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Lets Go To The Mountain
$29.49Add to cart“Let’s Go To The Mountain” is a daily devotional for those who are looking up to the Lord for help in his or her every day life. Have you ever felt God call you to do something that you felt was impossible? Have you faced disappointments, death of loved ones, or disabling illness? Do you like anecdotes about animals and nature? If the answer is “yes” then this book is for you.
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Virble : Sometimes She Gits In Trouble Cuz She Fits Too Soon
$15.49Add to cartThe innocence of youth left Virble filled with rich and wonderful memories of ordinary living done day to day during extraordinary times. Join this six-year-old, can-do, towhead as she shares her growing up years in the Mabry family during the 40’s and 50’s. Let her bring a smile to your face, or tears to your eyes while she warms your heart. While maintaining an Oklahoma flavor, she’ll tell with embarrassing candidness of her march to young adulthood in Stockton, California. Learn to drawl like an Okie and accurately use phrases like “Sometimes she gits in trouble cuz she fits too soon.” Discover the secret to making mud pies when water is short and uncover the significance of finding a button in your piece of birthday cake. Leave the 21st century behind and return with Virble to the small towns of Cedar Creek and Pioneer and Collegeville.
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Jonathan Edwards For Armchair Theologians
$24.00Add to cartThis witty and illuminating volume introduces the life and writings of the great American theologian and preacher Johathan Edwards (1703-1758). The most studied figure in American religious history and an iconic figure of the American colonial period, Edwards is well known and highly regarded as a stalwart defender of Calvinist theology and his Puritan heritage. As James P. Byrd deftly reveals, however, Edwards was also a brilliant thinker and passionate pastor who wrestled continuously with the most important issue of his time, the relationship between faith and reason. Exploring his life, most important writings, and enduring legacies, Jonathan Edwards for Armchair Theologians provides an engaging overview of a man far more complex and multifaceted than most understand.
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Tablet Of My Heart
$15.49Add to cartThe world turns upside down for a young girl when her father begins a fatal battle with the merciless affliction cancer. Before his illness finishes it’s devastating rampage through her adolescence, she is confronted by a new demon. She falls victim, by the hands of a trusted adult, to sexual abuse. The devastation of these events causes her to question God’s roll in her life, and whether He ever loved her at all. The Tablet of My Heart is a collection of Poetry from the journal of that young girl. It is narrated by the author of the journal herself, who paints a portrait of words illustrating her emotional journey from hopelessness to healing. It is dedicated to victims of abuse; to bring to them the realization of hope that there is a light at the end of the silence.
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1 Yard Short
$18.99Add to cartCoach Les Steckel understands that life is difficult. It’s marked by disappointments and defeats. But what’s important is what you do with those defeats. One Yard Short is the amazing story of Les Steckel. A coach for 32 years, with 23 of those seasons coaching in the NFL, Steckel has been through his shares of ups and downs, having experienced the pain and disappointment of job loss time and time again in a way that only professional sports coaches know.
A lesser man would have given up and become bitter, but in the midst of each disappointment, each “failure,” God was there, picking him up, dusting him off, telling Coach Steckel that He believed in him and that there was a special plan for his life. In One Yard Short, Coach Steckel teaches readers through his own life lessons and football experiences how to hear God’s voice in the midst of disappointments and failures.
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Keep On Keeping On
$18.99Add to cartThis is the story of Ron Davis, a charismatic young man who struggled to beat a 12 year addiction to drugs, only to be brutally murdered at the age of 39. More than ten years after his death, Ron Davis continues to touch the lives of a great many people. His legacy serves as a reminder that good can still come from even the worst of circumstances.
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Flowing Streams : Journeys Of A Life Well Lived
$24.99Add to cartWith a global career spanning over sixty years, Stuart Briscoe’s life stream has cut a very deep channel. Now he looks back to share his wisdom through insightful stories, anecdotes, and commentary. This legacy book from one of the twentieth century’s most beloved pastors has a fresh, vibrant message for twenty-first century Christians.
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Whats Your Excuse
$17.99Add to cartJohn Foppe, born without arms, has faced obstacles-both physical and emotional-his entire life. While some see his condition as a debilitating handicap, John disagrees. “Our only handicaps are those mental and emotional ones that prevent us from participating fully in life.”John is a creative problem solver, and his inspiring story will enable you to see that the only things preventing you from accomplishing your goals are self-imposed limitations. His education in clinical social work and his experience as a professional speaker give him unique insight on overcoming adversity. Here he reveals how to break through negative thinking and allow God to empower you to do great things.
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John A Broadus
$19.99Add to cartJohn A. Broadus (1827-1895) was a founding faculty member and the second president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He preached to Robert E. Lee’s army during the Civil War and later wrote the enduring classic, A Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons. A. T. Robertson called him “one of the finest fruits of modern Christianity.” Charles Spurgeon deemed him the “greatest of living preachers.” A. H. Newman described Broadus as “perhaps the greatest man the Baptists have produced.”Indeed, the legacy of Broadus lives on today, reflecting a model author, teacher, preacher, scholar, seminary leader, and denominational statesman. This timely new biography, a collection of ten independently contributed chapters that address his work from various angles, presents Broadus as a shining example of balance, careful thinking, and biblical faithfulness in a season when Southern Baptists are seeking to re-establish a new consensus and move forward in the twenty-first century.
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Gods Strange Work
$28.99Add to cartCalvinist Baptist preacher William Miller (1782-1849) was the first prominent American popularizer of using biblical prophecy to determine a specific and imminent time for Christ’s return to earth. On October 22, 1844, he and his followers gathered to await a Second Coming that never came. Nonetheless, David Rowe argues, Miller was in many ways a mainstream, even typical figure of his time.
Reflecting Rowe’s meticulous research throughout, God’s Strange Work does more than tell one man’s remarkable story. It encapsulates the broader history of American Christianity in the time period and sets the stage for many significant later developments – the founding of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the tenets of various well-known new religious movements, and even the enduring American fascination with end-times prophecy. Rowe rescues Miller from the fringes and places him where he rightly belongs – in the center of American religious history.
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Living Water : Powerful Teachings From The International Bestselling Author
$16.99Add to cartThe companion to the bestselling The Heavenly Man, Living Water shares the vision of one of China’s most dedicated, courageous and intensely persecuted house church leaders. Brother Yun’s dramatic life story and teachings offer a message that inspires and challenges Christians to live out a passionate commitment to serve Jesus Christ.
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Prophetess Of Health
$44.99Add to cartRespected historian of science Ronald Numbers here examines one of the most influential, yet least examined, religious leaders in American history – Ellen G. White, the enigmatic visionary who founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Numbers scrutinizes White’s life (1827-1915), from her teenage visions and testimonies to her extensive advice on health reform, which influenced the direction of the church she founded. This third edition features a new preface and two key documents that shed further light on White – transcripts of the trial of Elder Israel Dammon in 1845 and the proceedings of the secret Bible Conferences in 1919.
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Bishop Of Rwanda
$17.99Add to cartIn 1994, as his country descended into the madness of genocide, Anglican Bishop John Rucyahana underwent the mind-numbing pain of having members of his church and family butchered. John refused to become a part of the systemic hatred. He founded the Sonrise orphanage and school for children orphaned in the genocide, and he now leads reconciliation efforts between his own Tutsi people, the victims of this horrific massacre, and the perpetrators, the Hutus. His remarkable story is one that demands to be told.
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Faith Beyond Despair
$16.99Add to cartBased upon conversations recorded by a French journalist, this book mixes autobiographical reflections with a critique of the contemporary state of the Middle East. It tells the stories of many individuals working for peace and of his own work, especially with children and students of the school and college he has founded. aaFr Elias Chacour, author of the bestselling books Blood Brothers and We Belong to the Land, is the Archbishop of Galilee. Seeing the lack of educational opportunities for Palestinian youth, he created a school open to all local children which opened in the early 1980s. The Mar Elias Educational Institution and now caters for 4,500 students, representing all major religions and ethnicities in Israel.
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Rachel Smiles : The Spiritual Legacy Of Columbine Martyr Rachel Scott
$18.99Add to cartWhen Rachel Scott’s life was tragically cut short in the Columbine High School shooting, she left behind a group of grieving friends and family. But as stories of Rachel’s faith and courage have surfaced, her legacy has grown to include hundreds of people who have been stirred by her example and are now impacting their world for God’s kingdom. In this moving book, readers will cherish the encouraging stories of those who are still passing on Rachel’s spiritual legacy. Her father, Darrell Scott, shares his own reflections, which are deeply personal and poignant. Never-before-published writings and drawings from Rachel’s journal are also included, along with photos of Rachel and her family and the people whose stories are featured.
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Washed By Blood
$16.99Add to cartIn the summer of 2007, Brian “Head” Welch, the former lead guitarist for the rock band Korn, took the music world by storm with his Hew York Times bestselling autobiography, Save Me from Myself, which recounts his years in the band, his debilitating addiction to drugs, and his unprecedented salvation through Jesus.
Now, Welch has written a young adult companion to his bestseller, sharing his inspirational story with Christian teens across the country. Discussing how his newfound faith has influenced his relationship with his daughter, his life, and his music, Head describes the challenging but rewarding events since his conversion, exposing the truth about how the trials of his life have made his faith run deeper with each passing day.
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Aunt Lillian
$15.49Add to cartAunt Lillian is a chilling story of bitterness and unforgiveness. It is a memoir that compels the reader to jump out of the author’s life and into his own family. As he or she “river rafts” through many sequences, forgiveness becomes an imposing personal challenge. It is never an easy fix. Sometimes it’s a long drawn out process, sometimes an immediate decision, and tragically, sometimes never happening at all. The choice we make to forgive or not to forgive has far-reaching effects. Under The Peach Tree is also a memoir, depicting the life and death of the author’s fourteen-year old son. It is meant to be a hope and encouragement to those who have lost children. It is a companion book to Aunt Lillian because of a decision to forgive the “unforgivable.”
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Beyond My Yesterdays
$23.95Add to cartWhile many have written on the subject of divorce and healing through adversity, few have opened their hearts as fully as Jeannie Keneley does in Beyond My Yesterdays to give us insight into the extremely private world of despair and devastation in the process of healing from abuse, betrayal, and abandonment. Jeannie is a full-time Christian author and speaker with a passionate heart for the hurting, and an encouraging message for anyone that finds themselves lonely and lost in the process of life. Gleaning from the biblical story of the Woman at the Well, Jeannie paints a story of two women separated by two thousand years of history, but intrinsically woven together by one shared experience. As we look at these women, our eyes are opened to new insights and truths of the magnificent power of healing through God’s amazing grace.
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Beyond My Yesterdays
$13.95Add to cartWhile many have written on the subject of divorce and healing through adversity, few have opened their hearts as fully as Jeannie Keneley does in Beyond My Yesterdays to give us insight into the extremely private world of despair and devastation in the process of healing from abuse, betrayal, and abandonment. Jeannie is a full-time Christian author and speaker with a passionate heart for the hurting, and an encouraging message for anyone that finds themselves lonely and lost in the process of life. Gleaning from the biblical story of the Woman at the Well, Jeannie paints a story of two women separated by two thousand years of history, but intrinsically woven together by one shared experience. As we look at these women, our eyes are opened to new insights and truths of the magnificent power of healing through God’s amazing grace.
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Misha And His Leningrad Diary
$21.99Add to cartThis is the story of Misha, a young Russian boy who survived the siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany during World War II. For 900 days (1941-1944) three million Leningraders endured starvation, lack of water, electricity, and fuel, living on one small piece of bread per day and subjected to endless air raids and bombardments. Cold and starvation destroyed over one million lives. The focal point of the book is based on the events detailed in Misha’s diary. The remainder describes the historical context and impact of the blockade, and the survivor’s life story. The book is intended as a tribute to the human spirit.
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Prem Pradhan Apostle To Nepal
$12.95Add to cartPrem Pradhan was led to Christ by members of Bakht Singh’s people, in a city near Nepal. He was Nepal’s first modern convert. Later, he became Nepal’s apostle. By the end of his life, Prem had spent half of his Christian life in prisons. His crime? Preaching Christ and baptizing others.
His very first converts were all fellow prisoners. As you read his story, you will meet a simple man, yet one who matched Paul of Tarsus, stripe for stripe, imprisonment for imprisonment, beating for beating, and church for church. Modern history knows no greater tale than that of the life of Prem Pradhan. If you ever wanted to know the modern equivalent of a Jon Huss, John Wycliffe, the Anabaptists, or Paul, then read this man.
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Answered Prayers In Alaska
$10.99Add to cartAs I was being led to document and share the miracles, signs and wonders that the Lord our God in heaven had allowed me to witness throughout my life, I wondered … what was the first miracle that God had allowed me to be a witness to? Then I remembered, my aaka (“aah kaa” is an Inupiaq word meaning mom, but is used by many to reference a grandmother). If it wasn’t for the intercession of praying aaka’s (grandmothers) and the grace of God answering their prayers, where would many of us grandchildren be? I give God all the glory for what he has done for me and my family. I believe one of Gods desires is for us to achieve the purpose that he created us for. May God Bless each and everyone of you.
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Against Innocence : Gillian Roses Reception And Gift Of Faith
$35.99Add to cartGillian Rose (1947u1995) was a highly original, enigmatic and pugnacious thinker, whose work draws together Continental philosophy, sociology, modern / post-modern Jewish and Christian reflection on ethics. She was also, famously, a convert to Christianity, baptised into the Church of England on her deathbed, from Judaism. She has been a major influence on many contemporary thinkers, not least on the thought of the Archbishop Rowan Williams. Her writings are teasingly poetic, often forbiddingly difficult, and yet at the same time vividly accessible, at any rate through her widely praised memoir, Loves Work Here, a Church of England priest writes about Roses thought as it relates to the future of the Church she eventually joined. A significant philosopher of this century, they believe her thinking implicitly points towards a new form of Christian self-understanding. This captivatingly well written book is the first major study of Gillian Roses thought from a theological point of view.
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Double Miracles In Discovery Bay Hong Kong
$1.99Add to cart“Double miracles in any place, and in Discovery Bay, Hong Kong in particular, are marvelous events and incredible happenings.” In her story, Marlegrecy takes us on a journey that is enriched by her personal encounter with our living God. It is a personal account of someone whose faith has been severely tested and how she persevered and held onto the precious and sure promises of God. Through her near-death experience and survival from ruptured brain aneurysms, she introduces us to a God, who is good, faithful, and almighty. Her story offers hope and inspiration to all who are going through “the valley of the shadow of death.” Linus S. Lau, Senior Pastor Chinese Baptist Church of Coral Springs, Florida Enjoy! Be blessed!
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Barth
$16.99Add to cartAccording to Eberhard Busch, Karl Barth’s theology is “characterized by being…in constant movement and transformation.” And a Christian’s path is marked by self-correction in order to learn how to live out the same thing again and again in a better and more appropriate way. Likewise the church, like her God, is always on the move.
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Journey : A Lifetime Of Prophetic Moments
$17.99Add to cartDick Iverson led City Bible Church for over 40 years as founder and senior pastor, from its humble beginning of 13 people, to a church of over 3000. As a pastor and founder of Minister’s Fellowship International, his passion is to teach other pastors and leaders the fundamentals of successful church and family life. In this book you will learn about the life and ministry of the author and glean valuable lessons and secrets of his success.
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Facing Terror : The True Story Of How Love For The Muslim People Cost An Am
$19.99Add to cartCarrie Taylor McDonnall joined the International Mission Board Service in 1999 and served in Israel, Jordan, Iraq, and other Middle Eastern countries. During that time, she met and married David McDonnall, a fellow relief worker in the Islamic world. They served together in Iraq doing humanitarian work until March 15 2004, the day an insurgent ambush killed three Americans instantly and left two struggling for life.
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Always On Sunday
$13.49Add to cartDuring the fifties and early sixties in the small town of Sharpsburg, outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Italian immigrants celebrated each day with love, family, and food (mamma mia, the food!). Always on Sunday is a love story in which the author’s passion for Sharpsburg shines through with memories of a childhood filled with magical summer days, cherished holidays, colorful neighborhood characters, and an unbreakable tie to family. The author also includes the Pugliese family’s treasured recipes from their proud Calabrian roots. Take a heartwarming glimpse back in time to the author’s simple and uncomplicated life in the small-in-size-yet-large-in love little town of Sharpsburg.
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When Swan Lake Comes To Sarajevo
$23.99Add to cartWar is always with us, and so is peace. This is about the peace that comes after a war. It is one woman’s account of her experiences in the new country of Bosnia as guest conductor of a remarkable little orchestra, the Mostar Sinfonietta. International violinist Ruth Waterman first met the musicians of the multi-ethnic ensemble in 2002, and since then has returned regularly to the region, teaching, conducting and performing, and listening to their stories. Here she describes the nuts and bolts of daily life – in turn frustrating, hilarious and touching: the putting together of concerts despite the odds; the rebuilding of bridges, towns, communities, lives; and how making music can connect us to our essential humanity and to each other. Ruth Waterman’s writing is humane and down-to-earth, perceptive and inspiring. Interspersed with her diaries and observations are the stories of war and peace by the Bosnians themselves, in their own voices, acts of witness that reveal their courage, despair, resilience and humour. This intermingling of narrative, first-hand accounts and photographs builds a mosaic that provides a visceral introduction to an unfamiliar world where people simply want to ‘live a normal life’.
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Idoleyes : My New Perspective On Faith Fat And Fame
$16.99Add to cartBy candidly sharing her own joys, heartaches, triumphs, and failures, Mandisa shows women that they can be beautiful at any size and that healthy self-esteem and personal beauty come only when they accept themselves as a unique and much-loved woman of God’s creation. Mandisa also gives readers a very candid, behind-the-scenes look at life as an American Idol contestant.
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Holding Serve : Persevering On And Off The Court
$17.98Add to cartOften characterized as David facing Goliath on the tennis court, at 5’9″ and 150 pounds Michael Chang is used to playing with the big hitters. What he lacks in stature, he makes up for in determination. A serious contender at any Grand Slam event, his bold statement of faith in God makes him a role model we can all look up to. “What’s nice,” Michael says, “is that, as long as my priorities are straight, I’m able to go out with the mentality to really leave the winning and losing up to the Lord.”
In Holding Serve readers get a unique glimpse at Team Chang, Michael’s powerful family unit that he credits with much of his success. Michael also shares the story of how he became a Christian and the central role his faith has played in his achievements.
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Narnian : The Life And Imagination Of C S Lewis
$17.99Add to cartA journey into the imaginative life of C.S. Lewis exploring the themes and life events that allowed an Oxford don, a scholar of medieval literature who loved to debate philosophy at his local pub, to write one of the most enduring classics of children’s literature.
C.S. Lewis was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably the most influential Christian writer of his day. Yet among his poetry, literary history and criticism, novels and Christian apologetics stands a unique, delightfully imaginative children’s series called The Chronicles of Narnia, which have become enduring classics. Alan Jacobs takes this imaginary world of Narnia, that has captivated children and adults alike for years, and uses the themes and stories found within to explore the imaginative life of C.S. Lewis.
Few things are more interesting to human beings than trying to figure out how another human being (espeically a profoundly gifted one) works. Not just a conventional, straightforward biography of Lewis, Jacobs instead seeks a more elusive quarry: an understanding of the way Lewis’s experiences, both direct and literary, formed themselves into patterns-themes that then shaped his thought and writings, especially the stories of Narnia. It is in the Narnia stories that we see the most of Lewis, and this illuminating biography delivers a true picture of the life and imagination of the Narnian.
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My Spirit Speaks Mi Espiritu Habla
$22.99Add to cartIn January 1999, a few days shy of his twenty-first birthday, Christopher Michael committed suicide in a haze of depression, self-loathing, and drug addiction. He left behind a loving family, which is still trying to understand what happened to this promising young man, and why. Evocative poetry, alternated with short autobiographical vignettes written from Christopher’s point of view, as if in his own voice, reveal a soul in torment, a young man who knew deep within that he was loved and who loved in return, but who was unable to trust in God to do battle with the outside forces of evil which had taken over his life. Christopher’s book is not his story but his message, “Choose Life!” After numerous requests for a Spanish translation we have included it in this publication.
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Bakht Singh Of India
$28.99Add to cartThe story of Bakht Singh shows what God can do with a man who is committed to Jesus Christ and dependent on God for every need. Bakht Singh, who grew up a Sikh, became an atheist, before his miraculous conversion to Christ. Bakht is a man of prayer whom God used to bring the gospel, revival and spiritual reformation at a time when India was struggling for political independence. The indigenous churches he established in India and worldwide helped dispel the misconception that Christianity was a Western religion.
This authorized biography, written by Dr. T. E. Koshy, is full of examples of the way the Lord performed miracles, restored relationships and brought people from all societal levels together in unity. Dr. Koshy shares his extensive research and interviews with Bakht Singh, his siblings, friends and fellow associates to give an account of this man of God previously unknown to many. Bakht Singh of India will inspire and challenge readers as they learn what God can do with someone who is willing to trust him, no matter the cost.
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Amazing Grace : William Wilberforce And The Heroic Campaign To End Slavery
$15.99Add to cartA companion biography to Walden Media’s major feature film (April 2007) by the same name, that tells the story of England’s heoric abolitionist on the 200th anniversary of the defeat of slavery.
Hero to Abraham Lincoln and an inspiration to the anti-slavery movement in America, Wilberforce worked tirelessly for the cessation of slavery in England. In this magisterial biography, Metaxas chronicles Wilberforce’s conversion to evangelical Christianity and his 20-year battle to abolish the slave trade in the British empire. An extraordinary portrait of a true Christian statesman.
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Praying Hyde
$11.99Add to cartBasil Miller traces the life of John Hyde from beginning to triumphant climax. We see God moulding Hyde s soul into an instrument fit for His use. We hear John speaking the language of heaven to the eager men and women of India. Paramount in the biography is the power of prayer in the life of this great missionary. Courageously Hyde placed his petitions before God and inspired others to do the same. In the autumn of his life this consecrated missionary to India saw the gleaming harvest of his prayers a harvest of souls saved by the redeeming blood of Jesus Christ. At last the man who never slept went to be with his Saviour. But today in the Punjab, under the shadow of the Himalayas, still hovers the spirit of Praying Hyde – the apostle of prayer. Do you desire a richer prayer life deeper communion with God more eloquent and soul-stirring speech with the Almighty? A thoughtful reading of this biography of Praying Hyde will prove helpful to you as you seek to develop that supreme skill of the Christian life – prayer.
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Beautiful Disappointment : Discovering Who You Are Through The Trials Of Li
$19.95Add to cartThe many challenges life throws at us do not shape us. How we respond to these challenges does. In “The Beautiful Disappointment” urban youth worker and author, Colin McCartney, shares his personal struggles in dealing with the murder of one of his staff, the death of a child in his program and his own near death experience from a paralyzing water accident in Hawaii. While the author was recovering from this life threatening accident in the critical care unit of Maui Memorial Hospital he slowly realizes that trials are “beautiful disappointments” God can use to purge us off all the false things we have allowed to disfigure who we truly are. It is through this “refining by trials” that the author experiences the intimate presence of God, a presence in our soul that frees us to reconnect to who we truly are as God originally created us to be. A true story that will leave the reader truly changed.
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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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Joan : The Mysterious Life Of The Heretic Who Became A Saint
$14.95Add to cartDuring the tumultuous Hundred Years’ War between England and France, a teenage peasant girl followed her heart and helped save a nation. A vision from God, received in her parents’ garden, instructed her to take up arms and help restore the kingdom of France. Without consulting her family, Joan left home on one of the most remarkable personal quests in history. As a young girl in a world of men, she faced unimaginable odds, yet her belief in her mission propelled her forward. Within months Joan was directing soldiers and bravely fighting for her nation. Before long she had become a national hero and was the guest of honor at her king’s coronation. Yet fame ultimately became her undoing. The English shrewdly realized that Joan’s demise and defamation would disgrace France and provide a more direct route to victory. Captured in war, Joan became a pawn in one of the longest and bloodiest wars in history.
Since her death at the age of nineteen in 1431, Joan of Arc has maintained a remarkable hold on our collective imagination. She was a teenager of astonishing common sense and a national heroine who led men in battle as a courageous warrior. Yet she was also abandoned by the king whose coronation she secured, betrayed by her countrymen, and sold to the enemy. In this meticulously researched landmark biography, Donald Spoto expertly captures this astonishing life and the times in which she lived. Neither wife nor nun, neither queen nor noblewoman, neither philosopher nor stateswoman, Joan of Arc demonstrates that anyone who follows their heart has the power to change history.
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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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Familiar Spirits : A Dangerous Spiritual Journey I Was Compelled To Take On
$15.49Add to cartA STORY OF THE HAUNTED AND CURSED. Familiar Spirits is a woman’s recount of a life spent in the presence of evil. This dramatic book follows the life of a young girl as she is drawn into ritualistic play and mystic imagery. The girl learns to communicate with the haunting entities and is further lured into a dangerous web of lies and deceit. Blinded by the miraculous signs and wonders, the girl continues to play a part of this precarious game. It is not until she matures that the mask comes off and impending death is revealed. This compelling true story looks at the dramatic consequences of engaging in the spirit world. A cleverly written book, Familiar Spirits has a haunting message and warning to those who dabble in the occult. The ending of the book has a surprise twist as an unlikely hero emerges to help this woman overcome. Familiar Spirits is one woman’s compelling story of overcoming the darkness of the spirit world and stepping into the light and truth.
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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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Once Blind : Print On Demand Title
$32.99Add to cartIVP Print On Demand Title
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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Legacy Of Billy Graham
$35.00Add to cartPerhaps no individual person had more of an effect on twentieth-century American Christianity than the renowned evangelist Billy Graham, whose work has been widely influential in arenas from the rising evangelical movement to the White House. Although Graham s influence on evangelicalism has long been recognized, Michael G. Long s The Legacy of Billy Graham is the first book to examine his impact on mainline Christianity and on American civil religion. With noted contributors including John Cobb, Harvey Cox, Gary Dorrien, Karen Lebacqz, Thomas Long, Mark Lewis Taylor, and Philip Wogaman, this critical but generally appreciative volume assesses Graham s career from the perspectives of preaching and theology, social issues, and his engagement with his contemporaries and then concludes with two retrospectives on his legacy.
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Assist Me To Proclaim
$36.99Add to cartCharles Wesley (1707-1788) was the cofounder of Methodism and the author of more than 9,000 hymns and sacred poems, including such favorites as “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing,” “O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing,” and “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today.” John Tyson here traces the remarkable life of this influential man from cradle to grave, using rare – including previously unpublished – hymns, letters, and journal materials.
As the younger brother of John Wesley, Charles was a vital partner in the Methodist revival. While often standing in the shadow of his more famous brother, Charles Wesley was arguably the founder of the Oxford Holy Club, and he actually experienced evangelical conversion three days prior to John. In Assist Me to Proclaim Tyson explores, among other things, behind-the-scenes questions about the brothers’ sometimes-stormy relationship.
Notwithstanding all his accomplishments as an evangelist and itinerant preacher, Charles is chiefly remembered for his startling facility at writing hymns that show God at work in almost every instance of life. His remarkable legacy endures around the world, as hundreds of Charles Wesley hymns are still sung in churches everywhere today.
Assist Me to Proclaim draws a picture of a man whose fidelity to both the Church of England and the original vision of Methodism energized his remarkable abilities as a revivalist and hymn writer. Readers also get a glimpse into Wesley’s heart and mind through the window of his hymn texts. This is a biography that any student of church history or hymnody will welcome.
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I Would Die For You (Reprinted)
$18.00Add to cartIn a day of iPods and MySpace, when adolescents can seem self-serving and self-absorbed, the powerful story of the life of BJ Higgins proves that things can be otherwise. BJ’s life was one of passionate service to God and to other people. He even inspired Bart Millard, lead singer of Mercy Me, to write and record a song to honor him. After a six-week battle with an infection contracted on the mission field, BJ’s earthly life was over–he was only 15 years old.
I Would Die for You tells BJ’s inspiring story. It combines the writing of parents Brent and Deanna Higgins with selections from BJ’s journals, school papers, and blog, along with true stories from family members, church and hospital staff, and friends. Through this multi-layered text, youth pastors, teens, and those involved in missions work will get a glimpse of a young man who gave his life to God, lived the gospel, and died for his devotion. Stirring and full of encouragement, I Would Die for You is poised to inspire a new generation of believers to give their lives in God’s service.
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Legacy Of John Paul 2
$37.99Add to cartIVP Print On Demand Title
The papacy of John Paul II was phenomenal, and not least for the fact that many evangelicals came to honor and respect him. Running parallel with this pope’s ministry was an unprecedented level of conversation between Protestant evangelicals and Roman Catholics. In the West, at least, there was a growing sense that in a post-Christian society it was time for Christians of orthodox faith to explore their common commitments and to make common cause in the great moral and social issues of the day. Tim Perry calls on some of the best evangelical minds to offer their assessments of the thought of John Paul II as expressed in his major encyclicals.
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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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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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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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John Marco Allegro
$30.99Add to cartThis book is the first to fully explore the life and ideas of John Marco Allegro (1923-1988), freethinker and rebel, whose work on the Dead Sea Scrolls led him to challenge the church, the team of scholars in charge of editing the Scrolls, and most conventional assumptions about the development of Christianity. As the first British member of the Scrolls editing team, Allegro shared the excitement, the insights, and the eyestrain of deciphering these invaluable ancient fragments. He made it possible for the Copper Scroll, a mysterious listing of treasure, to be opened in Manchester and did much to focus worldwide attention on the Scrolls as a whole. But he made his name – or gained his notoriety – by questioning orthodox assumptions about the Christian church’s origins and authority. Allegro went on challenging the establishment all his life, and he relished the arguments he provoked. For over thirty years he campaigned for open access to the Scrolls and for wider debate about their significance. To him it was a campaign for free speech and free opinion. Judith Anne Brown’s John Marco Allegro is a fascinating, probing, inside account of this irrepressibly original man. Making extensive use of Allegro’s letters, lecture notes, draft manuscripts, and other previously unpublished writings, Brown brings to life afresh the extraordinary discoveries and debates that began in the caves by the Dead Sea over half a century ago.
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Alexander Boddy : Pentecostal Anglican Pioneer
$39.99Add to cartEuropean Pentecostalism was fortunate in having the wise and balanced leadership of
the evangelical Anglican Alexander Boddy at its disposal during the formative years of the
early 1900s. Wakefield brings to life the vigorous discussion of charismata that occupied
the minds of early Spirit-filled believers. He charts Boddy’s training, explains his beliefs
and his spirituality, records his personal and pastoral work in the northeast of England,
and explains the style and direction of his leadership. Boddy was an important figure,
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Savage Shepherds
$12.99Add to cartAdam Harbinson was a respected member of his local church, which was part of the Shepherding Movement in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. However, when he suspected a deep corruption at the heart of the movement and felt it was time to move on, he discovered powerful forces at work that sought to destroy his family, his health and his livelihood.
For years he walked in utter isolation through bankruptcy, breakdown and bereavement, but he found true peace true and acceptance as he encountered God’s reckless love and extravagant grace.
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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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Ben Oni Son Of Sorrow
$19.99Add to cartIn this God-given message, Ben-Oni: Son of Sorrow blends both fact and fiction, tracking the rise and fall of the illustrious House of Rothschild under the true horrors of Nazi Germany in World War II. An inspiring story about the power of faith strongly recommended by Ben-Oni, a Hebrew Christian who emerges triumphant through the fiery furnace of affliction and persecution.
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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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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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Other Side Of The River
$14.95Add to cartA compelling and deeply personal account of a young man’s spiritual plunge into a movement called “the River,” which is said to be spreading the kingdom of God through signs and wonders. Sometimes referred to as the River revival, the Third Wave or the Latter Rain, this movement is marked by bizarre manifestations, false prophecies and esoteric revelations. Warnings of divine retribution keep many adherents in bondage, afraid to speak out or even question those things they are taught and are witness to.
For Kevin Reeves, the determination to rescue his family came to the forefront. Even if the cost was high and even if he had to stand alone, his journey back into the freedom and simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ would be worth the price.
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* Word Faith movement
* Holy Laughter
* “Slain” in the Spirit practice
* Emphasis on humanity of Jesus over Deity
* Gifts & Calling for the unbeliever?
* Experience versus Scripture
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Ordinary Guy With The Extraordinary God
$16.99Add to cartProduct Description
Dick Snavely reveals some of his childhood experiences and personal challenges that prepared him to organize and lead Family Life Ministries for nearly fifty years. These experiences include miracles, exciting answers to prayer along with the good, the bad, and the ugly. The reader will share in Dick’s early struggles from spankings in third grade, reckless driving as a teenager, the search for a wife, and getting fired as a pastor. You will also rejoice with him in his glorious victories of a personal encounter with God, working with troubled boys, the conversion of a city gang member and the building of a Christian radio station that became a network of Christian FM stations. The excitement and thrill of victory is evident in the story of Family Life Ministries/Network. Dick has often prayed “Lord I don’t know where you are leading me today but help me to hang on.” Dick Snavely was raised in a Mennonite family in Lancaster County, PA. He organized Family Life Ministries, New Life Homes-Snell Farm, Twin Tiers Youth For Christ, and Family Life Network. He is a graduate of Bob Jones University Dick was a film evangelist with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Film Association, and pastored a church briefly in West Virginia. In 1957 he moved his family to New York where he organized Family Life Ministries, Inc. He led the organization as President and CEO for 47 years and was succeeded by his son Rick. He is married 55 years to Jacqueline DeVere. They have four children and eleven grandchildren. All four children are active in their church and serving the Lord. Dick is just an ordinary guy. What you see is what you get. He reveals some of the good, bad, and ugly times as he candidly tells of his life experiences in this book. -
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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Cuba El Capitulo Mas Largo – (Spanish)
$16.99Add to cartDictator or liberator? Charitable genius or tyrannical oppressor? Marcos Antonio Ramos takes a balanced approach to exploring Cuba’s monumental leader, Fidel Castro, and the historical context surrounding his influence. Ramos writes from a vantage point within Cuba and yet also from the outside world’s perspective to present a man who has been at once hated and loved, ignored and embraced by his contemporaries around the world.
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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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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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Muhammad Prophet Of God
$22.99Add to cartFounding not only a world religion but also an empire and a civilization, the prophet Muhammad was undoubtedly one of the most influential men in history. Amid the swirl of current judgments regarding Muslims and their religion, this book by Daniel Peterson offers a concise, objective, accessible biography of the first Muslim. Blending the texts of traditional sources into an engaging narrative, Peterson begins with the impoverished and orphaned childhood of Muhammad, highlighting his evident strength of will, character, and resourcefulness. Peterson then moves through the prophet’s life, detailing Muhammad’s visions and revelations and examining the beginning of a religion that continues to affect the entire world in dramatic ways. Respectful and readable, Muhammad, Prophet of God opens a clear window on the life and influence of the founder of Islam.
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Oxfords Protestant Spy
$49.99Add to cartCharles Golightly (1807-85) was a notorious Protestant polemicist. His life was dedicated to resisting the spread of ritualism and liberalism within the Church of England and the University of Oxford. For half a century he led many memorable campaigns, such as building a martyr’s memorial and attempting to close a theological college. John Henry Newman, Samuel Wilberforce, and Benjamin Jowett were among his adversaries. This is the first study of Golightly’s controversial career.
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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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Searching For Sacred Ground
$19.95Add to cartExplores the universal search for balance in life, using historical events and people to illustrate the constant tensions between conflict and resolution. On a parrallel story line, the author weaves into this rich tapestry the life of an exceptional man.
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Popcorn Poppin On The Apricot Tree
$13.99Add to cartUprooted by their mother’s mental illness, 8-year-old Annie and her siblings find themselves torn between a Catholic orphanage and the remnants of their shattered home. Vividly portrayed from an outspoken, often comical perspective. Paulus celebrats an unusual coming of age story with a look back at a bittersweet time and the frayed but unbroken ties of enduring family love.
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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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Jesse : The Life And Pilgrimage Of Jesse Jackson
$33.99Add to cartRaised in the segregated South, out of abject beginnings in South Carolina poverty and illegitimacy, heir apparent to Martin Luther King, Jr., twice a presidential candidate, recognized on the streets of South Central L.A., Ghana, Armenia, and Damascus, Jesse Jackson is a figure unique not only in American politics, but in American history. As James Baldwin noted during Jackson’s 1984 presidential campaign, “His presence presents the American Republic with questions and choices it has spent all its history until this hour trying to avoid…And nothing will ever again be what it was before.”
Marshall Frady has been given closer access to Jackson and his family for a more sustained period of time than any previous writer. He has traveled with Jackson in the U.S., Africa, Russia, and the Middle East, and has conducted countless interviews with his colleagues and rivals of the last thirty years. The result is the most astute and compelling portrait of the man we are ever likely to have. Jesse is an enthralling journey that reveals the nonstop demands of character and sets them against the fundamental, dividing prism of race in America.
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Bloomfield Avenue : A Jewish Catholic Jersey Girls Spiritual Journey
$14.95Add to cartIn this memoir, Mercadante tells of her quest for religious identity, a real home, good work, and a one-faith family. Born just after World War II to a mixed-religion family, she tries Catholicism, a WASP sorority, atheism, Eastern mysticism, and vegetarianism. She works as an airline stewardess and as a journalist. She earns a doctorate and becomes a seminary professor. Her story holds key lessons for people from mixed backgrounds, those who long for the ideal family, and those who shun religion as a dead-end.
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Account Of The Life And Death Of Mrs. Elizabeth Bury
$25.00Add to cartThis work, which contains both a biography and autobiographical material from Elizabeth Bury’s diary and letters over the period 1690-1720, was widely known among the Dissenters and was treasured for its example of piety, godliness, and grace. Included in this new edition are transcripts of the last will and testament of Elizabeth’s two husbands, Griffith Lloyd and Samuel Bury, as well as the Last Legacy of Samuel Bury, dictated or written by him as he approached death in 1730.
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Won By Love
$16.98Add to cartIn Roe v. Wade, perhaps the most controversial United States Supreme Court decision, Norma McCorvey fought for and won the right to secure an abortion. Though she never had an abortion, under the pseudonym “Jane Roe,” Norma reluctantly became the poster child for the pro-choice movement.
Over the next two decades, Norma experienced the grief and despair of millions of women who chose to abort their babies; she witnessed the destruction of thousands of human lives in abortion clinics where she worked; and the “champion” of the pro-choice movement was soon being crushed by the weight of so much pain, so much death, and so many ill-considered “choices.”
Finally, she began to break. She found out that the real choice she had been burdened with was not about abortion but about eternal life. It was a choice that would shock the world and change Norma’s life forever.
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Joel – (Spanish)
$14.99Add to cartJoel Sonnenberg was only two years old when an 18-wheel truck crashed into his family’s car. In the resulting inferno, he was burned over more than 85 percent of his body. This is his story told in the way that only he can tell it. Experience the world from Joel’s point of view while he takes the reader through a personal journey that includes more trauma than any Hollywood film could suggest. His life is a story of great struggles and suffering. Prepare to fall in love with this young man named Joel.
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Celebration Of Life
$20.49Add to cartA CELEBRATION OF LIFE is the story of one POW?s 54-year journey since the Korean War, his 34 months in POW camps, suffered brutal treatment from guards on ?Death Marches? while many died or were killed by the guards. At the camps men faced constant pain inflicted by guards, little or no food or heat, no sanitary conditions, and no medical care. They constantly killed lice in their ragged clothes before the lice killed them, helped carry the dead outside to freeze before the lice left the dead to make homes in their own rags, and ate what little food was provided or whatever they could find. They learned to care for others needing help to walk, encouraged those needing help to stay alive, shared equally food given or found, helped others eat food unfit for starving dogs. They would cook and eat anything green, what moved, and even what looked like it shouldn?t be eaten. If a guy refused to eat, they would talk, walk, or yell to get them to eat. But even then, the guy may die that night.
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Barth For Armchair Theologians
$24.00Add to cart“Most of the English-speaking world still has a ‘cartoonish’ understanding of Karl Barth. How appropriate, then, that a book with actual cartoons should appear to demolish the stereotypes. John Franke’s Barth for ArmchairTheologians offers an accurate, insightful, and at times whimsical introduction to the great thinker from Basel.” Joseph L. Mangina, Wycliffe College, Toronto, author of Karl Barth: Theologian of Christian Witness Written by experts but designed for the novice, the Armchair series provides accurate, concise, and witty overviews of some of the most profound moments and theologians in Christian history. These books are essential supplements for first-time encounters with primary texts, lucid refreshers for scholars and clergy, and enjoyable reads for the theologically curious. This volume introduces readers to the life and thought of Karl Barth (1886-1968), one of the most important theologians since the Reformation era. Featuring the Armchair series’ characteristic whimsical illustrations, Barth for Armchair Theologians surveys Barth’s theology as it emerges and culminates in his monumental Church Dogmatics as well as how his theology continues to be interpreted in the present day. John R. Franke is Professor of Theology at Biblical Theological Seminary in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. He is coauthor with Stanley J. Grenz of Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context also published by Westminster John Knox Press.
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My Second Chapter
$16.99Add to cartHow one family’s tragedy ultimately revolutionized contemporary Christian music.
Known for such classics as “Easter Song,” the Second Chapter of Acts was one of the major music groups in the forefront of the Jesus movement. But what happened, in the wake of personal tragedy, to bring together a brother and his two sisters to sing so boldly for their Lord? And what was life really like for a major contemporary Christian band in those early days?
In My Second Chapter, Matthew Ward tells his part of the storyfull of intriguing and humorous behind-the-scenes anecdotes and observations: growing up in a large family…orphaned at age twelve…finding the Lord in the California Jesus movement… becoming a music star…traveling the world…battling cancer…raising his own family … and much more all revealing God’s faithfulness in every circumstance.
Join Matthew on his amazing personal journey from tragedy to dynamic faith that helped set contemporary Christian music on fire. And discover how God chooses whom he will to accomplish great and mighty acts. -
Dancing Under The Red Star
$25.00Add to cartThe shocking and inspirational saga of Margaret Werner and her miraculous survival in the Siberian death camps of Stalinist Russia.
In 1932, Henry Ford sent 450 of his Detroit employees and their families to live in Gorky, Russia, to operate a new manufacturing facility. This is the true story of one of those families-Carl and Elisabeth Werner and their young daughter Margaret-and their terrifying life in Russia under brutal dictator Joseph Stalin.
Margaret was seventeen when her father was arrested on trumped-up charges of treason. Heartbroken and afraid, she and her mother were left to withstand the hardships of life under the oppressive Soviet state, an existence marked by poverty, starvation, and fear. Refusing to comply with the Socialist agenda, Margaret was ultimately sentenced to ten years of hard labor in Stalin’s Gulag.
Filth, malnutrition, and despair accompanied merciless physical labor. Yet in the midst of inhumane conditions came glimpses of hope and love as Margaret came to realize her dependence upon “the grace, favor, and protection of an unseen God.”
In all, it would be thirty long years before Margaret returned to kiss the ground of home. Of all the Americans who made this virtually unknown journey-ultimately spending years in Siberian death camps-Margaret Werner was the only woman who lived to tell about it.
Written by her son, Karl Tobien, Dancing Under the Red Star is Margaret’s unforgettable true story: an inspiring chronicle of faith, defiance, and personal triumph.
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Vivar Expuesto – (Spanish)
$12.99Add to cartIn these pages, Daniel Calveti reveals what it means to be the son of a pastor. The rebellion of many of those who find themselves in this unusual position, that of being the son of a spiritual leader, often stems from confusion about their role in life. Calveti dedicates his book to them and tries to provide some answers and support from someone who has walked the same road.
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Hand To Hand (Revised)
$22.95Add to cart“My journey has transformed me from Royal Marine Commando to Lay Minister of Healing. Twenty-five years ago, I was trained to kill or be killed; now it is my privilege to teach people to heal and be healed.” So Nigel Mumford, director of the healing center, the Oratory of the Little Way, summarizes his extraordinary journey. He shares his personal story, stories from his healing ministry, and healing prayers, giving the reader insight into a little known world of modern miracles.
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Light Through The Crack
$15.00Add to cartLeonard Cohen once wrote in a song: “There is a crack in everything/That’s how the light gets in.” Combining revealing memoir and the inspirational stories of others, Sue Mosteller, the executrix of Henry Nouwen’s literary estate and an active, well-known participant in L’Arche Community, brings to life the meaning of that resonant phrase and illuminates why human weaknesses, the “cracks” in our personalities, are actually the greatest sources of light for the world.
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Sueno De Toda Mujer – (Spanish)
$13.99Add to cartThis book shares what goes on “behind the scenes” in ministry and leadership. The wife of well-known evangelist Dante Gebel shares how a person who thinks she has no possibility of achieving her dreams, fulfills the dream of every woman – to fall in love, serve the Lord and conquer the craziness of the future. She discusses discrimination of women in Latin America and those women who maintain a low profile but accomplish their vision secretly. “Nobody saw you when your husband wanted to give up and you helped him stick with it, nobody recognized you when your husband cried on your shoulder.”
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Luke
$36.99Add to cartApart from the apostle Paul, Luke is arguably the most influential force in the canon of the New Testament. His Gospel and Acts occupy almost a third of the New Testament. Marshall provides us with a lucid guide to Luke’s theology of salvation as it is unfurled in Gospel narrative, but always with an eye on its ongoing development in his companion work, the Acts of the Apostles.
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Coretta Commemorative Edition
$14.00Add to cartForeword By Martin Luther King, III
Preface1.Homegoing
2.Coretta
3.A Child Of Struggle
4.Marriage
5.Mother Of Four
6.Abiding Faith
7.Memphis
8.Atlanta
9.Courage
10.On Her Own
11.The Legacy
12.Champion Of Justice
For Further ReadingAdditional Info
In this first biography of Coretta Scott King, written by her friend Octavia Vivian, the reader meets a determined young girl who grew up in Alabama and worked her way through Antioch College only to discover that she was not allowed to teach in the white schools in Ohio. She pursued a musical career in Boston, where she met Martin Luther King, Jr.The Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 brought Dr. King and his wife into national prominence. Since then the nation has seen the beauty and composure of Coretta Scott King as she has continued to speak and act on behalf of civil rights.
First published in 1970 by Fortress Press, this commemorative edition has been thoroughly updated, includes a black and white photo gallery, and is full of warmth and human interest, telling the story of Coretta Scott King from her childhood to her death in February 2006.
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Confronted By God
$26.95Add to cartUnique collection of writings capture Verna Dozier’s wit and wisdom. Many have never before appeared in print. Includes a short biography of her life, and chapters of writings that move chronologically through her life, education, and dual career – teaching English literature and teaching the Bible – both of which were shaped by a single set of values. Includes her approach to studying Scripture, her challenge to the church, and questions of ambiguity, morality, and faith.
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Learning To Breathe Again
$18.99Add to cartRising music star Trent was vacationing in Jamaica in 2001 when her husband was killed in a diving accident—and their years-long love story came tragically to an end. You’ll be inspired by her testimony of how, many tearful prayers later, God is restoring her joy and hope as she begins to sing again for him.
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Fighting Back : Living Life Beyond Ourselves
$22.99Add to cartIn FIGHTING BACK, Deena Burnett (widow of Flight 93 hero Tom Burnett) tells the story of how she fought back to find purpose and joy in her life again, after her husband was killed on that fateful day. Her story demonstrates how each of us can move forward through the hardships of life and have a positive impact on others through the belief that at some point in our lives, we are all called on to be heroes. Deena uses the actions of the passengers of Flight 93 and her own life as examples to re-define our concept of heroism and demonstrate the power of everyday heroes who do the right thing at the right time, no matter how big or small. Deena’s story compels us as readers to look at our own lives and realize we each have a choice. If we choose the right way and react positively to the circumstances in which we find ourselves, we can all be transformed into everyday heroes. FIGHTING BACK will encourage you. It will make you laugh. It will cause you to cry. It will touch your heart.
