Catalog Search Results
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,...
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...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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
Tin House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"For Sarah Krasnostein, it begins with a Mennonite choir performing on a subway platform, a fleeting moment of witness that sets her on a fascinating journey to discover why people need to believe in absolute truths and what happens when their beliefs crash into her own. Some of the people Krasnostein interviews believe in things many people do not: ghosts, UFOs, the literal creation of the universe in six days. Some believe in things most people...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's Christmastime, and the Fairchild family is spending the holidays on idyllic Sanpere Island in Maine while the Reverend Thomas Fairchild recuperates from surgery. His caterer wife, Faith, is rejoicing in the rare, holiday family-time together--but Faith's high spirits are dampened when she discovers the body of a young woman that is somehow connected to an abandoned, newborn baby boy.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Attorney Sophie Maxwell has come to Savannah to be with her new husband, Will. But nothing throws cold water on a hot relationship faster than a dead body. Worse for Sophie, no one believes the body she knows she saw is real. Fortunately, Sophie has a good friend in Faith Fairchild. With teenage Amy being bullied by mean girls and husband Tom contemplating a major life change that will affect all the Fairchilds, Faith is eager for distraction in the...
Author
Publisher
Salem Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Meg Apperson grew up having a relationship with Jesus, and she always trusted God. But it wasn't until her daughter Avery--a miracle in so many ways--was born with a litany of life-threatening birth defects that she began to fully understand what it means to trust Jesus with everything.
39) Gift of faith
Author
Series
Gift novels (Robert Fleming) volume 1
Publisher
Urban Christian
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Reverend Clint is a man of strong faith, but when an unimaginable tragedy stirkes his family, he is suddenly questioning all of his beliefs.
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In Crazy Faith, Pastor Michael Todd shows us how to step out in faith and dive into the purposeful life of trusting God for the impossible. Even if you have to start with baby faith or maybe faith, you can become empowered to let go of your lazy faith, trust God through your hazy faith, and learn to live a lifestyle of crazy faith. That dream God has given you might seem crazy right now. But what seems crazy in one season will be counted as faith...
Interlibrary Loan Request
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Des Moines Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? If the item was published recently, submit a purchase suggestion. Submit Request