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Losing Susan: Brain Disease, the Priest's Wife, and the God Who Gives and Takes Away

Victor Lee Austin · Brazos Press
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

The Story of Brain Disease and the Priest's WifeThis is the story of Susan--a wife, mother, Christian believer, lover of children, writer of stories, and woman of extraordinary intellect. Susan was diagnosed with a brain tumor in her late thirties. Although it was successfully treated,...
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How to Enjoy Reading Your Bible

Keith Ferrin · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 158
Format: Print book

Do you feel like you should read the Bible more?This book will help you want to read it.Keith Ferrin has been talking to churches for years about enjoying God's Word. Here he shares the most helpful ideas and habits you can start using today. You will find ten proven tips that are equally...
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The I Factor: How Building a Great Relationship with Yourself Is the Key to a Happy, Successful Life

Van Moody · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

The key to the life you want is inside you. One question lies behind every struggle we face: How do I deal with myself? Behind all our stumbles, behind each of our missteps, behind every one of our failings lies an inability to handle what Van Moody calls the "I-Factor." More...
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Psalm 91 for Teens: God's Shield of Protection for Your Future

Peggy Joyce Ruth · Charisma House
Pages: 190
Format: Print book

Today s teenagers are living in dangerous and uncertain days. Where schools were once safe havens for learning, they are now rife with violence and moral decline. Young people are witnessing the instability of governments and economies, all the while wondering how to have confidence in the future....
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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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Coffee, the World, and Jesus, but Not Necessarily in That Order

RON DEMIGLIO · Kregel Publications
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Life lessons and almost irreverent musings from twenty-five years in the global coffee industry When many Christians take a long, hard look at the lives of the spiritual elite in America, they want to shout, "I don't want to be like that!" Ron DeMiglio knows how they feel...
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Planet Middle School: Helping Your Child through the Peer Pressure, Awkward Moments & Emotional Drama

Dr. Kevin Leman · Revell
Pages: 309
Format: Print book

It happens to every parent. One day, you have a sweet son or daughter who loves to snuggle on the couch and who puts a smile on your face just by walking into the room. The next day, it's as if someone left the door open and let in an alien with a smart mouth and an attitude that, frankly,...
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Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science

Mike McHargue · Convergent Books
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover

From the host of the popular podcasts, The Liturgists Podcast and Ask Science Mike, a story of having faith, losing it, and finding it again through science - revealing how the latest in neuroscience, physics, and biology help us understand God, faith, and ourselves. What do you do when...
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Change Your Trajectory: Make the Rest of Your Life Better

Dale C Bronner · Whitaker House
Pages: 191
Format: Print book

Our lives are like objects hurtling through time, constantly colliding with changing circumstances or situations that send us careening down new trajectories; new paths. "Change," however, doesn't have to be a bad word. When we learn how to respond to it, change can make the rest...
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And Still She Laughs: Defiant Joy in the Depths of Suffering

Kate Merrick · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Kate Merrick examines the Bible's gritty stories of resilient women as well as her own experience losing a child - a journey followed by more than a million on prayfordaisy.com - to reveal the reality of surprising joy and deep hope even in the midst of heartache. Kate Merrick faced...
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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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Sacred days : following Jesus through the Christian year

Tom Steagald · Upper Room Books
Pages: 141
Format: Print book

Have you ever wondered about the meaning of certain seasons or days of the Christian year? Using the Christian year as a map, Steagald helps us understand the overarching story of Jesus' life. As you follow the events from Jesus' birth, to his ministry and miracles, and finally...
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Why I Didn't Rebel: A Twenty-Two-Year-Old Explains Why She Stayed on the Straight and Narrow---and How Your Kids Can Too

Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

In this unique combination of personal history, interviews, and social science, a young millennial shares surprising reasons that youthful rebellion isn't inevitable and points the way for raising healthy, grounded children who love God.Teen rebellion is seen as a cultural norm, but Rebecca...
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A Family Shaped by Grace: How to Get Along with the People Who Matter Most

Gary Morland · Revell
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

"Gary Morland is a gifted communicator who has learned many lessons the hard way. He grew up in a dysfunctional family and went down that road himself, bottoming out as a confused alcoholic with a wife, two daughters, and no idea how to change. God transformed Gary's life through...
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A Pair of Miralces: A Story of Autism, Faith, and Determined Parenting

KARLA AKINS · Kregel Publications
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

"A parent's gripping journey of awareness, acceptance, and appreciation of her two boys dealing with significant challenges brought on by autism."--Stephen Mark Shore, EdDWhen Karla Akins hoped that her autistic sons could learn to read and function independently, doctors warned...
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