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Company Of The Creative
$39.99Add to cartA History of Biblical Preaching from the Old Testament to the Modern Era) contends that in the modern world “casual television and junk reading dilute the content of the mind…and the interior life has become bloated with malnourishment.” In addition, he says, many Christians believe that the Bible contains all the truth they need about the world, so they do not read beyond the Bible. The author maintains, however, that “all Christians need to read broadly, deeply, and copiously.” He asserts that reading is vital to an engagement of the mind with serious issues of faith and culture. Reading, he notes, opens us to insights about issues and people; it stimulates the imagination and introduces us to beauty. In a series of insightful chapters, Larsen provides short, thematic summaries of more than 500 thought-provoking works of fiction, poetry, drama and biography that incite the imagination. He arranges the chapters according to historical period; for example, in “Identifying Our Assets from the Middle Ages,” Larsen ranges over Augustine, Jerome, Dante, Aquinas, Bernard of Clairvaux, Beowulf, Chaucer and the Arthurian legends. In each of his summaries, the author is attentive to the lessons that Christians can take from these writings. Such interpretive lenses sometimes cloud Larsen’s summaries, however. For instance, he remarks that “the actual state of Willa Cather’s spiritual life is questionable…and whether she had truly come to terms with God at her death is a matter of conjecture.” Such remarks fail to consider the power of the writing and turn readers away from the very fiction that Larsen urges them to read. While his book is an admirable attempt to recover the importance of reading for the Christian life, Larsen’s comments are often too narrow to be helpful.
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Mildred Bangs Wynkoop
$29.99Add to cartForeword
Preface1. Mildred Bangs: A Brief Biography
2. Wynkoop’s Journey Toward A Theology Of Love
3. The Role Of Scripture In Wynkoop’s Theology
4. Wynkoop’s Theological Anthropology
5. The Divine-Human Interaction
6. Wynkoop’s SoteriologyConclusion
Glossary Of Terms
Bibliography
IllustrationsAdditional Info
In this well-researched study, Johan Tredoux deftly recounts Dr. Wynkoop’s life and contribution to Wesleyan-Holiness studies. Emphasizing her theological development, Tredoux explores Wynkoop’s gradual move to a dynamic, relational, and christological understanding of sanctification.Scholarly yet readable, this volume is an outstanding addition to the library of any student of Wesleyan-Holiness theology. Combined with a glossary and an index, this book is an essential read and an invaluable stepping stone for further study.
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Gandhi : Indias Great Soul
$12.95Add to cartThis engaging introduction to Gandhi will show you how
one person can accomplish big things.This colorful book offers you a window into the world of Mahatma Gandhi, one of the most amazing people of the twentieth century. You will learn about Gandhi’s life-from his time as a student in London to his work for equality in South Africa and India-and his methods of peaceful, but not passive, resistance to injustice.
Through engaging biography, activities inspired by Gandhi’s values and beliefs, and the words of Gandhi himself, Gandhi: India’s Great Soul will show you how to achieve your goals through persistence and persuasion rather than through violence and fighting. -
Keith Parks : Breaking Barriers And Opening Frontiers
$12.25Add to cartPreface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Chapter 1. Pushing To The Frontier Of Missions
Chapter 2. From The Texas Plains To Indonesia’s Islands
Chapter 3. Missionary On Administrative Assignment
Chapter 4. Double-Edged Crisis For Parks And For Baptists
Chapter 5. Shaping A New Pioneer Outreach
Chapter 6. The Legacy Of Keith ParksAdditional Info
Great movements in the history of Christian missions often have started with few people perceiving their eventual importance. Such was the case when Dr. R. Keith Parks led Baptists to unprecedented engagement of the least-evangelized peoples of Asia and North Africa in the mid-1980s.This biography of Keith Parks introduces one of the premier mission leaders of the twentieth century. Parks has served in Baptist global missions for 45 years, first as missionary, administrator, and president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Foreign Mission Board, and then as Global Missions Coordinator for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
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How I Have Changed
$34.95Add to cartIn June 1996, to celebrate Jurgen Moltmann’s seventieth birthday, a remarkable group of theologians, both Catholic and Protestant, gathered in Tubingen. They spent the day discussing, before a large audience, how their theology had changed or not changed over the previous thirty years. This book is a record of what they said, together with the text of a subsequent television broadcast and an assessment of the day by a distinguished journalist. The participants include: Jurgen Moltmann, his wife Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel, Eberhard Jungel, Dorothee Solle, Johann Baptist Metz, Norbert Greinacher, Jorg Zink, Philip Potter, and Hans Kung. They cover many areas of theology, from systematic theology to feminist theology to liberation theology. They also show in a striking way how their careers were stamped by the war and the subsequent divisionof Germany, lending an amazing personal touch to their accounts. Jurgen Moltmann is Emeritus Professor of Systematic Theology in the Protestant Theological Faculty at the University of Tubingen.
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Thomas Merton And The Monastic Vision A Print On Demand Title
$25.99Add to cartThough the outlines of Thomas Merton’s life are generally known to his many readers, the details of his spiritual development are less familiar. Taking up where Merton’s own Seven Storey Mountain ends, this penetrating biography by Lawrence Cunningham explores Merton’s monastic life and his subsequent growth into a modern-day spiritual master.
Cunningham shows that Merton’s prolific writings and his continuing influence can only be understood against the background of his contemplative experience as a Trappist monk. “If one does not understand Merton as a monk,” writes Cunningham, “one does not understand Merton at all.”
Following the trajectory of Merton’s life, starting from his entrance into the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, in 1941, Cunningham highlights the development of Merton’s monastic life against the cultural background of the American experience and the vast upheavals in the Roman Catholic Church. This unique approach clearly reveals the paradox of Merton’s life. Here was a person deeply involved in the cultural struggles of his day despite having made a conscious decision to draw away from the world in silence and solitude. With both pen and voice, Merton construed to face the most seething issues of the century, including the antiwar and civil-rights movements. Equally intriguing was Merton’s dialogue with Zen Buddhism, a figurative and literal journey to the East that ended with his death in Bangkok in 1968.
Adding to the interest of this balanced and reliable biography is a foreword by Father Timothy Kelly, the current abbot of the Abbey of Gethsemani, who was himself a novice under Merton.
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Spiritual Torrents
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SPIRITUAL TORRENTSThis book is a spiritual autobiography in which Jeanne Guyon likens her life to a torrent making its way out of the high mountains down into the canyons and chasms of life, passing through many experiences until finally coming to the spiritual experience of death. From there the torrent experiences resurrection and a life lived in concert with the will of God while still going through many stages of refinement. At last the torrent finds its way into the vast, unlimited sea. Even here the torrent does not totally come to be one with the vast ocean until it has once more passed through final dealings by the Lord.
The reader will find this book to be the saga of one believer’s journey with Christ. It does not serve as a pattern for any other life, but simply allows the reader to see how Guyon viewed the Lord’s work in her life. Nevertheless, this is one of the greatest books ever written on the subject of the cross as it works in the life of the believer.
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William Bradford : Plymouths Faithful Pilgrim
$25.99Add to cartWilliam Bradford came to the New World with the other Pilgrims in search of religious freedom. With great faith in God and in his own abilities, he established a stable colony, doing his best to be just and fair to his fellow colonists as well as to the Native Americans living in the area. After he became governor of the colony, he was reelected more than thirty times. Toward the end of Bradford’s life, the community that he helped build began to split apart, something that troubled him deeply. But in enduring both triumph and heartache, he made a permanent mark on American history and left an inspiring legacy of unswerving faith in the God he loved. Filled with maps, paintings, and historical illustrations, this fascinating biography introduces readers to the dramatic story of the founder of Plymouth Colony.
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Best That I Can Be
$19.00Add to cartRafer Johnson’s story is the classic American dream: hard work leading to success, honor, and glory. Here, he openly writes about his humble beginnings in an obscure African American Texas ghetto, his growing up in the all-white, sun-drenched Californian town of Kingsburg, and his time at UCLA as the president of the student body and an acclaimed athlete. His talents brought him to dramatic athletic duels in Moscow, Melbourne, and Rome, and to the glamour of acting, broadcasting, and politics in Hollywood, Washington, D.C., and the rest of the nation.
Structured around the ten events of the decathlon, Rafer’s memoir vividly describes an exceptional life. It introduces remarkable people, both unknown and celebrated (the Kennedy family; Gloria Steinem; Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade; Tom Brokaw; and others), who befriended Rafer and affected his life. It tells of obstacles and tragedies–crippling injuries, an alcoholic father, the assassination of his close friend Robert F. Kennedy–and what it takes to overcome them. With tact, integrity, and acute observation, Rafer Johnson shares the intimate moments that have shaped his life and the lives of others.
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Power Money And Sex
$19.99Add to cartFor years his name has been synonymous with the things many people find wrong with today’s athletes: inflated ego, insatiable greed, and extravagant lifestyle. Now this 2-sport superstar writes about his rise from humble beginnings, behind-the-scenes sports stories, and the newfound faith in God that has transformed his life.
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Martin Luther Volume 3
$39.00Add to cartThe third volume of Brecht’s magnificent biorgraphy describes the final fourteen years of Luther’s life, beginning with the accession of Elector John Frederick in 1532. A work of immense and engaging scholarship, gracefully translated by the late James Schaaf, this volume offers comprehensive and original interpretations of Luther’s private life, his congregation and the church in Saxony, his professorial lectures and theological controversies, Bible translation, Luther and the Council of Trent, and his later writings about the Jews and Turks.
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On Pilgrimage
$25.99Add to cartThese diary entries written by Dorothy Day in 1948 provide an intimate look into Day’s personal life as well as essential background for understanding the Catholic Worker movement, which she founded. In this book, Day writes about all facets of her life. Yet whether describing her visits to her daughter’s farm or the writings of the saints, a common theme emerges, namely, the gifts of God’s love and our need to respond to them with personal and social transformation. The concerns of the Catholic Worker movement are no less vital in our day: the disenfranchised poor, the benefits of the meaningful work, the significance of family, the dangers of increasing commercialism and secularism, the decline of moral standards, and the importance of faith. Available for the first time since it was originally published, this edition includes a foreword by Michael O. Garvey and an introduction by Mark and Louise Zwick that gives an overview of Day’s early life and her commitment to the Catholic worker movement.
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Louisa May Alcott
$10.99Add to cartEasy to read, and full of the spirit and adventure of the famous Americans who’ve made America what it is today, the Childhood of Famous Americans Series is a series of fictionalized biographies for children 8 & up.
Learn about Lousia May Alcott’s avant garde upbringing in Boston & Concord, and her life as an author.
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Pilgrim Souls : A Collection Of Spiritual Autobiography
$33.95Add to cartWhat is the source of personal writing? When do we begin to consider our own lives worthy of a story? These powerful and passionate selections of spiritual autobiography do not merely represent a vital literary tradition; they bring together fifty-eight writers whose search for truth and understanding has spanned over two millennia and several continents.
From Saint Augustine and Rabi’a to T. S. Eliot and Kathleen Norris, each of these autobiographers tells the story of the inner life as a spiritual quest. Although separated culturally, historically, and linguistically, they are united by their efforts to respond to Socrates’ challenge to “know thyself.” In four parts this insightful collection includes works by:
* Wanderers and seekers, like Leo Tolstoy and Thomas Merton, who feverishly explore many experiences and world views
* Pilgrims and missionaries, like Anne Bradstreet and David Livingstone, who unwaveringly pursue God and holiness in lives of self-sacrifice
* Mystics and visionaries, like Julian of Norwich and Annie Dillard, who discover the ecstasy of epiphany in a life of contemplation and seclusion
* Scholars and philosophers, like Simone Weil and Blaise Pascal, who seek to ground spiritual conviction in a rational certitude.Strong, deep, and enduring, the selections in this illuminating anthology remind us that “the unexamined life is not worth living” and speak to us with an immediacy that transcends time and space.
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Cambridge Companion To Dietrich Bonhoeffer
$49.99Add to cartThis Companion serves as a guide for readers wanting to explore the thought and legacy of the great German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45). Its chapters, written by authors from differing national, theological and church contexts, provide an introduction to, and commentary on, Bonhoeffer’s life and work, guiding the reader along the paths of his thought. Experts set out Bonhoeffer’s political, social and cultural contexts, and offer biographical information that is indispensable for the understanding of his theology. There is a chronology and a glossary.
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Cambridge Companion To Dietrich Bonhoeffer
$95.00Add to cartThis Companion serves as a guide for readers wanting to explore the thought and legacy of the great German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45). Its chapters, written by authors from differing national, theological and church contexts, provide an introduction to, and commentary on, Bonhoeffer’s life and work, guiding the reader along the paths of his thought. Experts set out Bonhoeffer’s political, social and cultural contexts, and offer biographical information that is indispensable for the understanding of his theology. There is a chronology and a glossary.
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John Wesley : Holiness Of Heart And Life (Student/Study Guide)
$15.99Add to cartJohn Wesley: Holiness of Heart and Life is a six-week study on John Wesley, the major themes of his theology, the spread of Wesleyanism to North America, and renewal in the Wesleyan tradition. Chapters include reflection questions. The Study Guide offers step-by-step plans for each session.
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Joey : An Inspiring True Story Of Faith And Forgiveness
$15.00Add to cartWithin the tiny life that is a newborn baby there exists the coded material that will evolve into a masterpiece of incredible proportions. Joseph Girzone’s Joey tells the true story of a young boy–Girzone’s own godson-whose life bloomed in just that way, unfolding in a magnificent adventure before it ended all too soon.
Joey was a boy born with a smile on his face and music in his heart, a boy who was to reflect all the experiences of youth: the wonder of existence, the adventure of finding new things, the joy of discovering new love, the pain of betrayed trusts and broken commitments, the endless searching for a meaning to life and its endless riddles, and the joy of finding a wonderful God who can bring all these complex facets of life into focus.
This story is about a rare and beautiful love between a young boy and God. It is a work that will give hope to the young and comfort to mothers and fathers who watch fearfully as their children enter the unknown world of life’s adventure.
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Meditations For Walking
$12.25Add to cartPreface
Summer: The Beginning
Week 1 “Starting The Path”
Week 2 “Walking In The Midst Of Trouble”
Week 3 ” The Risk Of Creation”
Week 4 “Dwelling In The Vine”
Week 5 “The Source Of Me”
Week 6 “Seeing Dimly”
Week 7 ” The Purses We Carry”
Week 8 “Considering The Lillies Of The Field”
Week 9 “Starting Over Again”
Week 10 “Corners”
Week 11 “Saints And Angels”
Week 12 “Stumbling”
Week 13 “The Changing Of Seasons”Autumn: The Middle Passage
Week 14 “Make Love Your Aim”
Week 15 “Sharing The Path”
Week 16 “Learning Balance”
Week 17 “Milestones”
Week 18 “The Promise Of God”
Week 19 “Carry Me, Lord”
Week 20 “Walking In The Presence Of God”
Week 21 “Taking Rest”
Week 22 “Abandoned Love”
Week 23 “Bare Feet”
Week 24 “Angels Bearing Gifts”
Week 25 “Walking By Faith”
Week 26 “Be Still”Winter: Deep Into The Woods
Week 27 “Waiting”
Week 28 “Tiny Steps”
Week 29 “The Life Which Christ Lives In Me”
Week 30 “The Source Of All”
Week 31 “Having Not Yet Reached Perfection”
Week 32 “Trees Clapping Their Hands”
Week 33 “The Tongue Is A Fire”
Week 34 ” Do Not Lose Heart”
Week 35 “The Lord Is My Shepherd”
Week 36 “What Is Required?”
Week 37 “Where The Seed Falls”
Week 38 “Streams Of Living Water”
Week 39 “The Root Sustains You”Spring: Signs Of New Life
Week 40 “The Extra Day”
Week 41 “The Lord Is Good”
Week 42 “Taking The Way That Leads To Good”
Week 43 “Not Busying Myself With Great Affairs”
Week 44 “The Source Of Love Is God”
Week 45 “The Art Of Patience”
Week 46 “Walking The Path Of Love”
Week 47 “Joy Comes With The Morning”
Week 48 “Keep Going”
Week 49 “And She Praised God”
Week 50 “The Light Of Life”
Week 51 “The Path Of Life”
Week 52 “Benedictions”Order This Book From Our Online Bookstore
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Used as a compliment to walking or simply as a guide for faithful living, Meditations for Walking offers fresh insights into the words of Scripture and the discovery of one’s own spiritual path.During the process of “unbuilding” a path in the woods behind her house, Lynne Hinton uncovers spiritual truths relevant to living a life of faith. Using Scripture, meditations, prayers, and reflections on finding the path, this book offers fifty-two (52) entries to complement the exercise of anyone who walks–literally or spiritually.
Meditations for Walking is divided into four sections that reflect the four seasons. The entire development of a path is covered, from the beginning of finding the right place to start to the final stage of sharing the path with others.
For anyone who enjoys the activity of walking, this book creates possibilities of combining one’s ideas regarding faith and spirituality with the exercise of walking–a way to begin one’s walk in a spirit of devotion and reflection.
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Truth Shall Set You Free
$24.00Add to cartA riveting new voice in literary memoir tells the gripping true story of a family shattered–and ultimately set free–by the revelation of a long-hidden secret. Sally Lowe Whitehead shares the deeply personal story of her own and her husband’s lifelong quest for spiritual truth–and her astonishing discovery of her husband’s homosexuality, which initially broke and then remade her vision of family, love, and Christian faith.
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Just Mahalia Baby
$40.00Add to cartThe queen of gospel and a symbol of integrity, Mahalia Jackson was the embodiment of an era. Accurate, well-researched, and rich with the music, faith, people, and events that sparked the spirit of the time, Just Mahalia, Baby is a fast-paced and engaging biography. From the poverty of her New Orleans childhood, where she sang in church and was exposed to the rhythms of ragtime jazz, through troubled times and triumphs, and on to Chicago, wealth, and worldwide acclaim, her biographer Laurraine Goreau chronicles Mahalia’s storied life and career. Mahalia went to receptions for presidents, sang at a freedom rally to set the mood before Martin Luther King spoke, toured the world, and remained a dedicated fighter for black people’s rights. Generous and warm-hearted, she won the respect and admiration of those who knew her, whether personally or through her music. Downbeat magazine named her one of the top four jazz vocalists along with Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Sarah Vaughan, yet she remained undaunted by fame. “Don’t make me no saint, baby!” she told Laurraine Goreau. “Tell the real story of me.”
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Joyful Pilgrimage : My Life In Community
$10.00Add to cartIn the tumultuous aftermath of the First World War, thousands of young Germans defied the social mores of their parents and the constricting influence of the established churches in search of freedom, social equality, nature, and community. Hiking clubs were formed and work camps organized, and hundreds of rural folk schools and communes sprang up across the country. In the 1930s, Nazism swallowed this so-called Youth Movement virtually whole.
A Joyful Pilgrimage is the engaging story of a remnant that survived: the Bruderhof, a 75-year-old community that began when the author and her husband, a well-known writer and lecturer, abandoned their affluent Berlin suburb to start a new life and venture of faith.”
At first glance a memoir, A Joyful Pilgrimage is a radical call to faith and commitment against great odds. It is also a remarkable testimony to the leading of the Spirit, which, as Emmy Arnold writes, can hold together those who believe in the daily miracle of community through thick and thin. “
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Mission Possible : The Wonderful Story Of God And A Wycliffe Translator In
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The dynamic true story of Bible translator Marilyn Laszlo. Journey through the jungles of Papua New Guinea as she shares her adventures bringing the Word of God to the Sepik Iwam tribe.
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Virtues Of Aging
$15.00Add to cart“We are not alone in our worry about both the physical aspect of aging and the prejudice that exists toward the elderly, which is similar to racism or sexism. What makes it different is that the prejudice also exists among those of us who are either within this group or rapidly approaching it. When I have mentioned the title of this book to a few people, most of them responded, ‘Virtues? What could possibly be good about growing old?’ The most obvious answer, of course, is to consider the alternative to aging. But there are plenty of other good answers–many based on our personal experiences and observations. “
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Both Feet Firmly Planted In Midair
$35.00Add to cartIn this deeply personal and moving autobiography, McNeill speaks candidly about the early steps and frequent perils he encountered along his spiritual journey. He writes about his childhood in Buffalo and the loss of his mother, the awakenings of his identity as a gay man, the lessons learned and horrors witnessed during his capture by German soldiers in WWII, the beginnings of his life partnership, and the odyssey that commenced with the publication of “The Church and the Homosexual” and culminated in McNeill’s expulsion from the Society of Jesus. Poignant, frequently astonishing, and always hopeful, this testament to an extraordinary life will inspire all who read it.
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Thurgood Marshall : Young Justice
$7.99Add to cartWhenever Thurgood Marshall got into trouble at school, the principal would make him sit in the basement and read the U.S. Constitution. By the time he was 12, he had most of it memorized and his interest in law had begun to take seed. In 1967 he was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court–the first African American to serve in that position.
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Expect A Miracle
$22.98Add to cartFrom humble beginnings as a small-town pastor’s son to worldwide fame, Oral Roberts’ life will inspire and encourage. Readers will come to know the heart and mind of a man who has touched the lives of thousands by encouraging them to expect a miracle through his speaking and healing ministry.
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It Takes Respect
$12.99Add to cartSubmission and humility—not popular concepts in today’s life and times. But, says football star Aeneas Williams, respect for godly authority would help cure many problems plaguing today’s youth: crime, drug abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies. Williams candidly shares his personal testimony and includes questions for reflection and discussion.
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Listening With My Heart
$15.00Add to cartHeather Whitestone. Her name has become synonymous with incredible determination and unprecedented achievement. In Listening with My Heart, Heather tells her own story and the stories of others who have inspired her, proving that with hard work, perseverance, and faith, each of us can move mountains. Profoundly deaf since she was eighteen months old, Heather strove to live a normal life, and refused to listen to the voices of discouragement that many of us so often hear, no matter what problems confront us. She wouldn’t listen to the doctor who said she wouldn’t develop beyond third-grade abilities, or to those who said she would never dance ballet, or even speak. She did, however, hear the encouraging spirit of her family and followed the guidance of her own heart’s dreams. Struggling through her difficulties, she was sustained by every success–no matter how small–and ultimately became Miss America 1995. Though she is disabled, her incredible gifts have inspired many throughout the world, and in Listening with My Heart she at last shares her life-changing wisdom.
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C S Lewis And Francis Schaeffer
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10 Chapters In 272 Pages
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IVP Print on Demand TitleFor the first time, Scott Burson and Jerry Walls compare and contrasts the thought of Lewis and Schaeffer. With the great respect for the legacy of each man, but with critical insight as well, they suggest strengths and weaknesses of their apologetics. All the while they consider what Lewis and Schaeffer still have to offer in light of postmodernism and other cultural currents that, since their deaths, have changed the apologetic landscape.
This incisive book stands as both an excellent introduction to the work of these two important figures and a fresh for apologetics at the dawn of a new century.
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Waiting For Home A Print On Demand Title
$20.99Add to cartJournalist John Schneider chronicles the compelling true story of Richard Prangley, a man who was unjustly institutionalized for fifteen years yet has managed to become not only a productive citizen but also an effective advocate for the developmentally disabled.
Richard Prangley, whose story has been the focus of a documentary and wide national media coverage, including CBS’s Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt, is an inspirational figure whose life reflects the human spirit at is resilient, triumphant best. In Waiting for Home Schneider tells the complete story, from Prangley’s committal to the Coldwater State Home and Training School at age 6, to his struggles with socialization after being released at age 21, to his successful stand for the rights of the handicapped as a lobbyist in places like the Michigan State Capitol and the White House.
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C S Lewis A Print On Demand Title
$29.99Add to cartA compulsive writer from childhood, C. S. Lewis saw the world primarily through the medium of books. He read voraciously, and his own writing covers a broad range of genres. This timely study of C. S. Lewis casts a unique light on this beloved figure by tracing his development as a reader and a writer of books.
Lionel Adey shows how the two sides of Lewis’s personality, for which Adey adopts the motifs of “the Dreamer” and “the Mentor,” are key to understanding Lewis’s writing in its various modes. Adey describes Lewis’s early development and then devotes a chapter to each kind of writing he attempted: literary history, practical and theoretical criticism, novels for adults and for children, poetry, apologetics, essays and addresses, and letters. Throughout, Adey discusses formative biographical events in Lewis’s life, such as the death of his mother when he was nine years old. Adey concludes with an estimate of Lewis’s achievement and enduring legacy as a writer.
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I Was Wrong
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466 Pages In 54 Chapters
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The media circus gleefully trumpeted every detail of Jim and Tammy Faye’s dizzying descent from the pinnacle of the multimillion-dollar Heritage USA Retreat Center and The Inspirational Network to ignominy, impoverishment- and in Jim’s case – imprisonment.
Yet the loss of his empire, his money, his home, and his reputation in the two years leading up to his imprisonment in 1989 was only the beginning. In prison, he was to lose even more-his freedom, his sanity, his dignity, his confidence in his faith, and eventually even his wife. Inmate 07407-058, one-time confidant to presidents, had hit bottom.
In the humiliation, loneliness, and abject despair of prison, Bakker gradually began to realize that he had to dig deep and face things about himself that as a free man he had been too busy to face. What were those issues? How did he face them? How was he changed? Now for the very first time, Jim Bakker tells his own story-the glory days as a televangelist, the hostile takeover the emotional breakdown. How he got to prison, his experiences behind bars, and what he learned. Jim Bakker was wrong about many things. Exactly what they were and how he came to confess them will surprise you and inspire you. This is his story. -
Gift Of Pain
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THE GIFT OF PAIN
A world without pain?Can such a place exist? It not only can-it does. But it’s no utopia. It’s a colony for leprosy patients: a world where people literally feel no pain, and reap horrifying consequences.
His work with leprosy patients in India and the United States convinced Dr. Paul Brand that pain truly is one of God’s great gifts to us. In this inspiring story of his fifty-year career as a healer, Dr. Brand probes the mystery of pain and reveals its importance. As an indicator that lets us know something is wrong, pain has a value that becomes clearest in its absence.
The Gift of Pain looks at what pain is and why we need it. Together, the renowned surgeon and award-winning writer Philip Yancey shed fresh light on a gift that none of us want and none of us can do without.
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Reggie White In The Trenches (Revised)
$19.98Add to cartAcknowledgments
Promise Kept
1. Life In The Trenches
2. Starting Out
3. Big Dog
4. Incredible Wealth
5. Buddyball
6. An Eagle In The Storm
7. Wins-and Deep Losses
8. “Reggie, This Is God…”
9. The Rambos Of Larnbeau
10. Miracles In The Trenches
11. Fighting Fire
12. How To Be A Hero
13. Mission Accomplished
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IN THE TRENCHES
When Reggie White signed with Green Bay, he was the team’s last, best hope to bring a title back to Titletown, USA. The Packers were in dire need of some serious intimidation on the defensive line and, some would argue, a little divine intervention.Three years later, the pack was back and Reggie had led them to their 1996 Super Bowl win, making believers of everyone along the way!
For Green Bay’s Reggie White, there’s not much difference between faith, football, and everything else. Whether he’s chewing up offensive linemen on his way to his place in the Football Hall of Fame, speaking out against the racism and injustice of fire-bombings in black churches including his own, or planting ministries in the tough turf of inner cities, he invests the same intensity, the same commitment of will, energy, and focus.
In the Trenches is Reggie’s own fast-paced, inspiring account of his colorful, sometimes controversial career, both in the pros and in the pulpit. Packed with insights, observations, and war stories of his twelve years in the NFL-including his championship season-In the Trenches delves into the heart of an amazing athlete who balances an array of extremes: he is both beloved and feared, tough and gentle, competitive and compassionate, fierce and generous.
Better than a front-row seat on the 50-yard line, In the Trenches is your ticket to the sights, sounds, thoughts, and emotions that surround one of America’s most popular sports and one of its most respected stars.
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Alex : The Life Of A Child
$14.99Add to cartAlexandra Deford, a precious and precocious girl, was just eight years old when she died in 1980 following a battle against the debilitating effects of cystic fibrosis, the number-one genetic killer of children. Her poignant and uplifting story touched the hearts of millions when it was first published and then made into a memorable television movie. A new introduction contains information on the latest cystic fibrosis research, and a touching postcript reveals how the Deford family came to terms with the loss of Alex.
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Diary Of Anna Green Winslow
$12.95Add to cartA rare view of colonial life from a bright and sensitive 12 year old girl from Nova Scotia, who was sent to Boston in 1770 by her parents to be educated in Boston schools. The diary was not published until 1894 when it was issued with notes and an introduction by Alice Morse Earle.
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Honestly
$19.99Add to cart1. The Distant Rumble
2. How Do You Mend a Broken Heart?
3. Hiding in the Shadows
4. Winter
5. Why Are You Afraid?
6. Paralyzed by Shame
7. The Longest Night
8. Forgiveness Comes Full Circle
9. The Companionship of Brokenness
10. Following the Shepherd
11. The Incredible Lightness of Grace
12. Stand Up and Walk
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Talented and beautiful, Sheila Walsh seemed to be on top of the world. But behind her public success as a performing artist and talk show host, a private story was unfolding. Unable to cope with the inner turmoil that plagued her, Sheila stepped down as co-host of television’s “700 Club” to deal with a pain too pressing to ignore. Honestly takes you on a journey past the walls that most of us put up and into the recesses of one woman’s heart. With rare grace, Sheila shares the story of her pilgrimage — the journey of a soul as it moved from hopelessness, to honesty, to freedom, and ultimately, to a life of deepened faith and joy. -
Great Christian Hymn Writers
$17.99Add to cartConsider the worshipful lyrics of “Holy, Holy, Holy”; the comforting assurance of “His Eye Is On the Sparrow”; the trusting submission of “Have Thine Own Way, Lord”; the bold declaration made by “O for a Thousand Tongues.” They are some of our greatest hymns-and some of the most powerful words in Christendom. Lyrics that help us grasp the reality of faith, set to beautiful music that speaks to our hearts.
The stories behind the hymns are powerful as well. In this book the authors have detailed the intriguing and often tragic circumstances from which many of our best-loved hymns came. They are stories about the private struggles and personal triumphs these men and women hymn writers experienced-stories that give their already-meaningful songs added significance.
Great Christian Hymn Writers is a wonderful resource for worship services, devotional talks, and home schools, as well as!for use in your private devotions. And it’s worthwhile reading for anyone who’s interested in learning where these hymns came from and how it is that they continue to affect us so much,
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Rebel With A Cause
$19.99Add to cartIn his autobiography, Franklin Graham tells his story of how God has taken his life and turned it into His Glory. Elizabeth Dole says, “Franklin has provided a very thoughtful and provocative account of how a young man develops and matures in his faith as the son of one of the world’s most respected and admired spiritual leaders.”
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Journey Home : A Walk With Bob Benson
$15.99Add to cart1. A Place Called Home
2. The Journey Begins
3. You Made Me What I Am
4. Letting Things Grow
5. Children
6. The Fine Print
7. Reading Deep
8. Who’s Got The Urn?
9. The Fellowship Of Suffering
10. Home At Last135 Pages
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“The sin is not in breaking rules-it’s in holding back…”Those who walked closest with Bob Benson say he knew how to get the most out of life. The Journey Home is for people who need to hear Bob for the first time. And for people who need to hear him for the first time – again. You’ll look at life differently after you hear Bob talk. He’ll help you hear the unspoken lessons your families, your circumstances, and the world around you are teaching. He invites you into the wonder of the ordinary.
In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of Bob Benson’s death, his wife, Peg, and family friend and writer Karen Dean Fry offer you a rare opportunity to share intimately in the life journey of this special man. In addition to the very best selections from Bob Benson’s writings, The Journey Home includes reflections from many whose lives Bob touched, including James Dobson, Amy Grant, Gloria Gaither, and others. Their words are a tribute to his legacy.
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Life And Thought Of Kanzo Uchimura 1861-1930 A Print On Demand Title
$25.99Add to cartWhile staying in the United States in 1884 at the age of 23, Kanzo Uchimura (1861-1930) felt a sense of religious calling that led him to devote the rest of his life to Christian mission in Japan. His subsequent life and work earned him recognition as one of the most important Japanese thinkers, essayists, and theologians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Uchimura claimed that Japan adopted Western civilization at the reopening of the country in the late nineteenth century but did not adopt Christianity itself – the very cause, spirit, and life of Western civilization. This was the origin of all the difficulties Japan had been experiencing. There is no question that Uchimura believed Christianity would save Japan and the Japanese; the real question was “What kind of Christianity?”
In his view Christian faith entails a radical dependence on the gospel; baptism, communion, and the other sacraments are not necessary. He also believed that God’s truth can be revealed directly to each individual, so that an intermediary between God and people, such as a minister, priest, or pope, is not required. This argument led Uchimura to start the Mukyokai-shugi (Non-churchism), a denial of the institutional church. Miura here explores in depth this theme in Uchimura’s thought as well as Uchimura’s particular vision of Japan’s mission to the world.
This study not only offers Western readers new information about Kanzo Uchimura and the Japanese Non- church Movement; it also provides important insights into the way Christianity can be indigenized in a new culture, such as that of modern Japan.
