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The Blessing of Adversity: Finding Your God-given Purpose in Life's Troubles

Barry C. Black · Tyndale Momentum
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Most people see trouble as something negative and seek to avoid it whenever possible But what if itxs those troubles that actually lead to greater blessing and purpose In The Blessing of Adversity a retired US Navy admiral and the nd chaplain of the US Senate distills the wisdom gained...
 
 
The Lotus Sutra A Biography

Donald S Lopez, Jr · Princeton University Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

The "Lotus Sutra" is arguably the most famous of all Buddhist scriptures. Composed in India in the first centuries of the Common Era, it is renowned for its inspiring message that all beings are destined for supreme enlightenment. Here, Donald Lopez provides an engaging and accessible...
 
 
Blood Moons Rising: Bible Prophecy, Israel, and the Four Blood Moons

Mark Hitchcock · Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Format: Paperback

Has the final countdown to the end days begun? Are the heavens telling us we are nearing the end? Astronomers have noticed it is coming. Historians have noted its significance. In 2014 and 2015, there will be a phenomenon in the skies of four blood moons falling during Jewish feasts. This...
 
 
Holy Spokes: The Search for Urban Spirituality on Two Wheels

Laura Everett · Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Invites readers to embrace the spiritual and communal benefits of cycling in the city After Laura Everett's car died on the highway one rainy night, she started riding her bicycle to work - and began an unlikely conversion to full-time bicycle commuter. In Holy Spokes Everett tells how she became...
 
 
Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul

Bill Hybels · Tyndale Momentum, an imprint of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Pages: 309
Format: Hardcover

In "Simplify," bestselling author Bill Hybels identifies the core issues that lure us into frenetic living--and offers searingly practical steps for sweeping the clutter from our souls. Today's velocity of life can consume and control us . . . until our breakneck pace begins...
 
 
The Spirit-Filled Life: Discover the Joy of Surrendering to the Holy Spirit

Dr. Charles F. Stanley · Thomas Nelson
Format: Print book

A wise, measured, and deeply passionate invitation to a Spirit-filled life Are you trying your best to be a good Christian but still feel something’s missing? Do the peace and joy you long for seem to elude you? Does following Christ sometimes feel like a lot of work—or like...
 
 
The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air: Three Godly Discourses

Søren Kierkegaard · Princeton University Press
Pages: 90
Format: Print book

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells his followers to let go of earthly concerns by considering the lilies of the field and the birds of the air. Søren Kierkegaard's short masterpiece on this famous gospel passage draws out its vital lessons for readers in a rapidly modernizing...
 
 
New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration

Judith Weisenfeld · New York University Press 2017.
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

When Joseph Nathaniel Beckles registered for the draft in the 1942, he rejected the racial categories presented to him and persuaded the registrar to cross out the check mark she had placed next to Negro and substitute "Ethiopian Hebrew." "God did not make us Negroes,"...
 
 
The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe

Forrest McGill · Asian Art Museum
Pages: 266
Format: Print book

This collection by the Asian Art Museum is a selection of works depicting the ancient Rama Epic.The Rama Epic - recounting the struggle of Prince Rama to defeat a demonic king, rescue his abducted wife, and reestablish order in the world - has been a subject for visual and performing arts,...
 
 
What Happens When We Die?: A Groundbreaking Study into the Nature of Life and Death

Sam Parnia M.D. · Hay House; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

Dr. Sam Parnia faces death every day. Through his work as a critical-care doctor in a hospital emergency room, he became very interested in some of his patients’ accounts of the experiences that they had while clinically dead. He started to collect these stories and read all the latest...
 
 
Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds

Leo Braudy · Yale University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

An award-winning scholar and author charts four hundred years of monsters and how they reflect the culture that created them Leo Braudy, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has won accolades for revealing the complex and constantly shifting...