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Boomerang Joy : Joy That Goes Around Comes Around
$16.99Add to cartBest-selling author and speaker Barbara Johnson is famous for seeing and celebrating the bright side of life’s ups-and-downs. Now, in her first-ever devotional, she dares you to lighten up and enjoy life to the hilt. As Barbara says, “You’ve got to hone your ability to fling a smile a mile. Sure as anything, it’ll boomerang right back to you, more accurately each time you toss it out.” Barbara knows life is far too serious not to laugh. In 60 wise, witty devotions — salted with humor and peppered with a madcap illustrations of syndicated cartoonist John McPherson–she helps you perfect the art of the well-aimed chuckle. Boomerang Joy is the perfect tonic for when you feel tired or worn out — or when you just want a good laugh and some heartfelt encouragement. Barbara Johnson’s fulfilled insights will help you revel in your relationship with God and spread the joy of knowing His love. Just like a boomerang, joy that’s flung out far and wide will smack right back to you!
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Acting Scenes And Monologs For Young Women
$18.95Add to cartNot just another book of scenes but a wide variety of topics by Maya Levy. Situations have been fine-tuned to recreate the day-to-day experiences of young women. This wonderfully diversified collection of monologs, dialogs, trios and quartets deals with subjects of self-discovery, survival in the real world, and daunting decisions both tragic and trivial. These sixty characterizations will make both performers and audience laugh, cry and know themselves better.
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Finding Peace For Your Heart
$18.99Add to cartThe purpose of this book is to bring hope, healing, and growth to anyone who is emotionally hurting or unfulfilled and to show practical steps to take a way out of pain and frustration. This is not a book to define problems but to show the solution to any problem.
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Fruit Of Her Hands
$12.00Add to cart1. A Woman’s Orientation To Marriage
2. Walking With God
3. Respect
4. Principles And Methods
5. Contentment
6. Duties If Homemaking
7. Lovemaking
8. LeftoversAdditional Info
Imagine where the Church would be today if the men in it were respected as they ought to be by their wives. What power would God unleash through godly men who were respected in their homes?Wives, instead of focus on your husband’s problems and shortcomings, look at what you are supposed to be doing yourself.
In the Song of Solomon we read, “Like an apple tree among the trees of the woods, so is my beloved among the sons.” So what is your perspective when you look at your husband? Is it biblical or does it stem from all those modern lies which surround us?
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Promise Of The Father
$38.00Add to cart1. Joachim Jeremias And The Debate About Abba
2. God As Father In The Old Testament And Second Temple Judaism
3. Jesus And The Father
4. Jesus And The Father In The Synoptic Gospels
5. “Heirs Of God, Heirs With Christ”
6. “The Living Father”Additional Info
What does it mean to confess that God is “The Father of our Lord Jesus Chrst”? The Promise of the Father begins by showing that Judaism’s claim of God as “Father” never attached an ontological gender or “masculine” essence to God. Instead of setting the standard for the conduct for human personal fathers or men in general as some argue, God’s identity as “Father” served as an example for the entire community of faith as one who promotes mercy, justice, and humility. Jesus’ address to God as “Father” thus did not introduce a new private experience of intimacy with the divine, rather, it evoked Israel’s ancient and corporate hope of God’s saving power and covenant faithfulness. Above all then, to speak of God as “Father” signifies the redemptive and life-giving work of God and then only subsequently to human experience of that work. Christians can confess God as “Father of Jesus Christ” because God was first “Father” to the people of Israel and to Israel’s Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth and to the followers of Jesus. -
Ordinary Ministry Extraordinary Challenge
$25.99Add to cartIn Ordinary Calling Extraordinary Challenge, Norma Cook Everist brings together several women clergy to demonstrate what parish ministry is like in women’s experience. Drawing on years of parish experience, they examine such a wide range of topics as the ministry of preaching, the ministry of stewardship, the ministry of justice, the ministry of outreach, and many more. Written for women and men, this volume will provide support, encouragement, and guidence for performing the many tasks and assuming the many roles of parish minister.
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Fearlessly Feminine : Boldly Living Gods Plan For Womanhood
$14.99Add to cartHas anybody ever asked you, “What does it mean to be a truly Christian woman?” Have you asked that yourself? Tackling sensitive topics like submission and materialism, feminism and beauty, motherhood and marriage, Ortlund helps women carefully define and confidently become who they are in Christ. Includes study questions for individual and group use.
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New Faith : A Black Christian Womans Guide To Reformation ReCreation Redisc
$15.00Add to cartIssuing a passionate call to African American Christian women, Patterson challenges her sisters in Christ to rise above “unnecessary suffering” and embrace “new faith”! Exposing the religious and social negatives that have impeded Black women until now, she shows how “corrective love” can pave the way for a better existence.
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Mother Daughter Connection
$18.99Add to cartThe Mother Daughter Connection is a book designed to help mothers form intimate, working relationships with their daughters by giving mothers an insider’s view of their daughters’ thoughts and feelings. The editor of Brio magazine for girls and a veteran youth expert, Susie Shellenberger helps mothers understand the angst and confusion teen girls feel when coping with such issues as body image, fashion envy, dating, fear of failure, and sharing one’s faith. With creative questions, conversation starters, and diary entries, mothers are given the tools to not only help their daughters, but also to learn the “stuff they gotta know” to help their daughters survive the teenage years.
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In Her Own Time
$29.00Add to cartA woman’s life is filled with possibilities and challenges at every age and stage. In this illuminating collection, leading women theologians explore themes, passages, and issues women face as they journey from pre-adolescence to the end of life. Their fresh analysis provides a much needed framework for the pastoral care of women.
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Balancing Your Emotions
$11.99Add to cartEMOTIONS are a gift from God, created to give our lives richness and meaning. But, on the other hand, they can warp us and confuse us–and make us forever fourteen.
Whether stemming from a crippled self-image, hormonal ups and downs, disappointments in life, or harmful patterns of living, much of a woman’s energy on an average day must be directed toward handling how she feels and how she acts of reacts to those feelings.
Gayle Roper is a wife, mother, and writer who has had her share of significant ups and downs. In Balancing Your Emotions, she breaks emotional problems into manageable pieces and gives strong biblical, hard-won advice to women who want consistency in the midst of their chaos. Establishing Christian values, setting reasonable goals, distinguishing between real and assumed guilt, and developing healthy daily patterns are just a few areas explored in this practical upbeat book
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More Than Rubies
$13.99Add to cartWomen have an essential impact on the atmosphere of the home. They influence the degree of their husband’s success, the level of happiness in the family, and even the spiritual condition of the family.
More than Rubies will help women insure that their impact in their home is a good one. Debra White Smith provides principles for being a woman of godly influence and raising a family in the way of the Lord.144 pages.
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Having A Mary Heart In A Martha World
$17.00Add to cartEver feel that no matter how hard you try, it’s never enough? Maybe it’s time to follow Mary’s example: leave the dishes in the sink and sit at Jesus’ feet! Through practical strategies and devotional illustrations, Weaver explains how “living room intimacy” with Christ is the key to successful “kitchen service” in the world.
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Here I Am Again Lord
$13.99Add to cartHave you ever asked yourself, “Will I ever feel in my heart what I know in my head? Am I keeping the main thing, the main thing?” Warm hearted and vulnerable, Carole Mayhall talks about the truths God has to remind her of over and over again. Here I Am Again, Lord reminds readers that growing in God’s character and stature is a lifelong task.
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Feminist Ethic Of Risk (Revised)
$29.00Add to cartRich and suggestive, distinctive and influential, A Feminist Ethic of Risk proposes a new model for ethics and new life-orientation for social justice. Directly addressing American and European “middle-class despair” over issues and challenges seemingly too large to tackle.
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Well Tended Soul
$19.99Add to cart1. How Did Mother Get Into My Mirror?
2. Soul Mirrors: Having Your True Colors Done By Trevor The Terrible
3. Soul Goals
4. Faux Soul
5. Color Me Patient, Color Me Kind
6. It’s Not Easy Being Green
7. Red-Hot Mamas I’ve Known And Been
8. Club Snob
9. A Tree Grows In Wheaton
10. “Younging”
11. Changes And Becomings
12. Transcendence192 Pages
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1. How Did Mother Get Into My Mirror?
2. Soul Mirrors: Having Your True Colors Done By Trevor The Terrible
3. Soul Goals
4. Faux Soul
5. Color Me Patient, Color Me Kind
6. It’s Not Easy Being Green
7. Red-Hot Mamas I’ve Known And Been
8. Club Snob
9. A Tree Grows In Wheaton
10. “Younging”
11. Changes And Becomings
12. Transcendence192 Pages
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Women In The Church
$35.99Add to cartThis painstaking work will enlighten people on all sides of the issue, though Stanley Grenz makes no secret of his bold conclusion. Historical, bibical, and theoological considerations, he writes, converge not only in allowing, but also in insisting, that women serve as full partners with men in the work of the church.
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Gender And Grace
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What does it mean to be a ”normal” woman or man? What are appropriate sex roles in marriage? In parenthood? In the workplace? Those questions have become harder and harder to answer. Van Leeuwen provides a sane, thought-provoking guide out of our confusion. After gauging the influence of biology and culture, she demonstrates that there yet remains room for a good deal of personal freedom and Christian responsibility.
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Women Authority And The Bible
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Evangelical advocates of traditional roles for women say the heart of the matter is biblical authority. Supporters of more open roles say the crux is biblical interpretation and application. The 26 evangelical leaders represented here ask the hard questions about women’s roles and refuse to shirk the hard exegesis needed to get answers. Essential reading for all concerned with women’s roles in the church.
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Women In Ministry
$28.99Add to cartMay women teach or exercise authority over men? Should they be ordained? Questions like these rage in the debate over women in ministry. Four committed evangelicals, Robert Culver, Susan Foh, Alvera Mickelsen, and Walter Liefeld, explain their positions and respond to the others, making for a lively exchange of ideas.
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Holy Habits : A Womans Guide To Intentional Living
$15.99Add to cartIn this book, you’ll examine the character of God to understand how to live each day intentionally and see your life the same way God does. Includes a ten week Bible study for busy women.
“TEACH US TO NUMBER OUR DAYS ARIGHT, THAT WE MAY GAIN A HEART OF WISDOM.” (Ps. 90:12)
WHAT WILL YOUR LIFE MEAN TOMORROW?
On the morning of her thirtieth birthday, Mimi Wilson woke up wondering where the years had gone. Time was passing more quickly than she’d imagined-but what had she accomplished? She lived a good, busy life. Yet even her active spiritual life seemed void of lasting meaning. The future hung directionless before her.The resulting unique, life-changing search for purpose and direction led Mimi to discover that an intimate understanding of God laid the foundation for the changes she desired. Uncover this story in the pages of Holy Habits as Mimi and her friend, Shelly Cook Volkhardt reveal how their examination of the names of God enabled them to begin living intentionally. Encounter God for yourself as they guide you to meet Him face-to-face and give you ways to make His characteristics a part of your daily patterns. Let Mimi and Shelly’s personal experience and in-depth study lead you to an intimate, lasting relationship with God which will give you a life full of purpose and direction.
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Duh Votions : Words Of Wisdom For The Spiritually Challenged
$14.99Add to cartYou Don’t Have to Be Deep to Hear God’s Voice!
It’s so simple! So simple a shallow person can understand it. What I’ve found out about God is that he is totally trustworthy, and I can relax in his plans. And besides that, all he wants is – are you ready for this? – for me to be his person. Just be his person, for heaven’s sake! All I can say to that is, Duh! Who knows? Next I may be writing a six-volume Bible commentary! – Sue Buchanan in Duh-VotionsMeet Sue Buchanan. She says to audiences, “I may as well tell you because you’ll figure it out anyway: I’m not that deep. I’m shallow. But I’m deep for a shallow person.”
Sue offers a merry and witty look at life from the “shallow” end of the gene pool in sixty fun devotions. From entertaining angels with chicken andaluza to listing her not-so-favorite blond jokes, from a debate on Spam vs. baloney to dramas between mothers and daughters, she’ll make you laugh . . . and think about some important lessons in life.
This very funny lady shows us all that we don’t have to be “deep” to hear God’s voice. All we have to do is listen and we’ll find his message about love and redemption in even the smallest details of everyday life.
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Feminist And Womanist Pastoral Theology
$29.99Add to cartIn the last decade, the focus of pastoral theology has shifted dramatically from care defined as counseling to care understood within a wider social, political, and religious context. Feminist and womanist theory as well as feminist and womanist faith convictions have played a key role in this development. This collection of essays identifies the many changes occurring in definitions of pastoral theology, care, and counseling; defines and develops new methods and approaches; and attends to the implications of these changes for congregational care and theological education
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Longing For Running Water
$29.00Add to cartThis short reflection documents Gebara’s dawning awarness, as a lifelong city dweller, of how interwined are the tarnished enviroment around her and the poverty taht afflicts her nrighbors. From these experiances she creates a gritty urban ecofeminism and in this book articulates a whole worldview. Here she proposes “a new relationship with the earth and with the entire cosmos.”
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Womens War In The South
$22.95Add to cartThe Women’s War in the South: Recollections and Reflections of the American Civil War, edited by Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg, recounts the manner in which Southern women experienced the war and the changes it brought about in their lives. Filled with excerpts from the letters, books, diaries, and postwar writings the women left behind, it reveals the other side of the war — the women’s war — through first-person accounts of women running farms, buying and selling goods, working outside the home, serving as spies, and even participating in combat in disguise.
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Living A Purpose Full Life (Student/Study Guide)
$16.99Add to cartGod’s calling in a woman’s life isn’t meant to remain a mystery. More than a role, a spiritual gift, or a job you love, finding your God-given purpose is about knowing who you are. Jan Johnson explains what a “life purpose” is, why you need it, and how you can find it. Discover the joy of Living a Purpose-Full Life! Includes a Bible study and questions for reflection.
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Speaking For Ourselves
$19.95Add to cartThere are many powerful women in the Bible, but their descriptions are almost always tantalizingly brief. If they had a chance to tell their own stories in their own voices, what would they have said? Basing her interpretation of these women on extensive research, Katerina Whitley puts herself in their shoes, giving today’s listeners a fuller understanding of each of their stories. The women explored include: the Virgin Mary, Miriam, Mary Magdalene, Elizabeth, and more. Study questions follow each woman’s story.
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Pentateuch : A Liberation Critical Reading
$21.00Add to cartProviding new insights into the major themes of the Pentateuch, Laffey challenges contemporary readers with her probing questions about power, liberation, justice, and connectedness. Her interpretation provides a unique feminist-critical perspective of these biblical texts as she emphasizes respectful interdependence and concern for all humans, animals, plants, and elements.
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Its Always Darkest Before The Fun Comes Up
$12.99Add to cartThere are two kinds of laughter. One is a hollow hilarity that masks pain too deep for words. The other is a full, joyous laugh that sounds triumphantly on the far side of life’s dark passages.
Comedian Chonda Pierce knows about both kinds. In It’s Always Darkest Before the Fun Comes Up, this spunky preacher’s daughter will do more than tickle your ribs. She’ll touch the place in you where laughter and tears dwell side by side. She’ll show you the deep wisdom of a merry heart. And with humor and honesty, she’ll reveal the God who knows how to turn life’s worst punches into its most glorious punch lines – in his perfect time.
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Feminist Interpretation : The Bible In Womens Perspective
$23.00Add to cartIn the hundred years since The Woman’s Bible, giant strides have been made in feminist interpretation of the Bible. Now comes the first comprehensive overview of the whole field. The authors systematically recount efforts to describe the story of women in both testaments, to uncover tendencies not supportive of women, and to describe biblical traditions that empower women.
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Counseling Depressed Women
$29.95Add to cartEach volume in this series focuses on practical ways to respond to a serious and difficult pastoral concern within clinical and congregational settings. Offering fresh insights from pastoral theology, each volume integrates the most up to date information in psychology and the human sciences. All the authors write out of firsthand counseling experiences as well as the most recent research on their topics. The result is an invaluable series for counselors and pastors who regularly face tough issues as they offer care to clients and congregants.
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Strange Woman : Power And Sex In The Bible
$42.00Add to cartFrom the Publisher: Adultery, harlotry, independence, and power. Few today would say that these are equal. But to the male-dominated, male-documented world of ancient Israel and early Christianity, a woman who asserted herself was the equivalent of a prostitute. In a world where religious law severely limited women’s opportunities, those who did use prostitution and adultery to find a form of freedom not readily available to most women were castigated for their actions. This new book from Gail Corrington examines the treatment some of these women recieved and illustrates how biblical texts often apply the term “adultery” to any independant female behavior….sexual or not.
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By Design : Gods Distinctive Calling For Women
$22.50Add to cartGod did not make a mistake when He made men and women different. He had a distinctive plan and a distinctive purpose for each, stamping the helper design upon women at creation. This book is a joyous celebration of that profound fact. But it is more. It is a reliving cry to the church to retain one of its most valuable-and nearly forgotten-resources: its women.
By Design is not about answering feminist arguments or exegeting biblical passages on traditional roles, submission, or headship. Instead, it is an uplifting and practical introduction to God’s wonderful design for women. It is also a challenge to women everywhere to explore the significance of your distinctives and return to your biblical calling. And it is a plea for the church to equip and mobilize you to help a hurting world and capture a culture for Christ through ministries of mercy and compassion.
Like Susan Hunt’s previous works, Spiritual Mothering and The True Woman, this book is a strong affirmation of your value as a woman and a great resource for anyone involved in women’s ministries.
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Faith Of Our Foremothers
$38.00Add to cartHere are the stories of twelve women, all religious educators, all of whom transformed the field of religious education, some long before the contemporary feminist movement. Though the women represent different times, interests, and approaches to the discipline, they all shared a commitment to creative and enthusiastic religious education.
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Caretakers Of Our Common House
$30.99Add to cartNorth American culture bombards girls and women with negative and demeaning images of their gender. It trains girls and women to “give themselves away” by overemphasizing their caring for others and underdeveloping their sense of voice and personal authority. Carol Lakey Hess asks in this book whether caring families and the church can make a difference in the outcome of our daughters’ development. Weaving together theological, psychological, and biblical sources, Hess examines how theologians of self-sacrifice thwart both the spiritual and the psychological development of women by subverting their necessary self-assertion. The importance of self-differentiation and cognitive autonomy and of caring and connection are discussed, using as illustrations biblical stories, excerpts from novels, and an in-depth look at eating disorders.
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Concept Of Woman Volume 1
$53.99Add to cartA careful and well-written historical study of the thinking about women in the Western world. It provides a sympathetic justification for some feminist intuitions that, at this point, are not well grounded philosophically. It will be well received by those who respect the difficulties feminism points to but see the exaggerastion and false directions it is going in.
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Living Somewhere Between Estrogen And Death
$18.99Add to cartFor women only, this is one of Barbara Johnson’s most unique books. With her zany collection of observations about “life between the Blue Lagoon and Golden Pond,” Barbara jumps right in, showing women how to survive growing older with courage and joy.
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Women And Religion
$22.00Add to cartA thoroughly revised and updated edition of the most outstanding volume on women in Christianity
A classic in the field of religious studies since its original publication in 1977, Women and Religion has remained the definitive and most compelling documentary history of the relationship between Christianity and half of its membership. This new edition-completely revised by the original editors, renowned historian Elizabeth A. Clark and theologian Herbert Richardson, with the assistance of Gary Brower and Randall Styers-includes fully updated introductions, newly available source material, and incisive contemporary analysis. An invaluable resource for exploring the progressive history of women and Christian thought.
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Fellowship Of Love
$30.99Add to cartDocuments the contributions of white Methodist women to the civil rights struggle from 1920 to 1968.
With a historian’s precision and a passion for social justice, Alice Knotts shows in this book how the activities of the Methodist women’s movement for civil rights developed decade by decade. Their activities were rarely in the public eye, yet they were shaping and being shaped by events and public opinion.
An astute and insightful history, Fellowship of Love documents the contributions of white Methodist women in the American civil rights struggle. The research for this volume has won the Jessie Lee Prize from the General Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church. It documents in one volume otherwise disparate information important to understanding the contributions of women in the Methodist Church to race struggles in 20th-century America. -
Wrestling With The Patriarchs
$21.99Add to cartThe voices of women in religious history are examined. Practical exercises and strategies, along with a six-session educational program, are offered for women clergy in general, for women preachers in particular, and for congregations as a whole. All of these focus on reclaiming women’s voices in the church and infusing the proclamation of God’s word with their individual, unique styles.
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Through The Eyes Of Women
$39.00Add to cartThis insightful sourcebook covers a range of pastoral care topics including the role of women in pastoral theology and pastoral care, care of African American women and women entering ministry, as well as issues from a range of women’s experiences such as anger, aggression, loss of mothers, eating disorders, hysterectomy, mastectomy, rape, and older women’s issues. Transformative essays on women’s spiritual care, community, self-sacrifice, and self-denial conclude this collaborative work.
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Mothers Heart : A Look At Values Vision And Character For The Christian Mot
$16.99Add to cartBeing a mother is the most rewarding job in the world—and one of the toughest! In this newly revised and updated bestseller, Flemming offers encouragement to mothers of all ages and backgrounds. You’ll discover how to pray for your child’s needs, how to be thankful for your child’s strengths and weaknesses, and, with God’s help, how to become the mother you’ve always wanted to be.
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You Have Stept Out Of Your Place
$58.00Add to cartThis book fills an important gap in American women’s history. The author manages to discuss four centuries of women’s experience in the United States clearly, inclusively, and with both a sensitivity to feminist issues and a faithfullness to women’s own experience that ensures this book will have a wide readership. This book spans a broad range of geographic, ethnic, racial and denominational range of American women’s religious experiences and contributions and attempts to preverse the intregrity and diversity of their voices. In the absense of strong counterevidence, the author has assumed that American women were basically telling the truth about who they were, what they did, and why they did it.
