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Destiny: Step into Your Purpose
T. D. Jakes - Faithwords Format: Print book
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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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Augustine: Conversions to Confessions
Robin Lane Fox - Basic Books Format: Print book
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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If: Trading Your If Only Regrets for God's What If Possibilities
Mark Batterson - Baker Books Format: Print book
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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#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
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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
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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
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#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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Parenting With Love And Logic
Foster Cline - NavPress Publishing; Rev Upd edition Format: Book
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican
Gerald Posner - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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"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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The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope (Deckle Edge)
Austen Ivereigh - Henry Holt Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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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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Unshakeable Trust: Find the Joy of Trusting God at All Times, in All Things
Joyce Meyer - FaithWords Format: Hardcover
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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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Everything Is Possible: Finding the Faith and Courage to Follow Your Dreams
Jen Bricker - Baker Books Format: Print book
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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
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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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