Making Music and Having a Blast!


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In her follow-up to Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for All Music Teachers, Bonnie Blanchard offers students a set of tools for their musical lives that will help them stay engaged, even during the challenging times in their musical development. Blanchard discusses issues such as finding an instructor, selecting the right instrument, and choosing a college or conservatory. The book includes lessons on music theory and history as well as a guide to finding additional materials in print and online. Blanchard's strategies for making practice productive and preparing for auditions are useful tips students can return to again and again.







Majorlabelland And Assorted Oddities


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Comprised of histories of hard rock bands in the eighties and nineties and their struggles with major record labels, interviews with over thirty musicians, and short stories by the author which reflect a particular time in the music industry.




Do It!


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Small Group Body Builders


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Here are dozens of practical activities you can do with small groups of teenagers. You'll help teenagers build stronger, more intimate friendships within their small group, and get ideas for helping kids put their faith into action. And if some of the activities look familiar, that's no accident: Activities are based on the sort of activities Jesus and his disciples shared together.




Unraptured


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Are you rapture ready? As a teenager in the buckle of the Bible Belt, Zack Hunt was convinced the rapture would happen at any moment. Being ready meant never missing church, never sinning, and always listening to Christian radio. But when the rapture didn’t happen, Hunt’s tightly wound faith began to fray. If he had been wrong about the rapture, what else about his faith might not hold water? Part memoir, part tour of the apocalypse, and part call to action, Unraptured traces how the church’s focus on escaping to heaven has it mired in decay. Teetering on the brink of irrelevancy in a world rocked by refugee crises, climate change, war and rumors of war, the church cannot afford to focus on the end times instead of following Jesus in the here and now. Unraptured uses these signs of the times to help readers reorient their understanding of the gospel around loving and caring for the least of these.




Underneath This Smile


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Underneath This Smile is based on the blog Rebecca's Challenge. Rebecca started her writing career at eighteen years old with a blog that has now been turned into the devotional Underneath This Smile. This devotional is designed for everyone and covers topics that everybody faces in life. Rebecca also talks about her personal life, her experiences, and her walk with Christ. She has a unique approach in relating to people while looking through the lenses of the Bible. The goal of Underneath This Smile is to help and encourage you in your daily life while you walk with Christ. Rebecca hopes she touches your heart in a sensitive way. Rebecca wants you to feel like you have always known her.




Super Ideas for Youth Groups


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Best New Games


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Best New Games, Updated Edition, is the most comprehensive collection of New Games currently available for getting acquainted, developing sensitivity and trust, building teamwork, and opening and closing play sessions. The updated edition features an accompanying DVD, an improved format, a game finder, and information on how New Games can be used to meet education and physical activity standards.