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Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"The world tells us that having a good job, owning your own business, money, fame, and influence are all important for a successful life. If we don't have them, we feel like a failure. But even when we achieve them, we still end up unhappy, unfulfilled, or lonely. God wants us to be successful, but His definition of success is not the same as the world's definition. The truth is, God's way of achieving the dreams and desires that truly fulfill us...
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English
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Taking care of ourselves is essential. But while many of us are focusing on our physical, emotional, and mental well-being, we're overlooking an aspect of ourselves that needs nourishing as well-our souls. This 49-day interactive devotional from clinical psychologist and theologian Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes shows how to begin caring for your spiritual self in only forty-nine days. Each day includes short, accessible, and practical prompts, practices,...
Author
Publisher
Worthy, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Life can be hard, but no matter what challenges you are facing, Pope Francis wants you to know you were created by God for this moment. There is always a way to find joy and to celebrate the wonder of the life we have been given. In this brand-new book, Pope Francis offers fifteen mindsets that allow readers to find hope and meaning in every circumstance. He encourages us to defend and protect the light that shines in us, to believe in the beautiful,...
6) Baby hope
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Series
Publisher
WorthyKids
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Introduce little ones to the faith-affirming virtue of hope with this engaging and easy-to-understand board book."--Back cover.
7) Baby courage
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Series
Publisher
WorthyKids
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Introduce little ones to the faith-affirming virtue of courage with this engaging and easy-to-understand board book."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A guide to creating a new spiritual practice after your faith has fallen apart. Through stories, insights, and guided meditations, Garcia shows how everything we need to connect with the Divine is already inside us. Cultivate meaningful spiritual practices that will help you heal from your past, tap into the present, and imagine a delicious future"--
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Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Based on extensive scholarship, an innovative biography of the central text of Islam Over a billion copies of the Qur`an exist, yet it remains an enigma. Its classical Arabic language resists simple translation, and its non-linear style of abstract musings defies categorization. Moreover, those who champion its sanctity and compete to claim its mantle offer widely diverging interpretations of its core message at times with explosive results. Building...
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Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Pushing back against the impersonal way of viewing ourselves and the world, Joy Marie Clarkson shows how the metaphors we use shape the way we think, pray, and live. Through personal stories, Scripture, poetry, and art, Joy offers meditations to help us experience God, ourselves, our relationships, and the world in a new way and with deeper meaning"--
Author
Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"As a divorce and single mama survivor, Betsy St. Amant Haddox shares her own raw, unfiltered story of what happened when the romance author got dumped, complete with plenty of what-not-to-do's she learned on her bumbling journey toward wholeness. Turn the pages with Betsy as she navigates the abandonment by her husband, the seeming silence from heaven, dating as a single mom (which, by the way, is the equivalent of hula-hooping barbed wire), and...
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Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Treating the work of hip-hop artists from the last several decades like sacred scripture, this book traces the history of hip-hop and uses it as a conduit to tell the modern story of Black Liberation in this country, following the bloody trail from the end of the Civil Rights era until the day George Floyd was sacrificed on the streets of America"--
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When three women receive an unexpected phone call that leaves them reeling, they have no other choice but to reckon with a lifetime of memories they've long tried to bury. Only in facing the past will they find their path forward. Frances Mae Livingston's firm grip of her family's destructive history makes her hold her husband and four children even closer. But she's losing bits of herself while proving to everybody and her mama that she's enough....
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Language
English
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"Social media star Emily Morrow invites readers into a practical, accessible--and funny--journey toward a healthier lifestyle in Really Very Crunchy. Emily shows you how crunchy is really a spectrum, and anyone can take steps to improve their quality of life through being a little bit crunchy . . . or even Really Very Crunchy, if you please"--
"Find your Inner Crunchy without becoming that person with this helpful guide from social media star Really...
Author
Publisher
IVP
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Bryan Loritts mines one of the Bible's least-known books for insights into how friendships can flourish even in the midst of sin and brokenness. With careful exposition and insight, he unpacks how the apostle Paul helped Philemon and Onesimus reconcile a most unlikely relationship with truth, repentance, and grace. With God's work and steadfast love, even the most painful relationships that have ruptured are not beyond the reach of forgiveness and...
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Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
A Podcast host, spiritual director and best-selling author offers guidance to help readers recognize when to leave situations that are no longer useful, including how to navigate endings without closure and differentiate between peace and discomfort avoidance.
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Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In this laugh-out-loud and heartfelt memoir, writer, speaker, and podcaster Molly Stillman shares her unforgettable story of losing her mother, squandering an unexpected quarter-of-a-million-dollar inheritance in less than two years, attempting to launch a career in comedy but ending up on a farm instead, and finding faith, hope, and joy in the middle of it all"--
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