16 best-selling nonfiction books like RetroChristianity: Reclaiming the Forgotten Faith by Michael J. Svigel

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RetroChristianity: Reclaiming the Forgotten Faith

By: Michael J. Svigel

4.36

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

If the church fathers or Reformers showed up at your church, would they worship… or run? The time h…

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1. Paul: A Man of Grace and Grit (Great Lives from God's Word, #6)

By: Charles R. Swindoll

4.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Paul's life was never dull. First appearing in the New Testament as a violent enemy of Christ, Paul… read more

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  • christianity
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
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2. Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

By: Timothy J. Keller , Katherine Leary Alsdorf

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller shows how God calls on eac… read more

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"It (idolatry) means turning a good thing into an ultimate thing."

-Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

"Two things we want so desperately, glory and relationship, can coexist only in God."

-Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

"Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck."

-Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

"The great danger is to always single out some aspect of God’s good creation and identify it, rather than alien intrusion of sin, as the villain."

-Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

Cover of The Church (Contours of Christian Theology, #4) by Gerald L. Bray, Edmund P. Clowney

3. The Church (Contours of Christian Theology, #4)

By: Gerald L. Bray , Edmund P. Clowney

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

At a time in which the very word church sounds a tone of dull irrelevance, the doctrine of the chur… read more

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  • church
  • nonfiction
Cover of Chosen By God: Know God's Perfect Plan for His Glory and His Children by R.C. Sproul

4. Chosen By God: Know God's Perfect Plan for His Glory and His Children

By: R.C. Sproul

3.91

Format: 340 pages,

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5. The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

By: Patrick Lencioni

3.71

Format: 656 pages,

In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking ap… read more

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6. The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)

By: C.S. Lewis

4.05

Format: 221 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The secret passage to the house next door leads to a fascinating adventure NARNIA...where the wo… read more

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"this is a book about something"

-C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)

"It was a rich place: as rich as plumcake."

-C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)

"No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice."

-C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)

"Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations."

-C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)

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7. A Tale of Three Kings

By: Gene Edwards

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

For the many Christians who have experienced pain, loss, and heartache at the hands of other believ… read more

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  • christianity
  • christian living
  • christian
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8. Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

By: N.T. Wright

4.24

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

In Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, top-selli… read more

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9. Sojourners and Strangers: The Doctrine of the Church

By: Gregg R. Allison , None

3.90

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

What is a church?This can be a difficult question to answer and Christians have offered a variety o… read more

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  • church
  • nonfiction

10. Don't Waste Your Life

By: John Piper

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

John Piper writes, "I will tell you what a tragedy is. I will show you how to waste your life. Cons… read more

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11. The End: A Complete Overview of Bible Prophecy and the End of Days

By: Mark Hitchcock

3.00

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

The end times have seen a great amount of interest within the last two decades, but there hasn't be… read more

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12. Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin

By: Cornelius Plantinga Jr.

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This timely book retrieves an old awareness that has slipped and changed in recent decades. The awa… read more

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13. Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader

By: James M. Kouzes , Barry Z. Posner

3.66

Format: None pages,

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14. From Exegesis to Exposition: A Practical Guide to Using Biblical Hebrew

By: Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

2.35

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Many seminarians suspect that their courses in Hebrew have little relevance to their current and fu… read more

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15. Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change (Resources for Changing Lives)

By: Paul David Tripp

4.37

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Paul David Tripp’s masterpiece on ministry will transform how you view yourself and engage with oth… read more

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"Sin makes us moral quadriplegics."

-Paul David Tripp, Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change (Resources for Changing Lives)

"We rarely do anything with on single motive."

-Paul David Tripp, Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change (Resources for Changing Lives)

"The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin."

-Paul David Tripp, Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change (Resources for Changing Lives)

"Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance."

-Paul David Tripp, Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change (Resources for Changing Lives)

16. Salvation to the Ends of the Earth: A Biblical Theology of Mission (New Studies in Biblical Theology (InterVarsity Press), #11)

By: Andreas J. Köstenberger , Peter T. O'Brien

4.23

Format: 528 pages,

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17. 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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18. The Cross and Salvation: The Doctrine of Salvation

By: Bruce A. Demarest

4.17

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

With America's confidence in the Bible at an all-time low and the strength of her spiritual convict… read more

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19. 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

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20. The Person of Christ: An Introduction (Short Studies in Systematic Theology)

By: Stephen J. Wellum

4.50

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"From beginning to end, Scripture unveils from shadow to reality that Jesus is God the Son incarnat… read more

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  • theology
Cover of Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer by Tyler Staton

21. Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer

By: Tyler Staton

4.60

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Prayer is the source of Jesus's most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus's most audacious… read more

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Cover of Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making by Andrew       Peterson

22. Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making

By: Andrew Peterson

4.51

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Making something beautiful in a broken world can be harrowing work, and it can’t be done alone.   O… read more

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"When we manage to make something pretty, it's only because we are ourselves a flourish on a greater canvas."

-Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making

"[T]he steady resonance of your work might move someone closer to the Kingdom—and compared to a human heart, planets are small potatoes."

-Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making

"There's no doubt in my mind that what's shaped me and my work more than any particular talent on my part has been living out a calling in the midst of a Christ-centered community."

-Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making

"Christian art, then, might be defined as a work that is, like Christ himself, full of grace and truth. Where we go wrong is when we tilt the scales away from grace, or beauty, or excellence, as if tr…"

-Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making

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23. Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America

By: Russell D. Moore

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Former Southern Baptist pastor and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore calls for repen… read more

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Cover of The Trinity: An Introduction (Short Studies in Systematic Theology) by Scott R. Swain

24. The Trinity: An Introduction (Short Studies in Systematic Theology)

By: Scott R. Swain

4.49

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

Practical Theology for the Church Today The Trinity is one of the most essential doctrines of th… read more

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25. The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?

By: Jim Davis

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

We are currently experiencing the largest and fastest religious shift in US history. It is greater … read more

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Cover of None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God by Matthew Barrett

26. None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God

By: Matthew Barrett

4.49

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

For too long, Christians have domesticated God, bringing him down to our level as if he is a God wh… read more

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27. No Shortcut to Success: A Manifesto for Modern Missions (9Marks)

By: Matt Rhodes

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"A practical discussion of methods for Christian missionaries, recommending a return to traditional… read more

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28. RetroChristianity: Reclaiming the Forgotten Faith

By: Michael J. Svigel

4.36

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

If the church fathers or Reformers showed up at your church, would they worship… or run? The time h… read more

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Cover of The Holy Spirit: An Introduction (Short Studies in Systematic Theology) by Fred   Sanders

29. The Holy Spirit: An Introduction (Short Studies in Systematic Theology)

By: Fred Sanders

4.64

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Understanding the Work and Power of the Holy Spirit in Scripture  Though he is right at the heart o… read more

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30. Jesus the God-Man: The Unity and Diversity of the Gospel Portrayals

By: Darrell L. Bock

4.05

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

What the Gospels Tell Us about Who Jesus Is This clear, compact introduction surveys what the Gosp… read more

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Cover of And I Will Praise Him: A Guide to Worship in the Psalms by Ronald B. Allen

31. And I Will Praise Him: A Guide to Worship in the Psalms

By: Ronald B. Allen

4.01

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

"In an engaging devotional, the author combines warm, inviting wisdom with heartfelt experience as … read more

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20 must-read christian books like RetroChristianity: Reclaiming the Forgotten Faith by Michael J. Svigel

Transform Your Habits

Paul: A Man of Grace and Grit (Great Lives from God's Word, #6)

Charles R. Swindoll

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World

Timothy J. Keller , Katherine Leary Alsdorf

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Church (Contours of Christian Theology, #4)

Gerald L. Bray , Edmund P. Clowney

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Chosen By God: Know God's Perfect Plan for His Glory and His Children

R.C. Sproul

3.91

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Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

Dane C. Ortlund

4.52

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The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

John Mark Comer

4.53

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Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

John Mark Comer

4.63

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Jennie Allen

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