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Divine Collision : An African Boy, An American Lawyer, And Their Remarkable
$21.99In a Ugandan prison for two murders he didn’t commit, Henry is losing hope. He pleads with God for a sign. Jim, in California, finds himself saying a small yes to God, who brings their two lives together with momentous results.
Jim Gash, former Los Angeles lawyer and current president of Pepperdine University, tells the amazing story of how, after a series of God-orchestrated events, he finds himself in the heart of Africa defending a courageous Ugandan boy languishing in prison and wrongfully accused of two separate murders. Ultimately, their unlikely friendship and unrelenting persistence reforms Uganda’s criminal justice system, leaving a lasting impact on hundreds of thousands of lives and revealing a relationship that supersedes circumstance, culture, and the walls we often hide behind.
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Prayers For Saints
$38.31Most church traditions recognise the special Christian witness of individual men and women over the ages. Whether formally termed ‘saints’ or celebrated as pioneers and ‘game-changers,’ many of whom were put to death for their faith, their lives are often astonishing and frequently inspiring. Rupert Bristow has put together the stories of these people, more than 670 in all, ranging from household names to almost forgotten figures, for every day of the year and has written an accompanying prayer for each one. Faithful to the dates these saints are commemorated, Prayers for Saints is an invaluable resource for church and home, study and worship–or as a start to further exploration of the impact made by these extraordinary people.
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Flourishing Teacher : Vocational Renewal For A Sacred Profession
$25.99Teaching is a sacred profession to which you have been called. But sometimes you feel burned out: the relentless pace, the overload of classes, the grading, the advising, the additional committee work.
Drawing on more than twenty years of teaching experience, Christina Bieber Lake writes to encourage you to rediscover your passion for your profession, to help you move from surviving to thriving, and to remind you why you chose this vocational path. Creatively structured around the typical rhythms of the academic calendar, this book offers refreshing and practiced advice about how to flourish in the midst of the teaching life. Lake also takes on several pressing questions:
*How do I balance work and family time?
*Where do I fit in time for my research and writing?
*What particular challenges do female faculty face, and how should they navigate them?Remind yourself why you teach. Rediscover your passion for this vocation.
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Our Fathers Keeper (DVD)
$12.99A successful family man suffering from early onset Alzheimer’s wonders away from home and gets lost into the world the day before Thanksgiving, causing widespread panic within his family. He is eventually “rescued” by a fatherless, thirteen-year-old homeless girl. Together, they forge a unique friendship that ultimately heals broken hearts and redefines the meaning of “family”.
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Beautifully Distinct : Conversations With Friends On Faith, Life, And Cultu
$16.99Inspires women to engage with life and culture in a God-honoring way.
How should we listen to, and think in a gospel way about, the ordinary things we come across in modern life? Things we watch, read, eat, and do. There are so many voices saying so many different things that the temptations are to either disengage completely, or find ourselves being influenced more and more by the world.
In this book, godly, clear-thinking women talk about a range of areas of life and culture. They help us to be thoughtful about films, books, and the media; set out biblical principles for approaching topics such as body image and racism; and encourage us to shape the world around us for Christ-becoming beautifully distinct.
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God Did Not Do This To Me
$16.99Lisa and Doug Stringer were ministering in Massachusetts in March 2015 when a lump in Doug’s throat started to bother him. “I don’t feel well,” he told his wife. “The lump I felt in my throat a few days ago feels larger.” When they were able to see a doctor, they were horrified to learn that Doug had Stage 4 large B-cell lymphoma that was 80 percent aggressive. Doug spent the rest of the day sitting in his car, alone in prayer. Finally, he called Lisa to tell her that he was on his way home and he wanted a family meeting and communion. Emotionally exhausted and noses still running from crying, Lisa, her mom, and Ashley gathered in the family room as Doug told them about his time with God. “God did not do this to me-and if He did not do this to me, then it doesn’t belong to me!” he told them emphatically. It was just what they need to hear. God Did Not Do This to Me is Lisa’s story of the family’s trials and triumphs through a cancer diagnosis. Putting on the armor of God, Doug was determined to turn his battle with cancer into an intercession for the country, even joking that the chemotherapy treatments made him resemble a bald eagle. By the end of the year, Doug’s cancer was in remission. “We know that the Great Physician heard the numerous prayers of our friends and spiritual family from all over the world, and blessed us all with a testimony of His healing power,” Lisa says. “We are forever changed through this experience. He has expanded my heart of compassion, taught me to pour out more grace, to be an even bigger giver, and to appreciate the little things all the more.”
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Peace For Your Mind Hope For Your Heart
$15.99Regain emotional and spiritual balance in a Post-Pandemic World This book will equip you to reclaim emotional and spiritual balance in a post-COVID world.
As we enter a new normal after the peak of COVID-19, we are left with fears, questions, and anxiety. While the biological virus has taken an untold toll on lives worldwide-medically and economically-the “new virus” going forward may be summed up in two words: anxiety and worry. While our immediate attention is on our health and that of friends and loved ones, there is a perhaps a greater need: How do we practice healthy emotional and spiritual “hygiene” as we emerge from arguably the greatest crisis the world has seen since World War II? With his more than four decades of professional experience as a therapist and trusted counseling leader, Dr. Tim Clinton brings a timely message of health and hope to a stressed out, fearful world.
Dr. Clinton examines science, psychology, physiology, and other concepts to help us cope with anxiety, but the primary focus is on the consistency of God’s power, goodness, and love. Clinton adds, “It’s my prayer that as you continue reading, you’ll increasingly sense God’s peace for your mind and hope for your heart.”
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Glory Of Gods Light
$12.99“Darkness represents anything that is inconsistent with God’s nature, character, and manifestation.”
It appears humanity has lost its connection with God, but finding a relationship with God can bring us into the light of His love. In The Glory of God’s Light, Brother Raymond shows how to have a relationship with God through His Light, His Love, and His Word.
Brother Raymond digs deeper into Scripture and takes examples from his own life to show how God’s light is present in every circumstance and points those in darkness into the glory of God’s light.
Could you relish a great relationship with God, our Heavenly Father? Yes, you can!
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Chars Gift : A Remarkable Story Of Hope Through The Storms Of Life
$32.99Is it possible to find hope in the midst of tragedy? Or joy in the hardest times?
When Char Harryman suffered a series of grand mal seizures and was rushed to the hospital on Easter Sunday, her life and that of her husband Steve would never be the same again. With Char’s diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor requiring life-saving surgery, that tragic event in their lives would mark the beginning of a remarkable journey of faith and perseverance spanning nearly twenty-five years. It was on this journey that Steve and Char experienced the nearness of God and found true hope and joy amidst the suffering.
Char’s Gift is ultimately a story of triumph over the storms of life and a testament to the depth of God’s faithfulness and unfailing love.
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Chars Gift : A Remarkable Story Of Hope Through The Storms Of Life
$11.99Is it possible to find hope in the midst of tragedy? Or joy in the hardest times?
When Char Harryman suffered a series of grand mal seizures and was rushed to the hospital on Easter Sunday, her life and that of her husband Steve would never be the same again. With Char’s diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor requiring life-saving surgery, that tragic event in their lives would mark the beginning of a remarkable journey of faith and perseverance spanning nearly twenty-five years. It was on this journey that Steve and Char experienced the nearness of God and found true hope and joy amidst the suffering.
Char’s Gift is ultimately a story of triumph over the storms of life and a testament to the depth of God’s faithfulness and unfailing love.
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Rendered For More
$7.99“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” Being an orphan that is often banned from the social norms. Love is not a concept easily perceived. Yet, we find ourselves being orphans in life and not feeling a sense of belonging. We see little engagement from others that can be trusted and begin questioning ourselves the possibility of love. Taking a walk with God not knowing where it may lead you requires trust and being vulnerable to allow scars to be seen by many. We see as the story unfolds love leads to an unlock door that seems unfathomable. The fingerprints of the askew lines between trust and hate vanishes. When we see the main characters chooses to open their hearts to a love that is indescribable. We will see if they sell their heart for more
Esther, meaning star, rises the matter is she really is, or there was a master hand at play. Often judged by outer beauty. It’s the inner beauty within that positions the opportunity of a lifetime to not only be seen but reign.
While going through life feeling blacklisted. The temptation to wanting to do wrong is tamed by the pure fire than burns within the hearts for wanting more than this life has to offer. The mystery has been revealed that the women held confidential weapon possess inwardly to offset the outwardly demises. In the rendering finding purpose and a perception.
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Rendered For More
$27.99“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” Being an orphan that is often banned from the social norms. Love is not a concept easily perceived. Yet, we find ourselves being orphans in life and not feeling a sense of belonging. We see little engagement from others that can be trusted and begin questioning ourselves the possibility of love. Taking a walk with God not knowing where it may lead you requires trust and being vulnerable to allow scars to be seen by many. We see as the story unfolds love leads to an unlock door that seems unfathomable. The fingerprints of the askew lines between trust and hate vanishes. When we see the main characters chooses to open their hearts to a love that is indescribable. We will see if they sell their heart for more
Esther, meaning star, rises the matter is she really is, or there was a master hand at play. Often judged by outer beauty. It’s the inner beauty within that positions the opportunity of a lifetime to not only be seen but reign.
While going through life feeling blacklisted. The temptation to wanting to do wrong is tamed by the pure fire than burns within the hearts for wanting more than this life has to offer. The mystery has been revealed that the women held confidential weapon possess inwardly to offset the outwardly demises. In the rendering finding purpose and a perception.
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Exonerated : Women Exonerated Through Christ
$12.99Are you bleeding emotionally due to unpleasant circumstances in your life? Have you lost all hope in life? Are you bleeding internally due to being sexually abused while young? Perhaps you are the victim of domestic violence. You may even be bleeding due to your financial situation. Are you too ashamed or afraid to talk about it with anyone for fear of being judged? Maybe you know of someone who is struggling with internal bleeding in their lives. Look no further. Exonerated: Women Exonerated through Christ is the book for you. There is hope. God can exonerate you from whatever you are struggling with in life.
This book introduces you to women who grappled with emotional bleeding in their lives. They each experienced as different issue. Readers will connect with women who struggled with physical and mental disorders. You will meet a woman who struggled with promiscuity in her life. You will be introduced to women who bled emotionally due to situations concerning their children. You will even be introduced a woman who wrestled with low self-esteem.
In the midst of the suffering and angst, God intervened in the lives of these women. He relieved them from their dilemma. As you read this book, you will realize how the power of prayer and faith will ignite the power of God to move in your life.
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Find Your Way
$23.73A perfect gift for graduates!
No matter where you are in life, you are not yet all you will be . . .
At some point, virtually everyone finds themselves struggling to find their way in life.
Perhaps you’re just starting out and haven’t yet found your personal or professional path. Maybe you’ve been plugging away for years, trying to live someone else’s dream. Maybe you’re outwardly successful but plagued by a nagging, soul-level sense of dissatisfaction.
Carly Fiorina, who started as a secretary and later became the first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company, can help. Drawing on her own remarkable journey, and empirical evidence accumulated over four decades in the workplace, Carly will show you how to:
*choose a path over a plan,
*use problems to propel yourself and your organization forward,
*overcome fear and procrastination,
*make smart decisions, and
*reclaim your power and use it for good.Carly Fiorina believes beyond a shadow of a doubt that your potential can be unleashed. In Find Your Way, she shows you the path to getting there.
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Diary Of A Pastors Soul
$21.00Diary of a Pastor’s Soul tells the story of a fictionalized pastor, embarking on his final year before retirement, who reflects on the experiences and relationships that have formed his vocation and shaped his soul over a lifetime of pastoral ministry.
Drawing on his own experiences, seasoned pastor Craig Barnes invites readers to embrace the life lessons of a pastor who has been formed by his failures and his fleeting moments of glory, but most of all by discovering the holy in the routine but often quirky duties of being a parish pastor.
Through 52 weekly thematic entries, Barnes presents spirituality in narrative form through a collection of interwoven stories about learning to love others with curiosity, amazement, vulnerability, and most of all gratitude for the grace found in flawed lives.
Barnes’s fictionalized diary approach creatively shows how the pastoral vocation forms mind, heart, and soul, helping pastors make sense of their own calling. With unvarnished honesty, this book eloquently illustrates a lifetime of ministry, revealing how “the Holy haunts the landscape of life.”
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Shifting Shadows : How A New York Drug Lord Found Freedom In The Last Place
$21.17Herman Mendoza built his kingdom in Queens, New York. He made a fortune selling cocaine with his brothers up and down the Eastern Seaboard. He had apartments around the city for his mistresses and a home in the Poconos for his beautiful nuclear family. But when he and his brothers were busted in a large-scale crackdown, his kingdom crumbled. Ready to kill himself rather than live behind bars, Herman instead came face-to-face with the all-consuming love of God. He would never be the same.
Today, Herman shares his story at every opportunity, knowing that it may play a part in someone else’s journey into a relationship with Jesus. An engaging and fast-paced read, Shifting Shadows offers hope to those in despair, and shows all of us the lengths to which God will go to bring a troubled soul home. Also available in Spanish as Sombras cambiantes.
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Broken Roads : Returning To My Amish Father – A Memoir
$16.99In this insightful memoir, the New York Times bestselling author of Growing Up Amish tries to reconcile with his father, family, and heritage after leaving his faith behind.
With his singular voice, Ira reveals his experience in BROKEN ROADS. Through difficult reunions, struggles confronted, and betrayals revisited, Ira explores burning questions of faith and identity shared by millions, whether Amish or not. Readers may recognize themselves along these paths with Ira, as he grapples with choices, faith, family, the past, and the future.
Ira unapologetically, but compassionately, illuminates the inner world of the Amish community through his story of life after leaving, returning to his Amish father, and how they might mend the broken roads between them before it’s too late.
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Getting To Yes
$41.26An inspirational motivational book that shows God answers prayer in many ways from how we believe He should answer. It describes the love between parent and child and the strength and comfort gained from relying on our Lord.
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Getting To Yes
$18.60An inspirational motivational book that shows God answers prayer in many ways from how we believe He should answer. It describes the love between parent and child and the strength and comfort gained from relying on our Lord.
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Native : Identity, Belonging, And Rediscovering God
$18.99Native is about identity, soul-searching, and being on the never-ending journey of finding ourselves and finding God. As both a citizen of the Potawatomi Nation and a Christian, Kaitlin Curtice offers a unique perspective on these topics. In this book, she shows how reconnecting with her identity both informs and challenges her faith.
Drawing on the narrative of her personal journey through poetry, imagery, and stories of the Potawatomi people, Curtice addresses themes at the forefront of today’s discussions of faith and culture in a positive and constructive way. She encourages us to embrace our own origins and to share and listen to each other’s stories so we can build a more inclusive and diverse future. Each of our stories matters for the church to be truly whole. As Curtice shares what it means to experience her faith through the lens of her Indigenous heritage, she reveals that a vibrant spirituality has its origins in identity, belonging, and a sense of place.
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God Only Knows
$36.99Meet the ordinary but unqualified proof that you can accomplish whatever you want to accomplish in life, no matter how impossible it might seem. God planted that passion in your heart and will use it to make your life extraordinary. Against the odds. This is a riveting true story that dares you to dream.
Joe Camp showed his film to every studio in Hollywood and couldn’t get a distributor. Nobody wanted Benji. Nobody. Zero. The following summer Variety reported that the movie was the #3 box office gross of all movies for the year. In spite of all the folks who were so quick to say: You can’t do that! That’s impossible! Give up! Quit. Sit down. Shut up. Go away. If it could be done somebody would have done it already.
God’s hand at work. Up close and personal.
And what a story this book is as Joe Camp learns how every devastation that he believed to be surely the end of life as he knew it had to happen exactly as God orchestrated it or there never would’ve been a Benji. Or six Benji films. And there never would’ve been a bestselling book changing the lives of horses all across the planet. Or a second love of his life after his Carolyn was called home.
God Only Knows is a true story that reads like a spellbinding novel, emotionally involving and packed with suspense while totally shredding our resistance to fully trusting God with our every devastation so that we might see our adversities for what they are: God molding us, strengthening us, teaching us how to get past the multitude of obstacles that any worthwhile dream will throw at us.
“My fondest hope is that this book might inspire you to mount a white horse and charge off after things worthwhile, to reach for heights heretofore perceived as unreachable, to adventure into uncharted waters with passion, honesty and God by your side . . . and leave this world a better place for your effort.” –Joe Camp
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God Only Knows
$19.99Meet the ordinary but unqualified proof that you can accomplish whatever you want to accomplish in life, no matter how impossible it might seem. God planted that passion in your heart and will use it to make your life extraordinary. Against the odds. This is a riveting true story that dares you to dream.
Joe Camp showed his film to every studio in Hollywood and couldn’t get a distributor. Nobody wanted Benji. Nobody. Zero. The following summer Variety reported that the movie was the #3 box office gross of all movies for the year. In spite of all the folks who were so quick to say: You can’t do that! That’s impossible! Give up! Quit. Sit down. Shut up. Go away. If it could be done somebody would have done it already.
God’s hand at work. Up close and personal.
And what a story this book is as Joe Camp learns how every devastation that he believed to be surely the end of life as he knew it had to happen exactly as God orchestrated it or there never would’ve been a Benji. Or six Benji films. And there never would’ve been a bestselling book changing the lives of horses all across the planet. Or a second love of his life after his Carolyn was called home.
God Only Knows is a true story that reads like a spellbinding novel, emotionally involving and packed with suspense while totally shredding our resistance to fully trusting God with our every devastation so that we might see our adversities for what they are: God molding us, strengthening us, teaching us how to get past the multitude of obstacles that any worthwhile dream will throw at us.
“My fondest hope is that this book might inspire you to mount a white horse and charge off after things worthwhile, to reach for heights heretofore perceived as unreachable, to adventure into uncharted waters with passion, honesty and God by your side . . . and leave this world a better place for your effort.” –Joe Camp
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Free Cyntoia : My Search For Redemption In The American Prison System
$17.99In her own words, Cyntoia Brown shares the riveting and redemptive story of how she changed her life for the better while in prison, finding hope through faith after a traumatic adolescence of drug addiction, rape, and sex trafficking led to a murder conviction.
Cyntoia Brown was sentenced to life in prison for a murder she committed at the age of sixteen. Her case became national news when celebrities and activists made the hashtag #FreeCyntoia go viral in 2017. She was granted full clemency after having served fifteen years, walking out a free woman on August 7, 2019.
This is her story, in her own words.
In these pages, written over the fifteen years she was incarcerated, Cyntoia shares the difficult early life that lead to that fateful night and how she found the strength to not only survive, but thrive, in prison.
A coming-of-age memoir set against the shocking backdrop of a life behind bars, Free Cyntoia takes you on a spiritual journey as Cyntoia struggles to overcome a legacy of family addiction and a lifetime of feeling ostracized and abandoned by society.
Born to a teenage alcoholic mother who was also a victim of sex trafficking, Brown reflects on the isolation, low self-esteem, and sense of alienation that drove her straight into the hands of a predator.
Though she attempts to build a positive path and honor the values her beloved adoptive mother taught her, Cyntoia succumbs to harmful influences that drive her to a cycle of promise and despair. After a fateful meeting with a prison educator turned mentor, Cyntoia makes the pivotal decision to take classes at Lipscomb University and strive for a better future, even if she’s never freed.
For the first time ever, Cyntoia shares the details of her transformation, including a profound encounter with God, an unlikely romance, and an unprecedented outpouring of support from social media advocates and A-list celebrities, which ultimately lead to clemency and her release from prison.
Giving a rare look at the power of love, forgiveness, and self-discovery in the darkest of places, Free Cyntoia is a deeply personal portrait of one woman’s journey for redemption within a system that had failed her from childhood.
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Ministers Wife : A Memoir Of Faith, Doubt, Friendship, Loneliness, Forgiven
$16.99She never expected to be a minister’s wife. And the life she discovered was more challenging–and more beautiful–than she could have anticipated.
We all wrestle with tough questions about life and faith, and Karen Stiller has learned that answers don’t come any easier when you’re married to the minister. What does it mean to live faithfully in our complicated world? Is there a place here for me–the real me? What does everyone expect of me, and what if I fail? In The Minister’s Wife, Karen shines a light on the rhythms and tough realities of the spiritual life for each and every one of us. She explores how community helps us grow; the unexpected beauty of doubt; the messy pain of families and funerals; how church can hurt and heal; and the beauty of showing up when sometimes it is more appealing to go to a coffee shop on a Sunday morning (even when you’re the pastor’s wife).
Warm, witty, and achingly honest, The Minister’s Wife is a memoir in essays on choosing to belong, and an invitation to join a spiritual adventure.
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Just Love : A Journey Of Self-Acceptance
$28.31From one of the UK’s most widely respected gay Christians comes a powerful faith memoir of overcoming inner conflict and taking a stand against one of the greatest institutional injustices of our time.
Just Love is the autobiography of Jayne Ozanne, a prominent gay Anglican, who struggled for over 40 years to reconcile her faith with her sexuality before becoming one of the leading figures that is ushering in a new era of LGBTI acceptance in the Church.
Her journey incorporates a range of powerful faith encounters with people across the world, from Argentina to Moscow and from the jungles of Burma to the White House. She gives an inside view of what it was to be a founding member of the Church of England’s Archbishops’ Council to working alongside international figures such as Tony Blair and the Vicar of Baghdad. At times both raw and shocking, she explains what led her to be hospitalized after seeking healing for her sexuality before becoming ostracized by many Christians after she finally deciding she had no choice but to come out.
Jayne’s story serves as a lifeline for LGBTI Christians struggling to reconcile their faith with their sexuality and forces the Church to reflect on the impact of its current teaching.
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Forgetful Heart : Remembering God In A Distracted World
$24.98We live in a world full of distractions, where lack of time and the pressures of daily living contribute to our spiritual lives sometimes becoming treated with less priority, sometimes forgotten altogether.
This is a book for the forgetful-hearted; those who frequently forget God in their lives, even when they desperately want to remember him. Lucy Mills asks what it means to remember God. Here she suggests that it is about more than simply ‘knowing’ things–it is about how we live.
Forgetful Heart is a beautifully written book, full of personal testimony, biblical reflection, and practical challenges and advice.
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Spirituality In Photography
$24.98Millions of photos are taken every day across the world. Some are just snapshots. Others are more carefully crafted and have the capacity to deepen our vision and sharpen our sense of what life is truly about. Spirituality in Photography explores how photography can offer unique perspectives on the self, the world, and what we live by. Readers are invited to take photos more slowly, reframe their gaze, allow themselves to be fully present, and let their photos tell a story–this includes a section on how photography can offer new perspectives on the Bible. The book also explores how photography can help readers meditate on mystery and tune into their own ‘rule of life.’ Spirituality in Photography offers a range of ideas for readers to try out with their camera or smartphone and invites them on a journey of discovery, as they allow their photography and their spirituality to inspire each other.
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Ever Present : Running To Survive, Thrive And Believe
$21.23Spiritual wisdom from a stroke survivor who discovered a deeper connection with God through running.
Austen Hardwick suffered three strokes in his forties. Running had always been part of his life, but now he was running to get his brain functioning again. As he started to regain fitness he realised that running created the space to process what had happened to him, and that it gave him space to be with God.
Weaving together personal testimony and biblical teaching, Austen shows how running is a metaphor for the Christian life, and how we can learn to live life in all its fullness. Through suffering and trials, we have an ever present God who wants to know us and love us.
In a culture when we are urged to do more exercise, this is a timely reminder that running can actually be both good for the heart and the soul.
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Born To Fly
$24.98Sometimes, it can feel as though we are living in the worst of times–a world of chaos, uncertainty, and breakdown. But could this also be the best of times–a crucible of change in which a wiser and more spiritually mature future is being forged? The stars are most clearly visible in the deepest darkness. The butterfly emerges out of the worst meltdown of the chrysalis.
In Born to Fly, Margaret Silf helps us to explore what it would mean for each of us to be such an emerging butterfly–to be an agent of spiritual transformation in our own lives and in the world around us. What kind of future do we desire for ourselves, for those who follow after us, and for the whole of creation? And, if the choices we make today are shaping that future, how might we learn to make those choices more wisely? The second part of the book takes us on a gentle journey in five stages through the process of transformation mapped out for us by the caterpillar as it changes from a pesky garden grub, taking what it wants without regard for the rest of creation, to a butterfly, giving life wherever it lands.
Born to Fly is designed to be read for personal reflection and inspiration, or alongside fellow readers, with suggestions for further discussion. It is a companion book to Margaret Silf’s Hidden Wings.
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Loves Immensity : Mystics On The Endless Life
$21.00One of America’s finest living poets has breathed new life into the early Christian mystics.
From Saint Paul to Julian of Norwich, the original texts of these mystical fathers and mothers of the Church have been pored over, pressed for further revelation, and set in verse to provide readers with fresh encounters of their wisdom and provocations.
At the heart of this undertaking is Scott Cairns’ conviction that the words of the mystics sacramentally partake of the Word Himself, and as such are inexhaustible, generative powers. These particular selections cohere in their common claim that Love is the most compelling name of God, and also the most apt attribute of the Holy One in Whom we live and move and have our being. In that spirit, these luminous texts are understood to partake of Love, and concurrently to witness to His presence and His promise that, as “our Courteous Lord” averred to Julian, “All will be well, all will be well, all manner of things will be well.”
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Restoring The Glory Of The NAME
$19.99A Johntenten Press LLC Title
Retells the Bible Story’s main plot line, revealing what matters most to God, how everything depends on that factor; his highest purpose for creating earth, mankind, sexual human reproduction, and the new birth; how the resolution of the Story’s main conflict–and the prize for which its war rages–is the ultimate Good News, and what God is doing in this age to bring it about. It is not what most people think.
Reveals the meanings of God’s names in which lie what makes the Good News good.
Describes the nobility God planned and created us to live, and why we fall so short of what might have been.
Exposes the force that leaves all people spiritually and morally dead, the essential sin by which we insult God, and describes his actions by which only he can restore life.
Argues that God’s main activity is restoring people to our original image of him in a way that vindicates his own Name, and that by doing so he will prove himself to be the righteous and good Restorer of what he began in creation. This is the ultimate Good News, our essential hope. It answers Jesus’ prayer finally to vindicate and restore the Father’s Name, what matters most to both him and us.
Warns against any empty man-centered “gospel” that appeals mainly to human self-interest, that does not fully nourish with God-centeredness, only contributing to the spiritual and moral famine that is ravaging our nation by relegating God to the role of a sky Santa.
Invites pastors, Bible teachers, missionaries, theologians, and evangelists to ascertain, live, and teach God’s central purpose for relationship with humanity, the good news he has commissioned us to convey.
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Conquer Worry And Anxiety
$7.99You can overcome worry and anxiety today. It is possible to feel better fast–and to make it last.
Many people, mental health professionals included, think therapy needs to be long, hard, and painful–a lifelong commitment. And while some people will need help longer than others, it is often possible for people to start feeling better right now. If you engage in the right behaviors and strategies, you’ll optimize your brain health–and see the benefits in your everyday life.
In Conquer Worry and Anxiety, renowned psychiatrist Dr. Daniel G. Amen will guide you to lasting change, teaching you how to make decisions that serve your brain’s health and set you on a path to a happier, healthier life. Each of us can make small changes that, over time, create amazing results.
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Defy Your Diagnosis
$15.99Life can hit us hard.
The author of Defy Your Diagnosis! understands firsthand the heartache and disappointment that can be caused by life, broken relationships, career setbacks, illness, and chronic pain.
Lorraine knows she isn’t alone because forty-five percent of the population suffers from long-term illness and twenty-nine percent endure chronic pain, and it is a heavy load to carry. Having overcome two incurable diseases, Lorraine’s principles are what helped her defy her diagnosis, and she now wants to help others do the same.
With heart-felt compassion, encouragement, hope, and straight talk, the author shares about her life–its challenges and its victories. “I’ve learned when we are hit the hardest,” says Bosse-Smith,” that our growth and faith expands by leaps and bounds. We mature and become more real and true to ourselves.” The pain is still real, but the author talks candidly on how to get back up when life has knocked the wind out of them–how their pain can have a purpose. She then shows them how they, too, can defy THEIR diagnosis!
Through real-life stories and years of insights as a business and life coach, personal trainer, and professional speaker, the author shares her FIT Life Formula and reminds readers that what they are going through is only temporary and that they, too, can have personal and professional success by getting their life back!
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This Is Gods Table
$16.99This Is God’s Table tells the story of the people of God creating a garden and a community of faith in a deserted lot in Los Angeles. What happens when a group of people decide to plant a church–literally? What happens when a group of people decide to work, worship, and eat together and invite others to join them?
Can a barren city lot become a church?
This is the story of an audacious journey. It’s the story of what happens when people garden, worship, and eat together–and invite anyone and everyone to join them. In This Is God’s Table, writer and pastor Anna Woofenden describes the way that the wealthy and the poor, the aged and the young, the housed and unhoused become a community in this once-empty lot. Together they plant and sustain a thriving urban farm, worship God, and share a weekly meal. Together they craft a shared life and a place of authenticity where all are welcome. Readers of Nadia Bolz-Weber, Sara Miles, and Diana Butler Bass will find here a kindred vision for a church without walls.
As churches across the Western world wither, what would it take to find a raw, honest, gritty way of doing church–one rooted in place, nurtured by grace, and grounded in God’s expansive love? What would it take to carry the liturgy outside the gates? What if we were to discover that in feeding others, we are fed? This is God’s table. Come and eat.
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Exploring This Terrain
$21.00What is the terrain that Margaret Ingraham explores in Exploring This Terrain? It ranges from the Blue Ridge Mountains to Pluto. The path crosses the trails of memory and illness, the natural world and disintegration, and various parts unseen. Yet it stays, as Margaret says near the end of the book, in the ‘secret places of my brokenness.’ It is the beautiful landscape of wonder, the uneven country of love, the difficult ground of faith.
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Andalusian Hours : Poems From The Porch Of Flannery O’Connor
$20.00Andalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery O’Connor is a collection of 101 sonnets that channel the voice of celebrated fiction writer, Flannery O’Connor. In these poems, poet and scholar Angela Alaimo O’Donnell imagines the rich interior life Flannery lived during the last fourteen years of her life in rural Georgia on her family’s farm named “Andalusia.” Each poem begins with an epigraph taken from O’Connor’s essays, stories, or letters; the poet then plumbs Flannery’s thoughts and the poignant circumstances behind them, welcoming the reader into O’Connor’s private world. Together the poems tell the story of a brilliant young woman who enjoyed a bright and promising childhood, was struck with lupus just as her writing career hit its stride, and was forced to return home and live out her days in exile, far from the literary world she loved. By turns tragic and comic, the poems in Andalusian Hours explore Flannery’s loves and losses, her complex relationship with her mother, her battle with her illness and disability, and her passion for her writing. The poems mark time in keeping with the liturgical hours O’Connor herself honored in her prayer life and in her quasi-monastic devotion to her vocation and to the home she learned to love, Andalusia.
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I Shall Not Die
$11.95The year 2014 started with great promise. Author Cathy Dillard Byrum’s youngest son, Dan, had graduated college, had a new job, and was moving to a nearby town. Her oldest son, Derick, returned home after two years overseas and proposed to his girlfriend, Jill. Then came the news no one expects and everyone dreads. Cathy was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, and the prognosis was grim.
In I Shall Not Die, she narrates her story, including details about treatment, losing her hair, an emergency ride on a helicopter, and a stem cell transplant. Cathy offers an inside look at her battle with cancer, and she shares what it took for her to make it to her son’s wedding and beyond.
I Shall Not Die offers a brave, open memoir that focuses on Cathy’s experience with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, including how she dealt with it physically and emotionally. She tells how she stayed strong through the grace of God and the love of her family and friends. Her story serves to inspire others facing adversity.
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Gods Biker : Motorcycles And Misfits
$14.99The story of how Sean Stillman, a shy preacher’s son from Reading, started and led a long-term outreach to the motorcycle clubs and street people of Swansea.
Zac’s Place is a church in Swansea. It is a small chaotic community of Jesus followers where the most fragile of life’s walking wounded try to work out their faith, because they quite simply wouldn’t fit anywhere else. It’s also the spiritual home for the local chapter of the motorcycle club God’s Squad. Zac’s Place was founded in 1998 and for nearly twenty years has been led by Sean Stillman – a “painfully shy, nervous preacher’s kid” – whose front-line ministry, at Zac’s Place and on the road, has cost him dearly, including physical beating. In Zac’s Place, chaos and disorder sit alongside community and grace in an environment that sometimes resembles an AA meeting mixed with a casualty department.
This is Sean’s personal story of a transformed faith alongside the broken, the story of the church he started and the European-wide growth of an unlikely bunch of biker missionaries. The thread that will run through it is the ‘greater righteousness’ that Christ was looking for – what can happen when our concern for the perfect performance is stripped bare and replaced with poverty of spirit.
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Cursed With Common Sense
$11.95For many, it can be hard to believe. People can be skeptical about Jesus Christ and Christianity, or they can think that they just don’t have a good reason to believe. Yet so many of us can’t shake this feeling that we should try to understand God and what we believe about Him-but where do we start?
In Cursed with Common Sense, author Nicole Nelson shares her own journey from skepticism and doubt to faith in God. Through her stories, she hopes others can relate to her experiences as she walks with you through the questions she had-and still has-and how she got to the point that she found herself now: writing a book and sharing her faith with the world.
You can have common sense and faith in Jesus. Nicole will take you through her process of realizing that God is real and how it changed her life. Cursed with Common Sense won’t tell you what to do or what to think, but together you can explore these questions and arrive at your own faith.
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Broken Beyond Recognition
$31.23Do you need healing from the heartbreaking consequences of your past? Have intrusive memories, soul ties, and debilitating anger bombarded your thoughts, kept you in bondage and consumed your very soul?
Katherine takes you on a personal journey of her life, love, and losses. This is not a fairy-tale. It is a candid, courageous, real-life story of a woman broken beyond recognition. Childhood abuse and abandonment, drug addiction, prostitution, anger, and emotional distress form this narrative. But it is also dynamic evidence of the power of divine intervention.
Whether you are a sinner or saint suffering from trauma, haunted by your troublesome past, hurt by the people you trusted most, hooked on drugs and alcohol, searching for true love, behind the jailhouse bars or a “fly” girl devastated on the inside, this book can help you. The difficulties you face right now may be linked to your past, but your past doesn’t have to control your present or future.
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1 Yellow Door
$24.98“My dear Jack–before I met you my life seemed like a train pulling a trail of empty carriages, and then there you were, and suddenly most of them were full–with people and noise and laughter, with faith and vision and your extraordinary, electric vitality.”
“So now, my love, I know the worst. Your brain is shrinking inside your skull. You are going to disintegrate very slowly, mind and body. You will feel our loving in rags and your God absent and I will hold you to my breast and cradle the shell of your skull, for you will have gone, my lover, my dear one. But not quite.” “I know that I cannot bear the pain of Jack’s situation any longer, unrelieved. To survive and provide him with the buoyant atmosphere he wants, I have to have hopes and horizons beyond him. These horizons have included another person.”
When Rebecca de Saintonge’s husband Jack developed Lewy Body Dementia–an incurable degenerative brain disease–she faced the dual challenge of trying to keep the integrity of their relationship intact while also avoiding her own destruction within their diminishing world. She survived by taking a lover.
Through extracts from Rebecca’s journal, One Yellow Door explores the conflicting emotions and complex ethics of infidelity in marriage where one partner is severely disabled. It is about a re-thinking of traditional faith and the discovery of a new, deeper spirituality, and ultimately about the indestructibility of love.
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Father In The Wild
$14.99I’m a product of the American divorce rate. Nothing tragic. Nothing obscure or awful. Just good old-fashioned family failure. Then in my early adulthood, I found myself repeating the very same home I grew up in and assimilating into American statistics myself. In response to the wreckage, I began driving. When I thought I was at the end of it all, I discovered that I was really at the beginning of a grand adventure. I was off to find my father. And finding my father would lead to finding security.
Security is perhaps one of our greatest needs as humans. Romantics say love is our greatest need. Philosophers say knowledge is our greatest needs. Mystics say transcendence is our greatest need. But what if security is in-fact our greatest need? Who would we be as a people, as a church, and as a nation if we felt a sense of security in our lives? Not superficial security where life is predictable, but a sacred security. One that’s firm in our identity.
Affirmation by a father is something we all need, whether we want to admit it or not. Not having my father around in my most critical adolescent years created an insecurity in me that I eventually transferred over to my faith. I even transferred it over leaders and other authorities in my life. A breeding ground for insecurity. It wasn’t until I found the secrets of beauty and adversity, and found the Father in the wild, that I became healthy and whole.
This journey is an introspective look at faith and freedom, and finding a father, with crisis as a catalyst. It’s a journey across the wilderness of America, through prairies and mountains, across National Parks and along interstates, and ultimately the highways of the heart and mind.
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Journals Of Jim Elliot
$25.88Jim Elliot was a missionary–and then a martyr at the hands of the Auca Indians to whom he was witnessing. At the age of 29, he left behind a young wife, a baby daughter, and an incredible legacy of faith.
Jim’s volumes of personal journals, written over many years, reveal the inner struggles and victories that he experienced before his untimely death. In The Journals of Jim Elliot, you’ll come to know this intelligent and articulate man who yearns to know God’s plan for his life, details his fascinating missions work, and reveals his love for Elisabeth–first as a single man, then as a happily married one.
Edited by his widow, Jim’s personal yet universal musings about faith, love, and work will show you how to apply the Bible to the situations you face every day. They will inspire you to lead a life of obedience, regardless of the cost, and delight you with an amazing story of courage and determination.
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Where Is God In A Coronavirus World
$5.99How belief in a loving and sovereign God helps us to make sense of and cope with the coronavirus outbreak.
We are living through a unique, era-defining period. Many of our old certainties have gone, whatever our view of the world and whatever our beliefs. The coronavirus pandemic and its effects are perplexing and unsettling for all of us. How do we begin to think it through and cope with it?
In this short yet profound book, Oxford mathematics professor John Lennox examines the coronavirus in light of various belief systems and shows how the Christian worldview not only helps us to make sense of it, but also offers us a sure and certain hope to cling to.
Here’s why John Lennox wrote the book:
“This book consists of my reflections on what we are experiencing right now. I started writing it a week ago, and things have changed quickly since then and no doubt will do again…I would invite you, the reader, to view the book like this: we are sitting in a coffee shop (if only we could!) and you have asked me the question on the book cover. I put down my coffee cup and attempt to give you an honest answer. What follows is what I would try to say in order to convey some comfort, support and hope.”Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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When The World Stops
$15.99WHAT NOW?
When the World Stops is a timely yet timeless message for God’s people that provides practical tools for not only weathering this current crisis, but emerging from it with a strengthened faith and deeper appreciation for the things that matter most. Like a reassuring hand on your shoulder, Dr. Michael L. Brown helps point the way forward for those seeking answers to questions like:
Is this pandemic the final plague talked about in the Book of Revelation?
Are we indeed in the final days before Jesus’ return?
Who or what sent the virus?
How do I balance my family’s needs with the faith to live for Christ in crisis?
Should we submit to the government’s guidelines?
How can I steward my health in a biblical way?
Dr. Brown brings biblically sound and clear answers for staying healthy, living with wisdom, and maintaining your faith. As we move forward with wisdom in the power of the Holy Spirit, we must understand that “the darkness is the divine setup for the light. The sickness is the divine setup for the healing. The current crisis is the divine setup for the church to arise and shine and make a difference. We must seize this moment before it passes. We must milk it to the full, for the glory of God. Does your heart bear witness to my words?”This book will help you see how you can be the hands and feet of Jesus during this world’s dark hour. It provides a God Calibrated compass for the turbulent uncharted-waters we find ourselves in and sifts through the dizzying array of information regarding this current crisis, separating fact from fiction, prudence from pandemonium and faith from fear.
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Journey Back To The Soul Choosing Faith Over Fear
$15.99As she tells her story, Memarie Gayle leads readers on her personal journey toward finding God’s will for her life. She rose to prominence in the Country Music industry only to find the excitement of it too often replaced with disappointments, challenges, and heartache. Then her journey became even more difficult when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. The author holds nothing back in portraying her gripping story. Her honesty and resolve to find God’s purpose for her life will inspire you on your own journey.
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In The Company Of Men
$29.99Premise:
This true story started over 20 years ago at a simple Bible Study with six men. The men read passages about Christ returning to the Father and the imminent coming of the Holy Spirit.
Over the next 20 years, each man must confront his own crisis: the heartaches, the triumphs, the steps closer to the Holy Spirit, and the steps away. These unvarnished stories of life in the raw are all accurately told with no bows or ribbons.
The story is told by a seasoned trial lawyer where each account asks the “jury” (the reader) to render a “verdict”–not on the six men–but on whether the Holy Spirit is a source of guidance, peace and call-to-action for the reader.
In the process of reading the book and working through the Study Guide, the reader will:
*hear six real-life stories, each with painful twists and life-altering choices
*gain a useful understanding of how the Holy Spirit can work in the reader’s life
*experience unique insights into how men react in crisis and support one another
*hear a fresh, short-hand way, to discover and remember the role of the Holy Spirit in the reader’s life: DWJWD! – Do What Jesus Would Do!
*experience suspense, heartful emotions, and surprises along the way!
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Chickening IN : From Fear To Courageous Faith – 8 Pillars Of Transformation
$21.23Like the flip of a switch, Chickening IN created an epiphany or “God Moment.” Where there was once hopelessness, fear, and doubt . . . now there is new found hope, courage, and strength.
We live in an unpredictable, uncontrollable world where things change often, and fear can plant itself deeply within our hearts. Chickening IN is a practical approach to defeating the fear and doubt that is preventing us from becoming brave, bold women of God.
Do you long to overcome the fear and doubt that is sabotaging the life God has for you? Are you ready to grow in courage and put feet to your faith? You’ve come to the right place! I’d like to invite you to join me on a transformation journey to stop chickening out and start Chickening IN. By accepting my invitation you will embark into the land of transformation. A place where fear-filled lives can be reconstructed into courageous faith-filled lives. Chickening IN will require hard work and honest assessment, but I will lead you step by step through the eight pillars of Chickening IN that have changed my life and that can change your life, too!
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Good Tree : A History Of Saint Aidan’s
$25.99It was a project like no other. There was an energy right from the first meeting. Not everyone knew each other but it didn’t matter. No-one knew how to do this thing but that didn’t matter either.
In 1993, the Right Reverend Frank K. Allan, 8th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, was keeping an interested eye on the rapid development of a northern suburb known as Johns Creek. He began to think about the Christian souls who were settling there, putting down roots to begin a new life and raise their children in a new city. Where would they worship? How would they express their Christian faith? What could he do meet their needs?
The Good Tree is the story of a group of parishioners from Saint David’s Episcopal Church in Roswell who got together to build a mission church in nearby Alpharetta. Beginning with prayer and enthusiasm and guided by the inspirational Father Noel Burtenshaw, the founding of a new mission church was a deeply spiritual and yet very human journey for all concerned. The Good Tree describes that journey, from its unexpected beginnings, through the first twenty-five years of highs and lows, twists and turns, including the difficult period that followed the ordination of Canon Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire.
If you ever wondered how a church building comes to be in a particular place at a particular time, or if you are interested in exploring the expression of Christianity in the modern world, or if you are simply interested in reading an inspiring story about a group of ordinary people with a determined Christian purpose, then you will enjoy reading The Good Tree.
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Be Still Journal
$4.99Take a moment every day to feel at peace with the Be Still Flexcover Journal! Grab a cup of coffee and journal about dreams, plans, or what you’ve read in your Bible today. With its convenient size, this versatile journal is also great for grocery lists, to-do items, or even as a food journal that is easy to carry with you. Let the sentiment from Psalm 46 encourage you to find rest in God’s care daily. The stunning cover design has a dark background with dramatic flowers in shades of pale and dark pink. A burgundy adds even more drama to the design. The sentiment is printed in beautiful script lettering foiled in with copper. be still The heavy card stock cover has a high gloss. The journal holds a front presentation page to document a favorite occasion. The interior pages are all lined and have Scripture verses included for encouragement. Whether you will use this flexcover journal as a traditional journal or as a way to keep track of your to-do list, you’ll find excellent quality as well as dramatic beauty. Keep a few copies of the Be Still Flexcover Journal on hand to give as small gifts to friends or neighbors to let them know you’re thinking of them. Dark Background with Pink Floral Design Glossy Card Stock Cover Copper Foil Accents 128 Lined Pages Scripture on Each Page Presentation Page for Gift-giving Size: 8.5″ x 5.4″ x 0.4″ (210 x 137 x 10 mm)
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