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"From the bestselling author of Stitches and Help, Thanks, Wow comes her long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on hope, joy, and grace. Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It's an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardship...
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Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
Description
Just like you, Ann Voskamp hungers to live her one life well. Forget the bucket lists that have us escaping our everyday lives for exotic experiences. "How," Ann wondered, "do we find joy in the midst of deadlines, debt, drama, and daily duties? What does the Christ-life really look like when your days are gritty, long -- and sometimes even dark? How is God even here?"In One Thousand Gifts, Ann invites you to embrace everyday blessings and embark...
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English
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer shows readers how to become free from the burden of stress so that they can achieve God's best for their lives. As technology increases your accessibility, it becomes harder to mute the background noise of your life and receive God's guidance. Joyce Meyer calls this OVERLOAD, when the demands of your busy life become all-consuming and overwhelming. But to experience the joyful life God has planned,...
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Lamott explores how we find meaning and peace when life lurches out of balance; where we start again after personal and public devastation; how we recapture wholeness after loss; and how we locate our true identities in this frazzled age. We begin, Lamott says, by collecting the ripped shreds of our emotional and spiritual fabric and sewing them back together, one stitch at a time.
6) How (not) to save the world: the truth about revealing God's love to the people right next to you
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Mobilizing a generation for the gospel, Hosanna Wong offers a myth-busting approach to explain how God uses our unique abilities, positions, and relationships to help us become all that we were made for.
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Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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What if you didn't have to die to know that heaven exists? And, what if that knowledge could get you killed?
Following a biking accident on icy Boston streets, grad student Zack Kashian lapses into a coma. When he wakes up on Easter, months later, muttering the Lord's Prayer in the original Aramaic, the media is set abuzz about the "Miracle Man." Religious fanatics flock to Zack's hospital bedside, though he claims to be an atheist.
Zack's revival...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
[U.S. edition].
Language
English
Description
"From master storyteller and host of On Being's Poetry Unbound, Pádraig Ó Tuama, comes an unforgettable memoir of identity, conflict, Celtic spirituality, belonging, and sexuality. 'It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.' Drawing on this Irish saying, Ó Tuama relates ideas of shelter and welcome to our journeys of life using poetry, story, biblical reflection, and prose to open up gentle ways of living well in a troubled world."...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
Description
"Bible teacher Laura Story gets what it's like to have plans altered and to surrender perceived security when faced with circumstances beyond our control. But she also understands the blessing of having a Father who loves you enough to take off the training wheels and place his beloved children in the best possible scenario for good and growth. Building on Laura's previous two titles, When God Doesn't Fix It and I Give Up, So Long, Normal guides us...
14) I've seen the end of you: a neurosurgeon's look at faith, doubt, and the things we think we know
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Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Dr. W. Lee Warren, a practicing brain surgeon, assumed he knew most outcomes for people with glioblastoma, head injuries, and other health-care problems. Yet even as he tried to give patients hope, his own heart would sink as he realized, I've seen the end of you. But it became far more personal when the acclaimed doctor experienced an unimaginable family tragedy. That's when he reached the end of himself. Page-turning medical stories serve as the...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición en español.
Language
Español
Description
"Un corazón agradecido tiene más poder del que podemos imaginar. Cultive un estilo de vida de agradecimiento y descubra que, no importa cuán caótica se torne la vida, Dios puede hacerla hermosa. Cada momento que se nos da es un regalo precioso de Dios. Si bien no siempre tenemos el control de lo que nos sucede, podemos optar por tener una mentalidad agradecida y vivir cada momento lleno de alegría, confiando y creyendo que Dios está cumpliendo...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"At a time when anger runs at a high pitch in our society, Bert Ghezzi offers biblically-based advice that shows us that the best way to handle anger is never to ignore it or try to "suppress" it. The Bible teaches us how to use anger wisely. Anger is good if we engage it to help us do the right thing and if we don't let it escalate out of hand. But it spawns evil if it gets out of control or if we use it for selfish, wrong-headed purposes. Under...
18) Stitches
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Lamott explores how and where people find meaning in the modern, frantic age, especially after personal and public devastation; how to recapture peace and balance after loss; and how to locate the spiritual identities in these frazzled times.
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