In celebration of selling 3 million copies, FaithWords is publishing a special updated edition of BATTLEFIELD OF THE MIND. Worry, doubt, confusion, depression, anger and feelings of condemnation: all these are attacks on the mind. If readers suffer from negative thoughts, they can take heart! Joyce Meyer has helped millions win these all-important battles. In her most popular bestseller ever, the beloved author and minister shows readers how to change their lives by changing their minds. She teaches how to deal with thousands of thoughts that people think every day and how to focus the mind the way God thinks. And she shares the trials, tragedies, and ultimate victories from her own marriage, family, and ministry that led her to wondrous, life-transforming truth--and reveals her thoughts and feelings every step of the way. This special updated edition includes an additional introduction and updated content throughout the book.,

There is no woman with a worse reputation than Jezebel, theancient queen who corrupted a nation and met one of the mostgruesome fates in the Bible. Her name alone speaks of sexualdecadence and promiscuity. But what if this version of her story,handed down to us through the ages, is merely the one her enemieswanted us to believe? What if Jezebel, far from being a connivingharlot, was, in fact, framed? In this remarkable new biography, Lesley Hazleton shows exactly howthe proud and courageous queen of Israel was vilified and made intothe very embodiment of wanton wickedness by her political andreligious enemies. Jezebel brings readers back to the sourceof the biblical story, a rich and dramatic saga featuring evilschemes and underhanded plots, war and treason, false gods andfalser humans, and all with the fate of entire nations at stake. Atits center are just one woman and one man—the sophisticated QueenJezebel and the stark prophet Elijah. Their epic and ultimatelytragic confrontation pits tolerance again

The Holman Illustrated Pocket Bible Dictionary gives you the essential information you need to study the Bible in a handy, pocket- size format. With more user-friendly features than ever. this edition is designed for those who need information quickly, but also want in-depth information on a variety of topics. Numerous color photographs, recon- structions, maps and charts illuminate the text and help you process information in a way you never thought possible,

To this day, I don't even know what my mother's real nameis. Helen Fremont was raised as a Roman Catholic. It wasn't until shewas an adult, practicing law in Boston, that she discovered herparents were Jewish--Holocaust survivors living invented lives. Noteven their names were their own. In this powerful memoir, HelenFremont delves into the secrets that held her family in a bond ofsilence for more than four decades, recounting with heartbreakingclarity a remarkable tale of survival, as vivid as fiction but withthe resonance of truth. Driven to uncover their roots, Fremont and her sister piecedtogether an astonishing story: of Siberian Gulags and Italianroyalty, of concentration camps and buried lives. After LongSilence is about the devastating price of hiding the truth; aboutfamilies; about the steps we take, foolish or wise, to protectourselves and our loved ones. No one who reads this book can beunmoved, or fail to understand the seductive, damaging power ofsecrets.

Rabbi Steinberg identifies seven strands that weave togetherto make up Judaism: God, morality, rite and custom, law, sacredliterature, institutions, and the people. A classic work directedto both the Jewish and the non-Jewish reader.

What you are today is not important...for in this runaway bestseller you will learn how to change your life by applying the secrets you are about to discover in the ancient scrolls.,

John Worth is a painter with a genuine calling,and a real gift.But he seems in some sense subdued,His radical girlfriend has a ready diagnosis:she tells him that his work will never come to more than decoration if he does not infuse it with social meaning,political meaning Because she in a substantial person he has to consider what she says,and it hurts-he's just not the man for the job.Stubbornly,instinctive-ly,worth resists. His life becomes disordered,unhappy.But somehow,ion his trouble and loneliness,he finds himself breaking new ground,He has always been workmanlike and steady.Now he works endlessly,with a pertinactiy that look like rage,as he begins to see h8is way.And as his art changes,his life is not spared the accidents of mortality,His girl leaves him,a good friend has a breakdown and kills himself.But within a year a big London exhibition of his work is arranged,the precocious climacteric of his life and art-bes expressed in the violent shock of one large canvas,a modern Christ's entry int

Early one morning, for no earthly reason, Sara Miles, raisedan atheist, wandered into a church, received communion, and foundherself transformed–embracing a faith she’d once scorned. A lesbianleft-wing journalist who’d covered revolutions around the world,Miles didn’t discover a religion that was about angels or goodbehavior or piety; her faith centered on real hunger, real food,and real bodies. Before long, she turned the bread she ate atcommunion into tons of groceries, piled on the church’s altar to begiven away. Within a few years, she and the people she served hadstarted nearly a dozen food pantries in the poorest parts of theircity. Take This Bread is rich with real-lifeDickensian characters–church ladies, millionaires, schizophrenics,bishops, and thieves–all blown into Miles’s life by the relentlessforce of her newfound calling. Here, in this achingly beautiful,passionate book, is the living communion of Christ. “The most amazing book.” –Anne Lamott “Engaging, funny, and