19 must-read christian books like My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief by Jonathan Pitts

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Similar categories in Jen Wilkin's None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us book and Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

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Similar categories in Jen Wilkin's Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds book and Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

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"It matters that women teach women, and that they do so with excellence."

-Jen Wilkin, Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

"We will not wake up ten years from now and find we have passively taken on the character of God."

-Jen Wilkin, Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

"Shaping someone's understanding of the things of God is a huge responsiblity, and it is not to be taken lightly."

-Jen Wilkin, Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

"The Word is living and active. It will conform you by dividing you. And in the dividing, miracle of miracles, it will render you whole."

-Jen Wilkin, Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

Similar categories in Susan Mallery's For the Love of Summer book and Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

"I was in love with who I wanted him to be. Not who he was."

-Susan Mallery, For the Love of Summer

"She's my family and you're hers. That means we are, in some inexplicable way, connected."

-Susan Mallery, For the Love of Summer

Similar categories in Jackie Hill Perry's Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been book and Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

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"Do you know why we have a hard time believing that a gay girl can become a completely different creature? Because, we have a hard time believing in God. ..."

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

"From the outside looking in, it could be assumed that Preston's and my relationship was God's proof of turning a "gay girl good." But really, He'd already done that the moment He'd set me free from s…"

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

"Trying to contain the small giggle welling up in her chest from the sincerity of my question, Santoria, full of confidence, responded while looking toward my direction, "Yes, Jackie.The gospel didn't…"

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

"LGBT culture has done an excellent job of renewing or should I say, destroying, the mind of many, mainly by consistently using words as their greatest tool in their efforts to draw people into findin…"

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

Similar categories in Rachel Held Evans's Wholehearted Faith book and Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

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"Many of us have found a renewed sense of possibility when we've realized how much of God's beauty remains to be explored — and that the life of faith is also a life of holy curiosity."

-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

"It is nearly impossible to believe: God shrinking down to the size of a zygote, implanted in the soft lining of a woman’s womb. God growing fingers and toes. God kicking and hiccupping in utero. God …"

-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

Similar categories in Jennie Allen's Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It book and Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

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"Feelings aren’t meant to be fixed. Feelings are meant to be felt."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

"Let me be clear, you will never be emotionally healthy outside the will of God."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

"Our willingness to feel what we feel connects us to ourselves, to others, to God."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

"After all, where did those of us who know Jesus get the idea that we were going to have a straight and easy path all the way to heaven? It’s a wild ride all the way home."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

Similar categories in Beth Moore's All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir book and Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

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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

Similar categories in Tyler Staton's Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer book and Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

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Similar categories in Elisabeth Elliot's Suffering is Never for Nothing book and Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

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"Faith is not a feeling. Faith is willed obedience in action."

-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

"The love of God is not a sentiment. It is a willed and inexorable love that will command nothing less than the very best for us. The love of God wills our joy. I think of the love of God as being syn…"

-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

"It’s He who was the Word before the foundation of the world, suffering as a lamb slain. And He has a lot up His sleeve that you and I haven’t the slightest idea about now. He’s told us enough so that…"

-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

"We are not adrift in chaos. To me that is the most fortifying, the most stabilizing, the most peace-giving thing that I know about anything in the universe. Every time that things have seemingly fall…"

-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

Similar categories in Tish Harrison Warren's Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep book and Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

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"Voor christenen is slaap een belichaamde manier om te belijden dat we erop vertrouwen dat het werk van God niet van ons afhangt."

-Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

"Bescherm wie blij zijn. In dit gebed erkennen we de kwetsbaarheid van vreugde. We vragen God om mensen die blij zijn te beschermen, om dat deel in ons te beschermen dat moedig genoeg is om te geloven…"

-Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

"Hoewel de statistieken laten zien dat hier in het Westen met name jonge mensen afdwalen naar ongeloof, deels vanwege het probleem van het kwaad, lijkt onze welvaart veel meer twijfel te veroorzaken d…"

-Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

"Het profetisch getuigenis van de kerk in een woedecultuur is om mensen te zijn die weten hoe we samen moeten huilen over de pijn en onrechtvaardigheid in de wereld en over de realiteit van onze eigen…"

-Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

Similar categories in Anne Wilson's My Jesus: From Heartache to Hope book and Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

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Similar categories in Alisa Childers's Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity book and Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

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Similar categories in Esau McCaulley's How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South book and Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

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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

Similar categories in Lisa Wingate's Shelterwood book and Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

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"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

Similar categories in Michelle Stimpson's Sisters with a Side of Greens book and Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

"This ain't no time for you to be a deadbeat sister. Again." I gasped. "Deadbeat? Again?" Kerresha dragged her suitcase up the steps, now. "Absent. Estranged. Not present. Whatever you want to call it…"

-Michelle Stimpson, Sisters with a Side of Greens

"Cooking with Momma's spices helped Marvina process. Never mind she didn't have enough people in the house to eat everything she laid out for preparation. Several pies, pork chops, chicken, greens, ma…"

-Michelle Stimpson, Sisters with a Side of Greens

"We stood still, the tenderness between us almost tangible. The scent of the spices, human empathy, and plain old muscle memory combined to re-create the gooey magnetism of being near Marvina again. F…"

-Michelle Stimpson, Sisters with a Side of Greens

"I sprinkled a dose of Momma's seasoning into my cupped hand and dipped my tongue into the tiny pool of memories I knew one taste would evoke. Salty, savory, smoky, full of earthy flavors that somehow…"

-Michelle Stimpson, Sisters with a Side of Greens

Similar categories in Mandisa's Out of the Dark: My Journey Through the Shadows to Find God's Joy book and Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

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Similar categories in Jamie C. Finn's Foster the Family: Encouragement, Hope, and Practical Help for the Christian Foster Parent book and Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

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Similar categories in Tony Evans's Divine Disruption: Holding on to Faith When Life Breaks Your Heart book and Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

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Similar categories in Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief book and Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

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Similar categories in Wynter Pitts's Emptied: Experiencing the Fullness of a Poured-Out Marriage book and Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

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Similar categories in Jeremy Freeman's #butGod: The Power of Hope When Catastrophe Crashes In book and Jonathan Pitts's My Wynter Season: Seeing God's Faithfulness in the Shadow of Grief

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