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Secret Keepers Of Old Depot Grocery
$15.99Add to cartPresent Day. After tragedy plunges her into grief and unresolved anger, Sarah Ashby returns to her childhood home determined to finally follow her long-denied dream of running Old Depot Grocery alongside her mother and grandmother. But when she arrives, her mother, Rosemary, announces to her that the store is closing. Sarah and her grandmother, Glory Ann, make a pact to save the store, but Rosemary has worked her entire life to make sure her daughter never follows in her footsteps. She has her reasons–but she’ll certainly never reveal the real one.
1965. Glory Ann confesses to her family that she’s pregnant with her deceased fiance’s baby. Pressured into a marriage of convenience with a shopkeeper to preserve the family reputation, Glory Ann vows never to love again. But some promises are not as easily kept as she imagined.
This dual-timeline story from Amanda Cox deftly explores the complexity of a mother-daughter dynamic, the way the secrets we keep shape our lives and the lives of others, and the healing power of telling the truth.
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Live No Lies
$26.00Add to cartThe bestselling author of The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry equips readers to recognize and resist the lies that seek to rob them of peace and freedom.
We are at war. Not with a foreign government or domestic terrorists or a creepy new artificial intelligence hell-bent on taking over the world. No, it’s a war we feel deep inside our own chests: we are at war with lies.
The problem isn’t so much that we tell lies but that we live them. We let them into our bodies, and they sabotage our peace. All around us in the culture and deep within our own body memories are lies: deceptive ideas that wreak havoc on our emotional health and spiritual well-being, and deceptive ideas about who God is, who we are, and what the good life truly is.
The choice is not whether to fight or not fight, but whether we win or surrender.
Ancient apprentices of Jesus developed a paradigm for this war; they spoke of the three enemies of the soul: the devil, the flesh, and the world. Live No Lies taps into this ancient wisdom from saints of the Way and translates the three enemies for the modern era, with all its secularism and sophistication. As a generation, we chuckle at the devil as a premodern myth, we are confused by Scripture’s teaching on the flesh in an age where sensual indulgence is a virtue not a vice, and we have little to no category for the New Testament concept of the world.
In this provocative and practical book, bestselling author John Mark Comer combines cultural analysis with spiritual formation. He identifies the role lies play in our spiritual deformation and lays out a strategic plan to overcome them.
Do you feel the tug-of-war in your own heart, the inner conflict between truth and lies? The spirit and the flesh? The Way of Jesus and the world? It’s time to start winning. It’s time to live no lies…
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And The Glory Of God Shone Around Them
$5.99Add to cartPrepare yourself this Christmas to celebrate the real reason for the season!
Beginning with the first Sunday of Advent, And the Glory of God Shone Around Them Advent Devotional takes the reader through the entire Christmas season with twenty-one devotionals organized around the four weekly themes of Advent.
Through short, engaging reflections on hope, peace, joy, and love, combined with the beauty and relevance of The Passion Translation(R), you will find the inspiration you need to celebrate God’s gift to the world throughout your week.
Each devotional follows the inspiring journey of the main characters of the Christmas story and offers an Advent prayer, making them perfect for personal, family, or small-group use. Scripture readings from The Passion Translation will give you greater insights in your journey toward Bethlehem.
This devotional and fresh version of God’s Word will kindle and inspire your faith in the one who came to rescue us and will come again to create us anew!
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Bible Large Print Word Search (Large Type)
$9.99Add to cartPacked with over 200 Bible-themed brain-boosting large print word search puzzles, this collection of unique challenges is designed to keep your mind sharp and thoroughly entertained! Keep your brain fit by searching vertically, diagonally, forwards, and backward in pursuit of hidden words from an array of faith-based themes including the birth of Jesus, the life of Jesus, and more! Help improve memory and focus by completing a new word search puzzle challenge every day! A perfect faith-based gift to celebrate religious sacraments, holidays, and more!
*OVER 200 PUZZLES & SOLUTIONS Keep your brain fit with over 200 large print word search puzzles for hours of fun and entertainment! An array of unique Christian faith-based themes including the birth of Jesus, the life of Jesus, and more!
*LARGE PRINT Big print text is easy-to-read and giant grids make it simple to circle and complete. This word-finder book contains 16 to 20 words per puzzle with each puzzle is on its own page
*LAY FLAT Spiral-bound lays flat for ease of use at home or on the go. Easily transportable for on-the-go entertainment!
*EXERCISE YOUR BRAIN Challenges designed to keep you sharp! Word search puzzle books for adults help improve memory, vocabulary, and focus
*MAKES A GREAT GIFT For novice to intermediate, this word search book makes a great biblical faith-based gift or is perfect for a fun church group activity!
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Cowboy Bible Verses DayBrightener
$11.99Add to cartThis Cowboy Bible Verses perpetual calendar allows you to experience the cowboy’s legacy through the Bible’s deep wisdom. Long working ranch cowboy, Kevin Weatherby combines traditional cowboy values: Courage, honesty, respect, integrity, strength, and truth in this 366 day flip calendar. You’ll be inspired by the word of God, while you grow in your relationship with Jesus. The perfect addition to your home or office.
366 inspirational quotes and messages
Padded cover
Spiral binding
Built in easel stand
Measures: 5.5″ x 5.5″
From DaySpring
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My First Storybook Bible
$15.99Add to cartLooking for a fun way to introduce your young children (ages 5 and under) to some of the main stories in God’s Word? Look no further than My First Storybook Bible!
With 27 of the most well-known stories from the Bible, spanning from creation to the early church, My First Storybook Bible will provide hours of enjoyment and learning. Friendly, colorful illustrations and simple, engaging stories will capture children’s attention and hearts and help to lay a foundation for a lifelong faith.
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Clopper The Christmas Donkey
$11.99Add to cartMy name is Clopper. Nuzzle up while I tell you about a very special night. It all began early one morning as I was munching on a breakfast of sweet grass . . .
This little donkey thought the journey to Bethlehem with Mary and Joseph was too hard to be worth it. But what happened after they settled into the dusty stable was more wonderful than anything he could ever imagine! Children will love this creative retelling of the first Christmas–told through the eyes of Clopper the donkey! This best-selling title, now in a perfectly sized padded hardcover, offers a unique look at the events of Jesus’s birth. From the long and tiring journey to Bethlehem to the quiet of the stable, from the miraculous birth of a child to the nighttime visits of shepherds and kings, the lovable donkey narrates the story with awe and wonder.
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Egermeiers Interactive Story Bible
$22.99Add to cartWith a proven track record of over 6 million copies sold, Egermeier’s(R) Bible Storybook has been a favorite for generations. The Egermeier’s(R) Interactive Story Bible now brings the Bible to life with new colorful illustrations and an entire series of quick-sketching videos that tell the stories as they magically appear on the screen. Readers now have the choice to read the stories or to watch them being drawn before their very eyes! Egermeier’s(R) Interactive Story Bible is a chronological journey through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation with text that gleans the best of each story without being watered down. With Scripture references and several discussion questions conveniently located at the end of each story, this new story Bible is the ideal teaching tool for Sunday school teachers and parents alike. Biblical literacy is a gift to our kids that lasts a lifetime. The challenge is making it relatable to them. Now the presentation of the gospel found in the Egermeier’s(R) Interactive Story Bible is more engaging than ever!
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Promises And Blessings KJV Version DayBrightener
$11.99Add to cartFlip a page and be encouraged! Perpetual calendar for your desk or kitchen counter features inspirational thoughts and Scripture verses from KJV. Spiral bound with a cardboard stand-up easel for easy display. Calendar measures 5 1/4 x 4 5/8.
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Christmas Quest
$9.99Add to cartLong ago, wise men from the east spotted a new star in the heavens. They wondered, Can it be? Is this star announcing the arrival of the King of the Jews? There was only one way to find out-to journey to Jerusalem! The Christmas Quest is an energetic, rhyming board book that invites children ages 4-8 to accompany the wise men and their entourage on their epic treasure hunt. True to the historical realities of the time period, there will be bandits, beasts, and bugs to brave along with sunny, scorching sandstorms to weather. Yet, the long and hard adventure will certainly be worth it because the star is leading them to the greatest treasure of all: Jesus!
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My Reading Life
$19.99Add to cartThis stylish journal created exclusively for book lovers includes custom reading lists, charming literary quotes, and plenty of room to record what you’ve read and what you’d love to read.
“Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.”-Toni Morrison
Designed by a book lover for book lovers, My Reading Life is the ideal companion for all your literary adventures.Anne Bogel, better known online as The Modern Mrs. Darcy, provides you with insightful reading lists for every popular genre and each season. She even helps you determine the kinds of books you’d most like to read based on your interests. You’ll also appreciate the sleek, compact design, perfect for taking on the go to the library, bookstore, or your next book club gathering.
So much more than just a journal, this book is a joyful celebration of the written word, one that will significantly enrich every day of your reading life.
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Get Your Life Back
$18.99Add to cartA REFRESHINGLY SIMPLE GUIDE TO RECOVER YOUR LIFE
!In Get Your Life Back, New York Times bestselling author John Eldredge provides a practical, simple, and refreshing guide to taking your life back.
By practicing a few wonderfully simple practices-or what John calls “graces”-you can begin to recover your soul, disentangle from the tragedies of this broken world, and discover the restorative power of beauty.
Ask yourself:
*Are you happy most of the time?
*Do you feel deeply loved?
*Are you excited about your future?
*How often do you feel lighthearted?After reading this book you will…
*Learn how to insert the One Minute Pause into your day
*Begin practicing “benevolent detachment” and truly let it all go
*Offer kindness toward yourself in the choices you make
*Drink in the simple beauty available to you every day
*Take realistic steps to unplug from technology overloadThese simple practices and others are ready for the taking. You don’t need to abandon your life to get it back. Begin restoring your life here and now. Your soul will thank you for it.
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Heart Of Splendid Lake
$16.99Add to cartBrianna is the youngest of the three Porter sisters and the only one who chose to stay in the small town of Splendid Lake, North Carolina. She followed in her father’s footsteps and became an expert boat mechanic, helping him run their small resort with cabin rentals, a convenience store, and a marina.
When Brianna’s father unexpectedly dies, Brianna is steeped in grief and guilt-then left alone to clean up the mess. To make matters worse, a constant stream of real estate brokers begins marching through her property, offering to buy the family land. In particular, she keeps running into handsome real estate mogul Scott Gibson.
As Brianna struggles to keep it all together, Scott finds his way into her heart. And as the two fight against their feelings, they just might find themselves forging a surprising and exciting new love at Splendid Lake.
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Revolutionary Disciple : Walking Humbly With Jesus In Every Area Of Life
$24.99Add to cartIs It Time for Another Revolution?
Seismic culture shifts leave Christians wondering how to effect lasting change. While the Bible calls disciples of Jesus to humility, they often display pride. Pride is the enemy of discipleship on every level, and it keeps disciples from making an impact for the kingdom.
What is the way forward?
In The Revolutionary Disciple, Jim Putman and Chad Harrington offer clear guidance for navigating cultural changes with humility. They walk readers through the Five Spheres of Discipleship and unveil their four core practices of humility along the way. A tapestry of Scripture and stories, this book uncovers the path to ultimate peace for Christians who want a cultural revolution.
Take ground for your church, your family, and the kingdom.
Bridge the gap between the call to follow Jesus and the commission to make disciples of Jesus.
Join the revolution.
Learn to walk humbly with Jesus in every area of life.
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Hard Good : Showing Up For God To Work In You When You Want To Shut Down
$18.99Add to cartThe Hard Good shows why the divine road that leads to God’s perfect plan for our lives is often paved with difficulties.
At our very core is the desire to be God’s woman or man-faithful, having fulfilled the potential God created in us. To reach that point, sometimes we have to endure hard things, things God has designed for good, to supernaturally shape us into the people he wants us to be. When we choose to accept the “hard good,” we discover our life’s purpose, and he promises to give us the joy and passion as our deepest longing is fulfilled.
The hard good is a powerful path to growth, as you learn to:
*accept things you wish were different
*apologize and forgive first
*come clean (repentance)
*give up the now for the best
*stay in the journey
*cheer for someone who has what you want
*open your heart, even when it’s been hurt
*tell yourself noThe Hard Good is a poignant and practical roadmap to help you find God’s true purpose for your life-a study in becoming the person God uniquely created you to be. With counsel from Scripture, which speaks into relevant and universal issues that touch each one of us, The Hard Good inspires and motivates you to discover the growth you have long desired as you search for your purpose in God’s perfect plan.
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Song In My Heart
$18.99Add to cartThe lyrics of our favorite hymns are rich in images that can help us in our daily walk with God–they are miniature Bible studies that lead us effortlessly toward worship, testimony, exhortation, prayer, and praise. Bestselling author Robert J. Morgan has gathered 366 hymns, including favorites such as “Amazing Grace” and “Rock of Ages,” as well as classic, lesser-known gems. Each devotional begins with Scripture, includes a story about the hymn or its writer, along with the lyrics to the hymn, and ends with a prayer. Includes an index of hymn titles and first lines.
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Clever Cub And The Easter Suprise
$5.99Add to cartClever Cub is a curious little bear who LOVES to cuddle up with the Bible and learn about God.
Papa and Mama Bear tell Clever Cub the exciting story of Easter morning when Jesus Christ rose from the dead and gave us the best surprise of all!
This engaging picture book:
*Tells the story of Jesus’s resurrection from Matthew 28.
*Helps children ages 3-6 discover the joyful surprise of Easter morning.
*Includes questions about the story’s theme and ideas for learning more in the Bible.Clever Cub and the Easter Surprise is part of the delightful Clever Cub children’s book series. Also check out Clever Cub Explores God’s Creation, Clever Cub Sings to God, Clever Cub Gives Thanks to God, Clever Cub Welcomes Baby Jesus, and Clever Cub Learns about Love.
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Everyday Prayers For Women
$9.99Add to cart365 Daily Prayers for Your Heart
This unique daily devotional-like volume features timeless prayers and scripture selections that will touch your heart. Each day’s reading is complemented by a lovely, full-color design in a beautiful package. Everyday Prayers for Women promises to be an endless source of encouragement and blessing for years to come!
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Transforming Loneliness : Deepening Our Relationships With God And Others W
$20.00Add to cartLoneliness knows no season. It can strike during times of busyness and a full social calendar just as easily as it can when plans are canceled and friends are far off. And we may be surprised just how common loneliness is among our friends, family, and colleagues. But it isn’t inevitable and it isn’t forever. As a single adult for many years, Ruth Graham understands loneliness.
In Transforming Loneliness, Graham invites you to surrender your loneliness to God and work with him in making healthy choices that lead to life, joy, and community. Through biblical principles and examples, along with true-life stories, you will discover how the core needs that drive your loneliness–the need to be known, to be chosen, to belong, and to be valued–can be met as God transforms your loneliness into a positive experience that accomplishes his purposes and draws you into a closer, more intimate, and more meaningful relationship with him and others.
Loneliness is not the last word. God designed you for connection, and through his power you will find it. Includes a reader’s discussion guide and the UCLA Loneliness Survey.
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Bible In 52 Weeks For Men
$16.99Add to cartLearn to live the lessons of the Bible for a more devoted, inspired year
Using the Bible to apply God’s lessons to everyday life is an integral part of being a Christian man. With The Bible in 52 Weeks for Men, you can develop a rewarding and lasting relationship with God. With in-depth lessons and practical applications tailored to men’s lives, you will cultivate a richer connection with God and His teachings over the course of a year. Get closer to Him with exercises and reading guides that walk you through each part of the Scripture.
Use this Bible study guide for:
*Manageable readings–With lessons that take just 15 to 20 minutes daily, you can create a routine for embracing God’s Word no matter how busy your schedule gets.
*Practical prompts–Contemplate God’s teachings and reinforce your commitment to Him with journal exercises that inspire reflection on relevant topics, like relationships, family, work, and health.
*Group discussion tools–Deepen your faith with your fellow Christians with prompts and thought-starters designed for larger groups.
Strengthen your connection with God and bring His Word into your life with The Bible in 52 Weeks for Men.
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Reflect : Becoming Yourself By Mirroring The Greatest Person In History
$19.99Add to cartWhat’s the most important thing in the universe to you? What, more than anything else, permeates your thought life, pulls your heart strings, and propels your actions? Don’t fool yourself. That supreme something-whatever it may be for you-is shaping the person you are becoming, for better or for worse, turning you into someone radiant and full of life, or making you a dim and weightless ghost of yourself. But what if we worshipped Jesus? Not the imaginary Jesus invented by televangelism, consumerism, fundamentalism, mysticism, or some political ism, but the actual Jesus we meet in the New Testament? How can he, unlike any other object of worship, enlarge our intellects, our emotions, our actions, our relationships, our imaginations, our whole selves? Drawing from science, literature, art, theology, history, music, philosophy, pop culture, and more, Thaddeus J. Williams paints a fresh and inspiring vision of how we become most truly ourselves by mirroring the Greatest Person in History.
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Lighthouse Effect : How Ordinary People Can Have An Extraordinary Impact In
$29.99Add to cartIn this stirring follow-up to his memoir, Steve Pemberton gives practical encouragement for how you can be a “human lighthouse” for others and through these inspiring stories will renew your hope for humanity.
Our polarized, divisive culture seems to be without heroes and role models. We are adrift in a dark sea of disillusionment and distrust and we need “human lighthouses” to give us hope and direct us back to the goodness in each other and in our own hearts.
Steve Pemberton found a lighthouse in an ordinary man named John Sykes, his former high school counselor. John gave Steve a safe harbor after Steve escaped an abusive foster home and together they navigated a new path that led to personal and professional success. Through stories of people like John and several others, you will identify how the hardships you have overcome equip you to be a “human lighthouse,” inspiring those around you.
The humble gestures of kindness that change the course of our lives can shift the course for America too. With a unique vision for building up individuals and communities and restoring trust, The Lighthouse Effect opens your eyes to those who are quietly heroic. You will reflect on the lighthouses in your own life and be reminded that the greatest heroes are alongside us–and within us.
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Between Heaven And Hell
$18.99Add to cartOn November 22, 1963, three great men died within a few hours of each other: C. S. Lewis, John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley. All three believed, in different ways, that death is not the end of human life. Suppose they were right, and suppose they met after death. How might the conversation go? Peter Kreeft imagines their discussion as part of the great conversation that has been going on for centuries about life’s biggest questions. Does human life have meaning? Is it possible to know about life after death? What if one could prove that Jesus was God? With Kennedy taking the role of a modern humanist, Lewis representing Christian theism and Huxley advocating Eastern pantheism, the dialogue is lively and informative. With clarity and wit, Between Heaven and Hell presents insightful responses to common objections to the Christian faith. This classic apologetics work is now available as part of the IVP Signature Collection, which features special editions of iconic books in celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of InterVarsity Press.
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Manchester Christmas : A Novel
$16.99Add to cartA young writer is drawn to a small New England town in search of meaning for her life. Soon, she encounters kindness, romance, and is pulled into a mystery centered on an old, abandoned church and the death of a special girl. Are the images that only she can see in the church’s stained-glass windows a warning, or is someone trying to reach her, to help heal this broken community? Manchester Christmas illustrates how God often uses the most unlikely among us to spread grace and healing in a wounded world. Full of love, hope, and forgiveness, this debut novel from an Emmy-winning writer will touch your heart and have you longing for Christmas in Manchester.
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Christmas At The Amish Bakeshop
$15.95Add to cartUSA Today bestselling authors Shelley Shepard Gray, Rachel J. Good, and Loree Lough celebrate the spirit of the season, the warmth of simple traditions, and of course, the joy of holiday treats, with this faith-affirming collection of three connected holiday novellas about the Christmas surprises in store for those who work and shop at a charming Amish bakery.
As the most joyful holiday draws near, three couples discover the recipe for love includes faith, hope, and the sweetest blessings…
A CHRISTMAS CAKE FOR REBECCA by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Shelley Shepard Gray
When carpenter Aden returns to Lancaster after twenty years away, bakeshop owner Rebecca is dismayed to find he’s still as handsome and kind as ever. He broke her heart when he left the community back then. Will a holiday emergency provide a second chance at love, this time forever?
BEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT EVER by USA Today Bestselling Author Rachel J. Good
When a lonely widower with a sick daughter and a new cake decorator meet at the bakeshop, they discover they were once childhood playmates. But as each of them helps the other care for family, their neighborly kindness inspires a gift that only love could make possible…
THE CHRISTMAS CUPCAKE by USA Today Bestselling Author Loree Lough
A builder who never learned to read believes he must hide his fond feelings for a kind schoolteacher. But after they run into each other at the bakeshop, she offers to teach him–and as Christmas approaches, each of them learns a lesson about the great gift of love…
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Well Laugh About This Someday
$18.99Add to cartFrom popular humor writer and social media sensation Anna Lind Thomas comes an essay collection that is sure to make you laugh, cry, and cry from laughing as you discover how to take life a smidge less seriously.
The woman known for the viral story “The Fart That (Almost) Altered My Destiny” brings her endearing brand of anything-goes, slapstick humor to her first book, We’ll Laugh About This (Someday). Whether she’s coping with the “hysteria bandwagon” that permeates social media; recounting the time her epidural worked a little too well; or sharing about the night she and her husband panicked over a suspected intruder–what do we do with our hands?–only to discover the loud noise that had pierced the night came from their kids’ toys falling in the bathtub, Anna Lind Thomas is deft at telling the truth as she sees it, even if it later proves to be a wee bit of an overreaction.
In her down-to-earth style, Thomas pokes fun at herself–her propensity to dispense questionable dating advice to friends, including the time she urged her former prom date to break up with the singer who would later become Lady Gaga (oops), and her parenting paranoia, realized after buying nearly every child safety product known to humankind. Readers will savor her emotional, faith-filled inspiration and will appreciate her reminder not to take life too seriously. After all, she says, sweating the big stuff and the small stuff only produces a life full of sweating, which is a real problem since apparently deodorant can give us breast cancer.
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Give It To God And Go To Bed
$16.99Add to cartStudies show that sleep plays a vital role in reducing stress, improving health, and increasing productivity. But what happens if you’re overcome by deadlines, stress, fear, or insomnia?
In Give It to God and Go to Bed, naturopathic doctor Laura Harris Smith offers practical help on how you can increase in prayer, bolster faith, and sleep better. She will make you aware of the harmful spiritual, emotional, and physical effects of what is keeping you awake and lead you to a place of peace where you will learn to hear God speak to you as you rest, and discover how to speak back through various avenues of prayer. The entire book takes place in your bedroom, with chapters like:
– The Treasures in Your Bedroom (rest, dreams)
– The Monsters in Your Closet (familiar spirits)
– The Weapons under Your Pillow (prayer, sleep)
– The Junk under Your Bed (fear, unforgiveness)
– The Morning After (interpreting your dreams)
– Laura’s free “10 Days to a Lifetime of Deeper Sleep and Dreams” program with videos!
Where there is no sleep, there are no dreams; where there is fear, there is no faith; and where there is stress, there is no peace. It’s time for you to Give It to God and Go to Bed! -
Give It To God And Go To Bed
$29.99Add to cartStudies show that sleep plays a vital role in reducing stress, improving health, and increasing productivity. But what happens if you’re overcome by deadlines, stress, fear, or insomnia?
In Give It to God and Go to Bed, naturopathic doctor Laura Harris Smith offers practical help on how you can increase in prayer, bolster faith, and sleep better. She will make you aware of the harmful spiritual, emotional, and physical effects of what is keeping you awake and lead you to a place of peace where you will learn to hear God speak to you as you rest, and discover how to speak back through various avenues of prayer. The entire book takes place in your bedroom, with chapters like:
– The Treasures in Your Bedroom (rest, dreams)
– The Monsters in Your Closet (familiar spirits)
– The Weapons under Your Pillow (prayer, sleep)
– The Junk under Your Bed (fear, unforgiveness)
– The Morning After (interpreting your dreams)
– Laura’s free “10 Days to a Lifetime of Deeper Sleep and Dreams” program with videos!
Where there is no sleep, there are no dreams; where there is fear, there is no faith; and where there is stress, there is no peace. It’s time for you to Give It to God and Go to Bed! -
Secret Keepers Of Old Depot Grocery
$29.99Add to cartPresent Day. After tragedy plunges her into grief and unresolved anger, Sarah Ashby returns to her childhood home determined to finally follow her long-denied dream of running Old Depot Grocery alongside her mother and grandmother. But when she arrives, her mother, Rosemary, announces to her that the store is closing. Sarah and her grandmother, Glory Ann, make a pact to save the store, but Rosemary has worked her entire life to make sure her daughter never follows in her footsteps. She has her reasons–but she’ll certainly never reveal the real one.
1965. Glory Ann confesses to her family that she’s pregnant with her deceased fiance’s baby. Pressured into a marriage of convenience with a shopkeeper to preserve the family reputation, Glory Ann vows never to love again. But some promises are not as easily kept as she imagined.
This dual-timeline story from Amanda Cox deftly explores the complexity of a mother-daughter dynamic, the way the secrets we keep shape our lives and the lives of others, and the healing power of telling the truth.
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Evangelism : How To Share The Gospel Faithfully
$29.99Add to cartPaul’s challenge to Timothy 2,000 years ago remains a clarion call for pastors today: “Do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry” (2 Tim 4:5). Because evangelism is the central work of a Christian’s life, there is a great need for pastors to understand what evangelism is and what makes it effective. Much of modern evangelical culture has become memorized conversations, pre-packaged formulas, and programmatic approaches that serve as poor substitutes for the simple proclamation of the gospel. In Evangelism: How to Share the Gospel Faithfully, John MacArthur along with pastors, missionaries, and church planters from Grace Community Church give the summons to return to the basics.
Evangelism covers four primary topics:
*Theological presuppositions and biblical foundations of evangelism
*Evangelism from a pastoral perspective
*One-on-one witnessing
*How outreach fits into and shapes the activities of the local churchYou’ll learn theological principles of sharing the gospel and practical approaches to incorporating outreach into your life, including specialized areas, like:
*Sharing the gospel with children and youth
*Witnessing to those with special needs
*Working with people suffering from addiction
*Immigrant outreach International missionsThere is an urgent need for the gospel in today’s fallen world. This insightful guide to biblical evangelism will ignite your passion and equip you to spread the gospel faithfully from your pulpit, in your church, and within your community.
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Isaiah 34-66 (Revised)
$44.99Add to cartThe Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology. These widely acclaimed commentaries serve as exceptional resources for the professional theologian and instructor, the seminary or university student, the working minister, and everyone concerned with building theological understanding from a solid base of biblical scholarship.
Overview of Commentary Organization
*Introduction–covers issues pertaining to the whole book, including context, date, authorship, composition, interpretive issues, purpose, and theology.
*Each section of the commentary includes:
*Pericope Bibliography–a helpful resource containing the most important works that pertain to each particular pericope.
*Translation–the author’s own translation of the biblical text, reflecting the end result of exegesis and attending to Hebrew and Greek idiomatic usage of words, phrases, and tenses, yet in reasonably good English.
*Notes–the author’s notes to the translation that address any textual variants, grammatical forms, syntactical constructions, basic meanings of words, and problems of translation.
*Form/Structure/Setting–a discussion of redaction, genre, sources, and tradition as they concern the origin of the pericope, its canonical form, and its relation to the biblical and extra-biblical contexts in order to illuminate the structure and character of the pericope. Rhetorical or compositional features important to understanding the passage are also introduced here.
*Comment–verse-by-verse interpretation of the text and dialogue with other interpreters, engaging with current opinion and scholarly research.
*Explanation–brings together all the results of the discussion in previous sections to expose the meaning and intention of the text at several levels: (1) within the context of the book itself; (2) its meaning in the OT or NT; (3) its place in the entire canon; (4) theological relevance to broader OT or NT issues.
*General Bibliography–occurring at the end of each volume, this extensive bibliographycontains all sources used anywhere in the commentary.
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In The Morning Late
$16.99Add to cartThe In the Morning Light Prayer Book lets you express your hopes and heartaches to God through prayer. Daily life brings a range of emotions, questions, concerns, and challenges with it, and sometimes it’s difficult to know what to pray for. In the Morning Light offers 365 days of prayer to help you connect with God by getting to the very heart of what you want to say to him.
The pearlized cream-colored faux leather cover of this prayer book is decorated with green leaves and yellow flowers accented in gold foil. The title is gold-foiled and presented in the center of the front cover. The subtitle is shown in small green block letters.
In the Morning Light
365 prayers for daily wisdom and guidanceThe book’s edges are topstitched for durability, and the page edges are gilt-edged to protect against moisture and dust. The interior pages are printed in two colors, and a green satin ribbon marker is included to keep your place. A presentation page lets you personalize the prayer book by adding a name and a short message.
An introduction to the prayer book explains how to use the book. There are 365 prayers arranged by days and topics. You may read through the pages consecutively or wish to use the index in the back of the book to find a specific topic. Most weekdays have longer prayers followed by two days with shorter prayers. Prayer topics include spiritual growth, accomplishments, potential, accountability, letting go, expectations, creativity, and many more.
The privilege of prayer is that it ushers us straight into the presence of God. In the Morning Light will do just that and will not disappoint. Give the In the Morning Light Prayer Book to a friend who is new to the faith and needs encouragement in her prayer life or present it to a prayer warrior as a thank you gift this Christmas.
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Mystery Of Israel And The Middle East
$19.00Add to cartPages are turning on God’s prophetic calendar, approaching the mysterious day when his Son will step once again into the world of time and space. What is the key to this fulfillment? The answer is Israel. And the controversy over her destiny affects every nation on earth.
In his urgent plea for intercessory prayer, James W. Goll calls readers to join the global prayer movement and intercede for God’s ancient covenant people according to a targeted biblical plan. The Mystery of Israel and the Middle East includes scriptural reasons to pray and stand for Israel, eight character models from the Bible to help readers carry the burden, and a strong admonition to pray for all the descendants of Abraham–the offspring of Hagar, Sarah, and Keturah, Jews and Arabs alike.
Join with intercessors worldwide to pray for Israel and watch as God fulfills his promises through her!
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Your Brains Not Broken
$18.99Add to cartIf you have ADHD, your brain doesn’t work in the same way as a “normal” or neurotypical brain does because it’s wired differently. You and others may see this difference in circuitry as somehow wrong or incomplete. It isn’t. It does present you with significant challenges like time management, organization skills, forgetfulness, trouble completing tasks, mood swings, and relationship problems.
In Your Brain’s Not Broken, Dr. Tamara Rosier explains how ADHD affects every aspect of your life. You’ll finally understand why you think, feel, and act the way you do. Dr. Rosier applies her years of coaching others to offer you the critical practical tools that can dramatically improve your life and relationships.
Anyone with ADHD–as well as anyone who lives with or loves someone with ADHD–will find here a compassionate, encouraging guide to living well and with hope.
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Everyday Connections For Year C
$40.00Add to cartThis beautifully bound volume provides a full fifty-two weeks of devotional prompts based on the Revised Common Lectionary for Year C. Drawing from the insightful Bible commentaries in the Connections series, each week of offerings also includes scriptural and literary readings, lectio divina, spiritual practices, questions for journaling, and a prayer. This resource has been crafted with mainline, lectionary preachers and lay leaders in mind, both to supplement their planning for the week and to feed their souls in the midst of the work of ministry.
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Power Women : Stories Of Motherhood Faith And The Academy
$28.99Add to cart“The dominant narrative we hear as professor mothers is that motherhood and academia are incompatible.”
Two challenging vocations, each filled with complexities and daily ups and downs. Yet more and more women are answering the call to both the academy and motherhood. A growing body of literature addresses parent-professors, but what about the particular needs of Christian women seeking to navigate both callings while living out their faith? With Power Women, Nancy Wang Yuen and Deshonna Collier-Goubil have curated a unique resource by and for Christian academic mothers. This collection of essays includes the voices of women of different backgrounds, academic disciplines, institutions, and stages of parenting and career. Together contributors provide wisdom, encouragement, and solidarity for women who share a similar vocational journey. Combining research with personal stories, they address topics such as these:
*how parenting and teaching can be mutually enriching
*managing ambition, identity, and time
*addressing misconceptions about motherhood in the academy, church, and society
*navigating gender roles in marriage
*taking maternity leave
*flourishing as an adjunct professor
*mentoring professor moms
*resisting imposter syndrome by finding rest in GodThere is no magic formula, but there are many paths to thriving in the call to motherhood and the academy. Christian academic moms will find in this book honest yet uplifting reminders that they are not alone. In addition, administrators, family members, and friends will grow in understanding and appreciation of the power women in their lives.
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Goat For Yahweh Goat For Azazel
$105.00Add to cartThis book explores the influence of the Day of Atonement on the Gospels. Hans M. Moscicke investigates how the gospel writers utilized the Yom Kippur traditions of the Second Temple period to craft Christological goat typologies and examines how scapegoat and Azazel traditions in first-century Judaism shaped the theology of the Gospels.
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Why I Trust The Bible
$19.99Add to cartA Clear Guide to Help Readers Understand Why They Can Trust the Bible
We are often told we can no longer assume that the Bible is trustworthy. From social media memes to popular scholarship, so many attacks have been launched on the believability of Scripture many have serious questions about the Bible, such as:
*Did Jesus actually live?
*Did the biblical writers invent their message?
*How can we trust the gospels since they were written so long after Jesus lived?
*How can we believe a Bible that is full of internal contradictions with itself and external contradictions with science?
*Doesn’t archaeology disprove the Bible?
*Why should we believe the books that are in the Bible, since many good ones were left out, like the Gospel of Thomas?
*Why trust the Bible when there are so many contradictory translations of it?
If you find yourself unable to answer questions such as these, but wanting to, Why I Trust the Bible by eminent Bible scholar and translator William Mounce is for you. These questions and more are discussed and answered in a reasoned, definitive, and winsome way.
The truth is that the Bible is better attested and more defensible today than it ever has been. Questions about the Bible are perhaps the most significant challenge confronting Christian faith today, but they can be answered well and in a way which will lead to a deeper appreciation for the truth and ongoing relevance of the Bible.
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All The Good Devotions For The Season
$11.99Add to cartIn All the Good: A Wesleyan Way of Christmas, a group of diverse Wesleyan scholars will take you on an Advent journey guided by the practices in John Wesley’s means of grace. In four sessions of study, prayer, and conversation, readers will look at preparing the way for God, the discipline of prayer, the substance of good works, and the recognition of God’s presence with us in communities that are called to serve the world.
This Advent learn and practice works of mercy and works of piety examining on how God’s love is embodied in communities of faith in the world.
The devotional contains 28 daily devotions for the four weeks of Advent corresponding to the themes of Altogether Love, Altogether Hope, Altogether Joy, and Altogether Peace. Written by pastors and other leaders, the devotions celebrate and bring together the season of Advent and the best of our Wesleyan heritage.
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All The Good Leader Guide (Teacher’s Guide)
$14.99Add to cartIn All the Good: A Wesleyan Way of Christmas, a group of diverse Wesleyan scholars will take you on an Advent journey guided by the practices in John Wesley’s means of grace. In four sessions of study, prayer, and conversation, readers will look at preparing the way for God, the discipline of prayer, the substance of good works, and the recognition of God’s presence with us in communities that are called to serve the world.
This Advent learn and practice works of mercy and works of piety examining on how God’s love is embodied in communities of faith in the world.
The Leader Guide includes session outline for each group meeting with Scripture, prayer, opening activity, discussion questions, activity, and ending call to action.
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Heart That Grew Three Sizes Childrens Leader Guide (Teacher’s Guide)
$18.99Add to cartWe don’t know why the Grinch hated Christmas. We just know he did. If we’re being honest, there’s probably something within the Christmas season celebration that awakens a Grinch within all of us. Maybe the gift we unwrap was all wrong, or memories that were supposed to be joyful never were. When everything seems wrong in the world, even joyful celebrations are much too loud.
In his new Advent study, Matt Rawle explores the faith themes in the Christmas classic, How the Grinch Stole Christmas including how did the Grinch’s heart grow three sizes come Christmas morning? How did Christmas save the Grinch? Could it be that the very thing we think we hate, is the one thing that changes our life?
Rediscover and reinvigorate your Christian faith this Advent and Christmas season and look at this familiar classic through the lens of faith.
The Children’s Leader Guide contains session ideas for younger and older children including games, activities, craft ideas, and reproducible handouts.
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Heart That Grew Three Sizes (Student/Study Guide)
$16.99Add to cartWe don’t know why the Grinch hated Christmas. We just know he did. If we’re being honest, there’s probably something within the Christmas season celebration that awakens a Grinch within all of us. Maybe the gift we unwrap was all wrong, or memories that were supposed to be joyful never were. When everything seems wrong in the world, even joyful celebrations are much too loud.
In his new Advent study, Matt Rawle explores the faith themes in the Christmas classic, How the Grinch Stole Christmas including how did the Grinch’s heart grow three sizes come Christmas morning? How did Christmas save the Grinch? Could it be that the very thing we think we hate, is the one thing that changes our life?Rediscover and reinvigorate your Christian faith this Advent and Christmas season and look at this familiar classic through the lens of faith.
Additional components for a four-week Advent study include a DVD featuring Matt Rawle, a comprehensive Leader Guide, and resources for children and youth.
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So Loved : 26 Words That Can Change Your Life
$14.99Add to cartFor God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
Here’s an astonishing claim. John 3:16 appears on everything from fridge magnets to sports stars’ faces. But what does it actually mean? And how does it relate to you and me?
With warmth, personal stories and humour, the author explains God’s love, his Son, his sacrifice, and the all-important connection with us today.
This is an invitation for anyone to dive straight in and take the first step in an exciting, life-transforming journey of faith.
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We Believe : Exploring The Nicene Faith
$33.99Add to cartThe Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed of ad 381 was a key statement in the context of the theological controversies and confessional atmosphere of the fourth-century church.
Alexander Irving explores Christian belief about God, creation and redemption, as it is expressed in the Creed. He thereby contributes to the continuing task of the church’s self-examination of its talk about God.?
Irving shows the importance of tradition and the intrinsic relationship between thought in the church today and thought in the church across time. He sets the Creed in its historical and theological contexts, and connects its theology to some areas of contemporary theological inquiry.
The Creed sets out the basic parameters of Christian belief. While the specifics of what is believed within those parameters are not determined, there is an internal logic to the Creed’s presentation of the Christian faith. The contrast between God’s internal and external relations is the theological motif that gives particular shape to the Creed, which expresses an expansive vision of the generosity of God, with his relation to creation grounded in his being as love.
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Destination Hope : A Travel Companion When Life Falls Apart
$16.99Add to cartDestination Hope: A Travel Companion When Life Falls Apart offers camaraderie and a beacon of hope for women who feel alone in loss, struggle, or change of circumstance. This book is not a self-help book filed with platitudes from people who think they have life figured out. Instead, Marilyn Nutter and April White link arms with the audience and encourage their readers through stories of their own hardships in widowhood and chronic illness. Readers are encouraged to see loss and hardship as part of lifex27s journey and are constantly reminded to turn their gaze upwards, to the Purveyor of Hope. Within the pages of Destination Hope comes a sisterhood, a bond, that can be formed only through the mutual understanding of loss and the need to find hope among hardships.
Destination Hope is arranged into six chapters called Milepost Markers, which address various losses, disappointments, or obstacles. Each entry concludes with a Rest Area for reflection and journaling. A Postcard with a quotation related to the topic sends readers off with an encouraging word, as they travel on towards their Destination Hope.
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Going To The Water
$16.99Add to cartA Place and a Story That Will Take Your Breath Away
Mama always said our lives were ghost stories–metaphors–to hide the truth behind.
And so begins the struggle Isla Weehunt–wife of wealthy chicken farmer, Scott Weehunt–encounters to keep her family buried in the past and her secrets well hidden. But plans, no matter how well thought out, have a way of taking their own paths.
Isla receives a call late one Friday night that rocks her perfectly crafted life. Velvet, her estranged sister of seventeen years, has died in what appears to be an arson, leaving behind a teenage son, Randal, and a tangled mess of murder and chaos. Isla never thought she would return to Nantahala, to the sweet, rugged gorge of her childhood. And taking her nephew into her life was certainly never on her agenda. The thought of conversing with her mother, devastated by Alzheimer’s, seems out of reach. But there are questions that need answering about Velvet’s death and hidden stories that go back generations.
Isla’s life will change whether she embraces it or not.
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Master Mind : The Memoirs Of Napoleon Hill
$17.95Add to cartNapoleon Hill on two occasions wrote extensive memoirs about his life, starting with his youth in Wise County, Virginia, and ending, apparently, during World War II. I say “apparently” because the archives of the Napoleon Hill Foundation contain these two manuscripts, but they are obviously incomplete and end in the 1940s. Mr. Hill died in 1970. His last book, Grow Rich with Peace of Mind, was written in 1967 and sheds some light on his later years; but his own journals and memoirs of those years, if they ever existed, have not yet been found.
The two memoirs were titled by Mr. Hill, Wheel of Fortune and Hand of Destiny. They contain details of his life, including his four marriages, two divorces and one annulment, which we at the Foundation have not seen in any of his other writings or speeches. They also contain many details about his successes and failures in business and there were more failures than successes, as he readily admits. The memoirs contain thoughtful insights into the state of mind of this great thinker–how he dealt with failure, profited from defeat, turned adversity into advantage, and ultimately achieved happiness with his last wife, Annie Lou, happiness which had eluded him for most of his life.
Mr. Hill has said that the Master Mind principle, in which two or more minds work harmoniously to achieve a common goal, is the most important of the seventeen principles of success he studied during his decades of research into how people attain happy and successful lives. One of the many interesting stories in the memoirs is about how he and his third wife, Rosa Lee, used the Master Mind principle to discover the only one of the seventeen principles that no one had understood or realized before, Cosmic Habitforce.
The Trustees of the Napoleon Hill Foundation have combined the two memoirs into one, editing out repetition and putting events in chronological order where it made sense to do so. They chose to title the combined memoirs Master Mind, in recognition of the importance this principle played in his philosophy and life, and as a tribute to the mental giant who was the greatest thinker and writer ever in the fields of personal achievement and self-improvement.
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Abide In Peace
$10.95Add to cartIn a world and nation marked by suffering and division, Marcus Halley invites readers to explore rituals of healing and reconciliation in parish practice.
How is Christian community fostered when healing and reconciliation are prayerfully and actively sought? How do the ancient rituals of healing practiced among us today form a community committed to the Way of Love, the Way of Healing? And how does such practice lead the Christian community to seek peace?
The basics of Episcopal and Anglican worship in North America are explored in this Little Books series, which invites parishioners and newcomers to consider both the beauty of worship and Episcopal ethical commitments.
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Centering Prayer : Sitting Quietly In God’s Presence Can Change Your Life
$17.99Add to cartEmbark on a spiritual quest to the heart of the practice of centering prayer.
Biblical scholar and coach Brian Russell discovered centering prayer at a crossroad in his life over a decade ago. He embraced the practice and it has continued to lead him to ever deepening experiences of the grace and love of God in Jesus Christ. He wrote this book as a guide to help you grow spiritually and to open yourself up to the work of the Holy Spirit in fresh ways in your life. God’s love is the true essence of this book and centering prayer is the vehicle for freeing your true self to experience more of God’s love. Whether you are at a difficult crossroads or simply interested in learning about growing deeper in your faith through silent meditative prayer, you will find a clear and substantive deep dive into “how” “why” and “what” of sitting quietly in God’s presence. Beginners as well as seasoned practitioners will gain inspiration, rich insight, and practical knowledge of a contemplative prayer practice that can truly be life changing.
In Centering Prayer: How Sitting Quietly Before God Can Change Your Life, you will:
-Be inspired by the personal stories of the author about the impact of centering prayer in his life
-Learn the practice of centering prayer including its roots in the early church
-Be empowered to establish your own practice and find clear actionable instructions to make centering prayer a consistent spiritual habit in your life
-Gain a practical biblical and theological foundation for understanding centering prayer
-Identify and overcome common obstacles faced by practitioners of all levels of practice
-Discover how centering prayer will open you up to deep experiences of inner healing by God’s grace
-Find encouragement and guidance to shape your journey toward even greater levels of love for God, others, and self
-Understand how sitting quietly in God’s presence impacts your inner life as a means to transforming how you show up in your family, job, and life
-Be transformed for witness and mission as a disciple of Jesus shaped by faith, hope and love.
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For The Life Of The World
$19.99Add to cartChristianity Today 2020 Book Award (Award of Merit, Theology/Ethics)Outreach 2020 Recommended Resource of the Year (Theology and Biblical Studies)
The question of what makes life worth living is more vital now than ever. In today’s pluralistic, postsecular world, universal values are dismissed as mere matters of private opinion, and the question of what constitutes flourishing life–for ourselves, our neighbors, and the planet as a whole–is neglected in our universities, our churches, and our culture at large. Although we increasingly have technology to do almost anything, we have little sense of what is truly worth accomplishing.
In this provocative new contribution to public theology, world-renowned theologian Miroslav Volf (named “America’s New Public Intellectual” by Scot McKnight on his Jesus Creed blog) and Matthew Croasmun explain that the intellectual tools needed to rescue us from our present malaise and meet our new cultural challenge are the tools of theology. A renewal of theology is crucial to help us articulate compelling visions of the good life, find our way through the maze of contested questions of value, and answer the fundamental question of what makes life worth living.