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No matter the career you have chosen. You are in sales. With every interaction, your clients, prospects, and colleagues decide if your personal brand is worthy of investment. Understanding the qualities of communication that you must bring to the table to selflessly serve others is the foundation upon which your career will flourish. Everyday Sales Wisdom for Your Life & Career will provide you with life lessons that will serve you throughout your professional journey.

Chip's first book, Everyday Sales Wisdom for Your Life & Career, garnered rave reviews and demonstrated how everybody is in sales! In his second work, Chip Helm helps you answer important sales and career questions with practical wisdom and effective relationship-building skills.

Using the Beatitudes, Chip Dodd describes the eight movements we all must make if we are to live in freedom, fidelity, fullness, and faithfulness. With each movement, Dodd explores one of life's great paradoxes: The only way we get to the treasure we are made to possess is by traveling through tragedy and surrendering to the God who can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves.

Life can be overwhelming. Here is the fatherly guidance you need to pull through your toughest times.

Makayla and Steven Harper had the ideal night planned. Steven had just returned home from work after stopping off at the grocery store to pick up the last few ingredients that Makayla needed to make him a special dinner. They both were anticipating a fun night of wine and lovemaking, but neither one knew that an intruder was inside their home. After a shower Makayla does not find her husband waiting in bed for her as expected, but instead stripped, gagged, and tied to a chair in their bedroom.

When Abe McDaniels has his 10th birthday party, he receives a parcel in the post with a ring, which is identical to the ring-shaped birthmark he carries on his finger. He's unimpressed with the gift, but when a note falls from the packaging with a written warning, it suddenly gets his attention - "Your mom and dad are in trouble. You must come to help them."

Like most religions, Wicca requires a set of tools. What you obtain will depend on your beliefs. As with any tools or supplies of a religion, they should be treated with respect. The tools in the Wicca religion represents divine elements. Not all witches use ritual tools, but most do. Wicca tools and altars are used as not only tradition, but to direct energy at the command of the Wiccan practitioner.

Discover genuine, but powerful, spells that have been passed down. If you want to start practicing your magic, but are not sure where to begin - look no further. Wicca: Book of Shadows contains select spells that can be performed by experienced and novice Wiccans. Plus, the ingredients you need for these particular spells are not hard to find!

People underestimate the power of herbs. Wiccans, on the other hand, know that it's one of the most accessible and effective types of magic around! There's a rich history of ancient cultures using herbs, because of its magical essence. Ancient cultures used herbs for medicine, they had healers, (some called shamans), in their communities to harness herbal magic. Valerie W. Holt will teach you about the magical properties of the most popular herbs used in Wicca magic.

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon", Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, and first published in 1820. With Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction still read today.

What happens when we die? Can miracles be explained? Is there really a god? Answers to questions such as these are as varied as they are confusing and spring from a variety of mystical belief systems. But the fact is we can know the truth. There are solid, logical answers to satisfy the hearts and minds of those who are seeking. If you or someone you know has genuine questions about issues at the core of human existence, this apologetic series is an excellent resource.

Do you know someone who needs a spiritual "shot in the arm"? Do you long to receive encouragement from others and be the kind of person who brings out others' highest potential? First Thessalonians is the Apostle Paul's game plan for encouraging believers. This audiobook teaches practical ways to bring hope and love into the lives of those you care about most and presents the New Testament's clearest teaching about the future of the church - the rapture.

Are you living under pressure? Doctors tell us that stress is one of the major causes of mental, emotional, and physical health problems in our nation. In this series, from Philippians 4, you will learn how to defuse the pressure in problem relationships and how to stop stress before it starts.

Happiness depends on the happenings in our lives; joy depends on our perspectives. Join Chip Ingram as he opens God's word to Philippians 1 and explains how we all can enhance and enrich our relationship with God through living above our daily circumstances.

What's the secret to being truly smart when it comes to managing your finances, your possessions, and your very life? The creator of all things invites you to enter into deeper levels of generosity with him, so you can become wise in your giving and generous in living. When we begin to grasp God's extravagant love and generosity toward us, we begin to be generous toward him and others in his kingdom. The result: Our generosity becomes a visible expression of our love for him.

We all put our hope in something or someone. Hope is the oxygen of the soul! At some point, though, most of us experience hope that never pans out. What then? Is it possible to hang on to hope when life doesn't make sense or when things go from bad to worse? Or maybe you've received exactly what you hoped for only to realize that it doesn't satisfy!

Who is the Jesus of the Bible? What would Jesus say to today's businessman? To a prostitute in one of our red-light districts? To a group of political leaders if he met them at a summit? Or even to Barbara Walters in a primetime interview? If you would like to take a fresh look at the person of Christ, join Chip Ingram and two of his fellow pastors in this series out of the book of John, where timeless interviews with people just like ourselves reveal the heart, character, and love of Christ.

You should, you ought to, you know the Bible tells you to do it - but the thought of actually sharing your faith with another person gives you sweaty palms and heart palpitations. "I'm just not gifted in evangelism," you decide. "It's not for me." But it is! In Share the Love, learn how even you can move from being a "secret agent" Christian to a "public" witness as you develop the heart, skills, and perspective to naturally share Christ as a part of your lifestyle and relationships.

Frightening to some, freedom to others, singleness is a fact of life for millions of adults today. But many of the issues surrounding singleness are unclear. For the Christian, what does godly living look like? What does God think of divorce? Is remarriage ever a biblical option? This series will answer your questions and help explain some of scripture's most important passages on this timely topic.

In everyday life Christians are faced with moral dilemmas. When those circumstances come up, what do we do? Where do we find the answers? Who in the Bible can relate to these moral dilemmas? 1 Peter relates to moral choices in a fallen world by showing us how to live out God's values, even as they clash with the world's values. Peter faced many difficult situations and shows how to overcome them. His experiences provide inspiration for Christians to hold firm in a world that constantly asks us to conform.