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Author
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"With Teatime Discipleship, Sally invites you into her beautifully photographed home, pours you a steaming cup of tea, and shares the prayers, Scripture, stories, recipes, and traditions that are dear to her heart. You'll experience the incredible gift of teatime as you take in eternal truths about God's love and design while learning how you can use your own unique gifts to share with others the beauty of a life redeemed by Christ. When the atmosphere...
Author
Publisher
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The two-time Olympic gold medalist shares her life story and how she overcame her pursuit of perfection and people-pleasing through her deep Christian faith while offering readers guidance on pushing past perceived limits and overcoming challenges.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale Momentum
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Are you weary? Stressed? Depressed, anxious, and annoyed? And, to top it all off, do you feel guilty for feeling bad? Rachel Norman gets you, mama. She knows how much you love your kids. And how, day after day, you put your family's needs first, which means your own needs come last. Or don't come at all. Rachel used to be a mom who spent her days weary, anxious, and guilt laden. She had five kids in five years, lived on three different continents,...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The four knitters of the Heavenly Hugs Prayer Shawl Ministry are stuck . . . in a stagnant church, a comfortable mold of ministry, and the points of pain that hold each of them back. Until, that is, Father Pete shakes them up by insisting that they meet not at church but in public at the local mall (for heaven's sake) where anything can happen-this while the Lady's Chapel where they normally meet is painted. The church needs more than a face-lift,...
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
As the soon-to-be wife of youth pastor Joshua Harris, Shannon Harris found that nothing in her secular upbringing had prepared her to enter the world of conservative Christianity. When Joshua wrote I Kissed Dating Goodbye, it became a bestseller and helped inspire a national purity movement. Now Shannon's identity became "pastor's wife." Asked to live within a narrow definition of womanhood for almost two decades, she found her worldview was narrowed,...
7) Menewood
Author
Series
Hild sequence volume 2
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the much-anticipated sequel to Hild, Nicola Griffith's Menewood transports readers back to seventh-century Britain, a land of rival kings and religions poised for epochal change"--
Hild is no longer the bright child who made a place in Edwin Overking's court with her seemingly supernatural insight. She is eighteen, honed and tested, the formidable Lady of Elmet, now building her personal stronghold in the valley of Menewood. But Edwin needs his...
Author
Publisher
EstherPress
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Cynthia Yanof knows how sloppy, slippery, and downright hard life can be. But as she reminds us through her laugh-out-loud stories and heartfelt companionship, God’s not surprised when we drop the ball, lose our cool, or struggle to put our Spanx on in the morning. He can use our ridiculous messes and even the really difficult I-didn’t-sign-up-for-this losses to shape us.
Author
Publisher
SPCK
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Is it possible to be a Christian and a feminist? The hot topic of feminism has been well documented and debated in mainstream media and yet, as Christians we come to the conversation from a slightly different vantage point. For starters, we have the benefit of a personal relationship with our creator plus the ultimate handbook in the Bible to work out what is right and just when it comes to equality. So why do many Christians feel the Bible presents...
Author
Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Cait West's memoir shares her upbringing as a stay-at-home daughter and her eventual escape from Christian patriarchy"--
""A powerful meditation on what it means to be trapped and what it takes to break free."Publishers Weekly STARRED ReviewA gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece together a future on your own terms. Raised in the Christian patriarchy movement, Cait West was homeschooled...
Author
Publisher
IVP, an imprint of InterVarsity Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes, we feel stretched further than we ever thought physically, emotionally, or spiritually possible. In this honest, inspirational, and humorous book, Katie Schnack looks at the hard realities of life with no sugar coating or toxic positivity, but also gently reminds us of the good. Even in dark times, we can get glimpses of life"--
Author
Publisher
B & H Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a violent Amazonian tribe savagely speared her husband Jim and his four colleagues. And yet, she stayed in the jungle with her young daughter to minister to the very people who had thrown the spears, demonstrating the power of Christ's forgiveness. The courageous, no-nonsense Elisabeth went on to write dozens of books, host a long-running radio show, and speak at conferences all over...
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