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NEW YORK TIMES Best Seller From the author that brought you 6 New York Times best-selling books including The Harbinger, The Book of Mysteries, The Oracle and The Harbinger II Is it possible that behind what is taking place in America and the world lies a mystery that goes back to the gods of the ancient world…and that they now have returned? The Return of the Gods is the most explosive book Jonathan Cahn has ever written. It is so explosive and...
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2021.
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"United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future. Called "one of the nation's most effective communicators on climate change" by The New York Times, Katharine Hayhoe knows how to navigate all sides of the conversation on our changing planet. A Canadian climate scientist living in Texas, she negotiates distrust of data, indifference to imminent threats,...
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"We congratulate ourselves when we resist the donut in the office breakroom. We celebrate our restraint when we hold back from sending an email in anger. We feel virtuous when we wake up at dawn to get a jump on the day. We put others' needs ahead of ourown and believe this makes us exemplary. In On Our Best Behavior, journalist Elise Loehnen explains that these impulses--often lauded as unselfish, distinctly feminine instincts--are actually ingrained...
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Basic Books
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English
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"A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable, a punishment reserved for slaves. How astonishing it was, then, that people should have come to believe that one particular victim of crucifixion -- an obscure provincial by the name of Jesus -- was to be worshipped as a god. Dominion explores the implications of this shocking conviction...
6) Christianity
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Raintree Steck-Vaughn
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[1997]
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IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Discusses the origins, history, evolution, and celebrations of Christianity.
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Baker Books
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2018.
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English
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"Why the call to Love Thy Body? To counter a pervasive hostility toward the body and biology that drives today's headline stories: Transgenderism: Activists detach gender from biology. Kids down to kindergarten are being taught their bodies are irrelevant. Is this affirming--or does it demean the body? Homosexuality: Advocates disconnect sexuality from biological identity. Is this liberating--or does it denigrate biology? Abortion: Supporters deny...
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Origen
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2022.
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Español
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El autor superventas del New York Times de Get Out of Your Head ofrece la respuesta al anhelo universal de ser conocido y amado en medio de un mundo que esta mas conectado y mas aislado que nunca. La ciencia confirma que la comunidad constante con los demas es crucial para nuestra salud mental y espiritual. Estamos destinados a vivir conocidos y amados. Pero tantos se esconden detras de muros emocionales que estamos experimentando una epidemia de...
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Zondervan
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We all know toxic people who seem determined to frustrate our life's calling. While you're seeking God's kingdom, they're seeking to distract your focus and delay your work. Yet it's only once we learn to say no to bad patterns that we are set free to say yes to the good God has planned for us. Thomas shares biblical principles for dealing with the toxic people in our lives, allowing us to set healthy boundaries and focus on our God-given purpose....
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IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 23
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Traces the events that surrounded the 1984 murder of a woman and her child by fundamentalist Mormons Ron and Dan Lafferty, exploring the belief systems and traditions, including polygamy, that mark the faith's most extreme factions and what their practices reflect about the nature of religion in America. Reader's Guide available.
Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In UNDER THE...
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Grupo Nelson
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[2019]
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Español
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Felicidad: todos la anhelan, pero pocos la encuentran. Nuestro mundo, nuestra cultura e incluso nuestros amigos nos dicen que la felicidad viene cuando perdemos peso, conseguimos esa cita, encontramos pareja o descubrimos nuestro destino. Este es un camino ancho hacia la felicidad. Sin embargo, a pesar de prometer, no cumple. Max Lucado analiza en profundidad lo que Jesús dice sobre la felicidad y cómo obtenerla. Él escribe: “¿Qué pasaría...
13) You are next
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Charisma House
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[2019]
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English
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Most people never seize their moment because they are paralyzed by their own thinking. This book will teach you to let go of your excuses and never miss your moment again. Its time for a change! Its time to hear the voice of Jesus asking, “Do you want to get well?” And its time to answer Him with your obedience. Your destiny, future, and family are not controlled by “if only”; they rest in the hands of the One who loves you, saves you, redeems...
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Annabel Beam spent most of her childhood in and out of hospitals with a rare and incurable digestive disorder that prevented her from living a normal, healthy life. One sunny day when she was able to go outside and play with her sisters, she fell three stories headfirst into an old, hollowed-out tree. Implausibly, she survived without a scratch. While unconscious inside the tree, with rescue workers struggling to get to her, she visited heaven. After...
16) Mother Teresa's secret fire: the encounter that changed her life, and how it can transform your own
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Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division
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c2008
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English
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Sharing personal stories and revealing insights, the co-founder of Mother Teresa's priests' community reveals the secret source of her passion, spirit, and impact.
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HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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2014.
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English
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Published to coincide with the centennial of the outbreak of World War I, a historian and religious expert sheds new light on the religious, political and cultural climate that gave rise to the devastation of 1914-1918 and created the world's religious map as we know it today.
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Broadleaf Books
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[2023]
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English
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"We live inside a nautilus of prayer--if only we open our senses and perceive what is infused all around. Throughout millennia and across the monotheistic religions, the natural was often revered as a sacred text. By the Middle Ages, this text was given a name, "The Book of Nature," the first, best entry point for encounter with the divine. The very act of "reading" the world, of focusing our attention on each twinkling star and unfurling blossom,...
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MAF Doc LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Tells the stories of the pilots of Mission Aviation Fellowship, who help missionaries and churches take the gospel to the most isolated and inaccessible places on earth.
The documentary explores stories of faith, calling, and adventure by weaving together the true stories of Mission Aviation Fellowship pilots, past and present, who strive to take the gospel to the most isolated and inaccessible places on earth. Take flight with MAF on a journey to...
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