For anyone who is searching for guidance in a time of need, finds that their faith is floundering, or simply wants to infuse some inspiration into their day, 101 MOST POWERFUL PROMISES IN THE BIBLE will provide the strength of God's message at the turn of a page.

101 Most Powerful Promises in the Bible (101 Most Powerful Series)

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Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

FaithWords

True enjoyment in life is found by focusing on the essentials.
A growing number of people recognize their need for a reliable guide for their life's journey. Essentials for Life fills that need by helping readers get back to the basics of what matters most with a fresh perspective on four core essentials of the Christian life:
<ul>
<li>What do I believe?</li>
<li>How do I grow closer to God?</li>
<li>What should my character and life reflect?</li>
<li>How do I live my life every day?</li>
</ul>
Essentials for Life offers fifty daily or weekly readings that each include a key life-guide principle, scripture and quotes, meditation, an interesting fact, and a unique application suggestion. Each discussion offers hope and a sense of peace and well-being by focusing on life with an eternal perspective.
The content offers spiritual truth while the interior graphic design, which includes sidebars and visuals, enhances the readability and the impact of each core essential.

Essentials for Life: Your Back-to-Basics Guide to What Matters Most

Religion & Spirituality

Thomas Nelson. Inc.

Helps women put first things first so that she can live a more confident, fulfilled life. 
How does a woman keep the cares of this world, and the enticements that it offers, from choking out the essentials of following God? "Essentials for Life for Women" helps them get back to the basics of what matters most with a fresh perspective on four core essentials of the Christian life: 
<ul>
<li>What do I believe?</li> <li>How do I grow closer to God?</li> <li>What should my character and life reflect?</li> <li>How do I live my life every day?</li>
</ul>
"Essentials for Life for Women" offers fifty daily or weekly readings that each include a key life principle, scripture and quotes, meditation, and an application. Each discussion offers hope and a sense of peace and well-being by focusing on life with an eternal perspective. 
The content offers spiritual truth while the interior graphic design, including sidebars and visuals, enhances the readability and the impact of each core essential.

Essentials for Life for Women: Your Back-To-Basics Guide to Simplifying Life and Embracing What Matters Most

Thomas Nelson Publishers

A front row seat to a fascinating conversation with God, Jesus, and other biblical characters answering important questions women have regarding life and faith.
A Conversation with God for Women allows readers a one-on-one dialogue with God, his son Jesus, and other important women and men from the Bible as they respond to questions and concerns relevant to the Christian faith. The questions, in some cases challenging, address the issues and tensions specifically felt by women. Each answer, designed for both believers and seekers, is based on Scripture and written with the warmth and intimacy of a Heavenly Father relating to His child.
Topics covered:
<ul>
<li>existence and nature of God</li>
<li>Jesus, Virgin birth of God's only Son</li>
<li>authenticity of Scripture</li>
<li>meaning in and unique challenges of a woman's life</li>
<li>power and purpose of prayer</li>
<li>importance, realities, and struggles of relationships</li>
<li>coexistence of good and evil</li>
</ul>

A Conversation with God for Women: If You Could Ask God Anything What Would It Be?

"In a sense, of course, all believers are strangers in a strange land— some, as they say, are just stranger than others. That would be my friends and me." Like Marcia Ford, most of us have felt, at one time or another, as if we are on a different wavelength from the rest of the world. Try as we might, we don't fit in— not in society and certainly not in the church. Despite our best efforts at camouflage, despite our hopes that we may finally have found a group of kindred believers, people still look at us funny. But if we stop to think about it, we're not in bad company. After all, Jesus was something of a misfit in His day, too. In this funny, fresh, and frank memoir, Marcia Ford chronicles her spiritual journey as a self-proclaimed misfit, telling the engaging story of one woman's efforts to fit into both society and the Christian church. Candid about her shortcomings and her sneaking suspicion that she may really be a square peg in a round hole, Marcia discovers that it is precisely because of her uniqueness that she is able to claim God's abundant grace and come to experience God more fully.

Memoir of a Misfit: Finding My Place in the Family of God

Jossey-Bass

Meditations for Misfits offers a new look at familiar passages of the Bible; each of the insightful weekly readings uses Scripture, a quote or excerpt, and a prayer to underscore the intrinsic value and uniqueness of misfits. This fresh approach to understanding the spiritual journey offers an awareness of God's activity in each life, a new vision for life in the community of faith, and the hope for greater self-acceptance.

Meditations for Misfits: Finding Your Place in the Family of God

Religious Studies

What was old is new and relevant again. For many Christians today, the growing desire for a deeper faith experience is being met in the study and application of ancient worship practices. Traditions of the Ancients is filled with candidly informative looks at such themes as mysticism, praying for the gift of tears, reciting the Jesus prayer, and asking God for the gift of bereavement.

Traditions of the Ancients: Vintage Faith Practices for the 21st Century

Christian Books & Bibles

Christian Living

B&H Books

All the essential information about prayer in an organized, engaging, and easy-to-read book. With more facts and less fluff, The Indispensable Guide to Practically Everything: Prayer puts at readers' fingertips all the need-to-know information about prayer. As our lifeline to God, prayer sustains us, brings us insight, and always offers answers. Common questions about prayer, how to overcome our struggles in prayer, and famous pray-ers and their prayers are explored in this enriching book. Also included is a guide on how to pray for different needs. 
 As part of a series of Indispensable Guides, this book offers readers fast, easy-to-find information that will bring clarity and confidence to their understanding of their faith.

The Indispensable Guide to Practically Everything: Prayer

Guideposts Kids

"I am every partisan politician's worst nightmare—a registered independent," says journalist Marcia Ford. "Wildly unpredictable in my voting habits over the last three decades, I have cast ballots for Democrats, Republicans, independents and assorted loose cannons." 
In We the Purple, Ford describes and interprets her fellow "Purple" voters—independents who are neither Republican red nor Democratic blue. Through dozens of interviews with independent voters and candidates, politicians, political observers and activists of many stripes, she explains how these citizens eschew partisan politics, guided instead by their core values, their faith, and their experience. 
Purple voters won't settle for the one or two issues identified for them by politicians, lobbyists, or religious leaders. It's a slippery voting bloc for politicians and pundits to get a handle on—they have no allegiance to party and no partisan ideology to uphold. If officeholders they help elect don't do something to fix what needs fixing, independents have no reason to ever vote for them again. 
Many Christians, like Ford, are independent voters, and she examines how faith influences their unaffiliated political stance. Many Christian independents feel disenfranchised and unwelcome at churches if they are not in agreement with the prevailing political views. "As paradoxical as the image may seem, if Christians remained morally centered, their votes could swing all along the political spectrum. And that include the votes of prominent Christian leaders," Ford says. "If religion is to play a prophetic role in the culture and in the political process, then people of faith need the freedom to speak prophetic words openly, without fear of repercussion or losing face," Ford says. 
Marcia Ford is a seasoned journalist, editor, and author. She was a reporter and editor at the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey, editor of Christian Retailing magazine, and associate editor at Charisma and Ministries Today. In addition to editing nearly one hundred books, she is the author of twenty books, including Finding Hope, Traditions of the Ancients, The Sacred Art of Forgiveness, Memoir of a Misfit, and with Scott Marshall, Restless Pilgrim: The Spiritual Journey of Bob Dylan. She lives with her family in Colorado

We the Purple: Faith, Politics, and the Independent Voter

History

World

Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Tap into the power of the Divine. Learn how to forgive―and be forgiven. Everyone knows that forgiveness is a virtue and a key to emotional, spiritual and even physical well-being. But learning how to actually forgive―or to accept forgiveness, as the case may be―is a sacred art few of us have mastered. It doesn’t have to be that way. Writing from personal experience and her broad knowledge of many faith traditions, Marcia Ford offers a new perspective on forgiveness and reconciliation, an approach rooted in the Spirit that can be learned by anyone no matter how deep the hurt. Through real-life examples, penetrating reflections, scriptural references and practical suggestions, Ford outlines the steps that one by one can help you to forgive, including: <ul>
<li>Coming to terms with anger, bitterness and resentment</li> <li>Understanding the differences between forgiveness and reconciliation </li> <li>Taking the initiative, even when you’re the one who’s been wronged </li> <li>Strategies for listening “with the heart” in emotionally charged situations </li> <li>Knowing when to forgive and forget―and when to forgive and take action</li> <li>Ways of allowing the power of the Divine to work through you</li> <li>Finding compassion for others―and for yourself</li> <li> … and much more</li>
</ul>

The Sacred Art Of Forgiveness: Forgiving Ourselves and Others through God's Grace (The Art of Spiritual Living)

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

SkyLight Paths

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