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The heartache no one sees: Christ's promise of healing for a woman's wounded heart
By Sheila Walsh. 2004
Walsh shows why some people are able to access and maintain an absolute hope that cannot be shaken, while others…
lose it like the morning mist. You're invited to join her on a prayer-filled, God-seeking journey to understand how to live in this world, with all its potential for hurt, pain, and fear, and still experience a deep healing that you are able to hold on to, no matter what life throws at you. 2004.The hill of Kronos
By Peter Levi. 1981
Greece as seen through the eyes of a sensitive traveller - English classicist, archaeologist, and former Jesuit priest, whose poetic…
observations about the land and its people are interspersed with personal narrative. c1981.The gospel according to god: rediscovering the most remarkable chapter in the old testament
By John MacArthur. 2018
Written to help readers better understand Jesus's life, death, and ultimate mission, this new book by well-known preacher John MacArthur…
looks at an important'yet often misunderstood'section of the Bible: Isaiah 53. Often hailed as one of the greatest chapters in the Bible, this passage foretells the crucifixion of Jesus, a critical event in God's ultimate plan for salvation. Explaining the prophetic words of Isaiah 53 verse by verse, MacArthur highlights important connections to the history of Israel and to the New Testament'ultimately showing us how these prophetic words to ancient Israel illuminate essential truths for our lives today. 2018.The gypsy in me: from Germany to Romania in search of youth, truth and Dad
By Ted Simon. 1997
The author recounts his 1500 mile journey, much of it on foot, through Eastern Germany, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and Romania,…
making personal connections with people in the turbulent region, and learning more about himself and his parents who had escaped from there years before. 1997.The Greek for love: a memoir of Corfu
By James Chatto. 2005
They arrived as tourists in Corfu, Wendy from Canada and James from England. They enjoyed the sun, an idyllic beach,…
olives, fresh apricots and marinated lamb, and long evenings of storytelling at the local taverna. But what captivated James and Wendy was the way the islanders embraced them, and how their deep connection to Corfu and its people sustained them through tragedy just as it had carried them into love. Some strong language. 2005.The greatest story ever told: a tale of the greatest life ever lived
By Fulton Oursler. 1949
The dolorous passion of our Lord Jesus Christ: from the visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich (Recorded Books inspirational)
By Anna Katharina Emmerich. 2004
This book, one of the sources for Mel Gibson's motion picture, The Passion of the Christ, is taken from the…
eighteenth-century journals of the Catholic nun who had visions of scenes from the life of Christ. 2004. Uniform title: Bittere Leiden Unseres Herrn Jesu Christi.The education of Laura Bridgman: first deaf and blind person to learn language
By Ernest Freeberg. 2001
Chronicles the life of Laura Bridgman, who, born into a New Hampshire farm family in 1829, became deaf and blind…
at the age of two. Freeberg recounts Laura's transformation into a woman who voraciously absorbed the world around her under the tutelage of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe of the Perkins Institution for the Blind. 2001.The diamond that cuts through illusion: commentaries on the praynaparamita Diamond sutra
By Thich Nhat Hanh, Anh Huong Nguyen. 1992
The Buddha and his disciple Subhuti teach us how to cut through our dualistic ways of looking at the world…
in order to have a deeper contact with the wondrous reality that is inside us and all around us. 1992.The doors of the sea: where was God in the Tsunami?
By David Bentley Hart. 2005
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
By Helene Hanff. 1973
The divine dance: if the world is your stage, who are you performing for?
By Shannon Kubiak Primicerio, Johanne Sheridan. 2006
Recognizing that teen girls spend much of their time trying to please their friends, parents, and teachers, Primicerio encourages these…
girls to stop performing for the world and start dancing for the One who matters. 2006.The Dead Sea scrolls: the truth behind the mystique (The modern scholar)
By Lawrence H Schiffman. 2007
New York University professor, Lawrence Schiffman, discusses the Dead Sea Scrolls, the most important collection of Jewish texts from the…
centuries before the rise of Christianity. Only through efforts to understand what the scrolls can teach us about the history of Judaism is it possible for us to learn what they have to teach us about the history of Christianity, because Christianity came into being only after these texts were composed and copied. 2007.The cross of Christ
By John R. W. John Robert Walmsley Stott. 1989
The universal symbol of the Christian faith is not a crib nor a manger but a gruesome cross. Yet many…
people are unclear about its meaning, and cannot understand why Christ had to die. In this book John Stott explains the significance of Christ's cross and answers the objections commonly brought against biblical teaching on the atonement. 1989.The Da Vinci code breaker: an easy-to-use fact checker
By James L Garlow. 2006
The city of falling angels
By John Berendt. 2006
Taking the fire that destroyed the Fenice theatre in 1996 as his starting point, John Berendt creates a portrait of…
Venice and its extraordinary inhabitants. Beneath the exquisite facade of the world's most beautiful historic city, scandal, corruption and venality are rampant, and John Berendt is a master at seeking them out. It is the inhabitants of Venice who are the real stars of this story: Ezra Pound and his mistress, Olga; poet Mario Stefani; the Rat Man of Treviso; or Mario Moro self-styled carabiniere, fireman, soldier or airman, depending on the day of the week. 2006.The circle maker: praying circles around your biggest dreams and greatest fears
By Mark Batterson. 2011
Pastor of the National Community Church on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., offers suggestions for using the ancient practice of…
prayer circles. Provides examples of what the ritual can achieve and asserts that "who you become is determined by how you pray." Bestseller. 2011.The Christian atheist: believing in God but living as if he doesn't exist
By Craig Groeschel. 2010
After over a decade of successful ministry, Groeschel had to make a painful self-admission: although he believed in God, he…
was leading his church like God didn't exist. Now the founding and senior pastor of the multi-campus, pace-setting LiveChurch.tv, Groeschel’s personal journey toward a more authentic God-honoring life is more relevant than ever. 2010.The Celtic year: a month-by-month celebration of Celtic Christian festivals and sites
By Shirley Toulson. 2002
The author takes us, month by month through the cycle of the four seasons of the Celtic year - Samhain,…
Imbolc, Beltane and Lammas. For each month she suggests a pilgrimage we can take to a particular holy site - a temporal pilrimage which we can also make of our own inner journey. 2002.The Catholic Church in the modern age (The modern scholar)
By Thomas F Madden. 2007
In this course, Saint Louis University professor Thomas F. Madden focuses on a Church both adapting to a world in…
flux and striving to exert its influence and power. Throughout modernity, the Church responded to - and weathered - a host of major world events: the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, colonization of the New World, and the World Wars that in large part defined the twentieth century. 2007.