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The Christ-Centered Home: Inviting Jesus In

Emily Freeman · Ensign Peak
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

We often think of Jesus' ministry as teaching to the multitudes, feeding the 5,000, teaching in the temples and synagogues, teaching on the mountainside or the seashore. But many of His most personal teachings were done within the walls of a family's home. His followers invited...
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Killing Mr. Hyde

Michael Lassman · Yorkshire Publishing
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback

In "Killing Mr. Hyde", a former Wall Street trader descends into the abyss of alcoholism and loses everything valuable in his life. Finding his way back from the gates of insanity and death was not possible without God's help. In this striking narrative, Michael Lassman does...
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Messy Beautiful Friendship: Finding and Nurturing Deep and Lasting Relationships

Christine Hoover · Baker Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Women long for deep and lasting friendships but often find them challenging to make. The private angst they feel regarding friendship often translates into their own insecurity and isolation. Christine Hoover offers women a fresh, biblical vision for friendship that allows for the messiness...
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Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything

Anne Bogel · Baker Books
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

If the viral Buzzfeed-style personality quizzes are any indication, we are collectively obsessed with the idea of defining and knowing ourselves and our unique place in the world. But what we're finding is this: knowing which Harry Potter character you are is easy, but actually knowing...
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Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

Joel Osteen · FaithWords; 10 Anv Upd edition
Format: Hardcover

10th Anniversary Edition: Updated with New Chapter & ForewordPastor Joel Osteen asks everyone to examine what he or she really believes. Why is this important? Because we will become what we believe. Our beliefs will prove either a barrier or vehicle as we strive to go higher, rise above...
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Confidence in God: Conquerors Through His Love

Angelica Lassiter · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 71
Format: Paperback

This book describes our confidence to overcome challenges that come our way through trusting in God alone.
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Losing Susan: Brain Disease, the Priest's Wife, and the God Who Gives and Takes Away

Victor Lee Austin · Brazos Press
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

The Story of Brain Disease and the Priest's WifeThis is the story of Susan--a wife, mother, Christian believer, lover of children, writer of stories, and woman of extraordinary intellect. Susan was diagnosed with a brain tumor in her late thirties. Although it was successfully treated,...
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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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Remembering the Body

Alan Michael Berecka · Mongrel Empire Press
Pages: 94
Format: Paperback

Alan Berecka's Remembering the Body is one of the few poetry books I couldn't put down. These poems are high-energy, driving narratives that range from hilarious vignettes to poignant episodes of loss and injustice-and now and then one of these small, complete stories manages to be both....
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Absolute Power: How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World

Paul Collins · PublicAffairs
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its most influential pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authorityIn 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. With cardinals...
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Christianity: A Complete Introduction

John Young · Teach Yourself Books
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

"Christianity: A Complete Introduction" is designed to give you everything you need to succeed in your studies, all in one place. It covers the key themes and topics that you are expected to understand, outlining the basics in clear jargon-free English, and then providing added-value...
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Angel in Aisle 3: The True Story of a Mysterious Vagrant, a Convicted Bank Executive, and the Unlikely Friendship That Saved Both Their Lives

Kevin West · Howard Books, 2015.
Pages: 233
Format: Print book

In the tradition of An Invisible Thread and Same Kind of Different as Me, Angel in Aisle 3 is the heartwarming true story of an unlikely friendship that began with a chance meeting in a grocery store between a bank executive bound for prison and an elderly stranger.When Kevin West resigned...
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More than Words: 10 Values for the Modern Family

Erin Wathen · Westminster John Knox Press
Pages: 173
Format: Paperback

The values we live and raise our families by are grounded, first, in love. Contrary to many of today's so-called family values, our values go beyond one or two loaded social issues to a wholehearted lifestyle of practicing compassion, hospitality, justice, peace, and belonging. More...
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Tough As They Come

Travis Mills · Convergent Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Thousands have been wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Five have survived quadruple amputee injuries. This is one soldier's story. Thousands of soldiers die year to defend their country. United States Army Staff Sergeant Travis Mills was sure that he would become another statistic...
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Raising World Changers in a Changing World: How One Family Discovered the Beauty of Sacrifice and the Joy of Giving

Kristen Welch · Baker Books
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Almost any parent you asked would tell you that they want their children to be happy, successful adults. But many of us forget (or never knew to begin with) that lasting personal joy is not necessarily found the way the world says it is--through reaching a certain socioeconomic status,...
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