we can do to overcome these tendencies. With practical tools for individuals and teams, Stone offers concrete resources to help you and your leadership minimize people-pleasing and have more effective ministry.

Fifteen psychologists, twelve secondary schools, four expulsions, four rehabs, two house-arrests and innumerable arguments... the cast and plot line for a season's worth of Law and Order? No. This was the real-life drama of Heather Stone's adolescence. Now in college, Heather, the once rebellious teen, has sat down with her father to pen an insider's guide for parents and teens alike.Charles and Heather don't offer Cleaver family ideals or promise Brady Bunch thirty-minute solutions. They, instead, share the realities of their 6-year nightmare, in the hopes of fostering hope for the millions of families trying to survive the years from thirteen to eighteen. Replete with faith, honesty, and practicality, it offers readers nine practical lessons and provides a compass for even the worst tempests of teen rebellion.

WHY WE WROTE THIS BOOK... Inspired by my wife, Monika's own perilous journey from near death to a vibrant, healthy life, I have decided to share our life experiences and accumulated wisdom here in this book. The old proverb of 'Never knowing what to be grateful for until you've lost it' is appropriate here. Against incredible odds, Monika has survived several brain surgeries and now lives a healthy, vibrant life. She is the most positive, grateful person I have ever known. She takes nothing for granted and has a heart truly made of gold. My thankfulness for our life and all of the abundance is beyond measure. May you find your gratitude and your heart of gold as you read these words... for it is you for whom they were written. The belief that one's accumulated knowledge and wisdom is valuable and could actually inspire others in a positive way is absolutely essential before embarking on the journey of sharing it in the form of a book, a lecture, a video, or other means of expression. After much encouragement from my wife, Monika, I am finally letting go of what she calls my 'Shyness' in sharing my life's experiences in the field of Natural Healing. If we, as human beings, are truly on a quest to 'Wake Up' to the truth of who we are, Life will accommodate us at every turn, giving us hints along the way. Sometimes subtle... sometimes rather not so subtle. I have to admit, there were times when I was less than enthusiastic with what Life had to offer me and I naturally put up a terrible fight and, consequently, suffered. It took me up until recently in my Life's journey of 'Waking Up', to completely stop resisting and see and accept everything that happens as a lesson and continued guidance towards what I like to call 'Transcendence' or in other words, 'Pure Consciousness'. Personal Life Experience, I believe, is the only true way to teach or convey wisdom to others. It is with this declaration that I wish to say to you, the reader, that you must find your own way. Use the writings in this book only a guide, a sign post, or a finger pointing the way. Do not believe one word of what is written here, even though it is the truth and based on real life experience. This book is intended to inspire you. To encourage you to question everything you know. Everything you've been told and led to believe as as a way to live your live... since childhood. Start investigating. Find out for yourself. Discover how to Heal yourself. Completely. Body, Mind, and, Spirit. Dig deeply. Rediscover that Spirit of Adventure inside you... that was always there and never lost. You alone have the power to take back control of your life. The rewards are immense and immeasurable. Do it with all your heart. I promise you, you will not regret it.'It only takes one person to change your life... You '