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Living with the Gods: 40,000 Years of Peoples, Objects and Beliefs

NEIL MACGREGOR - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

In the same format as his best-selling books A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany: Memories of a Nation--the acclaimed art historian now gives us a magnificent new book that explores the relationship between faith and society.Until fairly recently, religion as a major...
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Only One Life: How a Woman's Every Day Shapes an Eternal Legacy

JACKIE MCAFEE LAUREN GREEN GREEN - Zondervan
Format: Paperback

Life keeps us running so fast and frenzied that we often lose sight of each day's holy potential. Yet as a woman loved and called by God, your ordinary everyday matters more than you could possibly imagine. Your choices today shape the legacy you leave for future generations. You are part...
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True Inclusion: Creating Communities of Radical Embrace

Brandan Robertson - Chalice Press
Format: Paperback

"This is a challenging but compassionate view of a troubling reality that should inspire every community of believers." -- BOOKLIST Discover how to move your church beyond mere welcome to radical embrace.So your church website says you're welcoming, a rainbow flag flies...
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The City is My Monastery: A Contemporary Rule of Life

Richard Carter - Paraclete Press
Format: Paperback

In the midst of an established monastic life, Richard Carter answered a new call, leaving his life of 15 years in the Melanesian Brotherhood to answer a need in a busy church in the heart of London, Saint Martin-in-the-Fields. There Carter founded the Nazareth Community. Its diverse members...
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Leadership Is Overrated: How the Navy SEALs (and Successful Businesses) Create Self-Leading Teams That Win

Kyle Buckett - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

An award-winning pair of executive consultants reveal why to be successful, businesses need self-leading teams, not just good leadership."In a society so obsessed with leadership, why are we so bad at it?"Despite the countless seminars, courses, and management books designed to hone...
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Feeding Your Family's Soul: Dinner Table Spirituality

Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle - Paraclete Press Inc.
Format: Print book

Feeding Your Family's Soul: Dinner Table Spirituality is a vital tool to enable parents to transform a regular dinner time into a prayerful faith lesson for their elementary school to high school aged children. It will indeed help to fulfill the Catholic Church's vision for evangelization...
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No More Faking Fine: Ending the Pretending

Esther Fleece - Zondervan
Format: Print book

If you've ever been given empty clichs during challenging times, you know how painful it can feel to be misunderstood by well-meaning people. Far too often, it seems the response we get to our hurt and disappointment is to suck it up, or pray it away. But Scripture reveals a God who meets...
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Talking with God: What to Say When You Dont Know How to Pray

Adam Weber - christianaudio.com
Format: Hardcover

Life is crazy. Prayer is simple. Prayer seems like it should be so simple. Yet when it comes to actually praying, often it feels awkward and complicated. I mean...what should you actually pray about? What do you say? Is there anything you should or shouldnt say? Do you have to speak out loud?...
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Awaken: 90 Days with the God who Speaks

PRISCILLA SHIRER - B&H Books
Format: Hardcover

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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Truth Matters: Confident Faith in a Confusing World

Andreas J. Köstenberger - B&H Academic
Format: Paperback

In an interview with Christianity Today in 2012, Ed Stetzer shared that according to Lifeway research among young adults who had attended church regularly for at least a year in high school, 70% stop attending regularly for at least a year between ages 18-22. However, 35% of these had returned...
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