6 must-read history books like Amazing Grace: The Life of John Newton and the Surprising Story Behind His Song by Bruce Hindmarsh

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Amazing Grace: The Life of John Newton and the Surprising Story Behind His Song

By: Bruce Hindmarsh

4.39

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Amazing Grace is the surprising true story of John Newton, author of the song that has touched mill…

If you liked the history plot in Amazing Grace: The Life of John Newton and the Surprising Story Behind His Song by Bruce Hindmarsh , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Joni: An Unforgettable Story

By: Joni Eareckson Tada , Joe Musser

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The award-winning story of a young woman who triumphed over devastating odds to touch countless liv… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • christian
  • biography
  • memoir
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2. Anxious for Nothing: God's Cure for the Cares of Your Soul (MacArthur Study Series)

By: John F. MacArthur Jr.

3.67

Format: 364 pages,

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • religion

3. Thoughts for Young Men

By: J.C. Ryle

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

J.C. Ryle's handbook for young men, replete with warnings, exhortations, and instruction about this… read more

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4. The Pilgrim's Progress

By: John Bunyan

4.06

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most ent… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • religion
"Follow your heart"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

5. Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery

By: Eric Metaxas

4.19

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Amazing Gracetells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce… read more

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6. Through Gates of Splendor

By: Elisabeth Elliot

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

In 1956, five young men, including Elliot's husband, Jim, traveled into the jungles of Ecuador to e… read more

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7. Counterfeit Kingdom: The Dangers of New Revelation, New Prophets, and New Age Practices in the Church

By: Holly Pivec

4.50

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Is there a new reformation happening in the church? It depends on who you ask. The New Apostolic Re… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. The Lord of Psalm 23: Jesus Our Shepherd, Companion, and Host

By: David Gibson

4.74

Format: 157 pages, Kindle Edition

Expository Study of Psalm 23 Reveals the Beauty and Deep Theological Meaning behind a Familiar Part… read more

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  • christian
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

By: Russ Ramsey

4.53

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

How do art and faith intersect? How does art help us see our own lives more clearly? What can we un… read more

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  • christian
  • biography
  • history
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"The pattern in Scripture is that of God working through unlikely servants for the glory of his name and the spread of the gospel."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

"The more we engage with beauty, the more we train our hearts to anticipate finding beauty, until eventually, everywhere we go, we're looking for it."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

"Many artists took their easels and paints outside and captured what they saw. Vincent wanted to capture what he felt as he tried to remember what he saw."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

"Vincent didn't see the world as a collection of plain, unaffected objects. He saw the unfolding drama of the human story, which to him was a heartbreaking tale."

-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

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10. The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

By: Larry Loftis

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Florida Book Awards Gold Medalist New York Times bestselling author and … read more

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  • christian
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. My Jesus: From Heartache to Hope

By: Anne Wilson

4.71

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Anne^^Wilson (2 Spaces) "Whatever you are feeling, God can handle it--all of it. The tears, scream… read more

Similar categories in Anne Wilson's My Jesus: From Heartache to Hope book and Bruce Hindmarsh's Amazing Grace: The Life of John Newton and the Surprising Story Behind His Song

  • music
  • christian
  • biography
  • memoir
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Being Elisabeth Elliot: The Authorized Biography: Elisabeth’s Later Years

By: Ellen Vaughn

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a remote Amazonian indigenous pe… read more

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  • christian
  • biography
  • memoir
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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13. The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality

By: Glen Scrivener

4.50

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Is Christianity history? Or is Christian history the deepest explanation of the modern world?Today … read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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14. The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes

By: Nancy R. Pearcey

4.51

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How the Script for Masculinity Turned Toxic--and How to Fix It "Why Can't We Hate Men?" asks a hea… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. God of All Things: Rediscovering the Sacred in an Everyday World

By: Andrew Wilson

4.53

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Abstract theology is overrated, for God can be found in even the most ordinary of things. Jesus… read more

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  • christian
  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
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16. Amazing Grace: The Life of John Newton and the Surprising Story Behind His Song

By: Bruce Hindmarsh

4.39

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Amazing Grace is the surprising true story of John Newton, author of the song that has touched mill… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Hindmarsh's Amazing Grace: The Life of John Newton and the Surprising Story Behind His Song book and Bruce Hindmarsh's Amazing Grace: The Life of John Newton and the Surprising Story Behind His Song

  • music
  • christian
  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
Cover of Impossible Christianity: Why Following Jesus Does Not Mean You Have to Change the World, Be an Expert in Everything, Accept Spiritual Failure, and Feel Miserable Pretty Much All the Time by Kevin DeYoung

17. Impossible Christianity: Why Following Jesus Does Not Mean You Have to Change the World, Be an Expert in Everything, Accept Spiritual Failure, and Feel Miserable Pretty Much All the Time

By: Kevin DeYoung

4.36

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling Author Kevin DeYoung Offers Hope for Those Who Feel Like Christianity Has Become Hopele… read more

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  • christian
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of God Never Gives Up on You: What Jacob's Story Teaches Us About Grace, Mercy, and God's Relentless Love by Max Lucado

18. God Never Gives Up on You: What Jacob's Story Teaches Us About Grace, Mercy, and God's Relentless Love

By: Max Lucado

4.50

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Ever wonder if you’ve stumbled one too many times for God to use someone like you? Could you benefi… read more

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  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
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19. Sebastian Bach, The Boy from Thuringia

By: Opal Wheeler

4.23

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

This is the first complete life of Bach ever written for children. Every important incident is ment… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Reclaiming Masculinity: Eight Biblical Principles for Being the Man God Wants You to Be (Discipleship/ mentoring ministry resource/ Christian book for men on Biblical manhood) by Matt Fuller

20. Reclaiming Masculinity: Eight Biblical Principles for Being the Man God Wants You to Be (Discipleship/ mentoring ministry resource/ Christian book for men on Biblical manhood)

By: Matt Fuller

4.12

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A positive and biblical vision of what it means to be a man In a world where masculinity is often a… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
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21. Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda

By: Megan Basham

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

“This may just be the single most important book on modern Evangelicalism in recent years. It is bo… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • audiobook

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4.74

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4.32

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4.26

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4.50

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4.26

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