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Know Your Why: Finding and Fulfilling Your Calling in Life

Ken Costa · W Publishing Group
Pages: 212
Format: Print book

"Challenging, inspiring and practical." Bear Grylls "I can't think of anyone more qualified to write about the significance of knowing your purpose than my friend Ken Costa ... His new book, Know Your Why, is absolutely foundational to living a purpose driven life."...
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I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

ANNE BOGEL · Baker Books
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our books shape us, define us, enchant us, and even sometimes infuriate us. Our books are a part of who we are as people, and we can't imagine life without them.I'd Rather Be Reading...
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Remember God

ANNIE F DOWNS · B&H Books
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

I know God is loving; I know He is good; I believe He is big and powerful. But sometimes I wonder if He is really kind - really deeply always kind. Is He? Christians love to talk about how God is in control, but that's harder to grasp when things aren't going like you thought it would,...
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The Chamberlain Key: Unlocking the Biblical Code That Proves the Existence of God

Timothy P Smith · WaterBrook
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Imagine you are a young, ambitious, successful appraiser of artifacts and antiquities - your services in demand by many of the most powerful individuals and branches of government in Washington, D. C. Your future could not seem brighter - except for a troubling dream...with the same mysterious...
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He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art

Christian Wiman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 114
Format: Hardcover

A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poetsWhat is it we want when we can't stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores...
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Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Earthly Existence

POPE FRANCIS · Random House
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A collection of homilies, speeches, and "messages of the day" that brings together Pope Francis's wisdom on finding happiness in the here and now For Pope Francis, appreciating our everyday lives is a spiritual undertaking. Joy is a divine attribute, and creating joy around...
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The Sacrament of Happy: What a Smiling God Brings to a Wounded World

Lisa Harper · B&H Books
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Imagine hearing your physician tell you that chips and queso contain more nutritional benefits than kale and quinoa. In her new book, The Sacrament of Happy: What a Smiling God Brings to a Wounded World, Lisa Harper unveils a similarly extravagant, unexpected surprise, declaring that happiness...
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Way of Love: Recovering the Heart of Christianity

Norman Wirzba · HarperOne, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

The pioneering scholar and author of Food and Faith and Living the Sabbath asserts that Christianity has slid off its rightful foundation, arguing that the faith only makes sense and can only be expressed in a healthy way if it seen as based on love, with a mission of training others in the way of love.It's...
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Getting Religion: Faith, Culture, and Politics from the Age of Eisenhower to the Era of Obama

Kenneth L Woodward · Convergent Books
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

"In this thoughtful book, Ken Woodward offers us a memorable portrait of the past seven decades of American life and culture. From Reinhold Niebuhr to Billy Graham, from Abraham Heschel to the Dali Lama, from George W. Bush to Hillary Clinton, Woodward captures the personalities and charts...
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Divine Collision: An African Boy, an American Lawyer, and Their Remarkable Battle for Freedom

Jim Gash · Worthy Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Los Angeles lawyer and law professor, Jim Gash, tells the amazing true story of how, after a series of God-orchestrated events, he finds himself in the heart of Africa defending a courageous Ugandan boy languishing in prison and wrongfully accused of two separate murders. Ultimately, their...
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Walking to Jerusalem : discovering your divine life purpose

E Christopher Hill · David C Cook
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Small beginnings. Detours along the way. Questions about how and when God is going to fulfill His purposes. We know the end of David s story, but David only knew it step by step. Like us, he had to follow God s path even when it seemed too slow. He had to believe that realizing our life...
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The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

BART EHRMAN · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The "marvelous" (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot) , New York Times bestselling story of how Christianity became the dominant religion in the West.How did a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire became...
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Through My Father's Eyes

Franklin Graham · Harpercollins Christian Pub
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Many have written about Billy Graham, the evangelist. This is the first book about Billy Graham, the father, written from the perspective of a son who knew him best. As a beloved evangelist and a respected man of God, Billy Graham's stated purpose in life never wavered: to help people...
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Feisty and Feminine: A Rallying Cry for Conservative Women

Penny Young Nance · Zondervan
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Tired of inauthentic prattle, CEO and president of Concerned Women for America Penny Young Nance is ready to change the way women today engage the culture. In her debut title, Feisty & Feminine, she takes an honest and transparent look at what it means to be a conservative Christian...
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The Forgotten Jesus: How Western Christians Should Follow an Eastern Rabbi

Robby Gallaty · Zondervan
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Through the years, our understanding of Jesus has been shaped by different cultural influences, and many Christians have forgotten that Jesus was a Jewish man living in a Jewish land, observing Jewish customs, and investing his life into Jewish men and women.Trading the popular, but inaccurate...
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