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Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

Lyndal Roper · Random House
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

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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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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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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Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be

Rachel Hollis · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

With wry wit and hard-earned wisdom, popular online personality and founder of TheChicSite.com founder Rachel Hollis helps readers break free from the lies keeping them from the joy-filled and exuberant life they are meant to have.Founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media...
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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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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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Is This the End?: Signs of God's Providence in a Disturbing New World

David Jeremiah · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The world seems more fractured each day. People are asking, "Is this the End?" Never have the headlines been this jarring, the cultural changes this rapid, or the moral decay this pronounced. What on earth is happening? After each new occurrence, the most oft-heard questions are,...
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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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Miracles: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Supernatural Events from Antiquity to the Present

Patrick J Hayes · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 478
Format: Print book

Multidisciplinary in approach, this informative yet entertaining encyclopedia covers major aspects of miraculous phenomena through more than 150 alphabetically arranged entries that document how humanity's belief in religious miracles over multiple places, periods, and faiths have affected...
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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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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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He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art

Christian Wiman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 114
Format: Hardcover

A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poetsWhat is it we want when we can't stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores...
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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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Stranger No More: A Muslim Refugee's Story of Harrowing Escape, Miraculous Rescue, and the Quiet Call of Jesus

Annahita Parsan · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

There will be pain ahead, and trouble and problems that I won't be able to fix on my own.But in them all, I know God will be there, calling me to look to him. Inviting me to take the next step toward his open arms.And I will say yes.And yes.And yes. Annahita Parsan was born into a Muslim...
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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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