Turning Hurts Into Halos


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This is Robert Schuller like you've never heard before. Though it echoes the extraordinary insightfulness and encouragement you have come to count on from Dr. Schuller, never before has he written a book so personal, so moving. This book is about adversity, tragedy, despair. But it's also about hope, joy, and eternal victory in Jesus. For the first time, he discusses many of the difficult events of his life. He provides positive examples to show readers how he got through them and how they can emerge victoriously also.




Change of Heart


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When he suffers a horrible fall that breaks his back and leaves him with no will to live, skier Beaumont Hill goes up against physical therapist Shayna DaCosta, a spirited woman who is determined to heal both his body and soul with love.




Walking Toward Wellness


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Walking Toward Wellness is a 21-week program that offers the reader information for increasing her physical, mental/emotional and spiritual well-being. The reader is also introduced to a variety of alternative healing and wellness options. Over-all wellness is a progressive, on-going process. Daily, consciously or unconsciously, we make decisions and choices, and we set priorities that impact our well-being. Today, choose to walk toward wellness.




Minding the Marginalized Students Through Inclusion, Justice, and Hope


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While the issue of advancing equity occupies the pages of many education journals across the world and pursuing it in schools and classrooms is a common instructional goal, there is an obvious absence of established school policies combined with pedagogies on how to achieve educational equity.




Pluralism Comes of Age


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This acclaimed work surveys the varied course of religious life in modern America. Beginning with the close of the Victorian Age, it moves through the shifting power of Protestantism and American Catholicism and into the intense period of immigration and pluralism that has characterized our nation's religious experience.




The End of White Christian America


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"The founder and CEO of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and columnist for the Atlantic describes how white Protestant Christians have declined in influence and power since the 1990s and explores the effect this has had on America, "--NoveList




Yes, There Is Something You Can Do


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When you don't know what to do Nobody knows what to do when a loved one is suffering. But there is something you can do, for yourself and for your loved ones. Even when you feel helpless, you can help -- with your loving thoughts, your sincere gestures, and your heartfelt prayers. At times like these, it's the little things that count. Reach out and touch someone who's hurting with a special card written just for them, a surprise visit bearing a homemade apple pie, or just your shoulder to cry on when they need it most. When you yourself are hurting, take a spiritual respite -- a walk in the woods, a quiet moment in your favorite chapel, a talk with the angels -- to soothe your soul. With this lovely little book as your guide, you can navigate the troubled waters of these uncertain times. Inside you'll find the prayers, meditations, inspirational stories, poems, and practices you and your loved ones can turn to for emotional and spiritual support. Hope is not out of reach -- it's just around the corner. Book jacket.




Jesus Did It Anyway


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The Paradoxical Commandments have been quoted around the world for decades. It all started when Kent Keith first articulated the ten timeless principles when he was a college student in the 1960s, and then put them into book form in the classic Anyway. His modern credo for finding personal meaning in the face of adversity became a sensation. Now the author returns to present an important and inspiring new book illustrating the Paradoxical Commandments through Bible stories and verses. In Jesus Did It Anyway, Keith draws from the Old and New Testaments, the teachings of Jesus and the apostles, and personal experiences to demonstrate how the Paradoxical Commandments are grounded in Scripture and the Christian faith. Each chapter offers inspiring stories that illuminate the Paradoxical Commandments by examining how Jesus and other biblical figures lived their faith—they faced tremendous adversity, but always knew they were divinely blessed. Keith reveals how answering Jesus’s call to live a paradoxical life can lead to the deepest personal meaning and spiritual fulfillment.




Amy Biehl’s Last Home


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In 1993, white American Fulbright scholar Amy Biehl was killed in a racially motivated attack near Cape Town, after spending months working to promote democracy and women’s rights in South Africa. The ironic circumstances of her death generated enormous international publicity and yielded one of South Africa’s most heralded stories of postapartheid reconciliation. Amy’s parents not only established a humanitarian foundation to serve the black township where she was killed, but supported amnesty for her killers and hired two of the young men to work for the Amy Biehl Foundation. The Biehls were hailed as heroes by Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and many others in South Africa and the United States—but their path toward healing was neither quick nor easy. Granted unrestricted access to the Biehl family’s papers, Steven Gish brings Amy and the Foundation to life in ways that have eluded previous authors. He is the first to place Biehl’s story in its full historical context, while also presenting a gripping portrait of this remarkable young woman and the aftermath of her death across two continents.




4 Abundant Life


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The abundant life is all around us, yet we fail to capture it. Have you experienced setbacks and challenges in your life? Maybe you have lost a job, have financial burdens, experienced divorce, parent alienation, death of a loved one, or just feel like you have lost yourself along the way? What many do not realize is that what you feel and believe keeps you trapped in chaos and sadness. Here is the key to your future: The abundant life is for everyone! We have written this book based on four fundamental biblical truths: 1. We (children of God, Christ followers) are anointed to prosper, 2. At an appointed time and place, 3. When we use our talents and gifts, 4. For the glory of Him! 4 Abundant Life is a step-by-step guide to help you discover what it means to be an authentic man/woman/married person, develop your unique talents and gifts, and use them for His glory, and how reconciliation and redemption lead to transformation into life abundantly. This book is for anyone who wants more out of his or her life. More purpose, promise, self-worth, peace, confidence, love, forgiveness, grace and mercy, comfort, and the list goes on. The challenge is yours! Find your inheritance of abundance and discover why God sometimes says no or not yet, how to grow in the valley of life struggles and emerge victorious. It is time to capture the abundant life promise and transform your life from surviving into thriving.