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You Are a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience

You Are a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience

by Bob Frissell

The author of Nothing in This Book Is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are and Something in This Book is True...writes freely about the spiritual and philosophical implications of the astonishing topics in his previous two books, showing how we can recover our birthright as spiritual beings. Frissell, certified Rebirther and seeker, has created a grand synthesis of practical insight, eternal wisdom,... (more)

This I Believe

by Jay Allison, Dan Gediman, Viki Merrick, John Gregory

“A welcome change from the sloganeering, political mudslinging and products of spin doctors.”— The Philadelphia Inquirer Based on the NPR series of the same name, This I Believe features eighty Americans—from the famous to the unknown—completing the thought that the book’s title begins. Each piece compels readers to rethink not only how they have arrived at their own personal beliefs but also the extent... (more)

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

by J. Kevin Sheehan

A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1845. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a... (more)

Reclaiming the "V" Word: Renewing Life at Its Vocational Core (Lutheran Voices)

Reclaiming the "V" Word: Renewing Life at Its Vocational Core (Lutheran Voices)

by Dave Daubert

Centered in a definition of vocation that flows from Luther's conviction that all Christians share the same vocation but live it out in various occupations and roles, Reclaiming the &#34V7334 Word challenges readers to see themselves as instruments of God's mission as - church - wherever they are. From a strong foundation of Lutheran theology (reframed for twenty-first century application), the authors use... (more)

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

by Mitch Albom

Finding Your Own North Star : How to Claim the Life You Were Meant to Live

Finding Your Own North Star : How to Claim the Life You Were Meant to Live

by Martha N. Beck

Do you feel that your life has taken a wrong turn and you don't know how to get back on track? This book provides a step-by-step programme to put you on course again. Aimed at everyone, it shows you how to recognise your deepest desires, examines why they have been forgotten and then gives practical advice on how to fulfil them. Helps you identify your dreams and goals. Lets you repair unconscious beliefs and... (more)

Basic Guitar Lessons: Play Guitar With Happy Traum Omnibus Edition (Guitar Books)

Basic Guitar Lessons: Play Guitar With Happy Traum Omnibus Edition (Guitar Books)

by Happy Traum

Books 1, 2, 3, and 4 all brought together in one complete volume.

S.H.A.P.E.: Finding and Fulfilling Your Unique Purpose for Life

S.H.A.P.E.: Finding and Fulfilling Your Unique Purpose for Life

by Erik Rees

Illustrated with real-life stories, this inspiring and deeply insightful book guides you through a series of challenges that will help you uncover your God-given S.H.A.P.E.—your unique blend of Spiritual Gifts, Heart, Abilities, Personality, and Experiences—and apply it in ways that bring confidence, freedom, clarity, and significance.

The Purpose-Driven Life

What on Earth Am I Here For?

by Richard Warren

Now in trade paperback—The Purpose Driven® Life. With over 20 million copies sold worldwide, Rick Warren’s #1 New York Times bestseller guides you on a personal forty-day spiritual journey of discovery in search of answers to life’s most important question: What on earth am I here for? Five biblical answers will transform your outlook on life.

Anna Banana: 101 Jump Rope Rhymes

by Joanna Cole

How many times can you jump rope? This rhyme makes the game of rope jumping even more fun. It's a counting rhyme, and there are lots of others like it. There are also red-hot pepper rhymes for jumping very fast, and rhymes for jumpingin and out of the rope. There are even fortune-telling rhymes that answer questions and help you predict the future! The rhymes in this book began as a way to keep the rhythm while... (more)

Life with God: Reading the Bible for Spiritual Transformation

Life with God: Reading the Bible for Spiritual Transformation

by Richard J. Foster

Too often, our study of the Bible focuses on searching for specific information or some formula that will solve our pressing needs of the moment. But what if we approached the Bible differently, and instead of transforming the text to meet our needs, allowed it to transform us ? That's exactly the idea behind Life with God , Richard J. Foster's much-anticipated book on the Bible. Foster, bestselling author... (more)

Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments: Finding Personal Meaning in a Crazy World

Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments: Finding Personal Meaning in a Crazy World

by Kent M. Keith

These ten principles were first articulated by Kent Keith as a student at Harvard in the 1960s. Since then, unbeknownst to him, they were quoted, circulated, and appropriated by countless people around the world and back again. They even served as a source of inspiration for Mother Teresa. Now, here are his commandments, the philosophy behind them, and the stories that bring them to life. The first five... (more)

Lean Forward into Your Life: Begin Each Day As If It Were on Purpose

Lean Forward into Your Life: Begin Each Day As If It Were on Purpose

by Mary Anne Radmacher

Founder and owner of the Word Garden, Mary Anne Radmacher makes her art her life and her life an art. And in Lean Forward into Your Life she invites us to do the same. Or as she says, Lean Forward into Your Life is a commonplace book for leading an uncommon life. An uncommon life need not include fame and fortune. An uncommon life means living with intention, paying attention, celebrating, taking... (more)

Ping: A Frog in Search of a New Pond

by Stuart Avery Gold

PING: A Frog in Search of a New Pond has become an international phenomenon, with over 400,000 copies sold and 20 foreign language editions. This engaging parable in an affordable hardcover edition inspires readers to adapt to change, take risks, and persevere in order to realize life's limitless possibilities. It is an invaluable book for business men and women, entrepreneurs, life coaches, teachers, students,... (more)

Divine Diva

by Catherine MacDonald

Fearproof Your Life: How to Thrive in a World Addicted to Fear

Fearproof Your Life: How to Thrive in a World Addicted to Fear

by Joseph Bailey

Don't let fear rule your life. Throughout time, we have sought peace and safety by trying to out-guess the unknown. We have tried to prepare for the unexpected and the apparitions of our minds. In an age of 24-hour cable news, when we can stay glued to the latest terrorist attack or natural disaster, the next epidemic, and what the pundits tell us we should be afraid of, our efforts to control the... (more)

Learning from the Heart: Lessons on Living, Loving, and Listening

Learning from the Heart: Lessons on Living, Loving, and Listening

by Daniel Gottlieb

In the nearly 30 years since the accident that made radio personality and columnist Dan Gottlieb a quadriplegic, he developed a finely-tuned quality of awareness that most people never achieve: he became an outsider among us—”like a foreign correspondent,” as he puts it. From that vantage point, he has acutely observed the way people act, think, feel, and live—in short, he studied and learned exactly what it means... (more)

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