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En corazón pródigo descubrirás cómo Christine logró superar la muerte de su padre, el mudarse a otro país, los sentimientos de coraje, la falta de perdón, pérdida y rechazo, el haber sido acosada sexualmente, y hasta fue liberada de vivir una doble vida siendo líder en la iglesia. Ella retó a Dios y Él le respondió con su amor sanador. Christine comparte su historia y el gozo de rendirse completamente a Dios.

¿Está usted luchando contra fortalezas de pobreza, enfermedad, brujería, impureza sexual, orgullo, miedo, confusión o problemas maritales? Estos son sólo algunos de los muchos espíritus tenaces que sólo responderán al ayuno y a la oración. El ayuno romperá estas fortalezas y le liberará de sus limitaciones. Una revelación sobre el poder del ayuno dará lugar a las victorias que no se obtendrían normalmente.

Mucho se ha escrito y se seguirá escribiendo sobre el Papa Francisco. Sin duda se ha ganado la admiración y la credibilidad de todos, especialmente de aquellas personas alejadas de la Iglesia y críticas con ella. Su cercanía a los más necesitados - pobres, enfermos, personas en prisión...- ha calado en la gente que le escucha. Con frecuencia, lleva a la práctica lo que aconseja.

Enseñanza bíblica oportuna y alentadora con un estilo informal y fácil para el oyente: así es la serie Las 21...del escritor Dave Earley. Dos de los populares títulos de Earley - Las 21 Oraciones Más Efectivas de la Biblia y 21 Razones por las que Suceden Cosas Malas a Personas Buenas - están ahora disponibles en una audio edición rústica de mercado.

America's Favorite Holidays explores how five of America's culturally important holidays - Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving - came to be what they are today, seasonal and religious celebrations heavily influenced by modern popular culture.

It is one thing to live with the consequences of your own choices, but what happens when your life is changed because of someone else's? This insightful and uplifting guide will comfort, support and encourage you through whatever situation you must face. Cynthia Ruchti, who has walked this road herself, assures readers that God is ever present, and his love never wavers. There is hope, grace, and a future in every situation, especially those we did not cause.

If your pantry was empty, your children hungry, your electricity cut off for nonpayment, and you saw no prospect of support, what would you do? For a decade in a rural Tennessee community, you went to a shabby building behind a church and found Laura Willis. Running a program to help the needy, Laura discovered a world of people she never knew: the lonely and unemployed, chronically poor families, and middle-class folks surprised to be struggling in a great recession.

Friendships with other women are as important to our mental, physical, and spiritual health as rest, exercise, and prayer. We don't just want friends - we need friends. Yet sometimes they can be as difficult assigning a song without the lyrics. If you've ever been hurt by a friend, struggled to balance friendship with everyday life, or seen a friendship end too early, Heart Sisters will help you.

Almost everyone prays: believers, unbelievers, wannabe believers, and might-have-been believers. It assures us all in our many parts and many moods that everything is going to be okay, despite any evidence to the contrary. When people say, “I don’t know how to pray,” what they often mean is “I don’t believe.” Or perhaps they are struggling with disappointment or anger with God and have taken a break from their prayer life.

A heartwarming true-life fable from the Radio City Christmas Spectacular Santa - including his personal journey of discovering the magic of Christmas. Every year, over a million people attend the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, where they have the pleasure of seeing Charles Edward Hall don a traditional red suit and become the world's most famous Santa Claus - a role he has played for twenty-seven straight years. But Hall wasn’t always such a jolly old soul. Believe it or not, this Santa was once a Scrooge.

A memoir of childhood Christmases on the South Dakota plains. By turns sweet and comic, sentimental and serious, Joseph Bottum's Dakota Christmas is an instant Christmas classic. In this beautifully written account of the mad joys and wild emotions of Christmas for children, Bottum captures the universal spirit of the season even while he recounts his memories with a sharp particularity that brings them alive for listeners.

Beneath our culture's obsession with wealth and power, status and celebrity, millions of Americans are quietly engaged in a deeply religious struggle to free themselves from petty selfishness and to embrace a life of benevolence and compassion. Drawing on an extensive random survey of 1,200 men and women across the United States, Matthew Lee, Margaret Poloma, and Stephen Post here shed new light on how Americans wake up to the reality of divine love and how that transformative experience expresses itself in concrete acts of benevolence.

Whether you've been naughty or nice, Santa has a treat just for you. Replete with visions of sugar plums, big juicy candy canes, and stockings eager to be filled, The Merry XXXmas Book of Erotica is a campy, blazing-hot feast of holiday erotica that will have you wishing the season of giving lasted all year long. Among these stories, Lynne Jamneck’s "What I Really Want for Christmas” is a tale of friendship igniting to passion with the help of an interfering family, good whiskey, and a Santa suit.

From Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church, one of the most esteemed centers of African American spirituality in the country, comes Food for the Soul - a compilation of more than 100 recipes, and the many stories behind them shared by its congregation. Since its founding in 1808, Abyssinian has been a major social and religious voice of black Americans. The oldest African American church in New York State, it is a cultural melting-pot ministry with members from throughout the African diaspora - and a history of cooking reflecting that diversity.

In Chicken Soup for the Soul of America, everyday heroes are celebrated. Heroes have always been in our midst, but the recent terrorist attacks on American soil have revealed many more heroes who have given their lives, love, time and strength to those in great need. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 events, Americans have found courage and inspiration from so many heroes, and this book pays tribute to them all, as well as those who appear every day in our lives.

Eva, Sara, Rebecca, Rachele, Lea, Rut, Noemi, Ester, Giuditta, Marta, Maria, la Maddalena, la Samaritana... Nell'Antico e nel Nuovo Testamento non compaiono solo figure maschili ma anche tante donne. Sono fondatrici di stirpi, profetesse, donne qualunque che si trovano perciò a svolgere un ruolo cruciale, memorabile nella storia della loro comunità e della loro religione. Sono donne che hanno la forza di essere protagoniste del proprio destino.

“Como é duro e, ao mesmo tempo, gratificante desobedecer! Por aí tracei meus caminhos.” Os traços de Ivone irradiam vida, luta, justiça e esperança. Tornou-se freira aos vinte e dois anos, optou por viver ao lado daqueles que mais necessitam, foi silenciada pelo Vaticano, é feminista e favorável à legalização do aborto. São mais de sete décadas vivendo a desobediência com a energia dos adolescentes que teimam em acreditar na esperança e num mundo menos desigual e opressor. Ivone reflete sobre o seu agora: habitar a velhice, nas suas palavras, enquanto a lucidez ainda a habita.

Este audiolibro no apunta a la terapia clásica, sino a los caminos espirituales para relacionarse con el miedo. En el centro, debe estar aquello que quiero denominar la terapia del miedo de Jesús. Al consultar la Biblia acerca de este tema, encontré conceptos importantes que también son característicos para todas las terapias psicológicas. Pero, al mismo tiempo, vi cada vez con mayor claridad que los textos bíblicos tienen una fuerza propia para transformar el miedo.

Atravesando las heridas tenemos acceso a nuestro auténtico núcleo. En toda lesión este núcleo está dentro de nosotros intacto e ileso. Si lo descubrimos, dejamos de culpar a nuestros padres. No nos quedamos en las heridas, sino que vemos a través de ellas hacia nuestra verdadera esencia, hacia nuestro ser original. A este núcleo auténtico llegamos al observar nuestros sueños de vida que tuvimos de niños, cuando analizamos nuestros deseos profesionales de la infancia. Todos nosotros somos hijos o hijas.

Este audiolibro da cuenta de cómo vamos adormeciendo esos dones extraordinarios, y de cómo es hoy indispensable orientarlos al Bien; en qué medida los debemos enriquecer de sentido, alimentándolos directamente a partir del encuentro con Dios.