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Resist and Persist: Faith and the Fight for Equality

Erin Wathen · Westminster John Knox Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Over the past few decades, the roles women play in public life have evolved significantly, as have the pressures that come with needing to do it all, have it all, and be all things to all people. And with this progress, misogyny has evolved as well. Today's discrimination is more subtle...
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Love Like You've Never Been Hurt: Hope, Healing and the Power of an Open Heart

Jentezen Franklin · Chosen Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The human heart was created with a great capacity to love. But along with that comes a great capacity to feel pain. There is no denying that those who love us, who are closest to us, can wound us the most profoundly. That kind of pain can be difficult, if not impossible, to overcome. And it can feel...
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A History of the Church in 100 Objects

Mike Aquilina · Ave Maria Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

The star of Bethlehem exemplifies the birth of Jesus, the Wittenberg Door is synonymous with the Protestant Reformation, and "the pill" symbolizes the sexual revolution. It's "stuff" that helps tell the story of Christianity. In this unique, rich, and eye-catching...
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Don't Settle for Safe: Embracing the Uncomfortable to Become Unstoppable

Sarah Jakes Roberts · Nelson Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Popular speaker and author Sarah Jakes Roberts shows women they are not disqualified by their pain and failures and offers encouragement and strength to believe God's best is still possible. Everyone has experiences in their lives that stop them in their tracks and become burdens they...
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Breaking the Marriage Idol: Reconstructing Our Cultural and Spiritual Norms

Kutter Callaway · IVP Books
Pages: 278
Format: Paperback

Should all Christians be married? Although we might quickly respond "no," our cultural stories and norms -- including those in the church -- often communicate "yes." Theologian and husband Kutter Callaway considers why marriage, which is a blessing from God, shouldn't...
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Do Yourself a Favor...Forgive: Learn How to Take Control of Your Life Through Forgiveness

Joyce Meyer · FaithWords; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Building on her signature message of using the mind to master difficult emotions, Joyce Meyer focuses on the most destructive, insidious one of all anger. It is responsible for broken relationships, sleepless nights, high blood pressure and ulcers. It destroys friendships, marriages and families,...
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Game Plan for Life: Your Personal Playbook for Success

Joe Gibbs · Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Pages: 268
Format: Paperback

Written with the sports fan in mind, Game Plan for Life is an "average Joe's" guide to what the Bible has to say about such topics as relationships; finances; physical, emotional, and spiritual health; finding the right vocation; living a life of purpose; and overcoming sin and addiction....
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After the Cheering Stops: An NFL Wife's Story of Concussions, Loss, and the Faith that Saw Her Through

Cyndy Feasel · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Former NFL wife Cyndy Feasel tells the tragic story of her family's journey into chaos and darkness resulting from the damage her husband suffered due to football-related concussions and head trauma - and the faith that saved her. "If I'd only known what I loved the most would...
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Choosing Real: An Invitation to Celebrate When Life Doesn't Go as Planned

Bekah Jane Pogue · Shiloh Run Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Are you ready to release your control of needing to be everything for everyone? . . . The invitation is yours. In Choosing REAL, author Bekah Pogue walks with you into life's unplanned circumstances--specifically frantic schedules, pain and transition, feelings of unworthiness, loneliness,...
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Costly Grace: An Evangelical Minister's Rediscovery of Faith, Hope, and Love

ROBERT SCHENCK · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A leading American evangelical minister - whom public figures long turned to for guidance in faith and politics - recounts his three conversions, from childhood Jewish roots to Christianity, from a pure faith to a highly politicized one, and from the religious right to the simplicity of Jesus'...
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World

CHRISTOPHER DE HAMEL · Penguin Press
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover

Winner of THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE and THE DUFF COOPER PRIZEAn extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's leading experts MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MANUSCRIPTS is a remarkable examination of twelve illuminated...
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Broken Way A Daring Path into the Abundant Life.

Voskamp Ann. · Zondervan
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

New York Times best-selling author Ann Voskamp sits at the edge of her life and all of her own unspoken brokenness and asks: What if you really want to live abundantly before it's too late? What do you do if you really want to know abundant wholeness? This is the one begging question that's...
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Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely

Lysa TerKeurst · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

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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Okayest Mom: When God's Plan of Adoption Doubled My Family

Natalie Gwyn · FaithWords
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

NATALIE GWYN uses humor to brilliantly capture how God led and helped this mother of two to adopt four children from Ethiopia and successfully bond her blended family.A happy, working wife, already birth mother of two healthy young children -- a boy and a girl -- doubled the size of her family...
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The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims

Mustafa Akyol · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

When Reza Aslan's bestseller Zealot came out in 2013, there was criticism that he hadn't addressed his Muslim faith while writing the origin story of Christianity. In fact, Ross Douthat of The New York Times wrote that "if Aslan had actually written in defense of the Islamic...
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