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A Heart Like His: Intimate Reflections on the Life of David
by: Beth Moore
Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers Published: 2000-02 ASIN: 0805423486
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| | More details | | He was a man loved and annointed by God, and his life serves as an example-both good and bad-for Christians in every time and place. In this in-depth look at the life of David, Beth Moore draws spiritual insight and understanding from a man who slayed a giant and saved a kingdom. This book guides readers on an exciting and informative journey through virtually every twist and turn of David's life as a shepherd, refugee, and king. Moore introduces readers to the heart of a man whose triumphs and sins were foundation blocks of God's plan and prophecy and shows readers how to better serve God by understanding their own unique relationship to Him. |
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A Marriage Without Regrets
by: Kay Arthur
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers Published: 2000-08 ASIN: 0736901000
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| | More details | Â âKay Arthur addresses a serious and sensitive subject with serious sensibility. Hereâs a book husbands and wives should read together.â âDr. Woodrow Kroll President and Senior Bible Teacher Back to the Bible Now in trade paper! A Marriage Without Regrets shares principles for successful marriages from the ultimate handbookâthe Bible. âThis book isnât about having a perfect marriage or changing your spouse,â Kay says. âItâs about having the kind of marriage where you can stand before God and say, âLord, I was all You intended me to be.â Speaking candidly about her first marriage, her conversion to Christianity, and her longtime marriage to Jack, Kay offers practical advice on communication, security, significance, parenting, and Godâs guidelines for remarriage. |
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A Woman After God's Own Heart
by: Elizabeth George
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers Published: 2001-01 ASIN: 0736904697
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| | More details | Elizabethâs Georgeâs A Woman After Godâs Own Heart® (more than 310,000 copies sold) is available in hardcover! Many women long for a workable way to actively live their faith. In her gracious style, Elizabeth offers practical, Scriptureâbased principles to readers who want to become Godâs women of excellence. Refreshing ideas, illustrations, and insights will inspire every woman to: - Develop a stronger partnership with her husband
- Improve her relationships
- Make her home a spiritual oasis
- Develop a growing, vital relationship with God
- Provide care and encouragement to others
As women find direction for achieving balance in their schedules, theyâll discover the lifeâgiving love and leading of Jesus Christ. Perfect for giftâgiving and personal use. |
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Applause of Heaven-Cassette
by: Max Lucado
Publisher: W Publishing Group Published: 1990-08 ASIN: 0849912482
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| | More details | | It is what you've always dreamed but never expected. It's having God as your dad, your biggest fan, and your best friend. It's having the King of Kings in your cheering section; it's hearing the applause of heaven. Max Lucado believes that the Beatitudes provide what we truly need to discover: the joy of God. Much more than a how-to book on happiness, The Applause of Heaven is an encounter with the Source of Joy. |
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As Silver Refined: Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments
by: Kay Arthur
Publisher: WaterBrook Press Published: 1998-02-01 ASIN: 157856056X
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| | More details | ARE YOU DISAPPOINTED THAT LIFE ISNâT TURNING OUT LIKE YOU PLANNED? HOW DO YOU RESPOND when your husband or wife tramples your emotions? When your boss fires you unexpectedly? When you lose your lifeâs savings? When the child youâve loved and prayed for turns his back on you and your values? When disappointments like these smash their way into your life, you may want to scream, âHow could God let this happen?â
BUT WHAT IF GOD didnât just âlet it happenâ? What if the things you call disappointments are really His appointments â events He is using to make you more like Christ? What if He is using your disappointments like flames to melt and burn away the undesirable elements in your life, leaving you pure and radiant â like refined silver?
YOU CAN BE DEFEATED by lifeâs unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them. Kay Arthur paints a graphic picture of the dangerous downward spiral of disappointment that can lead to discouragement, depression, or even despair. But you can learn to break that cycle and embrace disappointment with a faith that recognizes the trials of life as tools that God uses to make you â as silver refined â a reflection of His goodness. |
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Bad Girls of the Bible and What We Can Learn from Them
by: Liz Curtis Higgs
Publisher: WaterBrook Press Published: 1999-08-17 ASIN: 1578562201
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| | More details | Lessons in Good Living From the Bibleâs Bad News Belles. Women everywhere marvel at those âgood girlsâ in ScriptureâSarah, Mary, Estherâbut on most days, thatâs not who they see when they look in the mirror. Most women (if theyâre honest) see the selfishness of Sapphira or the deception of Delilah. They catch of glimpse of Jezebelâs take-charge pride or Eveâs disastrous disobedience. Like Bathsheba, Herodias, and the rest, todayâs modern woman is surrounded by temptations, exhausted by the demands of daily living, and burdened by her own desires.
So whatâs a good girl to do? Learn from their lives, says beloved humor writer Liz Curtis Higgs, and by Godâs grace, choose a better path. In Bad Girls of the Bible, Higgs offers a unique and clear-sighted approach to understanding those âother womenâ in Scripture, combining a contemporary retelling of their stories with a solid, verse-by-verse study of their mistakes and what lessons women today can learn from them.
Whether they were âBad to the Bone,â âBad for a Season, but Not Foreverâ or only âBad for a Moment,â these infamous sisters show women how not to handle the challenges of life. With her trademark humor and encouragement, Liz Curtis Higgs teaches us how to avoid their tragic mistakes and joyfully embrace grace. |
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Be Happy Attitudes
by: Robert Schuller
Publisher: Random House Audio Published: 1987-05-12 ASIN: 0394298527
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| | More details | All of us want to be happy. Some people believe money will make them happy. Others decide they need fame. Still others think, if only they were in love, or had more friends, they would be happy. Yet we all know people who are wealthy, famous or popular, who still have plenty of problems, and who let those problems make them unhappy.
Drawing on the most famous section of the Sermon on the Mount, Dr. Robert Schuller reveals the eight positive mental attitudes that make real happiness possible for you. With insight and humor, he uses examples from the daily lives of real people to illustrate the practical, life-changing power behind the Beatitudes. |
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Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
by: Elaine Pagels
Publisher: Random House Audio Published: 2004-05-04 ASIN: 0739310674
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| | More details | Special edition including the complete text of the Gospel of Thomas
Elaine Pagels, one of the worldâs most important writers and thinkers on religion and history, and winner of the National Book Award for her groundbreaking work The Gnostic Gospels, now reflects on what matters most about spiritual and religious exploration in the twenty-first century. This bold new book explores how Christianity began by tracing its earliest texts, including the secret Gospel of Thomas, rediscovered in Egypt in 1945.
When her infant son was diagnosed with fatal pulmonary hypertension, Elaine Pagelsâs spiritual and intellectual quest took on a new urgency, leading her to explore historical and archeological sources and to investigate what Jesus and his teachings meant to his followers before the invention of doctrineâand before the invention of Christianity as we know it.
The astonishing discovery of the Gospel of Thomas, along with more than fifty other early Christian texts unknown since antiquity, offers startling clues. Pagels compares such sources as Thomasâs gospel (which claims to give Jesusâ secret teaching, and finds its closest affinities with kabbalah) with the canonic texts to show how Christian leaders chose to include some gospels and exclude others from the collection we have come to know as the New Testament. To stabilize the emerging Christian church in times of devastating persecution, the church fathers constructed the canon, creed, and hierarchyâand, in the process, suppressed many of its spiritual resources.
Drawing on new scholarshipâher own, and that of an international group of scholarsâthat has come to light since the publication in 1979 of The Gnostic Gospels, Pagels shows that what matters about Christianity involves much more than any one set of beliefs. Traditions embodied in Judaism and Christianity can powerfully affect us in heart, mind, and spirit, inspire visions of a new society based on practicing justice and love, even heal and transform us.
Provocative, beautifully written, and moving, Beyond Belief, the most personal of Pagelsâs books to date, shows how âthe impulse to seek God overflows the narrow banks of a single tradition.â Pagels writes, âWhat I have come to love in the wealth and diversity of our religious traditionsâand the communities that sustain themâis that they offer the testimony of innumerable people to spiritual discovery, encouraging us, in Jesusâ words, to âseek, and you shall find.ââ
From the Hardcover edition. |
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Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour (Library Edition)
by: Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Published: 2009-11-01 ASIN: 1441702156
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| | More details | | In this acclaimed account, Barbara Tuchman reveals that today s troubles in the Middle East originated long before the first efforts at founding a modern state of Israel. Historically, the British were drawn to the Holy Land by two major influences: the translation of the Bible into English and, later, the imperial need to control the road to India and access to Middle East oil. With the lucidity and vividness that characterizes her work, Barbara Tuchman brings to life the development of these dual motives the Bible and the sword in the consciousness of the British people, until they were finally brought together at the end of World War I, when the Balfour Declaration of 1917 established a British-sponsored national home for the modern survivors of the people of the Old Testament. |
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Bible Jesus Read, The
by: Philip Yancey
Publisher: Zondervan Published: 1999-08-01 ASIN: 0310229820
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| | More details | | If you think it's just a mysterious, outdated book, think again. It's the Bible Jesus read, used, and loved. The Old Testament is God's biography, the story of his passionate encounters with people. It is also a prequel to the story of Jesus, who came to answer the questions that troubled the ancient writers and still trouble us today. For expressing our deepest longings and voicing the full range of our lives and emotions, the Old Testament has no equal. Join Philip Yancey as he explores these sometimes shocking, often cryptic divine writings. You will come to know God more intimately, anticipate Jesus more fervently, and find a wonderful, wise companion for your faith journey. |
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Christ: A Crisis in the Life of Christ
by: Jack Miles
Publisher: Highbridge Audio Published: 2001-11-12 ASIN: 1565115406
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| | More details | The God of the Bible's Old Testament differs significantly from the God of the New. Jack Miles is fascinated by both, and delights in exploring this endlessly intriguing subject from various provocative angles. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning God: A Biography, he posited the notion that the Old Testament God was a person, and then pondered his motives and actions as though the deity were a character in a novel.
Now he turns his attention to the New Testament, focusing on Christ, and presenting him as a literary creation based only partly on the historical Jesus. He regards the New Testament, in which God has become a man--that is, Christ--as an epilogue to the Hebrew scriptures. The "crisis" in the title of this unconventional reexamination of the four Gospels is that God-as-Christ is brutally executed to atone for promises unkept. Despite his divinity, his powers of salvation are limited, a fact made appallingly obvious when he is crucified.
A former Jesuit priest, Jack Miles brings his theological background to bear on questions that defy conclusive answers. In language that is both erudite and accessible, he encourages reflection and stimulates further investigation of age-old mysteries. |
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David a Man of Passion and Destiny (Insight for Living Bible Study Guides)
by: Charles R. Swindoll
Publisher: Insight for Living Published: 1998-09 ASIN: 1579720072
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| | More details | David, unlike any Bible character before him, had the charisma to inspire a great nation. Yet in other ways he was a most ordinary man--often gripped by destructive passion, rocked by personal tragedy, and motivated by political gain. Yet, he is the one character the Bible describes as a "man after God's own heart." In this first volume of the "Great Lives" series Charles Swindoll shows how David proved his love for God many times over in an extraordinary life that left an enduring legacy of faith. |
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Developing the Leader Within You
by: John C. Maxwell
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc Published: 1993-04 ASIN: 0840798415
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| | More details | | A noted author and speaker on management and church growth shares the principles of leadership he's learned over the last two decades of his preaching/teaching ministry and leadership training. |
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Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned
by: Kenneth C. Davis
Publisher: BDD Audio Published: 1998-09-15 ASIN: 0553478109
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| | More details | Nine out of ten Americans own a Bible, but how much do they know about the one book that has influenced human history more than any other? Don't Know Much About® the Bible by New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis is designed to illuminate everything we need to know about the Good Book but never learned. With wit, authority, and intelligence, Davis brings the world of the Old and New Testaments to vivid life, setting the panorama of the Scriptures against the historical events that shaped them; clearing up misconceptions and mistranslations; summarizing Bible stories, parables, and miracles; and adding fresh new insights to the world's most owned, least understood book.
Davis is uniquely qualified for the assignment. The creator of the bestselling Don't Know Much About® series, he now illuminates the bestselling book of all time, using his inimitable question-and-answer approach and providing a key to the people, places, and "household names" we need to unlock "The Greatest Story Ever Told." Writes Davis, "I believe people are starved for knowledge. They just want it in a more appealing style than the way it was presented back in school."
Relying on up-to-date research and improved translations, Davis sets out to uncover what the Bible says--and doesn't say. Don't Know Much About® the Bible is the result of his efforts and includes the following observations: There are two different Creation stories told in Genesis, but no apple in the Garden of Eden story. There was no "coat of many colors" in the story of Joseph and his jealous brothers, but rather a long-sleeved robe. Moses didn't write the Torah and he didn't part the Red Sea in his escape from Pharaoh. The Sixth Commandment does not condemn all killing. King David probably didn't kill Goliath and didn't write the Psalms. Jesus wasn't born on Christmas.
Davis brings readers up-to-date on findings gleaned from the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gnostic Gospels that prompt serious scholars to ask such questions as: Who wrote the Bible? Did Jesus say everything we were taught he did? Did he say more? By examining the Bible historically, Davis also shows which biblical teachings may have suited an ancient, semi-nomadic world but no longer apply to life at the dawn of the twenty-first century. |
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Esther a Woman of Strength and Dignity
by: Charles R. Swindoll
Publisher: Insight for Living Published: 1998-09 ASIN: 1579720692
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| | More details | Everyone loves a transforming story. Rags to riches. Plain to beautiful. Weak to strong. Esther's story is that, and much more. It is a thought-provoking study of God's invisible hand, writing silently across the pages of human history. Perhaps most of all, it is an account of a godly woman with the courage, wisdom, and strength to block an evil plot, overthrow an arrogant killer, and replace with joy in thousands of Jewish homes. Through Esther's courageous struggle to help her people, Swindoll explains the power of divine providence in volume 2 of the best-selling "Great Lives" series. |
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Finding Favor with the King: Preparing for Your Moment in His Presence
by: Tommy Tenney
Publisher: Bethany House Published: 2003-09-01 ASIN: 0764228609
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| | More details | | How does a simple peasant girl become a princess? How can the church be transformed to enter the King's presence wearing His favorite colors and adorned with His favorite fragrance, a bride without spot or wrinkle? Tenney takes readers to Esther's pre-Islamic Persia to uncover the secrets that helped her win the heart and gain the ear of the king and save her people from destruction. A Jewish girl of no royal heritage was chosen over 127 more qualified candidates to become the Queen of Persia. Was it her beauty alone, or did she know an important and mysterious truth? Tenney challenges his readers to move beyond formal petitions or even "storming the gates of heaven" to that intimate embrace of worship where the bride's petitions move the Kingâs heart and where kingdoms, people, and situations begin to shift like pawns on a divine chessboard. |
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Genesis
Publisher: Audio Literature Published: 1997-12 ASIN: 1574531018
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| | More details | Robert Alter sets a new standard in the translation of this formative book of the Hebrew Bible. Genesis begins with the making of heaven and earth and all life, and ends with the image of a mummyâJoseph'sâin a coffin. In between come many of the primal stories in Western culture: Adam and Eve's expulsion from the garden of Eden, Cain's murder of Abel, Noah and the Flood, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham's binding of Isaac, the covenant of God and Abraham, Isaac's blessing of Jacob in place of Esau, the saga of Joseph and his brothers. In Robert Alter's brilliant translation, these stories cohere in a powerful narrative of the tortuous relations between fathers and sons, husbands and wives, eldest and younger brothers, God and his chosen people, the people of Israel and their neighbors. Alter's translation honors the meanings and literary strategies of the ancient Hebrew and conveys them in fluent English prose. It recovers a Genesis with the continuity of theme and motif of a wholly conceived and fully realized book. His insightful, fully informed commentary illuminates the book in all its dimensions. |
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Genesis
by: Stephen Mitchell
Publisher: HarperAudio Published: 1996-11-01 ASIN: 0694518115
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| | More details | In this highly acclaimed translation, Stephen Mitchell conveys in English the simplicity, dignity and powerful earthiness of the original Hebrew. More than just interpreting it, he also separates stories that were combined by scribes centuries after they were written, explaining their sources and omitting all verses that are recognized as scribal additions. Like removing coat after coat of lacquer from a once-vibrant masterpiece, this allows readers to appreciate the clarity of the original tales. Genesis is an extraordinarily beautiful book that is accessible in a way that no other translation has ever been. It will shed new light on readers' understanding of this seminal work of sacred scripture. |
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Genesis: A living Coversation (Pbs Series)
by: Bill Moyers
Publisher: Random House Audio Published: 1997-02-27 ASIN: 0553477250
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| | More details | People need stories to make sense of the world--to hold their lives together, and to fasten on to those values that last. The greatest stories are found in the Bible, enduring through the centuries. In Genesis, acclaimed television journalist Bill Moyers brings together some of the world's liveliest minds for spirited round-table discussions of the ageless stories from the Bible's first, towering book.
Creation, temptation, murder, exile, and family strife--these emerge from every page of Genesis and speak to us today. Genesis invites readers into a lively and accessible discussion of the manifold meanings of these stories, and engages us in a fascinating exploration of the relationship between interpreter and text. Among the scores of writers, theologians, artists, and thinkers in the series are Mary Gordon, Phyllis Trible, John Barth, Faye Kellerman, Samuel Proctor, Aviva Zornberg, Walter Brueggemann, Robert Alter, Oscar Hijuelos, Charles Johnson, Stephen Mitchell, Leon Kass, Elaine Pagels, Bharati Mukherjee, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Elizabeth Swados, Renita Weems--all in a dazzling, multi-layered chorus of voices.
With the same interplay of text, photographs, and art that made The Power of Myth and Healing and the Mind so dynamic and unforgettable, Genesis has the capacity to enrich people's lives intellectually and spiritually.
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