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Your Teenager Is Not Crazy: Understanding Your Teen's Brain Can Make You a Better Parent

Jeramy Clark · Baker Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

As God allows us to understand the mystery and marvel of brain science, we have the exciting opportunity to reexamine our assumptions about human behavior. Perhaps nowhere does this impact our lives more profoundly than when we think about raising children--especially teenagers. Where parents...
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The 30-Day Faith Detox: Renew Your Mind, Cleanse Your Body, Heal Your Spirit

Laura Harris Smith · Chosen Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

A Reset Button for Your Body, Mind, and SpiritIn our fallen world, invisible toxins like doubt, disappointment, and discouragement can contaminate even the strongest of faiths, leaving behind symptoms that affect our entire being--body, mind, and spirit.Using a one-month detox structure,...
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Days of Awe and Wonder: How to Be a Christian in the Twenty-first Century

Marcus J Borg · Harper One
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Showcasing some of his most enduring and insightful writings, including many previously unpublished works, a concise and illuminating introduction to Marcus J. Borg, the late spokesman for progressive Christianity and one of the most revered and influential theologians of our time.In his acclaimed...
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Open to God: Open to the World

Pope Francis · Bloomsbury Continuum
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Pope Francis here presents his hopes and aspirations for the Church in the future. Over the course of 16 conversations with Father Antonio Spadaro from 2013 to 2017, Pope Francis engages in a valuable dialogue. His impact on the modern world is extraordinary. He has turned the Catholic...
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The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

Frances FitzGerald · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover

"A page turner ... We have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally important religious sensibility, and FitzGerald has now provided it." - The New York Times Book Review "Massively learned and electrifying ... magisterial." - The Christian Science Monitor...
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Only Love Today: Reminders to Breathe More, Stress Less, and Choose Love

Rachel Macy Stafford · Zondervan
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Only Love Today is the inspirational read from best-selling author of Hands Free Mama, Rachel Macy Stafford. Millions of Stafford's fans from her blog and her books find hope, challenge, and inspiration through her poetic and powerful short pieces on her blog. Only Love Today brings these...
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Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

RACHEL HELD EVANS · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

If the Bible isn't a science book, instruction manual, or position paper, then what is it? New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans invites readers on a journey of rediscovery as she explores the magic of the Bible, engaging the old, familiar stories in new ways that honor the past...
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Raising Uncommon Kids: 12 Biblical Traits You Need to Raise Selfless Kids

Sami Cone · Baker Books
Pages: 205
Format: Print book

The single greatest lesson parents teach their kids isn't anything they say--it's what they do. And while most parents would say they want to raise compassionate kids, they might be surprised to discover just how little they're actually modeling the behaviors they hope to pass...
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Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

Lyndal Roper · Random House
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

This definitive biography reveals the complicated inner life of the founding father of the Protestant Reformation, whose intellectual assault on Catholicism ushered in a century of upheaval that transformed Christianity and changed the course of world history. On October 31, 1517, so the story...
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Last Testament: In His Own Words

Pope Benedict XVI. · Bloomsbury Continuum
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Pope Benedict made history by being the first Pope in over 700 years to resign from office. The Catholic Church the world over was stunned. Worn out by corruption in the Church and by an endless series of clerical sex scandals, he decided that the resolution of all these problems was outside...
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The Longing in Me: How Everything You Crave Leads to the Heart of God

Sheila Walsh · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Do your desires have you going around in circles? You may be looking for fulfillment in all the wrong places. You vowed you'd never repeat the same mistakes - yet you find yourself right where you started. What is it that keeps drawing you back into the same old traps? The fact is, your...
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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 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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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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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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