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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $15.52
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Manufacturer: Riverhead Hardcover
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Kathleen Norris
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Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
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Dewey Decimal Number: 818.5403
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Publication Date: 2008-09-16
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: Kathleen Norris’s masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.
Kathleen Norris had written several much loved books, yet she couldn’t drag herself out of bed in the morning, couldn’t summon the energy for daily tasks. Even as she struggled, Norris recognized her familiar battle with acedia. She had discovered the word in an early Church text when she was in her thirties. Having endured times of deep soul-weariness since she was a teenager, she immediately recognized that this passage described her affliction: sinking into a state of being unable to care. Fascinated by this “noonday demon,” so familiar to those in the early and medieval Church, Norris read intensively and knew she must restore this forgotten but utterly relevant and important concept to the modern world’s vernacular.
Like Norris’s bestselling The Cloister Walk, Acedia & me is part memoir and part meditation. As in her bestselling Amazing Grace, here Norris explicates and demystifies a spiritual concept, exploring acedia through the geography of her life as a writer; her marriage and the challenges of commitment in the midst of grave illness; and her keen interest in the monastic tradition. Unlike her earlier books, this one features a poignant narrative throughout of Norris’s and her husband’s bouts with acedia and its clinical cousin, depression. Moreover, her analysis of acedia reveals its burden not just on individuals but on whole societies— and that the “restless boredom, frantic escapism, commitment phobia, and enervating despair that we struggle with today are the ancient demon of acedia in modern dress.”
An examination of acedia in the light of theology, psychology, monastic spirituality, the healing powers of religious practice, and Norris’s own experience, Acedia & me is both intimate and historically sweeping, brimming with exasperation and reverence, sometimes funny, often provocative, and always important.
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Price: $17.99
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Sale: $11.19
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Manufacturer: Baker Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Phyllis Tickle
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Publisher: Baker Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 270.83
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Publication Date: 2008-10-01
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: Rooted in the observation that massive transitions in the church happen about every 500 years, Phyllis Tickle shows readers that we live in such a time right now. She compares the Great Emergence to other "Greats" in the history of Christianity, including the Great Transformation (when God walked among us), the time of Gregory the Great, the Great Schism, and the Great Reformation. Combining history, a look at the causes of social upheaval, and current events, The Great Emergence shows readers what the Great Emergence in church and culture is, how it came to be, and where it is going. Anyone who is interested in the future of the church in America, no matter what their personal affiliation, will find this book a fascinating exploration.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $6.91
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Manufacturer: HarperOne
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: C. S. Lewis
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Publisher: HarperOne
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230
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Publication Date: 2001-02
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Reading Level: 227
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Description: A forceful and accessible discussion of Christian belief that has become one of the most popular introductions to Christianity and one of the most popular of Lewis's books. Uncovers common ground upon which all Christians can stand together.
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Price: $44.99
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Sale: $25.61
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Manufacturer: Zondervan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Wayne Grudem
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Publisher: Zondervan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230.046
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Publication Date: 1995-01-16
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Reading Level: 1291
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Description: This introductory textbook has several distinctive features: a strong emphasis on the scriptural basis for each doctrine; clear writing, with technical terms kept to a minimum; and a contemporary approach.
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Price: $14.99
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Sale: $5.61
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Manufacturer: Zondervan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lee Strobel
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Publisher: Zondervan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 212.1
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Publication Date: 2005-03-01
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: Are Christianity and science incompatible? If there is a God, is he only an impersonal starter force? An introductory high school biology class first propelled Lee Strobel toward a life of atheism. God and science, he reasoned, were mutually exclusive. When the former legal editor of the Chicago Tribune converted to Christianity, he decided to investigate the science he had once accepted as truth. Did science point toward or away from God? As Strobel interviews a variety of scientists on everything from debunking evolutionary icons to the implications of the Big Bang to the existence of the human soul, he builds his case: scientific evidence points toward Intelligent Design. Although the discussion often veers into the academic, Strobel works hard to make it accessible to those without scientific training. Throughout the book, he salts interview transcript information with interesting personal stories of his own spiritual and scientific quest for knowledge, as well as sometimes over-detailed descriptions of the actual interviews (right down to the type of beverages consumed). Each chapter contains suggestions for further reading on particular issues of science and faith. Strobel concludes that, when correctly interpreted, science and biblical teaching support each other. He quotes physicist Paul Davies, "…science offers a surer path to God than religion." Open-minded readers will find that this book, and its questions for reflection and group study, invites conversation and investigation.--Cindy Crosby
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $5.99
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Manufacturer: HarperOne
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Emmet Fox
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Publisher: HarperOne
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Dewey Decimal Number: 226.906
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Publication Date: 1989-10-18
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: The Sermon on the Mount--now passing its 65th birthday--remains a vital and provocative introduction to the ideas at the heart of Christian Science. At heart it means to be entirely practical, as the "Science" of the name would indicate. Denying any interest in theology (there is no theology in the Bible, Fox argues), the author instead suggests that what Jesus was after was results: "Jesus explains to us what the nature of God is, and what our own nature is; tells us the meaning of life and of death; shows us why we make mistakes; why we yield to temptation; why we become sick, and impoverished, and old; and, most important of all, he tells us how all these evils may be overcome, and how we may bring health, happiness, and true prosperity into our lives." And the Spiritual Key? Fox puts it quite simply: "The Truth turns out to be nothing less than the amazing but undeniable fact that the whole outer world--whether it be the physical body, the common things of life, the winds and the rain, the clouds, the earth itself--is amenable to man's thought, and that he has dominion over it when he knows it." --Doug Thorpe
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $14.12
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Manufacturer: Sounds True, Incorporated
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Ainslie MacLeod
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Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated
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Dewey Decimal Number: 133.9
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Publication Date: 2007-09-01
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Reading Level: 271
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Description: Have you ever sensed that your life has a deeper, more meaningful purpose?but don?t know what it is? In The Instruction, psychic Ainslie MacLeod offers a systematic approach to uncovering the life your soul has planned for you. With the help of high-level spirit guides, this step-by-step manual for realizing personal fulfillment presents the debut work from this unique voice in contemporary spirituality. The Instruction takes readers through ten ?doorways? to unveil the life plan their souls created before they were even born, including: ? The Door to Perception: Your Soul Age, and how it shapes your beliefs and behaviors ? The Door to Acceptance: Are you a Hunter? Thinker? Creator? How your Soul Type reveals your true self ? The Door to Balance: How to avoid false-goals and diversions ? The Door to Creativity: Using past lives to enhance the present
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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $9.94
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Manufacturer: InterVarsity Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: J. I. Packer
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Publisher: InterVarsity Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 231
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Publication Date: 1993-07-01
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Reading Level: 286
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Description: A lifelong pursuit of knowing God should embody the Christian's existence. According to eminent theologian J.I. Packer, however, Christians have become enchanted by modern skepticism and have joined the "gigantic conspiracy of misdirection" by failing to put first things first. Knowing God aims to redirect our attention to the simple, deep truth that to know God is to love His Word. What began as a number of consecutive articles angled for "honest, no-nonsense readers who were fed up with facile Christian verbiage" in 1973, Knowing God has become a contemporary classic by creating "small studies out of great subjects." Each chapter is so specific in focus (covering topics such as the trinity, election, God's wrath, and God's sovereignty), that each succeeding chapter's theology seems to rival the next, until one's mind is so expanded that one's entire view of God has changed. Author Elizabeth Eliot wrote that amid the lofty content Packer "puts the hay where the sheep can reach it--plainly shows us ordinary folks what it means to know God." Having rescued us from the individual hunches of our ultra-tolerant theological age, Packer points the reader to the true character of God with his theological competence and compassionate heart. The lazy and faint-hearted should be warned about this timeless work--God is magnified, the sinner is humbled, and the saint encouraged. --Jill Heatherly
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $7.95
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Manufacturer: Touchstone
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Publisher: Touchstone
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 241.53
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Publication Date: 1995-09-01
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: "When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die." With these words, in The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer gave powerful voice to the millions of Christians who believe personal sacrifice is an essential component of faith. Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor and theologian, was an exemplar of sacrificial faith: he opposed the Nazis from the first and was eventually imprisoned in Buchenwald and hung by the Gestapo in 1945. The Cost of Discipleship, first published in German in 1937, was Bonhoeffer's answer to the questions, "What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us to-day?" Bonhoeffer's answers are rooted in Lutheran grace and derived from Christian scripture (almost a third of the book consists of an extended meditation on the Sermon on the Mount). The book builds to a stunning conclusion: its closing chapter, "The Image of Christ," describes the believer's spiritual life as participation in Christ's incarnation, with a rare and epigrammatic confidence: "Through fellowship and communion with the incarnate Lord," Bonhoeffer writes, "we recover our true humanity, and at the same time we are delivered from that individualism which is the consequence of sin, and retrieve our solidarity with the whole human race." --Michael Joseph Gross
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $9.46
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Manufacturer: Banner of Truth
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Banner of Truth
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 1975-11-01
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Reading Level: 223
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