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Life Lessons: 125 Prayers and Meditations

Julia Cameron · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

This book of prayers and affirmations by bestselling author of The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron, is full of inspiration and encouragement. Beautifully packaged, these pocket prayers are perfect for carrying around or sharing as a gift.All too often we yearn for a more spiritual life but tell...
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The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion

N T Wright · HarperOne
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

The renowned scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author widely considered to be the heir to C. S. Lewis contemplates the central event at the heart of the Christian faith - Jesus' crucifixion - arguing that the Protestant Reformation did not go far enough in transforming our understanding...
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Jesus in Asia

R. S. Sugirtharajah · Harvard University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Reconstructions of Jesus occurred in Asia long before the Western search for the historical Jesus began in earnest. This enterprise sprang up in seventh-century China and seventeenth-century India, encouraged by the patronage and openness of the Chinese and Indian imperial courts. While...
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Catholic Cultures: How Parishes Can Respond to the Changing Face of Catholicism

Patricia Wittberg · Liturgical Press
Pages: 117
Format: Print book

From its earliest days, Christianity has been lived and proclaimed in the language and symbols of each receiving culture. Today, these cultures include the new ethnic groups moving into our parishes. They also include new generations of Catholic young adults, whose childhood experiences...
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This Life I Live: One Man's Extraordinary, Ordinary Life and the Woman Who Changed It Forever

Rory Feek · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The story she said he was born to write. Her story. His story. The love story of Joey and Rory. By inviting so many into the final months of Joey's life as she battled cancer, Joey and Rory Feek captured hearts around the world with how they handled the diagnosis; the inspiring, simple...
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The Invisible Bestseller: Searching for the Bible in America

Kenneth A Briggs · Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pages: 255
Format: Print book

A personal and journalistic inquiry into the Bible's disappearance from American life In The Invisible Bestseller veteran religion writer Kenneth Briggs asks how the Bible remains the best-selling book of all time, while fewer Americans than ever can correctly articulate what it says,...
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Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America

Jack Barsky · Tyndale Momentum
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

One decision can end everything . . . or lead to unlikely redemption.Millions watched the CBS 60 Minutes special on Jack Barsky in 2015. Now, in this fascinating memoir, the Soviet KGB agent tells his story of gut-wrenching choices, appalling betrayals, his turbulent inner world, and the secret...
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Mini Felt Christmas: 30 decorations to sew for the festive season

Sachiyo Ishii · Search Press
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Making your own decorations in the run-up to Christmas is a pastime that people of all ages and abilities can enjoy. In this delightful book, well-known crafter Sachiyo Ishii shows the reader how to make fabulously cute and easy-to-make felt decorations to adorn your home during the festive...
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Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be

Rachel Hollis · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

With wry wit and hard-earned wisdom, popular online personality and founder of TheChicSite.com founder Rachel Hollis helps readers break free from the lies keeping them from the joy-filled and exuberant life they are meant to have.Founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media...
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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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Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today

John Shelby Spong · HarperOne
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Five hundred years after Martin Luther and his Ninety-Five Theses ushered in the Reformation, bestselling author and controversial bishop and teacher John Shelby Spong delivers twelve forward-thinking theses to spark a new reformation to reinvigorate Christianity and ensure its future.At...
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Church of the Small Things: The Million Little Pieces That Make Up a Life

Melanie Shankle · Zondervan
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Is my ordinary, everyday life actually significant? Is it okay to be fulfilled by the simple acts of raising kids, working in an office, and cooking chicken for dinner?It's been said, "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath...
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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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Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior

Bart D Ehrman · HarperOne
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus, one of the most renowned and controversial Bible scholars in the world today examines oral tradition and its role in shaping the stories about Jesus we encounter in the New Testament - and ultimately in our understanding of Christianity.Throughout...
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To Change The Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism

Ross Douthat · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times columnist and one of America's leading conservative thinkers considers Pope Francis's efforts to change the church he governs.Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936, today Pope Francis is the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis's stewardship of the Church,...
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