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Impact Of A Self-Help Intervention On Performance Of Headache Management Behaviors: A Self-Efficacy Approach, Dale S. Bond, Lynne Durrant, Kathleen B. Digre, Susan K. Baggaley, Carla Rubingh Jan 2004

Impact Of A Self-Help Intervention On Performance Of Headache Management Behaviors: A Self-Efficacy Approach, Dale S. Bond, Lynne Durrant, Kathleen B. Digre, Susan K. Baggaley, Carla Rubingh

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

This study evaluated the importance of modeling and performance accomplishment of behavior on enhancing headache management self-efficacy and increasing acquisition and implementation of four headache self-management behaviors: headache diary use, limiting medication overuse, relaxation, and stretching. Primary headache disordered patients (n = 51) were randomly assigned to 3 conditions: self-efficacy videotape treatment (SET; education + modeling and performance of behavior), information-only videotape treatment (IOT; education only), or no-treatment comparison (NTC). The SET group reported higher self-efficacy scores than the NTC at immediate post-treatment. At 1-month follow-up, the SET group reported more headache diary use than the IOT and NCT groups, …

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Market Valuation And Employee Stock Options;, Ge Zhang Jan 2004

Market Valuation And Employee Stock Options;, Ge Zhang

Department of Economics and Finance Working Papers, 1991-2006

This paper investigates a market-valuation-based hypothesis for employee stock options (ESOs). It examines how market valuation has affected the decision to grant ESOs, the amount of options granted, and the distribution of options among executives and rankand- file employees. I find strong empirical evidence that firms with high market valuation and high probability of future overvaluation are more likely to adopt ESOs and grant more options to their employees. Furthermore, when top executives perceive that the current market valuation is high, they grant a smaller portion of options to themselves relative to rank-and-file employees. All these results are consistent with …

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Gains And Losses From Tax Competition With Migration, Seppo Honkapohja, Arja Turunen-Red Jan 2004

Gains And Losses From Tax Competition With Migration, Seppo Honkapohja, Arja Turunen-Red

Department of Economics and Finance Working Papers, 1991-2006

We consider international labor (entrepreneur) mobility in a two-country overlapping-generations model. Interactions of decreasing and increasing returns in production yield multiple equilibria that are stable under adaptive learning. Governments have an unilateral incentive to reduce income taxes at the joint optimum. We compare the Nash equilibrium in taxes under full labor mobility to the closed economy with no mobility. Despite strategic tax setting, the free mobility outcome is often better in welfare terms. Large, discrete gains in welfare may be attained because of the tax competition. Expectational barriers for discrete welfare improvements can be overcome through tax competition.

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Does Futures Exhibit Maturity Effect? New Evidence From An Extensive Set Of Us And Foreign Futures Contracts, Elton Daal, Joseph Farhat Jan 2004

Does Futures Exhibit Maturity Effect? New Evidence From An Extensive Set Of Us And Foreign Futures Contracts, Elton Daal, Joseph Farhat

Department of Economics and Finance Working Papers, 1991-2006

In a seminal article, Samuelson (1965) proposes the maturity effect that volatility of futures prices should increase as futures contract approaches maturity. This study provides new evidence on the maturity effect by examining a more extensive set of futures contracts than previous studies and analyzing each contract separately. Using 6805 futures contracts drawn from 61 commodities, including some data from non-US markets, we find that the maturity effect is absent in the majority of contracts. In addition, the maturity effect tends to be stronger in agricultural and energy commodities than in financial futures. We also examine the hypothesis in Bessembinder, …

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Strategic Trading Against Retail Investors With Disposition Effects, Jouahn Nam, Jun Wang, Ge Zhang Jan 2004

Strategic Trading Against Retail Investors With Disposition Effects, Jouahn Nam, Jun Wang, Ge Zhang

Department of Economics and Finance Working Papers, 1991-2006

In this paper, we study a model incorporating the retail trader's reluctance to sell into losses. We show that in this setup the informed trader always buys the asset when he receives a favorable signal. However, when the informed trader receives an unfavorable signal, he may not always sell the asset if the signal is moderately bad and the retail trader is reluctant to realize losses. Hence the good news travels faster than the bad news and the asset price exhibits steady climbs with sharp and sudden drops.

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Informational Externalities Of Going Public Decisions: Evidence From Industrial Sector, Carmen Cotei, Joseph Farhat, Tarun K. Mukherjee Jan 2004

Informational Externalities Of Going Public Decisions: Evidence From Industrial Sector, Carmen Cotei, Joseph Farhat, Tarun K. Mukherjee

Department of Economics and Finance Working Papers, 1991-2006

Theoretical models predict that going public firms generate positive externalities, creating a spillover effect for other firms to go public. In this paper, we posit that venture backed IPOs convey positive informational externalities for the publicly traded rival firms in the same industry and test three related hypotheses. The hypotheses are: 1) Venture backed IPOs convey positive information about industry and this information is transferred to rival firms; 2) Intra-industry information transfer varies with rivals' characteristics; 3) IPO price revisions generate additional information that affects rivals' valuation. The results show that rivals have positive valuation effects only in response to …

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Volatility Clustering, Leverage Effects, And Jumps Dynamics In Emerging Asian Equity Markets, Elton Daal, Atsuyuki Naka, Jung-Suk Yu Jan 2004

Volatility Clustering, Leverage Effects, And Jumps Dynamics In Emerging Asian Equity Markets, Elton Daal, Atsuyuki Naka, Jung-Suk Yu

Department of Economics and Finance Working Papers, 1991-2006

This paper proposes a mixed GARCH-Jump model that is tailored to the specific circumstances arising in emerging equity markets. Our model accommodates lagged currency returns as a local information variable in the autoregressive jump intensity function, incorporates jumps in the returns and volatility, and allows volatility to respond asymmetrically to both normal innovations and jump shocks. The model captures the distinguishing features of the Asian index returns and significantly improves the fit for those markets that were affected by the 1997 Asian crisis. Our proposed model yields higher levels of conditional kurtosis and superior forecasts of the expected arrival rate …

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Re-Examining Inflation And Inflation Uncertainty In Developed And Emerging Countries, Elton Daal, Atsuyuki Naka, Benito Sanchez Jan 2004

Re-Examining Inflation And Inflation Uncertainty In Developed And Emerging Countries, Elton Daal, Atsuyuki Naka, Benito Sanchez

Department of Economics and Finance Working Papers, 1991-2006

This study examines the relationship between inflation and inflation uncertainty for both developed and emerging countries using the asymmetric power GARCH model. We find new evidence that suggests that positive inflationary shocks have stronger impacts on inflation uncertainty for mainly Latin American countries. We also find that inflation causes inflation uncertainty for most countries but the evidence for causality of the opposite direction is mixed.

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Distributing Excess Cash: The Role Of Specially Designated Dividends, H. Kent Baker, Tarun K. Mukherjee, Gary E. Powell Jan 2004

Distributing Excess Cash: The Role Of Specially Designated Dividends, H. Kent Baker, Tarun K. Mukherjee, Gary E. Powell

Department of Economics and Finance Working Papers, 1991-2006

This study explores why firms distribute excess cash as specially designated dividends (SDDs) instead of using regular dividends or repurchasing shares. We survey top managers of NASDAQ, AMEX, and NYSE firms issuing at least one SDD between 1994 and 2001. The results show that firms tend to pay SDDs when they experience strong earnings and cash flows and want to increase at least temporarily the yield to shareholders. Having strong earnings and cash flows also provide an impetus for regular dividend increases, but paying regular dividends is part of a firm's standard dividend policy. The primary motives for repurchasing shares …

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The Impact Of The Dividend Tax Cut And Managerial Stock Holdings On Corporate Dividend Policy, Jouahn Nam, Jun Wang, Ge Zhang Jan 2004

The Impact Of The Dividend Tax Cut And Managerial Stock Holdings On Corporate Dividend Policy, Jouahn Nam, Jun Wang, Ge Zhang

Department of Economics and Finance Working Papers, 1991-2006

We examine the impact of the May 2003 dividend tax cut and managerial stock holdings on corporate dividend initiation decision. We find that managers who hold sizable stakes in their companies are more likely to initiate dividends following this tax cut. This positive relation is stronger for firms with higher growth opportunities. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that managers initiate dividends to maximize their own wealth. Moreover, the market reacts negatively (most positively) to dividend initiation announcements by firms with higher (lower) growth opportunities and higher (lower) managerial share holdings.

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Quadratic Term Structure Models With Jumps In Incomplete Currency Markets, Elton Daal Jan 2004

Quadratic Term Structure Models With Jumps In Incomplete Currency Markets, Elton Daal

Department of Economics and Finance Working Papers, 1991-2006

We propose a multi-currency quadratic term structure model that allows for several sources of market incompleteness. A new feature of the model is the jump-quadratic dynamics of the exchange rates that simultaneously generate greater flexibility in the time-varying risk premium and excessive currency volatility. Our model empirically outperforms the complete market quadratic and affine multi-currency diffusion models. It accounts for the forward premium anomaly with reasonable market price of risks. The market incompleteness consists of idiosyncratic diffusion-like innovations and jump discontinuities. We find that the jumps dominate the variations in the currency returns and produce most of the excessive currency …

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The Value Of Interest Rate Stabilization Polices When Agents Are Learning, John Duffy, Wei Xiao Jan 2004

The Value Of Interest Rate Stabilization Polices When Agents Are Learning, John Duffy, Wei Xiao

Department of Economics and Finance Working Papers, 1991-2006

We examine the expectational stability (E-stability) of rational expectations equilibrium under optimal interest rate rules in the context of the standard, "New Keynesian" model of the monetary transmission mechanism. We focus on the case where the monetary authority adds interest rate stabilization to its other objectives of inflation and output stabilization. We consider both the case where the monetary authority lacks a commitment technology and as well as the case of full commitment. We show that for both cases, optimal interest rate rules yield rational expectations equilibria that are E-stable for a wide range of empirically plausible parameter values. This …

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New Orleans Police Department Recruitment And Retention Survey, Susan Howell Jan 2004

New Orleans Police Department Recruitment And Retention Survey, Susan Howell

Survey Research Center Publications

No abstract provided.

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Sunset On Kalemegdan: Belgrade, Serbia, October 2000 (Poem), John Gery Jan 2004

Sunset On Kalemegdan: Belgrade, Serbia, October 2000 (Poem), John Gery

English Faculty Publications

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Is 501 Christian Formation: Kingdom, Church, And World, Hugo Magallanes, Joy Moore Jan 2004

Is 501 Christian Formation: Kingdom, Church, And World, Hugo Magallanes, Joy Moore

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Hauerwas, Stanley and William Willimon. Resident Aliens. Abingdon, 1989; McClaren, Brian D. A New Kind of Christian. Jossey-Bass, 2001; Snyder, Howard. A Kingdom Manifesto. Wipf and Stock, 1997; Walker, Andrew. Telling the Story. Wipf and Stock; Wright, N.T. The Challenge of Jesus. InterVarsity, 1999; and A Weekly Guide for Small Groups (packet available at Cokesbury bookstore).

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Is 502 Christian Formation: Vocation Of Ministry, Tapiwa N. Mucherera, Steve Dawson Jan 2004

Is 502 Christian Formation: Vocation Of Ministry, Tapiwa N. Mucherera, Steve Dawson

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Grenz, S. & Bell, R. (1995). Betrayal of Trust: Sexual Misconduct in the Pastorate. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. Groothuis, R.M. (1997). Good new for women: A biblical picture of gender equality, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker; 19-63;121-144;189-229. [Chapters 1, 2, 5, 8, 9] Guiness, O. (1998). The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life. Waco,TX: Word. Sire, J. Habits of the Mind. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press Smith, G. (1997). Listening to God in Times of Choice, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. Foster, R. (1998). Celebration of Discipline, New York: Harper and Row. Foster, R. (1998). Celebration …

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Bt 750 Theological Hermeneutics, Joel B. Green Jan 2004

Bt 750 Theological Hermeneutics, Joel B. Green

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Burnett, Richard E. Karl Barth’s Theological Exegesis: The Hermeneutical Principles of the Römerbrief Period. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004. Davis, Ellen F., and Richard B. Hays, eds., The Art of Reading Scripture. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003. Fowl, Stephen E., ed. The Theological Interpretation of Scripture: Classic and Contemporary Readings. London: Blackwell, 1997. Jones, L. Gregory and James J. Buckley, eds. Theology and Scriptural Imagination. Directions in Modern Theology. London: Blackwell, 1998. Zimmermann, Jens. Recovering Theological Hermeneutics: An Incarnational–Trinitarian Theory of Interpretation. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004.

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Ms 650 Christian Witness In A Multicultural Society, Ajith Fernando Jan 2004

Ms 650 Christian Witness In A Multicultural Society, Ajith Fernando

Syllabi

The main textbook will be my book SHARING THE TRUTH IN LOVE: HOW TO RELATE TO PEOPLE OF OTHER FAITHS (Grand Rapids: Discovery House Publishing, 2001). The students are expected to read the whole of this book and especially read the sections given below before the class. Also on reserve at the Library is my book, The Supremacy of Christ (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 1995 or London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1997). Pre Course Reading: Read Chapters 1-6 in SHARING THE TRUTH IN LOVE and come prepared to discuss the material there in class. Also please read the Appendix: Sketches of Other …

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Bs 501 Introduction To Biblical Studies I, David Loren Thompson Jan 2004

Bs 501 Introduction To Biblical Studies I, David Loren Thompson

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Bauer, David R. An Annotated Guide to Biblical Resources for Ministry. Hendrickson, 2003. Drane, John Introducing the Old Testament. Completely revised and updated. Fortress Press, 2001. Abbreviated IOT in the syllabus. Klein, William W., Craig L. Blomberg and Robert L. Hubbard, Jr. Introduction to Biblical Interpretation. Dallas: Word Publishing, 1993. Introduces essential issues involved in biblical interpretation and the methods employed with specific types of material. Students may omit sections dealing explicitly with the New Testament. (= IBI in syllabus) There is a new, enlarged and revised edition just published. Uncertainty about its availability for the class led us to …

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Bs 502 Introduction To Biblical Studies - 2, Joseph R. Dongell Jan 2004

Bs 502 Introduction To Biblical Studies - 2, Joseph R. Dongell

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The Bible (NRSV) Bauer, David R. An Annotated Guide To Biblical Resources for Ministry. de Silva, David A. An Introduction to the New Testament: Contents, Methods & Ministry Formation. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2004. Thompson, David L. Bible Study that Works. Rev. Ed. Nappanee, IN: Evangel Press, 1994.

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Bs 710 Advanced Greek [Lxx], Joseph R. Dongell Jan 2004

Bs 710 Advanced Greek [Lxx], Joseph R. Dongell

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Conybeare, F. C. and St. George Stock. Grammar of Septuagint Greek: With Selected Readings, Vocabularies, and Updated Indexes. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1988. Jobes, Karen H. and Moises Silva. Invitation to the Septuagint. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000. May, Herbert and Bruce Metzger, eds. The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha. Revised Standard Version. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962. Rahlfs, Alfred. Septuaginta. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1935. Wallace, Daniel B. Greek Beyond the Basics: an Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996. Whiton, James M. A Lexicon Abridged from Liddel and Scott’s Greek-English Lexicon. New York: American Book …

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Do 691 Readings In Wesley, Paul W. Chilcote Jan 2004

Do 691 Readings In Wesley, Paul W. Chilcote

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Ken Collins, John Wesley: A Theological Biography (Abingdon: 0-687-02788-8) Steven W. Manskar, A Perfect Love (Dis Res: 0-88177-388-3) Frank Whaling, ed., John and Charles Wesley (Paulist: 0-8091-2368-1)

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Nt 655 Faith And Wealth In New Testament Perspective, Joel B. Green Jan 2004

Nt 655 Faith And Wealth In New Testament Perspective, Joel B. Green

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González, Justo L. Faith and Wealth: A History of Early Christian Ideas on the Origin, Significance, and Use of Money. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1990; reprint ed., Eugene: Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2002. Hamel, Gildas. Poverty and Charity in Roman Palestine, First Three Centuries C.E. University of California Press: Near Eastern Studies 23. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Wheeler, Sondra Ely. Wealth as Peril and Obligation: The New Testament on Possessions. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm.B. Eerdmans, 1995.

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Ot 612 Psalms, Brian D. Russell Jan 2004

Ot 612 Psalms, Brian D. Russell

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Required Texts 1. RSV, NRSV, NIV, or some other non-paraphrased version of the Bible. The best Bible for IBS is one that contains only the text without paragraph headings, study notes, etc. I found it profitable to buy a completely unmarked "pew" bible to use exclusively for IBS. 2. Bible Study That Works. Revised edition. Evangel Press, 1994. David L. Thompson . 3. William W. Klein, Craig Blomberg, and Robert Hubbard, Introduction to Biblical Interpretation (Word, 1993) 4. James Luther Mays. Psalms. Interpretation. Louisville: WJK, 1994. 5. Achtemeier, Elizabeth. Preaching from the Old Testament. Louisville: WJK, 1989.

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Pr 610 Servant As Proclaimer, James B. Buskirk Jan 2004

Pr 610 Servant As Proclaimer, James B. Buskirk

Syllabi

Craddock, Fred B., Preaching, Abingdon Press, Nashville, 1985 Demoray, Donald E., Introduction to Homiletics, Second Edition, Light and Press, Indianapolis, 1990 Long, Thomas G., The Witness of Preaching, Westminster/John Knox, Louisville, 1989 Webb, Joseph M., Preaching Without Notes, Abingdon, Nashville, 2001

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Nt 520 New Testament Introduction, M. Robert Mulholland Jan 2004

Nt 520 New Testament Introduction, M. Robert Mulholland

Syllabi

Part I: Backgrounds of Early Christianity, Everett Ferguson (BEC)1 Introducing the New Testament, Achtemeier, Green, Thompson (AGT) Part II: Interpreting the New Testament, Black and Dockery, eds. (BD) Hearing the New Testament, Joel B. Green (HNT) Part III: Opening the Bible, Thomas Merton (OB) Shaped by the Word, M. Robert Mulholland, Jr. (SW)

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Mi 600 History Of The Christian Movement, Terry C. Muck Jan 2004

Mi 600 History Of The Christian Movement, Terry C. Muck

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Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. Rev. ed. New York: Penguin, 1986. Stark, Rodney. The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1996.

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Mb 610 Learning A Language And Culture, Dale F. Walker Jan 2004

Mb 610 Learning A Language And Culture, Dale F. Walker

Syllabi

Abbott, Edwin A. (1884; 1979) Flatland: A romance of many dimensions. NY; Dover. Brewster, E Thomas, and Brewster, Elizabeth S (1976) Language Learning Made Practical. Pasadena: Lingua House (This book plus cassette is available from the instructor for $21.00) Marshall, Terry (1989) The Whole World Guide to Language Learning. Yarmouth: Intercultural Press. Nida, Eugene A. (1960; 1990) Message and Mission: The communication of the Christian Faith. Pasadena: Wm Carey. Sandoz, Mari (1953; 1992) Cheyenne Autumn. Lincoln: Univ of Nebraska Press.

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Mb 810 Advanced Missiological Anthropology, Michael A. Rynkiewich Jan 2004

Mb 810 Advanced Missiological Anthropology, Michael A. Rynkiewich

Syllabi

1. The Study of Culture (Rev. 1987) -L. L. Langness 2. Anthropological Theory 2nd ed. (2000) - R. J. McGee and R. L. Warms (eds.) 3. Anthropological Reflections on Missiological Issues (1994) - Paul Hiebert 4. The Church and Cultures: New Perspectives in Missiological Anthropology (1988) – Louis J. Luzbetak

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Do 864 Theology Of The Laity, Stephen A. Seamands Jan 2004

Do 864 Theology Of The Laity, Stephen A. Seamands

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1. Greg Ogden, Unfinished Business (Revised Edition of The New Reformation: Returning the Ministry to the People of God). 2. Melvin Steinbron, The Lay Driven Church 3. James Garlow, Partners in Ministry 4. Hendrick Kraemer, A Theology of the Lait 5. Sue Mallory, The Equipping Church

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