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"A beautiful, poetic, forceful and, above all, useful book on the impact of words in shaping our futures. It argues for care in choosing the words (and the thoughts that precede them) so that we create what we would choose to create. I strongly recommend this book as a short but forceful course in living."Paul Birch, Vision JuiceDavid Firth, having shown how adept he is in challenging thinking around work and leadership in books such as How to Make Work Fun and From Making a Living to Creating a Life, now turns his attention in this book to the subject of 'everybody's panacea for everything' - communication.What is different about his approach to communication is that, rather than looking at impact and influence alone - the results we try our best to engineer - David shows how communication, stories, language and words are the in fact the formative building blocks of a full and creative life. Our words may impact others in the way we intend or not, but they certainly impact us first. Indeed, we literally construct our life one word at a time.This then is an innovative and thrilling approach to communication as working 'inside out.'At once thought-provoking and action-oriented, and written with great style and wit, David Firth shows how we can use language to: create purposedeclare inspiring futuresdefeat negative self-talkbuild solid and lasting relationshipseliminate - as in erase - overwhelm, overload and stress.In Change Your World One Word at a Time, David demonstrates clear us how to shift how we see ourselves, how others see us and how futures that before seemed complicated and doubtful now show up as clear and inspiring.FROM THE AUTHORMany of you know the story of Helen Keller, perhaps through movie The Miracle Worker. She was the child who was eventually coaxed and prodded out of the silent darkness of being deaf, dumb and blind by her guide and teacher. What happened? Did she suddenly hear? No. Did she stop being blind? No. No - but in one beautiful, astonishing moment she 'got' language. As she wrote later in her autobiography: ..."suddenly, I knew not how or where or when, my brain felt the impact of another mind, and I awoke to language, to knowledge, to love, to the usual concepts of nature, good and evil. I was actually lifted from nothingness to human life.In other words, language is first. Then all the other great stuff - knowledge, love etc - can come rushing in.That's what this book is about. How to have all the other great things rush into your life by setting up a powerful foundation of language: starting with what, why and how you choose to speak to yourself and others.

A vision for a new relationship with work. This letter to the President of The United States is inspired by the famous quotation from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet: Work is Love Made Visible.

Scholarly study of Samuel continues to wrestle with how we interpret this pivotal text. Even such basic matters as the question of what kind of literature it is remain unresolved while older questions such as the nature of its text and sources are debated anew in the light of material from Qumran and of current approaches to Hebrew narrative. Recognizing the importance of questions such as these, David Firth explores and introduces fresh ways of reading Samuel as a unified and yet complex text, which displays high levels both of literary artistry and of theological commitment.Although some stories in the books of Samuel are well known, and in the case of David and Goliath even proverbial, much of the content of these books is strange to modern readers. It is a story about a woman wanting a child, for example, that relates the beginnings of monarchy within Israel. Even the question of the monarchy is problematic, for we are introduced to not one royal family but two—those of Saul and David. David is ultimately shown to be the king chosen by God, yet by the end of the book he is only just managing to hold on to the kingdom as it is nearly torn from him by rivalries within his family. These arresting stories are perplexing, for Samuel’s writers seldom tell us how to read and interpret them. Firth presents these complex and fascinating stories as part of a bigger picture, enabling students to chart their way through the literary and historical issues of the Samuel narrative. Firth addresses issues of historicity, sources, date and authorship, as well as -- crucially -- appreciating the text as a literary whole.

How to have work be as good for your soul as it is for the mortgage payments. This book is for those of us how have had enough of the status quo and want to empower ourselves to live life - and work - fully. David Firth's book has an ambitious subtitle: 'How to be Happy and Successful by Utterly Transforming Your Work.' In it he advocates for a major shift in what we have been taught. He shows how to become more aware of the dominant story about work in our society and be willing to choose our own narrative. The deeply engrained and mostly unchallenged story about work is that it is the thing you have to do to pay the bills - and that the most important first thing you need to do in life is 'get a good job' or 'make a good living' before you can attend later to the nice to haves - like creating a satisfying life. That wouldn't be so bad a foundation were it not that so many people have difficult, stressful and unrewarding experiences of their life in work.In this book, David Firth offers us a fundamental challenge by showing how the craft of 'making a living' is profoundly intertwined with the art of 'creating a life.' We simply need to accept that we are at the source, the cause of it all.This is a courageous act - because the old disempowering story of work is so strong in the world - and David shows how to make it happen.From 'Making a Living' to 'Creating a Life' explores personal transformation in dealing constructively with difficult bosses, making sense of office politics, working well with challenging colleagues, eliminating overwhelm and busy-ness, discovering freedom when surrounded by constraints and ultimately finding meaning and purpose in work.Written in compact chapters that are designed to be thought-provoking, funny and helpful, David Firth shows how to rise above our cultural conditioning and create a life driven by true passion, purpose - and great work FROM THE AUTHORHello everyone Look, I'm going to blow my own trumpet here: I love this book I believe it shows people how they can truly enjoy and derive deep satisfaction from their work, whatever it is they happen to do for a living.But the book goes further than that: it challenges head-on the default conversation that work is, at best, the thing that earns the money to pay for what we'd rather be doing, or, at worst, that it's a curse for not having been born rich.What if we had a new vision for work, not as a necessary evil, but as a source of all the great things we want our lives to be; an expression of who we are; a way of serving rather than getting; a legacy we want to leave to the world? That's the book's promise.I love this book also because I think it exposes a major lie. It's a well-intentioned, noble lie, but it's simply untrue nonetheless. Best leadership education continues to tell us that The Boss is the source of inspiration, motivation, reassurance about the future and so on. And that's why we continue to complain about our bosses so much: they simply cannot live up to our ideals. We place way too much expectation on those above us to fulfill the things - eg inspiration, motivation, reassurance about the future - that deep down we know can only come from inside us.So with this book, I want to challenge people to be at work in a more empowered, confident, 'inside-out' way than they might be currently. I think that puts readers back in control - and establishes them as the cause of things rather than the effect or circumstances.

The seminal work on making work fun Fun' is small word that points to any number of positive qualities we all want have our work to have: meaning, purpose, enjoyment and contribution. This is a book about how to create those things. If you find yourself too often counting down the days to the weekend, this book is for you How to Make Work Fun is aimed at both employees (because no matter how high up the ladder we go, we still are one) and at managers - because there's loads of you out there right now who could make a real difference to the quality of work in your business - and to the quality of lives of the people who work with you. This playful and provocative book shows how to generate a culture of fun so that: playfulness can boost creativity, honesty can be the foundation for communication, mistakes can generate learning, and humor can demonstrate your human-ness. The greatest fun of all, David Firth has found, is in doing work that makes a difference. This book demonstrates exactly what to do to start making that journey, wherever you are in your organization or in your career.

Joshua is not merely a story of conquest but also a treasure trove of theology. David G. Firth interprets the book of Joshua with a sensitivity to its place as Christian Scripture. Joshua is marginalized in many churches, often because its message is misunderstood. Firth reveals that, rather than simply being a story of conquest, Joshua is concerned with matters of identity and faithfulness. Joshua exhorts God's people to live out their calling in light of God's promises. While Israelites like Achan fall short, others--often gentiles--show surprising faith in God. Firth also probes the book's theological themes, such as the promised land, government, rest, and promise. The book of Joshua boldly challenges the complacent in faith to be a nation committed to God. The Evangelical Biblical Theology Commentary (EBTC) series locates each biblical book within redemptive history and illuminates its unique theological contributions. All EBTC volumes feature informed exegetical treatment of the biblical book and thorough discussion of its most important theological themes in relation to the canon--all in a style that is useful and accessible to students of Scripture.

The promise and peril in reading the Minor Prophets. Reading the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets confronts the unique challenges presented by this daunting section of the Old Testament. On Reading the Twelve Minor Prophets (David G. Firth and Brittany N. Melton) Hosea: Marriage, Violence, and Yahweh's Lament (Isabelle M. Hamley) Reading Joel within and without the Book of the Twelve (Tchavdar S. Hadjiev) The Use and Abuse of Technology: Habakkuk's Ancient Critique in a Modern World (Heath A. Thomas) Luther's Lectures on Habakkuk as an Example of Participatory Exegesis (Thomas Renz) Perspectives on Theodicy in Habakkuk and Malachi vis- -vis Job (S. D. Snyman) The New Covenant in the Book of the Twelve (Anthony R. Petterson) Filled, Empowered, Dwelling, Trembling, and Fleeing: Mapping God's Spirit and Presence in the Book of the Twelve (Beth M. Stovell) Furry, Feathery, and Fishy Friends--and Insects--in the Book of the Twelve (Julie Woods) Twelve Books, One Theology? (John Goldingay) Authors from a variety of perspectives consider questions about hermeneutics and composition, reception history, theodicy, metaphors and characterization, and theology. These essays provide insights from the history of interpretation and the latest in scholarship.

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