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Someone Like Me
$14.99The teen years are a time of experimenting. You’re trying on different identities, different activities, seeing which ones fit the best. You might like to be known as a good student, or you may prefer to be known as an athlete. Maybe you’re carving out an identity as a loner, a leader, or a class clown.
Whatever your actions are, they tell others a lot about who you want to be. But God knows that there is more to you than what meets the eye and he cares for you, inside and out. These 31 days of devotionals-each with stories about teens, room to journal, relevant Scriptures, and thoughts to think about-will help you learn to care, too. They’ll also help you trust that, whatever choices you make, you can always find your identity in the one who made you and loves who you are.
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When Your People Are Grieving
$17.99This book calls upon pastors to embrace their positions of leadership and to be a means of grace and mercy to grievers during trying times. Harold Ivan Smith provides insight into the grieving process, giving pastors a better understanding of what to expect as they minister.
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Journey To The Center Of The Faith
$10.99In this book you will find one pastor’s attempt to talk about the Christian faith in ways that connect with a vast majority of people who, in a time of great extremes, are searching for a clear center to their faith – “an inner core of conviction and belief that will enable us to keep our balance in the whirling tornado of cultural change and confusion that threatens to engulf us.” As author James A. Harnish describes it, we are all ordinary people on an extraordinary journey toward a center that will hold true, a life-giving center defined by faith in God revealed through Jesus Christ. Each of the twelve chapters focuses on a central theme and features several quotations from scripture and other writings; colorful personal stories and anecodotes; questions, activities, and suggestions for better Christian living through putting the chapter’s theme into practice; and suggestioms for further reading.
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8 Life Enriching Practices Of United Methodists
$9.99This resource is a summary study of the eight life-enriching practices that are part of the series–prayer, Bible study, evangelism, community, worship and the sacraments, outreach, justice and others. Questions for discussion are included with each chapter.
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Preaching The Psalms
$20.99In recent years the church has rediscovered the Psalter as a source of inspiration and language for the praise of God in worship. Yet, in spite of this fact, the Psalms are often neglected in preparing for one of the central acts of worship:preaching. Even among those whose preaching follows the lectionary–with its weekly visit to the Psalter–many preachers assume that other texts will lend themselves better to the task of preaching. J. Clinton McCann and James C. Howell propose to address this perception by demonstrating that the Psalms offer the preacher broad and rich possibilities for the congregation’s engagement with Scripture in preaching. The book includes several sample sermons that will further clarify the author’s points regarding the Psalms as a source for Christian preaching.
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Beleaguered Rulers : The Public Obligation Of The Professional
$55.00Professionals today wield an enormous public power. Collectively, their decisions affect the patient’s plight, the client’s fate, the student’s future, the city’s scape, the earth’s sustainability, the worker’s fair treatment, and the durability of institutions great and small. Yet professionals did not perceive themselves as power wielders. They feel beleagured, marginal, insufficiently appreciated, often under seige. Thus they tend to obscure for themselves their obligations to the common good. This book explores eight professions as they struggle with their double identity – as a means to a livelihood and as a “common calling in the spirit of public service.” An interpretation of American culture emerges from its pages, as social critic William May opens up the ways in which each profession answers to something deep in the American spirit.
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Chesterton
$19.00Part of a literary circle that included H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Hillaire Belloc, and Max Beerbohm, G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) wrote essays of social criticism for contemporary journals, literary criticism (including notable books on Browning, Dickens, and Shaw), and works of theology and religious argument, but may have been best known for his Father Brown mysteries. Chesterton’s interest in Catholic Christianity, first expressed in Orthodoxy, led to his conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in 1922. This revised edition of Garry Wills’s finely crafted biography includes updates to the text and a new introduction by the author.
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Humor For A Womans Heart
$16.99There’s something about humor that refreshes and relaxes the soul.
Humor has the unique power to lift a heart to new heights, to heal the hurts of a bad day, and to infuse the soul with inspiration.
Samplings from some of your favorite authors and comedians including Patsy Clairmont, Martha Bolton, Mark Lowry, Carolyn Arends, and many more, will delight your feminine funny bone and tickle your female fancy.
Take a deep breath, inhale the joy, soak up the merriment, and you’ll surely find that your heart is lighter, your day brighter, and your soul hilariously refreshed.
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Matthew And Empire
$51.95In Matthew and Empire, Warren Carter argues that Matthew’s Gospel protests Roman imperialism by asserting that God’s purpose and will are performed not only by the empire and emperor but by Jesus and his community of disciples. Carter makes the claim for reading Matthew this way against the almost exclusive emphasis on the relationship with the synagogue that has long characterized Matthean scholarship. He establishes Matthew’s imperial context by examining Roman imperial ideology and material presence in Anitoch, the traditional provenance for Matthew. Carter argues that Matthean Christology, which presents Jesus as God’s agent, is shaped by claims-and protests against those claims-that the emperor and the empire are God’s agents.
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Everyday Evangelism : Making A Difference For Christ Where You Live (Revised)
$11.991. Telling The Story
2. A Passion For Evangelism
3. The World We Live In
4. Ordinary Christian Evangelists
5. Opportunities For Evangelism
6. Special Arenas For Evangelism
7. The Role Of Your Church
8. Training For Telling Your Story
9. The Use Of Mass Media
10. Ready To Serve
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Do you long to share your faith with the people around you? Do you wonder just what you should say or how you should act? Are you afraid that if you don’t “close the sale” and make a convert your witness is a failure?Everyday Evangelism addresses these questions and provides encouragement and practical suggestions on how you can share your faith within your circle of influence.
Using scripture and the words of contemporary evangelical leaders to support his ideas, author Randy Becton shares the insights he has gained from years of involvement in mass media evangelism, including:
*Simple steps for being an evangelistic tool in the lives of people you touch
*Six styles of evangelism, including confrontational, testimonial, and relational
*Common fears of failure and ways to overcome them
*Crises that lead to periods of opportunity for sharing God’s loveAdd to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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October Song (Reprinted)
$16.0012 Chapters
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Lancaster County is Cloaked in Autumn Splendor, and a Reunion Is in the AirAwakening to darkness, Katie, in a dreamy haze, thought surely she was back in her bedroom at Hickory Hollow, that it was time to “rise ‘n shine,” hurry into choring clothes, get out to the barn to help with the milking. But, as she lay there listening, ears attuned for her father’s call up the steps, she realized she was not a girl growing up in the Lapp home. She was a young married woman, curled up next to Dan, her sleeping husband. . .
From newlyweds Katie and Dan living in the shadow of the shunning, to Rachel and Philip embracing parenthood even as he acclimates to Amish life as an outsider. . . From the courtship of Lydia Cottrell and her betrothed, Levi King, to Sarah Cain, now a wife and mother struggling to bridge her own life with that of the People. . .October Song is overflowing with the simpler things of life that make a Lewis novel an unforgettable journey into the depths of the human heart.
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As One Without Authority (Revised)
$21.99“Not only did this book engrave the term “inductive preaching” into the working vocabulary of almost every preacher, it is fair to say that much of the last generation of homiletical scholarship has been a response to this seminal work.”
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Preaching Mark
$21.00This new resource examines the major literary units and unique perspective of Mark’s Gospel to help the pastor in sermon preparation. Thurston guides the reader through each of the lectionary readings, attempting to answer the questions: Why did Mark preserve this story” Why was it important for his community? And what does it mean for us today? Included in each chapter are suggestions for further reading, and appendices provide a list of the lectionary readings and an annotated bibliography. This volume makes accessible the wealth of materials Mark’s Gospel offers for Christian life and reflection.
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Luke : New Hope New Joy (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Good news. It was good news not only of Jesus’ birth but of what he offered to everyone throughout his ministry. To the sick he offered healing. To the hurting, comfort. To the outcast, acceptance. In this study guide you will discover that this message of hope and joy is for you as well. This revised LifeGuide Bible Study features additional questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, together with expanded leader’s notes and a “Now or Later” section in each study. 26 studies in 2 parts for individuals or groups.
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Equipping Church Guidebook
$29.99This is a hands-on ministry resource manual to help churches develop leaders and systems for lay mobilization. The approach is open-ended so that a variety of types and sizes of churches can use it. Charts and worksheets are included. The material has been tested through several years of use in churches that have received the privately distributed notebook format. Now updated and extensively revised, this volume serves as a practical companion to The Equipping Church. That book provides the philosophy and challenging vision for lay mobilization. This book provides the practical tools for implementation. Part 1 covers planning for lay mobilization. Part 2 covers building a lay ministry program. The markets include church staff members along with denominational leaders. It also is designed for use by lay leaders in churches who want hands-on help to mobilize the laity for ministry.
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Riona
$16.99Riona, a gentlewoman of faith, discovers that her plan to help the disadvantaged includes not only the plague orphans in her charge, but the arrogant, handsome adventurer who feels honor-bound to save her and her lands by marrying her_with or without her consent. Lord Kieran of Gleannmara depends on nothing and no one save his wit and skill with steel, but soon a deadly twist of fate forces him to acknowledge his need not only for the lady Riona and her worrisome entourage, but for her Lord as well.
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Stories For The Heart 3
$16.99Readers will continue to cherish the uplifting stories found in this third collection of Stories for the Heart, formerly released as Stories for a Kindred Heart. These touching selections-divided into the topics of friendship, encouragement, love, inspiration, family, memories, life, and faith-honor togetherness and celebrate relationships nurtured by time, laughter, and tears. Contributors include many of today’s most loved and respected Christian communicators. This treasury of more than one hundred tender stories satisfies the deep longing each of us has to have our heart entwined with another’s.
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Ultimate Improv Book
$20.95By Edward J. Nevraumont, Nicholas P. Hanson, with additional material by Kurt Smeaton. A complete guide to comedy improvisation. This comprehensive manual shows the who, what, when, why and how of comedy improvisation. It is a complete improv curriculum program divided into four sections. The introduction explains what improv is and how to create an improv team. Improvisational skills shows some basic rules, physicalization, characterization, teamwork, use of suggestion, etc. Structuring describes who, what and how to make improv structures, suggestion and reality based. Strategies gives hints and tips for evaluating performance and putting on a show. Unlike other improv books, it provides the tools that show how to structure and create you own new improv games. Also includes appendices with many games and exercises.
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Audition Monologs For Student Actors 2
$16.95Edited by Roger Ellis. Selections from contemporary plays. More outstanding cuttings from cutting-edge contemporary plays and playwrights. The monologs in this new text are highly original works not found in other published versions. All are from very recently produced plays from both established and emerging new writers. The fifty selections are for actors ten to twenty-four years of age, suitable for competitive auditions, forensics, oral interpretation or acting exercises. The collection is divided equally between male and female characters, with a variety of pieces for minority actors. These monologs address the major trends and conflicts of today through revealing glimpses of society as we know it. Includes the work of forty contemporary playwrights. A must for any audtioning actor or theatre student.
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Mystery Of Gods Will
$19.99We all face difficult decisions. How can we know that the decisions we make are in God’s will? Even popular author, pastor and Dallas Seminary President Charles Swindoll says at times he’s not been so sure. In The Mystery of God’s Will, Swindoll examines this long debated subject from a balanced, biblical perspective regarding his own doubts and experiences. For anyone who’s ever doubted God’s will, or for those who are convinced of it in every situation, this book will be a real eye-opener.
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Old Testament Documents
$30.99In this though-provoking book Walter C. Kaiser Jr. makes the case that the Old Testament documents are bothhistorically reliable and personally and socially relevant. He explores the origins, historically and genres of the Old Testament books, and in part four probes the relevance of the Old Testament for Christian faith today. In an epilogue he asks and answers the question, What is the Old Testament all about? Readers will also find a helpful glossary of terms at the back. The result is a probative book for all who face the challenges of reading and applying the Old Testament in today’s world.
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Earth Habitat : Eco Injustice And The Churchs Response
$21.00This single volume gathers theologians from around the world to address three pressing questions: How can Christianity and Christian churches rethink themselves and their roles in light of the endangered earth? What “earth-honoring” elements does justice- oriented Christianity have to contribute to the common good? And how can communities and churches respond creatively and constructively on a local level to these vast global forces? This volume captures the chief themes and presentations from the October 1998 conference on social justice, ecology, and church entitled “Ecumenical Earth” and held at Union Theological Seminary. Among the 18 contributors to this trailblazing conference are Rasmussen and Hessel, James Cone, Kusumita Pedersen, Brigitte Kahl, Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi, Steven Rockefeller, Havid Hallman, Ernst Conradie, Peggy Shepard, and Troy Messenger.
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Justice Men Owe Women
$16.00This new Sacred Energies volume shows how the world’s major religious traditions, though largely patriarchal, can also serve as a profound resource for redressing gender injustices. This reassessment must be taken up by men themselves. The heritage of our sacred texts speaks in a male voice and almost always to male advantage. Men therefore owe it to themselves to extricate themselves from this complicity and to ask, as does this book, how our scriptures, founding prophets, and ancestors can be used today to further justice in relations between the genders.
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Jesus The Savior
$38.00This highly readable and uncommonly reliable book is a product of deep and sustained reflection about the New Testament figure of Jesus Christ. It invites non-Christians to take a fresh look at Jesus and warns Christians of the dangers involved in being his desciple.
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Jesus In Johannine Tradition
$52.00Twenty Eight authors from a variety of backgrounds contribute essays concerning the distance, historically and theologically, between the Historical Jesus and the Gospel of John. Part 1 of this book discusses the issues related to the historical and ideological context in which the the 4th Gospel was produced. Part 2 explores the possibility of oral and written sources that the 4th Evangelist may have utilized. Part 3 compares the 4th Gospel with early noncanonical literature to identify various ways in which Jesus traditions were appropriated by early Christians.
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1-2 Timothy Titus (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99Deteriorating values. Competing religions. Do you feel like the world presents you with more problems than you can handle? Timothy and Titus faced all of these tough issues as young church leaders. But Paul encouraged them to put aside timidity and insecurity, and to find strength in Christ. In 1 & 2 Timothy & Titus we also find the support we need to follow through in obedience to God’s Word. This revised LifeGuide Bible Study features additional questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, together with expanded leader’s notes and a “Now or Later” section in each study.
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Divided By Faith
$38.31Through a nationwide telephone survey of 2,000 people and an additional 200 face-to-face interviews, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith probed the grassroots of white evangelical America. They found that despite recent efforts by the movement’s leaders to address the problem of racial discrimination, evangelicals themselves seem to be preserving America’s racial chasm. In fact, most white evangelicals see no systematic discrimination against blacks. But the authors contend that it is not active racism that prevents evangelicals from recognizing ongoing problems in American society. Instead, it is the evangelical movement’s emphasis on individualism, free will, and personal relationships that makes invisible the pervasive injustice that perpetuates racial inequality. Most racial problems, the subjects told the authors, can be solved by the repentance and conversion of the sinful individuals at fault.
the authors throw sharp light on the oldest American dilemma. In the end, they conclude that despite the best intentions of evangelical leaders and some positive trends, real racial reconciliation remains far over the horizon.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Decisions : Seeking Gods Guidance
$12.99Don Baker begins this guide by saying, “God has given me free will, and while I appreciate his confidence in my ability to choose, there are times when I wish that he would make the decisions for me.” Unfortunately, the Bible cannot give us the answer to every choice we face either. But the Bible does teach us how to make decisions. And these studies will help you to learn those principles and apply them to your life. This LifeGuide Bible Study in the new revised format features questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, as well as a new “Now or Later” section in each study.
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Hebrews : Race To Glory (Student/Study Guide)
$12.99At times we are all tempted to ask, “What’s the use?” We work and work as Christians and sometimes seem to get nowhere. That’s how the original readers of Hebrews felt. Yet the author of this letter cheers for them to stay on track and never quit, so they can reach the finish line by the power of Jesus Christ. Through these studies in Hebrews, you will also find the encouragement you need to stay in the faith race. This revised LifeGuide Bible Study features additional questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, together with expanded leader’s notes and a “Now or Later” section in each study. 13 studies for individuals or groups.
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Feeling Fooled : How To Stop Letting Your Negative Emotions Wreck Your Life
$20.49Read of Solveig. Share in this Norwegian immigrant’s true adventures and lifetime story. See how special an everyday common person’s life can be when dedicated early and diligently to Jesus. With God, ordinary and painful days can be filled with extraordinary blessings and miracles. Placing full trust in her Lord, miraculous healings, visions, and angelic interventions interrupt and impact her life. Petitioning God, going through opened doors, and trusting completely in Him are rewarded. Solveig’s life gives evidence of God’s awareness of and faithfulness to all of His children. Written as a legacy to her grandchildren, Solveig recounts a confused and disappointing childhood; the traumatic Nazi Occupation of Norway; meeting and marrying Arne; immigrating to America; and seasons of family growth, trials, lack, and loss. The evidence of God’s faithfulness to Solveig encourages others to choose and remain determined to follow God’s paths for their lives.
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Chasing Of The Wind
$14.99What Have You Been Chasing All Your Life? Like many for us, Danny DiAngelo grew up in church. He said he was saved, he even led others to Christ. But, inside his soul, DiAngelo was lost. He played the part of a Christian, at least in public, but he was chasing after everything but the knowledge of God. A popular musician, DiAngelo spent more than fifteen years preaching and performing with respected, well-known Christian ministries. But, his search for significance was all for naught, because he didn’t have a relationship with Jesus Christ.
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Word Among Us
$17.50An essential handbook for preachers and a lively, informed devotional companion for those who prepare for worship by reading the Scriptures, this commentary on the Principal Service readings for Year A offers: Variations in interpretation Background history Links between passages Theological significance Language sources Illustrative quotes
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Far From Home
$12.95Home. It’s where we all want to be. It’s where we find familiar faces and welcoming arms, unconditional love and a safe place to share our hearts. Yet those who look toward a heavenly habitat live their whole lives in a foreign place “far from home.”
Join FFH – Jeromy, Jennifer, Brian, and Michael – as they share stories from the road. Stories of faith challenged, of fears overcome, of hearts touched and souls won. Stories of the people they’ve met and the lessons they’ve learned as they tour America fulfilling their mission to reach as many people for Jesus Christ as they can, as quickly as they can. As you glimpse into the hearts and lives of these dedicated individuals, you will find new purpose and direction for your own life, and you’ll find yourself a little closer to home.
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Encountering Religious Pluralism
$35.99There’s nothing new about religious diversity. What has changed is the way we think about world religions. Netland examines the emerging pluralistic worldview now challenging traditional Christian faith and missions. His incisive analysis of the nature of religious truth gives you criteria for evaluating rival claims—and provides a framework for an evangelical theology of religions.
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Caso De La Fe – (Spanish)
$16.99In The Case for Faith, Strobel turns his tenacious investigative skills to the most persistent emotional objections to belief – the eight “heart” barriers to faith. The Case for Faith is for those who may be feeling attracted to Jesus but who are faced with formidable intellectual barriers standing squarely in their path. For Christians, it will deepen their convictions and give them fresh confidence in discussing Christianity with even their most skeptical friends. In The Case for Faith, Lee Strobel probes the most thorny of questions, what he calls “The Big Eight”, including: If there is a loving God, why does this world groan under so much suffering and evil? If God really created the universe, why does science compel so many to conclude that evolution account for life? If God is the ultimate overseer of the church, why has it been rife with hypocrisy and brutality through the ages? If God truly cares about the people he created, how could he consign so many of them to an eternity of torture in hell just because they didn’t believe the right things about him? As a seasoned journalist with Yale Law background, Strobel methodically tracks sown his leads and asks the gritty, gut-wrenching questions you would want to ask questions that can make or break the Christian faith. He refuses to patronize or offer cliched, glib answers. Instead, he pieces together heard facts trough interviews with nine of the country’s top scholars and experts. The result? Solid, persuasive, engrossing, and smart answers to your deepest questions. The Case for Faith will set you on the path to belief, renewed, restored – or discovered for the very first time.
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Gifted By Otherness
$22.95Gay and lesbian Christians are in the awkward position of trying to explain themselves to two mutually hostile audiences. On the one side, the gay-lesbian community is often deeply suspicious of anyone connected with Christianity. On the other side sits the church, which often wishes that gays and lesbians would go away, or at least disappear into the woodwork quietly. But the gay and lesbian community has a unique vocation in today’s church, one of challenging the church to be inclusive of all God’s children–the central message of the Gospel. Based on retreats they have presented to churches and seminaries, authors L. William Countryman and M.R. Ritley explore what it means to affirm, not merely accept, being gay or lesbian, as well as Christian. This pro-active and self-affirming book provides new hope for the lesbigay community, their families and their communities, confidently appropriating and re-telling the biblical story of this unique and gifted minority’s spiritual journey.
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Pocket Guide To Inner Peace
$12.00The rapid pace of life has most of us hungering for a deeper sense of peace. In this upbeat guide, Gary Egeberg combines healthy spirituality with practical suggestions for strengthening inner peace. Common obstacles such as fear, stress, anger, conflict, self-criticism, and the struggle to give and receive forgiveness are explored. Egeberg demonstrates that by activating a variety of peace tools – prayer, meditation, affirmations, rituals, journaling, and others – we discover simple and effective ways to reestablish and safeguard our own serenity.
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Fighting For Your African American Marriage
$26.95SKU (ISBN): 9780787955519ISBN10: 0787955515Keith Whitfield | Scott Stanley | Howard MarkmanBinding: Trade PaperPublished: September 2001Publisher: Jossey-Bass, Inc./Wiley Print On Demand Product
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