17 best-selling nonfiction books like The Message of James (The Bible Speaks Today Series) by J. Alec Motyer

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The Message of James (The Bible Speaks Today Series)

By: J. Alec Motyer

4.23

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

As a good communicator, James addressed his readers directly and pointedly with vivid images from o…

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1. Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

By: Timothy J. Keller

4.35

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Reason for God and The Songs of Jesus and a nationally… read more

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  • nonfiction
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"The true god of your heart is what your thoughts effortlessly go to when there is nothing else demanding your attention."

-Timothy J. Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

"When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's."

-Timothy J. Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

"People "at the top" are eager to attribute their position to their own intellect, savvy, and hard work. The reality is much more complicated. Personal connections, family environment, and what appear…"

-Timothy J. Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

"When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When such a thing is threatened, your anger is …"

-Timothy J. Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

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2. Taran Wanderer (The Chronicles of Prydain #4)

By: Lloyd Alexander

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Taran is an Assistant Pig-Keeper no longer; he has become a hero. Now he dreams of winning the hand… read more

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3. Consequences of Ideas

By: R.C. Sproul

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

If you think philosophy is irrelevant to your daily life, think again. You need only observe the wo… read more

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  • christian
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4. The Castle of Llyr (The Chronicles of Prydain #3)

By: Lloyd Alexander

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Princess Eilonwy hates to leave her friend Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper, and her beloved home, Caer … read more

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5. Discipling: How to Help Others Follow Jesus

By: Mark Dever

3.33

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

Before ascending to heaven, Jesus instructed his followers to "make disciples of all nations." But … 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. Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

By: Charles Haddon Spurgeon , Alistair Begg

3.76

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

For over one hundred years, Christians have gotten up and gone to bed with Charles Spurgeon's devot… read more

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8. Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

By: Timothy J. Keller

4.60

Format: 645 pages, Hardcover

New York Timesbestselling author of The Songs of JesusTimothy Keller--whose books have sold million… read more

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9. Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

2.65

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

This volume is a provocative and entertaining collection of works which reveals the diversity of J.… read more

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10. The Letter of James

By: Douglas J. Moo

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Few books in the New Testament are better known or more often quoted as the Letter of James. Becaus… read more

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11. James

By: Daniel M. Doriani

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Finds the gospel of grace in the book's climax. James, which resembles wisdom and prophetic genres,… read more

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12. Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

By: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

4.54

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling Author Rosaria Butterfield Confronts 5 Cultural Lies She Once Believed Modern culture i… read more

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  • christian
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13. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

By: Carl R. Trueman

4.57

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Modern culture is obsessed with identity. Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court … read more

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"[I]n the work of the New Left one finds philosophical justification for what are now intuitive commonplaces of our culture: to be free is to be sexually liberated; to be happy is to be affirmed in th…"

-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

"The expressive individual is now the sexually expressive individual. And education and socialization are to be marked not by the cultivation of traditional sexual interdicts and taboos but rather by …"

-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

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14. Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution

By: Carl R. Trueman

4.50

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

From Philosophy to Technology, Tracing the Origin of Identity Politics How did the world arrive … read more

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15. Finding the Right Hills to Die on: The Case for Theological Triage

By: Gavin Ortlund

4.34

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

In theology, just as in battle, some hills are worth dying on. But how do we know which ones? When … read more

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  • christianity
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16. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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17. Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World

By: Joe Rigney

4.54

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Who are you when the teeth come out? For every true act of leadership, there is an equal and mo… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
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"The Scriptures regularly use the metaphor of a body to speak about human social life. The church is the body of Christ, with many members (1 Cor. 12). Marriage is a “one flesh"

-Joe Rigney, Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World

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18. Be Thou My Vision: A Liturgy for Daily Worship (Gift Edition)

By: Jonathan Gibson

4.69

Format: 352 pages, Imitation Leather

A 31-Day Liturgical Style Devotional, Now in a Timeless Gift Edition Every Christian knows the impo… read more

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19. Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit

By: Matthew Barrett

4.52

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

What if the Trinity we've been taught is not the Trinity of the Bible? In this groundbreaking book,… read more

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"It is one thing to say (as we have) that the economic reveals the immanent to a degree and in a specific way—the sending of the Son reflecting the eternal generation of the Son, for example. But it i…"

-Matthew Barrett, Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit

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20. A Treatise on the Law and Gospel

By: John Colquhoun

4.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this book, Colquhoun helps us understand the precise relationship between law and gospel. He als… read more

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21. The Biggest Story Bible Storybook

By: Kevin DeYoung

4.70

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

104 Engaging Bible Stories for Ages 6–12 from Author Kevin DeYoung, Illustrated by Don Clark The Bi… read more

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22. Slaying Leviathan: Limited Government and Resistance in the Christian Tradition

By: Glenn S. Sunshine

4.42

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Christians first expressed these political truths under Caesars, kings, popes, and emperors. We nee… read more

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Cover of Crisis of Confidence: Reclaiming the Historic Faith in a Culture Consumed with Individualism and Identity by Carl R. Trueman

23. Crisis of Confidence: Reclaiming the Historic Faith in a Culture Consumed with Individualism and Identity

By: Carl R. Trueman

4.41

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Carl Trueman Analyzes How Ancient Creeds and Confessions Protect and Promote Biblical Christianity … read more

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24. Prayer: How Praying Together Shapes the Church (9marks: Building Healthy Churches)

By: John Onwuchekwa

4.41

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Prayer is as necessary to the Christian as breathing is to the human body--but it often doesn't com… read more

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25. James (Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on The New Testament series Book 16)

By: Craig L. Blomberg

4.22

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

Designed for the pastor and Bible teacher, the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament… read more

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26. Empowered Witness: Politics, Culture, and the Spiritual Mission of the Church

By: Alan D. Strange

3.80

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Rediscovering the Spirituality of the Church in Our Highly Politicized Age  The goal of the church … read more

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27. James (The NIV Application Commentary Book 16)

By: David P. Nystrom

4.02

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

Straight to the point, practical, affirming, convicting---that's the book of James. In it, we see a… read more

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28. The Message of James (The Bible Speaks Today Series)

By: J. Alec Motyer

4.23

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

As a good communicator, James addressed his readers directly and pointedly with vivid images from o… read more

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Cover of James: Faith That Works (Preaching the Word) by R. Kent Hughes

29. James: Faith That Works (Preaching the Word)

By: R. Kent Hughes

4.40

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The epistle of James is perhaps the most practical—and most convicting—book of the entire New Testa… read more

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Cover of 27 Servants of Sovereign Joy: Faithful, Flawed, and Fruitful by John      Piper

30. 27 Servants of Sovereign Joy: Faithful, Flawed, and Fruitful

By: John Piper

4.70

Format: 1024 pages, Hardcover

From Bestselling Author John 27 Biographies of Notable Figures from Church History, including Augu… read more

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31. Let's Study James

By: Sinclair B. Ferguson

4.41

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Throughout the centuries, the Letter of James has proved to be an excellent refresher course in wha… read more

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21 best-selling christian books like The Message of James (The Bible Speaks Today Series) by J. Alec Motyer

Transform Your Habits

Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

Timothy J. Keller

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Consequences of Ideas

R.C. Sproul

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

4.54

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Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation

Collin Hansen

4.56

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Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners

Dane C. Ortlund

4.58

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Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West

Andrew Wilson

4.51

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Bully Pulpit: Confronting the Problem of Spiritual Abuse in the Church

Michael J. Kruger

4.49

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