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Beyond Your Best: Develop Your
Relationships, Fulfill Your Destiny
By Bill Thrall, Bruce R. McNicol and
Ken McElrath
This updated and condensed version of The Ascent of a
Leader streamlines into a new breezy format the authors'
original blueprint for building lives of character and influence.
Instead of climbing the typical "Capacity Ladder"
to success based on talent, title and experience, they argue
for climbing a tougher but ultimately more satisfying "Character
Ladder " built through relationships of trust and environments
of grace.
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Choosing
Rest:
Cultivating a Sunday Heart in a Monday World
by Sally Breedlove
Anyone who has faced demanding schedules, torn relationships,
or bitter disappointments knows that the call to rest in the
midst of it all seems impossible. We struggle through our
days, hoping to just survive, believing rest cannot be ours
until we have more time or easier circumstances. But Breedlove
says the Bible promises that rest is available now. Written
specifically for women.
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How
People Grow:
What the Bible Reveals About Personal Growth
by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
These well-known Christian psychologists start with the premise
that all growth is spiritual growth, further suggesting we
spend too much time focusing on problems, rather than on root
issues. The use of boxed summaries of the most important points
and bullet-pointed text makes the information accessible for
anyone pursuing personal growth or guiding the growth of others.
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A
Life of Distinction: What It Takes To Live With Courage, Honesty,
and Gratitude
by Lewis B. Smedes
Smedes says God calls ordinary people to become people of
superior character–even while he calls us to be deeply
human. He shows what it means to be a man or woman of character
and teaches readers how, with God’s help, they can achieve
that goal–becoming exactly the kind of person they have
longed to be all along.
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The
Life You’ve Always Wanted
by John Ortberg
What does true spiritual life really look like? What keeps
you from living such a life? If you suspect that there's more
to Christianity than what you've experienced, John Ortberg
points to a road of transformation and spiritual vigor anyone
can take.
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Making
Life Work : Putting God’s Wisdom into Action
by Bill Hybels with Lynne Hybels
Despite the glut of information at our fingertips today,
wisdom is still in short supply. Bill Hybels turns to the
book of Proverbs for sound advice on questions like: What
factors are critical to achieving life’s goals? How can
I make a difference in the marketplace? How should I respond
to someone who’s angry at me? Other topics addressed
include friendship, marriage, finances, parenting and integrity.
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The Pursuit of God
By A. W. Toner
This Christian classic written in 1949 ought to be on every Christian’s bookshelf, right alongside Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest. While not written in the “chatty” style of today’s writers, it is anything but dull. Tozer was a man with a deep heart for God and an understanding of how contemporary churches and our increasingly “spiritual” society can still leave us starving—because what we need is more intimacy with God. Insightful, penetrating, and uncompromising. |
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Reality
Check,
A Survival Manual for Christians in the Workplace
by Verla Gillmor Wallace
Click on the above title to read more about the book and order it through Amazon's website. Or click on Reality Check within this site to listen to audio of two chapters. To order this book directly through LifeChasers, click here. Net proceeds benefit LifeChasers. Contact us about special pricing on bulk orders.
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Ruthless
Trust: The Ragamuffin's Path to God
by Brennan Manning
Manning, ever the storyteller, shows how radical trust can
transform everything in our lives. Regardless where we are
on our spiritual journey, the way to shed doubt and melancholy,
he says, is to stop trusting what we’re so afraid of
losing and abandon ourselves in complete reliance on God
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The
Safest Place on Earth
by Larry Crabb
In today's frenetic society, people rarely develop intimate
friendships, settling instead for brief shallow interactions.
Crabb champions deeper spiritual community where real friends
drop their masks, relate honestly, encourage, nurture and
accept each other. Connecting with each other, Crabb says,
ultimately connects us more deeply to God.
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Soul
Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church
by Philip Yancey
Like many Christians, Yancey says he has often felt kicked around,
abused, and damaged by the institutional church. This book charts
his spiritual journey through his disenchantment and how he
was aided by the wisdom of 13 well-known Christians whom he
profiles. They include G.K. Chesterton, Leo Tolstoy, C. Everett
Koop, Martin Luther King, Jr., Annie Dillard and others. Honest,
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Staying True in a World of Lies
by Julie-Allyson Ieron
Shows working women how to maintain their integrity in the workplace, using real-life role models and biblical examples. Although the principles apply to anyone at any level, its primary focus is women in the general ranks of the business world rather than those in leadership.
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Strong Women, Soft Hearts
by Paula Rinehart
Paula Rinehart writes as both a kindred spirit and a compassionate counselor to women feeling robbed of their passions and trapped by life’s disappointing realities. Women who long to be released from the burden of hard choices and perpetually empty souls are challenged to rediscover lost dreams, refocus misdirected energy and approach life as something to be lived, not merely survived. |
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Today God is First
By Os Hillman
These 365 short meditations use scripture, the author’s personal experiences and those of other ordinary men and women to describe how God uses all the experiences of our lives, especially what happens on the job, as fodder for our spiritual growth and deepening intimacy with Him. |
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Traveling Light, Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear
by Max Lucado
High-achieving adults learn to adjust to tremendous stresses and equip themselves to carry the heavy weights of self-reliance, weariness, worry and hopelessness over the long haul. Lucado uses his deceptively simple homespun style to deliver potent doses of biblical truth about a different way to live. A study guide accompanies each chapter. |
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TrueFaced:
Trust God and Others With Who You Really Are
By Bill Thrall John Lynch, Bruce Manioc
This practical book builds a passionate case for getting rid of the “false selves” and hypocritical masks we hide behind that prevent us from enjoying deep, meaningful relationships with each other and with God and which sabotage effective leadership. Helpful tips include how to “let people love you on their terms, not yours,” and how to take down the walls of self-protection that isolate us. An experiential workbook is available separately. |
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True Wealth by the Book: How 100
Inspirational Americans Encountered
Character, Moral, and Spiritual Truths
by John F. Beehner
Inspiring anecdotes of well-known successful leaders who operated with values and ethics based on biblical principles. The brief personal stories are interspersed with dozens of fascinating quotes, graphics, and bulleted lists illustrating various character truths and qualities. A meaty read. |
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Waking the Dead:
The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive
By John Eldredge
There is a war going on in the heavenlies for our hearts, Eldredge says—a war that has spawned a generation of dull, dead or wounded Christians with damaged hearts. His four-pronged antidote for restoring our passion includes discipleship, counseling, healing prayer and spiritual warfare. He uses stories from popular movies and from his own life to illustrate his point, and urges believers not to try to go through the process alone. Included are several specific prayers for the healing of emotional pain.
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What's So Amazing About Grace?
by Philip Yancey
Perhaps Yancey’s finest book. With radically compelling stories he challenges Christians to reject what he calls "ungrace," the self-righteous state of mind displayed by many Christians who think that they’ve earned God’s approval and can, therefore, stand in judgment of others on His behalf. Instead, he says, we’re to gratefully receive the grace we’re offered by God and then we’re to lavishly dispense it to a hurting world. |
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Wild at Heart, Discovering a Life of Passion, Freedom and Adventure
by John Eldredge
Wild at Heart redefines what it means to be a Christian man in today's world. Eldredge says God intended for men to be heroes and warriors, in the best sense of the word, and to live a life of adventure and risk--not the neutered-but-nice restrained type of guy the world says Christian males must be. A valuable read for women, too, to better understand the men in their lives. |
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Windows of the Soul
By Ken Gire
The author writes passionately and imaginatively about how God can use the raw material of daily life to speak to us through a painting, a movie or the night sky filled with stars. Gire challenges us all to slow down the busyness of our hearts and stop and look when God gives us a "window" to experience Him in new ways. |
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Yearning:
Living Between How It Is and How It Ought to Be
by M. Craig Barnes
Barnes says much of our contemporary frustration arises from wrong expectations of the gospel and of life. With refreshing candor and insight he helps us see our needs and limitations as gifts--the best opportunities we have to receive God's grace. |
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