Talitha Koum


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A little girl is meant to be cherished and loved. So what happens if she is abandoned, neglected and abused by those meant to nurture her? This memoir is about such a girl but she has a secret. In the midst of her great despair a Savior comes and takes her to their special place. There, He offers her a love that shes never encountered in life. A love that can resurrect the dead places in her heart if she lets Him.




Talitha Koum


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Talith Koum:: Little Girl I say to you, "Get Up!" are words spoken by Jesus Christ to resurrect a 12 year old girl who was pronounced dead. To the delight and amazement of her parents and spectators, she was immediately resurrected. Author Stephanie Lewis uses this passage of scripture and others as inspirational anecdotes for women. This book is designed to illustrate the power of Jesus Christ in our lives, through faith and obedience to Him. The 30 day devotional addresses many issues that have the potential to hinder the purpose and destiny of young girls and women, but also provides personal and spiritual insight on ways to overcome those barriers. Readers will find themselves motivated to experience a deeper relationship with Christ as well as equipped to successfully triumph through daily adversity




The Gospel According to Mark


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At the heart of this book is a verse-by-verse exposition of the New American Bible text of Mark's Gospel. Interspersed throughout the text are dozens of short essays giving the social, political, economic, and religious background, and questions for reflection.




Navigating the Future


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Traditioned innovation is a habit of being and living that cultivates a certain kind of moral imagination shaped by storytelling and expressed in creative, transformational action. Moral imagination is about character, which depends on ongoing formation that takes place in friendships and communities that embody traditions and that are sustained by institutions. There is no quick-fix or set of techniques that will create a mindset of traditioned innovation. But we do believe that you can learn to cultivate it by Becoming immersed in an imaginative engagement with the story of God told through Scripture Learning from exemplary institutions, communities, and people practicing traditioned innovation. Discovering new skills for integrating character formation and dense networks of friendships, communities and institutions into your leadership and life. Navigating the Future will explore stories and tips for cultivating traditioned innovation that will stimulate your thinking and inspire your imagination for more faithful and fruitful living along with the cultivation of more vibrant, life-giving institutions.




Joseph, Mary, Jesus


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Fr. Deiss helps readers discover the environment of light--Joseph and Mary's tenderness--in which Jesus' humanity developed. This work reflects on the child Jesus, stressing the influence that Joseph and Mary had on Jesus' childhood at the human level--both intellectually and spiritually.




Mark


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The Life Application Bible Commentary series is the only commentary to offer sermon and lesson applications alongside stirring commentary. Each volume in the series provides in-depth explanation, background, and application for every verse in the text. Perfect for sermon preparation and lesson planning, this one-of-a-kind reference provides excellent quotes and a bibliography for additional commentary. Additional features include Charts, diagrams, and maps on the same page as their related verses Quotes from various versions, such as the NIV, NRSV, and NLT Key information graphically highlighted




Pronunciation Guide for the Sunday Lectionary


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This handy, inexpensive pocket guide, useful for proclaimers of the word in the Sunday assembly, includes the words and names used in the readings for Sunday Mass and feast days. Helps lectors to proclaim the word with ease and confidence.




The Nitpicker's Guide for X-Philes


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The truth is, the nits are out there.... What's weird about Samantha T. Mulder's birthday? (She has two of them: January 22 and November 21.) What's amazing about Mulder's cell phone? (It operates inside a metal boxcar, buried in a canyon, out in the deserts of New Mexico: anywhere!) Scully and Mulder, you have reason to be paranoid. Armed with keen detective sense, attention to detail, and a VCR, author Phil Farrand has done some forensic work of his own and dissected every technical foul-up, plot oversight, and alien intrusion on the X-Files(r). Paranormal he's not, but he'd like to know why T.A. Berube has a six-digit zip code or how the VCRs at the 2400 Court motel in Braddock Heights, Maryland, can play a tape after it's been ejected. Nitpicking? You bet. So join his conspiracy to have hours of mental stimulation and fun with: Equipment flubs Changed premises Plot oversights Fun facts Trivia questions Reviews of every show for all four seasons And more




Talitha Cumi ... Little Girl Rise Up!


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As a wife, mother and grandmother, college graduate and retired government employee for a large school district; I have seen women and girls, battered, misused and abused. I've witnessed babies having babies and the institution called family destroyed. And because of this, it is extremely difficult for me to continue to watch young girls release so much negative energy. Life's circumstances and choices have somehow become chaotic and out of control. However, this little book centers around relief, escape and freedom from pain ONLY when you come into the knowledge of how important you are to yourself, your personal belief and your moral values. It has to be either Your Man, "Your Boo" or God's promise. Why not God's promise? He does not see you for who you are right now but He see what you will become. There is a call out there that hinges on your self-worth. You are the queen of the earth and God is calling on you to refuse the nature of any emotional and physical ties that will not allow you to rise up. You are all my babies and no matter what cards life has dealt you, get up and redefine who you are. Get up and clothe yourselves in righteousness and allow God to take you by the hand and catapult you into your divine destiny. This self-help book is to encourage young girls and women to rise up from the society-dictated beliefs about body image to become strong in their convictions of self, brought forth through Jesus' sacrifice. Hugs & Kisses Karen D'Chelle"




Jesus the Magician


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"A twentieth-century classic, uncannily smart, incredibly learned."--from the foreword by Bart Ehrman This book challenges traditional Christian teaching about Jesus. While his followers may have seen him as a man from heaven, preaching the good news and working miracles, Smith asserts that the truth about Jesus is more interesting and rather unsettling. The real Jesus, only barely glimpsed because of a campaign of disinformation, obfuscation, and censorship by religious authorities, was not Jesus the Son of God. In actuality he was Jesus the Magician. Smith marshals all the available evidence including, but not limited to, the Gospels. He succeeds in describing just what was said of Jesus by "outsiders," those who did not believe him. He deals in fascinating detail with the inevitable questions. What was the nature of magic? What did people at that time mean by the term "magician"? Who were the other magicians, and how did their magic compare with Jesus' works? What facts led to the general assumption that Jesus practiced magic? And, most important, was that assumption correct? The ramifications of Jesus the Magician give new meaning to the word controversial. This book recovers a vision of Jesus that two thousand years of suppression and polemic could not erase. And--what may be the central point of the debate--Jesus the Magician strips away the myths and legends that have obscured Jesus, the man who lived.