The First Book of Samuel (New International Commentary on the Old Testament)
By: David Toshio Tsumura
4.33
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
David and Goliath, the call of Samuel, the witch of Endor, David and Bathsheba — such biblical stor…
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1. 1 Samuel for You (God's Word for You)
By: Tim Chester
4.38
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
1 Samuel is a book of barrenness and battles, kings and schemes, shepherds and giants. It recounts … read more
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2. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.86
Format: 572 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of … read more
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"Why should I discuss it with you?"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
"It's the love of right lures men to wrong."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
"The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind,"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
"In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
3. Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
By: Tish Harrison Warren
4.08
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present t… read more
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4. Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation
By: Ruth Haley Barton
4.27
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
Winner of a 2006 Logos Book Award! Do you long for a deep, fundamental change in your life with God… read more
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5. 1 Samuel: Looking on the Heart
By: Dale Ralph Davis
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Davis brings cultural and historical colour to the task of interpretation and adds a pastor's heart… read more
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6. 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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"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
7. Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions
By: Lee Strobel , Gregory Koukl
4.34
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In a world increasingly indifferent to Christian truth, followers of Christ need to be equipped to … read more
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"The only consistent response for a relativist is, "Pushing morality is wrong for me, but that's just my personal opinion, and has nothing to do with you. Please ignore me."-Lee Strobel, Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions
"No intentes refutar cada ficción concebida de la nada. Sitúa de nuevo la carga probatoria sobre los hombros de tus interlocutores. Pídeles razones, no la mera afirmación de un punto de vista. No te t…"-Lee Strobel, Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions
"There is no neutral ground when it comes to the tolerance question. Everybody has a point of view she thinks is right, and everybody passes judgment at some point or another. The Christian gets pigeo…"-Lee Strobel, Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions
"In a very real sense, every person who denies God is living of borrowed capital. He enjoys living as if the world is filled with morality, meaning, order and beauty, yet he denies the God whose exist…"-Lee Strobel, Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions
8. The Art of Biblical Narrative
By: Robert Alter
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
In what is both a radical approach to the Bible, and a fundamental return to its narrative prose, R… read more
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9. Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
By: Dane C. Ortlund
4.52
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Christians know that God loves them, but often think that he is perpetually disappointed and frustr… read more
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"Looking inside ourselves, we can anticipate only harshness from heaven. Looking out to Christ, we can anticipate only gentleness."-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
"The fall also entrenched in our minds dark thoughts of God, thoughts that are only dug out over multiple exposures to the gospel over many years. Perhaps Satan’s greatest victory in your life today i…"-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
"John's point in 13:1 is that in going to the cross, Jesus did not retain something for himself, the way we tend to do when we seek to love others sacrificially. He does not love like us. We love unti…"-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
"It is one thing, as a child, to be told your father loves you. You believe him. You take him at his word. But it is another thing, unutterably more real, to be swept up in his embrace, to feel the wa…"-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
10. A Grief Observed
By: C.S. Lewis
4.22
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Written with love, humility, and faith, this brief but poignant volume was first published in 1961 … read more
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"Time itself is one more name for death."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"The death of a beloved is an amputation."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
11. Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
By: Jackie Hill Perry
4.36
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
"I used to be a lesbian." In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, … read more
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"Do you know why we have a hard time believing that a gay girl can become a completely different creature? Because, we have a hard time believing in God. ..."-Jackie Hill Perry, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
"From the outside looking in, it could be assumed that Preston's and my relationship was God's proof of turning a "gay girl good." But really, He'd already done that the moment He'd set me free from s…"-Jackie Hill Perry, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
"Trying to contain the small giggle welling up in her chest from the sincerity of my question, Santoria, full of confidence, responded while looking toward my direction, "Yes, Jackie.The gospel didn't…"-Jackie Hill Perry, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
"LGBT culture has done an excellent job of renewing or should I say, destroying, the mind of many, mainly by consistently using words as their greatest tool in their efforts to draw people into findin…"-Jackie Hill Perry, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
12. The Problem of Pain
By: C.S. Lewis
4.13
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all: If God is good and all-powerful… read more
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"Man is to be understood only in his relation to God."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
"Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
"Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
"Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
13. The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
By: Karen Swallow Prior
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Contemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis--and a lot of bad press. … read more
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"For Hardy and other critics of the evangelical movement, too often the desire for purity encouraged hypocrisy, earnest ideals became mere performance, and the valuation of hard work turned into pursu…"-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
"The novel [ Pamela ] is also a very powerful early expression of the modern self, one who sees her soul as equal in human worth and dignity to anyone, regardless of social class or power--and this, t…"-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
14. Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
By: Simon Winchester
3.79
Format: 464 pages, ebook
The author of The Professor and the Madman and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property—o… read more
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15. Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America
By: Stephen Bullivant
3.88
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining and insightful exploration of the American ex-religious The United States is in … read more
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16. Emotionally Healthy Discipleship: Moving from Shallow Christianity to Deep Transformation
By: Peter Scazzero
4.45
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The global church is facing a discipleship crisis. Here's how we move forward into transformative d… read more
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17. 1 and 2 Samuel (The NIV Application Commentary Book 19)
By: Bill T. Arnold
4.18
Format: 1065 pages, Kindle Edition
Why do the books of Samuel pack such broad appeal? Taken together as a single narrative, they certa… read more
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18. The First Book of Samuel (New International Commentary on the Old Testament)
By: David Toshio Tsumura
4.33
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
David and Goliath, the call of Samuel, the witch of Endor, David and Bathsheba — such biblical stor… read more
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19. 1 And 2 Samuel: An Introduction and Commentary (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries)
By: Joyce G. Baldwin
3.92
Format: 299 pages, Paperback
Recipient of a 1990 Christianity Today Critics' Choice Award!The stories of Samuel, Saul and David … read more
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20. 1 & 2 Kings (New American Commentary)
By: Paul R. House
3.91
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
THE NEW AMERICAN COMMENTARY is for the minister or Bible student who wants to understand and expoun… read more
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21. 1 & 2 Kings (Understanding the Bible Commentary Series)
By: Iain W. Provan
4.25
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Provan treats 1 and 2 Kings as a unified whole nestled within its canonical context. Kings constant… read more
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22. World Biblical Commentary Vol. 10, 1 Samuel
By: Ralph W. Klein
3.84
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars o… read more
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23. I Samuel
By: P. Kyle McCarter Jr.
4.21
Format: 474 pages, Hardcover
I Samuel is Volume 8 in the Anchor Bible series of book-by-book translations of the Old and New Tes… read more
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24. TOTC 1 & 2 Kings: Tyndale Old Testament Commentary (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries)
By: Donald Wiseman
3.67
Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition
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25. The Epistle to the Hebrews (New International Commentary on the New Testament (NICNT))
By: Gareth Lee Cockerill
4.28
Format: 792 pages, Hardcover
This commentary by Gareth Lee Cockerill offers fresh insight into the Epistle to the Hebrews, a wel… read more
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