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Jesus CEO : Using Ancient Wisdom for Visionary Leadership

Jesus CEO : Using Ancient Wisdom for Visionary Leadership

by Laurie Beth Jones

An inspirational guide for business managers combines spiritual and professional advice on how to work with and motivate others as a means of accomplishing shared goals and achieving economic success. Reprint.

Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus (Hinges of History)

Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus (Hinges of History)

by Thomas Cahill

From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews , his most compelling historical narrative yet. How did an obscure rabbi from a backwater of the Roman Empire come to be the central figure in Western Civilization? Did his influence in fact change the world? These are the questions Thomas Cahill addresses in his subtle and engaging investigation into the life and times... (more)

Death by Love: Letters from the Cross (RE: Lit: Vintage Jesus)

Death by Love: Letters from the Cross (RE: Lit: Vintage Jesus)

by Mark Driscoll, Gerry Breshears

Real people. Real sin. Transformed lives. A compilation of heartfelt letters written from a pastor to his people that explains Jesus' work on the cross. Death by Love is a unique book on the cross of Jesus Christ. While many books debate the finer points of the doctrine of the atonement, what is often lost are the real-life implications of Jesus' death on the cross for those who have sinned and have... (more)

Christ the Lord : road to Cana, a novel

by Anne Rice

Anne Rice’s second book in her hugely ambitious and courageous life of Christ begins during his last winter before his baptism in the Jordan and concludes with the miracle at Cana. It is a novel in which we see Jesus—he is called Yeshua bar Joseph—during a winter of no rain, endless dust, and talk of trouble in Judea. Legends of a Virgin birth have long surrounded Yeshua, yet for decades he has lived as one... (more)

The ESV Study Bible (English Standard Version)

The ESV Study Bible (English Standard Version)

by J. I. Packer

The ESV Study Bible was created to help people understand the Bible in a deeper way. Combining the best and most recent evangelical Christian scholarship with the highly regarded ESV text, it is the most comprehensive study Bible ever published. The ESV Study Bible features more than 2,750 pages of extensive, accessible Bible resources, including completely new notes, full-color maps, illustrations,... (more)

Jesus

by A. N. Wilson

"Extraordinarily entertaining....Learned, witty....Wilson <is> a gifted novelist and diligent biographer."— Newsday What are the facts about the life of Jesus, as opposed to the myths, or unprovable tenets of faith surrounding the miracles, death, and resurrection? How and when did Christianity become a separate religion from the Judaism into which Jesus was born? To what extent was his power over... (more)

Jesus LP: A Story of Enlightenment

by Deepak Chopra

The New York Times bestselling author of Buddha captures the extraordinary life of Jesus in this surprising, soul-stirring, and page-turning novel. Uncovering the transformational "lost years" that are not recounted in the New Testament, Deepak Chopra has imagined Jesus's path to enlightenment moving from obscurity to revolutionary, from doubt to miracles, and then beyond as the role of the long-awaited... (more)

The Family

The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

by Jeff Sharlet, Jeff Sharlet, Jeff Sharlet

A journalist's penetrating look at the untold story of christian fundamentalism's most elite organization, a self-described invisible network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful They are the Family—fundamentalism's avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the halls of American power and around the globe. They consider themselves the new chosen—congressmen, generals, and foreign dictators who meet... (more)

Personal Size Giant Print Reference

by Dr. Donald J. Wilton

What if you could capture the knowledge of the most eminent Biblical scholars, draw on some of the best biblical maps, timelines, and other study helps, and have them with you wherever you go? Chances are that you would often have to sacrifice readability to do it. Not any more. The NKJV Personal Size Giant Print Bible has the best of both worlds with a highly portable size and giant print that makes... (more)

Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire

Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire

by Antoinette May

A daughter of privilege in the most powerful empire the world has ever known, Claudia has a unique and disturbing "gift": her dreams have an uncanny way of coming true. As a rebellious child seated beside the tyrannical Roman Emperor Tiberius, she first spies the powerful gladiator who will ultimately be her one true passion. Yet it is the ambitious magistrate Pontius Pilate who intrigues the impressionable young... (more)

Eli

by Bill Myers

In this techno-thriller from the best-selling author of the Fire of Heaven Trilogy, a successful TV newscaster is hurled into a parallel world exactly like ours except for one minor detail: Christ didn’t come there 2,000 years ago, but today.

The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything

The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything

by Brian D. McLaren

When Brian McLaren began offering an alternative vision of Christian faith and life in books such as A New Kind of Christian and A Generous Orthodoxy, he ignited a firestorm of praise and condemnation that continues to spread across the religious landscape. To some religious conservatives, McLaren is a dangerous rebel without a doctrinally-correct cause. Some fundamentalist websites have even claimed he's in... (more)

My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers

My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers

by Oswald Chambers

This contemporary version of Chambers' classic book is a delight to read and a joy to ponder. I rejoice that a new generation of serious Christians now has access to the treasures Oswald Chambers bequeathed to us--Warren W.

Jesus I Never Knew Participant's Guide, The

Jesus I Never Knew Participant's Guide, The

by Philip Yancey

With this participant's guide your group will have ready access to a complete, easy to lead, interactive curriculum enabling all of you to capture a fresh, challenging, and life-changing vision of the Jesus of the Gospels.

Jesus, the One and Only

by Dale McCleskey, Beth Moore

In her previous books, Beth Moore has introduced her readers to David and Paul. In Jesus, the One and Only , Beth introduces them to an intimate Savior as they get a close-up and personal portrait of the life of Jesus the Messiah. But this is far more than just a work on the life of Christ. As He has done in the past, God uses Beth’s words to woo the reader into a romance with the One and Only. The reader comes... (more)

Gospel According to Jesus, The

by John MacArthur

What does Jesus mean when he says, “Follow me”? Twenty years ago, pastor-teacher and bestselling author John MacArthur tackled that seemingly simple question—and wrote a book that has since taken its place among Christianity’s classics. This 20th Anniversary edition of MacArthur’s provocative book has been revised and contains one new chapter.

The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History

The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History

by Michael Baigent

What if everything we have been told about the origins of Christianity is a lie? What if a small group had always known the truth and had kept it hidden . . . until now? What if there is evidence that Jesus Christ survived the crucifixion? In Holy Blood, Holy Grail Michael Baigent and his co-authors Henry Lincoln and Richard Leigh stunned the world with a controversial theory that Jesus Christ and... (more)

Behold the Man

by Michael Moorcock

Karl Glogauer is a disaffected modern professional casting about for meaning in a series of half-hearted relationships, a dead-end job, and a personal struggle. His questions of faith surrounding his father's run-of-the-mill Christianity and his mother's suppressed Judaism lead him to a bizarre obsession with the idea of the messiah. After the collapse of his latest affair and his introduction to a... (more)

The Real Jesus : The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels

The Real Jesus : The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels

by Luke Timothy Johnson

A book takes on some two hundred scholars who claim that Jesus said only 18% of what the Gospels attribute to him, arguing that the ""real Jesus"" is the one experienced in the present through faith. Reprint. LJ.

Magdalene

by Angela E. Hunt

Mary Magdalene The controversial woman with a past only one Man could forgive. A true love story that changed the face of history. "I was Miryam of Magdala, seller of fine fabrics and wife of Yaakov the fisherman. With my husband and son, I held a place of honor among my countrymen until a company of rogue soldiers took everything from me. I might not be Roman, but I knew injustice when I saw it. And I... (more)

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