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Love Well: Living Life Unrehearsed and Unstuck

Love Well exposes the cycle of paralyzing shame, fear, and hopelessness that plagues so many. Through deeply personal stories, Jamie George reveals how to start moving forward toward hope and freedom. Personally, he also knows what it's like to struggle and feel stuck. Outwardly successful, he struggled privately with doubt over his new calling and his downward spiraling marriage. In time, he learned what it meant to become an apprentice in the art of unrehearsed living. God showed him how to embrace a journey of subtraction – letting go of shame, regret and all that bogged him down to allow space for the deeper rhythms of relationship and faith. Love Well is a revolutionary book that invites us to make the shift and start moving forward – towards God, others, and life! ***Please contact Member Services for additional documents***

Jamie George (Author), Jamie George (Narrator)

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Your Abundant Success Lasting Forever

Frederick Hoehn (Author), Frederick Hoehn (Narrator)

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Truth Runner

Faced with unparalleled grief, will Jonah return to Elohim? Parents are looking for fiction that makes Christianity exciting for their kids. This series is the first Christian answer to Percy Jackson, the Kane Chronicles, the Secret Series, and other middle grade series packed with action and adventure. But the message is solidly based in Scripture, conveying that God is always in control. It has been a trying six months for Jonah, Eliza, and Jeremiah Stone. They have been grieving over the loss of their nephilim mother, who was murdered by Abaddon’s forces. As part angels, the siblings have been in school with other children of nephilim to hone their special powers. In Truth Runner, Jonah has left Angel School and attempts to forget Elohim’s calling by moving back to his hometown and starting high school as a “normal” kid. But Jonah can still see fallen angels—and the evil they’re doing. When Jonah realizes the Fallen are attacking his friends without their knowledge, he is faced with a choice: continue to ignore it and forge his own path, or remember who he really is and fight for his friends. As Jonah’s story begins to resemble his Biblical character’s namesake, will he turn back to Elohim’s path for his life?

Jerel Law (Author), Kelly Ryan Dolan (Narrator)

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Time to Change: An Ignatian Retreat in Everyday Life

We all need to make a retreat. To find a few moments in our busy lives to try to stop worrying and fretting about so many different things, and to sit in silence at God’s feet and just to listen. A retreat is simply an attempt to see beyond the 101 cares and occupations we normally have and to ask ourselves, ‘Where it is all leading? What’s the purpose of it all?’ Time to Change takes the basic format and principles of The Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius and allows us to make a retreat without interrupting too much your ordinary daily life and all the things you have to do.

Michael Campbell-Johnston (Author), Drew Campbell (Narrator)

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Leaders Learning to Listen

Essential reading for any leader wishing to refresh their ministry. Many in church leadership roles know the truth of Bonhoeffer s words, but there seem to be obstacles and barriers that get in the way of that sort of quality of listening. We seem to live with the illusion that speaking and doing are more important than listening. In the face of all the many challenges for the church the temptation is for more strategies for success, more pressure to turn things around. Listening in whatever form easily gets marginalized. Here, Chris Edmonson outlines why listening is so essential to good leadership. He looks at the barriers to good communication, at the importance of silence and stillness, and the challenges of listening to those from whom we differ. He emphasizes the essential elements of discernment and prophecy, looking closely at what those terms really mean, and offers some practical ways forward for leaders wishing to create a more listening culture in their church communities.

Chris Edmondson (Author), Tim Dawson (Narrator)

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The Power of Small Choices: A Lent Course

Hilary Brand looks at the power of the small choices we make on a daily basis and the role of faith in enabling or inhibiting choice. Many of us feel that our lives are very small. It is for others to make the big statements, the noble sacrifices, the grand gestures of faith. But within our humdrum lives lie a million small choices – any one of which could have huge consequences for ourselves, for those around us, and for the world. In this lively and thought-provoking course, Hilary Brand looks at the power of the small choices we make on a daily basis. She looks at what science and contemporary culture have to say about notions of freedom and responsibility, and the role of faith in enabling or inhibiting choice. She then applies this to the human scale, focusing on real life examples of people who have made a difference through the choices they have made. Group sessions are structured around examination of two films, The Shawshank Redemption and Babette’s Feast, which serve to highlight how choice can be exercised even in the most limited of circumstances. The course provides weekly session which include video extracts, questions and further readings to help stimulate discussion. The course also includes notes for leaders, and an outline to help structure each session.

Hilary Brand (Author), Lynsey Frost (Narrator)

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Confessions of a Lapsed Catholic

Sheila Cassidy’s honest and wise books on suffering and healing have made her one of the UK’s bestloved and most popular writers on pastoral care and personal growth. She is widely known for her work in the hospice movement, and as a young doctor who survived torture for daring to give medical care to an opponent of the Pinochet regime in Chile. Her Catholic faith has led, comforted and sustained her for over sixty years. Now, in Confessions of a Lapsed Catholic, Cassidy writes: ‘I no longer attend Mass, I no longer avail myself of the sacraments, those “outward signs of inward grace” which sustained me in my earlier years. God is to be found outside the Church even more than in it: in nature, in people, in animals, in poetry and in all the wild and wonderful works of the Divine. God is everywhere, in everything shining forth, if we only care to look. ’

Dr. Sheila Cassidy (Author), Bob Sinfield (Narrator)

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Falling Upward

In the first half of life, we are naturally preoccupied with establishing ourselves; climbing, achieving, and performing. But as we grow older and encounter challenges and mistakes, we need to see ourselves in a different and more life-giving way. This message of falling down - that is in fact moving upward - is the most resisted and counterintuitive of messages in the world's religions. Falling Upward offers a new paradigm for understanding one of the most profound of life's mysteries: how those who have fallen down are the only ones who understand up. We grow spiritually more by doing it wrong than by doing it right, and the disappointments of life are actually stepping stones to the spiritual joys in the second half of life.

Richard Rohr (Author), Richard Rohr (Narrator)

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Dealing with the S-Words: Self-Esteem, Significance, Sex, Secrets, Suicide

ABOUT THE BOOK: Rich or poor, popular or unnoticed, we're all looking for the same thing-new life. But if young people don't get things right on the inside, they will never be the happy, successful people they were created to be. Happiness and success are an inside job. This is a book about "S-Words"-the "don't go there" words-those topics that get Sunday school teachers replaced and youth pastors fired: self-esteem, significance, sex, secrets, and suicide. Dive deeply into the topics we've all wrestled with and discover what God says about life's toughest issues. **** ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jason Creech became a Jesus follower at age 19. After earning his bachelor's degree in art and design, he took his first staff position at a local church in Southeastern Kentucky. He has 14 years of pastoral experience in the area of student ministry. In 2006, Jason founded Mirror-Mirror, a nonprofit organization that allowed him to bring high-energy events, college scholarships, cash prizes, and the hope found in Jesus Christ to over 56,000 public school students throughout Kentucky and abroad. Jason now serves on the staff of LifeSteward Ministries, coaching ministry leaders across the U.S. and internationally to experience God's presence and His increase. Additional titles by Jason include New.U and Navigate, available Summer 2011.

Jason Creech, Sandra Saylor (Author), Innovo Publishing (Narrator)

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The Cause within You

Whether we realize it or not, each of us was created for a great cause, and we will never be truly fulfilled until we find and pursue it. Matthew Barnett, son of a well-known megachurch pastor, discovered his great cause when he relinquished his dream of building a big, successful church like his father's and began listening for God's dream for his life. Sensing that God was calling him to serve the poor and powerless of Los Angeles, Matthew founded the Dream Center, a beacon of hope for homeless families, drug addicts, abused women and children, victims of human trafficking, teen runaways, gang members, and many others whose lives were filled with brokenness. If you are hungry for a life full of passion instead of apathy; if you are ready to use your specific gifts and abilities to make a mark on the world; if you need to be reminded that God loves you and has a plan for your life, The Cause Within You is the book that can change everything. Through his own story and the stories of others whose lives have been transformed, Matthew Barnett will lead you to the cause of your lifetime.

Matthew Barnett (Author), Matt Baugher (Narrator)

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Lessons From God

ABOUT THE BOOK: It is crucial in this day and hour to hear and to know the voice of God. Through Lessons from God, you will not only hear His voice but you will be drawn into deeper intimacy with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God created us to have a relationship with Him. His desire is to commune with us daily-to instruct us in the ways we should go. This book will strengthen, encourage, and inspire you to let go of past wounds and misconceptions, allowing God to show you the truth of who you are in Him. No longer will you be tempted to turn to man or the things of this world to fulfill the longings and desires of your heart; instead you will confidently turn to the One Who lovingly created you. ---- ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Carla Dillon-Cameron lives in Northeast Washington. She is a Professional Photographer, Real Estate Broker and Licensed Real Estate Instructor for sales - marketing and business management. She is currently the VP of Ministry Development for the N.E.W. Aglow Chapter and volunteers as a Guardian ad Litem through CASA.

Carla Cameron (Author), Innovo Publishing (Narrator)

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Fireproof Your Life

"Fireproof doesn't mean that the fires will never come, but that when they do, you'll be able to withstand them." - from the movie FIREPROOF Using illustrations from his own life and from the movie, FIREPROOF, Catt discusses practical issues such as temptation, marriage and finances, helping us build a faith that resists our corrosive culture. Rather than succumb to the pressure of circumstances, we can stand tall and face our challenges in Christ's power. Life's trials can overcome us - or they can serve us, growing us into the mature, life-giving believers God intends.

Michael Catt (Author), Tom Parks (Narrator)

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