Winner Religion: Christian Inspirational The 2020 Best Book Awards
Prepare your heart and home to serve not only family and friends, but neighbors and strangers too! Make any space a haven of discipleship, connection, and comfort.
As Christians, we sometimes forget the power of an open door to a lost world. Using our homes to live out our faith in the true model of the Great Commission is challenging in our busy, over-scheduled lives. But having a home that is always open and available is key to living in community with others and being missional in our thinking. In this beautiful and inspiring book, wife, mom, and interior design enthusiast Victoria Duerstock offers simple and inspiring ways to prepare our hearts and homes to be open to friends, neighbors, and strangers.
Winner Religion: Christianity The 2020 Best Book Awards
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational The 2020 Best Book Awards
Conversations with God invite a divine being into our lives. He created us for relationships; we are not meant to be alone. He is not far (Acts 17:24-28).
This book is about a need for persistent prayers that invite God's involvement in each of our lives. Our relationship with God is so much more dynamic than a method of "how to pray." By sharing parts of her own story, Stacy's hope is that every reader will value the unique and intimate relationship God wants to have with them.
Come Fill This Place: A Journey in Prayer shares lessons learned about prayer to encourage others to seek God first, in everything. God, who accepts us as we are, is the "extra" that transforms ordinary lives into extraordinary lives.
Winner Religion: General The 2020 Best Book Awards
Frithjof Schuon's perspective of pure esoterism focuses on the inward and universal dimension of religion, also referred to as the sophia perennis (“perennial wisdom”). His works provide invaluable keys to understanding the formal contradictions between the world's religions as well as their transcendent unity. In Esoterism as Principle and as Way readers will discover the essential truth that lies at the heart of the world's religions, as well as the role of prayer, virtue, and beauty in the spiritual life.
This revised edition of Schuon's writings on esoterism features a fully revised translation from the French original as well as over 60 pages of new material, including previously unpublished selections from the author's letters and other private writings, an editor's preface, editor's notes, a glossary of foreign terms and phrases, an index, and biographical notes.
Winner Religion: Eastern The 2020 Best Book Awards
You are loved by Allah exactly as you are in this very moment.
The #1 international bestselling book, Secrets of Divine Love was written for the longing heart, for the one who is searching for something they have not been able to find. For the one who sometimes spirals into hopelessness and cannot help but feel too imperfect for a perfect God to love. This book is for the one who is at the edge of their faith, who has experienced religion as a harsh winter instead of the life-bearing spring it was sent to be by God.
Secrets of Divine Love serves as a compass and guiding light that returns you to the source of divine peace and surrender. Through the practices and pillars of Islam, you will learn how to unlock your spiritual potential and unveil your divine purpose. A. Helwa uses a rational, yet heart-based approach towards the Qur'an that not only enlightens the mind, but inspires the soul towards deeper intimacy with Allah. By weaving together dozens of inspiring mystical stories, Qur’an verses, Hadith, Rumi and Hafez poetry, psychology, and science, the author breaks down Islam in a way that is both digestible and inspiring for millennial Muslims.
Approximately 80 percent of Americans admit they haven't read the Bible. If they did, they'd be pleasantly surprised by its impressive quantity of sex and poop jokes.
David danced naked. Noah was basically a moonshining hillbilly. Ezekiel baked poop bread. Herod was eaten by worms. Jesus cursed a fig tree, just to prove he could. Mark went streaking. Hosea married a prostitute. Lot was date-raped by his own daughters.
It turns out, there's a lot of weird stuff in the Bible. Murder-Bears, Moonshine, and Mayhem is a tongue-in-cheek look at all of it. From Elisha, who loosed homicidal bears on some kids because they called him bald (it's a long story), to the story of Ehud, who gets away with assassinating a tyrannical king because his servants think said king is taking a dump (also a long story), this book examines and casts new light on some of the Bible's stranger moments.
Organized by topic (poop, genitalia, weird violence, prostitution, gratuitous nudity, seemingly pointless miracles, and other fun stuff), Murder-Bears, Moonshine, and Mayhem is a thoroughly researched (really!), reverent, and insightful look at the best-selling book in history.
Dealing with life's problems both with your usual coping mechanisms and God? Learn techniques to open your imagination and command God's promises into your reality!
Surviving through any means necessary while still going to God simultaneously, hoping something will work? This easy-to-read, uplifting, and enjoyable story entertains while including explained step-by-step self-help encouragement toward a victorious life. It is full of understanding, life lessons, simple applications, and empathy. Engage in a journey that provides choice and superior love when the oppressive narrowness of hardships teaches the very opposite.
Life is constantly changing, and Teri is struggling to keep up with the various demands of her new realities. The stability of her career is questionable, as her employer focuses on restructuring. Motherhood is altered with an impending divorce. Climaxing within the hardest lows of her existence, a misrepresentation loosens the thread that was keeping everything together. Catapulted into uncertainty, Teri crumbles under the pressure. But with the help of Sister Kelly, Teri uncovers new realities, fueling her imagination. Refocusing her energy to create positive possibilities and new perspectives is working, but can simple instructions really fix everything?
Bob was known as the second grade bully and took pride knowing that his classmates were afraid of him. His teacher, Mrs. Rose, prayed and asked God what to do. She told Bob that every day Jesus gives us is a chance to start anew. Bob didn’t care because to him, Jesus was just an imaginary man.
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational The 2020 Best Book Awards
The Struggle Bus: The Van. The Myth. The Legend. is designed to take you, dear reader, on a ride with the Wood family in the van that became an Internet sensation.
This one-of-a-kind literary adventure you are about to embark on is about more than a viral van. It's about managing the wonderful chaos of a family of 11. It's about parenting. It's about marriage. It's about success. It's about failure. It's about faith. It's about fun. It's about a van becoming a metaphor for life as it is given a fun-filled beatdown for the ages.
As you roll along with the Wood family, you just might feel driven to:
connect a little more with the God who made you.
give yourself a little more grace when you fail.
smile and laugh a little more--both at the Wood family's expense and your own.
Hop in, buckle up, hold your nose, laugh, and join the Wood family to explore one of life's fundamental truths: the struggle is real.
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational The 2020 Best Book Awards
Imagine running a marathon that you didn’t intend to compete in, let alone train for. The finish line is nowhere in sight, and the stakes are your family’s safety and happiness...
Such is the situation of family caregivers, many of them women, who suddenly find themselves trying to simultaneously hold down a job, build a family, and care for elderly parents. Struggling to put on a good face to hide their stress, they compartmentalize their roles and push through their days—treading most carefully when navigating the multigenerational workplace.
Written with a spirit of perseverance and knowing “this too shall pass,” Run, Walk, Crawl: A Caregiver Caught Between Generations, describes Sarahbeth Persiani’s “marathon”—her deeply personal story about figuring out how to meet the daily demands of work and family while taking on increasing responsibility for her aging father. By turns funny, insightful, and poignant, this memoir chronicles her successes, her failures, and, ultimately, her goodbye to a hard-earned, respected professional persona on the way to miraculously finding her better self.
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational The 2020 Best Book Awards
7 Life-Giving Words to Live Your Best Life is a blueprint to help you live what you deserve: your BEST LIFE. As a licensed psychotherapist, author Frantz Lamour witnesses firsthand the effort it takes to rise above everything that tries to keep us down. We want to live our best life, but sometimes we don’t know how. Just when we’re about to give up, we discover hope and guidance in God’s life-giving words. Through seven practical lessons and relevant scriptures on words of love, forgiveness, healing, salvation, authority, peace, and grace, 7 Life-Giving Words to Live Your Best Life will breathe new resilience and energy into your daily walk and help you master the art of living your best life one day at a time.
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational The 2020 Best Book Awards
UNDERSTAND YOUR WORTH AND LEARN TO RECOGNIZE THE BLESSINGS GOD HAS FOR YOU
Do you every feel less than–less important or less valuable than others on social media, at work, or even in your own friend circles?
Would you like to know with confident assurance just how precious, loved, and valuable you are to God and believe that God has a purpose-filled plan for your life?
In Platinum Faith, best-selling authors and inspirational speakers Michelle Medlock Adams and Bethany Jett examine twelve unique properties of the precious metal platinum–including valuable, rare, unreactive, and highly useful–to show us how to embrace our true worth and cultivate a deeper faith in God.
Finalist Religion: Christianity The 2020 Best Book Awards
Struggling and persistently fighting against family put-downs and abuse of every kind, turned Dale Fiegland into a gun-toting, knife-wielding Mafia runner addicted to alcohol and drugs-the kind of man God loves to get ahold of and change. When Dale finally stopped fighting God and asked Him for help, miraculous events followed that can only be called a Conspiracy of Grace.
This winsome tale, touched with humor, is shared in plainspoken style by a pastor/counselor unlike any you may have met. Dale's story helps lift the spiritual veil, enabling readers to see how God works amid life's gritty, hard-hitting realities. This book will engage and delight you and may challenge some of your ideas about God and faith.
Raised in northern Ohio, Dale Fiegland graduated from Anderson College, taught in the inner-city schools of Cleveland, and attained success in business before he joined the ministry. He earned a master of arts degree in counseling from Liberty University and was the counseling pastor for twenty-five years at Riverside Church in Fort Myers, Florida. Dale, who holds the title of pastor emeritus, maintains an active counseling practice, specializing in assisting those dealing with drug or alcohol addictions or various forms of abuse. Numerous churches have sought his help as a consultant in handling difficult matters.
This inspirational book, touched with humor, includes photos and resources.
Finalist Religion: Christian Inspirational The 2020 Best Book Awards
“BE THE DONKEY” by Kimberley RB Johnson is a compassionate, wholesome Christian autobiography which tells of Kimberley’s first trip to Haiti. She shares her comical yet moving challenge of sponsoring her “son” Bildad to college in the United States. Kimberley pens her own midlife struggles as well, including divorce, family deaths, and her personal search for true love. Spanning ten years of their mission work, “BE THE DONKEY” is sure to contain something to which anyone can relate, proving once again to never give up hope.
Finalist Religion: Eastern The 2020 Best Book Awards
Chinese Buddhists have never remained stationary. They have always been on the move. In Monks in Motion, Jack Meng-Tat Chia explores why Buddhist monks migrated from China to Southeast Asia, and how they participated in transregional Buddhist networks across the South China Sea. This book tells the story of three prominent monks--Chuk Mor (1913-2002), Yen Pei (1917-1996), and Ashin Jinarakkhita (1923-2002)--and examines the connected history of Buddhist communities in China and maritime Southeast Asia in the twentieth century.
Monks in Motion is the first book to offer a history of what Chia terms "South China Sea Buddhism," referring to a Buddhism that emerged from a swirl of correspondence networks, forced exiles, voluntary visits, evangelizing missions, institution-building campaigns, and the organizational efforts of countless Chinese and Chinese diasporic Buddhist monks. Drawing on multilingual research conducted in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, Chia challenges the conventional categories of "Chinese Buddhism" and "Southeast Asian Buddhism" by focusing on the lesser-known--yet no less significant--Chinese Buddhist communities of maritime Southeast Asia. By crossing the artificial spatial frontier between China and Southeast Asia, Monks in Motion breaks new ground, bringing Southeast Asia into the study of Chinese Buddhism and Chinese Buddhism into the study of Southeast Asia.
Finalist Religion: Eastern The 2020 Best Book Awards
THE BHAGAVAD GITA COMES ALIVE is a brilliant new translation of India’s most enlightening sacred text. After 10 years of etymological & linguistic research, Jeffrey Armstrong | Kavindra Rishi's The Bhagavad Gita Comes Alive: A Radical Translation gets to the root of the Sanskrit-English translation conundrum and delivers the clearest, most universal & enlivening version of the Gita’s deep & profound wisdom ever written in the English language. It is essential reading for all seekers of wisdom.
Jeffrey Armstrong | Kavindra Rishi has degrees in History & Religion, Psychology, & Literature. He is an award-winning author & poet and has been a practitioner & teacher of yoga philosophy & Sanatana Dharma for 50 years. He is founder of the Vedic Academy of Sciences and Arts, Co-Chair of Vedic Friends Association, and is active with British Board of Dharmic Scholars.
Finalist Religion: Christianity The 2020 Best Book Awards
Everyone wants a satisfying life - to live in freedom, to experience joy, to know love. But most people admit that life hasn't turned out the way they expected. This book answers the most important questions about how to live now in this unstable political climate where catastrophic events and the insecurity of the unknown paralyze and polarize many people. If you want real answers that will carry you with peace and hope for this life and beyond, there is something in this book for you. If you want advice about how to have a satisfying marriage and a happy family despite economic uncertainty and uncontrollable external circumstances, this author has practical advice for you so you can experience true freedom within yourself first and then promote a family culture of love, protection and service. Written in simple language from an 86 year old pastor's heart who has served almost 60 years in ministry.
Finalist Religion: Christianity The 2020 Best Book Awards
There are times in our lives when we don’t choose the path we take. Whether it be an accident or illness, in a heartbeat the course of our life is forever changed. Musings of the Miracle Man gives us a glimpse into Bill Hollace’s journey through an unimaginable barrage of health challenges that God used not only to transform his life, but impact others. Inside this book you will find Bill’s words including conversations with God and with his wife, along with nuggets of wisdom that invite you to examine your own life journey. Open your eyes to the miracles that surround you daily. Operate from a place of strength – not from a place of fear. We are in this together.
Finalist Religion: Christianity The 2020 Best Book Awards
Good dogs are obedient, loving, loyal, protective, and friendly. They honor their masters, bark only at the right times, and inspire us to be better through heroism, perseverance, and selflessness.Dogs have weak moments, too. They poop blue, jump out of car windows, and, at times, might be nicknamed the “Devil Dog.”Better Than Our Dogs uses funny and engaging stories to illustrate timeless lessons from the book of James. Each chapter offers practical advice, challenges readers to determine which dog they are most like, and encourages everyone to be better today.Better friends. Better people. Better followers of God.
Finalist Religion: Christianity The 2020 Best Book Awards
Effective communication is perhaps the most fundamental skill shared in common by successful salespeople. Yet, far too often, new salespeople are released into the field with little to no training, and are not prepared to withstand the tremendous pressures they will face to compromise in their pursuit of the elusive sale. Salespeople resent buyers who take advantage of them, while buyers become alienated and walk away from salespeople who stubbornly and defensively stand their ground. A potentially profitable exchange for both degenerates into a contest of wills that ends poorly for both sides. Jesus Christ, the master communicator, shows us a better way. His conversations with friends and foes alike illustrate how to communicate effectively without compromise: showing respect, building trust, and standing one's ground in a way that nurtures relationships rather than breeding resentment and division.
In this inspiring and informative book, Deb Brown Maher unpacks seven characteristics of Jesus' method of interacting with people and shows how to apply them to totally transform the way people approach a sale, pursuing sales conversations with honesty and integrity, and demonstrating equal concern for the needs of potential buyers. Discover the importance of character, connection, clarity, comprehension, certainty, choice and commitment—and learn to sell like Jesus!
Finalist Religion: Christianity The 2020 Best Book Awards
These brief devotionals speak to the enormous challenges facing our world today. So many of you are grieving loss of loved ones, or risking your life daily to help others, or facing loss of your livelihood, financial ruin or uncertainty. The Psalms and teachings of Jesus offer treasures of hope for today and promises us a brighter tomorrow. You will find in these meditations that God wants to comfort his own and then use us to help and bless one another.
Life seemed close to perfect approaching the summer of 2005. Every parent's nightmare began for us one evening when Zack came home earlier than expected. Of course, we never imagined that he would sneak out after midnight when he was certain we were asleep. Or that we would be awakened to the news that a car accident had placed him precariously on the edge of death. It shattered our idyllic world and changed the course of our lives.
In this profoundly moving book, readers will experience the emotional faith of a mother and witness the amazing recovery from traumatic brain injury. Faced with the daunting news that her son may never walk or talk again and forced to consider the rest of his life in a nursing home, she turned to the only person that had the power to restore him. Within the desolate walls of the ICU she cried out to God for healing and saw prayers answered in miraculous ways. God was in control and through the power of prayer they would discover his perfect plan was more than they could hope or imagine.
