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Our Father: Reflections on the Lord's Prayer

POPE FRANCIS · Image
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

Pope Francis provides new insights into the most popular prayer in Christianity, offering readers a guide to living a life of meaning, purpose and strength.This new work by Pope Francis illuminates the most important prayer in all of Christianity, verse by verse, in conversation with Father...
 
 
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...
 
 
The Glovemaker: A Novel

Ann Weisgarber · Skyhorse
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, to return home from his travels as a wheelwright. It is now the depths of winter, Samuel is weeks overdue, and Deborah is getting worried. Deborah...
 
 
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...
 
 
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...
 
 
Migrants and Citizens: Justice and Responsibility in the Ethics of Immigration

Tisha M Rajendra · Eerdmans
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

What responsibilities do citizens have to migrants and potential migrants? What responsibilities do migrants themselves have? What is the basis of those responsibilities? In this book Tisha Rajendra reframes the confused and often heated debate surrounding immigration and develops a Christian...
 
 
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...
 
 
The More of Less: Finding the Life You Want Under Everything You Own

Joshua Becker · WaterBrook Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Don't Settle for More Most of us know we own too much stuff. We feel the weight and burden of our clutter, and we tire of cleaning and managing and organizing. While excess consumption leads to bigger houses, faster cars, fancier technology, and cluttered homes, it never brings happiness....
 
 
The Light Within Me: An Inspirational Memoir

Ainsley Earhardt · Harper
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller!The celebrated Fox News star and #1 New York Times bestselling author offers a powerful, uplifting look at her life and her spiritual journey, reflecting on her family, her faith, and her successful career.In her bestselling children's book Take Heart, My Child,...
 
 
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...
 
 
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...
 
 
White Picket Fences: Turning toward Love in a World Divided by Privilege

Amy Julia Becker · NavPress
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

A Gentle Invitation into the Challenging Topic of PrivilegeThe notion that some might have it better than others, for no good reason, offends our sensibilities. Yet, until we talk about privilege, we'll never fully understand it or find our way forward.Amy Julia Becker welcomes us into...
 
 
Celebrating a Christ-Centered Christmas: Seven Traditions to Lead Us Closer to the Savior

Emily Freeman · Ensign Peak
Pages: 102
Format: Book

Deepen the spirit that fills your heart and home this holiday season when you discover the meaning behind seven gifts of Christmas, each celebrated with an invitation from the scriptures and a simple tradition. Each gift is based on a figure in a Nativity set, and the traditions can easily...
 
 
The Happiness Dare: Pursuing Your Heart's Deepest, Holiest, and Most Vulnerable Desire

Jennifer Dukes Lee · Tyndale House Publishers
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Would you like to be happier?No matter who you are or how you feel, chances are you would answer yes. And Jennifer Dukes Lee was no different. For years, she wrestled with a constant nagging sense that she wasn't as happy as she could be. At the same time, she felt guilty for wanting...
 
 
Quit Church: Because Your Life Would Be Better If You Did

Chris Sonksen · Baker Books
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Let's face it. Church isn't working. We hear sermons about the abundant life Jesus promised, but how many of us are actually living it? How many of our churches are thriving? How many people in our congregations are experiencing God's blessings? Maybe it's time to call it quits.Quit...