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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
In You Are Never Alone, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado will show you that you're stronger than you think because God is nearer than you know. You'll be comforted by the living, loving, miracle-working God who doesn't think twice about stepping into the thorny thickets of your world to lift you out.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A #1 New York Times Bestseller from Gabrielle Bernstein, called “A new role model” by The New York Times and featured on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday as a next-generation thought leader.
In this motivational and super inspirational book, The Universe Has Your Back, New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein teaches you how to transform your fear into faith in order to live...
In this motivational and super inspirational book, The Universe Has Your Back, New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein teaches you how to transform your fear into faith in order to live...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Margaret's fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. What follows is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic, and the story of how, over the span of decades, his younger siblings-the responsible Celia...
Author
Publisher
Faithwords
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The author, a journalist and spiritual seeker has always struggled with the most basic questions of the Christian faith. The question he tackles in this book concerns the practical value of belief in God. His search for the answer to this question took him to some amazing settings around the world: Mumbai, India when the firing started during the terrorist attacks; at the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated; on the Virginia Tech campus...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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When an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy, Albom goes back to his nonfiction roots and becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. A timely, moving, and inspiring look at faith: not just who believes, but why.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An anthropologist examines the nature of religiosity, and how it shapes and benefits humankind. Believers is a scientist's answer to attacks on faith by some well-meaning scientists and philosophers-- a firm rebuke of the "Four Horsemen": Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, known for writing about religion as something irrational and ultimately harmful. Konner, who was raised as an Orthodox Jew but has lived his...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Looking back to the crisis of the Reformation and beyond, Unbelievers shows how, long before philosophers started to make the case for atheism, powerful cultural currents were challenging traditional faith. These tugged in different ways not only on celebrated thinkers such as Machiavelli, Montaigne, Hobbes, and Pascal, but on men and women at every level of society whose voices we hear through their diaries, letters, and court records. Ryrie traces...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Lucado recurre al Evangelio de Juan para mostrar a los lectores que, cualesquiera que sean los desafíos que enfrenten, Jesús está caminando con ustedes y sacándolos de sus tormentas. Cuando crea que Dios es su fuente de ayuda siempre presente, encontrará el valor que necesita. Eres más fuerte de lo que piensas, porque Dios está más cerca de lo que crees.
Lucado turns to the Gospel of John to show readers that whatever the challenges you are...
Publisher
Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
These 101 stories of hope, faith, divine intervention and answered prayers will amaze you! As John Edward says in his foreword to the book: The personal stories you{u2019}ll read here about hope, faith, answered prayers and divine intervention are to me all about one thing {u2013} our connection to a higher power or divine source. Good things do happen to good people! You will be encouraged and uplifted as you read these stories about powerful hope,...
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Series
Language
English
Description
For the first time in years, Faith Fairchild has time for herself. Her husband Tom is spending days on the other side of the island using a friend's enhanced WiFi for a project; their son, Ben, after his first year in college, is studying abroad for the summer; and their daughter Amy is working at the old Laughing Gulls Lodge, now a revamped conference center. Faith is looking forward to some projects of her own. Her friend Sophie Maxwell is also...
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A scientist's claim that he's found the secrets of the universe's origin encoded in DNA sparks a race against time to uncover the truth in this fast-paced thriller of science and faith, power and murder, loss and redemption. Dan Lawson, a former government cyber-intelligence analyst, is surprised to be contacted by his estranged friend Stephen Bishop, a renowned geneticist. Stephen says that he's discovered amazing information within DNA, including...
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