Joel Osteen focuses on the eight irrefutable traits and attributes of highly successful people. These personal qualities are tested through the ages and all types of circumstances. These practical principles guide the lives of champions...
Religious life
- Author:Osteen, JoelSummary:
- Author:Jakes, T. D.Summary:
In a time when women carry more influence than any other generation, the power of prayer has never been more important to remind us that we do not have to bear our crosses alone. We need prayer to stand guard over our hearts and minds...
- Author:TerKeurst, LysaSummary:
The enemy wants us to feel rejected ... left out, lonely, and less than. When we allow him to speak lies through our rejection, he pickpockets our purpose. Cripples our courage. Dismantles our dreams. And blinds us to the beauty of...
- Author:Singh, KirpalSummary:
When you sow a seed, it will bring forth similar seeds. There is action-reaction, then again a reaction; there is no end to it. The meaning of one's life on Earth and the law of Karma [the law of action and reaction] are examined in...
- Author:Philyaw, DeeshaSummary:
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations...
- Author:Hanh, Thich NhatSummary:
Zen meditation master Thich Nhat Hanh offers his practical teachings about how to bring love and mindful awareness into our daily experience. Kind, purposeful, and illuminating--here is an abundant treasure of traditional gathas (...
- Author:Hanh, Thich NhatSummary:
The author helps us move beyond the perils and frustrations of misrepresentation and misunderstanding to learn the listening and speaking skills that will forever change how we experience and impact the world.
- Author:Chopra, DeepakSummary:
At every age we all need to know what life is really all about. Not just on the surface, but deep down. Teenagers are no exception. They deserve a spiritual life all their own. One that offers the kind of comfort we hope to give our...
- Author:Held Evans, RachelSummary:
New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans embarks on a quest to find out what it really means to be part of the Church. Like millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The...
- Author:Carter, Karen E.Summary:
In 1770, the priest Nicolas Vernier was accused of neglecting church services, inappropriate behaviour in the confessional, financial improprieties, and affairs with the village schoolmistresses. In a contentious church court case,...
- Author:Gregory, DarylSummary:
In 1933, nine-year-old Stella is left in the care of her grandmother, Motty, in the backwoods of Tennessee. The mountains are home to dangerous secrets, and soon after she arrives, Stella wanders into a dark cavern where she encounters...
- Author:Griggs, Vanessa DavisSummary:
Spoiled teens Crystal and Sahara get sent to live with their grandmother, Ma Ray, for a summer without cell phones, Internet, or boys. Upset their summer is ruined, the girls attempt to rebel against their grandmother's strict rules....
- Author:CHODRON, PemaSummary:
With war and violence flaring all over the world, many of us are left feeling vulnerable and utterly helpless. In this book Pema Chd̲rn̲ draws on Buddhist teachings to explore the origins of aggression, hatred, and war, explaining that...
- Author:Hanh, Thich NhatSummary:
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...
- Author:Hanh, Thich NhatSummary:
In his travels around the country and the world, Zen master and international best selling author Thich Nhat Hanh witnessed a growing unhappiness among the many people he encountered. He saw the hectic pace of our day-to-day lives...
- Author:Morgan, BonnieSummary:
From their everyday work in kitchens and gardens to the solemn work of laying out the dead, the Anglican women of mid-twentieth-century Conception Bay, Newfoundland, understood and expressed Christianity through their experience as...
- Author:Kenny, Amy.Summary:
Much of the church has forgotten that we worship a disabled God whose wounds survived resurrection, says Amy Kenny. It is time for the church to start treating disabled people as full members of the body of Christ who have much more to...
- Author:Ferrer, Hillary MorganSummary:
#RoarLikeAMother The problem with lies is they don't often sound like lies. They seem harmless, and even sound right. So what's a Mama Bear to do when her kids seem to be absorbing the culture's lies uncritically'...
- Author:Kayani, Mohammad SaleemSummary:
These stories highlight the mutual love and respect which should characterize Muslim family life....
- Author:TerKeurst, LysaSummary:
Based on her bestselling book Made to Crave, but now distilled down for busy readers, Lysa TerKeurst offers a new perspective to all those stuck in the cycle of losing weight but then gaining it back, equipping readers with the deeper...