Chris Davis

Having an honest relationship with God is a delicate balance of faith and doubt. There have been too many things in life that don't add up, don't line up and don't make sense. If God is God, then he must be able to handle tough questions and fierce argument. Countless times I've struggled with life and God, oftentimes arguing for hours, and sometimes just giving up. And it goes on ... We need to be ourselves with God and not something we we're supposed to be. What if God put on a "face" so as to hide his true character? Would that be honest? Is that what we want? Well, it certainly wouldn't be God. He called me for truth and intimacy with him, not a role, not a title - just a Father and his son. Questions. Struggles. Waiting. After so many, many years studying the Bible, following Jesus and just living this difficult existence ... I thought to write these things down. Do they matter? I don't know. But here they are, for what it's worth.

In 2022, John Maeda was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Engineering from the City University of Hong Kong. It was just one of many honors he has received in a multifaceted career encompassing art, science, business, and education in prestigious locales including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rhode Island School of Design, and Silicon Valley. Dr Maeda has published several books on topics like simplicity and artificial intelligence, and he frequently shares his observations about design, technology, leadership, and more as a guest speaker and key opinion leader. As part of the CityU Legacy Series, this book is the first to tell Dr Maeda's unique life story as a comprehensive narrative, from his parents' tofu factory in Seattle to his time as a student, professor, university president, venture capitalist, and beyond. Readers will discover Dr Maeda's greatest successes and favorite failures on his journey from humble beginnings as a first-generation American to an influencer on the international stage. His story will be an inspiration for students and leaders at CityUHK, as well as fellow artists, designers, educators, and business people around the world.

This is no ordinary hope. This hope can transform us fully when we learn to see it correctly. Christ is risen, and Christ will come again. That is the hope that fueled the lives of Jesus' disciples and the momentum of the early church. The hope of seeing their risen Lord face-to-face powered their endurance through persecution, their patience in discipling new believers, and their courage to renounce injustice and sinful passions. Learning to renew our hope in Jesus' actual, promised return trains us to live differently and see the world with different eyes. What if we could hold that hope closer to us intellectually and emotionally? In Bright Hope for Tomorrow, pastor Chris Davis will help you see the Second Coming in a fresh way that recaptures your spiritual imagination, strengthens your discipleship, and recovers your theology from the confusion and controversy caused by end-times studies. This book is a journey into the heart of Christianity's eschatological anticipation that will help you:Explore the return of Jesus in the terms of the New Testament letters. Get a better, more biblical picture of what we will see when we behold Christ at his appearing. Develop rhythms and practices necessary to maintain your expectancy (including gathering, fasting, and resting). Rediscover the true heights of the hope we have in Christ—a fresh hope that can drive our daily responses to temptation, affliction, discouragement, and life in a broken world.

Secure Your Systems Using the Latest IT Auditing TechniquesFully updated to cover leading-edge tools and technologies, IT Auditing: Using Controls to Protect Information Assets, Third Edition, explains, step by step, how to implement a successful, enterprise-wide IT audit program. New chapters on auditing cybersecurity programs, big data and data repositories, and new technologies are included. This comprehensive guide describes how to assemble an effective IT audit team and maximize the value of the IT audit function. In-depth details on performing specific audits are accompanied by real-world examples, ready-to-use checklists, and valuable templates. Standards, frameworks, regulations, and risk management techniques are also covered in this definitive resource.• Build and maintain an internal IT audit function with maximum effectiveness and value• Audit entity-level controls and cybersecurity programs• Assess data centers and disaster recovery• Examine switches, routers, and firewalls• Evaluate Windows, UNIX, and Linux operating systems• Audit Web servers and applications• Analyze databases and storage solutions• Review big data and data repositories• Assess end user computer devices, including PCs and mobile devices• Audit virtualized environments• Evaluate risks associated with cloud computing and outsourced operations• Drill down into applications and projects to find potential control weaknesses• Learn best practices for auditing new technologies• Use standards and frameworks, such as COBIT, ITIL, and ISO• Understand regulations, including Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and PCI• Implement proven risk management practices

Do you want to become a professor? Professors, teachers at colleges and universities, have one of the coolest gigs around. At least that's what I think after doing so for 20 years. In addition to teaching myself, I have hired and supervised well over a thousand faculty at different colleges and universities. Higher education is changing, and the traditional path of earning a doctorate and applying for open faculty positions is not the primary career path today. This book distills what I have learned about how to prepare for higher education teaching, how to get hired, and what to do once you have that first teaching position.

Are you wondering why you are here on the planet? Do you wonder if you were an accident? Are you happy and fulfilled? I have good news for you, God loves you and has a plan for your life. That plan is a good one that will make you happy. You came from God and He has unique talents and abilities that are within you, waiting to be discovered. The call, plan, purpose and abilities are what I am calling your kingdom identity. It is to this issue of identity that the book, Walking in Your Kingdom Identity, speaks. If you don't have revelation of who God has created you to be, you may be manifesting a false or faux identity. This faux identity comes from pressures in life, disappointments, trials, tribulations, negative family and friends who may be dream killers and the devil. The Bible has extensive examples of those who found out what their kingdom identity was and stayed true to it. Others in the Bible, decided to walk in a faux identity that did not fulfill Divine Destiny and suffered the consequences. There are also testimonies of people who discovered their kingdom identity and decided to walk in it, saying, "No", to the faux.