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Life Is _____.: God's Illogical Love Will Change Your Existence
Life Is _____.: God's Illogical Love Will Change Your Existence

Judah Smith · Thomas Nelson Publishing
Format: Print book

Life is ____. How would you finish that sentence? Judah Smith believes Jesus shows us how to live life to the fullest. In this follow-up to his New York Times and USA Today bestseller Jesus Is ____, Judah completes the new sentence again and again, revealing how · Life is to be loved...
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Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life
Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life

Eric Metaxas · Dutton
Format: Hardcover

An inspiring and eye-opening exploration of the phenomenon of miracles from the New York Times #1 bestselling author of Bonhoeffer. What are miracles, and why do so many people believe in them? What do they tell us about ourselves? And what do we do with experiences that we cannot explain?...
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As It Is in Heaven: How Eternity Brings Focus to What Really Matters
As It Is in Heaven: How Eternity Brings Focus to What Really Matters

Greg Laurie · NavPress,
Pages: 252
Format: Print book

Our lives here are so often cluttered with the "cares of this world" that we fail to consider heavenly priorities and how they should be reflected in our earthly ones. At the beginning of Jesus' most famous prayer, He teaches us to pray that God's will "be done on earth...
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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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God and Government: Twenty-Five Years of Fighting for Equality, Secularism, and Freedom Of Conscience
God and Government: Twenty-Five Years of Fighting for Equality, Secularism, and Freedom Of Conscience

Rev. Barry Lynn · Prometheus Books
Format: Print book

"A central player in every major church-state-separation battle for decades, the Rev. Barry W. Lynn understands the complexities of this divisive issue like few others. As a long-time activist, a civil rights lawyer, and an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he offers...
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Miracle Drug
Miracle Drug

Richard L. Mabry M.D. · Abingdon Press
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

The infection wasn't supposed to happen, but it did. The treatment was supposed to take care of it, but it didn't. Dr. Josh Pearson must get his hands on a particular experimental drug for his patients, which include the President of the United States, for them to have a chance...
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God for the Rest of Us: Experience Unbelievable Love, Unlimited Hope, and Uncommon Grace
God for the Rest of Us: Experience Unbelievable Love, Unlimited Hope, and Uncommon Grace

Vince Antonucci · Tyndale House Publishers
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

What does it feel like to be loved by a limitless God? God for the Rest of Us will wake you up to the outrageous, extravagant, and sometimes even scandalous love of God for the rest of us -- whether you think you are unfit or a misfit, an underdog or overlooked, the least or the lost, the left...
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Motivate Your Child: A Christian Parent's Guide to Raising Kids Who Do What They Need to Do Without Being Told
Motivate Your Child: A Christian Parent's Guide to Raising Kids Who Do What They Need to Do Without Being Told

Joanne Miller · Thomas Nelson
Format: Book

We need a parenting revolution! Most parenting approaches end up encouraging children to ask the wrong questions about life Whats in it for me? Are you going to pay me for that? Whats the minimum I need to do to get by? But Gods Word gives us a better way to parent, one that builds...
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Spiritual Defiance: Building a Beloved Community of Resistance
Spiritual Defiance: Building a Beloved Community of Resistance

Robin Meyers · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

During his thirty-year career as a parish minister and professor, Robin Meyers has focused on renewing the church as an instrument of social change and personal transformation. In this provocative and passionate book, he explores the decline of the church as a community of believers and calls...
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The Story of Christianity: A Chronicle of Christian Civilization From Ancient Rome to Today
The Story of Christianity: A Chronicle of Christian Civilization From Ancient Rome to Today

Jean-Pierre Isbouts · National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

Sumptuously illustrated with hundreds of gorgeous photographs, artifacts, and maps, The Story of Christianity focuses on the rich social and cultural history of Christianity through the ages, from its roots in Palestine to its triumph as a global movement, told through a series of dramatic...
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One Islam, Many Muslim Worlds: Spirituality, Identity, and Resistance across Islamic Lands
One Islam, Many Muslim Worlds: Spirituality, Identity, and Resistance across Islamic Lands

Raymond William Baker · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover

By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah, particularly its Arab heartland. Sober Muslim voices regularly describe their current state as the worst in the 1,400-year history of Islam. Yet, precisely at this time of unprecedented...
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Blood on the Altar: The Coming War Between Christian vs. Christian
Blood on the Altar: The Coming War Between Christian vs. Christian

Tom Horn · Defense Publishing; First edition
Format: Print book

As the world races toward its momentous end-times encounter between good and evil (known in the Bible as Armageddon), a deepening antagonism is developing worldwide against conservative Christians. According to a 2014 Pew Research Center report, this hostility now includes the United States,...
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Jesus, Jihad and Peace: What Does Bible Prophecy Say About World Events Today?
Jesus, Jihad and Peace: What Does Bible Prophecy Say About World Events Today?

Michael Youssef · Worthy Publishing
Format: Book

In our post-9/11 world, Westerners in general--and Christians in particular--remain targets of Islamic terrorism. From the White House to 10 Downing Street, radical groups like the Muslim Brotherhood are appeased and allowed to operate freely in the West. In a world that cries out for peace,...
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Unafraid: Trusting God in an Unsafe World
Unafraid: Trusting God in an Unsafe World

Susie Davis · WaterBrook Press
Format: Print book

Though I don't know where your fears started or how deep they sit in your soul, I do know this: Fear is a heavy burden. One of the heaviest you can carry. It's exhausting and overwhelming. And it's not from God. - Susie Davis, Unafraid In 1978 Susie Davis watched as a thirteen-year-old...
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