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Fully revised and updated for 2017 to celebrate 30 years of the Football League Play-Offs, The Agony & The Ecstasy is a comprehensive history from their relatively troubled conception to the current day boom. Born in English football's darkest hour, it has now become home to the richest match in sport. From the exquisite pain of losing to the unadulterated high of success, this is the Agony & the Ecstasy.
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"In a society dominated by raging narcissism, the virtue of humility is vanishing. Yet Richard Foster insists that humility is central to spiritual formation. Engaging with diverse sources including Native American culture, Julian of Norwich, and Scripture, Foster shares profound insight into what humility can look like in our contemporary culture"--
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2010 Christianity Today Book Award winner! 2010 Golden Canon Leadership Book Award winner! Think of the moment you last experienced God. Do you know him that closely in this moment? Truly experiencing the love of God gives us a taste of his goodness and his love for us, but often those moments are fleeting. We get distracted by life. Our awareness and understanding fade while our longing to experience him that way again increases. In this recording...
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In 1978, Richard Foster's classic Celebration of Discipline sparked the Christian spiritual formation movement. Forty years later, at a church leadership conference, Foster delivered his final public talk, which addressed new challenges Christians face on the road of becoming more like Jesus. That talk is now available in this brief booklet.
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Can you name the three World Cup winners who have also won the Golden Boot outright? What did Just Fontaine received for his feat of scoring 13 goals for France in the 1958 tournament in Sweden. Who went on to win the World Cup despite losing their first match? In which two World Cups have there been no sendings-off during the whole tournament? What was the significance of the black bands that appeared around the goal posts in Argentina in 1978? The...
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She has been called the most photographed model in history. From her modest beginnings in Nashville to her legacy as a cult figure, here is the true story of America's iconic pinup queen, legendary Playboy centerfold Bettie Page-including her stormy marriages, her trial for attempted murder, and her decade-long isolation in a California mental institution.
During the 1950s, Bettie set hearts ablaze with...
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Modern football is brilliant, and yet it is also utterly rubbish. For every part of the beautiful game that reminds us why we love it, there's another to drive us up the wall. Half-and-half scarves designated singing sections, goal music and open letters - the list is endless.
Football's Flaws & Foibles looks at some of the biggest transgressions and dissects just what lies at the heart of our annoyance. Featuring contributions from Kevin Day, Daniel...
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This helpful guide to Money, Sex & Power, Richard J. Foster's sequel to his bestselling Celebration of Discipline, expands the discussion of key issues and explores ways to move the principles involved into the arena of practical experience.
This study guide offers a series of brief, incisive essays, followed by scriptural passages, that focus on what the Bible has to say about the three central themes of supreme importance in modern society. Study...
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Best-selling author Richard J. Foster offers a warm, compelling, and sensitive primer on prayer, helping us to understand, experience, and practice it in its many forms-from the simple prayer of beginning again to unceasing prayer. He clarifies the prayer process, answers common misconceptions, and shows the way into prayers of contemplation, healing, blessing, forgiveness, and rest.
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In the twenty years since its publication, Celebration of Discipline has helped over a million seekers discover a richer spiritual life infused with joy, peace, and a deeper understanding of God. For this special twentieth anniversary edition, Richard J. Foster has added an introduction, in which he shares the story of how this beloved and enduring spiritual guidebook came to be. Hailed by many as the best modern book on Christian spirituality, Celebration...
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Esta guía inspirativa, hermosamente presentada, ofrece una profunda perspectiva que ayuda a comprender cómo experimentar personalmente la presencia de Dios en nuestras vidas, y expone con claridad los principios para orar con eficacia y recibir así la respuesta de Dios. Las enseñanzas contenidas en esta obra abarcan leyes espirituales de orden universal que impulsarán a personas de todos los credos a realizar sus prácticas espirituales con mayor...
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At the very heart of God is the passionate disposition to be in loving fellowship with you. From the human side of this equation it is meditative prayer that ushers us into this divine-human fellowship. Richard Foster, bestselling author and founder of Renovare, writes these words as one who has experienced what they describe. And in this new book he will beautifully guide you in this transformational way, that you might come to know deeper fellowship...
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Why has God not answered prayers? What should people pray for? If everything that was prayed for came true, would people be ready? In this spiritual classic, Eberhard Arnold mines the riches of biblical teaching on prayer and the example of Jesus, the Hebrew prophets, and the early Christians to point to the prayer that pleases God most: prayer that has the power to transform lives and the world. In a new reflective response, much-loved author Richard...
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The Bible has the astounding power to transform lives. The stories of people like Francis of Assisi, Antony of Egypt, Augustine of Hippo, Martin Luther and Martin Luther King Jr. vividly demonstrate this. Why aren't more of us transformed by Scripture today? Too often we study biblical texts without believing that God truly inhabits this book. Scripture seeks to capture our minds, not merely educate them. In these pages Chris Webb explains that we...
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Eighteen-year-old Ashley's life is headed in the wrong direction. She's been hanging out with a bad crowd and seeking an escape from the drama at home. Everything begins to change when a handyman working on the family's house encourages her to volunteer for a Christmas play with underprivileged children. Ashley finds purpose by helping people in need and uses that to help heal her troubled family. Together, they discover the impact one person can...