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The profound disruptions of recent years have sparked a collective reckoning. We reprioritized our lives, and reordered how we envisioned the future. Businesses were forced to pivot, while leaders scrambled to rethink their roles. There has been an unprecedented global reset. But in truth, almost everyone goes through this kind of reappraisal at least once in their life—and probably more often than that. Whatever the catalyst, it prompts in us the...
62) Newport New Moon
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The new moon in Newport brings high tides and high hopes...Faith had never allowed herself to dream that she might be able to retire early, but with her pillow business taking off, she lets in an inkling of hope. But all that has to be put aside when disaster strikes, and the Newport Harbor House is in danger once again, requiring all hands on deck.Catch up with Jen, Faith and Carrie--and their friends and family--in the fourth book in the Newport...
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Enjoy an engaging, thoughtful, and practical journey packed with humor, compassion, and scripture! Learn to be fully present and "all in," right where you are and reap the benefits that come with it!
Present is an invitation to a deeper, richer, and quieter life with God. So often we sleepwalk through our days, but there is a deep biblical precedent and tremendous gift in practicing awareness right where we are. Present will help you discover:
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Everyone struggles with worry. You may be wrestling with everyday fears about your relationships or your finances. Or perhaps you're dealing with a life-and-death decision or paralyzing emotions. Regardless of the reasons for your worries, or the degree to which you feel them, God cares. He wants you to live a life of peace and hope. He wants to give you freedom.
This book will explain and apply 100 key verses from God's Word to help you overcome...
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As we search for meaning in our world of shallow online relationships and glamorized selfies, many are returning to traditional and liturgical churches. The repeated words, benedictions, and historic hymns connect us to saints who have gone before, giving us a sense of belonging, richness, and transcendence. Written prayers, once cast off as archaic, are now welcomed as guides to tune our hearts to the heart of God.
In My Heart, Ever His Barbara...
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Based on the book of Psalms, Deliver Us addresses difficult and life-harrowing situations, and offers encouragement on how to get through them. In true Michele Howe style, this book includes thirty chapters composed of real-life accounts, "Take-Away Action Thoughts," prayers, and insights for when times are dark.
How does one survive a financial crisis? What hope is there for people living with chronic pain? How can couples cope with marital impasses?...
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Is it faith, she asks? Is it prayer? Is it spiritual growth? Is it praise? Is it service and giving? Is it our commitment to God Himself? Yes, these are all basics for a fruitful life as a Christian. But underlying and enhancing these virtues is God's everlasting love for us. Once we are sure in this knowledge — that God will never forsake us — everything else will fall into place. Faith and prayer and praise and giving and service and commitment...
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Parenthood Unplanned provides an in-depth perspective of both the raw and sobering truth-as well as the humor, joy, and adventure-of an unexpected pregnancy. Written through a Christian lens, Sarah shares practical, inspiring, and honest advice for young parents and their families facing the unexpected.
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I just want to be in heaven. When we enter seasons of hardship or shortage, we yearn for the peace, tranquility, and abundance we know we will find in heaven. But did you know that God has given us access to the riches of heaven here on earth? Bestselling author and entrepreneur Patricia King dives into Scripture and answers questions like:
What does accessing the riches of heaven look like?
What kinds of riches are there?
How can I receive my spiritual...
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From the author of Bond Girl and Lost Along the Way, comes a fiercely funny, insightful story of marriage, family, and the crooked path to figuring out who we really are.
Claire thought she had everything a woman was supposed to want-a loving husband, a newborn son, a beautiful home in the suburbs. Then she walks in on her husband canoodling with their realtor in their newly renovated kitchen, and in an instant, her perfect life comes crashing down....
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The church has forgotten that we worship a disabled God whose wounds survived resurrection, says Amy Kenny. It is time for the church to start treating disabled people as full members of the body of Christ, who have much more to offer than a miraculous cure narrative and to learn from their embodied experiences.
Written by a disabled Christian, this book shows that the church is missing out on the prophetic witness and blessing of disability. Kenny...
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Barbara Rainey Offers Sage Advice on the Art of Being a Wife! Radio personality and bestselling author Barbara Rainey knows firsthand the challenges newly married couples face. Dismayed by Hollywood depictions of marriage and the seemingly easy solution of divorce, she sees a desperate need for a voice of experience, a mentor who has been there and understands - and can encourage, coach, and care. As her daughters began their married lives, Barbara...
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Wife, mother of 5, and part-time family practice doctor.
The world is shouting at us to be more. Be the BEST. Strive. Achieve. Overachieve. Never stop pushing. After seven years of living married to an alcoholic and drug addict, Mikala was drowning in motherhood, all while, finishing medical school and her residency. At the end of her rope, she realized all this time she had been chasing something that doesn't exist. Perfect is pretend. All she desperately...
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Ever since her childhood on a Niagara farm, Debi has dug in the dirt to find resilience. But when her husband, Peter, was diagnosed with cancer in November, it was too late in the season to seek solace in her garden. With idle hands and a fearful mind, she sought something to sustain her through the months ahead. She soon came across Victory Gardens - the vegetable gardens cultivated during the world wars that sustained so many.
During an anxious...
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There is so much more than what I'm settling for! That was the revelation about God that changed Jeannie Cunnion's life and lit a fire in her soul.
Jeannie was surprised to realize that even though she had been following Jesus for more than 35 years as a preacher's kid and Bible teacher, she was missing out on all of God. She grappled with questions like
· Why do I keep stumbling in my walk with Jesus?
· How can I experience God's power in my...
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It took only one summer to save a beach house and turn Carrie's perfectly planned life upside down. It took Jen and her best friends Carrie and Faith all summer to save the beach house. And none of them could have realized how much it would change their lives. Jen's making a new life for herself in Newport, facing new challenges and new relationships. The beginning of the school year calls Faith back to her kindergarten classroom while she tries...
77) Just As I Am
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In these chaotic times, when many people who claim to be Christian are searching for "relevance" in the secular to justify their worldly aspirations, much of the Christian heritage is being ignored or discarded. But Miss Price turns time back for a moment and in these early Victorian lyrics she finds surprisingly sound, contemporary meaning that stands boldly above the ideas of today's so-called radical thinkers.
Each line of this long-favored song...
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In Aftershock, an experienced counselor and therapist offer hope-and a practical plan-for women who have discovered their husband's struggle with pornography and other sexual infidelities. What do you do when your inner world is crumbling in the aftershock of this devastating betrayal? Read this book! From the seven steps for self-care and learning how to deal with the emotions that follow this unwelcome news to considering the "why" of his behavior...
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Here, for the first time outside the pages of a small Island newspaper called Georgia's Coastal Illustrated, Eugenia shares with her worldwide reading public, some of what life was like during the first years in which she and her best friend and fellow writer, Joyce Blackburn, were becoming Islanders. "These short pieces," Genie says, "Include my observations day by day of what it was like, at last, to be at home on St. Simons. We were learning how...
80) A Woman's Choice
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First Published in 1962, A Woman's Choice is chock-full of Eugenia Price's practical and wise suggestions on how women can participate with God in the day-to-day business of living through their problems.
Eugenia Price has long been recognized for her ability to understand the modern Christian woman's problems. In A Woman's Choice, Ms. Price shares her responses to the many