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Get Your Hopes Up!: Expect Something Good to Happen to You Every Day

Joyce Meyer · Faith Words
Pages: 186
Format: Large Print Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer teaches readers how to transform their lives by tapping into the power of hope. One of the most powerful forces in the universe is hope--the happy and confident anticipation that something good is going to happen. Regardless of where one is in life,...
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Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife

Leslie Kean · Crown
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

"While exploring the evidence for an afterlife, I witnessed some unbelievable things that are not supposed to be possible in our material world. Yet they were unavoidably and undeniably real. Despite my initial doubt, I came to realize that there are still aspects of Nature which are neither...
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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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What We Talk About When We Talk About God

Rob Bell · HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Rob Bell, whom The New Yorker describes as "one of the most influential Christian leaders in the country," does for the concept of God what he did for heaven and hell in his book Love Wins: He shows how traditional ideas have grown stale and dysfunctional...
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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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Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age

James Carroll · Viking
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A New York Times bestselling and widely admired Catholic writer explores how we can retrieve transcendent faith in modern times Critically acclaimed and bestselling author James Carroll has explored every aspect of Christianity, faith, and Jesus Christ except this central one: What can we believe...
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The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast

MICHAEL SCOTT MOORE · Harper Wave
Pages: 451
Format: Hardcover

Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates - a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration...
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The Angel Effect: The Powerful Force That Ensures We Are Never Alone

John Geiger · Weinstein Books
Format: Book

Examines the shared phenomenon of experiencing a benevolent presence who offers aid during times of great pain or being at the edge of death.
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Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic: Atheists in American Public Life

R Laurence Moore · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

If the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects religious liberty, why doesn't it protect atheists?God occupies our nation's consciousness, even defining to many what it means to be American. Nonbelievers have often had second-class legal status and have had to fight for their...
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The Reason for My Hope: Salvation

Billy Graham · W Group
Pages: 207
Format: Hardcover

Back cover: What is the most hopeful word in History?For Billy Graham, that word is SALVATION.Salvation from what?From our selfish and self-destructive selves.From the messes we get ourselves into.From the sin that has haunted humanity from the beginning of time and the evil that pulls...
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Happy Women Live Better

Valorie Burton · Harvest House Publishers
Format: Paperback

Women have more education, more money, and more choices than ever before. Yet, research shows we are less happy than women 40 years ago. Today, we can "have it all." So why is happiness declining? In Happy Women Live Better, bestselling author Valorie Burton unlocks the secret...
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Renovate: Changing Who You Are by Loving Where You Are

Leonce Crump II · Multnomah Books
Pages: 205
Format: Print book

God is not wiping this world away. He is in the midst of renovating it. Léonce Crump, lead pastor of Renovation Church in the urban core of Atlanta, invites you to do what God did when He wanted to make a difference in this world - move in. Whether you're a pastor looking to plant...
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Discovering the City of Sodom: The Fascinating, True Account of the Discovery of the Old Testament's Most Infamous City

Steven Collins · Howard Books
Pages: 334
Format: Print book

Like many Christians today in the academic world, Dr. Steven Collins felt pulled in different directions when it came to apparent conflicts between the Bible and scholarly research and theory - an intellectual crisis that inspired him to lay it all on the line as he set off to locate the lost...
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