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All the women of the Bible offers a rich biographical perspective on evey female figure in scripture -- including the famous, the little-known, and even the unnamed. In more that 300 engaging and insightful portraits, Edith Deen brings alive the saints and sorceresses, queens and servants, mothers and daughters, wives and widows whose profound influence is felt through-out the Bible.
"You can almost trace light and darkness in the Bible by the women...
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Get the Summary of Jason Wilson's Battle Cry in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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For decades Jason Wilson was losing the war within- the internal battle that many men wage daily, but were never taught how to win. As a result, he could not combat his toxic thoughts and emotions. Instead, he was conquered by them and communicated without composure- hurting those he loved and himself....
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I wrote a book about moments. I titled it Once Upon A Time mainly because in remembering the moments I was writing about, I was reimagining life as a dream. It is not about a made-up fantasy I wished to live, but about a very real one that I saw as a dream, as a "once upon a time," seeing its "happily ever after." It is not about heaven but about earth, about everything glorious and heavenly from this earth I live in. It is about sins and dirt. It...
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El Papa Francisco, es símbolo de la pobreza, la humildad, la sencillez y la reconstrucción de la Iglesia Católica. Desde su nombramiento ha venido rompiendo esquemas del vaticano, manejándose con una austeridad absoluta, sorprendiendo al mundo entero con su doctrina incluyente hacia todas las religiones. En este libro encontrará una semblanza anecdótica del Papa que nos ayuda a comprender el porqué de su actuar y sus sentimientos. También...
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Joseph and the coat of many colors. It's a classic story with all the right elements: sibling rivalry, bitter betrayal, unexpected power, and ultimate forgiveness. But what if we've missed the real story behind the story? More than just the account of one man's life, Voddie Baucham Jr. reveals how the story of Joseph is a key moment in the storyline of the Bible. Demonstrating God's unwavering commitment to his people, Joseph's life fits into God's...
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Get the Summary of Thich Nhat Hanh's “Peace Is Every Step” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. A ringing telephone can be...
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Get the Summary of Rachel Held Evans & Jeff Chu's Wholehearted Faith in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Rachel Held Evans is widely recognized for her theologically astute, profoundly honest, and beautifully personal books, which have guided, instructed, edified, and shaped Christians as they seek to live out a just and loving faith.
At the time of her tragic death in 2019, Rachel...
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Get the Summary of C.S. Lewis's The Problem of Pain in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Why must we suffer?
"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. With his signature...
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Get the Summary of Howard Thurman's Jesus and the Disinherited in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: When we face challenges too daunting to overcome, where can we find the strength to carry on? There is an inexhaustible wellspring of energy available to us in the moments of quiet stillness when we become aware of the Divine.
For decades, Howard Thurman's words have guided many toward this...
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Por años se sintió la necesidad de disponer de una presentación concisa y a la vez abarcadora del gran tema de la batalla entre el bien y el mal, es decir, que contuviera en un solo tomo, compacto, los puntos descollantes de toda la historia del conflicto de los siglos entre Dios y Satanás tal como le fuese revelada a la Hna. White. Esta necesidad queda satisfecha mediante el libro que usted tiene en sus manos, el cual fue hecho posible gracias...
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Get the Summary of Peter Scazzero's The Emotionally Healthy Leader in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In, The Emotionally Healthy Leader, bestselling author Peter Scazzero shows leaders how to develop a deep, inner life with Christ, examining its profound implications for surviving stress, planning and decision making, building teams, creating healthy culture, influencing others, and...
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Get the Summary of Thick Nhat Hanh's The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching, now revised with added material and insights, Nhat Hanh introduces us to the core teachings of Buddhism and shows us that the Buddha's teachings are accessible and applicable to our daily lives.
Covering such significant teachings as the Four...
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Get the Summary of Donald H. Calloway's Consecration to St. Joseph in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In the midst of crisis, confusion, and a world at war with the Church, it's time to come home again to our spiritual father, St. Joseph. In this richly researched and lovingly presented program of consecration to St. Joseph, Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC, brings to life the wonders, the power,...
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Get the Summary of Malcolm X and Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies...
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A la hora de su repentina muerte, Ricardo Capponi, médico cirujano y psiquiatra, elaboraba un libro acerca de la crisis de los abusos sexuales en la Iglesia católica. Una primera versión de este libro, que el autor esperaba aumentar y mejorar con comentarios de sus primeros lectores, fue publicada en una edición limitada bajo el título La misión actual de la Iglesia católica. Una propuesta para enfrentar la crisis. Considerando su inestimable...
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Get the Summary of Elie Wiesel's Filled with Fire and Light in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary andnot the original book.
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From a multitude of sources, Elie Wiesel culls facts, legends, and anecdotes to give us fascinating portraits of notable figures throughout Jewish history. Here is the prophet Elisha, wonderworker and adviser to kings, whose compassion for those in need is matched only by his fiery temper....
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This book is an exciting and life changing expirience and incouraging to the people, in why life is so hard when us the people can make it alot eisier for themeselfs in speaking positive and not negetive in learning there is a spiritual force in action meeting our enemy, ourselves.
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Get the Summary of Sarah Jakes Roberts's Woman Evolve in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Who would imagine being friends with Eve, the woman who's been held solely responsible for the fall of humanity (and cramps) for thousands of years? Certainly not Sarah Jakes Roberts. That is, not until Sarah discovered she is more like Eve than she cares to admit.
Everyone faces trials, and everyone...
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Get the Summary of John C. Lennox's Cosmic Chemistry in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Building on the arguments put forward in God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? Prof John Lennox examines afresh the plausibility of a Christian theistic worldview in the light of some of the latest developments in scientific understanding. Prof Lennox focuses on the areas of evolutionary theory,...