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The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement
The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement

Carrie Rosefsky Wickham · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

The Muslim Brotherhood has achieved a level of influence nearly unimaginable before the Arab Spring. The Brotherhood was the resounding victor in Egypt's 2011-2012 parliamentary elections, and six months later, a leader of the group was elected president. Yet the implications of the Brotherhood's...
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Living Courageously: You Can Face Anything, Just Do It Afraid
Living Courageously: You Can Face Anything, Just Do It Afraid

Joyce Meyer · FaithWords; Book Club edition
Format: Hardcover

You have fear And if you dont face your fear it can paralyze you and hold you back from enjoying life to the fullest Joyce Meyer New York Times bestselling author wants to show you that to break out of fear you must face it head-on The good news is God wants to give you the strength you need...
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Journey Of Miracles: Journey Of Miracles: Diagnosed not to live to finish grade school, the author, now 83, writes of the miracles she's witnessed on ... 50's to her current ministry on the Internet.
Journey Of Miracles: Journey Of Miracles: Diagnosed not to live to finish grade school, the author, now 83, writes of the miracles she's witnessed on ... 50's to her current ministry on the Internet.

Patti Spencer · Patti\Spencer
Pages: 150
Format: Paperback

Journey Of Miracles is about miracles and healings of Bible days in the life of the author, diagnosed by the medical profession not to live to finish grade school. She writes of the miracles she's witnessed on her journey through her life from the saw dust trails of the healing wave...
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This is the life! : enjoying the blessings and privileges of faith in christ
This is the life! : enjoying the blessings and privileges of faith in christ

Warren W Wiersbe · Baker Books, 2014.
Format: eBook

The Christian life should be one of pervading joy, persistent grace, and promises kept. God doesn't call us to a legalistic life of grimly getting by until we reach a heavenly reward. We receive part of our reward and inheritance in this life, on this earth. Yet we so often let the things...
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The Three Heavens: Angels, Demons and What Lies Ahead
The Three Heavens: Angels, Demons and What Lies Ahead

John Hagee · Worthy Publishing
Format: Book

BATTLES ARE RAGING BETWEEN ANGELS AND DEMONS OVER YOU John Hagee's breathtaking biblical tour of the three heavens takes you inside the timeless clash between the Kingdom of Light and the Kingdom of Darkness and explains why that battle makes all the difference in this world and the world...
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Your Guide to the Jewish Holidays: From Shofar to Seder
Your Guide to the Jewish Holidays: From Shofar to Seder

Matt Axelrod · Jason Aronson
Pages: 203
Format: Print book

Recent years have seen an increased interest in Jewish life, its culture, and its celebrations. There are many new students of Judaism, often potential converts or members of interfaith families who are seeking to learn more about the religion and its rituals. Unfortunately, many of the existing...
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Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World
Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World

Gary D Chapman · Northfield Pub
Pages: 233
Format: Paperback

Is technology bring­ing your family closer together or driving you farther apart?In this digital age, children are spending more and more time interacting with a screen and less time playing outside, reading a book, or interacting with a parent. While technology can benefit us, it can also...
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One Nation, Under Gods: A New American History
One Nation, Under Gods: A New American History

Peter Manseau · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking new look at the story of AmericaAt the heart of the nation's spiritual history are audacious and often violent scenes. But the Puritans and the shining city on the hill give us just one way to understand the United States. Rather than recite American history from a Christian...
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Educating All God's Children: What Christians Can--and Should--Do to Improve Public Education for Low-Income Kids
Educating All God's Children: What Christians Can--and Should--Do to Improve Public Education for Low-Income Kids

Nicole Baker Fulgham · Brazos Press
Format: Print book

Children living in poverty have the same God-given potential as children in wealthier communities, but on average they achieve at significantly lower levels. Kids who both live in poverty and read below grade level by third grade are three times as likely not to graduate from high school...
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Salvation with a Smile: Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church, and American Christianity
Salvation with a Smile: Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church, and American Christianity

Phillip Luke Sinitiere · Nyu Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Joel Osteen, the smiling preacher, has quickly emerged as one of the most recognizable Protestant leaders in the country. His megachurch, the Houston based Lakewood Church, hosts an average of over 40,000 worshipers each week. Osteen is the best-selling author of numerous books, and his sermons...
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The Lost Way: How Two Forgotten Gospels Are Rewriting the Story of Christian Origins
The Lost Way: How Two Forgotten Gospels Are Rewriting the Story of Christian Origins

Stephen J. Patterson · HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

In this rigorously researched and thoughtful study, a leading Jesus Seminar scholar reveals the dramatic story behind the modern discovery of the earliest gospels, accounts that do not portray Jesus exclusively as a martyr but recover a lost ancient Christian tradition centered on Jesus...
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Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions
Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions

Phil Zuckerman · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

David Brooks, The New York TimesAs secularism becomes more prominent and self-confident, its spokesmen have more insistently argued that secularism should not be seen as an absence — as a lack of faith — but rather as a positive moral creed. Phil Zuckerman, a Pitzer College sociologist,...
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Christmas Greetings from the Presidents
Christmas Greetings from the Presidents

Various Authors · Shadow Mountain
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

Every Christmas since Calvin Coolidge in 1927, the President of the United States has delivered a holiday message to the American people. Gathered in this volume are selections from those messages along with a brief glimpse into the history unfolding at that time. For example, what FDR said...
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Sweet Freedom: A Devotional
Sweet Freedom: A Devotional

Sarah Palin · Regnery Faith
Format: Hardcover

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the word gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." - John 14:27 In Sweet Freedom, Sarah Palin invites you to draw strength and inspiration from 260 meditations based on guiding Biblical...
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Growing Up Duggar: It's All About Relationships
Growing Up Duggar: It's All About Relationships

Jana Duggar · Howard Books; First Ed 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Its All About Relationships! In this delightful and very personal book, the four oldest Duggar girls share their hearts and their core beliefs, explaining that its all about relationships! Relationship with self The girls share their own personal journeys to self-acceptance and navigating...
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