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Wilkerson, David | Gangfighters. Drug addicts. Teenage runaways and prostitutes. The toughest and most hopeless kids that New York's ghettos had to offer. Then a young preacher from the Pennsylvania hills arrived on their turf and began preaching a message of renewal, miracles, and God's love. This is one of the century's great… | Biography & History | ||
Miller, Arthur | Death of a Salesman is a 1949 stage play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. The play premiered on Broadway in February 1949, running for 742 performances. It is a two-act tragedy set in the 1940s New York told through a montage of memories, dreams and arguments of the protagonist… | Literature ⋅ Classics | ||
Ilardi, Stephen S. | Presents the 6-step program known as The Depression Cure program. This book contains information about the key elements which include vigorous physical activity; a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids; and abundant natural sunlight exposure, which boosts Vitamin D levels and mood and keeps the brain's internal body clock in… | Counseling & Psychology | ||
Willard, Dallas | The Divine Conspiracy has revolutionized how we think about the true meaning of discipleship. In this classic, one of the most brilliant Christian thinkers of our times and author of the acclaimed The Spirit of Disciplines, Dallas Willard, skillfully weaves together biblical teaching, popular culture, science, scholarship, and spiritual practice… | Christian Living | ||
de Angeli, Marguerite | Ever since he can remember, Robin, child of Sir John de Bureford, has been told what is expected of him as the son of a nobleman. He must learn the ways of knighthood. But Robin’s destiny is changed suddenly when he falls ill and loses the use of his legs… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Wildsmith, Brian | 'Once, a long time ago, a little donkey was brought to Jesus.' The story of Easter is told here through the eyes of the donkey that carried Jesus into the city of Jerusalem. He watches the Last Supper, he sees Jesus brought before Pontius Pilate, he is there when Jesus… | Children's Books ⋅ Bible Stories | ||
Horstman, Mark | The Effective Manager, Second Edition, is an accessible, concise, and practical guide for managers looking for concrete guidance about what to say to their direct reports to get the best results possible form their teams. In the book, you'll find hands-on, data-driven advice that will improve your relationships with your… | Leadership | ||
Muggeridge, Malcolm | Christendom, according to Malcolm Muggeridge in this fiery book, is something quite different from Christianity. Christ said his kingdom was not of this world; Christendom, on the other hand, is of this world and, like very other human creation, is subject to decay and eventual desolation. In this book Muggeridge perceptively explores… | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Theology | ||
Morris, Leon | Morris tackles the complexities of faith and interpretation associated with the Epistle to the Romans in this substantial yet easy-to-read commentary, written to be intelligible to the layperson while also taking account of modern scholarship. | Bibles & Bible Study ⋅ Study Helps | ||
Bodenstein Von Carlstadt, Andreas | Discover the writings of a leader in the Radical Reformation who sparred with Martin Luther, calling for change "from below."
Although he was not an Anabaptist, the life and thought of Radical Reformer Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt (1486-1541) had a strong influence on the Anabaptist movement. In 1534 he joined the faculty… | Anabaptist History & Thought | ||
Chesterton, G.K. | Chesterton's concise classic history of humanity, Christ and Christianity, which was instrumental in C. S. Lewis' conversion to Christianity. (Unabridged, with appendices.) | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Doctrine of Humanity | ||
Dubay, Thomas | While everyone is delighted by beauty, and the more alive among us are positively fascinated by it, few are explicitly aware that we can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. Dubay explores the reasons why all of the most eminent physicists of the twentieth century agree that beauty is… | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Art and Beauty | ||
Borthwick, Paul and Ripper, Dave | If we follow Jesus, we will experience pain. We might face hardship because of our Christian commitment, or we may have challenges just from living a fallen world. Either way, Christians follow in the footsteps of our suffering Savior and participate in his suffering.
Missionary Paul Borthwick and pastor Dave Ripper… | Christian Living ⋅ Pain & Grief | ||
Landis, James G. | In The Final Conquest, the Revolutionary War rages through the Ohioland, further testing the faith of the believers in three Christian Indian villages along the Muskingum River. Threatened with death and destruction on every side, the believing Indians and their beloved teachers cannot determine who are their real friends or enemies.
The seventh… | Biography & History | ||
Wilder, Laura Ingalls | The First Four Years is an autobiographical novel by Laura Ingalls Wilder, published in 1971 and commonly considered the last of nine books in the Little House series. The series had initially concluded at eight children's novels following Wilder to mature age and her marriage with Almanzo Wilder. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Lencioni, Patrick | In keeping with the parable style, Lencioni ("The Five Temptations of a CEO") begins by telling the fable of woman who, as CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley firm, took control of a dysfunctional executive committee and helped its members succeed as a team. Story time over, Lencioni offers explicit… | Leadership | ||
Drucker, Peter F. | The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Nonprofit Organization presents a proven self-assessment tool for all nonprofit leaders. In answering simple questions about the mission, strategic vision, central values, and long-term plan, you'll uncover key insights that lead to more effective leadership and a greater organizational… | Leadership | ||
Nelson, Tom | Pastoral leadership is in crisis. It's not just that many pastors feel overwhelmed; many have lost their way. With the risk of burnout at an all-time high, what pastors need is not just a new leadership strategy but a new framework ofr ministry - one that will help them move… | Leadership ⋅ Church Leadership | ||
Pieper, Josef | In The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper delivers a stimulating quartet of essays on the four cardinal virtues. He demonstrates the unsound overvaluation of moderation that has made contemporary morality a hollow convention and points out the true significance of the Christian virtues. | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Ethics | ||
Lewis, C.S. | Here Lewis describes the four basic kinds of human love--affection, friendship, erotic love and the love of God. There are risks that accompany the rewards of love, the author cautions, but he recommends taking them, since hell is the only place outside heaven where we can be safe from the… | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Topical Studies | ||
Burkholder, Mary | In a world of contradictory messages to young women, how can a Christian girl know what is true? Cultural influence says you are what you look like. Social pressures say your behavior doesn't matter. But God says the hidden person of the heart is the most important. Have you wondered:
… | Christian Living ⋅ Women | ||
Lowry, Lois | Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns twelve he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Mildred D. Taylor | Another powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
A drive South becomes dangerous for ‘Lois and her family.
'Lois and Wilma are proud of their father's brand-new gold Cadillac, and excited that the family will be driving it all… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Smith, James Bryan | In this third book in the Apprentice Series, Smith shows how to bring spiritual formation and community engagement together, and then once again offers spiritual practices that root new, true narratives about God and the world in believers' souls. | Christian Living ⋅ Disciplines & Spiritual Formation | ||
Smith, James Bryan | Turning to the Gospels, Smith invites readers to put their ideas about God to the test to see if they match up with what Jesus himself reveals about his Father. The author then leads readers through a process of spiritual formation. | Christian Living ⋅ Disciplines & Spiritual Formation | ||
Smith, James Bryan | In this follow-up to his first book, "The Good and Beautiful God," Smith traces through the Sermon on the Mount and helps Christians look behind these sins to replace their false beliefs with Jesus' narratives about life in the kingdom of God. | Christian Living ⋅ Disciplines & Spiritual Formation | ||
Seredy, Kate | Jancsi is overjoyed to hear that his cousin from Budapest is coming to spend the summer on his father's ranch on the Hungarian plains. But their summer proves more adventurous than he had hoped when headstrong Kate arrives, as together they share horseback races across the plains, country fairs and… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Newbigin, Lesslie | How does the gospel relate to a pluralist society? What is the Christian message in a society marked by religious pluralism, ethnic diversity and cultural relativism? Should Christians concentrate on evangelism or dialogue? The Gospel in a Pluralist Society addresses these kinds of questions - providing an excellent analysis of… | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Apologetics | ||
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan | From the strange case of 'The Red-Headed League' to the extraordinary tale of 'The Engineer's Thumb', Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr Watson grapple with treachery, murder, and ingenious crimes of all kinds. But no case is too challenging for the immortal detective's unique power of deduction. | Literature ⋅ Classics | ||
Lewis, C.S. | The narrator boards a bus on a drizzly English afternoon and embarks on an incredible voyage through Heaven and Hell. He meets a host of supernatural beings far removed from his expectations, and comes to some significant conclusions about good and evil. | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Worldviews | ||
Lewis, C.S. | The narrator boards a bus on a drizzly English afternoon and embarks on an incredible voyage through Heaven and Hell. He meets a host of supernatural beings far removed from his expectations, and comes to some significant conclusions about good and evil. | Christian Living | ||
The Greek New Testament, reader's edition. Includes a dictionary defining words occurring more than 25 times, and running glosses of any Greek word occurring 25 times or less in the New Testament, placed below the Greek text. | Bibles & Bible Study ⋅ Bibles | |||
O'Dell, Scott | The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day by award-winning author Scott O'Dell is historical fiction set in Europe during the 1500s. In this Christian fiction book Tom Barton and his uncle Jack are smugglers who are used to breaking the law. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Ryken, Leland | Christians throughout the ages have written devotionals as a way to bend their souls toward God and teach about him, communicating rich truths and encouraging readers to grow in grace and godliness.
In this one-of-a-kind anthology, literary expert Leland Ryken presents fifty beautiful devotionals from historic authors including Augustine, John Calvin… | Christian Living ⋅ Devotionals | ||
Brother Yun | The dramatic autobiography of one of China's dedicated, courageous, and intensely persecuted house church leaders. This is the gripping story of how God took a young, half-starved boy from a poor village in Henan province and placed him on the front line for Jesus, in the face of impossible odds… | Biography & History | ||
Daly, Niki | "Pweew! Pweew!" Malusi's shrill whistling drives the sheep out of grandfather's kraal. By the time they reach the grazing slopes, the earth is hot beneath his bare feet.
He keeps the sheep and goats from straying towards the deep donga, which is easy to fall into but hard to climb out… | Children's Books ⋅ Picture Books | ||
Schaeffer, Edith | This elegant and insightful lady, wife of theologian Francis Schaeffer, reveals the many opportunities for artistic expression that can be found in ordinary, everyday life. | Christian Living ⋅ Women | ||
Hipps, Shane | The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture helps the church navigate its challenges and opportunities in the context of our electronic culture. Author Shane Hipps interprets and explains this culture, as well as the implications for our faith and the church. Providing both history and prophecy, The Hidden Power of Electronic… | Christian Living ⋅ Media & Technology | ||
Lewis, C.S. | Book three of the Chronicles of Narnia. The story of a Narnian horse in Calormen and his escape with a young boy. | Literature ⋅ Classics | ||
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan | The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. | Literature ⋅ Classics | ||
Milne, A. A. | Here are Pooh and Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, and of course Christopher Robin, doing what they've done for generations--enchanting young readers. | Children's Books ⋅ Early Reading | ||
Hawthorne, Nathaniel | A novel which deals with a decadent New England family and Holgrave, who rents a room in their seven-gabled house. | Literature ⋅ Classics | ||
Hugo, Victor | A gypsy girl's beauty and charm captivate a priest, a vagabond, a soldier, and a deformed bell-ringer, in a gripping tale that culminates in a riot and murder. More than simply a thrilling story, Victor Hugo's tale explores the mysteries of good and evil in the human heart and illuminates… | Literature ⋅ Classics | ||
Mathis, Sharon Bell | This Newbery Honor Book tells the story of "a boy and his hundred-year-old great-great-aunt in . . . a quietly intense story, illustrated with sepia pictures that make dramatic use of chiaroscuro" ("The Horn Book"). Two-color illustrations. | Children's Books ⋅ Early Reading | ||
Burnford, Sheila | Sheila Burnford's timeless children's classic is the courageous and heartwarming story of three runaway pets. Instinct told them the way home lay to the west, and so the brave young Labrador retriever, the roguish bull terrier and the indomitable Siamese cat set out through the Canadian wilderness, risking starvation, exposure… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Ripken, Nik | All Christian disciples have one thing in common: as they carry the gospel across the ocean and across the street, persecution will become the norm for those who choose to follow Jesus. How believers respond in the face of persecution reveals everything about their level of faith and obedience.
The Insanity… | Christian Living ⋅ Missions & Service | ||
Walton, John H. | How can we account for the "Book of the Law" suddenly being discovered during Josiah's renovation of the temple (2 Chron 34:14)? We know from Egypt and Mesopotamia that it was common to seal important documents--including theological documents--in the masonry or foundations of a palace or temple in order to… | Bibles & Bible Study ⋅ Study Helps | ||
Lloyd-Jones, Sally | The Jesus Storybook Bible is a children's Bible written by New York Times bestselling author Sally Lloyd-Jones and illustrated by Jago from Cornwall. The first edition was published in 2007 by Zonderkidz, the children's arm of American Christian media and publishing company Zondervan. | Children's Books ⋅ Bible Stories | ||
The 2023-2024 yearbook for Faith Builders Training Institute | Cookbooks, Planners, & Miscellany | |||
Kreeft, Peter | Open this book and begin an epic human journey--the journey toward truth. Enjoy a delightful and imaginative allegory of timeless wisdom as you travel along the road of true knowledge. Socrates, the thoroughly reasonable and wise philosopher of Athens, will accompany you much of the way. With sharp questions and… | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Worldviews |