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Author
Publisher
Faithwords
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Everything is beautiful in its time. Life is a journey through beautiful and varied seasons, with a dynamic cadence and full of continued discovery. Embrace each season of your life and learn to live into it fully with grace and help from Joyce Meyer."--from English edition.
"Todo es hermoso en su tiempo. La vida es un viaje a través de estaciones hermosas y variadas, con una cadencia dinámica y llena de continuos descubrimientos. Abrace cada...
Author
Publisher
Grupo Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
En Dios es mi defensor, la empresaria y personalidad de televisión Rosie Rivera comparte cómo apoyarse en Dios como defensor en medio de las heridas de la vida, mientras que lidiamos con un fuerte deseo de justicia y represalia. Este libro te ayudará a estar equipado para responder a situaciones hirientes, desde las más leves hasta las más difíciles, desde un lugar de empoderamiento y paz.La venganza es uno de nuestros instintos más profundos....
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"In her peaceful town outside Beirut, Ruba is slowly awakening to the shifting contours within her household: hardly speaking and refusing to work, her father has inexplicably withdrawn from his family in favor of his favorite armchair; her once-youthful mother looks so sad that Ruba imagines her heart must have withered like a fig in the heat; and Ruba's brother, Naji, has started to spend less time with Ruba in order to meet with older boys, some...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Jess' beliefs falter when her evangelical father packs up the family, including her secretly pregnant older sister and her long-suffering mother, to travel across the country and save souls ahead of the anticipated end of the world.
46) Beat cancer daily: 365 days of inspiration, encouragement, and action steps to survive and thrive
Author
Publisher
Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"As the survivor of cancer for over 15 years, Chris Wark, best-selling author of Chris Beat Cancer, knows the daily struggles involved in healing from cancer. In this daily devotional, Wark offers nuggets of inspiration, encouragement, and actions you can take to support your healing path. His trademark positivity and energy will provide you with a life-affirming and forward-looking thought to help each day become more manageable and to get you through...
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
From daily frustrations that can feel like overwhelming obstacles to hard challenges that turn into rock-bottom crises, women need to find the means to equip themselves for standing strong with God. Walsh reveals the hardened defenses that kept her from allowing God into her deepest hurts, and shares how entering into a safe place with God and practicing this daily connection with him have saved her from the devil's prowling attacks. She shows how...
Author
Publisher
InterVarsity Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever felt too progressive for conservatives, but too conservative for progressives? It's easy for faithful Christians to grow disillusioned with civic engagement or fall into tribal extremes. Representing the AND Campaign, the authors of this book lay out the biblical case for political engagement and help Christians navigate the complex world of politics with integrity"--
Author
Publisher
Faith Words
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
A través de historias personales y enseñanzas bíblicas, Victoria te mostrará cómo adoptar una nueva forma de pensar sobre ti misma y tu vida que fortalecerá tu fe, aumentará tu confianza y sacará a la persona extraordinaria que realmente eres a través de siete prácticas: Ten la certeza de que eres escogida, Alza tu vista, Mantén llena tu caja de recuerdos, Viaja ligera, Ama de verdad, Vive el presente, Empodérate, ¡No esperes ni un minuto...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year-old Yasmeen Khoury is unhappy that her family has moved from Detroit to San Antonio, Texas, leaving her friends and Arab Christian community behind; from the very first day at school Yasmeen feels completely isolated and out of place, but she slowly makes friends with a Mexican boy, Carlos, and her Jewish neighbor, Ayelet Cohen, although she feels like she has to hide these friendships, especially from her Palestinian father, a native...
Author
Publisher
Ensign Peak
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This novel imagines how a contemporary of Jesus, Simon, an ordinary spice merchant and a Jew without deeply felt religious beliefs, begins his lifelong journey as one of the first new Christians as his life intersects with Jesus at the major milestones of his life and ministry.
55) Christians against Christianity: how right-wing Evangelicals are destroying our nation and our faith
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Hendricks Jr. challenges right-wing evangelicals on their own religious claims, exposing the falsehoods, contradictions, and misuses of the Bible that are embedded in their rabid homophobia, their poorly veiled racism and demonizing of immigrants and Muslims, and their ungodly alliance with big business against the interests of American workers. In the wake of the deadly insurrectionist attack on the US Capitol, he provides a clarion call to stand...
Author
Series
Midwife novels (Roberta Rich) volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers--a gift aided by the secret "birthing spoons" she designed. But when a count implores her to attend to his wife, who has been laboring for days to give birth to their firstborn son, Hannah is torn. A Papal edict forbids Jews from rendering medical treatment to Christians, but the payment he offers is enough to ransom her beloved husband, Isaac, who...
Author
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"There is no age restriction on spiritual growth. So, why do we act like there is? For the last several decades, Western churches have focused the bulk of their resources on the early stages of discipleship-children's Sunday school, youth group, college ministry. These are all important, but we've neglected spiritual growth in the second half of life. In fact, an outside observer might think that after the growth of the college years, the goal is...
Author
Publisher
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Believe me" may be the most commonly used phrase in Donald Trump's lexicon. Whether about building a wall or protecting the Christian heritage, the refrain is constant. And to the surprise of many, about 80% percent of white evangelicals have believed Trump-at least enough to help propel him into the White House. Historian John Fea is not surprised-and in Believe Me he explains how we have arrived at this unprecedented moment in American politics....
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Benedict Option draws on the wisdom of Christian survivors of Soviet persecution to warn American Christians of approaching dangers. For years, émigrés from the former Soviet bloc have been telling Rod Dreher they see telltale signs of "soft" totalitarianism cropping up in America--something more Brave New World than Nineteen Eighty-Four. Identity politics are beginning to encroach on every aspect of...
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