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The Respect Dare: 40 Days to a Deeper Connection with God and Your Husband

Nina Roesner · Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

“A long and happy marriage.” It sounds like the end of a fairy tale—an illusion that modern times have exposed. And it is, if marriage depends on a constant stream of romantic emotion, or even on copious amounts of time or money. Thank the Lord, none of those are necessary....
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Sightseeing in the Undiscovered Country: Tales Retold by a Psychic Bystanderâ„¢

Louisa Oakley Green · iUniverse
Pages: 185
Format: Print book

"Get ready to slip on your psychic walking shoes and follow Louisa into the unseen world around us. Ramble through tales of dead relatives who insist on having the last annoying word, ghosts behaving badly, inspiring near-death experiences, and dreams foretelling the future. Along...
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Aphrodite and the Rabbis: How the Jews Adapted Roman Culture to Create Judaism As We Know It

Burton L Visotzky · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Hard to believe but true:- The Passover Seder is a Greco-Roman symposium banquet- The Talmud rabbis presented themselves as Stoic philosophers- Synagogue buildings were Roman basilicas- Hellenistic rhetoric professors educated sons of well-to-do Jews- Zeus-Helios is depicted in synagogue...
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Revelation (Teach the Text Commentary Series)

J Scott Duvall · Baker Pub Group
Pages: 333
Format: Book

To craft informed sermons, pastors scour commentaries that often deal more with minutia than the main point. Or they turn to devotional commentaries, which may contain exegetical weaknesses. The Teach the Text Commentary Series bridges this gap by utilizing the best of biblical scholarship...
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The Evolution of Atheism: The Politics of a Modern Movement

Stephen LeDrew · Oxford University Press
Pages: 262
Format: Print book

The concept of evolution is widely considered to be a foundational building block in atheist thought. Leaders of the New Atheist movement have taken Darwin's work and used it to diminish the authority of religious institutions and belief systems. But they have also embraced it as a metaphor...
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Layman's Bible Commentary Vol. 6: Isaiah thru Ezekiel

Dr. Tremper Longman · Barbour Pub Inc
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

<div> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Here s an accessible reference that aids personal Bible study or Sunday school preparation the Layman s Bible Commentary, reference for the everyday Christian, not the scholar!...
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Wasted Prayer: Know When God Wants You to Stop Praying and Start Doing

Greg Darley · Thomas Nelson
Format: Book

Faith without obedience is dead. Prayer without action is wasted. What would your life look like if you stopped praying about God’s will and just did it instead? How would your church look if it spent as much time serving as it spent praying about serving? The truth is, sometimes...
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Shaken: Discovering Your True Identity in the Midst of Life's Storms

Tim Tebow · WaterBrook
Pages: 213
Format: Print book

Who are you when life is steady? Who are you when storms come? Most of us have been on the receiving end of rejection, a broken dream, or heartbreak. And while this is not an easy space to go through, when we are grounded in the truth, we can endure the tough times. In this powerful...
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Spiritual Letters

Sr. Wendy Beckett · Orbis Books
Format: Paperback

Apart from her celebrity status as the art nun, fueled by her popular television programs and prolific writing, Sister Wendy has been approached throughout her life for counsel on the spiritual life and the life of prayer. Here, for the first time, are collected some of the finest of her responses...
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Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World

Shadi Hamid · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 306
Format: Print book

In Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a novel and provocative argument on how Islam is, in fact, "exceptional" in how it relates to politics, with profound implications for how we understand the future of the Middle East....
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Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

ROBERT WRIGHT · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is designed...
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Santa Muerte: The History, Rituals, and Magic of Our Lady of the Holy Death

Tracey Rollin · Weiser Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Death welcomes everyone. This is the foundation for the veneration of Santa Muerte, or "Holy Death." Considered to be the female personification of death, she is associated with protection and safe passage to the afterlife. She is also the patron saint of people who live on the fringes...
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October 31, 1517: Martin Luther and the Day that Changed the World

Martin E Marty · Paraclete Press
Pages: 114
Format: Print book

Released in time for the 500th Anniversary of Martin Luther's 95 Theses, and the Protestant Reformation. "This is an invitation to a party, one which commemorates events that began five hundred years ago in Europe and have consequences throughout the world today. My title suggests...
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God at the Crossroads of Worldviews: Toward a Different Debate about the Existence of God

Paul Seungoh Chung · University of Notre Dame Press
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

Debates about the existence of God persist but remain at an impasse between opposing answers. God at the Crossroads of Worldviews reframes the debate from a new perspective, characterizing the way these positions have defined and argued for their views not as wrong, per se, but rather as odd or awkward....
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