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PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Evangelical Empire
John H Wigger · Oxford University Press
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover
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In 1974 Jim and Tammy Bakker launched their television show, the PTL Club, from a former furniture store in Charlotte, N.C. with half a dozen friends. By 1987 they stood at the center of a ministry empire that included their own satellite network, a 2300-acre theme park visited by six million... |
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What Are We Doing Here?: Essays
Marilynne Robinson · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winnerMarilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National... |
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Losing Susan: Brain Disease, the Priest's Wife, and the God Who Gives and Takes Away
Victor Lee Austin · Brazos Press
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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The Story of Brain Disease and the Priest's WifeThis is the story of Susan--a wife, mother, Christian believer, lover of children, writer of stories, and woman of extraordinary intellect. Susan was diagnosed with a brain tumor in her late thirties. Although it was successfully treated,... |
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Single, Dating, Engaged, Married: Navigating Life and Love in the Modern Age
Ben Stuart · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 253
Format: Paperback
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Navigating the Four Critical Seasons of RelationshipThe vast majority of young people will still pass through the key phases of singleness, dating, engagement and marriage in their twenties. Yet they are delaying marriage longer than any generation in human history. Why? For the first time... |
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A Way to God: Thomas Merton's Creation Spirituality Journey
Matthew Fox · New World Library
Pages: 308
Format: Print book
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This powerful book was prompted by an invitation Matthew Fox received to speak on the centennial of Thomas Merton's birth. Fox says that much of the trouble he's gotten into - such as being expelled from the Dominican Order in 1993, after thirty-four years, by Cardinal Ratzinger (who... |
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Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks
Diana Butler Bass · HarperOne
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the multiple award-winning Grounded and leading trend spotter in contemporary Christianity explores why gratitude is missing as a modern spiritual practice, offers practical suggestions for reclaiming it, and illuminates how the shared practice of gratitude can lead to greater... |
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GraceLaced: Discovering Timeless Truths Through Seasons of the Heart
RUTH CHOU SIMONS · Harvest House Publishers
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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This Journey Is as Perennial as the SeasonsGraceLaced is about more than pretty florals and fanciful brushwork - it's about flourishing. With carefully crafted intention, this beautiful volume of 32 seasonal devotions from artist and author Ruth Chou Simons encourages readers in any circumstance... |
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Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life
Lara Casey · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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A flourishing life is possible - no perfection required! Women often feel like they have to have it all together in order to live a meaningful life. Instead they feel inadequate, overwhelmed, and exhausted as they to figure out how to do it all. Author, business owner, and mom to three... |
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Lies We Believe About God
Wm Paul Young · Atria Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the twenty million plus copy bestselling novel The Shack and the New York Times bestsellers Cross Roads and Eve comes a compelling, conversational exploration of the wrong-headed ideas we sometimes have and share about God.Wm. Paul Young has been called a heretic for the ways... |
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7 Lessons from Heaven: How Dying Taught Me to Live a Joy-Filled Life
MARY C M D NEAL · Convergent Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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In this inspired follow-up to her million-selling To Heaven and Back, Dr. Mary Neal shares untold stories about her encounters with Jesus and powerful insights about how the reality of heaven can make each day magnificent. Dr. Mary Neal's unforgettable account of a 1999 kayaking accident... |
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Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father
THOMAS S KIDD · Yale University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin's faith Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson. Born to Boston Puritans, by his teenage... |
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Loveable: Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life
Kelly Flanagan · Zondervan
Pages: 239
Format: Paperback
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"Loveable is a handbook for how to be human." -Katherine Willis Pershey, author of Very Married: Field Notes on Love and Fidelity In Loveable, Dr. Kelly Flanagan writes, "We rarely remember the precious months or years when we experienced our worthiness as a fact. A given.... |
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