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Get the Summary of Malcolm X and Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies...
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Get the Summary of Eric Metaxas' Is Atheism Dead? in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Original book introduction: Is Atheism Dead? is a highly entertaining, impressively wide-ranging, and decidedly provocative answer to that famous 1966 TIME cover that itself provocatively asked "Is God Dead?" In a voice that is by turns witty, muscular, and poetic, Metaxas echoes C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton in cheerfully and...
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Get the Summary of Joyce Meyer's Battlefield of the Mind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: 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...
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Get the Summary of Donald H. Calloway's Consecration to St. Joseph in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In the midst of crisis, confusion, and a world at war with the Church, it's time to come home again to our spiritual father, St. Joseph. In this richly researched and lovingly presented program of consecration to St. Joseph, Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC, brings to life the wonders, the power,...
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Get the Summary of Philip Yancey's Where the Light Fell in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Raised by an impoverished widow who earned room and board as a Bible teacher in 1950s Atlanta, Philip Yancey and his brother, Marshall, found ways to venture out beyond the confines of their eight-foot-wide trailer. But when Yancey was in college, he uncovered a shocking secret about his father's...
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Get the Summary of Jason Wilson's Battle Cry in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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For decades Jason Wilson was losing the war within- the internal battle that many men wage daily, but were never taught how to win. As a result, he could not combat his toxic thoughts and emotions. Instead, he was conquered by them and communicated without composure- hurting those he loved and himself....
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Get the Summary of Thich Nhat Hanh's “Peace Is Every Step” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. A ringing telephone can be...
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Get the Summary of Summary of C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In the classic Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis, the most important writer of the 20th century, explores the common ground upon which all of those of Christian faith stand together. Bringing together Lewis' legendary broadcast talks during World War Two from his three previous books The Case for...
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Get the Summary of Kaira Jewel Lingo's We Were Made for These Times in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
We all go through times, when it feels like the ground is being pulled out from under us. What we relied on as steady and solid may change or even appear to vanish. In this era of global disruption, threats to our individual, social, and planetary safety abound, and at times, life can feel overwhelming. Not...
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Book Preview: #1 I had lost almost thirty pounds by the time I was referred to a gastrointestinal surgeon at Duke University Hospital. Every few hours, I would double over from a stabbing pain in my stomach. The surgeon said there was nothing to suggest that we were going after the right thing.
#2 One of the most popular prosperity preaching duos is Gloria Copeland and her husband,...
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Get the Summary of Ruth Haley Barton's Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Each chapter includes a spiritual practice to ensure your soul gets the nourishment it needs. Forging and maintaining a life-giving connection with God is the best choice you can make for yourself and for those you lead.
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Get the Summary of Timothy Keller's Hope in Times of Fear in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: She turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. (John 20:14)
Hope in the Time of Fear is a book that unlocks the meaning of Jesus's resurrection for readers. Easter is considered the most solemn and important holiday for Christians. It is a time of spiritual...
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Get the Summary of Dane C. Ortlund's Gentle and Lowly in 20-minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Christians can easily feel that Jesus is perpetually disappointed and frustrated, maybe even close to giving up on them. They know what Christ has done for them, but who is he? How does he feel about his people amid all their sins and failures?
In Matthew 11, Jesus describes himself as "gentle and...
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Get the Summary of Brant James Pitre's Introduction to the Spiritual Life in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
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The path of following Jesus is an ancient and storied spiritual tradition. Yet many believers are not familiar with the three major forms of prayer and the three stages of spiritual growth that exist to bring them closer to God.
In his most personal book yet, Dr. Brant Pitre...
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Get the Summary of Peter Scazzero's The Emotionally Healthy Leader in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In, The Emotionally Healthy Leader, bestselling author Peter Scazzero shows leaders how to develop a deep, inner life with Christ, examining its profound implications for surviving stress, planning and decision making, building teams, creating healthy culture, influencing others, and...
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Get the Summary of Thick Nhat Hanh's The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching, now revised with added material and insights, Nhat Hanh introduces us to the core teachings of Buddhism and shows us that the Buddha's teachings are accessible and applicable to our daily lives.
Covering such significant teachings as the Four...
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Get the Summary of Rachel Held Evans & Jeff Chu's Wholehearted Faith in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Rachel Held Evans is widely recognized for her theologically astute, profoundly honest, and beautifully personal books, which have guided, instructed, edified, and shaped Christians as they seek to live out a just and loving faith.
At the time of her tragic death in 2019, Rachel...
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Get the Summary of C.S. Lewis's The Problem of Pain in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Why must we suffer?
"If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?" And, what of the suffering of animals, who neither deserve pain nor can be improved by it? The greatest Christian thinker of our time sets out to disentangle this knotty issue. With his signature...
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Get the Summary of Thich Nhat Hanh's Enjoying the Ultimate in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: "Nirvana is our daily business," Thich Nhat Hanh says. Based on talks given in his home monastery of Plum Village in France at the peak of his long teaching career, The Nirvana Chapter conveys Thich Nhat Hanh's insights on the 36 verses on nirvana in the Chinese Dharmapada. Described there as...
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Get the Summary of John C. Lennox's Cosmic Chemistry in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Building on the arguments put forward in God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? Prof John Lennox examines afresh the plausibility of a Christian theistic worldview in the light of some of the latest developments in scientific understanding. Prof Lennox focuses on the areas of evolutionary theory,...
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