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Whisper: How to Hear the Voice of God

Mark Batterson · Multnomah
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The best-selling author of Circle Maker, which helped over 2 million people learn to talk to God, now helps readers learn how to listen to God.The voice that spoke the cosmos into existence is the same voice that parted the Red sea, and made the sun stand still in the midday sky. One day,...
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Hiking Naked: A Quaker Woman's Search for Balance

IRIS GRAVILLE · Homebound Publications
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback

Knocked off her feet after twenty years in public health nursing, Iris Graville quit her job and convinced her husband and their thirteen-year-old twin son and daughter to move to Stehekin, a remote mountain village in Washington State's North Cascades. They sought adventure; she yearned...
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The Gay Preacher's Wife: How My Gay Husband Deconstructed My Life and Reconstructed My Faith

Lydia Meredith · Karen Hunter Books-Gallery Books
Pages: 244
Format: Print book

The deeply personal memoir of Lydia Meredith, a woman who spent almost thirty years married to a preacher - only to have her husband leave her for a MAN - and how her life becomes a testimony of tolerance and a theology of love and acceptance.After being married to Reverend Dennis A. Meredith...
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The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears

Mark Batterson · Zondervan
Pages: 235
Format: Print book

According to Pastor Mark Batterson in this expanded edition of The Circle Maker, "Drawing prayer circles around our dreams isn't just a mechanism whereby we accomplish great things for God. It's a mechanism whereby God accomplishes great things in us." Do you ever sense...
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Madison Park: A Place of Hope

Eric L. Motley · Zondervan
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to Madison Park, a small community in Alabama founded by freed slaves in 1880. And meet Eric Motley, a native son who came of age in this remarkable place where constant lessons in self-determination, hope, and unceasing belief in the American dream taught him everything he needed...
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Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

Lyndal Roper · Random House
Pages: 592
Format: Print book

From a star historian, this definitive biography reveals the inner life of Martin Luther, the founding leader of the Reformation, whose Ninety-five Theses began the greatest upheaval and transformation of Christianity in history.
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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

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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A Family Shaped by Grace: How to Get Along with the People Who Matter Most

Gary Morland · Revell
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

"Gary Morland is a gifted communicator who has learned many lessons the hard way. He grew up in a dysfunctional family and went down that road himself, bottoming out as a confused alcoholic with a wife, two daughters, and no idea how to change. God transformed Gary's life through...
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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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The Caregiving Season: Finding Grace to Honor Your Aging Parents

Jane Daly · Focus On The Family Pub
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Caring for elderly parents is challenging. It's a season of life that requires grace and strength that can only come from God. In The Caregiving Season, Jane Daly shares personal caregiving stories, offering practical advice to help you honor your aging parents well and deepen your...
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The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims

Mustafa Akyol · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

When Reza Aslan's bestseller Zealot came out in 2013, there was criticism that he hadn't addressed his Muslim faith while writing the origin story of Christianity. In fact, Ross Douthat of The New York Times wrote that "if Aslan had actually written in defense of the Islamic...
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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

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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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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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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The Murderous History of Bible Translations: Power, Conflict, and the Quest for Meaning

Harry Freedman · Bloomsbury
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

In 1535, William Tyndale, the first man to produce an English version of the Bible in print, was captured and imprisoned in Belgium. A year later he was strangled and then burned at the stake. His co-translator was also burned. In that same year the translator of the first Dutch Bible was arrested...
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