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1) The Way Back
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Young love means everything . . . until it leaves you with nothing. The summer before her senior year of high school, Laney Jacobs and her best friend jump from a six-story beachside cliff in an attempt to impress their boyfriends. Laney rose from the water. Her friend did not. Six years later, when Laney's troubled mother's memoir hits the bestseller list airing the family's destructive secrets, Laney is forced to relive the trauma, this time in...
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This overview of the theme of weakness in the Bible offers readers practical encouragement and hope as they learn to view their frailties as part of God's plan and purpose for their lives.
Our culture deifies strength-and sadly, the church does too. Who has the most successful ministry, the largest congregation, or the godliest family? Our misplaced faith in human strength is a false hope with no basis in Scripture.
But a closer look...
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Her family legacy is at stake.
Will the new man in town save it-or destroy it?
As the fourth-generation editor of the Oak Hill Gazette, Abby Warner is determined to carry on the paper's proud tradition despite increasing financial problems. But big-city publishing heir Mark Campbell wants to take the paper away from her-as fast as possible. In a situation rife with tension, sparks fly.
Yet when Mark finds a new purpose for his life in the podunk...
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Our faith should be an informed one because the God who created all things speaks to every sphere of life, and all facts should be studied in light of the revelation of God in Scripture. This is the foundation of Christian dominion.
For R. J. Rushdoony, true government was the self-government of the Christian life in terms of God's law, so he wrote his position papers to better equip Christians to apply their faith to all of life. His objective was...
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God's people are meant to be a blessing to others. Yet in the Scriptures, throughout history, and in our own times we too often see the people of God causing harm to people on the margins. Rather than caring for the widowed and the orphaned or loving the sojourner, too often we see abuse of power that breaks spirits and inflicts lasting harm.
For anyone who has felt left out or pushed out of the church, Othered is your invitation to find spiritual...
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14 Reasons to Pray in the Holy Spirit... Heaven's Language will bring understanding while sharing some key reasons we should embrace praying in the Spirit as born again believers in Christ. These areas will by no means exhaust this focus but, they will encourage the reader to do so even more - specifically in this hour. Those who are willing to allow the Holy Spirit to pray through them will: Build themselves up in their most holy faith; Be used by...
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Meet Cheryl Cooper, who left a banking job in Columbus, Ohio, to run a gift shop, the Swiss Miss, in Sugarcreek, while her aunt Mitzi fulfills an overseas missionary call. Cheryl is just getting over a bad breakup with her longtime fiancé and is looking forward to the slower pace among the Amish community. But as she explores a neighboring corn maze, she overhears a man's menacing voice making serious threats.
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Beauty has been nothing but a curse to Penelope Snow. When she becomes a personal maid for a famous actress whose troupe is leaving Chicago to tour the West, she hides her figure beneath shapeless dresses and keeps her head down. But she still manages to attract the wrong attention, leaving her prospects in tatters--and her jealous mistress plotting her demise. After his brother lost his life over a woman, Texas ranger Titus Kingsley has learned to...
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In his early twenties, Nick Griemsmann was diagnosed with an incurable mental illness called schizophrenia. With little hope for the future, Nick turned to his faith. After his full recovery, Nick worked as an administrator at the very same behavioral healthcare provider that he was once a patient of. Defeating Mental Illness is an encouraging true story to help you and your loved ones. Inside you will find valuable insights, tools, and tips that...
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Friendships are difficult.
Sometimes it can seem as if friends are more work and pain than they're worth, with friendship challenges that we have to endure and struggle through. Life gets in the way of our well-intentioned efforts to connect. Conflicts and differences over serious issues divide us and make us think that we could never be close to a person ever again. In today's cancel culture, it's easy to give up on people and just walk away, leaving...
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When Micha Boyett's son was born with Down syndrome and later diagnosed with autism, she was drawn into the ancient teachings of the Beatitudes. There, she found an invitation to honor her limits in a world that values performance, perfection, and strength. Jesus instead calls his followers to embrace meekness, mercy, and the longing for justice. The Beatitudes helped Boyett discover her wholeness in God's love rather than in her own accomplishments.
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In the spring of 1957, Jacob Versteeg is graduating from high school at the top of his class. Quite an accomplishment for a guy who spent his young childhood in a German concentration camp. When the war ended, he was adopted by Huub Versteeg, a kind fellow POW at Bergen-Belsen who had taken him under his wing. For ten years Jacob grew up in Chicago surrounded by the love of his new family, including Danny and Anya McClain and their two young children....
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Are you facing natural "impossibilities"? Are you waiting on God to break through for you? Do you sometimes have the sense that you were created for more than the temporal illusion surrounding you? This book, birthed in the counsel rooms of heaven, will provide a "you are here" on your spiritual map and will answer questions about your life and situation that you may have found perplexing. The wisdom of heaven paired with simple and practical action...
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Becoming God's Friend is the intriguing personal life story of Nick Griemsmann (author of Defeating Mental Illness). In this transparent autobiography, Nick opens up about the personal details of his life experiences that include childhood trauma, addictions, surviving a cult, struggling with his identity, and spending time in and out of mental hospitals. He shares how becoming God's friend through faith helped him overcome challenges and find his...
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"God uses flawed people to accomplish His purpose."
It isn't hard for Christians to identify with the Apostle Peter. As he sought to follow after Jesus, his life was punctuated by bold moments and momentous blunders alike. Yet in spite of Peter's sins, he was the Apostle who confessed the Christ, to which Jesus replied, "On this rock I will build my church" (Matt. 16:16, 18). The Lord would use this vessel of clay to bring the hope of the gospel to...
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Is it possible to believe in God and be gay? How does it feel to be excluded from a religious community because of your sexuality? Why do some people still believe being LGBT is a sin? contains modern-day epistles from some of our most important thinkers, writers and activists: Jeanette Winterson tackles religious dogma, Amrou Al-Kadhi writes about trying to make it as a Muslim drag queen in London, John Bell writes about his decision to come out...
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Men of their time?
Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, and George Whitefield were the three most prominent early evangelicals—and all three were deeply compromised on the issue of slavery. Edwards and Whitefield both kept slaves themselves, and Wesley failed to speak out against slavery until near the end of his life.
In “Ownership”, Sean McGever tells the true story of these men's relationships to slavery: a story that has too often been passed...
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Animals are God's gift to humans. They are instruments of His Grace blessed with a special gift for comforting us when we are down, filling us with joy at just the right moment, and encouraging us on our walk of faith. That's why Guideposts created All God's Creatures. This beautiful new devotional begins in May 2019 to capture that joyous feeling that fills each one of us when spring arrives and warmer weather pushes out the dreary days of winter....
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A person's handwriting reveals something about who they are-their intellect, perspectives, natural abilities, and hidden aptitudes. It's also a form of expression that sends a message about how they want to be seen by others. In our lives and world, things are not as they are by accident. They're written in a specific way, and the size, placement, direction, and pressure of strokes has everything to do with the One who signed His name on it all. The...
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The Apocalypse of Mark is a Christian book written in the ancient style of apocalyptic literature designed to read like a short narrative book one would find in the Bible, like Job, Ruth, or Esther. Narrator John Mark presents a linear retelling of the Biblical meta-narrative, heavily quoting from and alluding to the Biblical text. Beginning prior to creation and ending in the "new heavens and earth" incorporating enigmatic Biblical passages, it demonstrates...
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