18 best-selling faith books like When Children Come Out: A Guide for Christian Parents by Mark A. Yarhouse

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When Children Come Out: A Guide for Christian Parents

By: Mark A. Yarhouse

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

If you are a parent wrestling with God, you are not alone. When a child comes out as LGBTQ+, Chris…

If you liked the faith plot in When Children Come Out: A Guide for Christian Parents by Mark A. Yarhouse , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. 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

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2. Is God anti-gay?: And other questions about homosexuality, the Bible and same-sex attraction

By: Sam Allberry

4.31

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

It's the hot topic of the moment. Christians, the church and the Bible seem to be out of step with … read more

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"But the fact is that the gospel demands everything of all of us. If someone thinks the gospel has slotted into their life quite easily, without causing any major adjustments to their lifestyle or asp…"

-Sam Allberry, Is God anti-gay?: And other questions about homosexuality, the Bible and same-sex attraction

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3. Space at the Table: Conversations Between an Evangelical Theologian and His Gay Son

By: Brad Harper , Drew Harper , Paul Pastor

4.34

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Love does not begin with condemnation. Can an evangelical theologian and his gay son overcome th… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • theology
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4. What Color Is Your Parachute? 2007: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

By: Richard Nelson Bolles

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A favourite of job hunters and career changers for more than three decades, it continues to be a ma… read more

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5. Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality

By: Wesley Hill

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Gay," "Christian," and "celibate" don't often appear in the same sentence. Yet many who sit next t… read more

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  • christian
  • theology

6. God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships

By: Matthew Vines

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

As a young Christian man, Matthew Vines harbored the same basic hopes of most young people: to some… read more

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7. Changing Our Mind: A call from America's leading evangelical ethics scholar for full acceptance of LGBT Christians in the Church

By: Brian D. McLaren , Matthew Vines , Phyllis Tickle , David P. Gushee

3.82

Format: 287 pages,

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8. Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony

By: William H. Willimon , Stanley Hauerwas

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this bold and visionary book, two leading Christian thinkers explore the "alien" status of Chris… read more

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9. People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality Is Not Just an Issue

By: Wesley Hill , Preston Sprinkle

3.73

Format: 216 pages,

Christians who are confused by the homosexuality debate raging in the US are looking for resources … read more

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10. Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

By: C.S. Lewis

4.00

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Pla… read more

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"Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,"

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"About this time tomorrow, you will have done the impossible."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

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11. Making It So

By: Patrick Stewart

4.33

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From h… read more

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12. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

By: Abigail Shrier

4.14

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

Irreversible Damage is an exploration of a mystery: Why, in the last decade, has the diagnosis "gen… read more

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"Women feel things deeply. We empathize. For good reason, when asked to identify their best friend, most men name their wives; most women name another woman."

-Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

"For those of you who have ever been an adolescent or attempted the toe-curling, hair-whitening endeavor of raising one—hold your laughter. Resist the urge to squeal out loud at the preposterous notio…"

-Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

"Nearly every novel problem teenagers face traces itself back to 2007 and the introduction of Steve Jobs’s iPhone. In fact, the explosion in self-harm can be so precisely pinpointed to the introductio…"

-Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

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13. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more

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  • faith
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14. 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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15. 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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  • christian
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Cover of Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say by Preston M. Sprinkle

16. Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say

By: Preston M. Sprinkle

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Compassionate, biblical, and thought-provoking, Embodied is an accessible guide for Christians who … read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • theology
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17. 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

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18. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

By: Abigail Shrier

4.06

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more

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"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

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19. Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation

By: Jon Ward

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Jon Ward's life is divided in half: two decades inside the evangelical Christian bubble and two dec… read more

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  • christian
Cover of The Death of Porn: Men of Integrity Building a World of Nobility by Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.

20. The Death of Porn: Men of Integrity Building a World of Nobility

By: Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.

4.51

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

ECPA Christian Book Award Finalist Your Battle against Porn Isn’t about Porn. It’s about Hope. Porn… read more

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21. Exiles: The Church in the Shadow of Empire

By: Preston M. Sprinkle

4.45

Format: 189 pages, Kindle Edition

A thoughtful exploration of the intersection of faith and politics, Exiles What if we considered o… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
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22. Wisdom of Your Body

By: Hillary L. McBride

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Many of us have a complicated relationship with our body.Maybe you've been made to feel ashamed of … read more

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"She cupped her hands around the remnant flame of spirit inside me, protecting the flickering light until it grew stronger, and then placed my own hands around the flame and made me the protector of t…"

-Hillary L. McBride, Wisdom of Your Body

"Transcendence is beautiful, but I'm not convinced it's the full picture. One of my psychology professors used to remind us that if there are only two options and one of them is bad, then we aren't se…"

-Hillary L. McBride, Wisdom of Your Body

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23. Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle

By: Danté Stewart

4.40

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A stirring meditation of being Black and learning to love in a loveless, anti-Black worldIn Shoutin… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • theology
Cover of What God Has to Say about Our Bodies: How the Gospel Is Good News for Our Physical Selves by Sam Allberry

24. What God Has to Say about Our Bodies: How the Gospel Is Good News for Our Physical Selves

By: Sam Allberry

4.27

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"God's eternal plan for us involves our body. We can't write off our physical life as spiritually i… read more

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25. Women and the Gender of God

By: Amy Peeler

4.47

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

A robust theological argument against the assumption that God is male. God values women. While many… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • theology
Cover of Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing by Jay  Stringer

26. Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing

By: Jay Stringer

4.61

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Unwanted. It describes how we feel about some of the things we do. We don't wake up in the morning … read more

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Cover of Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn from the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexuality by Greg     Johnson

27. Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn from the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexuality

By: Greg Johnson

4.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

At the start of the gay rights movement in 1969, evangelicalism's leading voices cast a vision for … read more

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28. Embracing the Journey

By: Greg McDonald

4.43

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A sympathetic, compassionate, and inspiring guide for parents, from the founders of one of the firs… read more

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29. When Children Come Out: A Guide for Christian Parents

By: Mark A. Yarhouse

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

If you are a parent wrestling with God, you are not alone. When a child comes out as LGBTQ+, Chris… read more

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Cover of Can I Say That?: How Unsafe Questions Lead Us to the Real God by Brenna Blain

30. 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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Cover of Subversive Mission: Serving as Outsiders in a World of Need by Craig Greenfield

31. Subversive Mission: Serving as Outsiders in a World of Need

By: Craig Greenfield

4.69

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

For many, missions is the story of heroes, martyrs, and the advance of the gospel. For others, it's… read more

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21 must-read christian books like When Children Come Out: A Guide for Christian Parents by Mark A. Yarhouse

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

Is God anti-gay?: And other questions about homosexuality, the Bible and same-sex attraction

Sam Allberry

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Space at the Table: Conversations Between an Evangelical Theologian and His Gay Son

Brad Harper , Drew Harper , Paul Pastor

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality

Wesley Hill

3.82

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12 Best audiobook books like Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did by John Mark Comer

Transform Your Habits

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

Dane C. Ortlund

4.52

Transform Your Habits

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

John Mark Comer

4.63

Transform Your Habits

How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

Emily P. Freeman

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

Jennie Allen

4.24

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