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Going Solo: Hope and Healing for the Single Mom or Dad

Robert Beeson · Focus on the Family
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

As parents face the difficult reality of a broken home, a sense of being completely overwhelmed can shut down the perspective they need to find restoration. Parents need to know that they can choose to define this season of their lives, instead of becoming defined by circumstances. They...
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Paul: A Biography

N T Wright · HarperOne
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

In this definitive biography, renowned Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author N. T. Wright offers a radical look at the apostle Paul, illuminating the humanity and remarkable achievements of this intellectual who invented Christian theology - transforming a faith and changing...
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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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Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life

Sarah Clarkson · Tyndale Momentum
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

When you hear a riveting story, does it thrill your heart and stir your soul? Do you hunger for truth and goodness? Do you secretly relate to Belle's delight in the library in Beauty and the Beast?If so, you may be on your way to being a book girl.Books were always Sarah Clarkson's delight....
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Unlearning God: How Unbelieving Helped Me Believe

Phillip Gulley · Convergent Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

America's favorite Quaker storyteller explores the terrain of faith and doubt as shaped by family, church, and young love, finding his way to a less convenient but fully formed adult spirituality.Most of us grow up taking in whole belief systems with our mother's milk, only to discover...
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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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Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

Linda Kay Klein · Touchstone
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangelical Christianity's purity culture has had on a generation of young women - in a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir.In the 1990s, a "purity industry"...
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

AUSTIN CHANNING BROWN · Convergent Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

From a leading new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of what it's like to grow up black, Christian, and female in white America, in this idea-driven memoir about how her determined quest for identity and understanding shows a way forward for us all.Austin Channing Brown's...
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To Change The Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism

Ross Douthat · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times columnist and one of America's leading conservative thinkers considers Pope Francis's efforts to change the church he governs.Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936, today Pope Francis is the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis's stewardship of the Church,...
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Our Father: Reflections on the Lord's Prayer

POPE FRANCIS · Image
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

Pope Francis provides new insights into the most popular prayer in Christianity, offering readers a guide to living a life of meaning, purpose and strength.This new work by Pope Francis illuminates the most important prayer in all of Christianity, verse by verse, in conversation with Father...
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The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

BART EHRMAN · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The "marvelous" (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot) , New York Times bestselling story of how Christianity became the dominant religion in the West.How did a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire became...
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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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Love Like You've Never Been Hurt: Hope, Healing and the Power of an Open Heart

Jentezen Franklin · Chosen Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The human heart was created with a great capacity to love. But along with that comes a great capacity to feel pain. There is no denying that those who love us, who are closest to us, can wound us the most profoundly. That kind of pain can be difficult, if not impossible, to overcome. And it can feel...
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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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The Bullying Breakthrough: Real Help for Parents and Teachers of the Bullied, Bystanders, and Bullies

Jonathan McKee · Shiloh Run Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

In a world full of caring adults, how is it that we keep missing the cries of hurting kids?"Today, when the bell rings, kids might leave their school campus, but they can never escape the other world, a world where mockers and intimidators thrive. Ironically, they carry a gateway to that...
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