Psalms for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Relentlessly Theological Book in the Bible (The Bible for Normal People Book)
By: Joshua T. James
4.46
Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition
For millennia the psalms have been whispered in prayer, lifted in song, and recited in worship. The…
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1. The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
By: Joe Barrett , Peter Enns
3.63
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
The controversial Bible scholar and author of The Evolution of Adamrecounts his transformative spir… read more
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2. The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
By: Peter Enns
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
The controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me Soexplains how Christi… read more
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3. Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
By: Henri J.M. Nouwen
3.71
Format: 435 pages, Paperback
Initially written for a Jewish friend, Life of the Beloved has become Henri Nouwen's greatest legac… read more
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4. Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News
By: Brian Zahnd
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Does God's Wrath Define Christianity? Or Does God's Love? In his famous sermon -Sinners in the Hand… read more
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5. Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
By: Rachel Held Evans
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
New York Timesbestselling author Rachel Held Evans embarks on a quest to find out what it really me… read more
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6. Genesis for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Controversial, Misunderstood, and Abused Book of the Bible
By: Peter Enns , Jared Byas
4.60
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
Given the fever-pitched controversies about evolution, Adam and Eve, and scientific evidence for th… read more
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7. Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
By: Rachel Held Evans
4.39
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
One Woman’s Journey Back to Loving the Bible If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instructio… read more
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"How could I love God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength while disengaging those very faculties every time I read the Bible?"-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
"The point is, if you pay attention to the women, a more complex history of Israel's conquests emerges. Their stories invite the reader to consider the human cost of violence and patriarchy, and in th…"-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
"In other words, the prophets are weirdos. More than anyone else in Scripture, they remind us that those odd ducks shouting from the margins of society may see things more clearly than the political a…"-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
"What I love about the Bible is that the story isn't over. There are still prophets in our midst. There are still dragons and beasts. It might not look like it, but the Resistance is winning. The ligh…"-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
8. A Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture That Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing
By: Scot McKnight
4.34
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What is the way forward for the church?Tragically, in recent years, Christians have gotten used to … read more
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9. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
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. 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
12. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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13. Romans for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Misused, Problematic and Prooftexted Letter in the Bible
By: J.R. Daniel Kirk
4.12
Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition
Paul’s letter to the Roman church is one of the most widely read, rigorously discussed and minutely… read more
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14. The One and Only Ruby (The One and Only #3)
By: Katherine Applegate
4.28
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
Ruby’s story picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob. Now living in a wildli… read more
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15. This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
By: Cole Arthur Riley
4.63
Format: 203 pages, Hardcover
In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her … read more
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"Anxiety is not a passive predator."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"Rest is an act of defiance, and it cannot be predicated on apology."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"Those who believe love is a scarcity are less likely to give it away freely."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"In community, we can push back on the expectation that we exhaust ourselves."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
16. How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
By: Esau McCaulley
4.62
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black… read more
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"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, …"-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
17. How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News
By: Peter Enns
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Controversial evangelical Bible scholar, popular blogger and podcast host of The Bible for Normal P… read more
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18. Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
By: Peter Enns
4.36
Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition
“Peter Enns is brilliant at taking the big topics, those Christian ideas that usually scare us or i… read more
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"Does the God of Abraham look lovingly upon ancient cave drawings and temples dedicated to the only gods ancient humans could have known?"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
"Like a frail plant that needs careful tending and constant protection from sun and wind, perhaps the real problem wasn’t me but the fragile, unsustainable version of Christianity I had been told was …"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
"Placeholder theology is the very nature of theology. By it we acknowledge the human need to say something about ultimate meaning concerning the Creator and the creation while also understanding that …"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
"A God who does not connect to the world around us is a God who cannot speak to us. Believing in a God who demands that we continue to adopt only biblically ancient ways of thinking of God, which are …"-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
19. Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith
By: Sarah Bessey
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconn… read more
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"And yet religion in our modern era seems mostly concerned with systematizing theology, charting time lines, answering questions, and making God small and knowable. We have created a God we can regula…"-Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith
20. Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World
By: John Philip Newell
4.35
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A leading spiritual teacher reveals how Celtic spirituality—listening to the sacred around us and i… read more
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21. John for Normal People: A Guide through the Depth & Drama of the Fourth Gospel (The Bible for Normal People)
By: Jennifer Bashaw
4.18
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
In this thoughtfully researched, playful commentary, Jennifer Garcia Bashaw illuminates the theolog… read more
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22. Jonah for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Misunderstood Prophet of the Bible (The Bible for Normal People)
By: Jared Byas
4.49
Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition
Jonah’s encounter with a big fish is one of the most widely recognised—and misunderstood—stories in… read more
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23. Be Still: A Simple Guide to Quiet Times
By: Brian Heasley
4.45
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
Be still. For some, these two simple words a welcome invitation to slow down. For others, they feel… read more
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24. The Walk: Five Essential Practices of the Christian Life
By: Adam Hamilton
4.16
Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition
How do we walk with Christ—daily follow him, grow in him, and faithfully serve him?In the Gospels, … read more
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25. Open and Relational Theology: An Introduction to Life-Changing Ideas
By: Thomas Jay Oord
4.16
Format: 155 pages, Kindle Edition
Most theologies suck. They’re too technical or they describe a God nobody understands. Sometimes th… read more
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"God is likely bigger and wilder than any box."-Thomas Jay Oord, Open and Relational Theology: An Introduction to Life-Changing Ideas
26. Exodus for Normal People: A Guide to the Story—and History—of the Second Book of the Bible
By: Peter Enns
4.30
Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition
Behind the scenes of movies like The Ten Commandments, The Prince of Egypt, or Gods and Kings is a… read more
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27. A More Christlike Word: Reading Scripture the Emmaus Way
By: Bradley Jersak
4.53
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Scriptures are an essential aspect of the Christian faith. But we have often equated them with … read more
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28. Psalms for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Relentlessly Theological Book in the Bible (The Bible for Normal People Book)
By: Joshua T. James
4.46
Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition
For millennia the psalms have been whispered in prayer, lifted in song, and recited in worship. The… read more
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29. Even the Devil Quotes Scripture: Reading the Bible on Its Own Terms
By: Robyn J. Whitaker
4.03
Format: 189 pages, Kindle Edition
“We are meant to take the Bible seriously, not literally.” —from the Introduction In Even the Dev… read more
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30. Revelation for Normal People: A Guide to the Strangest and Most Dangerous Book in the Bible (The Bible for Normal People)
By: Robyn Whitaker
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
It has never been more important to read Revelation well.Whether you love it, hate it, or avoid it … read more
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31. 1 & 2 Samuel for Normal People: A Guide to Prophets, Kings, and Some Pretty Terrible Men
By: Aaron Higashi
4.56
Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition
Give yourself permission to read 1 & 2 Samuel honestly. 1 & 2 Samuel is home to some of the most… read more
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