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  • Write Better: A Lifelong Editor on Craft, Art, and Spirituality, By Andrew T. Le Peau
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    Write Better

    A Lifelong Editor on Craft, Art, and Spirituality

    by Andrew T. Le Peau

    Christianity Today 2020 Book of the Year Award, Culture and the Arts

    Writing is not easy. But it can get better.

    In this primer on nonfiction writing, Andrew Le Peau offers insights he has learned as a published author and an editor for over forty years, training, guiding, and cheering on hundreds of writers. Here are skills that writers can ...

  • Stronger Than You Think: Becoming Whole Without Having to Be Perfect. A Woman's Guide, By Kim Gaines Eckert
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    Stronger Than You Think

    Becoming Whole Without Having to Be Perfect. A Woman's Guide

    by Kim Gaines Eckert

    If you've known broken relationships . . .If you've ever felt like you don't measure up . . .If you've suspected something inside you might be missing or flawed . . .This book is for you.Kim Gaines Eckert, psychologist and counselor, has spent years helping women with a variety of life issues, from self-esteem and body image to developing healthy relationships and healing from the past. At the heart ...

  • The Wisdom of Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes, By Derek Kidner
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    The Wisdom of Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes

    by Derek Kidner

    "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom."In the Wisdom literature of the Bible we first hear the cool voice of a teacher calling us to think--to think hard and humbly. "How long will fools hate knowledge?" cries Wisdom in the book of Proverbs. Then in Job comes the anguished voice of the questioner, earnest enough to seek answers, honest enough to doubt easy ones. In Ecclesiastes the chastened ...

  • Hospitality: God's Call to Compassion, By Patty Pell
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    Hospitality

    God's Call to Compassion

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Patty Pell

    Over 15 Million LifeGuide Bible Studies Sold Worldwide!

    The word hospitality brings to mind tables filled with cookies and pots of good coffee.

    Offering food to friends is a wonderful ministryindeed, but the biblical concept of hospitality is much deeper and more significant. In this nine session LifeGuide® Bible Study, Patty Pell you'll discover ...

    Number of Studies: 9

  • Songs from Scripture, By James W. Reapsome
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    Songs from Scripture

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by James W. Reapsome

    "Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises unto our King, sing praises. For God is King of all the earth; sing ye praises with understanding," (Psalm 47:6-7).

    Throughout the Bible there are songs. Some are songs of celebration and hope while others express despair or humility and still others recount God's redemption. "Songs lift our hearts and minds," writes James Reapsome. "They powerfully ...

    Number of Studies: 9

  • His Face like Mine: Finding God's Love in Our Wounds, By Russell W. Joyce
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    His Face like Mine

    Finding God's Love in Our Wounds

    by Russell W. Joyce

    Have you ever tasted true freedom?

    Russell Joyce was born with a rare craniofacial disorder called Goldenhar syndrome, where the left side of his face was not formed. Years of patchwork surgeries made him more outwardly presentable, but not without deep pain and physical and emotional scars. But a life-changing encounter broke through to him with a power he never thought ...

  • Family Discipleship That Works: Guiding Your Child to Know, Love, and Act Like Jesus, By Brian Dembowczyk
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    Family Discipleship That Works

    Guiding Your Child to Know, Love, and Act Like Jesus

    by Brian Dembowczyk

    Christianity Today Book Awards Finalist—Marriage, Family, and Singleness

    Family discipleship is one of the most basic ways God has ordained to build his kingdom—and yet most parents struggle to do it consistently.

    Amid our busyness, the multitude of different approaches, and our own self-doubts, the deck seems stacked against us. But Brian Dembowczyk ...

  • The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community, By Paul Sparks and Tim Soerens and Dwight J. Friesen
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    The New Parish

    How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community

    by Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens, and Dwight J. Friesen

    Christianity Today Award of Merit

    Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention

    Best Books About the Church from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore

    "When . . . faith communities begin connecting together, in and for the neighborhood, they learn to depend on God for strength to love, forgive and show grace like never before. ...

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