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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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Parents Rising: 8 Strategies for Raising Kids Who Love God, Respect Authority, and Value What's Right

ARLENE PELLICANE · Moody Publishers
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

How to raise godly children in a godless world Do you feel like you're fighting a losing battle? Against the culture, against the busyness, sometimes even against your spouse and kids ... Often it seems like everything is against you as a parent, and your everyday life can feel far from...
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Little Lessons from the Saints: 52 Simple and Surprising Ways to See the Saint in You

BOB BURNHAM · Loyola Press
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback

Far too many Catholics think of the saints as old, cold, and irrelevant to everyday life. Catechist and spiritual director Bob Burnham, however, experiences the saints as something quite different: beautiful examples of people who, though flawed like us, opened themselves to God's grace...
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A Future of Faith: The Path of Change in Politics and Society

NOT AVAILABLE. · St. Martin's Essentials
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Pope Francis met with French reporter and sociologist Dominique Wolton for an unprecedented series of twelve fascinating and timely conversations -- open dialogues revolving around the political, cultural, and religious issues dominating communication and conflict around the world -- now published...
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The Dictator Pope: The Inside Story of the Francis Papacy

MARCANTONIO COLONNA · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The Inside Story of the Francis Papacy Could Pope Francis be the most tyrannical and unprincipled pontiff in modern times? Yes, says Church historian Marcantonio Colonna, in his controversial yet judicious new book, The Dictator Pope. Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope...
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Love Like You've Never Been Hurt: Hope, Healing and the Power of an Open Heart

Jentezen Franklin · Chosen Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The human heart was created with a great capacity to love. But along with that comes a great capacity to feel pain. There is no denying that those who love us, who are closest to us, can wound us the most profoundly. That kind of pain can be difficult, if not impossible, to overcome. And it can feel...
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How Can You Still Be Catholic?: 50 Answers to a Good Question

Christopher Sparks · Marian Press
Pages: 269
Format: Paperback

"How can you still be Catholic?" Cradle Catholic Christopher Sparks takes the question head on, addressing an array of controversial issues and offering the same answer given by St. Peter 2,000 years ago.
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The Forgotten Creed: Christianity's Original Struggle against Bigotry, Slavery, and Sexism

Stephen J. Patterson · Oxford University Press
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover

Long before the followers of Jesus declared him to be the Son of God, Jesus taught his followers that they too were the children of God. This ancient creed, now all but forgotten, is recorded still within the folds of a letter of Paul the Apostle. Paul did not create this creed, nor did he fully...
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The Tech Talk: Strategies for Families in a Digital World

Michael Horne PsyD · Our Sunday Visitor
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Have you had the tech talk with your children? Does the mere mention of it cause you to shudder? We think it s important, but for many parents it s almost as uncomfortable as the other talk we dread. So we avoid it.Author Michael Horne, a Catholic parent and clinical psychologist, knows...
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Overcoming Shame: Let Go of Others' Expectations and Embrace God's Acceptance

Mark W Baker · Harvest House Publishers
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Are You Ready to Be Free of Your Shame?Shame is debilitating. It ruins relationships, thwarts growth, and destroys hope. It can masquerade as various problems - guilt, envy, pride, resentment - but until you heal the core issue, freedom will remain out of reach. Dr. Mark W. Baker wants...
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Hope for Your Marriage: Experience God's Greatest Desires for You and Your Spouse

CLAYTON AND ASHLEE HURST · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Clayton and Ashlee Hurst share the principles and Scripture they have learned to lean on and preach at Lakewood Church. Foreword by Joel Osteen.Are you willing to do whatever it takes to have the marriage you dreamed of? Interestingly, this is the question Clayton and Ashlee ask young couples...
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Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father

THOMAS S KIDD · Yale University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin's faith Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson. Born to Boston Puritans, by his teenage...
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The Courage to Be Protestant: Reformation Faith in Today's World

David F Wells · Eerdmans
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback

At its heart, the Protestant Reformation was about a deep, doctrinally shaped faith centered on God and his Word. But that historic, substantive faith is not faring so well in our contemporary Western context. In his 2008 book The Courage to Be Protestant, David Wells issued a summons to return...
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For the Glory: The Untold and Inspiring Story of Eric Liddell, Hero of Chariots of Fire

Duncan Hamilton · Penguin Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

The untold and inspiring story of Eric Liddell, hero of Chariots of Fire, from his Olympic medal to his missionary work in China to his last, brave years in a Japanese work camp during WWIIMany people will remember Eric Liddell as the Olympic gold medalist from the Academy Award winning...
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12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You

Tony Reinke · Crossway
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Do You Control Your Phone - Or Does Your Phone Control You? Within a few years of its unveiling, the smartphone had become part of us, fully integrated into the daily patterns of our lives. Never offline, always within reach, we now wield in our hands a magic wand of technological power...
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