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In this book the author, America's pastor defines God's grace and illuminates the changes it can bring into a person's life. Grace. We talk as though we understand the term. The bank gives us a grace period. The seedy politician falls from grace. Musicians speak of a grace note. We describe an actress as gracious, a dancer as graceful. We use the word for hospitals, baby girls, kings, and premeal prayers. We talk as though we know what Grace means....
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When Hatteras Island old-timer Iola Anne Poole passes away at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage finds herself charged with cleaning out Iola's rambling Victorian house. Running from a messy, dangerous past, Tandi Jo Reese never expects to find more than a temporary hiding place within Iola's walls. But all that changes when she discovers eighty-one carefully decorated prayer boxes. Hidden in the boxes is the story of a...
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For Lucy Jane Bledsoe, wilderness had always been a source of peace. But during one disastrous solo trip in the wintry High Sierra she came face to face with a crisis: the wilderness no longer felt like home. The Ice Cave recounts Bledsoe's wilderness journeys as she recovers her connection with the wild and discovers the meanings of fear and grace.
These are Bledsoe's gripping tales of fending off wolves in Alaska, encountering UFOs...
These are Bledsoe's gripping tales of fending off wolves in Alaska, encountering UFOs...
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"Anne Lamott writes about community, family and faith in essays that are wise, irreverent, funny and poignant - a style that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott has once again written a brilliant and insightful book that offers a message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardships and pain may be small, they may be infrequent, but they keep us going and they often come...
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"As a busy wife, new mother, business owner, and designer, Emily Ley came to a point when she suddenly realized she couldn't do it all. She needed to simplify her life, organize her days, and prioritize the priorities. She decided to hold herself to a standard of grace rather than perfection. This mantra led to the creation of her bestselling Simplified Planner®, a favorite among busy women everywhere--from mamas to executives and everywhere in between....
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Finding Grace is the powerful, often humorous, and deeply moving story of one woman's journey of broken dreams. It is the story of how a painful legacy of the past is confronted and met with peace. This book is for anyone who has struggled to understand why our desires-even the simplest ones-are sometimes denied or who has questioned where God is when we need Him most. This story is about one woman's unlikely road to motherhood. Finally, it's a book...
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[2016]
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286 pages ; 21 cm
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Ann Voskamp sits at the edge of her life and all of her own unspoken brokenness and asks: What if you really want to live abundantly before it's too late? What do you do if you really want to know abundant wholeness? This is the one begging question that's behind every single aspect of our lives -- and one that The Broken Way rises up to explore in the most unexpected ways. This one is for the lovers and the sufferers. For those whose hopes and dreams...
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Award-winning author Philip Yancey explores grace, the engine that powers Christian love and pushes evil away with forgiveness, in action in everyday life. As he searches for its presence in his own life and in the church, he finds that grace is indeed shocking and scandalous as it shakes our conventions with its insistence on getting close to sinners and touching them with mercy and hope.
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[2011]
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1 videodisc (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In the first episode, opening night of Miss Harbor's new play is just days away, but the star is sick! Or is he? Staci and Marsha do their best to cure him, but C.J.'s real problem is fear. Will he find the real remedy in time to save the play? In the second episode, the town bully, Hugh McClaw, warns the club that his cousin Joey is coming to town and they're planning to make trouble. Hugh and Joey even threaten to take over the clubhouse and make...
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[2019]
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xxv, 310 pages ; 24 cm
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"With a voice that is at once frank and poetic, humble and prophetic, intimate and practical, [Serene] Jones makes complex teachings around hatred, forgiveness, mercy, justice, death, sin, and grace understandable and immediately applicable for modern people. Excavating the wisdom of great theological voices-- Soren Kierkegaard, Reinhold Niebuhr, John Calvin, James Baldwin, James Cone, Luce Irigaray, Saint Teresa of Avila-- she brings them to life...
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[2016]
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122 pages ; 23 cm
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"Author Ann Voskamp takes us on a personal journey along the broken way. The broken way beckons you into more time, more meaning, more authentic relationships. There's a way, especially when things aren't shaping up like you imagined, that makes life take the shape of more-- more abundance, more intimacy, more God"--p.4 of cover.
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[2023]
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x, 223 pages ; 25 cm
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"Ever wonder if you've had one too many stumbles for God to use someone like you? If you could benefit from a tale of God's unending, unbending, unswerving love and devotion, let bestselling author and pastor Max Lucado show you how God's grace will transform your life"--
18) The grace of God
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[2010]
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xv, 221 pages ; 24 cm
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Grace. It's what we crave most when our guilt is exposed. It's the very thing we are hesitant to extend when we are confronted with the guilt of others especially when their guilt has robbed us of something we consider valuable. Therein is the struggle, the struggle for grace. It's this struggle that makes grace more story than doctrine. It's the struggle that reminds us that grace is bigger than compassion or forgiveness. That struggle is the context...
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[2011]
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1 videodisc (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In the first episode, Staci can hardly believe what a rude reception she receives from Miss Grissel. After all she was only trying to welcome her to Wildwood. With Miss Harbor's help, Staci learns an important lesson in showing grace to someone who is hard to love (Collossians 4:6). In the second episode, C.J. discovers a clue that unlocks the mystery of who set fire to the Collins mansion. Now Mrs Collins must figure out how the culprit should be...
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