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Book Beat November 2013 Print Email
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Tuesday, 08 October 2013 09:12 AM America/New_York

PilgrimageChristy-award-winning best-selling author Lynn Austin shares her personal struggle with spiritual dryness and finding the renewal of her faith on a trip to the Promised Land in Pilgrimage: My Journey to a Deeper Faith in the Land Where Jesus Walked. Using fiction techniques like those in her biblical series “Chronicles of the Kings,” she brings the Holy Land to life and interweaves insights from the Scriptures. Bethany House (Baker Publishing Group) releases Austin’s book in softcover this month for $14.99.

 

HeavenWinsIn Heaven Wins: Heaven, Hell and the Hope of Every Person, Don Richardson examines the doctrine of salvation and argues that most people—rather than a small percentage—will make it to heaven. To make this case, he discusses God’s use of general revelation to prepare people for the special revelation of the gospel. Richardson’s mission classic Peace Child tells his story of working among a Stone Age tribe in New Guinea. Heaven Wins is available in softcover this month from Regal Books ($14.99).

 

Watershed Moments: Turning Points That Change the Course of Our Lives by Gari Meacham (softcover, $14.99) releases this month from Zondervan. Meacham teaches a Bible study to more than a thousand women each week at Second Baptist Church in Houston. She is also known as the wife of former pro-baseball player Bobby Meacham. In Watershed Moments, she encourages her readers to explore often-overlooked turning points in life, including change, unraveling and overcoming, WatershedMomentsand to see them as opportunities for their spiritual awakening.

 

In Encounters With Jesus: Unexpected Answers to Life’s Biggest Questions, New York Times best-selling author and renowned pastor Tim Keller shows how Jesus changed every person he met by leading them to life-transforming answers. The book also reveals how people can be changed today through encounters with Christ. The hardcover comes out this month from Dutton Adult (Penguin Group) for $19.95.

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A Million Little Ways: Uncover the Art You Were Made to Live by Emily P. Freeman (softcover, $13.99) encourages women to see the creative imprint of God within them and to let it shine through in a myriad of ways. Freeman, best-selling author of Grace for the Good Girl, shows the artistic potential of women in simple words, gestures and attitudes. Her Revell (Baker Publishing Group) book releases this month.

 

AMillionLittleWaysKregel Publications releases family relationships title Related by Chance, Family by Choice: Transforming Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law Relationships by Deborah DeArmond this month (softcover, $13.99). DeArmond has worked nearly 30 years as a leadership trainer and executive coach. With the help of her three daughters-in-law, she conducted extensive research for the book, which provides scriptural help for all aspects of these relationships encouraging women to move from simply being related to being members of a truly spiritual family.

 

Andy Crouch, executive editor of Christianity Today, examines the nature of power in Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power. Bringing to light key scriptures related to worship and justice, Crouch reveals constructive uses of power that allow believers to join in God’s creative, redeeming work in the world and which lead to the human flourishing God intends. This month IVP Books releases Playing God in hardcover for $25.

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David Wang and Georgina Sam, authors of Still Red, have partnered once again for a new release from Regal this month. Christian China and the Light of the World (softcover, $15.99) is an insider’s look at the growing urban church in China. It includes miraculous stories of the Holy Spirit’s work there, where the Christian movement is said to be in the tens of millions. Wang has been active in ministry in China for more than 45 years; Sam works with the Hosanna Foundation and writes for the Still Red blog.

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