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  • A Vision for the Aging Christian

    Preparing for Longer Life and the Tasks of Caregiving

    by James M. Houston, Michael Parker ...
    A Vision for the Aging Christian is an essential resource for Christian laypersons, clergy, and caregivers. Aging impacts all people, and this work serves as partner on the journey by providing extensive research, profound spiritual insight, and the gift of life experience. In a follow-up to A Vision for the Aging Church, Jim Houston and Michael Parker provide a countercultural guide to aging ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sources of the Christian Self

    A Cultural History of Christian Identity

    Edited by James M. Houston, Jens Zimmermann ...
    Using Charles Taylor's magisterial Sources of the Self : The Making of the Modern Identity as a springboard, this interdisciplinary book explores lived Christian identity through the ages.Beginning with such Old Testament figures as Abraham, Moses, and David and moving through the New Testament, the early church, the Middle Ages, and onward, the forty-two biographical chapters in Sources of the ... Read more

    $80.87 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • TOKYO CONTRACT

    by James Houston ...
    IN TOKYO, FREEDOM COMES AT A PRICE.Fast paced, edgy and unforgettably raw sequel to Houston's first novel SCOUTED. Tokyo Contract is a gripping tale of self-discovery, survival and the high price of freedom.When Chad was scouted to Milan to pursue a modelling career, he saw it as a way to escape the wreckage of his shattered Olympic wrestling dreams and the fractured relationship with his father. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Praying the Language of Enmity in the Psalter

    A Study of Psalms 110, 119, 129, 137, 139, and 149

    by Aran J. E. Persaud ...
    How is it possible to hold a New Testament ethic to love one's enemies and pray for their physical infliction, shame, death, and suffering of family members? And yet, the Psalter, the prayer book of the Church, contains such prayers. In modern times, the Church has adopted a semi-Marcionite attitude towards these troubling texts, excluding whole psalms or parts from liturgies and private use. But ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Psalms as Christian Lament

    by Bruce K. Waltke, James M. Houston, Erika Moore ...
    The Psalms as Christian Lament, a companion volume to The Psalms as Christian Worship, uniquely blends verse-by-verse commentary with a history of Psalms interpretation in the church from the time of the apostles to the present. Bruce Waltke, James Houston, and Erika Moore examine ten lament psalms, including six of the seven traditional penitential psalms, covering Psalms 5, 6, 7, 32, 38, 39, 44, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Snow Mountain Passage

    by James D Houston ...
    A compelling and beautifully told story of extreme events that resonates the terrible cost of the American Dream. A powerful work of fiction that recreates one of the most tragic events of pioneer America, as a wagon train crosses the country to the Promised Land of California, only to be halted in the final stages by an early winter in the high reaches of the mountains. the emigrants endure the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Bird of Another Heaven

    by James D. Houston ...
    From the acclaimed author of Snow Mountain Passage comes this richly evocative novel that follows a half-Indian, half-Hawai'ian woman and her complex relationship with the last king of Hawai'i.When talk show host Sheridan Brody finds the journals of his great grandmother Nani Keala (aka Nancy Callahan), he uncovers a mythic, unknown tale. Nani, a shy girl from a remote Indian village, met the ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • Scouted

    by James Houston ...
    Series Book 1 - Scouted
    Revenge, Scandal and the rise of a Supermodel.A teenager growing up in a destitute and abusive family near the slums of Rio, Ronny dreams of one day becoming a fashionphotographer and travelling a world he's only seen in the pages of magazines.When Ronny is scouted after meeting his idol, star fashion photographer Santo Diaz, and offered a chance to walk the runway at Milan's fashion week, he ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Snow Mountain Passage

    by James D. Houston ...
    Snow Mountain Passage is a powerful retelling of the most dramatic of our pioneer stories—the ordeal of the Donner Party, with its cast of young and old risking all, its imprisoning snows, its rumors of cannibalism. James Houston takes us inside this central American myth in a compelling new way that only a novelist can achieve.The people whose dreams, courage, terror, ingenuity, and fate we share ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Farewell to Manzanar

    by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston ...
    Illustrated by James D. Houston ...
    The powerful true story of life in a Japanese American internment camp.During World War II the community called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California, east of the Sierras. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese American internees.One of the first families to arrive was the Wakatsukis, who were ordered to leave their fishing business in Long Beach ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Memoirs of a Joyous Exile and a Worldly Christian

    by James M. Houston ...
    This book traces personal memoirs to encourage others in their personal sense of insecurity to be freed by God's grace, to become bold "in Christ." It binds memoirs of the inner self, with one's opportunities of public service. Two highlights are recorded: how three Soviet leaders as Christians negotiated with three American Christian leaders, to prevent a nuclear holocaust; and how crowds saying ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Shadows to Light

    by James D Houston ...
    Clyde's story is a testament to the power of redemption, the resilience of the human spirit, the transformative power of hope. It is a story of overcoming adversity, of finding strength in vulnerability, of embracing a brighter future. It is a story of hope, of healing, of redemption. It is a story of a man who found his way out of the darkness and into the light. It is a story of a man who found ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD