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Earthy Mysticism : Spirituality For Unspiritual People
$19.99Add to cartThis book, says the author, is “a testimony of narratives where [a] strange God appears. Such appearances supply the mystical states that have come to shape my life. I am not helped much by conventional approaches to spirituality. I find it almost impossible to do ‘devotions.’ Daily Bible study in the sense of devoting twenty to thirty minutes a day never worked for me. I cannot get around to scheduled times for prayer on my knees with head bowed. I find labyrinths and prayer beads boring. I am ever and again distracted in silent meditation. I simply cannot sustain a spirituality based in such things.
“I do not regard myself as unusual or special. My hunch, and it is more than that, is that a host of people will recognize themselves in what I describe here. What is here is, clearly, my story, but it is not about me. It is about a God of surprises, of One who comes in the ordinary and the seamy. It is about a God who will goose you. It is about mystical moments when clearly the only thing that finally matters is this God who will never leave us alone, especially in the ordinary and angular places of life. It is, I hope, a spirituality for unspiritual people.” -
Through Julians Window
$16.00Add to cartLike her 14th century predecessor Julian of Norwich, Sr Elizabeth lives as a solitary attached to a religious community. Like Julian, she is available to all who come for help, advice or direction. In Julian’s cell were three windows – one looking into the sanctuary of the church, one opening on to a secluded garden where she could attend to her own physical needs and a third where she conversed with all who came for help. Sr Elizabeth relates the three different aspects of these windows to the three things that Julian desired of God – contrition, compassion and longing for God. So deeply did she desire these qualities that she asked God to ‘wound’ her with them, but they became gifts of healing for herself and for others. Through contrition she learned her limitations and her need of others, compassion enabled her to become an effective spiritual guide and in longing for God she found purpose and meaning for her whole life.
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For God So Loved The Inner City
$18.99Add to cartThis book is an effort to be obedient in challenging God’s people to be more effectively involved in inner city ministry. Each and every Christian is commanded to show His love and His heart to the poor and the needy within our inner cities. You will learn within these pages that this is not directed toward one church. It is an attempt to describe God’s love for the poor.
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Love Search
$14.99Add to cartPolly Ann Sanders-Peterson was born in an Arkansas farmhouse, the ninth of twelve children. When she was twelve, her father died and her mother placed in a mental institution. With continuous thoughts of abandonment, she tackled life burdened with deep-rooted feelings of being unloved. Polly Ann fought hard to find love and acceptance, yet God’s unconditional love never failed her.
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Same Kind Of Different As Me
$19.99Add to cartA dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery. An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel. A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream. A story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it. It begins outside a burning plantation hut in Louisiana . . . and an East Texas honky-tonk . . . and, without a doubt, in the heart of God. It unfolds in a Hollywood hacienda . . . an upscale New York gallery . . . a downtown dumpster . . . a Texas ranch. Gritty with pain and betrayal and brutality, this true story also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love.
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Generation G : Advice For Savvy Grandmothers Who Will Never Go Gray
$19.99Add to cartAdvice from the heart of a rather hip and savvy Baby Boomer grandmother offers insight for grandmothering in the twenty-first century. The rules for grandmothers have changed. The new silver generation is savvy and sophisticated-managing businesses, working out with a personal trainer, and traveling to exotic locations. But what about their care and nurturing of the next generation? How can they stay connected and leave a legacy, cheerleading and hand-holding those who come behind? This handbook provides encouragement for grandmothers with the real issues they face today. Seven sections of essays challenge grandmothers to become healers, peacemakers, repairers of the breach in families, and to celebrate life transitions and aging. Topics, both humorous and serious, range from the importance of choosing a name, waiting at the hospital, and getting wrinkles to blended families, step-grandparenting, in-laws, boundaries, and dying. Generation G will inspire grandmothers to realize their calling is great and their gift, of themselves, essential.
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Good Morning How Are My College Buddies
$24.99Add to cartCollege years are tough years. Adjusting and thriving can be a risky journey when you leave the security of your home town and enter the world of many options and little accountability. No wonder that the college years represent the largest attrition rate in the church!! These college students long for a spiritual connection to the church and to their Christian values. Since 1997, Rev. LaVon Post has tried to bridge that gap with daily devotionals that speak to the issues that college students face daily. These devotionals have been sent faithfully to several thousand students representing more than 60 universities. This book is a compilation of those devotionals sent to college students since 1997. Regardless of your age, these devotionals will be an encouragement and daily spiritual vitamin to you. Read them daily and enjoy the practical wisdom and gentle encouragement that help us in our walk with God.
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Storm Warrior : A Believers Strategy For Victory
$19.00Add to cartJesus’s authority over evil was revealed through the many signs and wonders he performed and through his victory over death. Mahesh and Bonnie Chavda believe that Christians today can experience the same victory since Jesus commissioned his disciples to spread the gospel and advance the kingdom with power.
In Storm Warrior, the Chavdas equip believers to do battle with the enemies of God. They lead readers through biblical teaching about binding and loosing and into the realm of victory over the kingdom of darkness through signs and wonders. They offer prophetic insight into the Scriptures and share personal stories, showing readers how they too can walk in the power of God through all the circumstances of their lives.
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Unlimited God : Stretch Your Expectations God Has Not Changed
$19.99Add to cartDo you think you know God? Do you think you know His limits? Stop thinking and start believing. His miracle working power is the same today. Dolores, the widow of the late Dr. Donald Northrup, has included along with her own account of their lives many transcribed inserts in Don’s own words. The narrative extends from 1925 to 2007, and follows their experiences from Eastern Canada and the United States to Southern Africa, and back to North America and Europe. With a deep faith and determination to see lives changed, thousands have come to Christ through their ministry. As you peruse these pages you will find stories of childhood, of marriage and family, of sacrifice and triumph. You will encounter God as you read of the miracles they and the people around them experienced. Your faith will be challenged as you see that with God all things are possible.
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Prodigal Comes Home
$19.99Add to cartA painfully honest story of human weakness and God’s unending forgiveness. Thirteen years ago, amidst scandal, sin, and shattered lives, Michael English fell from the pinnacle of the Christian music world. In 1994, newspapers around the world blared the headline, “Gospel Singer Named Artist of the Year Turns in His Awards After Confirming He Had an Affair with a Fellow Married Singer.” From 1994 to 2002 Michael English’s life went from bad to worse. Public shame, divorce, broken relationships, drug addiction, even homelessness. But in 2002, God reached out and rescued Michael from himself. Today Michael is whole again, and in this book he tells his story of redemption.
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Names Of God
$16.99Add to cartLord… Door… Rock… Redeemer… Way… Truth… Life… These are a few of the 45 names of God that Mary Foxwell Loeks illuminates in this classic collection of meditations. Short and succinct, thought-provoking and memorable, these praise pieces provide an aid to both private and corporate worship. Each meditation includes examples of the Names in scripture, a thoughtful life application and a closing prayer.
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God Reflected : Metaphors For Life
$26.00Add to cartWhen a loved one dies, somebody inevitably says the death was God’s will. The same claim is made when a person is cured of cancer. In a war, both sides often argue that they are carrying out God’s will. Faithful people search for God’s will for their lives, especially when they are faced with a decision, such as which job to take or whether to have another child. What is meant by God’s will? How does God act? What is the character of the God whose will is expressed in and through our lives? This book answers these questions in relation to a broadly Christian perspective.
Based on the traditional premise that everything we assert about God is metaphorical, this wonderfully written book presents a range of ways to imagine the nature of God and of God’s power and will: from a personal but distant God who is fully in charge and in control, through more gentle and engaged images of God, and ultimately to a non-personal view of God as the energy for life in the universe. Each perspective offers distinct images for God and for the way in which God’s will operates; each is assessed for its strengths and weaknesses. With deep insight and clear, inspiring writing, Keshgegian ultimately offers a way to imagine God and power that redefines the whole idea of God’s will.
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Prelude To Holy Ghost Fire
$16.99Add to cartThis book is part of my healing journey back to wholeness. It is my story, having left my upper middle class upbringing to live with my first boyfriend in 1967 shortly after I graduated from high school. We legally married, but my boyfriend removed the words, “till death do us part” from the ceremony. Thus, he justified full sexual exploitation of me. While he was a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, my then husband abandoned me to a hippie commune in Berkeley, California, two months after our first son was born in1972. I have been through fire. In 2000 during my first session with a psychiatrist, he jumped from his chair and said, “See, you have depression, and you have had it most of your life.” I did not agree then, but I do now. I had no sense of it, none. As we began to work together and my story unfolded, it became clear that I had it “all”; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Complex PTSD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder and/or deep emotional wounding. I didn’t seek help for 30 years. I worked full time, attempted to raise children and swept my life under the rug. No matter how bad it was for me, I just kept going until one day I couldn’t do it anymore. I began to collapse. I had to face the truth about my life. I had been treated worse than an abandoned, abused animal. I learned that you can run, but you can’t hide. If God is going to save you, He is going to do it, no matter who you are, what you have been through, where you have been, how you treat yourself and what other people say, do or think.
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Me Myself And Bob
$19.99Add to cartThis is a story of dreaming big and working hard, of spectacular success and breathtaking failure, of shouted questions, and, at long last, whispered answers. With trademark wit and heart, Phil Vischer shares how God can use the death of a dream to point us toward true success. Larry. Bob. Archibald. These VeggieTales stars are the most famous vegetables you’ll ever eat. Oops, meet. Their antics are known around the world. But so much of the VeggieTales story hasn’t been told. In Me, Myself, and Bob, Phil Vischer, founder of Big Idea and creator of VeggieTales, gives a behind-the-scenes look at his not-so-funny journey with the loveable veggies. From famed creator to bankrupt dreamer, Vischer shares his story of trial and ultimate triumph as God inspired him with one big idea after another.
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40 Day Journey With Martin Luther
$17.99Add to cartDrawing from the vast collection of Luther’s sermons and other works, editor Gracia Grindal here selects forty inspiring passages that raise profound truths about faith and life.
Includes a short introduction to Luther’s life, journal-writing exercises and daily prayers. A rich resource for personal meditation or small group discussion. An inspiring companion anytime. Ideal for traveling through the seasons of Advent and Lent.
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Once Blind : Print On Demand Title
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This biography of the writer of Amazing Grace takes us on a journey worthy of a Hollywood extravaganza with swashbuckling adventures on the high seas coupled with the horrors of the slave trade. Once Blind retells Newton’s conversion during a crushing storm no one expected to survive and then the most unusual years that followed as an evangelical clergyman with the Church of England during which he was known for his ability to bridge gaping theological chasms.
In the end, John Newton risked his reputation, his wife’s emotional well-being, even his cherished right to preach-all so that he could bear witness to the horrors he had witnessed and had participated in, and to help bring about laws that would stop the slave trade.
This is indeed a timely book as we mark the 200th anniversary of the laws that set in motion the end of 18th century slavery, for God’s grace is every bit as amazing today as it was in Newton’s era.
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Breast Stays Put
$17.49Add to cartAfter running her own successful business in Wellness Alternatives, Pamela faced the unthinkable. She was diagnosed with a malignant, fast-growing breast cancer. Pam declined all conventional treatment and chose an alternative approach with an impressive track record instead, which resulted in her full recovery. Convinced that mutilation and toxic treatments are not always necessary, she wanted others to know there ARE options that don’t involve devastating a person’s body and their quality of life. With a delivery all her own, she shares her courageous story of overcoming a deadly diagnosis and provides prevention and treatment information.
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Called For Life
$31.00Add to cartCalled for Life reflects on our calling to serve God and neighbor in the context of retirement. People facing retirement ask a variety of questions, each framed by a different perspective. “Will I ever be interested in retiring?” some baby boomers ask. “Who am I now?” newly retired clergy ask. “What, if anything, is God calling me to do and be after retirement?” all inquire.
This book is built on the assumption that most people don’t want to spend the last third of their lives doing nothing. What they want is a life that is worth living, an occupation that will help others, a retirement in which they can continue to exercise their calling. Clayton uses examples from his own experience and from others, laity and clergy, to explore retirement and the three components of our calling: our identity, our gifts, and our occupation. He also examines the role of community in our calling and retirement; the challenges of the transition into retirement; options for meaningful activity; the importance of identifying our purpose; doing and being in retirement; and the final call to death. Readers will be encouraged to see retirement as an opportunity to do what they have always wanted to do and to become the kind of person they have wanted to be.
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101 Cups Of Water
$14.99Add to cartFor every time you’ve tried too hard, fell too far, or struggled too much, the refreshing cups in this book-or reminders of God’s infinite grace and mercy-will renew you like cool, clear water after a long, dry walk on a dusty, pitted, uphill road.
“I’ve been a believing Christian since childhood,” author C. David Baker explains, “but it’s my personal failures that have led me to the deep well of Grace.”
David poured his dashed hopes, broken dreams, haunting doubts, and paralyzing fear down that well and found all that’s collected here, all he, like you, needs for living with peace, joy, and purpose: cool cups of relief, comfort, revival, and sustenance.
Because Water Is “Life.
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Confessions Of A Good Christian Girl
$18.99Add to cartIn this powerful book, prominent Christian speaker and TV personality Tammy Maltby gets specific about the brokenness and pain in her own life and the lives of other “good Christian girls.” This book is not a lurid expose, but an honest and courageous look at the secrets that often lurk behind a “victorious” Christian fadade-secrets that range from feelings of inadequacy to sexual sins, shopping addictions, and thoughts of suicide. This book is also a passionate testimony to the Lord’s eagerness to cleanse and heal those who turn to Him. And it is a fervent appeal to God’s people to own up to the sin, brokenness, and shame in our midst and to extend to each other the same persistent, healing grace that Jesus extends to us.
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Star Witness : Prophetic Letters Of Matchless Grace
$22.99Add to cartPersonal success mysteries are more than health fitness quests, and they do have real resolutions! Are you ready for supernatural wisdom which is the providence of good life-fitness? The key to conquering lifetime fitness is to reach far higher than self. The author found the way to unlock his pursuits to conquer life fitness quests, and now you can too!
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TOUCH : Pressing Against The Wounds Of A Broken World
$18.99Add to cartBefore God touched his heart and transformed his life, Rudy Rasmus was a businessman running a “borderline bordello” in Houston. But thousands now know him simply as “Pastor Rudy”-with a downtown ministry at St. John’s Church that he and his wife Juanita started to reach out to those who Jesus called “the least of these.” TOUCH is the amazing story of Rudy’s life and ministry of grace that is changing lives daily. The church has become one of the most culturally diverse congregations in the country with people from every social and economic background, including the homeless, sharing the same pew. Pastor Rudy’s message to touch the lives of those in our own communities has a lesson for us all. Pastor Rudy is also a featured contributor to O, The Oprah Magazine-answering questions on ethics and marking one of the few times O has asked a Pastor to serve in this manner.
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Tales And Prayers For New Life In Christ
$15.95Add to cartWhat is a story? Is it simple communication, a way to relay information about an event? Is there more to a story than that? In fact, stories are powerful. They not only inspire our imagination, but they also serve as a connection with our past, preserving core events in our history. Stories can create a feeling of community, bonding people together in a common history. They reveal truths to us that would otherwise remain hidden. Sometimes we cannot grasp a notion until it is revealed in a story. From the story of our birth to our newspaper obituary, stories are the fabric of our lives.
It is no wonder that Jesus taught us using parables, defined in the introduction as “simple translations of the unfathomable word of God into human language.” Like other stories in our lives, Jesus’ parables offer humanity hope and enlightenment. Consequently, stories have pervaded our worship of God, the master storyteller. Through sermons, prayers, and hymns, the grand tale of God’s relationship with humanity is retold every Sunday.
It is in this spirit that Tales and Prayers for New Life in Christ is given. Each story, complete with a synopsis, a link to the liturgical calendar, and a corresponding scripture, offers us a glimpse into the mystery of life and faith. These stories, including “Angie,” “Bullpen Mud,” and “A Vision of Peace,” can be used in sermons, small group discussions, or even as a complement to personal prayer and reflection. It is suitable for congregations, families, friends, and individuals. Let each tale lay down the foundation on which you create a story of your own.
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Master Gardener
$13.49Add to cartThe Master Gardener is a lively, modern-day parable about a surprise visitor who shows up within the high and impenetrable walls of a lonely gardener whose life is plagued with fear and loneliness. Through a series of teachable-moments that the visitor uses as opportunities of instruction, the gardener finds that what is happening within his struggling garden is but a reflection of his tumultuous emotions. The surprise visitor patiently and kindly shows the gardener how to deal with the troubling issues of life while also teaching him how to perfectly care for his natural garden. The Master Gardener offers the humor and whimsy of an allegory, the insight of ageless wisdom, and the vivid symbolism of Christ’s love for us and His desire to be involved in every aspect of our lives. Laura Dahne and her husband Jim reside in South Florida where they enjoy doing ministry together. Laura’s passions are her family, photography and teaching on the magnificence of God. It has been said that she uses her pen to paint beautiful word masterpieces, much like an artist uses a brush. In addition to this work she has written several devotionals and currently authors a newsletter entitled, “The She Papers…The Passionate Ramblings of a Woman Crazy for God.” Laura knows first-hand the desperate need for inner healing and how our lives become transformed when Jesus is invited into our hurts and hearts. Laura does inspirational speaking engagements out of a sincere desire to see God’s women get set free and be wholly healed by a Holy God. Laura is currently ‘mulling over’ her next book, Broken Winged Eagles, a book on helping those who grieve. She can be contacted at TheShePapers@aol.com.
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Gods Gonna Make You Laugh
$15.99Add to cartEveryone can relate to walking through very dark periods of life which seem will never end. Noel Jones is not speaking from a vantage point of one who has never suffered so his words of encouragement and promise carry weight and hope. Sorrow and adversity come, but they do not stay.
This book conveys the message that suffering and endurance are preparations for the reward that will come to the one who holds on to and trusts in the faithfulness of God. That one will experience the laughter of triumph. Joy comes in the morning to those who endure.
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1st Gleam Of Dawn
$19.99Add to cartMary Cutler thought she was living a wonderful life. She had married her college sweetheart and raised a family. Then began a series of trials that shook her world. She suffered a clinical depression, her son flunked out of college, and a daughter and son-in-law established a hippie commune before he left her to seek spiritual enlightenment in India. One day Mary received a phone call concerning her daughter that caused her to cry out to God for help. That’s when the miracles began!
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Lost Soul
$26.99Add to cartSkipping school, hitchhiking, and getting high became the author’s way of escape from all the pressures of growing up. At the time she didn’t know it, but all of this was God’s plan to prepare her for what was ahead. By the grace of God, she was spared from her own stupidity and given the opportunity to tell her story – the story of how God’s love surpasses any and all struggles this world can throw at you.
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12 Stones : Crossing Into The Promise Land
$19.99Add to cartTwelve Stones was written for anyone who has an addiction to overcome. Through years of trial and error, Kay discovered that Jesus Christ is the only way to victory over any addiction. In a collection of essays written during a two-year period of her recovery walk, without sugarcoating, she freely relays the struggles, tears, fears, and the failures. But there are successes too, and there is no mistaking the joy and peace of God that she experiences along the way.
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In Search Of Julian Of Norwich
$19.95Add to cartThis is a spiritual detective story. Who was Julian? Why has she become so famous? Why did her writings disappear for centuries? Why is everyone reading them today? This fascinating illustrated exploration of Julian’s world-her city, her century, and her remarkable book, the first written by a woman in English- provides clues to the exciting mystery that is Julian.
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Finding God In The Shadows
$16.99Add to cartThe stories in this volume are of men and women who exhibit moral courage and who take responsible action despite hardships, privations, or the burdens of making life and death decisions for others. Most of the stories are set against the backdrop of war or conflict and incorporate parallel historical moments from the Bible that help frame the questions raised by the contemporary story. By searching the concrete realities through which many people of faith encounter God, the authors encourage a closer reading of and reflection on the stories in the Bible. We can meet God, they say, most distinctly through ordinary means.
The stories include: Battle of Pilar Pass, Stalingrad, And the Blind Shall See, The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth, Golden Rule in Action, Private Jake McNiece and the Dirty Dozen, Father Forgive Them, The Return, In God We Trust, Never Walk Alone, Ocean Tap, Boat People, and more. Each chapter includes questions for reflection and discussion.
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Power And The Glory
$17.99Add to cartArthur White was a world champion power-lifter, a successful businessman, and a happy family man, until his life spiraled out of control. Cocaine, steroids, and an affair changed everything. Arthur lost his business, family, and his own health was severely threatened. Death seemed the only way out until an incident with a knife…..
Arthur’s life story is straight out of the annals of crime thriller and his conversion to the Christian faith dramatically demonstrates the reality of God’s amazing grace.
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Better Than Good
$18.99Add to cartWritten in Zig Ziglar’s trademark style, Better Than Good isn’t just about success now, excellence tomorrow, or even motivation for next month, but about making a lasting impact-an impact that goes beyond financial gains and creative partnerships. This book offers practical and spiritual vision for what life can be when we allow the power of purpose and passion to permeate our souls.
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Unusual Suspect : My Calling To The New Hardcore Movement Of Faith
$21.99Add to cartStephen Baldwin explains why he compares his new life of faith to jumping out of an airplane without a parachute, and calls on you to take the plunge.
When Stephen Baldwin was riding the wave of fame from his most successful movie, The Usual Suspects, he thought he was in his glory. Hot in Hollywood–whatever Stephen wanted, Stephen got. Years later, happily married and living his life far from Hollywood, Stephen happened upon Christianity via a most unusual conversion. Now Stephen takes us behind the scenes and tells the stories we’ve yet to hear–of celebrity fun, curious family, and hardcore faith. He takes an in-depth look at the church’s current role in society and the extreme faith movement. It’s obvious Stephen has identified his new role in life–that of a Christian–a role more radical than anything in Hollywood.
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Forgotten Touch : More Stories Of Healing
$19.95Add to cartThe author’s unusual spiritual journey transformed him from a Royal Marine Commando, trained to kill or be killed, to the director of the healing ministries of Christ the King Spiritual Life Center, where he now teaches people to heal and be healed.
This long-awaited sequel to Hand to Hand: From Combat to Healing, Mumford’s experience of healing in the trenches, offers vivid snapshots of God at work in the world. These true tales from the author’s healing ministry and prayers gives the reader insight into the little-known world of modern miracles.
Inspiring to Christians and non-Christians alike, these accessible stories challenge us to explore the depths of our faith. They will encourage healers in their ministry of prayer and those who are ill to seek physical and spiritual healing for themselves.
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Searching For Heaven On Earth
$19.99Add to cartIf heaven were to be found on earth, says Dr. David Jeremiah, “no mountain could be high enough, no ocean could provide the necessary depth. The search must continue somewhere else.” Come with him on the most crucial pilgrimage of all. And when you are done, if you have tread the right soil, you will have found, at last, the object of your every quest . . . the true North Star of your every journey . . . the never-dimming light of your fondest hopes . . . the way to the happiness you’ve been longing for.
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Learning To Live Laugh And Love Again
$13.49Add to cartThis book shares the author’s journey of learning to move forward with her life after the sudden death of her daughter to cancer at the age of 31. This is a story only a mother can write as a gift to another mother. It shares with readers her ups and downs as she struggled to rebuild her life and marriage in the midst of terrible grief. Grieving is not for the weak. Grief is exhausting, both mentally and physically, but the journey builds strength of character.
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Way Is Made By Walking
$24.99Add to cartArthur Paul Boers describes his month-long journey on the Camino de Santiago in Spain, a classic pilgrimage route that ends at the cathedral where St. James is buried. He relates what he learned on the Camino to life back home in a way that spiritually nurtures readers.
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Wild Men Wild Alaska
$19.99Add to cartIn Wild Men, Wild Alaska professional hunting and fishing guide and outfitter Rocky McElveen tells the stories of his own adventures as well as those of some of his well-known clients. The book takes readers directly into the Alaskan bush, and shares the intense challenges of a majestic wilderness that pushes a man to his limits.
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Simple Faith Of Mister Rogers
$18.99Add to cartTom Brokaw of NBC Nightly News once said of the American icon Fred Rogers, “Mister Rogers was an ordained minister, but he never talked about God on his program. He didn’t need to.” Eight years before his death, Fred Rogers met author, educator, and speaker Amy Hollingsworth. What started as a television interview turned into a wonderful friendship spanning dozens of letters detailing the driving force behind this gentle man of extraordinary influence. Educator? Philosopher? Psychologist? Minister? Here is an intimate portrait of the real Mister Rogers. The Simple Faith of Mr. Rogers focuses on Mr. Rogers’ spiritual legacy, but it is much more than that. It shows us a man who, to paraphrase the words of St. Francis of Assisi, “preached the gospel at all times; when necessary he used words.”
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Longing For Enough In A Culture Of More
$17.99Add to cartThis collection of thought-provoking essays explores the importance of escaping the liftstyle and attitudes of a “weighed-down” world and provides valuable tools for doing so. Each meditation is followed by a series of questions for reflection or study.
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199 Promises Of God
$2.49Add to cartWhat is it that keeps God’s children hopeful in a hopeless world? What guarantees can a person cling to on the most difficult of days? Readers will find dozens of God’s most uplifting guarantees in 199 Promises of God. This compact book offers real and powerful promises from the Creator of the universe and true refreshment for the spirit and a renewed sense of God’s commitment to His children.
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Beauty Beyond The Ahses
$18.95Add to cartOn the morning of September 11, 2001, Cheryl McGuinness kissed her husband good-bye as he headed off to work.
She never saw him again.Tom McGuinness was the co-pilot of American Airlines Flight 11 — the first airplane to crash into the World Trade Center. On that day, Cheryl’s world fell apart.
But since that day, Cheryl McGuinness has learned how to hope again. Through her powerful story, the rest of us can find our way to hope as well. Cheryl’s message of renewal, recovery, and faith is a message that resonates with every aching heart.
As you read through this intimate look at heartbreak and joy, you will discover an incredible sense of the good that is yet to be, and you will find in yourself a growing conviction that with God’s help, you can face any sorrow or pain.
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To My Family
$19.00Add to cartA large portion of our population are in the golden years of their life and have lived through unprecedented changes during their life span that has never been recorded. They have an amazing history locked in their minds that most family members are unaware of. Every year families lose their parents before they have gleaned valuable histories of family trees, events, memories and historical values that can never be recovered. Most family members are unaware of the amazing history of these great saints. Here is a resource that captures a lifetime of detail that can be passed down for generations to come.
How we communicate life’s lessons to our children, may determine the course set for our descendants’ own lives. Little may remain to remind anyone of an ordinary life-a cold, hard tombstone, a few dog-eared photos, perhaps some possessions, unless written down. The thoughts and beliefs that once defined an individual, disappear with his or her last breath.
To My Family: My Reflections, Values, Experiences and Family History is a practical, user-friendly tool that will allow families to capture the rich legacy of their family members for the conveyance of wisdom, knowledge, family history, understanding and the experience of beloved family members before it is too late.
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Iona : A Pilgrims Guide
$14.49Add to cartIn its first edition, this pocket guide to the sacred Hebridean island of Iona sold 7500 copies.
Every Tuesday, there is a pilgrimage around the island and this guide follows its route, stopping at all the principal sites to reflect on the island’s history rooted in Celtic spirituality, and to pray for the needs of the world. Iona is not a place of escape – its spirituality today is focused on justice and peace for the world.
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Making The Climb
$14.99Add to cart“IT WAS JUST AFTER DAWN ON A WARM JANUARY DAY IN 1986 WHEN I FIRST SAW KILIMANJARO RISING THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING MIST…”
Whatever our age or experience, we all have challenges and obstacles that loom over our lives like mountains. No matter what the cost, we must climb them before we can go any farther.
This riveting first-person account of one man’s successful climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro will inspire and encourage you as you traverse life’s rugged terrain. Novice climber John Bowling takes you with him on a nine-day trek to the top of Africa’s tallest mountain and shares with you the spiritual insights he learned along the way.
Join the author on his exhilarating journey. His adventure will not only captivate you but also help you conquer life’s most challenging mountains-no matter how difficult they might seem.
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Answers In Abundance
$16.95Add to cartAnswers in Abundance will primarily reach Christian women between the ages of 25 and 50 who have either been through a similar experience, know somebody who has or is currently involved in the painful process; or who simply enjoy human interest stories that can be referred to friends and family. The story transcends the spiritual ingredients, however, and could be read by a larger audience than just evangelical Christians. There are, conservatively estimating, over two million infertile couples in the United States. Infertile Christian married couples in America often keep their plight a secret for years. If and when they finally begin to talk openly with their close friends, it’s nearly always the woman who bears the responsibility for investigating various options. It is also usually the female who carries the guilt through this entire process.
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Tour De Faith
$14.95Add to cartTour de Faith shares powerful lessons about community, discipline, challenges, mortality, and more as pastor Robert Molsberry reflects on his experiences in the annual Des Moines Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa. Each year, the race attracts tens of thousands of riders, including Lance Armstrong and Greg LeMond.
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Some Things You Just Have To Live With
$22.95Add to cartEverybody figures it out sooner or later: Even in a Botox world that promises eternal youth, some things-from aches and pains to wrinkles, from menopause to the empty nest-you just have to live with. But despite the challenges, those who are reaching middle age-yesterday’s Baby Boomers-might not want to turn back the clock. Instead, as their bodies change and their priorities shift, they’re looking to cull wisdom from their experience and find spiritual meaning in their re-examined lives. In Some Things You Just Have to Live With, author Barbara Cawthorne Crafton explores the “spilled milk” of our lives, the physical changes our bodies endure, and the new and energizing purpose we can discover by plunging into the middle of life in a deeper-and sometimes mystifying-relationship with God. A wonderful storyteller, Crafton writes with humor and pathos rather than a heavy hand, allowing readers to see themselves and their own lives in the unfolding pages. Some Things You Just Have to Live With is a source of inspiration-and smiles-to those navigating the turbulent waters of the middle of life.
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Encounters : Authentic Experiences Of God
$12.99Add to cart44 accounts by believers past and present
This book has been written to record the experiences of a wide variety of Christians which seem, to them, to establish the existence of God and in particular the truth of the risen Christ beyond reasonable doubt. Each of these people, they believe, has encountered Christ. For some such experiences happened at the point of their conversion. For others they are a repeated occurrence. ‘We need,’ explains John Woolmer, ‘to be able to tell people about our spiritual journey’. The book will comprise 44 short accounts, each with appropriate explanation and commentary if needed. Sources include known and unknown but include such historical figures as St Augustine and Jonathan Edwards as well as many contemporary believers.
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Man The Church Forgot
$15.49Add to cartEarly medical missionaries were often looked down upon. Church-controlled mission boards were not interested in medical missions. Medical missionaries were told to put evangelism first, then healing. Still, doctors kept going out, speaking the love of Jesus, healing the sick, and helping the poor. Always overworked, they often died or were sent home worn out. Who remembers them? Dr. John Thomas went to India five years before William Carey, but Carey is called the “father of modern missions.” Thomas converted the man Carey baptized as his first fruit. Why ignore Thomas? Read his story here.
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Wisdom Of Wilderness
$14.99Add to cartThe natural world has a power to inspire the best and soothe the worst in each of us. It also has much to teach us about the wilderness within and the divine presence that is manifest in nature. In this, his last work, beloved author Gerald May offers a memoir and spiritual guide that reveals the great lessons available to us when we retreat from our busy lives to the serenity of the natural wilderness.
The Wisdom of Wilderness expresses the healing and wholeness May received through spending time in the wild — whether hiking, camping, canoeing, fishing, or, often, just sitting. Also, May saw that wilderness can be found anywhere — a garden, a park, perhaps in one’s own room, or even in other people. Wherever we find it, it calls to what is natural in each of our hearts, reassuring us that we are part of a bigger creation and teaching us how to make peace with the outer world and with our inner selves.
For May, nature was not something to rise above. The belief that we must dominate and tame all that is wild around and within us is the most fundamental estrangement of Western civilization, long inflicting wounds upon the planet and upon ourselves. But before we can effectively heal the earth, we must somehow recover our own natural wholeness, our own wildness and kinship with nature. We cannot do this healing for ourselves, but only through “the grace of Something or Someone beyond” — and in May’s case, he found this grace in Nature itself.
This moving, beautifully written book is Gerald May at his best. It includes a foreword by author Parker J. Palmer, which illuminates the importance of May’s life and writing and explains how this last book fits into the body of his work.
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Chasing The Dragon (Reprinted)
$18.99Add to cartInside Hong Kong was the infamous Walled City. Strangers were not welcome there. Police hesitated to enter. It was a haven of filth, crime, and sin. Prostitution, pornography, and drug addiction flourished. Jackie Pullinger had grown up believing that if she put her trust in God, He would lead her. When she was twenty years old, God called her to the Walled City. She obeyed. And as she spoke of Jesus Christ, brutal hoods were converted, prostitutes retired from their trade, and heroin junkies found new power that freed them from the bondage of drug addiction. Hundreds discovered new life in Christ. Chasing the Dragon tells the whole amazing story exactly as it happened. Equally amazing has been the reach of this ministry, now detailed in this updated and revised edition. From Hong Kong to the Philippines, Thailand, and beyond, the ministry that started with Jackie and her friends taking people in to live and care for them has continued and developed to form the present St. Stephen’s Society. Readers will be inspired by this tale of trust and loving like Jesus.
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Deacon Letters : From A Montana Woman To Her Church Family 1995-2005
$17.99Add to cartWritten over a ten year period, these Letters convey with wisdom, humor and candor not only the joys and quiet pleasures but also the inevitable strivings and sorrows of a mature life. As a Vocational Deacon, speaking from a place somewhere between the altar and the congregation, the writer inspires readers to experience fully the small and large moments of their own lives, and to pursue the Christian life with gratitude, charity, hope and a cheerful heart.
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Revealing Heaven 1
$15.49Add to cart“To Him who sits upon the throne, we give praise, honor, and glory forever and ever, that He would desire to reveal His home in the heavens to the men of the earth.” Thus began the two scribe angels as they dictated the foreword to this illustrated book. The author, taken on tours of heaven, had now been commissioned by the Lord to reveal the truth and give hope for eternity. Volume 1 will take you to the Portal, Heaven’s Nurseries, the “Rush” – its biggest roller coaster – and much more!
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Recompense Of A Great Reward Thats Worth Dying For
$15.99Add to cartPain. It’s the one universal characteristic of a fallen world, inevitable for both believers and unbelievers. But believers have the opportunity to turn suffering into pearls of faith and triumph through Jesus Christ. This book provides believers with great biblical insights as to the privilege of suffering for Christ and differentiates between the glorious rewards of living for Christ and the atrocious rewards of the ungodly. Through a series of short and insightful teachings, scriptures, quotes, and prayers, you’ll learn that suffering is not in vain if it is for the Lord.
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Alzheimers : We Were There But So Was God
$14.99Add to cartAlzheimer’s disease has a devastating effect on its victims, those who suffer from it directly and those loved ones who try to care for them to the end.
In this book Gwen Bibber Kimball uses powerful words to paint indelible images and contrasts to explain the ravaging effects of Alzheimer’s on her beloved husband Dave. Taken from her personal journal, Gwen shares witty and delightful accounts of the humorous moments to the excruciating pain of going beyond reasonable limits as a caregiver. Her poetic expressions of her deep faith in God and the stability of family and friends to the utter aloneness in coming to terms with what happened following Dave’s death will touch your heart.
Gwen is amazing in her astute assessments of each plateau of the disease and what it meant for daily life, booth good and bad. Her book touched me deeply. I have glimpsed the anguish of two families forever changed.
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Like Trees Walking
$13.95Add to cartJane Sigloh interweaves the insights of Scripture, poetry, fiction, and philosophy into her memories and reflections on the challenges and opprotunities that maturity brings. Dip into any of these essays and find a refreshing perspective, a humorous anecdote, or an intimate confession that will ring true to your own experience.
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For Everything A Season (Reprinted)
$17.99Add to cartFilled with a cast of lovable, quirky characters, punctuated with simple wonders, the everyday truths found in this book offer much needed clarity to our own befuddled world. No matter where you live, no matter what your season, come along for the journey.
When Philip Gulley began writing newsletter essays for the twelve members of his Quaker meeting in Indiana, he had no idea one of them would find its way to radio commentator Paul Harvey Jr. and be read on the air to 24 million people. Fourteen books later, with more than a million books in print, Gulley still entertains as well as inspires from his small-town front porch
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That Amazing Junk Man
$14.95Add to cartHere is a collection of nearly 75 stories and sermonettes drawn from Truman Brunk’s 40 years in the ministry. The stories reflect Brunk’s desire to help churches become open and welcoming, instead of exclusive and shunning. The story of Cap’n Jack, the oysterman living “outside the walls” of the Mennonite Colony and welcomed into Brunk’s home church at Warwick River Mennonite Church, provides a memorable illustration of this.
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Fight The Good Fight
$16.99Add to cartHave you ever wondered how to deal with life’s many stresses, the dangers of depression and the allure of this material world? Have you felt the greedy grip of addictions and the sordidness of your own sins? Devout Christian and professional boxing manager Kerry Pharr has lived and overcome many of these deadly demons. In his book Fight the Good Fight, Kerry tells you his tale of personal redemption. He explains how this self-described juvenile delinquent turned into a dedicated Christian even in the seedy world of professional boxing. He describes how he got up and moved on after life had knocked him down. He not only describes his faith but also tells many stories from the boxing world, including rubbing shoulders with champions Muhammad Ali, John Tate and Thomas Hearns. Fight the Good Fight packs a knockout punch for Christians and boxing fans.
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Front Porch Talks (Reprinted)
$14.99Add to cartWisdom and Humor from the Front Porch
Master storyteller Philip Gulley shares tender and hilarious real-life moments that capture the important truths of everyday life.
When Philip Gulley began writing newsletter essays for the twelve members of his Quaker meeting in Indiana, he had no idea one of them would find its way to radio commentator Paul Harvey Jr. and be read on the air to 24 million people. Fourteen books later, with more than a million books in print, Gulley still entertains as well as inspires from his small-town front porch.
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Hometown Tales : Recollections Of Kindness Peace And Joy (Reprinted)
$14.99Add to cartStories from a Place That Feels Like Home
Master storyteller Philip Gulley envelops readers in an almost forgotten world of plainspoken and honest small-town values, evoking a simpler time when people knew each other by name, folks looked out for their neighbors, and people were willing to do what was right-no matter the cost.
When Philip Gulley began writing newsletter essays for the twelve members of his Quaker meeting in Indiana, he had no idea one of them would find its way to radio commentator Paul Harvey Jr. and be read on the air to 24 million people. Fourteen books later, with more than a million books in print, Gulley still entertains as well as inspires from his small-town front porch.
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Shepherd Looks At Psalm 23
$14.99Add to cartWith over 2 million copies sold, Phillip Keller’s beloved contemporary classic spans the decades with its uplifting insights on Psalm 23. Pairing Keller’s sublime reflections with the New International Version, this large-print edition sheds light for a new generation of readers on the nature and ways of sheep-and of the Good Shepherd who cares for them.
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Sharing A Laugh
$19.99Add to cartLaughter is the best medicine, and the Women of Faith(R) speakers definitely know how to lose themselves in laughter. Laugh along with them as they share sidesplitting stories and hilarious jokes that are sure to get a giggle – and perhaps a belly laugh – out of every reader.
Sharing a Laugh will entertain and delight you with humor from: Patsy Clairmont, Barbara Johnson, Nicole Johnson, Marilyn Meberg, Luci Swindoll, Sheila Walsh, Thelma Wells, and others.
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Secret Scars : One Womans Story Of Overcoming Self Harm
$24.99Add to cartFrom five years old, Abbie didn’t know who she was supposed to be. To deal with her lack of identity she turned to self-harm, using it as a form of control. Eventually she began the painstaking process of stopping her behavior and discovering who she was in Christ. In her stark autobiography Abigail Robson deals with the delicate and often misunderstood issues of self harm, bulimia and anorexia. Dispelling the often held belief that ‘cutting’ is purely attention seeking behaviour the book offers first hand insight into the torment which many people suffer in an attempt to cope with the reality of everyday day life. Robson is disarmingly honest at times as she takes the reader through her journey through self hatred, insecurity and desire for control to forgiveness, acceptance and ultimate freedom through Christ. Abigail offers hope without trivializing the immense struggles involved in breaking free from this desperate, lonely and destructive cycle.
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My Hearts In The Lowlands
$17.00Add to cartYou’ve traveled there in her riveting fiction, now discover fascinating southwest Scotland for real—with Higgs as your tour guide—in this beautifully detailed travelogue of her favorite place in the world. Without crossing the pond or even changing time zones, you’ll discover the quaint villages, old bookshops, charming tearooms, and many other delights.
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William Wilberforce : A Hero For Humanity
$19.99Add to cartHere is the true story of how British statesman and reformer William Wilberforce overcame great obstacles to bring about the end of the slave trade in England two centuries ago. The movie Amazing Grace brings this story to life, and this book is the inspiring, definitive biography of Wilberforce, written by the lead historical consultant for the film.
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Faith
$9.99Add to cartThis is a popular, non-technical sweep through key themes of the Christian faith, highlighting very many inspiring and enlivening points. It often takes an oblique and unusual approach to a topic in order to bring out the full wonder and significance.
It is designed to be enjoyed by seasoned Christians, and also by all who want to explore the great features of the faith, and discover the life of the soul.
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How I Met My True Love
$30.95Add to cartDo you have a story burning inside of you – a story that rivals the great romances in literature and film? Join hudreds of ordinary people in this book as they share their stories about how they met the love of their life. From blind dates to childhood crushes, you’ll read about the times when “heaven came down” and touched earth in remarkable ways. These stories will inspire you to believe God, not just for the small things, but even the big things in your life. True love exists and here’s proof!
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How I Met My True Love
$17.99Add to cartDo you have a story burning inside of you – a story that rivals the great romances in literature and film? Join hudreds of ordinary people in this book as they share their stories about how they met the love of their life. From blind dates to childhood crushes, you’ll read about the times when “heaven came down” and touched earth in remarkable ways. These stories will inspire you to believe God, not just for the small things, but even the big things in your life. True love exists and here’s proof!
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Mudhouse Sabbath : An Invitation To A Life Of Spiritual Discipline
$16.99Add to cartAfter her conversion from Orthodox Judaism to Christianity, Lauren Winner found that her life was indelibly marked by the rich traditions and spiritual practices of Judaism. She set out to discover how she could incorporate some of these practices into her new faith. Winner presents eleven Jewish spiritual practices that can transform the way Christians view the world and God. Whether discussing attentive eating, marking the days while grieving, the community that supports a marriage, candle-lighting, or the differences between the Jewish Sabbath and a Sunday spent at the Mudhouse, her favorite coffee shop, Winner writes with appealing honesty and rare insight.
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1 Minute Promises Of Comfort
$8.99Add to cartResting in Gods promises provides great solace, renewal, and hope for those undergoing trials. This gathering of One-Minute Promises of Comfort provides biblical assurances in brief inspirational meditations.Each entry includes a Scripture and a devotion to shed light on Gods love. Whether read page by page or topically, this devotional offers readers facing change, disappointment, loss, or worry the blessings of Gods strength and compassion.More than 20 topics unveil Gods power to transform lives and His faithfulness to do so.
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Fire Of Your Life
$19.95Add to cartNew edition of book published successfully by Paulist in ’83 and Harper in ’92.
Vivid, humorous insights into the life of a nature mystic and solitary living in a tent on California’s Big Sur coast.
Short meditations follow the course of the church year; ideal for Advent and Lent parish study and prayer groups.
Popular with clergy and lay people in all liturgical churches, including Roman Catholic spiritual directors and members of religious orders.
A life-professed solitary and mystic under vows to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Ross writes with the wonder and energy of a spiritual poet. In this new edition of a spiritual classic, she shares one year of her solitude in seasonal meditations that include encounters with lynxes and coyotes, reflections on the summer solstice, and desire for union with God. An excellent source of sermon ideas.
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Hugs For The Heart
$16.99Add to cartThis delightful collection of inspirational stories is a warm hug for your waiting heart.
Read them one at a time or a few in a sitting, and each cozy story will provide a sweet moment of rest and a reason to smile. You’ll find stories by some of your favorite authors, such as Patsy Clairmont, Zig Ziglar, Ravi Zacharias, Florence Littauer, and Alan Loy McGinnis, as well as some by new friends you’ll enjoy getting to know.
So get comfortable — whether with a warm, fuzzy blanket or in a lazy, summer hammock; with an ice-cold glass of tea or a frothy cup of hot chocolate — and get ready to be refreshed, renewed, and refilled.
Sweet stories that hug the heart — a gift worth giving yourself, as well as those you love.
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Good Paddling
$12.95Add to cartIt’s time to sit back, put on your life jacket, and get ready for an adventure as the author, Patty Mondore, shares a few of the lessons about life that she’s learned on the lake. What you need is A Good Paddling!
Anyone who has spent time on the water would probably agree that there are endless discoveries to be made in God’s amazingly beautiful, natural world. The author will share lessons about faith and hope, failure and forgiveness, work and play, sorrow and joy, and yes, even about love.
A Good Paddling! is a collection of thirty nautical adventures written from the unique perspective of the author’s kayak. Patty’s tales are written in a narrative style that invite the reader to share her kayaking experiences along with her whether it’s through laughter, joy, horror, humiliation, or even a quiet awe. You will see the spectacular sunset, visit a beaver’s lodge, go for a moonlight cruise, and even take a spill or two along the way. In each chapter the author takes the reader on short excursions that provide a front row seat to various aspects of God’s marvelous creation.
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God Winks On Love
$17.99Add to cartYou are destined to have a soul mate. If you have faith in the outcome, the picture of love you have in your mind can be yours. So trust…and learn to read the godwinks.
Like a jigsaw puzzle in which you know that all the pieces will fit precisely together, the blueprint for your life was written with an exact-fitting piece just for you and your soul mate. Yes, within that jigsaw puzzle called “Your Life,” there is a perfect love.
Sure, sometimes you feel as if all the pieces have been dumped out on the dining room table and there’s no way to get them to fit together. We all do. That’s why you must have confidence in the big picture. And that’s why you must learn to read the godwinks…those remarkable little coincidences that happen to us all.
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Bryson City Secrets
$19.99Add to cartThere are places in Bryson City where the smell of home cooking is a little too tempting for an empty stomach. Don’t, for instance, pass the Fryemont Inn when the windows are open-not unless you plan to come inside and enjoy fresh-baked rolls, gourmet cooking, and an owner who is as warm and inviting as the food. She’s just one of the friendly faces you’ll meet in Bryson City Secrets.
Told with winsome humor and deep affection, Bryson City Secrets is a story-lover’s delight, continuing Dr. Walt Larimore’s reminiscences of his early years of country medical practice and telling the heartbreaking, true story of why he left. It is a story whose time, after many years, has come at last, putting an end to secrets and shining in their place the light of truth, forgiveness, and healing. So pull up a chair and feast on this rich fare of Smoky Mountain personalities, highland wisdom, and all the tears, laughter, tenderness, faith, courage, and misadventures of small-town life.
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Just Passing Through
$24.95Add to cartSojourner is an Old French word with jour–day–at its heart. It reminds us of our transience and of the inexorable passage of time. It reminds us that we do not own this world but that we are merely passing through. It reminds us that God’s time is not our time.
Fans of Margaret Guenther will welcome this salty and wise collection of reflections on her life journey her childhood in Kansas City, her college days, her career, her travels, and her slow awakening to transience of all things. This writer and spiritual director looks back over the nearly eight decades of her life, tackling themes of childhood, friendship, moving, the magic of words, heaven, spirituality in cyberspace, asking the right questions, and things never to do again.
Readers of Holy Listening, On Holy Ground, My Soul in Silence Waits, At Home in the World, and The Practice of Prayer will delight in this book of fresh, humorous insights.
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Burn Brightly Without Burning Out
$11.98Add to cartAre you burning brightly-or burning out-in your spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional life? Do you find yourself being torn between work and family? Between what you have to do and what you want to do? In Burn Brightly Without Burning Out, Richard K. Biggs examines twenty delicate contrasts we all face and urges readers to gradually improve the balance between work and the other aspects of life. Filled with examples and exercises, each brief chapter reveals timeless truths, offers practical application tips, and issues a call to action.”I love the big message of this small book,” writes John Maxwell in the foreword. “Whether you’re struggling to find work/life balance, or seeking to better the quality of life you now enjoy, Richard can help.”
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Addiction And Grace
$15.99Add to cartIn this inspiring book, Gerald May describes the processes of attachment that lead to addiction and examines the relationship between addiction and spiritual awareness. May details the various addictions from which we suffer-not only to alcohol and drugs, but also to work, sex, performance, responsibility, and intimacy. Drawing on his experience as a psychiatrist working with the chemically dependent, May emphasizes how addiction represents a doomed attempt to assert complete control over our lives. Addiction & Grace is a compassionate and wise treatment of this important topic, offering a critical yet hopeful guide to a place of freedom based on contemplative spirituality. This Plus edition includes two additional essays by Gerald May not included in the hardcover version.
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Dont Throw Away Tomorrow
$14.99Add to cartFifty years ago Robert H. Schuller founded a church on the idea that with faith, focus, and follow-through all of our dreams can become realities. A tireless advocate of this positive message, he built the Crystal Cathedral into one of America’s most popular and beloved centers of worship. Dedicating his life to both his family and his ministry, Dr. Schuller has gone on to teach millions the power of belief. A gifted and moving storyteller, he now offers the wisdom he’s gained over a lifetime of optimism and devotion. In this personal and inspirational book, Schuller shows us how the universal principles that have formed his life and his work can guide ours as well. Starting with the message of “Don’t Throw Away Tomorrow!” this landmark book discusses powerful and universal ideals such as starting with optimism, choosing positive values, keeping focused, clearing the channels of communication, and — most important — looking to the Ultimate Authority.
For fifty years Americans have been listening to Schuller’s thoughtful guidance and have been inspired by his love of humanity and God. Don’t Throw Away Tomorrow is a culmination of his wisdom, delivered directly to the reader — a tribute to the power of possibility thinking.
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Soldier Stories : True Tales Of Courage Honor And Sacrifice From The Frontl
$13.99Add to cartJoe Wheeler, called “America’s storyteller” by James Dobson, pens his most soul-stirring book to date yet–the true, courageous stories of the men and women who have laid their lives on the line for America. Through frontline stories from battles throughout modern history–including WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the Iraq War–readers will be encouraged and humbled by the valor and sacrifice portrayed in these riveting pages.
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Journal Of A Southern Girl
$17.99Add to cartFrom four years old I recall some fond memories and some sad ones with my family living in the country and later moved to the city of Portsmouth, where my Mom grew up. I was a survival and refuse to let life’s trials keep me pinned down. The few mishaps I experienced in Virginia doesn’t compare to the trauma and drama I encountered after leaving home at age 15 to live in New York. Raped more than once, used drugs and alcohol to numb my pain, contemplating killing a man with a gun and more that kept me on an emotional roller coaster ride. I thought God was punishing me for leaving my mom and siblings. The will to survive and determined to have a better life prompted me to go back to school and to continue to seek peace and happiness.
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Strangers And Neighbors
$16.99Add to cartThe compelling, insightful, and challenging memoir of a Christian woman’s exploration of her faith while living in community with strictly Orthodox Jews. As Maria Johnson explains: “I knew that Christianity is rooted deep in Judaism, but living in daily contact with a vital and vibrant Jewish life has been fascinating and transforming. I am and will remain a Christian, but I am a rather different Christian than I was before.”
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In Search Of The Lost
$20.00Add to cartIn 2003, a story shook the Anglican world in general and Anglican monastic life in particular. On August 8th, seven members of The Melanesian Brotherhood, an Anglican order of Christian brothers living a simple and prayerful life and known for their peace work throughout the South Pacific and beyond, were brutally murdered as a result of ethnic conflict in the Solomon Islands. They had been taken hostage five months earlier.
The Melanesian Brotherhood is the largest Anglican religious community in the world with over 300 brothers and more than 300 novices and has received a United Nations award for its peace work. From 1990-2005, Richard Carter, a British priest, was tutor, chaplain to the Melanesian Brotherhood, eventually becoming a brother himself. This extraordinary, powerful and moving book is based on his diaries from that agonizing time for the Community. It tells the harrowing story of the loss of seven good, young and holy lives and the aftermath of those deaths. It tells the story of individuals and a community trying to make sense of faith in the face of fierce conflict and tragedy. It recounts the challenge of living out the Christian faith when confronted by great fear and loss. It is thus a story for everyman. Rowan Williams writes a preface.
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Becoming : Meditations For The Ministry Minded
$15.99Add to cartMae Williams shares her insights into thoughts that must be deeply owned by aspiring, new, and experienced ministers. Known as a teaching minister, Williams urges ministers to stay intimately connected to God even during their busiest and most trying times. Beginning with short narratives and poetry expressing questions of the heart, the book presents aspects of our lives as Christians, interspersed with prayers for greater realization of God’s care for His ministers. Through personal stories and those of biblical characters, Williams illustrates such themes as self-talk, spiritual comfort zones, preparation for launch, and mind pain.
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Faith Under Fire
$19.99Add to cartThe Second World War generation met many challenges and turned to their faith to sustain them through overwhelming odds. Here are stories of faith told by the people who lived them. This compelling collection not only honors the lives of these people of faith, but inspires readers to seek God in their own lives.
