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Award winning caricature carver Richard Houlden designed and illustrated for you twelve colorful characters born from his first love, cartooning. Whether you're a new carver or an old hand looking for some new ideas, this book delivers plenty of designs and characters for your carving pleasure and enjoyment. This book is filled with color photographs from two talented carvers of two of his carving patterns to give visual clues during the carving process. This is a pattern book first and foremost, put together to give you 12 brand new patterns for carving from the mind of a carver/cartoonist.

Grace is a church word that sometimes gets lost in the world of teenagers. Research shows that most teenagers have embraced a system of belief in which being a follower of Jesus is defined by behavior, instead of the grace of God offered through Christ.

Grace is designed to show youth that grace is a real, practical force in their lives even in the midst of brokenness, fear, doubt, and stress. These key factors can often become major stumbling blocks for youth if they are not equipped with the tools to understand how God's grace operates in each of these areas.

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Apple, Bug, Cup.... A great introduction to spelling for visual learners, this colorful illustrated book helps bridge the gap between object and word. With a picture for each letter of the alphabet, the written word itself is used to illustrate the object it represents.

Hydraulic Power System Analysis demonstrates modern computer-aided analytical techniques used to model nonlinear, dynamic fluid power systems. Following an overview of fluid power, the authors examine various relevant fluid properties, energy calculations, and steady state and dynamic analysis along with a review of automatic control theory. Turning to modeling, the next few chapters address valves and motors and then apply dynamic modeling to examples relating to pumps, hydrostatic transmissions, and valves. The book includes a unique chapter on flow division in hydraulic circuits and...

The microwave oven is much more than just a way to reheat leftovers. This versatile machine can cook your breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert, plus several varieties of snacks to meet your needs. Do you have a busy morning and no time to cook? Try Coffee Cup Quiche or the Southwest flavors of Chilaquiles and enjoy a protein-filled breakfast in less than 5 minutes. Too tired after work to make a fussy dinner? 10-minute Enchiladas are an easy and hearty meal to make for the whole family. Or maybe you want something fancier? Pair the Buttered Shrimp with Mushroom Risotto and Steamed Broccoli...

Gratitude changes everything. Sometimes life is awesome, but sometimes the storyline turns tragic. Regardless of what season we find ourselves in, we all desire to live our lives to the fullest... or at least we should. If we are going to live a full life, gratitude has to lead the way. "In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." 1 Thessalonians 5:18 No doubt this charge is easier said than done, but when we choose to give thanks in everything, regardless of the circumstances, it helps us fully embrace all that God has for us, and begin living a thankful...

A book about the disciples of Jesus would typically start with Jesus himself: first there was Jesus, then he had disciples. This book suggests a fundamentally different story: first there was a movement, then Jesus emerged as its leader. This movement was markedly different from both rabbinic Judaism and gentile Christianity. It became known to history as Jewish Christianity-Jews who followed both Jesus (as they understood him) and the Jewish law (as they understood it). These first disciples affirmed simple living, nonviolence, and vegetarianism, and rejected wealth, war, and animal...

Every day, youth are called to navigate a world full of challenging decisions--from the simple choices about everyday life to the much more serious ethical dilemmas that can make being a teenager a complicated experience. Some of those dilemmas include: What does it mean to be a person with established morals and ethics? How does the commandment to love others affect our lives in a tangible way? What happens when we make choices that have consequences that greatly affect our lives and the lives of those around us?

Dilemmas isn't designed to provide simple answers to...

What do Christian teenagers believe today about Jesus Christ? And what difference does that belief make in their life? Research shows that most teenagers do not understand the basic core beliefs of Christianity and often express misgivings of their own faith. How do we help teens connect with the significance and importance of Jesus Christ?

Jesus is a four-week study designed to help teens encounter the basic truths about who Jesus is and why that matters in their lives. Through group study and daily devotions, found in the Groove: Jesus Student Journal, teenagers will...

An essential guidebook giving you both basic guiding principles and specific eco-friendly ideas to change your life and the life of the planet. Learn how to consume less, reuse and repurpose more, and change your buying habits for a greener, healthier lifestyle. Use the basic principles to make the most environmentally friendly choices in any situation you find yourself in. Use this handy guidebook as both a starting point and a reference for the future, and be empowered to make a real difference

In our media-saturated world, images and messages about appearance, love, and romance bombard teenagers daily. These often unrealistic and unhealthy representations of the normal teen life can be confusing to teenagers as they attempt to follow Christ.

Inside Out challenges the values of the world and affirms that our real value begins in understanding that we have a God who loves us. Over the course of the study, teenagers will learn to see themselves and how they live as a reflection of the spiritual life happening deep inside their hearts and minds.

This study...

Whether it's a young co-ed who has lived her life succumbing to passion and authority, a woman struggling with the intense demands of motherhood, or a newlywed whose new mirror-filled home proves too much for her fragile psyche, these thirteen stories-edgy and alluring-inexorably peel back the layers of the women they portray. By turns lyrical and haunting, plainspoken and frank, award-winning writer Mary Akers' finely crafted debut collection WOMEN UP ON BLOCKS explores the price women pay when they allow the roles of wife, mother, daughter, or lover to define them.

In this illustrated tale, a young black bird falls from his nest and makes his home on the ground, at the base of a great oak tree. Never having learned to fly, he spends his days looking up at the sky. Through courage and circumstance, he finds his wings while discovering that the first flight is often the hardest on a journey to reaching the stars.

Discovering and embracing one's identity has proven to be a long, lonely, rough, and at times, dangerous road for today's teenagers. It's likely you've chosen this study to use with your youth group because you care deeply and want the teenagers within your sphere of influence to find the answers to their identity questions in Jesus Christ.

The I Am study is not a quick fix for your teenagers' needs. It is a handcrafted tool that, when used by compassionate, caring, and committed adults, will ignite their imagination and excitement for whom their Creator says they are and...