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A Place Called Heaven: 10 Surprising Truths about Your Eternal Home

Robert Jeffress · Baker Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

If any of us learned we were going to move to a foreign country, we'd do everything we could to learn about that place so that we'd be prepared when moving day arrived. As Christians, we know some day we will leave our familiar country and be united with God in heaven. And yet many of us know...
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Among the Ruins: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Catholic Church

Paul L Williams · Prometheus Books
Pages: 315
Format: Hardcover

This critical review of the Roman Catholic Church since the pivotal changes initiated in the 1960s by Vatican II paints a disturbing picture of decline and corruption. Dr. Paul L. Williams, a self-professed Tridentine or traditionalist Catholic, traces the various factors that have caused...
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I Still Believe: A Memoir of Wreckage, Recovery, and Relentless Love

Russ Taff · Post Hill Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Faith. Fame. Abuse. Shame. Alcoholism. Recovery. Redemption. This is the captivating, untold story of Christian music legend, Russ Taff.I Still Believe is a story that spans decades of multiple Grammy winner and Christian music icon Russ Taff's life, told from the first-hand perspective...
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Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

NICKI KOZIARZ · B&H Books
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

If success is defined in the eye of the beholder, who are you letting behold your success?Nicki Koziarz is confronting the comparison question: Why her? Through two striving sisters in the Bible, Nicki uncovered six truths' we need to hear when trying to measure up leaves you falling...
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Lies We Believe About God

Wm Paul Young · Atria Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

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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Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering

Kelly M. Kapic · IVP Academic
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

"This book will make no attempt to defend God. . . . If you are looking for a book that boasts triumphantly of conquest over a great enemy, or gives a detached philosophical analysis that neatly solves an absorbing problem, this isn't it." Too often the Christian attitude...
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The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

Catherine Nixey · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A bold new history of the rise of Christianity, showing how its radical followers ravaged vast swathes of classical culture, plunging the world into an era of dogma and intellectual darkness In Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hung along the town's...
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America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America

Jim Wallis · Brazos Press, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original sin."It's time we right this unacceptable wrong," says bestselling author and leading...
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I Give Up: The Secret Joy of a Surrendered Life

Laura Story · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Most of us long to be in control - of our schedule, our relationships, and our future.Newlywed Laura Story thought she had control over the great life ahead of her. After all, she followed Jesus and had a promising new job as a worship leader. Why would God not want to fulfill her dreams?But...
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The Polygamist's Daughter: A Memoir

Anna LeBaron · Tyndale House Publishers
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

"My father had more than fifty children."So begins the haunting memoir of Anna LeBaron, daughter of the notorious polygamist and murderer Ervil LeBaron. With her father wanted by the FBI for killing anyone who tried to leave his cult -- a radical branch of Mormonism -- Anna and her siblings...
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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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A Saint of Our Own: How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American

Kathleen Sprows Cummings · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

What drove U.S. Catholics in their arduous quest, full of twists and turns over more than a century, to win an American saint? The absence of American names in the canon of the saints had left many of the faithful feeling spiritually unmoored. But while canonization may be fundamentally...
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23 Minutes in Hell: One Man's Story About What He Saw, Heard, and Felt in That Place of Torment

Bill Wiese · Charisma House
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Awaken to the realities of hell, the afterlife and the urgency to live for Christ in your short time here on earth.
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Earth Psalms: Reflections on How God Speaks through Nature

Francine Rivers · Tyndale House Publishers
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Millions of readers have been transformed and inspired by Francine Rivers' bestselling novels Redeeming Love and A Voice in the Wind. Now, in this weekly devotional, the beloved author invites you to join her in seeking the Creator through the marvelous natural world we live in. Francine...
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The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe

Richard Rohr · Convergent Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From one of the world's most influential spiritual thinkers, a long-awaited book exploring what it means that Jesus was called "Christ," and how this forgotten truth can transform everything we see, hope for, and believe. In his decades as a globally recognized teacher, Richard...
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