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Simple Decorating: 50 Ways to Inspire Your Home
Melissa Michaels - Harvest House Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Forget the Renovation - Just Add Inspiration If you want to jump-start your style and refresh your home without needing power tools and a winning lottery ticket, make Simple Decorating your go-to resource for can-do decor. Spark your makeover momentum with 50 no-fuss tips and discover how to get unstuck... |
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The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an
Abdullah Yusuf Ali - The Islamic Foundation
Format: Hardcover
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The Qur'an is the inimitable and direct Word of God. It was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad over twenty-three years, who faithfully transmitted it to humanity in the seventh century. Since then the text and meaning of the Qur'an has been preserved, word for word, exactly as it was fourteen... |
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God is Good: Hes Better Than You Think
Bill Johnson - Destiny Image
Format: Hardcover
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God is better than we think ... so its time to change the way we think about Him."God is Good." More than a positive thought, theological concept, or Biblical statement -- what you do with these three words defines your reality and determines your destiny. In a world of fear,... |
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Catholicism For Dummies
Rev. John Trigilio Jr. - For Dummies
Format: Print book
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A comprehensive and definitive guide to the Catholic faith Whether you're a member of the faith or just interested in it, Catholicism For Dummies, 3rd Edition offers a casual, straightforward introduction to the ins and outs of the contemporary church. It explores the moral foundations... |
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The One-Stop History of the Bible
Robert V Huber - Lion Hudson
Format: Print book
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Following on from the successful One-Stop Bible Guide and One-Stop Bible Atlas comes this guide to the history of the Bible from its origins to how it has shaped history and nations. In a highly visual way, The One-Stop Guide to the History of the Bible tells the story of how the Bible... |
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The Perfect Dad: A Totally Achievable Guide to Not Messing Up Your Kids
Rob Stennett - Harvest House Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Great Dads Aren't Perfect...But They Aspire to Be Congratulations, you're hired! You have no qualifications, references, education, or experience, but you've definitely got the job. No occupation in the world operates like that...except parenthood. A father of four young... |
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Vanishing Grace: Bringing Good News to a Deeply Divided World
Philip Yancey - Zondervan
Format: Paperback
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Christians have proclaimed the good news about Jesus for centuries. But the good news isn't sounding so good these days, at least to some. More and more surveys show that people view Christians as bearers of bad news, judgment, and intolerance.In Vanishing Grace, bestselling author... |
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Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament
Bart D Ehrman - Oxford Univ. Press
Format: Book
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We may think of the twenty-seven books of the New Testament as the only sacred writings of the early Christians, but this is not at all the case. Lost Scriptures offers an anthology of up-to-date and readable translations of many non-canonical writings from the first centuries after Christ--texts... |
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Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby
Candida R. Moss - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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Talking God: Philosophers on Belief
Gary Gutting - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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Through interviews with twelve distinguished philosophers -- including atheists, agnostics, and believers -- Talking God works toward a philosophical understanding and evaluation of religion. Along the way, Gary Gutting and his interviewees challenge many common assumptions about religious... |
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Divine Direction: 7 Decisions That Will Change Your Life
Craig Groeschel - Zondervan
Format: Print book
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Every day we make choices. And those choices accumulate and eventually become our life story. What would your life look like if you became an expert at making those choices? In this inspiring guidebook, New York Times bestselling author Craig Groeschel shows how the choices that are in your... |
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Live the Let-Go Life: Breaking Free from Stress, Worry, and Anxiety
Joseph Prince - FaithWords
Format: Hardcover
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Letting your problems go into the hands of the One who created the universe is the most powerful thing you can do to live carefree and joyful. You are acknowledging that you cannot--but He can--and you are stepping aside so that His supply can flow into every area of your life. God wants... |
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The Blessing of Humility: Walk within Your Calling
Jerry Bridges - NavPress
Format: Print book
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We all admire humility when we see it. But how do we practice it? How does humility -- the foundational virtue of the normal Christian life -- become a normal part of our everyday lives?Jerry Bridges sees in the Beatitudes a series of blessings from Jesus, a pattern for humility in action.... |
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Laynie Portland, Retired Spy
Vikki Kestell - Faith-Filled Fiction
Format: Paperback
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"Retirement" means something altogether different to a spy. It means someone in authority over you has decided that "coming in from the cold" is out of the question. It means you'd better run. Laynie Portland has masqueraded as Swedish citizen Linna Olander for close... |
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The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
Frances FitzGerald - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"A page turner ... We have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally important religious sensibility, and FitzGerald has now provided it." - The New York Times Book Review "Massively learned and electrifying ... magisterial." - The Christian Science... |
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Dancing Through Life: Steps of Courage and Conviction
Candace Cameron Bure - B&H Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
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Candace Cameron Bure has grown up before our eyes and we've watched as she's balanced life in Hollywood with her faith for many years. But that all reached new heights when she was given the opportunity to join the cast of Dancing With the Stars. Being on the show was one of her dreams... |
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Love Like You've Never Been Hurt: Hope, Healing and the Power of an Open Heart
Jentezen Franklin - Chosen Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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READY, SET, GO!: IGNITING AFRICAN-AMERICAN MEN FOR CHRIST
William J Lee - William Lee
Format: Paperback
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As an African-American male, I am sadly, yet keenly aware of prejudice, racism, and discrimination. When I was a teenager, my father taught me how to drive a car in the parking lot of Lake Michigan College. He taught me all the basics of how to turn left, right, and even parallel park.... |
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ESV Literary Study Bible
Crossway - Crossway
Format: Hardcover
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In order to understand the content of the Bible, readers first need to understand how the content is expressed. The literary forms and features of the Bible are a crucial part of understanding the Bible's message -- both for its original audience and for readers today. Compared to conventional... |
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13 Days in Ferguson
RON JOHNSON - Tyndale Momentum
Format: Hardcover
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On August 14, 2014, five days after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown ignited race riots throughout the city of Ferguson, Missouri, the nation found an unlikely hero in Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol. Charged with the Herculean task of restoring peace between a hostile... |
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The Joyful Christian: 127 Readings
C. S. Lewis - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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C.S. Lewis, himself a convert, wrote of being "surprised by joy" when he discovered his belief in Jesus Christ. In these 127 devotional readings, selected from Lewis's many works on faith and spirituality, Christians everywhere can share in the joy of this master theologian... |
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Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
Eric Metaxas - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, Martin Luther, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation On All Hallow's Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther posted... |
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Christianity
Michael P Foley - Regnery Publishing
Format: Paperback
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You think you know about Christianity, but did you know...God likes "organized religion"; it's clear from both the New and Old TestamentsChristians have always believed that men and women are equalThe correct pronoun for angels is "he"Science was stillborn everywhere... |
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WHISPERS OF GLORY : a story of choosing hope and finding home
KATIE DAVIS MAJORS - Multnomah
Format: Hardcover
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How do you hold on to hope when you don't get the ending you asked for?When Katie Davis Majors moved to Uganda, accidentally founded a booming organization, and later became the mother of thirteen girls through the miracle of adoption, she determined to weave her life together with the people... |
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The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism
Jemar Tisby - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
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The Color of Compromise takes readers on a historical journey: from America's early colonial days through slavery and the Civil War, covering the tragedy of Jim Crow laws and the victories of the Civil Rights era, to today's Black Lives Matter movement. Author Jemar Tisby reveals the obvious... |
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How to Be a Christian: Reflections and Essays
C S Lewis - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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From the revered teacher and bestselling author of such classic Christian works as Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters comes a collection that gathers the best of C. S. Lewis's practical advice on how to embody a Christian life.The most famous adherent and defender of Christianity... |
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Among the Ruins: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Catholic Church
Paul L Williams - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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This critical review of the Roman Catholic Church since the pivotal changes initiated in the 1960s by Vatican II paints a disturbing picture of decline and corruption. Dr. Paul L. Williams, a self-professed Tridentine or traditionalist Catholic, traces the various factors that have caused... |
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Days of Awe and Wonder: How to Be a Christian in the Twenty-first Century
Marcus J Borg - Harper One
Format: Print book
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Showcasing some of his most enduring and insightful writings, including many previously unpublished works, a concise and illuminating introduction to Marcus J. Borg, the late spokesman for progressive Christianity and one of the most revered and influential theologians of our time.In his acclaimed... |
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Joey: How a Blind Rescue Horse Helped Others Learn to See
Jennifer Marshall Bleakley - Tyndale Momentum
Format: Hardcover
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The heartwarming true story of a blind horse named Joey.At the height of his show career, this beautiful Appaloosa's majestic stature, strength, and willingness to work made him the perfect partner. But when an injury cost Joey his show career, he moved from one owner to the next, ultimately... |
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Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation
Peter Marshall - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A sumptuously written people's history and a major retelling and reinterpretation of the story of the English Reformation Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall's sweeping new history - the first major overview for general... |
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Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II
George Weigel - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A preeminent authority on the Catholic Church and papal biographer describes what he learned from chronicling the life of Pope John Paul IIIn Lessons in Hope, George Weigel tells the story of his unique friendship with St. John Paul II. As Weigel learns the pope "from inside,"... |
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Running on Red Dog Road: And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood
Drema Hall Berkheimer - Zondervan
Format: Paperback
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Publishers Weekly: Berkheimer candidly brings her personality to the page in this incredible journey from naivete to wide-eyed maturity. (April 2016) Library Journal: Berkheimer's homespun memoir provides a wistful look back at a simpler time. An appealing counterbalance... |
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Unseen: The Gift of Being Hidden in a World That Loves to Be Noticed
SARA HAGERTY - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
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Every heart longs to be seen and understood. Yet most of our lives is unwitnessed. We spend our days working, driving, parenting. We sometimes spend whole seasons feeling unnoticed and unappreciated. So how do we find contentment when we feel so hidden? In Unseen, Sara Hagerty suggests... |
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Awaken: 90 Days with the God who Speaks
PRISCILLA SHIRER - B&H Books
Format: Hardcover
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The choice of a devotional book is more personal than most. This kind of reading is not merely for the purpose of leisure and enjoyment. No, with this kind of resource you're expecting and praying for something more. You want to hear from God, receive His direction, and be refreshed... |
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Made Like Martha: Good News for the Woman Who Gets Things Done
Katie Reid - WaterBrook
Format: Paperback
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An invitation for overachievers to discover what it means to rest as God's daughters without compromising their God-given design as doers.Though she didn't sit at Jesus's feet like her sister Mary, biblical Martha was loved just as she was--and you are too. This practical resource... |
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Resurrecting Easter: How the West Lost and the East Kept the Original Easter Vision
John Crossan - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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In this four-color illustrated journey that is part travelogue and part theological investigation, bestselling author and acclaimed Bible scholar John Dominic Crossan and his wife Sarah painstakingly travel throughout the ancient Eastern church, documenting through text and image a completely... |
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Essential Christmas Prayers
Paraclete Press - Paraclete Press
Format: Paperback
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This beautiful collection of inspiring holiday prayers will bring back heartwarming memories and open new understanding of the sacred season. Many of us feel a little closer to our faith during the Christmas season - even those without a regular faith practice. Around us, people are talking... |
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The Godwink Effect: 7 Secrets to God's Signs, Wonders, and Answered Prayers
SQuire Rushnell - Howard Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the authors of the popular and bestselling Godwink series comes a new and inspiring collection of true stories about people whose lives were changed by specific and extraordinary answers to their prayers.Prayer is a universal concept that anyone can do. It simply involves conversation... |
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Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
Lyndal Roper - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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This definitive biography reveals the complicated inner life of the founding father of the Protestant Reformation, whose intellectual assault on Catholicism ushered in a century of upheaval that transformed Christianity and changed the course of world history. On October 31, 1517, so the story... |
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Inside the Atheist Mind: Unmasking the Religion of Those Who Say There Is No God
Anthony DeStefano - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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From USA Today bestselling author Anthony DeStefano, an entertaining retort to atheism and its proponents, revealing the intellectual bankruptcy at atheism's core and equipping Christians to respond to its hollow arguments.A witty and devastating takedown of the "new" atheist... |
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Chasing Grace: What the Quarter Mile Has Taught Me about God and Life
SANYA RICHARDS-ROSS - ZONDERVAN
Format: Hardcover
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"For as long as I can remember, life has been measured in seconds. The fewer, the better." Most people equate success with having more, but Sanya's quest was always for less. She starting running track as a little girl in Jamaica and began competing when she was only seven. At 31 she's... |
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A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
Timothy Egan - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"What a wondrous work! This beautifully written and totally clear-eyed account of his pilgrimage will have you wondering whether we should all embark on such a journey, either of the body, the soul or, as in Egan's case, both." --Cokie Roberts"If this book doesn't quite settle... |
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Reading Romans Backwards: A Gospel of Peace in the Midst of Empire
Scot McKnight - Baylor University Press
Format: Hardcover
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To read Romans from beginning to end, from letter opening to final doxology, is to retrace the steps of Paul. To read Romans front to back was what Paul certainly intended. But to read Romans forward may have kept the full message of Romans from being perceived. Reading forward has led readers... |
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Chasing Dreams
Deborah Raney - Kregel Publications
Format: Paperback
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Joanna Chandler always dreamed of becoming an attorney. But when she left law school to help care for her dying mother, stepping away from her single-minded pursuit gave her space to reconsider. The only question is, if not law, what should she do with her life?To keep her mind off an uncertain... |
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
AUSTIN CHANNING BROWN - Convergent Books
Format: Hardcover
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From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America. Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age 7, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future... |
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GraceLaced: Discovering Timeless Truths Through Seasons of the Heart
RUTH CHOU SIMONS - Harvest House Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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This Journey Is as Perennial as the SeasonsGraceLaced is about more than pretty florals and fanciful brushwork - it's about flourishing. With carefully crafted intention, this beautiful volume of 32 seasonal devotions from artist and author Ruth Chou Simons encourages readers in any circumstance... |
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A Family Shaped by Grace: How to Get Along with the People Who Matter Most
Gary Morland - Revell
Format: Paperback
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"Gary Morland is a gifted communicator who has learned many lessons the hard way. He grew up in a dysfunctional family and went down that road himself, bottoming out as a confused alcoholic with a wife, two daughters, and no idea how to change. God transformed Gary's life through... |
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Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
Bart D. Ehrman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestselling historian of early Christianity takes on two of the most gripping questions of human existence: where did the ideas of heaven and hell come from, and why do they endure?What happens when we die? A recent Pew Research poll showed that 72% of Americans... |
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The Wonder of the Greatest Gift: An Interactive Family Celebration of Advent
ANN VOSKAMP - Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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Based on her bestseller Unwrapping the Greatest Gift, Ann Voskamp expands her presentation of the timeless Advent tradition of the Jesse Tree with this beautiful keepsake that can be handed down and enjoyed for generations. Each December, families can celebrate the coming of Jesus by opening... |
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Why I Don't Call Myself Gay: How I Reclaimed My Sexual Reality and Found Peace
Daniel C Mattson - Ignatius Press
Format: Paperback
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Daniel Mattson once believed he was gay. Raised in a Christian family, and aware of attractions to other boys at age six, Mattson's life was marked by constant turmoil between his faith in God and his sexual attractions. Finding the conflict between his sexual desires and the teachings... |
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Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering
Makoto Fujimura - InterVarsity Press
Format: Print book
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Shusaku Endo's novel Silence, first published in 1966, endures as one of the greatest works of twentieth-century Japanese literature. Its narrative of the persecution of Christians in seventeenth-century Japan raises uncomfortable questions about God and the ambiguity of faith in the midst... |
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What Are Biblical Values?: What the Bible Says on Key Ethical Issues
John Collins - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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An illuminating exploration of the Bible and many of our most contentious contemporary issues Many people today claim that their positions on various issues are grounded in biblical values, and they use scriptural passages to support their claims. But the Bible was written over the course... |
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Living Amazed: How Divine Encounters Can Change Your Life
James Robison - Revell
Format: Print book
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Throughout his life blessed by God, James Robison has had countless opportunities to witness clearly the power of God and his amazing grace. He has shared insight with church leaders, ministers, presidents, entertainers, and celebrities. Millions have been inspired through his television... |
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A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation
Craig Harline - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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October 2017 marks five hundred years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg and launched the Protestant Reformation. At least, that's what the legend says. But with a figure like Martin Luther, who looms so large in the historical imagination, it's... |
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The Turquoise Table: Finding Community and Connection in Your Own Front Yard
KRISTIN SCHELL - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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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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Frederick Douglass: America's Prophet
D H Dilbeck - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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From his enslavement to freedom, Frederick Douglass was one of America's most extraordinary champions of liberty and equality. Throughout his long life, Douglass was also a man of profound religious conviction. In this concise and original biography, D. H. Dilbeck offers a provocative interpretation... |
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Confessions
Augustine, Saint Bishop of Hippo - Modern Library
Format: Hardcover
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One of the great works of Western literature, from perhaps the most important thinker of Christian antiquity, in a revolutionary new translation by one of today's leading classicists Sarah Ruden's fresh, dynamic translation of Confessions brings us closer to Augustine's intent... |
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Through My Father's Eyes
Franklin Graham - Harpercollins Christian Pub
Format: Hardcover
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Many have written about Billy Graham, the evangelist. This is the first book about Billy Graham, the father, written from the perspective of a son who knew him best. As a beloved evangelist and a respected man of God, Billy Graham's stated purpose in life never wavered: to help people... |
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To Change The Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism
Ross Douthat - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times columnist and one of America's leading conservative thinkers considers Pope Francis's efforts to change the church he governs.Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936, today Pope Francis is the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis's stewardship of the Church,... |
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The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims
Mustafa Akyol - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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When Reza Aslan's bestseller Zealot came out in 2013, there was criticism that he hadn't addressed his Muslim faith while writing the origin story of Christianity. In fact, Ross Douthat of The New York Times wrote that "if Aslan had actually written in defense of the Islamic... |
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The DIY Home Planner: Practical Tips and Inspiring Ideas to Decorate It Yourself
KariAnne Wood - Harvest House Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Your Decorating Dreams Can Come True Welcome to the only house decorating journal you'll ever need. Come inside and make yourself comfortable. As you enter, you'll find encouragement and inspiration to get your decorating journey started, as well as helpful instructions on how to use this... |
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Judas: The Most Hated Name in History
Peter Stanford - Counterpoint, 2016.
Format: Print book
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In this fascinating historical and cultural biography, Peter Stanford deconstructs that most vilified of Bible characters: Judas Iscariot, who famously betrayed Jesus with a kiss. Beginning with the gospel accounts, Stanford explores two thousand years of cultural and theological history... |
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Christmas: A Biography
JUDITH FLANDERS - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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A critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author explores the Christmas holiday, from the original festival through present day traditions.Christmas has always been a magical time. Or has it? Thirty years after the first recorded Christmas, the Pope was already warning that... |
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My Life with the Saints
James Martin SJ - Loyola Press; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the Year — Winner of a Christopher Award — Winner of a Catholic Press Association Book Award Meet some surprising friends of God in this warm and wonderful memoir James Martin has led an entirely modern life: from a lukewarm... |
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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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Unshakable Hope Study Guide: Building Our Lives on the Promises of God
Max Lucado - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback
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This 12-session video Bible study will help you, your group, and your church stand on the definitive declarations of our mighty and loving God who governs the world according to his great and precious promises.This world has a tremble to it. There are things that seem unsteady in this life.... |
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The Call: Finding and Fulfilling God's Purpose For Your Life
OS GUINNESS - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback
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Why am I here? What is God's call in my life? How do I fit God's call with my own individuality? How should God's calling affect my career, my plans for the future, and my concepts of success?First published in 1997 by distinguished author and speaker Os Guiness, The Call remains... |
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Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother
Kate Hennessy - Scribner Book Company
Format: Print book
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The life and work of Dorothy Day - the iconic, celebrated, and controversial Catholic whom Pope Francis called a "great American" - told with illuminating detail by her granddaughter.Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was a prominent Catholic, writer, social activist, and co-founder of a movement... |
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America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
Jim Wallis - Brazos Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original sin."It's time we right this unacceptable wrong," says bestselling author and leading... |
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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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Seven-Mile Miracle: Journey into the Presence of God Through the Last Words of Jesus
Steven Furtick - Multnomah
Format: Print book
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His Final Words Are Your New Beginning It's Good Friday. The Son of God is giving up his life. What does he want to say to us in His final hours? What does He tell the people standing at the foot of the cross, to pass down to the ages? He speaks only seven short statements. Words of forgiveness,... |
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The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding
Ranya Idliby - Atria Books; 1st Paperback Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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A groundbreaking book about Americans searching for faith and mutual respect, The Faith Club weaves the story of three women, their three religions, and their urgent quest to understand one another. When an American Muslim woman befriends two other mothers, one Jewish and one Christian,... |
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Faith: A Journey For All
JIMMY CARTER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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President Jimmy Carter contemplates faith, how it has sustained him in happiness and disappointment, and how we may find it in our own lives as it shapes our belief in religious freedom, moral politics, and how we relate to one another.All his life, President Jimmy Carter has been a courageous... |
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Battlefield of the Mind
Joyce Meyer - FaithWords
Format: Paperback
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer's all-time bestselling book, now bound together with its companion study guide, will help readers change their lives by improving their thoughts. |
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The Coming Apostasy: Exposing the Sabotage of Christianity from Within
Mark Hitchcock - Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Format: Paperback
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Are we on the verge of a great apostasy in the church?"For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. They will reject... |
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The Paper Bag Christmas: A Novel
KEVIN ALAN MILNE - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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When Molar Alan and his older brother, Aaron, fill out their Christmas wish lists front and back, the Santa at the mall informs the boys they won't be getting anything they asked for. Instead, he says, they will receive everything they never wanted. This isn't your garden-variety Santa,... |
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Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer
Scott H Hendrix - Yale University Press
Format: Paperback
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A fresh account of the life of Martin Luther 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... |
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The True Jesus: Uncovering the Divinity of Christ in the Gospels
David Limbaugh - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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David Limbaugh, the New York Times bestselling author of Jesus on Trial and The Emmaus Code, now approaches the question of Jesus Christ's divinity--In what sense was Jesus God? How do we know?--with the same precise, methodical form of enquiry he has employed in his career... |
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Discover Your Destiny: Let God Use You Like He Made You
Tony Evans - Harvest House Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Leave Behind the "Same Old" and Experience Life's Greatest Fulfillment God has ordained a custom-designed life for you that leads to the expansion of His kingdom. Until you know the reason you were uniquely created, you will feel empty and frustrated. But understanding and living... |
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The Reformation 500 Years Later: 12 Things You Need to Know
B WIKER - Regnery History
Format: Hardcover
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2017 is the 500th year anniversary of Martin Luther's nailing his Ninety-five Theses to the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, the event marking the beginning of the Reformation -- and the end of unified Christianity. For Catholics, it was an unjustified rebellion by the heterodox.... |
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Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World
MAX LUCADO - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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Anxiety is at an all time high, but there's a prescription for dealing with it. Max Lucado invites readers into a study of Philippians 4:6-7 where the Apostle Paul admonishes the followers of Christ, "Do not be anxious about anything . . ." Philippians 4:6 encourages the believer... |
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Giving It All Awayand Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously
David Green - Zondervan
Format: Hardcover
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David Green believes that generosity and building a legacy based on giving can lead to getting back what you really want: a family that stays together, prays together, and shares life joyfully. Green tells the story of caring for the small things and starting Hobby Lobby in their garage.... |
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Final Words From the Cross
ADAM HAMILTON - Abingdon Press
Format: Paperback
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In life and in death, Jesus' words were powerful and meaningful. Despite the serious effort and increased pain required for Jesus to speak as he hung on the cross, Jesus spoke seven "final words" - statements that have much to teach us about Jesus, his Father, and ourselves:... |
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God is Good Leader's Guide
Bill Johnson - Destiny Image
Format: Paperback
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God is better than we think...So it's time to change the way we think about Him. "God is Good." More than a positive thought, theological concept, or Biblical statement - what you do with these three words defines your reality and determines your destiny. In a world of fear,... |
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The Myth of Equality: Uncovering the Roots of Injustice and Privilege
KEN WYTSMA - INTERVARSITY Press
Format: Print book
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Is privilege real or imagined? It's clear that issues of race and equality have come to the forefront in our nation's consciousness. Every week yet another incident involving racial tension splashes across headlines and dominates our news feeds. But it's not easy to unpack the origins... |
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Answering Jihad: A Better Way Forward
Nabeel Qureshi - Zondervan
Format: Print book
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From New York Times bestselling author and former Muslim Nabeel Qureshi comes this personal, challenging, and respectful answer to the many questions surrounding jihad, the rise of ISIS, and Islamic terrorism. San Bernardino was the most lethal terror attack on American soil since 9/11,... |
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A Life Beyond Amazing: 9 Decisions That Will Transform Your Life Today
D JEREMIAH - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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There is a way to experience a better life. Are you ready to become the person God has called you to be? In A Life Beyond Amazing, bestselling author Dr. David Jeremiah uncovers God's strategy for change and challenges you to make nine important decisions that will transform your heart,... |
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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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The Glovemaker: A Novel
Ann Weisgarber - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover
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A Publishers Weekly starred review In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, to return home from his travels as a wheelwright. It is now the depths of winter, Samuel is weeks overdue,... |
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There Is More: When the World Says You Can't, God Says You Can
Brian Houston - WaterBrook
Format: Hardcover
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Founder and Global Senior Pastor of Hillsong Church and author of LIVE LOVE LEAD shows how, with God's power, you can believe and achieve a life that exceeds every earthly expectation. When you surrender control and follow God's guidance, you become empowered and equipped to do the impossible,... |
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