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In Good Faith: Secular Parenting in a Religious World
Maria Polonchek · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Pages: 206 Format: Hardcover
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Part memoir, part cultural exploration, this book covers the author's journey as she grows up in an evangelical Christian home, leaves religion behind as a young adult, and goes on to raise children in a family outside of religious belief. Maria Polonchek weaves a personal story with... |
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Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously
David Green · Zondervan Pages: 192 Format: Hardcover
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David Green believes that generosity and building a legacy based on giving can lead to getting back what you really want: a family that stays together, prays together, and shares life joyfully. Green tells the story of caring for the small things and starting Hobby Lobby in their garage.... |
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Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering
Makoto Fujimura · InterVarsity Press Pages: 263 Format: Print book
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Shusaku Endo's novel Silence, first published in 1966, endures as one of the greatest works of twentieth-century Japanese literature. Its narrative of the persecution of Christians in seventeenth-century Japan raises uncomfortable questions about God and the ambiguity of faith in the midst... |
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The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
DAN JONES · Viking Pages: 428 Format: Hardcover
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A narrative history of the Knights Templar draws on extensive original sources to separate fact from myth, exploring their actual work and influence, the reasons they fell out of favor, and whether or not they were guilty of heresy. |
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Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
Lyndal Roper · Random House Pages: 576 Format: Hardcover
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This definitive biography reveals the complicated inner life of the founding father of the Protestant Reformation, whose intellectual assault on Catholicism ushered in a century of upheaval that transformed Christianity and changed the course of world history. On October 31, 1517, so the story... |
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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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Prayers for Victory in Spiritual Warfare
Tony Evans · Harvest House Publishers, Pages: 176 Format: Print book
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Spiritual victory is a privilege to be enjoyed by every Christian. Why then do you seem to encounter so many obstacles in your daily life?One answer may be that you have not yet learned how to stand strong in the victory that is already yours in Christ. The enemy of your soul has gained... |
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The Way of Silence: Engaging the Sacred in Daily Life
David Steindl-Rast · Franciscan Media Pages: 176 Format: Print book
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"The tranquility of order is a dynamic tranquility, the stillness of a flame burning in perfect calm, of a wheel spinning so fast that it seems to stand still. Silence in this sense is not only a quality of the environment, but primarily an attitude, an attitude of listening. ... Let us give... |
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
KATE BOWLER · Random House Pages: 208 Format: Hardcover
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A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of living without certainty. Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the school of divinity at Duke, and had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart after years of trying,... |
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Watch Your Mouth: Understanding the Power of the Tongue
Tony Evans · Harvest House Publishers Pages: 208 Format: Print book
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"Does it really matter what I say?" Your greatest weapon - for good or evil - is in your mouth. From bestselling author Dr. Tony Evans comes a compelling resource to help you learn to tame your tongue. With life-changing insights shared through engaging lessons and anecdotes,... |
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The Dawn of Christianity: People and Gods in a Time of Magic and Miracles
Robert C Knapp · Harvard University Press Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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Ordinary people of antiquity interacted with the supernatural through a mosaic of beliefs and rituals. Exploring everyday life from 200 BCE to the end of the first century CE, Robert Knapp shows that Jews and polytheists lived with the gods in very similar ways. Traditional interactions... |
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The Godwink Effect: 7 Secrets to God's Signs, Wonders, and Answered Prayers
SQuire Rushnell · Howard Books Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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From the authors of the popular and bestselling Godwink series comes a new and inspiring collection of true stories about people whose lives were changed by specific and extraordinary answers to their prayers.Prayer is a universal concept that anyone can do. It simply involves conversation... |
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Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious
David Dark · IVP Books Pages: 199 Format: Print book
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For many of us, the word "religious" immediately evokes thoughts of brainwashing, violence and eye-rubbingly tiresome conversations. Why not be done with it? David Dark argues that it's not that simple. The ease with which we put the label on others without applying it to ourselves... |
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Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
Eric Metaxas · Viking Pages: 496 Format: Hardcover
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, Martin Luther, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation On All Hallow's Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther posted a document... |
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