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29441) Nine Lives To Eternity
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Nine Lives to Eternity tells of my real-life brushes with death, not only once but several times, throughout my lifetime. The title was, inspired by the nine lives of a cat, which I have certainly lived several times, over with the numerous death-cheating situations I continually experienced. And as superstitious as I am about certain things, I started counting the times, I have cheated death in my life, and my jaw dropped, when I realized that I...
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Imagine yourself a thirteen-year-old hundreds of miles away from home, in a strange city, and your mom leaves you at a bus station parking lot and drives off into the night with her lover. That's the real life story of country music star Jimmy Wayne. It's a miracle that Jimmy survived being hungry and homeless, bouncing in and out of the foster care system, and sleeping in the streets. He now uses his country music platform to help children everywhere....
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Zondervan
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2024.
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"In this powerful and poignant memoir, two-time GRAMMY Award winner Zach Williams shares his personal Rescue Story as he reflects on his childhood and the prophecy that kept his parents from giving up hope, his descent into substance abuse which held him captive for so long, and ultimately the rescue he didn't think was possible but embraced with open arms"--
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Can't Nothing Bring Me Down is the memoir of 101-year-old, world-record-holding runner Ida Keeling. Miss Ida, as she's known throughout her Bronx community, isn't your typical runner. Her fierce independence helped her through the Depression and the Civil Rights movement. But her greatest trials were yet to come. Ida's two sons were brutally murdered. Justice was never found. Ida felt like she didn't have the strength to carry on and she couldn't...
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Moody Publishers
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[2023]
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"Martin both exposes the ways the Internet is distorting faith and shows us how to respond. He looks at how the social Internet is changing how we understand sex and beauty-what to do about the epidemic levels of anxiety-and how to redirect our hearts to worship Jesus Christ"--
29446) Jesus the Son of Man
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The renowned author of The Prophet creates a portrait of Jesus Christ through the observations of seventy-seven of his peers in this fascinating compendium.
What if we had firsthand impressions of the son of God found not in the pages of the New Testament, but from the very people who surrounded him? This is what Kahlil Gibran imagined in this lyrical and inspiring book. He captured the observations of friends, enemies, commoners, and rulers...
29447) Saving Aziz: how the mission to help one became a calling to rescue thousands from the Taliban
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"Former Force Recon Marine Chad Robichaux details the incredible rescue missions that evacuated not only his long-time comrade and interpreter, Aziz, but also more than 17,000 Afghans and allies who were left in the grip of the Taliban's violent regime as the United States military withdrew from Afghanistan"--
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Your road map to never giving up on your dream.
World-renowned choreographer and creative visionary Laurieann Gibson speaks to the dreamer in you: the artist, the writer, the thinker, the athlete, the mogul, the scientist, the entrepreneur, the mover and shaker. The part of you that knows your passion, that puts a kick-snare boom-kack rhythm in your heart. That part of you that makes you feel alive.
Your dream, your dance, is unique to you. No matter...
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You love your kids and you're not a grouch. But you do value order and like some sense of control over your time and your environment. Author Sandra Drescher-Lehman has been a parent long enough to voice the utter exhaustion that lies beyond the glow of cherubic infants and charming toddlers.
For every frustrating moment she offers a brief meditation that will ground you in God's promises and the wisdom found in His word. Far from the trite, sugar-coated,...
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The Complete Leader: Handbook of Essentials for Human Services Leadership gives leaders within human services organizations with lay or professional leadership responsibilities, over 25 essential practices for human services. Special attention is paid to supervision, case management, evaluation, teamwork and character. The content of this handbook was developed over three decades by respected leader Robert Shaw, working in various services with individuals...
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• SOUGHT-AFTER PUBLIC SPEAKER: Lindsey's 2017 TedX talk "What trauma taught me about happiness" has been viewed nearly 180k times. She is a frequent keynote speaker and audiences really respond to her engaging style of storytelling.
• PART MEMOIR, PART SELF-HELP: In the vein of Can't Hurt Me and Untamed, this is a story about personal trauma writ large, with takeaways for the reader about plumbing the depths of their own resilience. The book includes...
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Recently, Black America has been portrayed as the most maligned and persecuted people group in history, and the perpetrators have been identified as Europeans and their descendants. While the treatment of black people, worldwide and in America, by Europeans was terrible to say the least, it is the lack of forgiveness for those past sins which holds the descendants of African slaves in bondage today. Facing the truth about our own sins and forgiveness...
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If you've ever wondered: Can I set limits and still be a loving person? How do I answer someone who wants my time, love, energy, or money? Why do I feel guilty when I consider setting boundaries? Unpacking the 10 laws of boundaries, Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend give you biblically based answers to these and other tough questions, and show you how to set healthy boundaries with your spouse, children, friends, coworkers, and even with yourself....
29454) Jesus: a pilgrimage
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"James Martin, SJ, gifted storyteller, editor at large of America magazine, popular media commentator, and New York Times bestselling author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, brings the Gospels to life in Jesus: A Pilgrimage, and invites believers and seekers alike to experience Jesus through Scripture, prayer and travel.Combining the fascinating insights of historical Jesus studies with profound spiritual insights about the Christ of faith,...
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Herald Press
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[2023]
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"Will we choose life for our children and the future of our planet? Everywhere we look, we see signs that all is not right with our earth-extreme temperatures and weather patterns wreak havoc, pollutants sour soils and waterways, and fires and floods ravage land and communities. Climate change is just a symptom of a larger ecological crisis. If we want change, we must realize that the solutions to the problems we face can't come through the same systems...
29457) I am Hutterite : the fascinating true story of a young woman's journey to reclaim her heritage
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In 1969, Ann-Marie's parents did the unthinkable. They left a Hutterite colony in Canada with seven children, and little else, to start a new life. Overnight, the family was thrust into a society they did not understand and which knew little of their unique culture. The transition was overwhelming. Desperate to be accepted, ten-year-old Ann-Marie was forced to deny her heritage in order to fit in with her peers. Winner of the 2007 Saskatchewan Book...
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Our health system doesn't work for the most vulnerable. It's time for people of faith to respond with concrete action to demonstrate God's love and effect real change. Here's how.
The dialogue on how to fix US health care is mired in partisan policy debates. Rather than idly waiting for the gridlock to resolve, people of faith can live into their call to care for the underserved right now. Drawing from his experience as medical doctor, pastor, and...
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This pioneering new study of the Black megachurch phenomenon brings nuance and depth to the question, Are Black megachurches more focused on prosperity than on people? Black megachurches and their pastors are often accused of failing to use their considerable resources to help the poor; focusing on prosperity theology rather than on social justice; requiring excessive monetary and time commitments of members; and pilfering church coffers for the their...
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André Trocmé of Le Chambon is famous for his role in saving thousands of Jews from the Nazis during World War II. But his bold deeds did not spring from a void. They were rooted in his understanding of Jesus' way of nonviolence – an understanding that gave him the remarkable insights contained in this long out-of-print classic. In this book, you'll encounter a Jesus you may have never met before – a Jesus who not only calls for spiritual transformation,...
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