Jack Canfield

Mark Victor Hansen

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit

Features inspirational stories offering words of wisdom, hope, and empowerment

Chicken Soup for the Soul

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Virginia

Nine Traits of the Outwardly Focused Christian

Now is the time to stand up and say, “I Will!”

I Will

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Philip Yancey

Michigan

The author offers portraits of grace's life-changing power and offers suggestions for living one's life with grace

What's So Amazing about Grace?

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

Biblical Perspectives on Women in Ministry 

#hardcover #gospelofjudas #nonfiction #religion #theology #kasser #spiruaility 

New York

The Gospel of Judas

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James Martin

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Maryland

A Pilgrimage

A gifted storyteller and spiritual director, Father James Martin, SJ, invites readers to experience the stories of the Gospels in a completely new, vivid, and exciting way to gain a deeper understanding of Jesus. Moving sequentially through the Gospels, considering not only familiar passages but also the "hidden life" of Jesus, the book offers a bold retelling of the life of Christ, faithful to the Christian tradition, while meditating on parts of the narrative that have often escaped notice. Martin provides personal stories from his own life, the most up-to-date biblical scholarship, and powerful anecdotes from beloved spiritual teachers, and brings the reader along on his own real-life travels through the Holy Land. Combining the fascinating insights of historical Jesus studies with profound spiritual reflections about the Christ of faith, Martin re-creates the world of first-century Galilee and Judea to usher us into Jesus's life and times and reveal how Jesus speaks to us today. Jesus: A Pilgrimage is an invitation to know Jesus as Father Martin knows him: Messiah and Savior, as well as friend and brother.

Jesus

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Ruth K. Bullard

Roger Bullard

Bullard provides an informed, readable commentary specifically on the libretto, or text, of Handel's Messiah, explaining each part in terms of: how the language differs from the King James Version of the Bible; what the passage of Scripture meant in its original context; and how the citation fits in the artistic and religious structure of the oratorio as a whole.

Messiah, Gospel According to Handel’s Oratorio

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#paperback #classics #fiction #philosophy #play #theology #faust


Ohio

Faustus, a brilliant scholar, sells his soul to the devil in exchange for limitless knowledge and powerful black magic, yet remains unfulfilled. He considers repenting, but remains too proud to ask God for forgiveness. His indecision ultimately seals his fate.

Faustus's story serves as a warning to those who would sacrifice righteous living for earthly gain. But Marlowe's play is also a deeply symbolic analysis of the shift from the late medieval view that the highest wisdom lay in the theologian's contemplation of God was yielding to the Renaissance view that the highest wisdom lay in the scientist's and statesman's rational analysis of the world around them. Caught between these ideals, Faustus is both a tragic fool destroyed by his own ambition and a hero at the forefront of a changing society. In Doctor Faustus, Marlowe thoughtfully examines faith and enlightenment, nature and science - and the terrible cost of the objects of our desire.

Doctor Faustus

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Philip Gulley

James Mulholland

Why God Will Save Every Person

Argues the theological stance that all people will be saved through God's grace, offering a message of hope that explains how Christians can reconcile a love for non-Christian people.

If Grace Is True

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David Platt

Name and address sticker on inside cover 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

Examines the ways in which the gospel is contradicted by the American dream and challenges Christians to join in a one-year experiment in authentic discipleship that promises spiritual transformation through the word of God.

Radical

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Mike Evans

1986 Edition 

Examines selections from the Bible and the daily newspaper to show that the Second Coming is near at hand, and explains what people should do to prepare for the return of Christ

The Return

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JOsh McDowell

About the life of Jesus, his representation in biblical writings and his impact on contemporary Christians.

More Than a Carpenter

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The Religious Man

Stephen A. Cooper

Ex-library copy with the usual interior markings/stamps.

New Jersey

An introduction to the life and thought of fourth-century theologian Augustine of Hippo, discussing his book "Confessions," and looking at his key teaching in the context of the times in which he lived.

Augustine for Armchair Theologians

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Charles R. Swindoll

Mark O. Hatfield

Killing Giants, Pulling Thorns

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Vintage copy, 1960s, minor “old book” smell, but not bad. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Four Translation New Testament

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Washington

Kenda Creasy Dean

Missouri

What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church

The National Study of Youth and Religion asserts that, instead of consequential faith, most American teenagers practice "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism" - a superficial, low-commitment, self-serving spirituality that seems to characterize many American churches. Dean believes that churches must recover a "missional mindset"-the conviction that "we are not here for ourselves"-and that consequential faith begins by helping teenagers, parents, and congregations reclaim de-centering practices like translation, testimony, and spiritual "detachment" (what the mystics called the ability to focus on God and others instead of ourselves).

Almost Christian

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California

What on Earth Are We Missing?





What on earth are we missing Philip Yancey believes we are missing the supernatural hidden in everyday life. In Rumors of Another World, Yancey investigates the natural world and discovers the supernatural hiding in plain view. He grapples with why God made the world and what our role truly is, and seeks to answer the question, "How do I live in the natural world while expressing the values of the supernatural" Philip writes, "I have come to understand faith as the highest form of integrated encounter. Faith puts together, assembles, re-orders, accepting the entire world as God's handiwork. We live among clues, like rescuers sifting through pieces of stained glass shattered by a bomb, and only with a blueprint or some memory of original design can we begin to connect the shards, to assemble them into a pattern that makes sense of our world. "Nature and supernature are not two separate worlds, but different expressions of the same reality. To encounter the world as a whole, we need a more supernatural awareness of the natural world." Yancey invites readers to join him on a journey of discovery. He challenges us to tune into "rumors of another world," and connect the seen with the unseen. He promises that the grace-filled result will be a life of beauty, purpose, freedom, and faith.

Rumors of Another World

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Elaine Pagels

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

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Alabama

History,  Theology,  and Principles 

The Book of Church Growth 

Richard Stearns

What Does God Expect of Us? the Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World





WHAT DOES GOD EXPECT OF US 

Is our faith just about going to church, studying the Bible and avoiding the most serious sins--or does God expect more

Have we embraced the whole gospel or a gospel with a hole in it

Ten years ago, Rich Stearns came face-to-face with that question as he sat in a mud hut in Rakai, Uganda, listening to the heartbreaking story of an orphaned child. Stearns' journey there took much more than a long flight to Africa. It took answering God's call on his life, a call that tore him out of his corner office at one of America's most prestigious corporations--to walk with the poorest of the poor in our world.

The Hole in Our Gospel is the compelling true story of a corporate CEO who setaside worldly success for something far more significant, and discovered the full power of the gospel of Jesus Christ to change his own life. He uses his journey to demonstrate how the gospel--the whole gospel--was always meant  to be a world changing social revolution, a revolution that begins with us.

ECPA 2010 Christian Book of the Year Award Winner!

"Read this compelling story and urgent call for change--Richard Stearns is a contemporary Amos crying 'let justice roll down like waters....'  Justice is a serious gospel-prophetic mandate.  Far too many American Christians for too long a time have left the cause to 'others.'  Read it as an altar call."
--Eugene H. Peterson, translator of The Message, Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver, BC

"Rich Stearns calls us to exhilarating obedience to God's life-altering, world-changing command to reflect his love to our neighbors at home and globally. The Hole in Our Gospel is imbued with the hope of what is possible when God's people are transformed to live radically in light of his great love."
--Gary Haugen, President & CEO, International Justice Mission 

"Richard Stearns is quite simply one of the finest leaders I have ever known.... When he became president of World Vision I had a front row seat to witness the way God used his mind and heart to inspire thousands.... His new book, The Hole In Our Gospel will call you to a higher level of discipleship.... Now is the time...Richard Stearns has the strategy...your move!"
--Bill Hybels, Founding and Senior Pastor, Willow Creek Community Church, South Barrington, IL

"Rich Stearns has given us a book that makes absolutely clear what God hopes for and expects from each of us.... He reminded me of my personal responsibilities and the priority I must give them and also where life's true rewards and fulfillment are to be found."
--Jim Morris, former executive director, United Nations World Food Program

"World Vision plays a strategic role on our globe. As the largest relief organization in the history of the world, they initiate care and respond to crisis. Rich Stearns navigates this mercy mission with great skill. His book urges us to think again about the opportunity to love our neighbor and comfort the afflicted. His message is timely and needed. May God bless him, the mission of World Vision and all who embrace it."
--Max Lucado, author of 3:16--The Numbers of Hope, Minister of Writing and Preaching, Oak Hills Church, San Antonio, TX

"With passionate urging and earnestness, Rich Stearns challenges Christians to embrace the whole Gospel of Jesus Christ by embracing the neediest and most vulnerable among us.  After reading the moving stories, the compelling facts and figures, and Stearns' excellent application of scripture and his own experiences at World Vision, you will no doubt be asking yourself: What should I do"
--Chuck Colson, Founder, Prison Fellowship

The Hole in Our Gospel

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Illinois

Science and Theology on Eschatology

The Ends of the World and the Ends of God

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#hardcover #wisdomtales #justicetales #riddle #shortstories #wisdom #justice #teaching #education #theology

Riddle Stories and Justice Tales from Around the World

In this outstanding multicultural collection from the authors of the prizewinning While Standing on One Foot, readers must try to outsmart evil kings, answer questions from Death, even puzzle with angels over the justice of God. Every tale returns to the most basic question: What is fair?With tales from Africa, Asia, and Europe, from Irish, Jews, and Muslims, from American schools and courtrooms, The Cow of No Color is truly an international gathering. Ranging from tricks to watch for in playground games to big issues to ponder for a lifetime, here is a book with insights and challenges for every member of every family.

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Jack Canfield; Mark Victor Hansen

Chicken Soup for the Soul

Thom S. Rainer

I Will

Philip Yancey

What's So Amazing about Grace?

Sanford G. Shetler

Biblical Perspectives on Women in Ministry

National Geographic Society; Bart D. Ehrman (Commentaries by)

The Gospel of Judas

James Martin

Jesus

Ruth K. Bullard; Roger Bullard

Messiah, Gospel According to Handel’s Oratorio

Christopher Marlowe; Sylvan Barnet (Editor, Introduction by)

Doctor Faustus

Philip Gulley; James Mulholland

If Grace Is True

David Platt

Radical

Mike Evans

The Return

JOsh McDowell

More Than a Carpenter

Antoine Vergote

The Religious Man

Stephen A. Cooper

Augustine for Armchair Theologians

Charles R. Swindoll; Mark O. Hatfield

Killing Giants, Pulling Thorns

World Wide Publications

The Four Translation New Testament

Christopher Marlowe; Sylvan Barnet (Editor, Introduction by)

Doctor Faustus

Kenda Creasy Dean

Almost Christian

Philip Yancey

Rumors of Another World

Elaine Pagels

Beyond Belief

Thom S. Rainer

The Book of Church Growth

Richard Stearns

The Hole in Our Gospel

John Polkinghorne & Michael Welker

The Ends of the World and the Ends of God

Nina Jaffe; Steve Zeitlin; Whitney Sherman (Illustrator)

The Cow of No Color