Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting within You
by Erwin Raphael McManus
Erwin McManus opens readers' eyes to see the eight crucial attributes of those who achieve the life of their dreams. It is every person's responsibility to discover and develop the gifts given to them by God.
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Jesus and the Disinherited
Howard Thurman
In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman (1900-1981) demonstrates how the Gospel may be read as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised.
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The Problem of Pain
C. S. Lewis
"If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?" And what of the suffering of animals, who neither deserve pain nor can be improved by it? The greatest Christian thinker of our time sets out to disentangle this knotty issue.
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Cost of Discipleship
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus.
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Experiencing God: How to Live the Full Adventure of Knowing and Doing the Will of God
Henry Blackaby
This book challenges Christians to experience the fullness of a life lived in fellowship with a loving, personal God.
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Celebration of Discipline : The Path to Spiritual Growth
Richard J. Foster
A newly revised and updated version of a book which has brought thousands of Christians to an enriched spiritual life.
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The Politics of Jesus
Obery Hendricks
Who was Jesus? And how was this first-century political revolutionary, whose teachings are meant to lead the way to freedom, turned into a meek and mild servant of the status quo?
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Five Star Church
Alan Nelson, Stan Toler
In The Five-Star Church, pastors/authors Stan Toler and Alan Nelson provide innovative ideas on how to transform your church based on Jesus' model of servant hood.
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Messy Spirituality
Michael Yaconelli
What!? You're not perfect? That's all right, God loves you anyway. He even loves the author of this book, and he's really a mess.
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Prophetic Imagination
Walter Brueggemann
In this challenging and enlightening treatment, Brueggemann traces the lines from the radical vision of Moses, to the solidification of royal power in Solomon, to the prophetic critique of that power with a new vision of freedom in the prophets.
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Turn My Mourning into Dancing
Henri J. M. Nouwen
In times of suffering, simplistic answers ring empty and hollow. But Henri Nouwen, beloved spiritual thinker and author, offers real comfort in the concrete truth of God's constancy. Nouwen suggests that by greeting life's pains with something other than despair, we can find surprising joy in our suffering.
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Facing Your Giants
Max Lucado
Recommended by Sister LaKeesha - This profound look at the life of David digs deeply into the defeats he suffered, and the victories he won, as he faced the giants in his life. When David focused on God, giants tumbled. But when David focused on giants...he stumbled.
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Just a Sister Away: Understanding the Timeless Connection Between Women of Today and Women in the Bible
Renita J. Weems
Recommended by Sister LaKeesha
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