Beautiful People Don't Just Happen: How God Redeems Regret, Hurt, and Fear in the Making of Better Humans
By: Scott Sauls
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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1. Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
4.27
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
After his martyrdom at the hands of the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer continued his witness … read more
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"God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
"We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
"It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated"-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
"The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren. Not in the former but in the latter is the lack."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
2. Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up
By: Francis Chan , Preston Sprinkle
4.11
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
How could a loving God send people to hell? Will people have a chance after they die to believe in … read more
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3. The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
By: Brennan Manning , Michael W. Smith , None
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Furious Love Is Hot on Your Trail! Many believers feel stunted in their Christian growth. We beat… read more
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4. The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society
By: Henri J.M. Nouwen
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
The Wounded Healeris a hope-filled and simple book that speaks directly to those men and women who … read more
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5. 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
6. Everything Sad Is Untrue
By: Daniel Nayeri
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more
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"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
7. A Non-Anxious Presence: How a Changing and Complex World will Create a Remnant of Renewed Christian Leaders
By: Mark Sayers
4.06
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
For much of recent history individuals and institutions could plan, execute, and flourish with thei… read more
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8. Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation
By: Collin Hansen
4.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Timothy Keller takes readers behind the scenes to meet the people and understand the events that fo… read more
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9. Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners
By: Dane C. Ortlund
4.58
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
“Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” —2 Peter 3:18 How do Chri… read more
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10. Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did
By: John Mark Comer
4.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The author of the international bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry calls us to rediscover… read more
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11. Don't Hold Back: Leaving Behind the American Gospel to Follow Jesus Fully
By: David Platt
4.36
Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition
The New York Times bestselling author of Radical challenges Christians to break free from an Americ… read more
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12. How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments
By: Preston Perry
4.70
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of Preston Perry’s path toward God. A hope-filled apologetics and evangelism book written… read more
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"Don't let your pride murder your message."-Preston Perry, How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments
"When we're more invested in politics than we are in people--when someone shares their story--we won't hear a testimony, but a position. We won't hear a cry, but a stance."-Preston Perry, How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments
"Let us ask God to kill our pride and all the other sin inside us that might be in the way of the gospel. We don't ever want our personal conduct or behavior to be the reason someone rejects the gospe…"-Preston Perry, How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments
"The way we do apologetics looks different when we are motivated not by our desire to conquer the other person, but by our genuine love and compassion, and by our desire to see people discover God's l…"-Preston Perry, How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments
13. All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
By: Beth Moore
4.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller! An incredibly thoughtful,… read more
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"Once you've broken to pieces, the luxury of imagining yourself unbreakable evaporates."-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
"You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children."-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
"A teenager doesn't know she's still a child. A teenager feels like an adult, I suppose primarily because her outside, her flesh and her face, her body, her size, her width and height, look like - and…"-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
14. Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace
By: John Mark Comer
4.49
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
We are at war. Not with a foreign government or domestic terrorists or a creepy new artificial inte… read more
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"Anxious to avoid a repeat of history, Edmund Burke laid out the logic behind the American architecture in a letter from 1791: "Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their dispos…"-John Mark Comer, Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace
15. How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
By: James K.A. Smith
4.29
Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
Many Christians are disconnected from the past or imagine they are "above" history, immune to it, a… read more
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16. Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church
By: Katelyn Beaty
4.22
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning writer shows how and why celebrity is woven into the fabric of the evangelical mov… read more
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"Celebrity, in the final analysis, is a worldly form of power and evaluation of human worth. It is not a spiritually neutral tool that can be picked up and put down, even for godly projects. The momen…"-Katelyn Beaty, Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church
17. Forgive: Why Should I and How Can I?
By: Timothy J. Keller
4.60
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller outlines the reasons why forgiveness ha… read more
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18. Bully Pulpit: Confronting the Problem of Spiritual Abuse in the Church
By: Michael J. Kruger
4.49
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Are churches looking for the wrong kind of leaders? The last decade has witnessed a rising number o… read more
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19. 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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20. Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship
By: Justin Whitmel Earley
4.47
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Loneliness is the most dangerous and least talked-about epidemic--but Made for People offers a cure… read more
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21. Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode--and into a Life of Connection and Joy
By: Aundi Kolber
4.40
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
"In the wise and soulful tradition of teachers like Shauna Niequist and Brene Brown, therapist Aund… read more
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22. Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God's Grand Story
By: Christopher Yuan
4.55
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From the author of Out of a Far Country , which details his dramatic conversion from an agnostic ga… read more
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"To begin with prayer is a way to remind ourselves that only God changes hearts."-Christopher Yuan, Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God's Grand Story
"Our biggest problem is our sin nature, and victory is found only in Christ Jesus."-Christopher Yuan, Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God's Grand Story
"The main takeaway of this parable is not love your neighbor by trying hard to be like the good Samaritan but rather love your neighbor by realizing you are the traveler and Jesus, the good Samaritan,…"-Christopher Yuan, Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God's Grand Story
23. 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
24. On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living
By: Alan Noble
4.33
Format: 108 pages, Hardcover
We aren't always honest about how difficult normal human life is. For the majority of people, sorro… read more
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25. Resilient: Restoring Your Weary Soul in These Turbulent Times
By: John Eldredge
4.33
Format: 219 pages, Hardcover
The longing for things to be wonderful is one of the deepest yearnings of the human heart. After ti… read more
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26. You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman World
By: Alan Noble
4.35
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
"You are your own, and you belong to yourself." This is the fundamental assumption of modern life. … read more
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27. Life Is Hard, God Is Good, Let's Dance: Experiencing Real Joy in a World Gone Mad
By: Brant Hansen
4.51
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This book is about one joy. A deep sense of well-being, regardless of circumstances, is not only p… read more
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28. Strong Like Water: Finding the Freedom, Safety, and Compassion to Move through Hard Things—and Experience True Flourishing
By: Aundi Kolber
4.50
Format: 261 pages, Paperback
There's a cost to being a certain kind of strong. When it comes to difficult circumstances, we'v… read more
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29. Beautiful People Don't Just Happen: How God Redeems Regret, Hurt, and Fear in the Making of Better Humans
By: Scott Sauls
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Find the freedom from regret, hurt, and fear that God wants for you, so you can embrace a life of r… read more
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30. Good and Beautiful and Kind: Becoming Whole in a Fractured World
By: Rich Villodas
4.41
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
ECPA BESTSELLER • An invitation to love like Jesus and step beyond distraction and division into th… read more
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31. Can I Say That?: How Unsafe Questions Lead Us to the Real God
By: Brenna Blain
4.67
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Can God handle our hardest questions, biggest struggles, and secret doubts? We instinctively assum… read more
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