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Faith in the Spotlight: Thriving in Your Career While Staying True to Your Beliefs

Megan Alexander · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Megan Alexander is a national correspondent for Inside Edition and a special correspondent for Thursday Night Football on CBS. In Faith in the Spotlight she shares her practical advice for achieving excellence in career, faith, and family and gives us an honest look at thriving in a secular...
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The Joy of Discipleship: Reflections from Pope Francis on Walking with Christ

Francis Pope · Loyola Press
Pages: 109
Format: Print book

"Dear friends, be glad! Do not be afraid of being joyful!" - Pope Francis, from The Joy of Discipleship Near the end of Luke's Gospel, two disciples slowly make their way home from Jerusalem to the village of Emmaus. At the outset, they are deeply saddened by Jesus' tragic death....
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Screens and Teens: Connecting with Our Kids in a Wireless World

Kathy Koch PhD · Moody Publishers
Format: Print book

If you feel like you're losing your teen to technology, you're not alone.Screen time is rapidly replacing family time, and for teens especially, it is hardwiring the way they connect with their world. In Screens and Teens, Dr. Kathy helps you make sense of all this and empowers...
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Half Truths: God Helps Those Who Help Themselves and Other Things the Bible Doesn't Say

Adam Hamilton · Abingdon Press
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

They are simple phrases. They sound Christian - like something you might find in the Bible. We've all heard these words. Maybe we've said them. They capture some element of truth, yet they miss the point in important ways. Join Adam Hamilton in this 5-week Bible study to search...
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Waking Up Catholic: A Guide to Catholic Beliefs for Converts, Reverts, and Anyone Becoming Catholic

Chad R Torgerson · Assisi Media
Pages: 148
Format: Paperback

Are you going through the RCIA Process? Are you new to Catholicism and become a recent Catholic convert? Did you grow up Catholic and return as a Catholic revert? Are you interested in becoming Catholic for the first time? The depth of Catholic theology is one of its greatest beauties,...
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A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 484
Format: Print book

From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History, and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit,...
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Moving Mountains: Praying with Passion, Confidence, and Authority

John Eldredge · Nelson Books
Pages: 248
Format: Print book

Why Some Prayers Work, Why Some Don't, and How You and God Can Change Things for Good How would it feel to enter into prayer with confidence and assurance - certain that God heard you and that your prayers would make a difference? It would likely feel amazing and unfamiliar. That's because...
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Loving Your Friend Through Cancer: Words and Actions that Communicate Compassion

Marissa Henley · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 121
Format: Paperback

Have you ever struggled to find the right words to say to a friend who has just been diagnosed with cancer? Do you wonder which acts of kindness she would appreciate the most as she endures chemotherapy or a mastectomy? Loving Your Friend Through Cancer provides an in-depth look at what...
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Persuasive Pro Life: How to Talk about Our Culture's Toughest Issue

Trent Horn · Catholic Answers Press
Pages: 335
Format: Print book

Are you scared to talk about abortion? Don t worry almost everyone is. Either we think the subject is too impolite, or we don t want to be branded an intolerant fanatic, or we re afraid we won t represent the pro-life side well enough. Whatever the reason for this fear, it causes many of us pass...
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Confessions of a Secular Jesus Follower: Finding Answers in Jesus for Those Who Don't Believe

Tom Krattenmaker · Convergent
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

An award-winning USA Today columnist makes the case for how a Jesus freed from religion and politics meets the need for meaning and purpose in secular America. Tom Krattenmaker is part of a growing conversation centered at Yale University that acknowledges - and seeks to address...
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Cop Under Fire: Moving Beyond Hashtags of Race, Crime and Politics for a Better America

Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. · Worthy Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

America has become increasingly divided and polarized in recent years. With growing racial tension, animosity toward law enforcement professionals, government corruption, and disregard for the constitutional process, there seems to be no easy answer in sight. But Milwaukee County Sheriff...
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Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World

ALEC RYRIE · VIKING
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk in 1517. Now it covers the globe and includes almost a billion people. On the 500th anniversary of Luther's theses, a global history of the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world Five hundred years ago an obscure monk challenged...
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The Big Deal of Taking Small Steps to Move Closer to God

Vashti M McKenzie · FaithWords
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

THE BIG DEAL... shows how to develop a stronger relationship with God and more effective spiritual lifestyle by taking small steps that lead to big changes. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Geneva} span.Apple-tab-span {white-space:pre} Been running for Jesus a long...
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12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You

Tony Reinke · Crossway
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Do You Control Your Phone - Or Does Your Phone Control You? Within a few years of its unveiling, the smartphone had become part of us, fully integrated into the daily patterns of our lives. Never offline, always within reach, we now wield in our hands a magic wand of technological power...
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Make Your Dreams Bigger Than Your Memories: Don't Let Your Past Keep You From Your Future

Terri Savelle Foy · Baker Publishing Group
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

We all have a past. We've all made mistakes and done things we wish we hadn't done. We all wish we could just push a "delete" button on some of the choices we made yesterday and some of the things we've experienced years ago. What's more, our past has a way of shaping...
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