Augsburg Fortress

Confident Humility: Becoming Your Full Self without Becoming Full of Yourself

Self-help books emerge from one of two flawed views of the self--that people are fundamentally bad or fundamentally good--and these mutually exclusive ditches are destructive. Dan Kent presents a third view. He shows how the humility Jesus revealed offers the most accurate, freeing view of the self. Whereas the ditches both lead to powerlessness and passivity, humility as Jesus teaches it is empowering, fosters proactivity, and serves as a scaffold for true confidence.

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Living In Sin: Making Marriage Work Between I Do and Death

Pastor Jason Micheli had performed dozens of weddings when he was diagnosed with incurable cancer. Suddenly, his own marriage came into sharp relief.

Micheli chronicles his love for his wife, Ali, in Living in Sin. Their marriage is pushed to the brink, but Micheli's illness shows what really matters in marriage: forgiveness, laughter, and more forgiveness. Living in Sin will be an inspiration and challenge to any married couple.

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Owen and Eleanor Meet the New Kid

The third book in the Owen & Eleanor series is a story about welcoming strangers and loving your neighbor.

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God's Protection Covers Me

"Every day, in all you do, God's protection covers you!"

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Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Emerging Adults in Their Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Faith

Big Questions, Worthy Dreams was written to inform and inspire educators, church leaders, and others to consider the institutional and cultural patterns that affect emerging adults. It serves to bridge the divide between generations and to encourage more adequate recognition of what is at stake in the response of all who interact with emerging young adult lives.

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When Day Is Done

A soothing bedtime book for calming down after a busy day.

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Recalling Our Own Stories: Spiritual Renewal for Religious Caregivers

Recalling Our Own Stories, which author Edward P. Wimberly describes as “a spiritual retreat in book form,” is designed to help clergy and religious caregivers...

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Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice

In Honoring the Body, Stephanie Paulsell speaks to those who have ever wondered how to celebrate the body's pleasures and protect the body's vulnerabilities in a world that seems confused about both. What we need, she shows, are practices that honor the body.

Paulsell invites readers to explore how we might honor the body in daily activities, seeking wisdom from Scripture, history, and contemporary experience, in story and song and poetry/

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Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time

In Receiving the Day, Dorothy C. Bass shows how Christian practices for rest and worship continually welcome us into a way of life attuned to the love of God, neighbor, earth, and self. Through them, we can learn to dwell more graciously, attentively, and faithfully within the hours and days we have and to share the gift of time with others.

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Mansions of the Heart: Exploring Seven Stages of Spiritual Growth

In Mansions of the Heart, author R. Thomas Ashbrook tells of discovering a new path of spiritual transformation and offers seekers a way to move forward on their own spiritual paths. Mansions of the Heart offers a step-by-step guide based on Teresa of Avila's seven mansions.

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Owen and Eleanor Make Things Up (Paperback)

Owen and Eleanor spin a tale that spirals out of their control, and learn important lessons about telling stories.

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Cross Vision Study Guide Bundle

Tackle the Bible's biggest dilemma now with the paperback version and study guide in one package. In his revolutionary book Cross Vision, Gregory A. Boyd proposed...

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Porcupine's Pie

Porcupine shares ingredients from her pantry with her woodland friends for the Fall Feast. When Porcupine loses a key ingredient for her pie, her friends come to the rescue.

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Presumed Guilty: Why We Shouldn't Ask Muslims to Condemn Terrorism

All of us should condemn terrorism–whether the perpetrators are Muslim extremists, white supremacists, Marxist revolutionaries, or our own government. But it's time for us to...

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Keeping Faith in Congress: Why Persistence, Compassion, and Teamwork Will Save Our Democracy

In 1996, Walter Capps won a seat in US House of Representatives. Less than a year later, he suffered a massive heart attack at Dulles...

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The Prophetic Imagination: 40th Anniversary Edition

A classic text in biblical theology–still relevant for today and tomorrow. In this 40th anniversary edition of the classic text from one of the most...

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Sermons of Consequence

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Sermons of Consequence is a collection of sermons preached at Grace Lutheran Church in River Forest, Illinois. Although the places and people have named have local familiarity, the sermons set forth here speak to the wider human condition, which makes this book applicable to people everywhere. These sermons provide a model for broader witness to the Holy Spirit as the power for consequential preaching.

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Rufus and the Scary Storm: A Book about Being Brave

A scary storm sends Rufus running for cover. Can a prayer help him overcome his fear?

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The Last Blues Preacher: Reverend Clay Evans, Black Lives, and the Faith that Woke the Nation

One of America’s most famous gospel singers, civil rights heroes, and the godfather of Chicago’s black preachers, Reverend Clay Evans inspired a city and a nation to see, hear, and witness the dignity and value of black lives. Zach Mills’s lively and powerful biography, The Last Blues Preacher, brings the life and work of Reverend Evans into our time and examines how current national conversations on race, religion, politics, and popular culture can and should inform contemporary activism.

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Rising: The Amazing Story of Christianity's Resurrection in the Global South

Pundits regularly declare that Christianity is dying?its golden age of influence is long gone in Western Europe, and similar trends are happening in North America. But while it slowly dies in the West, Christianity has been coming to life in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Now immigrants, refugees, and missionaries from the Global South bring their vibrant faith to our shores. They are bringing the gospel back to us in new and surprising ways. Christianity is rising, you just have to look around. 

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