A family favorite and time-honored tradition for the Easter season. The magazine that has inspired readers for sixty-five years shines in this new Easter edition. Loyal readers are drawn to Ideals magazine for its celebration of life's most treasured moments. Here a new edition serves as a touching reminder of the true meaning of the Easter holiday and special family traditions. 
 Readers will savor the beautiful, upbeat poetry and heartwarming prose by familiar contributors and fresh favorites. These carefully chosen pieces are joined by beautiful, full-color photographs and fine art masterpieces, making Ideals a visual treat as well as a treasury of wonderful written selections. Here, beloved writer Pamela Kennedy imagines the event of the first Easter through the eyes of Mary Magdalene; Eileen Spinelli spins a charming springtime verse; and the story of the first Easter, as told in the Holy Bible, is illustrated with fine art depicting the events surrounding the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. 
 The longtime favorite feature, Family Recipes, includes recipes chosen for the Easter season, sure to please the palate. Readers will learn the history behind the beloved Easter song, 'In the Garden,' written by C. Austin Miles, and will have the opportunity to play and sing the song using the sheet music. Certain to be read and re-read, this books makes a perfect gift at Eastertime and a wonderful way to celebrate the springtime days.

Easter Ideals

Religion & Spirituality

ideals-publications

Christian Books & Bibles

Guideposts Kids

Compiled from the best-loved articles from Guideposts magazine, A Cool Drink of Water: Inspiring True Stories to Refresh Your Spirit will rejuvenate you with its true stories -- from everyday people -- celebrating what matters most in life. Introduction by Edward Grinnan, Editor-in-Chief of Guideposts magazine. Take a cool drink of water for your spirit through these inspiring, real-life stories! 
 Delight in these accounts from everyday people --about the surprises in their lives, how they make a difference to their neighbors and friends, how they truly accept others, and how they find beauty through expressing heartfelt gratitude. 
 Whether it involves an extraordinary feat of selflessness, an answer to a desperate prayer, the fulfillment of lifelong dreams; true stories of unlikely friendships; connections to kind strangers; or an affirmation of the joy and wonder to be found in this world, these refreshing, true stories will give you hope when you need it most. 
 Savor the inspiration and refreshment in these stories of people who were able to turn tragedy into triumph, dreams into reality.

A Cool Drink of Water: Inspiring True Stories to Refresh Your Spirit

Self-Help

GuidepostsBooks

Motivational

All the essential information about Jesus in an organized, engaging, and easy-to-read book. With more facts and less fluff, The Indispensable Guide to Practically Everything: Jesus puts at readers' fingertips all the need-to-know information about the life and teachings of Jesus. From his birth in a manger to his death and resurrection, readers will find a fast, easy-to-use exploration of Jesus and better discover what he means for their lives today. 
 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.

Jesus: The Indispensable Guide to Practically Everything (The Essestials Made Easy)

Gansky, Alton

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

Ford, Marcia

A breast cancer diagnosis at age forty-six inspired a churchgoing suburban soccer mom to make her biggest dream come true: becoming a real-life Nancy Drew. Until her diagnosis, few knew how passionately Val -- a lover of Nancy Drew mysteries as a child -- fantasized about becoming a hardboiled female gumshoe. Motivated by her illness to finally pursue her goal, Val opened her own PI firm and became an undercover mother. 
 Val invents wildly funny and unique ways to get at the truth, like using her 'feminine weakness' to cajole a man suspected of health insurance fraud to lift heavy bags of soil for them. She does stake-outs in between grocery store runs and drug busts before picking her kids up from school. She finds lost loves, reunites adoptees with birth parents, uncovers insurance fraud, and nabs internet scammers. Her weapons are woman's intuition and mom smarts powered by a deep faith in God. 
 Together with her various business partners, she turns everything that might be considered a liability -- gender, age, family, illness -- into assets, and becomes an inspiration to anyone pursuing their dreams despite tremendous odds. Poignant and moving, it explores the determination of one mom to make her life count, even when the worst happens. Spymom is part detective story, part cancer story, and 100 percent inspirational tale. Afterword written by Christine Agosta Quintana.

Spy Mom

Sports & Outdoors

Agosta, Val

Biographies

A thoughtful, courageous exploration, in the tradition of Kathleen Norris's Amazing Grace, of how to actively seek God and find evidence of God's presence from a believer who experienced a decade of unbelief. In her Confessions of an Amateur Believer, Patty Kirk gave readers an honest account of what it means to embark on a real relationship with God in today's world. Now, in A Field Guide to God: A Seeker's Manual, she turns her engaging prose on a more practical matter how to discover God's presence in a world where we can't see, touch, or hear him. Courageously expressing her struggles with faith and doubt, Patty Kirk shows how to reencounter God in both conventional and unexpected ways. From new ways of reading the Bible and experiencing prayer to remembering how we've experienced God in our past and remaining open to indirect messages in everyday life, she helps readers bring more meaning and hope to the faith journey. In addition, each chapter concludes with simple, creative exercises that help you reach out to God. She encourages readers to step out of longing and passive seeking to take action and creatively pursue a God who is always there.

A Field Guide to God: A Seeker's Manual

Kirk, Patty

A crumbling scroll long lost in a forgotten cave offers a provocative and illuminating new interpretation of the man known as Jesus. An expertly plotted story based on the author's actual research in Israel, the novel entwines two stories: one set amidst the modern-day conflicts in the Middle East, the other set in ancient Palestine, yet both offer a perspective on the universal struggle for true freedom and love. The relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene has long fascinated scholars and intrigued nearly all believers. What was the nature of their relationship and how has it influenced Christianity since the first millennium? With compelling storytelling in the style of Dan Brown coupled with years of exhaustive study, Evan Drake Howard has created a magisterial novel that asks, and attempts to illuminate, enduring questions on the nature of love. 
 In first-century Jerusalem, the faithful Judith finds herself caught in a web of romantic betrayal and intrigue. She must reconcile her faith with her conflicting feelings for two brothers, one the Zealot Dismas and his brother, the sensitive merchant Gabriel. A letter written by an insightful Galilean rabbi changes their lives forever and sets each on a new path of discovery, humanity and love. 
 In modern-day Israel, amidst the war-torn countryside, Karim Musalaha, a young Palestinian, finds himself with similar struggle. Caught between his brother's relentless ambition for martyrdom and his powerful love for a woman he cannot have, his life seems an endless journey of rage and despair. Until one day, while seeking refuge in a long forgotten cave in Qumran, he discovers a crumbling scroll with a mysterious text. Still legible after two millennia, Karim reads a message that indeed changes his life forever. But will the cost be worth his newfound knowledge? galileansecret.com

The Galilean Secret

Howard, Evan Drake

Literature & Fiction

A church camping trip leads to revelations that cause Kate and Paul Hanlon's daughter to question everything she thought she knew about love. Kate and Paul are delighted when their daughter Rebecca arrives for a surprise visit with her new boyfriend Marcus, but something about her handsome actor beau doesn't seem quite right. Rather than cancel his camping trip with men from the church, Paul brings Marcus along. But what starts out as a good time of bonding soon turns into disaster when Paul and Marcus end up lost in the wilderness. Meanwhile, two mysterious men from Marcus' past show up at the Hanlon residence, leaving everyone to wonder what Marcus is hiding. Kate, desperate for answers, must use all of her detective skills to bring her husband home alive. With time running out, the community is reminded that faith is their best guide.

Into the Wilderness (Mystery and the Minister's Wife)

Depree, Tracie

United States

When Renee Lambert's prize pooch is dognapped just before the start of the county dog show, Kate Hanlon sets out to find the tiny pup before it's too late. The dog days of summer are anything but boring when the Harrington County Dog Show comes to Copper Mill. Proud pooches and their owners will stop at nothing to take home 'Best in Show.' With only a few weeks until the big event, Renee Lambert is in for a serious shock when her pocket-pup Kisses is dognapped! While Renee mourns the loss of her faithful companion, Kate determines to find the missing Chihuahua, but a series of pranks, a heated argument, and a suspicious auction throw her off the trail. Can she bring the beloved dog home? And can Kate and Paul help everyone realize that trophies have nothing to do with the biggest prize of all?

Dog Days (Mystery and the Minister's Wife)

Cox, Carol

The ultimate guide to knowing the real Jesus -- the powerful, personal, and transformative man and Savior -- whose words are still as relevant and piercing today as they were in biblical times. Go the extra mile. Turn the other cheek. Lord it over someone. Practice what you preach. Eat, drink, and be merry. Millions of people around the world quote the words of Jesus every day without even knowing it. Jesus' words have had a profound effect on the world. 
 In Know the Words of Jesus in 30 Days best selling author J. Stephen Lang brings us another insightful 30-day guide, in the tradition of Know the Bible in 30 Days. Chock-full of these and other sayings of Christ -- including parables, conversations with his disciples, miracles, and scuffles with the Pharisees -- Know the Words of Jesus in 30 Days will bring you closer to the heart and mind of Jesus. 
 Lang sheds light on hard-to-understand sayings and provides cultural insights, character close-ups and did-you-know facts. Far from being a dry reference guide, Know the Words of Jesus in 30 Days inspires the reader to reflect on the meaning of Jesus' wise words in their everyday lives.

Know the Words of Jesus in 30 Days

j.stephen lang

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