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Southern Living Christmas All Through The South: Joyful Memories, Timeless Moments, Enduring Traditions
Southern Living Christmas All Through The South: Joyful Memories, Timeless Moments, Enduring Traditions

The Editors of Southern Living Magazine · Oxmoor House
Format: Hardcover

Christmas All Through the South captures and celebrates the quintessential experience of Christmas in the South. Presented as a timeline of the Christmas season, each event depicted tells a highly visual story of local Southern traditions and classic holiday parties. Each event will captivate...
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Resurrection Year: Turning Broken Dreams Into New Beginnings
Resurrection Year: Turning Broken Dreams Into New Beginnings

Sheridan Voysey · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

A hope-filled story about starting again after a dream has died—an emotive, poetic, and at times humorous discovery of the healing qualities of beauty, play, friendship, and love.Expectation. Expectation. Expectation. Disappointment. After ten years of tear-soaked prayers, repeatedly...
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The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever
The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever

Adam Leith Gollner · Scribner
Format: Hardcover

What have we not done to live forever? Adam Leith Gollner, the critically acclaimed author of The Fruit Hunters, weaves together religion, science, and mythology in a gripping exploration of the most universal of human obsessions immortality. Raised without religion, Adam Leith Gollner...
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Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church
Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church

Scot McKnight · Brazos Press
Format: Hardcover

According to Scot McKnight, "kingdom" is the biblical term most misused by Christians today. It has taken on meanings that are completely at odds with what the Bible says. "Kingdom" has become a buzzword for both social justice and redemption so that it has lost its connection...
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God's Answers to Life's Difficult Questions
God's Answers to Life's Difficult Questions

Rick Warren · Zondervan
Format: Hardcover

How can I … cope with stress? rebound from failure? defeat depression? have peace of mind? Life’s difficult questions have answers. Answers from the Bible that can change your outlook—and your life. Rick Warren writes, “In each of these studies, you will discover...
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The Food and Feasts of Jesus: The Original Mediterranean Diet, with Menus and Recipes
The Food and Feasts of Jesus: The Original Mediterranean Diet, with Menus and Recipes

Douglas E. Neel · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback

The New Testament is filled with stories of Jesus eating with people—from extravagant wedding banquets to simple meals of loaves and fishes. The Food and Feasts of Jesus offers a new perspective on life in biblical times by taking readers inside these meals. Food production and distribution...
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Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair
Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair

Anne Lamott · Riverhead
Format: Kindle Edition

Publishers Weekly10/28/2013 Lamott's (Help, Thanks, Wow) latest inspirational title explores how we can find significance in the face of pain or disaster. Readers are guided by an older, wiser Lamott than we met 20 years ago, when Operating Instructions was published. This narrator...
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You Can, You Will Journal: A Guide to Developing the 8 Undeniable Qualities of a Winner
You Can, You Will Journal: A Guide to Developing the 8 Undeniable Qualities of a Winner

Joel Osteen · FaithWords; Jou edition
Format: Hardcover

In YOU CAN, YOU WILL JOURNAL, Joel Osteen goes beyond the eight irrefutable traits and attributes of highly successful people by offering practical tools and guided help for readers. These personal qualities are tested through the ages and all types of circumstances. These practical principles...
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Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker: A Theological Vision for Discipleship and Life Together
Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker: A Theological Vision for Discipleship and Life Together

Andrew Root · Baker Academic
Format: Book

The youth ministry focus of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's life is often forgotten or overlooked, even though he did much work with young people and wrote a number of papers, sermons, and addresses about or for the youth of the church. However, youth ministry expert Andrew Root explains that...
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Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough
Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough

Jefferson Bethke · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 214
Format: eBook

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAbandon dead, dry, rule-keeping and embrace the promise of being truly known and deeply loved. Jefferson Bethke burst into the cultural conversation in 2012 with a passionate, provocative poem titled "Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus." The 4-minute...
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Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism
Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism

Karima Bennoune · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Eye-opening accounts of heroic resistance to religious extremism In Lahore Pakistan Faizan Peerzada resisted being relegated to a xCdark cornerxD by staging a performing arts festival despite bomb attacks In Senegal wheelchair-bound Aissatou CissxE produced a comic book to illustrate the injustices...
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Undone: A Story of Making Peace With an Unexpected Life
Undone: A Story of Making Peace With an Unexpected Life

Michele Cushatt · Zondervan
Format: Print book

Undone is author Michele Cushatts quest to make peace with a complicated life. It is an honest confession of a diagnosis of cancer and the joys and disappointments of motherhood and marriage, ripe with regret over what is and, yet, still hopeful for what could be. With enough humor to ease...
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Loveology: God.
Loveology: God.

John Mark Comer · Zondervan
Format: Hardcover

In the beginning, God created Adam. Then he made Eve. And ever since we’ve been picking up the pieces. Loveology is just that—a theology of love. With an autobiographical thread that turns a book into a story, pastor and speaker John Mark Comer shares about what is right...
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How to Read the Bible
How to Read the Bible

Harvey Cox · HarperOne
Pages: 257
Format: Print book

Renowned religion expert and Harvard Divinity School professor Harvey Cox deepens our experience of the Bible, revealing the three primary ways we read it, why each is important, and how we can integrate these approaches for a richer understanding and appreciation of key texts throughout...
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