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Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

Mark Batterson · Multnomah
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Run TO the Roar! When the image of a man-eating beast travels through the optic nerve and into the visual cortex, the brain sends the body a simple but urgent message: run away! That's what normal people do, but not lion chasers. Rather than seeing a five hundred pound problem, they...
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The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

Frances FitzGerald · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover

"A page turner ... We have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally important religious sensibility, and FitzGerald has now provided it." - The New York Times Book Review "Massively learned and electrifying ... magisterial." - The Christian Science Monitor...
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Beyond Blessed: God's Perfect Plan to Overcome All Financial Stress

Robert Morris · FaithWords
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Reach your financial goals and reduce the stress in your life with this book of biblical principles by the New York Times bestselling author of The Blessed Life.Who doesn't want to eliminate financial stress? Who doesn't want to get out of debt, reach their financial goals, experience the joy that...
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Through the Eyes of Hope: Love More, Worry Less, and See God in the Midst of Your Adversity

Lacey Buchanan · Charisma House
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Understand how God turns tragic circumstances into something beautiful for His glory, while you love more, complain less, and see God at work in the most unlikely of places. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1, MEV What happens when...
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Overcoming Toxic Parenting: How to Be a Good Parent When Yours Wasn't

Rick Johnson · Flemming H Revell
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Advice for Parents on How to Break the Cycle of Neglect, Abuse, or Absentee ParentingParenting is hard enough when you had good role models in your own parents. But what if your parents were absent, neglectful, or abusive? Are you doomed to repeat their mistakes with your own children?...
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My Utmost: A Devotional Memoir

Macy Halford · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A beautifully written and heartfelt memoir by a young woman from Dallas, Texas, exploring the Evangelical Christianity of her childhood and its meaning to her in the present through the classic daily devotional My Utmost for His Highest.Raised in an Evangelical household by her beloved...
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Days of Awe and Wonder: How to Be a Christian in the Twenty-first Century

Marcus J Borg · Harper One
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Showcasing some of his most enduring and insightful writings, including many previously unpublished works, a concise and illuminating introduction to Marcus J. Borg, the late spokesman for progressive Christianity and one of the most revered and influential theologians of our time.In his acclaimed...
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Fit for Good: Eternal Principles, Patterns, and Practices of Fitness Success

H RICH TENNY · Cedar Fort, Inc.
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

We know the gospel changes lives--now let it change your body too! Fitness guru Liz Tennyson and Dr. H. Rich Tenney use gospel principles to help you improve your personal motivations, habits, and behaviors. Whether you want more energy to keep up with your kids or a longer life to serve...
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Is This All There Is?: On Resurrection and Eternal Life

Gerhard Lohfink · Liturgical Press Academic
Pages: 314
Format: Hardcover

Is the Christian hope for resurrection still alive or has it become tired? How can we talk about the Resurrection today? Gerhard Lohfink takes up the question of death and resurrection in this new book. He argues against the dazzling array of today's ideas and expectations and seeks...
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Eyewitness to Miracles: Watching the Gospel Come to Life

Randy Clark · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

"So he replied to the messengers, 'Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor.'" - Luke 7:22 These...
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Trade Your Cares for Calm

M LUCADO · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Be Free from the Worries That Weigh You Down.If you're trembling on a tightrope of fear and worry, get ready for the best trade ever: your cares for God's calm.What if faith, not fear, could be your default reaction to circumstances? Imagine being able to walk away from worry, conquer...
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Lies We Believe About God

Wm Paul Young · Atria Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

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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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World

CHRISTOPHER DE HAMEL · Penguin Press
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover

Winner of THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE and THE DUFF COOPER PRIZEAn extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's leading experts MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MANUSCRIPTS is a remarkable examination of twelve illuminated...
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Seven Sundays: A Faith, Fitness, and Food Plan for Lasting Spiritual and Physical Change

Alec Penix · Howard Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A Biblically grounded, six-week plan to lead you on the path toward losing weight and getting healthier by focusing on the connections between spiritual and physical health.So many of the books within the diet and fitness space focus on vanity or superficial reasons for striving for personal...
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A Future of Faith: The Path of Change in Politics and Society

NOT AVAILABLE. · St. Martin's Essentials
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Pope Francis met with French reporter and sociologist Dominique Wolton for an unprecedented series of twelve fascinating and timely conversations -- open dialogues revolving around the political, cultural, and religious issues dominating communication and conflict around the world -- now published...
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