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The Missing Matisse: A Memoir
The Missing Matisse: A Memoir

Pierre H Matisse · Tyndale House Publishers
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Nazi planes were bombing Paris the day a lifelong, more personal war began for Pierre. It was the day he lost his identity.Born into a famous family, Pierre Matisse grew up immersed in the art world of Paris and the French Riviera, spending time with some of the most famous artists of the twentieth...
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Remembering God's Mercy: Redeem the Past and Free Yourself from Painful Memories
Remembering God's Mercy: Redeem the Past and Free Yourself from Painful Memories

Dawn Eden · Ave Maria Press, 2016.
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

In the first book to explore how memories impact and are affected by faith, bestselling author Dawn Eden offers a guide to the process she used to heal the pain of her past. Through her own story, as well as the examples of St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Peter Faber, and Pope Francis, she shows...
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A Luminous Brotherhood: Afro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
A Luminous Brotherhood: Afro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

Emily Suzanne Clark · University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

In the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual experimentation, the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of African-descended men, practiced Spiritualism in heavily Catholic New Orleans from just before the Civil War to the end of Reconstruction. In this first comprehensive history...
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Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely
Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely

Lysa TerKeurst · Nelson Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

The enemy wants us to feel rejected . . . left out, lonely, and less than.In Uninvited, Lysa shares her own deeply personal experiences of rejection--from the perceived judgment of the perfectly toned woman one elliptical over to the incredibly painful childhood abandonment by her father....
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The Cost: My Life on a Terrorist Hit List
The Cost: My Life on a Terrorist Hit List

Ali Husnain · Zondervan
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Born into a prominent Shia Muslim family in Pakistan, Ali had it all - prestige, security, wealth, social status. The Cost is the extraordinary story of his dramatic encounter with Jesus that would change everything. That life-altering choice to follow Jesus would turn Ali from a typical...
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John Birch: A Life
John Birch: A Life

Terry Lautz · Oxford University Press
Pages: 317
Format: eBook

John Birch was better known in death than life. Shot and killed by Communists in China in 1945, he posthumously became the namesake for a right-wing organization whose influence is still visible in today's Tea Party. This is the remarkable story of who he actually was: an American missionary-turned-soldier...
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White Allies in the Struggle for Racial Justice
White Allies in the Struggle for Racial Justice

Drick Boyd · Orbis Books
Pages: 324
Format: Print book

This timely book offers the little-known stories of 18 white Americans from the 18th century to the present who broke with a racist culture to become allies in the struggle for racial justice. The point is not to portray these people as leaders or heroes of this ongoing struggle but to challenge...
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Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical
Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical

Timothy Keller · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it's easy to wonder: Why should anyone believe in Christianity? What role can faith and religion play in our modern lives? In this thoughtful and inspiring...
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Play with Fire: Discovering Fierce Faith, Unquenchable Passion, and a Life-Giving God
Play with Fire: Discovering Fierce Faith, Unquenchable Passion, and a Life-Giving God

Bianca Olthoff · Zondervan
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Play with Fire, the debut book by popular speaker and teacher Bianca Juarez Olthoff, is the reminder that God isn't waiting until you have more resources or a spouse or a job so he can use you. He's ready to use you now. Using the mythical creature, the Phoenix, which was also referenced...
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Miracles: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Supernatural Events from Antiquity to the Present
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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Confessions of a Secular Jesus Follower: Finding Answers in Jesus for Those Who Don't Believe
Confessions of a Secular Jesus Follower: Finding Answers in Jesus for Those Who Don't Believe

Tom Krattenmaker · Convergent
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

An award-winning USA Today columnist makes the case for how a Jesus freed from religion and politics meets the need for meaning and purpose in secular America. Tom Krattenmaker is part of a growing conversation centered at Yale University that acknowledges - and seeks to address...
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Is This the End?: Signs of God's Providence in a Disturbing New World
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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The Soul of Doubt: The Religious Roots of Unbelief from Luther to Marx
The Soul of Doubt: The Religious Roots of Unbelief from Luther to Marx

Dominic Erdozain · Oxford University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

It is widely assumed that science is the enemy of religious faith. The idea is so pervasive that entire industries of religious apologetics converge around the challenge of Darwin, evolution, and the "secular worldview." This book challenges such assumptions by proposing a different...
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Earth Psalms: Reflections on How God Speaks through Nature
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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Frequency: Tune In. Hear God.
Frequency: Tune In. Hear God.

Robert Morris · W Publishing Group
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Hearing God is not something you do. Hearing God is someone you are. As believers in Jesus Christ, we naturally want to know how we can hear God's voice. Does God speak? Is He speaking to me? The good news is, yes, He is speaking. And like a radio host broadcasting His voice into the airwaves,...
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