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"What can I do?" That was the question Diane Latiker asked of
herself as she watched the teens in her Chicago neighborhood
succumb at an alarming rate to gangs and gun violence. Her answer
started small, inviting ten kids into her living room to talk about
their struggles and dreams. But over the years it grew. With the
help of God, her family, and many other people along the way,
Diane's Kids Off the Block morphed from a personal crusade to do
what she could into a nationally known program that has helped more
than 3,000 at-risk Chicago teens. In this powerful, energizing
book, she tells her incredible story to men and women who are sick
of sitting behind their keyboards watching the world crumble and
are ready to do something to make a difference. Through doubt,
financial strain, and deep grief over lives lost, Diane has never
lost her faith that God called her to this life-transforming work.
In these pages she'll show you that God is calling you to do
something too. Maybe something that feels small . . . definitely
something that will change the world.
Andrew A. Bonar's biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne, the young
yet pioneering Scottish minister who revolutionized Bible readings
at home and abroad, offers a meticulously detailed yet lively
telling of his life story. Born to a middle-class family in
Edinburgh in 1813, the young Robert demonstrated intellectual
ability at an early age. Upon attending the city's university, he
quickly became regarded as a remarkably gifted religious scholar.
His intuitive skills and theological knowledge exceeded all
expectations, and he became an assistant to John Bonar of the
famous Bonar family. Robert Murray M'Cheyne was appointed a
delegate of the Church of Scotland when it organized a visit to
Jerusalem and the Holy Land. By all accounts this journey was
spiritually fulfilling for the young minister, with the major
findings and progress of the voyage recorded in his work entitled
Narrative of a Visit to the Holy Land and Mission of Inquiry to the
Jews.
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Tudor
(Paperback)
Leanda De Lisle
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R595
R555
Discovery Miles 5 550
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The Tudors are England's most notorious royal family. But, as
Leanda de Lisle's gripping new history reveals, they are a family
still more extraordinary than the one we thought we knew. The Tudor
canon typically starts with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, before
speeding on to Henry VIII and the Reformation. But this leaves out
the family's obscure Welsh origins, the ordinary man known as Owen
Tudor who would fall (literally) into a Queen's lap--and later her
bed. It passes by the courage of Margaret Beaufort, the pregnant
thirteen-year-old girl who would help found the Tudor dynasty, and
the childhood and painful exile of her son, the future Henry VII.
It ignores the fact that the Tudors were shaped by their
past--those parts they wished to remember and those they wished to
forget. By creating a full family portrait set against the
background of this past, de Lisle enables us to see the Tudor
dynasty in its own terms, and presents new perspectives and
revelations on key figures and events. De Lisle discovers a family
dominated by remarkable women doing everything possible to secure
its future; shows why the princes in the Tower had to vanish; and
reexamines the bloodiness of Mary's reign, Elizabeth's fraught
relationships with her cousins, and the true significance of
previously overlooked figures. Throughout the Tudor story, Leanda
de Lisle emphasizes the supreme importance of achieving peace and
stability in a violent and uncertain world, and of protecting and
securing the bloodline. Tudor is bristling with religious and
political intrigue but at heart is a thrilling story of one
family's determined and flamboyant ambition.
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What Women Want
(Hardcover)
Kimberly Ervin Alexander, James P Bowers; Foreword by Estrelda Y. Alexander
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R1,028
R867
Discovery Miles 8 670
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