10 Best spirituality books like Messy Truth: How to Foster Community Without Sacrificing Conviction by Caleb Kaltenbach

Cover of Messy Truth: How to Foster Community Without Sacrificing Conviction by Caleb Kaltenbach

Messy Truth: How to Foster Community Without Sacrificing Conviction

By: Caleb Kaltenbach

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From the author of  Messy Grace,  a former pastor raised by gay parents, comes a compassionate play…

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Cover of What's So Funny?: My Hilarious Life by Jane Scovell, Tim Conway, Carol Burnett

1. What's So Funny?: My Hilarious Life

By: Jane Scovell , Tim Conway , Carol Burnett

3.81

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Six-time Emmy award-winning funny man Tim Conway, best known for his characters on The Carol Burnet… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Recapturing the Wonder: Transcendent Faith in a Disenchanted World by Mike Cosper

2. Recapturing the Wonder: Transcendent Faith in a Disenchanted World

By: Mike Cosper

4.49

Format: None pages,

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • theology
Cover of Shepherding Women in Pain: Real Women, Real Issues, and What You Need to Know to Truly Help by Bev Hislop

3. Shepherding Women in Pain: Real Women, Real Issues, and What You Need to Know to Truly Help

By: Bev Hislop

4.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

Infertility, divorce, domestic violence, eating disorders...all have become part of a day's work fo… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction

4. Forget Me Not

By: Ellie Terry

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A girl with Tourette syndrome starts a new school and tries to hide her quirks in this debut middle… read more

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5. Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

By: Bob Goff

4.31

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Now a New York Times Bestseller! As a college student he spent 16 days in the Pacific Ocean with… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • spirituality
"Simply put: love does."

-Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

"...love is never stationary."

-Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

"Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith."

-Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

"When you trust someone, you don't need to know everything."

-Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

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6. The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers

By: Henri J.M. Nouwen

3.94

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

Henry J.M. Nouwen, one of the greatest of all spiritual writers, invites us to search deeply for th… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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7. Single, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Faith and Sexual Identity

By: None

3.33

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

In an age where neither society nor the church knows what to do with gay Christians, Greg Coles tel… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • sexuality

8. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

By: Donald Miller

3.45

Format: 105 pages,

Full of beautiful, heart-wrenching, and hilarious stories, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years deta… read more

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9. Through Gates of Splendor

By: Elisabeth Elliot

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

In 1956, five young men, including Elliot's husband, Jim, traveled into the jungles of Ecuador to e… read more

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10. Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality

By: Nancy R. Pearcey

4.59

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Are transgender people discovering their authentic self? Is the hookup culture really liberating? D… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
Cover of Hard Is Not the Same Thing as Bad: The Perspective Shift That Could Completely Change the Way You Mother by Abbie Halberstadt

11. Hard Is Not the Same Thing as Bad: The Perspective Shift That Could Completely Change the Way You Mother

By: Abbie Halberstadt

4.34

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER Bestselling author Abbie Halberstadt helps women see how God can us… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
Cover of Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did by John Mark Comer

12. 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
  • theology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People by Bob Goff

13. Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

By: Bob Goff

4.44

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

New York Times Bestseller! What happens when we give away love like we're made of it? In his… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • spirituality
"Love isn’t something we fall into; love is someone we become."

-Bob Goff, Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

"There’s a difference between good judgment and living in judgment."

-Bob Goff, Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

"Sadly, whenever I make my opinions more important than the difficult people God made, I turn the wine back into water."

-Bob Goff, Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

"What is it that you don't think you can do? What do you think is too big for you? Or too scary, or too risky? Sometimes God whispers it, and sometimes, he shouts it. Whatever the volume, I bet he's a…"

-Bob Goff, Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

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14. The Star That Always Stays

By: Anna Rose Johnson

4.08

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

When bright and spirited Norvia moves from the country to the city, she has to live by one new rule… read more

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  • christian
Cover of Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace by John Mark Comer

15. 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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  • christian
  • theology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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

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

16. 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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  • christian
  • theology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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17. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • religion
Cover of She Deserves Better: Raising Girls to Resist Toxic Teachings on Sex, Self, and Speaking Up by Sheila Wray Gregoire

18. She Deserves Better: Raising Girls to Resist Toxic Teachings on Sex, Self, and Speaking Up

By: Sheila Wray Gregoire

4.49

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

This research-based, biblically informed book helps moms reject harmful teachings from the church a… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
Cover of Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew by Emmanuel Acho

19. Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew

By: Emmanuel Acho

4.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking in… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God's Grand Story by Christopher Yuan

20. 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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  • christian
  • theology
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  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
"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

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21. The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory

By: Abigail Rine Favale

4.59

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

The question of gender—who we are as men and women—has never been more pressing, or more misunderst… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
Cover of The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn

22. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

By: Jeff Guinn

4.16

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic st… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
"No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at some point each follower heard something that reaffirmed his or her personal reason for…"

-Jeff Guinn, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

Cover of So the Next Generation Will Know: Preparing Young Christians for a Challenging World by Sean McDowell

23. So the Next Generation Will Know: Preparing Young Christians for a Challenging World

By: Sean McDowell

4.24

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Whether you’re a Christian parent, youth leader, or educator who works with Generation Z, this book… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • theology
Cover of Tired of Being Tired: Receive God's Realistic Rest for Your Soul-Deep Exhaustion by Jess Connolly

24. Tired of Being Tired: Receive God's Realistic Rest for Your Soul-Deep Exhaustion

By: Jess Connolly

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

If you're a woman, chances are you know the You start the day already exhausted and end it defeate… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • theology
Cover of The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You've Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended by Sheila Wray Gregoire

25. The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You've Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended

By: Sheila Wray Gregoire

4.56

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

What if it's not your fault that sex is bad in your marriage? Based on a groundbreaking in-depth s… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • sexuality
Cover of Our Bodies Tell God's Story: Discovering the Divine Plan for Love, Sex, and Gender by Christopher West

26. Our Bodies Tell God's Story: Discovering the Divine Plan for Love, Sex, and Gender

By: Christopher West

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In response to a world awash in sexual chaos and gender confusion, this book offers a bold and thor… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • sexuality
Cover of Emotionally Healthy Discipleship: Moving from Shallow Christianity to Deep Transformation by Peter Scazzero

27. Emotionally Healthy Discipleship: Moving from Shallow Christianity to Deep Transformation

By: Peter Scazzero

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The global church is facing a discipleship crisis. Here's how we move forward into transformative d… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of The Weary World Rejoices: Daily Devotions for Advent by Melissa B. Kruger

28. The Weary World Rejoices: Daily Devotions for Advent

By: Melissa B. Kruger

4.42

Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition

For generations, churches and families have used Advent wreaths to help prepare for celebrating the… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
Cover of Messy Truth: How to Foster Community Without Sacrificing Conviction by Caleb Kaltenbach

29. Messy Truth: How to Foster Community Without Sacrificing Conviction

By: Caleb Kaltenbach

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From the author of  Messy Grace,  a former pastor raised by gay parents, comes a compassionate play… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • sexuality
Cover of Faith Beyond Youth Group: Five Ways to Form Character and Cultivate Lifelong Discipleship by Kara Powell

30. Faith Beyond Youth Group: Five Ways to Form Character and Cultivate Lifelong Discipleship

By: Kara Powell

4.30

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

Most typical youth ministries today produce nice, obedient kids who behave themselves--and then lea… read more

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  • christian
Cover of The Believer's Guide to Spiritual Warfare by thomas-b-white

31. The Believer's Guide to Spiritual Warfare

By: thomas-b-white

3.96

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

Are you under spiritual attack? You feel discouraged. That strong temptation to sin keeps nagging y… read more

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19 Top religion books like Messy Truth: How to Foster Community Without Sacrificing Conviction by Caleb Kaltenbach

Transform Your Habits

Recapturing the Wonder: Transcendent Faith in a Disenchanted World

Mike Cosper

4.49

Transform Your Habits

Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

Bob Goff

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers

Henri J.M. Nouwen

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Single, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Faith and Sexual Identity

None

3.33

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Transform Your Habits

Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality

Wesley Hill

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

Tish Harrison Warren

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Single, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Faith and Sexual Identity

None

3.33

Transform Your Habits

Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been

Jackie Hill Perry

4.36

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