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Destiny: Step into Your Purpose

T. D. Jakes - Faithwords
Format: Print book

Remember feeling a pull, sensing a divine guide that was leading you to the right place or person? DESTINY, that inner compass, directs you to fulfillment of your highest purpose. When you reflect on your life, you may be amazed that your greatest moments resulted from circumstances that...
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The Mind Connection: How the Thoughts You Choose Affect Your Mood, Behavior, and Decisions

Joyce Meyer - FaithWords
Format: Print book

Joyce Meyer, #1 New York Times bestselling author, explores the power of positive thinking and the undeniable connection between the mind, mouth, moods, and attitudes. Thoughts can seem random and meaningless, but they impact your life every day. It's all connected. What you think...
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Augustine: Conversions to Confessions

Robin Lane Fox - Basic Books
Format: Print book

Saint Augustine is one of the most influential figures in all of Christianity, yet his path to sainthood was by no means assured. Born in AD 354 to a pagan father and a Christian mother, Augustine spent the first thirty years of his life struggling to understand the nature of God and his world....
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Blessed in the Darkness: How All Things Are Working for Your Good

Joel Osteen - FaithWords
Format: Hardcover

The same God who leads us to green pastures guides us through the valleys. #1 New York Times bestselling author Joel Osteen shares how God uses the darkness in life for good.All of us will go through dark times that we don't understand: a difficulty with a friend, an unfair situation at work,...
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Hope for the Caregiver: Encouraging Words to Strengthen Your Spirit

Peter Rosenberger - Worthy Inspired
Format: Hardcover

"If you love somebody, you will be a caregiver. If you live long enough, you'll need one." --Peter Rosenberger Now the 65.7 million caregivers in America, making up 29 percent of the U.S. adult population, can turn to one of their own for encouragement and renewal. With three...
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The Givenness of Things: Essays

Marilynne Robinson - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Format: Print book

The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, and more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield material well-being. But while cultural pessimism is always fashionable,...
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Fresh Start: The New You Begins Today

Joel Osteen - Faithwords
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author Joel Osteen offers practical insight and encouragement for a new beginning with God--essentials about who He is, who we are, and how with Him we can fulfill our destiny.
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The Invisible Girls: A Memoir

Sarah Thebarge - Jericho Books
Format: Hardcover

Twenty-seven-year-old Sarah Thebarge had it all - a loving boyfriend, an Ivy League degree, and a successful career - when her life was derailed by an unthinkable diagnosis aggressive breast cancer. After surviving the grueling treatments - though just barely - Sarah moved to Portland,...
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Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs

Paul Koudounaris - Thames & Hudson; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

An intriguing visual history of the veneration in European churches and monasteries of bejeweled and decorated skeletons Death has never looked so beautiful. The fully articulated skeleton of a female saint, dressed in an intricate costume of silk brocade and gold lace, withered fingers...
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How to Read the Bible

Harvey Cox - HarperOne
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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The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis

Garry Wills - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling historian takes on a pressing question in modern religion - will Pope Francis embrace change?Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope and the first from the Americas, offers a challenge to his church. Can he bring about significant change? Should he? Garry...
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Hands Free Life: Nine Habits for Overcoming Distraction, Living Better, and Loving More

Rachel Macy Stafford - Zondervan
Format: Paperback

We all yearn to look back to find we lived a life of significance. But is it even possible anymore? Considering the amount of distraction and pressure that exists in society today, living a fulfilling life may seem like an unachievable dream. But it is not - not with the nine habits outlined...
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If: Trading Your If Only Regrets for God's What If Possibilities

Mark Batterson - Baker Books
Format: Print book

Transform Your If Only Regrets into What If PossibilitiesIf is a powerful little word. Some people are stuck in "if only," trudging through lives marked with regret. But God wants us to live lives marked with possibilities, with the "what if"...
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Mere Christianity

C. S. Lewis - Harper San Francisco; Revised & Enlarged edition
Format: Paperback

In the classic Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis, the most important writer of the 20th century, explores the common ground upon which all of those of Christian faith stand together. Bringing together Lewis' legendary broadcast talks during World War Two from his three previous books The Case...
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English Lessons: The Crooked Path of Growing Toward Faith

Andrea Lucado - WaterBrook
Format: Hardcover

The Questions Would Teach Her More Than the Answers It wasn't long after arriving in Oxford for graduate school that twenty-two-year-old Andrea Lucado - preacher's daughter from Texas - faced not only culture shock, a severe lack of coffee, but also some unexpected hard questions:...
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The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors

DAN JONES - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"Dan Jones is an entertainer, but also a bona fide historian. Seldom does one find serious scholarship so easy to read." - The Times, Book of the YearA New York Times bestseller, this major new history of the knights Templar is "a fresh, muscular and compelling...
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

KATE BOWLER - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of living without certainty. Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the school of divinity at Duke, and had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart after years of trying,...
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Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Earthly Existence

POPE FRANCIS - Random House
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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20 Ways to Make Every Day Better: Simple, Practical Changes with Real Results

Joyce Meyer - Faithwords
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer shares powerful, practical ways to experience a new level of joy and excitement about life every day. The traffic is backed up, the kids are screaming, and the car is making a funny noise again. Any one of these challenges can test our temperament...
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Mere Christianity

C S Lewis - HarperSan Francisco
Format: Book

In the classic Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis, the most important writer of the 20th century, explores the common ground upon which all of those of Christian faith stand together. Bringing together Lewis' legendary broadcast talks during World War Two from his three previous books The Case...
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Let God Fight Your Battles: Being Peaceful in the Storm

Joyce Meyer - FaithWords
Format: Hardcover

La vida le presenta varias batallas, desde las preocupaciones por la salud, los retos financieros o los asuntos familiares. Los tiempos difciles usualmente son llamados las tormentas de la vida, y sobrellevarlos a solas puede ser muy duro, o hasta puede parecer imposible. Anmese! Dios...
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The Power of I Am Study Guide: Two Words That Will Change Your Life Today

Joel Osteen - Faith Words
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Joel Osteen presents a program for transforming your self-image and changing your life. Based on Joel Osteen's book, THE POWER OF I AM, this study guide presents intriguing questions, challenging activities, and encouraging insights that will inspire...
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Think Better, Live Better: A Victorious Life Begins in Your Mind

Joel Osteen - FaithWords
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author Joel Osteen shares how reprogramming your thoughts to remove negativity will lead to a more blessed, fulfilled life. Your mind has incredible power over your success or failure. THINK BETTER, LIVE BETTER offers a simple yet life-changing strategy for erasing the thoughts...
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The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

Ian Morgan Cron - IVP Books
Format: Hardcover

Ignorance is bliss -- except in self-awareness. What you don't know about yourself can hurt you and your relationships -- and maybe even how you make your way in the world. It can also keep you in the shallows with God. Do you want help figuring out who you are and why you're stuck in the same...
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In God's Hands: The Spiritual Diaries of Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul Ii - Harper One
Format: Print book

Available for the first time in English, the private reflections of the modern pope recently elevated to sainthood - deeply personal writings that reveal a spiritual leader who agonized over his service to God, continually questioning whether he was doing enough.As the head of the Roman...
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Jon Krakauer - Anchor
Format: Paperback

This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America's isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like...
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Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life

Caleb Wilde - HarperOne
Format: eBook

The blogger behind Confessions of a Funeral Director - what Time magazine called a "must read" - reflects on mortality and the powerful lessons death holds for every one of us in this compassionate and thoughtful spiritual memoir that combines the humor and insight of Smoke Gets...
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How to Read the Bible

Harvey Cox - HarperOne
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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Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity

James J. O'Donnell - Ecco Press
Format: Book

A provocative and contrarian religious history that charts the rise of Christianity from the point of view of traditional" religion from the religious scholar and critically acclaimed author of Augustine. Pagans explores the rise of Christianity from a surprising and unique viewpoint:...
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Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer

Scott H Hendrix - Yale University Press
Format: Print book

The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther was neither an unblemished saint nor a single-minded religious zealot according to this provocative new biography by Scott Hendrix. The author presents...
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Convicted: A Crooked Cop, an Innocent Man, and an Unlikely Journey of Forgiveness and Friendship

JAMEEL ZOOKIE MCGEE - WaterBrook
Format: Hardcover

Jameel McGee: "For the next three years not a day went by that I didn't think about my son who I had never seen and the cop who had kept me from him. And for most of those three years I promised myself that if I ever saw this cop again, I was going to kill him. I intended to keep...
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This Life I Live: One Man's Extraordinary, Ordinary Life and the Woman Who Changed It Forever

Rory Feek - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

The story she said he was born to write. Her story. His story. The love story of Joey and Rory. By inviting so many into the final months of Joey's life as she battled cancer, Joey and Rory Feek captured hearts around the world with how they handled the diagnosis; the inspiring, simple...
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Parenting With Love And Logic

Foster Cline - NavPress Publishing; Rev Upd edition
Format: Book

This parenting book shows you how to raise self-confident, motivated children who are ready for the real world. Learn how to parent effectively while teaching your children responsibility and growing their character.Establish healthy control through easy-to-implement steps without anger,...
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Francis, Pope of Good Promise

Jimmy Burns - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

From the moment Pope Francis stepped on to the balcony of St Peter's, people around the globe sensed that not only the Catholic Church, but the world at large, could be entering a new spiritual, political and social age. The pomp and circumstance that had characterised the Vatican for as long...
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The Name of God Is Mercy

Francis Pope - Random House
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In his first book published as Pope, and in conjunction with the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, Pope Francis here invites all humanity to an intimate and personal dialogue on the subject closest to his heart - mercy - which has long been the cornerstone...
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Higher Is Waiting

Tyler Perry - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

An intimate book of inspiration by the one and only Tyler Perry - actor, producer, director, philanthropist, and the creator of Madea Higher Is Waiting is a spiritual guidebook, a collection of teachings culled from the experiences of a lifetime, meant to inspire readers to climb...
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Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism

Timothy Keller - Viking
Format: Hardcover

Pastor, preacher, and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller's wisdom on communicating the Christian faith from the pulpit as well as from the coffee shop.Most Christians - including pastors - struggle to talk about their faith in a way that applies the power of the Christian...
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Hands Free Mama: A Guide to Putting Down the Phone, Burning the To-Do List, and Letting Go of Perfection to Grasp What Really Matters!

Rachel Macy Stafford - Zondervan
Format: Paperback

"Rachel Macy Stafford's post "The Day I Stopped Saying Hurry Up" was a true phenomenon on The Huffington Post, igniting countless conversations online and off about freeing ourselves from the vicious cycle of keeping up with our overstuffed agendas. Hands Free Mama has the power...
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God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican

Gerald Posner - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A deeply reported, New York Times bestselling expos of the money and the clerics-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vatican - the world's biggest, most powerful religious institution - from an acclaimed journalist with "exhaustive research techniques" (The New York Times)...
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Money-Making Mom: How Every Woman Can Earn More and Make a Difference

Crystal Paine - Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Format: Print book

When it comes to finances, many of us feel strapped and stressed, buried under bills, worried about an uncertain future. Even if money is plentiful, we long for greater wisdom to manage it well. In Money-Making Mom, finance and family blogger Crystal Paine shares real-life stories, practical...
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Movies Are Prayers: How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings

JOSH LARSEN - IVP Books
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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Love the Home You Have: Simple Ways to...Embrace Your Style *Get Organized *Delight in Where You Are

Melissa Michaels - Harvest House Publishers
Format: Print book

You can love your home. Join Melissa Michaels, creator of the popular blog The Inspired Room, as she shares humor, lessons learned, and encouraging advice so you can: get motivated with the 31-day Love Your Home challenge; declutter, organize, and decorate your rooms with ease; and leap...
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The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope (Deckle Edge)

Austen Ivereigh - Henry Holt
Format: Hardcover

A biography of Pope Francis that describes how this revolutionary thinker will use the power of his position to challenge and redirect one of the worlds most formidable religionsAn expansive and deeply contextual work, at its heart The Great Reformer is about the intersection of faith and politics--the...
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Collateral Damage: Guiding and Protecting Your Child Through the Minefield of Divorce

Dr. John Chirban - Thomas Nelson
Format: Print book

Based on research from more than 10,000 surveys from children and parents of divorce, Collateral Damage presents parents with an overview of the impact that divorce has on their children and offers ways to better serve their needs at this critical time. Approximately fifty percent of marriages...
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Loving Later Life: An Ethics of Aging

Frits de Lange - Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Format: Print book

Is loving later life possible? In our youth-obsessed culture, nobody enjoys growing old. We normally fear our own aging and generally do not love old people -- they remind us that death is inescapable, the body frail, and social status transitory. In Loving Later Life Frits de Lange shows...
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Overload: How to Unplug, Unwind, and Unleash Yourself from the Pressure of Stress

Joyce Meyer - FaithWords
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer shows readers how to become free from the burden of stress so that they can achieve God's best for their lives.
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Unshakeable Trust: Find the Joy of Trusting God at All Times, in All Things

Joyce Meyer - FaithWords
Format: Hardcover

In her new book, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer explores a life lived in complete and total dependence on God. Drawing on her own experiences and inspiration from the Word of God, Joyce makes the case that in every area of your life--spiritually, relationally, emotionally,...
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Sticking Points: How to Get 4 Generations Working Together in the 12 Places They Come Apart

Haydn Shaw - Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Format: Hardcover

This is the first time in American history that we have had four different generations working side-by-side in the workplace: the Traditionalists (born before 1945) , the Baby Boomers (born 1945-1964) , Gen X (born 1965-1980) , and the Millennials (born 1981-2001) . Haydn...
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Everything Is Possible: Finding the Faith and Courage to Follow Your Dreams

Jen Bricker - Baker Books
Format: Print book

Born without Legs, She Inspires Others to OvercomeJen Bricker was born without legs. Shocked and uncertain they could care for her, her biological parents gave her up for adoption. In her loving adoptive home, there was just one simple rule: "Never say 'can't.'" And pretty...
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The Light Within Me: An Inspirational Memoir

Ainsley Earhardt - Harper
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,...
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