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Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation

Richard Rohr · Whitaker House
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Invitation to a DanceThe Trinity is supposed to be the central, foundational doctrine of our entire Christian belief system, yet we're often told that we shouldn't attempt to understand it because it is a "mystery. " Should we presume to try to breach this mystery? If we could,...
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The Sisterhood: How the Power of the Feminine Heart Can Become a Catalyst for Change and Make the World a Better Place

Bobbie Houston · Faith Words
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

As Co-founder and Senior Pastor of Hillsong Church and founder of The Colour Sisterhood, Bobbie Houston paints a vision of God's plan for women of all ages and backgrounds to flourish, empower each other, and unite to change the world. We don't need to look far to realize that not all women...
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Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer

Scott H Hendrix · Yale University Press
Pages: 341
Format: Print book

The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther was neither an unblemished saint nor a single-minded religious zealot according to this provocative new biography by Scott Hendrix. The author presents...
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Saving My Assassin

Virginia Prodan · Tyndale House Publishers
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

Strong women who stand up for justice in the face of deadly opposition have been featured recently in the international media--from the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner boldly standing up for the educational rights of Pakistani girls, to an Iranian professor whose secret book club defied...
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That Was The Church That Was: How the Church of England Lost the English People

Andrew Brown · Bloomsbury Continuum
Pages: 255
Format: Print book

The Church of England still seemed an essential part of Englishness, and even of the British state, when Mrs Thatcher was elected in 1979. The decades which followed saw a seismic shift in the foundations of the C of E, leading to the loss of more than half its members and much of its influence....
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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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Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith

Danielle L Mayfield · HarperOne
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

From childhood, D.L. Mayfield longed to be a missionary, so she was thrilled when the opportunity arose to work with a group of Somali Bantu refugees in her hometown of Portland, OR. As the days, months, and years went by, her hopeful enthusiasm began to wear off, her faith became challenged,...
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American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global

John T Mcgreevy · Princeton University Pres
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

At the start of the nineteenth century, the Jesuits seemed fated for oblivion. Dissolved as a religious order in 1773 by one pope, they were restored in 1814 by another, but with only six hundred aged members. Yet a century later, the Jesuits numbered seventeen thousand men and were at the vanguard...
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Bound to Be Free: Escaping Performance to Be Captured by Grace

D A Horton · NavPress
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Bound to Be Free uses Scripture to recalibrate our hearts so we can walk in the freedom Christ has provided from sin and from the encumbrances that weigh us down.There's nothing more heartbreaking than to see saints who are bound by performance, not realizing there is freedom through...
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The Enthusiast: How the Best Friend of Francis of Assisi Almost Destroyed What He Started

Jon M Sweeney · Ave Maria Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Popular historian and award-winning author Jon M. Sweeney relates the untold story of St. Francis's friendship with Elias of Cortona, the man who helped him build the Franciscan movement. Sweeney uses the complexities of their relationship in a gripping narrative of how their efforts...
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