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Take the Lid Off: Trust God, Release the Pressure, and Find the Life He Wants for You

SMOKIE NORFUL · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Pastor and Grammy-winning musician Smokie Norful inspires readers to go to God and experience more fulfillment, delight, power, and success than they ever dreamed. According to Smokie Norful, sometimes our lives feel like a pot of rice in his grandmother's kitchen: hissing, boiling...
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Mini Felt Christmas: 30 decorations to sew for the festive season

Sachiyo Ishii · Search Press
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Making your own decorations in the run-up to Christmas is a pastime that people of all ages and abilities can enjoy. In this delightful book, well-known crafter Sachiyo Ishii shows the reader how to make fabulously cute and easy-to-make felt decorations to adorn your home during the festive...
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The Other Side of Beauty: Embracing God's Vision for Love and True Worth

Leah Darrow · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

"Leah Darrow uses her experience in the beauty industry to help the women of our culture see what true beauty looks like." - Jennifer Fulwiler, host of The Jennifer Fulwiler Show and author of Something Other than GodDo you feel like you're never good enough? Like you should...
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Encountering the Goodness of God: 90 Daily Devotions

Bill Johnson · Destiny Image Incorporated
Pages: 190
Format: Hardcover

The Lord is Good In the midst of life's trials and circumstances, there is a timeless source of peace you can always draw joy from: "Taste and see that the Lord is good " (Psalm 34:8) Prepare your heart for a daily devotional that draws you into 90 rich encounters with...
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The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

Frances FitzGerald · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 752
Format: Print book

This groundbreaking book from Pulitzer Prize­-winning historian Frances FitzGerald is the first to tell the powerful, dramatic story of the Evangelical movement in America - from the Puritan era to the 2016 presidential election.The evangelical movement began in the revivals of the eighteenth...
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PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Evangelical Empire

John H Wigger · Oxford University Press
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover

In 1974 Jim and Tammy Bakker launched their television show, the PTL Club, from a former furniture store in Charlotte, N.C. with half a dozen friends. By 1987 they stood at the center of a ministry empire that included their own satellite network, a 2300-acre theme park visited by six million...
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Walk It Out: The Radical Result of Living God's Word One Step at a Time

TRICIA GOYER · David C. Cook
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Women often pack their lives with family, friends, and faithful service, yet still end up feeling empty and unfulfilled. In Walk It Out, Tricia Goyer demonstrates to women that walking out the mandates of Scripture allows God to spark passion and mission within them. Whether believers...
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Is the Bible Good for Women?: Seeking Clarity and Confidence Through a Jesus-Centered Understanding of Scripture

Wendy Alsup · christianaudio
Format: Audiobook

Headline: Is it possible to embrace the inherent dignity of womanhood while still cherishing the Bible? Many, both inside and outside the church, are concerned that an orthodox understanding of the Bible is threatening and even harmful to women. After all, the Bible has a number of passages...
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist

Marcus Rediker · Beacon Press
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover

The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of lifeThe Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man - a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever...
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Sharing God's Big Love with Little Lives: A Can-Do Guide for Parents and Caregivers

Jean Thomason · Worthy Publishing
Pages: 172
Format: Paperback

In this eagerly anticipated guide for parents, grandparents, and caregivers of little ones, Jean Thomason, known as the lively Miss PattyCake character, shares her insights gleaned from more than twenty years in children's ministry. Sharing God's Big Love with Little Lives will...
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The Godwink Effect: 7 Secrets to God's Signs, Wonders, and Answered Prayers

SQuire Rushnell · Howard Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From the authors of the popular and bestselling Godwink series comes a new and inspiring collection of true stories about people whose lives were changed by specific and extraordinary answers to their prayers.Prayer is a universal concept that anyone can do. It simply involves conversation...
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God Is for Real: And He Longs to Answer Your Most Difficult Questions

Todd Burpo · FaithWords
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

GOD IS FOR REAL addresses the questions: What is God like? Why are things the way they are in spite of who God is? If Todd's first book, Heaven Is for Real, was about the then and there of heaven, GOD IS FOR REAL is about the here and now on earth: Why are there are so many hypocritical...
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The Man Who Invented Christmas

LES STANDIFORD · Broadway Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

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Christmas: A Biography

JUDITH FLANDERS · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author explores the Christmas holiday, from the original festival through present day traditions.Christmas has always been a magical time. Or has it? Thirty years after the first recorded Christmas, the Pope was already warning that too many...
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Healing Spiritual Wounds: Reconnecting with a Loving God After Experiencing a Hurtful Church

Carol Howard Merritt · HarperOne
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

An effective plan to help those suffering from wounds inflicted by the church find spiritual healing and a renewed sense of faith.Raised as a conservative Christian, minister and author Carol Howard Merritt discovered that the traditional institutions she grew up in inflicted great pain...
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