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This Life I Live: One Man's Extraordinary, Ordinary Life and the Woman Who Changed It Forever

Rory Feek · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The story she said he was born to write. Her story. His story. The love story of Joey and Rory. By inviting so many into the final months of Joey's life as she battled cancer, Joey and Rory Feek captured hearts around the world with how they handled the diagnosis; the inspiring, simple...
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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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Crossing the Waters: Following Jesus through the Storms, the Fish, the Doubt, and the Seas

Leslie Leyland Fields · Tyndale House Publishers
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

The gospels are dramatic, wild, and wet -- set in a rich maritime culture on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Jesus' first disciples were ragtag fishermen, and Jesus' messages and miracles teem with water, fish, fishermen, net-breaking catches, sea crossings, boat-sinking storms,...
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Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World

Eric Metaxas · Viking
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

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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Taking My Life Back: My Story of Faith, Determination, and Surviving the Boston Marathon Bombing

Rebekah Gregory · Revell
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

On April 15, 2013, Rebekah Gregory and her five-year-old son waited at the finish line of the Boston Marathon to support a friend who was running. When the blasts of terrorists' homemade bombs packed with nails and screws went off three feet away, Rebekah's legs took the brunt of the blast,...
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Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious

David Dark · IVP Books
Pages: 199
Format: Print book

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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Watch Your Mouth: Understanding the Power of the Tongue

Tony Evans · Harvest House Publishers
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

"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 Godwink Effect: 7 Secrets to God's Signs, Wonders, and Answered Prayers

SQuire Rushnell · Howard Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

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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Time to Die, A Time to Live: Making and Moving Beyond End-of-Life Decisions

Nancy Magargle · Carpenter's Son Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

A mother grapples with a crisis of faith while struggling to know God's will when facing end-of-life decisions for her child and learns to recognize and recover from false guilt as she seeks to reconnect with God in the aftermath. "It was years ago I first learned about Stacey's...
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Prayers for Victory in Spiritual Warfare

Tony Evans · Harvest House Publishers,
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

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

"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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In Good Faith: Secular Parenting in a Religious World

Maria Polonchek · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 206
Format: Hardcover

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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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

KATE BOWLER · Random House
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

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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Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely

Lysa TerKeurst · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

The enemy wants us to feel rejected . . . left out, lonely, and less than.In Uninvited, Lysa shares her own deeply personal experiences of rejection--from the perceived judgment of the perfectly toned woman one elliptical over to the incredibly painful childhood abandonment by her father....
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The Glovemaker: A Novel

Ann Weisgarber · Skyhorse
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, to return home from his travels as a wheelwright. It is now the depths of winter, Samuel is weeks overdue, and Deborah is getting worried. Deborah...
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