Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

1971 Edition

Out of  This World 

New Jersey

Experiencing the True God

Mitch Albom

There is a small black smudge on the dust jacket on the front cover as shown in the attached pictures. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

Killed in a tragic accident, Eddie, an elderly man who believes that he had an uninspired life, awakens in the afterlife, where he discovers that heaven consists of having five people explain the meaning of one's life.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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Elaine Pagels

One un-dogeared page.
Elaine Pagels, one of the world’s 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 Pagels’s 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 doctrine–and 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 Thomas’s gospel (which claims to give Jesus’ 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 hierarchy–and, in the process, suppressed many of its spiritual resources.

Drawing on new scholarship–her own, and that of an international group of scholars–that 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 Pagels’s books to date, shows how “the impulse to seek God overflows the narrow banks of a single tradition.” Pagels writes, “What I have come to love in the wealth and diversity of our religious traditions–and the communities that sustain them–is that they offer the testimony of innumerable people to spiritual discovery, encouraging us, in Jesus’ words, to ‘seek, and you shall find.’”

The Secret Gospel of Thomas

Elaine Pagels, one of the world’s most important writers and thinkers on religion and history, and winner of the National Book Award for her groundbreaking workThe 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 Pagels’s 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 doctrine–and 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 Thomas’s gospel (which claims to give Jesus’ 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 hierarchy–and, in the process, suppressed many of its spiritual resources. Drawing on new scholarship–her own, and that of an international group of scholars–that 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 Pagels’s books to date, shows how “the impulse to seek God overflows the narrow banks of a single tradition.” Pagels writes, “What I have come to love in the wealth and diversity of our religious traditions–and the communities that sustain them–is that they offer the testimony of innumerable people to spiritual discovery, encouraging us, in Jesus’ words, to ‘seek, and you shall find.’”

Beyond Belief - First Edition

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Marianne Williamson

Dean Ornish

Colorado

21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever

Looks at weight loss from a spiritual perspective, offering twenty-one lessons completely separated from anything related to diet or exercise that aim to retrain one's consciousness in the area of weight in order to break the cycle of overeating, dieting, and shame.

A Course in Weight Loss

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Ohio

The twelfth Angel

Georgia

Comedian and sceptical Christian Susan Isaacs takes God to couples counselling in this refreshingly honest memoir about a middle-class white girl's dark nights of the soul.

Angry Conversations with God

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Illinois

A Novel

From Melissa Payne, bestselling author of The Night of Many Endings, comes an emotional and suspenseful novel about the weight of secrets and the healing power of friends and family.

Vega Jones escapes an abusive relationship with nothing but her two-month-old baby and the van she grew up in. Her destination is a small Ohio town her late vagabond mother left years ago. It's one full of nobodies, her mother warned. That makes it the ideal refuge for Vega to lie low, feel safe, and maybe learn more about a past her mother never spoke of.

Vega warms to the town and to new acquaintances like Heff, the young deputy and artist who prefers his yard art to actual policing, and empathetic Eve, a local farmer whose near-death experience gave her more than just her life back. But even in this welcoming community, there's an undercurrent of something unsettled, talk of a tragedy that unfolded in the woods years ago, and a mystery connected to Vega in ways she couldn't have anticipated.

As a mother on the run and following a path of mounting risks and illuminating secrets, Vega discovers that even during the darkest of times, there's light in unexpected places.

A Light in the Forest

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Mark Batterson

Book has some big creases on the cover and a few dog ears, but is overall still in good condition. It has a bookplate from a previous owner inside the front cover (see photos). 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Alaska

The 40 Day Prayer Challenge

Presents a forty-day devotional containing Scriptural quotations and inspirational thoughts on the role of God and the power of prayer in everyday life.

Draw the Circle

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Missouri

How to Conquer "Grasshopper Mentality" and Develop the Courage of a Giant Slayer

In biblical times, the children of Israel wandered around the wilderness for 40 years, intimidated and disappointed, because of their grasshopper mentality. Dr. Mitchell believes that's exactly how many people live life today. He shows readers how to conquer grasshopper mentality and develop the courage, confidence, commitment and attitudes of a giant slayer.

Winning in the Land of Giants

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#hardcover #religion #Christian #spiritualgrowth #Christianlife #spiritual   #free

Iowa

How Suffering Sets You Free

In this world, one thing is certain: Everybodynbsp;hurts.nbsp;Suffering may take the form of tragedy, heartbreak, or addiction. Or it could be something more mundane (but no less real) like resentment, loneliness, or disappointment. But there's unfortunately no such thing as a painless life. Innbsp;Glorious Ruin, best-selling author Tullian Tchividjian takes an honest and refreshing look at the reality of suffering, the ways we tie ourselves in knots trying to deal with it, and the comfort of the gospel for those who can't seem to fix themselves--or others.nbsp;

This is not so much a book aboutnbsp;Whynbsp;God allows suffering or evennbsp;Hownbsp;we should approach suffering--it is a book about the tremendously liberating and gloriously counterintuitive truth of a Godnbsp;whonbsp;suffers with you and for you. It is a book, in other words, about the kind of hope that takes the shape of a cross.

Glorious Ruin

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Rethinking How You Read the Bible

Why Can't I Just Be a Christian?" Parakeets make delightful pets. We cage them or clip their wings to keep them where we want them. Scot McKnight contends that many, conservatives and liberals alike, attempt the same thing with the Bible. We all try to tame it. McKnight's The Blue Parakeet has emerged at the perfect time to cool the flames of a world on fire with contention and controversy. It calls Christians to a way to read the Bible that leads beyond old debates and denominational battles. It calls Christians to stop taming the Bible and to let it speak anew for a new generation. In his books The Jesus Creed and Embracing Grace, Scot McKnight established himself as one of America's finest Christian thinkers, an author to be reckoned with. In The Blue Parakeet, McKnight again touches the hearts and minds of today's Christians, this time challenging them to rethink how to read the Bible, not just to puzzle it together into some systematic theology but to see it as a Story that we're summoned to enter and to carry forward in our day. In his own inimitable style, McKnight sets traditional and liberal Christianity on its ear, leaving readers equipped, encouraged, and emboldened to be the people of faith they long to be.

The Blue Parakeet

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Eckhart Tolle

Michigan

Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Contends that humanity has an unprecedented opportunity to shift from its dangerous, ego-based state of consciousness to a saner, more loving existence, and offers practical advice on how to promote kindness and freedom.

A New Earth

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Brand new bookish palmistry (palm reading) model hand mini enamel pin. From The Enamel Library 2023 Advent Calendar box. Imported from Australia.

Utah

The Enamel Library 2023 Advent Calendar Palmistry Palm Reading Model Mini Pin

#hardcover #fiction #turkey #faith #historicalfiction #love #spiritual

Florida

She is called Nurdane, the famed weaver of Mavisu. From her remote mountain village in southwestern Turkey, she creates dowries for young brides: dazzling rugs that are marvels of shape and color, texture and light. For her unique rugs possess remarkable healing qualities that have inspired local legend. But it is her hands that are at the heart of her mystery. An artist's hands. A virgin's hands.

An extraordinary series of events drives Nurdane to question the limitations of her faith and culture as she is caught between the cost of remaining pure in body and spirit...or risking everything for the chance to live a loving life. Shimmering with the history and lore of Turkish culture and tradition, this is a richly woven, brilliantly hued novel about a young woman who travels from innocence to knowledge, from loneliness to love. In this luminous debut, The Virgin's Knotheralds the arrival of a gifted new voice in literary fiction.

The Virgin's Knot

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Hannah Hurnard

Book is in great condition with no markings or highlights. 

California

Much-afraid is on her spiritual journey through difficult places with her two companions, Sorrow and Suffering.

Hinds' Feet on High Places

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Science

Finding God in All Things

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"Everywhere I go", states bestselling author Tony Campolo, "I encounter Christians who believe all the right things, but lack the vital aliveness that can come through total surrender to the ministry of the Holy Spirit". Tony's stirring message and moving stories help all Christians become more aware of the Holy Spirit's desire to lead and strengthen them.

How to Be Pentecostal Without Speaking in Tongues

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#hardcover #bodymindspirit #fiction #spiritual 

Indiana

The Tenets of Novus Spiritus

If You Could See What I See

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Randy Alcorn

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

What will heaven be like? Randy Alcorn presents a thoroughly biblical answer, based on years of careful study, presented in an engaging, reader-friendly style. His conclusions will surprise readers and stretch their thinking about this important subject. Heaven will inspire readers to long for heaven while they're living on earth.

Heaven

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Victoria Lilienthal

Idaho

When her charismatic mentor, Ernesto, publicly chooses her as his professional partner, all indications are that Vera's bodywork career is about to ignite. There is just one glitch--no, make that two. Vera--single mother of savvy, smart teenage India and her scruffy mutt, Francisco--is fucking Ernesto. As for her new promotion . . . Ernesto took it from his wife, Jean, in order to give it to her. As Vera becomes increasingly embroiled in Ernesto and Jean's dark shenanigans, she quickly realizes that what seemed like an exciting opportunity is more like a deal with the Devil. Confronted with the consequences of her own yearning for male validation, it takes India, a glamorous and aristocratic client named Grace, and the mysterious goddess White Tara, Tibetan Goddess of compassion, to teach Vera the virtues of a sustainable path to self-authority. 

 
A fast-paced, humorous tale, The T Room is sure to prove irresistible to every adventurous woman familiar with that Saturday-morning-bookstore trajectory that starts with Self-Help, diverts into Romance, and lands heartfirst in Spirituality.

The T Room

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Melanie Shankle

Ree Drummond

The Million Little Pieces That Make up a Life

Encourages readers to treat small, everyday moments and tasks as the holy callings they are, reminding them of the great things God can do with small acts of faithfulness.

Church of the Small Things

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Beth Moore

Louisiana

90 Days with the One and Only

Beth Moore's best-selling book on the life of Jesus is expanded and reintroduced with study questions, journal space, and durable keepsake packaging to further engage the author's growing audience.

Jesus

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Joyce Meyer

Discover the Joy of Gratitude

Adopt a lifestyle of thanksgiving with the help of this inspiring book and discover that no matter how messy life gets, God will make it good. Each moment that you're given is a precious gift from God. You can choose to have a thankful attitude and live each moment full of joy, simply because God is good. In The Power of Thank You, renowned Bible teacher and #1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer encourages us to take a look at ourselves and the importance of being thankful. Living life with a heart of gratitude for who God is and what He has done lifts your burdens and allows you to see everything in a different light. Regularly giving thanks to God not only helps you fully realize how He's working in your life, it gives you a new perspective--your mind is renewed, your attitude is improved, and you're filled with joy. Things will certainly happen to you that don't seem fair, and it's much easier to make excuses and feel sorry for yourself. Keep saying, "I trust You, God, and I believe You will work it all out for my good." If you find The Power of Thank You in every situation, truly believing that God is working everything out for your good, you will end up with the victory every single time.

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Out of This World

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Angry Conversations with God

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A Light in the Forest

Mark Batterson

Draw the Circle

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Winning in the Land of Giants

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