Rob Wilkins

The Official Biography

Terry Pratchett : a Life with Footnotes

Dave Gibbons

Just after 5000 people crowded into Anaheim Convention for the Easter Services, God asked Dave two questions that wrecked him and took him to places around the world to search answers to these questions: "Is this it?" (IT=SUCCESS) "What would the church look like if wasn't contained on a piece of land?" In the wake of these two questions, Newsong strategically went from a church focused on growing bigger to a church focused on growing deeper, which has led to its thriving global ministry today. In Small Cloud Rising, Gibbons takes us on his 10-year journey of a reimagined church. Shedding much contemporary church-growth strategy, Gibbons learned to measure success through paradoxical metrics: Small is big. One is the greatest number. Reach the fringes for maximum impact. Neighbor means someone who's not just like you. Misfits belong together. Pain can be power. Gibbons watched Newsong transform and rise as the ancient future church. Looking at how God designed us as a community (ancient/past) and what He desired us to become (future). Along this path of change, he learned to see like Elijah, scanning the horizon after years of drought. The prophet saw a small cloud rising, no bigger than a fist, a nearly invisible phenomenon that would soon change everything. It would be small in size but bring a storm that would end the drought.

How Creatives, Dreamers Poets and Misfits Are Awakening the Ancient Future Church

Small Cloud Rising

'People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.' Terry Pratchett, creator of the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series, knight of the realm, and holder of more honorary doctorates than he knew what to do with, was known and loved around the world for his wildly popular books, his brilliant satirical humor, and for the humanity of his campaign work. But that's only part of the picture. At the time of his death in 2015, he was working on his finest story yet--his own. The story of a boy who was told by his headteacher aged six that he would never amount to anything, and spent the rest of his life proving him wrong. Who walked out on his A levels to become a journalist, encountering some very dead bodies and the idea for his first novel before he reached twenty. Who celebrated his knighthood by smelting himself a sword, and who, on being awarded the prestigious Carnegie Medal, switched it during the prizegiving for a chocolate replica and proceeded to eat it in front of an audience of horrified librarians. Tragically, Terry ran out of time to complete the memoir he so desperately wanted to write. But now, in the only authorized biography of one of our best known and best loved writers, his manager and friend Rob Wilkins picks up where Terry left off, and with the help of friends, family, and Terry's own unpublished work, tells the full story of an extraordinary life.

Terry Pratchett: a Life with Footnotes

Sir Terry Pratchett, nagradzany bestsellerowy autor, twórca fenomenalnie popularnego cyklu Świat Dysku. Sławny i podziwiany na całym świecie za swoje znakomite książki, inteligentny ironiczny humor, za działalność humanitarną. Ale to tylko część obrazu. W chwili śmierci w 2015 roku pracował nad swoją najciekawszą historią – własną. Nad opowieścią o chłopcu, któremu w wieku sześciu lat dyrektor szkoły powiedział, że niczego nie osiągnie, i który przez całe swoje późniejsze życie udowadniał, że tamten nie miał racji. Terry miał bowiem pełno zadziwiających osiągnięć: przerwał naukę by zostać dziennikarzem, co nie zmienia faktu, że otrzymał niezliczona liczbę doktoratów honorowych, nim skończył 20 lat miał pomysł na swoją debiutancką powieść, która ukazała się w 1971 roku pod tytułem „Dywan”, został jednym z najlepiej sprzedających się i lubianych pisarzy w Wielkiej Brytanii, zdobył prestiżowy Medal Carnegie i otrzymał tytuł szlachecki. Niestety Terry’emu zabrakło czasu by ukończyć wspomnienia, które tak bardzo chciał napisać. Teraz przerwane wątki podjął Rob Wilkins, dawny asystent, przyjaciel, a dziś opiekun literackiego dziedzictwa Pratchetta. Wykorzystując wspomnienia własne, ale też rodziny, przyjaciół i kolegów pisarza, Wilkins kreśli pełną panoramę życia Terry’ego – od dzieciństwa po jego oszałamiającą karierę pisarską, w tym to, jak przyjął i jak sobie radził z „przeszkadzajstwem” choroby Alzheimera. Głęboko poruszająca i osobista opowieść o nadzwyczajnym życiu sir Terry’ego Pratchetta, spisana z niezrównanym wyczuciem i pełna zabawnych anegdot i zarazem jedyna oficjalna biografia jednego z najznakomitszych autorów. *** „Niekiedy zabawna, czasem boleśnie intymna. Wspaniale jest uzyskać takie zbliżenie życia zawodowego pisarza”. – Frank Cottrell-Boyce, „Observer” „Ta biografia tka magię z powszedniości w taki właśnie sposób, w jaki robił to sam Pratchett”. – „The Telegraph” „Tak bezpośrednia, zabawna i niesentymentalna, jak wszystko, co jej bohater sam mógłby stworzyć”. – „Mail on Sunday”

Terry Pratchett: Życie z przypisami. Oficjalna biografia

Deforia Lane

This is the miraculous story of a music therapist who treats terminally ill and mentally handicapped patients with the medicine of music.

Deforia Lane's Life of Music, Healing, and Faith

Music As Medicine

Bill Hybels

Learning to put God's kingdom first by choosing to put self second is the secret to finding true satisfaction. This book examines how that is possible by looking at various real-world situations.

Descending Into Greatness

'Always readable, illuminating and honest. It made me miss the real Terry.' - NEIL GAIMAN 'Sometimes joyfully, sometimes painfully, intimate . . . it is wonderful to have this closeup picture of the writer's working life.' - FRANK COTTRELL-BOYCE, OBSERVER 'Spins magic from mundanity in precisely the way Pratchett himself did.' - THE TELEGRAPH 'As frank, funny and unsentimental as anything its subject might have produced himself.' - MAIL ON SUNDAY -------- At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett was working on his finest story yet - his own. The creator of the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series, Terry Pratchett was known and loved around the world for his hugely popular books, his smart satirical humour and the humanity of his campaign work. But that's only part of the picture. Before his untimely death, Terry was writing a memoir: the story of a boy who aged six was told by his teacher that he would never amount to anything and spent the rest of his life proving him wrong. For Terry lived a life full of astonishing achievements: becoming one of the UK's bestselling and most beloved writers, winning the prestigious Carnegie Medal and being awarded a knighthood. Now, the book Terry sadly couldn't finish has been written by Rob Wilkins, his former assistant, friend and now head of the Pratchett literary estate. Drawing on his own extensive memories, along with those of the author's family, friends and colleagues, Rob unveils the full picture of Terry's life - from childhood to his astonishing writing career, and how he met and coped with what he called the 'Embuggerance' of Alzheimer's disease. A deeply moving and personal portrait of the extraordinary life of Sir Terry Pratchett, written with unparalleled insight and filled with funny anecdotes, this is the only official biography of one of our finest authors. 'Of all the dead authors in the world, Terry Pratchett is the most alive.' - JOHN LLOYD

Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes

Robert Lewis

Now available in paperback. The inspiring story of how a church showed God's love to a dying culture by building bridges to its neighborhood, community, and world.

Bridge-building Stories to Help Reach Your Community

The Church of Irresistible Influence

In a society where "upward mobility" is the highest goal, Bill Hybels asks a tough question: Do Christians place God's desires first-or their own? In Descending into Greatness, Hybels and writer Rob Wilkins take the example of Christ's downward journey as it was meant to be; the radical and essential answer for every Christian. In fourteen powerful chapters, the authors explore such topics as How Jesus managed power. The intentional decisions necessary to move down. The uplifting nature of true humility. Abundant life through dying to self. The ambush of joy. Moving down is never an easy matter that can be reduced to a formula. It involves a life committed to discipleship. Descending into Greatness introduces you to the touching stories of modern men and women committed to advancing the kingdom of God: from the pro football player, to the medical missionary, to a businessman wrestling with the priorities in the world of finance. Descending into Greatness asks tough questions and gives hopeful answers. Now, this powerful, urgent message also includes a discussion guide so that you can follow through, too. "Like Christ, we must descend-into self-abandonment, unconditional giving, sacrifice, and death to self. And, like Christ, we will then ascend-into fulfillment, blessing, joy, and purpose."

'People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.' Terry Pratchett, creator of the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series, knight of the realm, and holder of more honorary doctorates than he knew what to do with, was known and loved around the world for his wildly popular books, his brilliant satirical humour and for the humanity of his campaign work. But that's only part of the picture. At the time of his death in 2015, he was working on his finest story yet - his own. The story of a boy who was told by his headteacher aged six that he would never amount to anything, and spent the rest of his life proving him wrong. Who walked out on his A levels to become a journalist, encountering some very dead bodies and the idea for his first novel before he reached twenty. Who celebrated his knighthood by smelting himself a sword, and who, on being awarded the prestigious Carnegie Medal, switched it during the prizegiving for a chocolate replica and proceeded to eat it in front of an audience of horrified librarians. Tragically, Terry ran out of time to complete the memoir he so desperately wanted to write. But now, in the only authorised biography of one of our best known and best loved writers, his manager and friend Rob Wilkins picks up where Terry left off, and with the help of friends, family and Terry's own unpublished work, tells the full story of an extraordinary life.

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