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Re-Envisioning Service: The Geography of Our Faith

Ray C Gingerich · Cascadia Publishing House
Pages: 406
Format: Paperback

How do the Historic Peace Churches, specifically the Mennonites and Church of the Brethren, respond when confronted with the ravages of twentieth-century wars? Re-Envisioning Service, this third volume of ACRS (the Anabaptist Center for Religion and Society) memoirs reporting on The Geography...
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The Turquoise Table: Finding Community and Connection in Your Own Front Yard

KRISTIN SCHELL · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A simple way to connect your neighborhood, your community and build friendships. Are you consumed with a busy life but unsure how to slow down? Do you desire connection within your community and think, "Absolutely, but I don't have time for that" or "I can't create that"?...
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Following the Red Bird

Kate H. Rademacher · Light Messages Publishing
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

In Following the Red Bird, Kate Rademacher describes how she came to embrace a relationship with God after maintaining a pick-and-choose approach to spirituality for many years. Raised in a staunchly secular, liberal community, Christianity was never a path she had seriously considered....
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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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Zip It: The Keep It Shut 40-Day Challenge

Karen Ehman · Zondervan
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Zip It empowers readers to put into action the advice and commands of Scripture concerning the tongue. The New York Times bestselling book Keep It Shut covered many topics, including anger, truth-telling, people-pleasing, our digital tongues online, and gossip. Because there are more than...
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Busy Lives and Restless Souls: How Prayer Can Help You Find the Missing Peace in Your Life

Becky Eldredge · Loyola Press
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback

If you've already figured out your life and feel totally complete, then this book may not be for you. But if you are like the rest of us, every day presents a mountain of to-do items, jobs to go to, errands to run, projects to complete, meals to cook, children to raise... You forge ahead...
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Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby

Candida R. Moss · Princeton University Press
Pages: 223
Format: Hardcover

How the billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make America a "Bible nation"Like many evangelical Christians, the Green family of Oklahoma City believes that America was founded on a "biblical worldview as a Christian nation."...
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Darkness Is My Only Companion: A Christian Response to Mental Illness

Kathryn Greene-McCreight · Brazos Press
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

Where is God in the suffering of a mentally ill person? What happens to the soul when the mind is ill? How are Christians to respond to mental illness? In this brave and compassionate book, theologian and priest Kathryn Greene-McCreight confronts these difficult questions raised by her own mental...
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The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors

DAN JONES · Viking
Pages: 428
Format: Hardcover

A narrative history of the Knights Templar draws on extensive original sources to separate fact from myth, exploring their actual work and influence, the reasons they fell out of favor, and whether or not they were guilty of heresy.
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Thomas Merton, Peacemaker: Meditations on Merton, Peacemaking, and the Spiritual Life

John Dear · Orbis Books
Format: Print book

A noted peacemaker reflects on Thomas Mertons lessons for peacemaking today.In this centenary year of Thomas Mertons birth, longtime peace activist and author John Dear shares meditations on Mertons writings on peace and spiritual life. The God of peace is never glorified by human violence,...
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The Power of Praying® Through Fear

STORMIE OMARTIAN · Harvest House Publishers
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Is Fear Affecting Your Life? Does it Ever Steal Your Peace and Disturb Your Sleep? In today's world, fear has become epidemic. It takes away our sense of well-being; stresses our mind, body, and soul; and can keep us from doing what we need to do. The good news is that you can enjoy...
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I Am Number 8: Overlooked and Undervalued, but Not Forgotten by God

John W Gray · Faith Words
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

If God can take David--the invisible eighth son of a forgotten family--and turn him into a king, just imagine what magnificent plans He has for redeeming your life. David was born a number 8--a hidden gem, often overlooked and undervalued by everyone except for God. For David, being a number...
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Don't Settle for Safe: Embracing the Uncomfortable to Become Unstoppable

Sarah Jakes Roberts · Nelson Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Popular speaker and author Sarah Jakes Roberts shows women they are not disqualified by their pain and failures and offers encouragement and strength to believe God's best is still possible. Everyone has experiences in their lives that stop them in their tracks and become burdens they...
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Movies Are Prayers: How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings

JOSH LARSEN · IVP Books
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

"Movies are our way of telling God what we think about this world and our place in it. . . . Movies can be many things: escapist experiences, historical artifacts, business ventures, and artistic expressions, to name a few. I'd like to suggest that they can also be prayers."...
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Sacred Strangers: What the Bible's Outsiders Can Teach Christians

Nancy Haught · Liturgical Press
Pages: 113
Format: Paperback

The Bible is laced with stories in which strangers behave better than believers. What do these encounters with "others" - people from different cultures, religions, genders, economic and social classes - teach us about our own spiritual values, about the faith and God behind them?...
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