The Magnificent Story: Uncovering a Gospel of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth (Apprentice Resources)
By: James Bryan Smith
4.10
Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
By: Richard J. Foster
3.77
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
Richard J. Foster's Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growthis hailed by many as the… read more
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2. The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters
By: R. Albert Mohler Jr.
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Change the Way You Think About Leadership At the age of thirty-three, Dr. Albert Mohler became the … read more
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3. The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion
By: N.T. Wright
3.50
Format: None pages,
The renowned scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author widely considered to be the heir to C… read more
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4. The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible
By: Scot McKnight
4.82
Format: 174 pages, Hardcover
"Why Can't I Just Be a Christian?" Parakeets make delightful pets. We cage them or clip their wings… read more
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5. Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.
By: John Mark Comer
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
You've heard people say "Who you are matters more than what you do". Does the Bible really teach th… read more
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6. 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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"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
7. The Practice of the Presence of God
By: Brother Lawrence
4.32
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0883681056 can be found here Brother Lawrence was a man of hum… read more
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"We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed."-Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
"We must know before we can love. In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure."-Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
" Prayer is so simple. It is like quietly opening a door and slipping into the very presence of God. There, in the stillness, to listen to His voice, perhaps in petition or only to listen. It matters …"-Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
"That with him the set times of prayer were not different from other times: that he retired to pray, according to the directions of his Superior, but that he did not want such retirement. nor ask for …"-Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
8. Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity
By: Nabeel Qureshi
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An Unexpected Journey from Islam to Christianity In Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, Nabeel Qureshi de… read more
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9. Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
By: Andrew Murray
4.38
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
When Jesus "made himself nothing...taking the nature of a servant," He modeled for all believers tr… read more
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"Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom."-Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
"Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you."-Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
"Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God."-Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
"Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust."-Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
10. A Fellowship of Differents: Showing the World God's Design for Life Together
By: Scot McKnight
3.84
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
In this compelling book, Scot McKnight shares his personal experience in the church as well as his … read more
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11. Small Faith--Great God: Biblical Faith for Today's Christians
By: N.T. Wright
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Hardcover
In the midst of life's challenges, so often our faith feels small and weak. In this book one of the… read more
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12. Loveology: God. Love. Marriage. Sex. And the never-ending story of male and female.
By: John Mark Comer
3.00
Format: None pages, Audio CD
In the beginning, God created Adam. Then he made Eve. And ever since we've been picking up the piec… read more
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13. The Rule of Saint Benedict
By: Benedict of Nursia , None
3.22
Format: 111 pages, Paperback
Composed nearly fifteen hundred years ago by the father of Western monasticism, The Rule of St. Ben… read more
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14. The Spiritual Exercises
By: Ignatius of Loyola
4.32
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
A reissue of a classic of the Christian text from the founder of the Jesuit Order. The Spiritual Ex… read more
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15. God Has a Name
By: John Mark Comer
4.67
Format: 523 pages,
Many of us ache for relationship with God, yet feel distant and disconnected from him. As if he's m… read more
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16. Far from the Madding Crowd
By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more
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17. The Asset (Lance Spector, #1)
By: Saul Herzog
4.29
Format: 564 pages, Kindle Edition
Montana, USA When Lance Spector quit the CIA, he swore he was out for good. One more government li… read more
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18. The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
By: John Mark Comer
4.53
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
"Who am I becoming?" That was the question nagging pastor and author John Mark Comer. Outwardly, he… read more
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"Hurry is violence on the soul."-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
"In the cruciform kingdom, only the bad things die: image and status and bragging rights, all vanity."-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
"The point of a trellis isn’t to make the vines stand up straight in neat rows, but rather to attain a rich, deep glass of wine. It’s to create space for the vine to grow and bear fruit."-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
"The Hebrew word Shabbat means ‘to stop.’ But it can also be translated ‘to delight.’ It has this dual idea of stopping and also of joying in God and our lives in his world. The Sabbath is an entire d…"-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
19. 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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20. 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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"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
21. 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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"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
22. 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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23. How to Be Filled with the Holy Spirit
By: A.W. Tozer
4.50
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
The only way to live with true spiritual power "Are you sure you want to be possessed by a spirit … read more
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"If there is a sense of panic upon your life, it may be because there is sin in that life of yours which you need to get rid of."-A.W. Tozer, How to Be Filled with the Holy Spirit
"[D]on't try to know everything. You can't. Find Him in the Word, for the Holy Ghost wrote this Book. He inspired it, and He will be revealed in its pages."-A.W. Tozer, How to Be Filled with the Holy Spirit
"The darkest hour is just before the dawn. It may be that this moment of discouragement which you are going through is preliminary to a sunburst of new and beautiful living, if you will follow on to k…"-A.W. Tozer, How to Be Filled with the Holy Spirit
"I am positive that much that passes for the gospel in our day is very little more than a very mild case of orthodox religion grafted on to a heart that is sold out to the world in its pleasures and t…"-A.W. Tozer, How to Be Filled with the Holy Spirit
24. WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of
By: Ann Voskamp
4.35
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Are you facing repeated roadblocks or feeling life shift in ways you never expected? Bestselling au… read more
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"Love is an endless coming home."-Ann Voskamp, WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of
"Therapy is a gym for the mind. Not ashamed to have a membership"-Ann Voskamp, WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of
"Hopelessness rises when the pain of the past floods all of the future"-Ann Voskamp, WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of
"Because God is Love Himself, He is the greatest and longest sufferer of the universe."-Ann Voskamp, WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of
25. Rhythms of Renewal: Trading Stress and Anxiety for a Life of Peace and Purpose
By: Rebekah Lyons
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Daily struggles with anxiety and stress make it difficult to receive God's peace. Rhythms of Renewa… read more
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"The enemy of our souls wants us to be isolated and alone. He knows that when we're isolated, we're easy prey. Why? When we're alone and vulnerable, we feel afraid. When we're together and vulnerable,…"-Rebekah Lyons, Rhythms of Renewal: Trading Stress and Anxiety for a Life of Peace and Purpose
26. The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi: My Journey into the Heart of Scriptural Faith and the Land Where It All Began
By: Kathie Lee Gifford
4.30
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! As a lifelong student of Scripture, Kathie Lee Gifford ha… read more
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27. Flying, Falling, Catching: an Unlikely Story of Finding Freedom
By: Henri J.M. Nouwen
4.11
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Henri Nouwen’s never-before-published story of his surprising friendship with a traveling trapeze t… read more
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28. The Magnificent Story: Uncovering a Gospel of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth (Apprentice Resources)
By: James Bryan Smith
4.10
Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition
We are story-making people. We love reading stories—and we love hearing the personal stories of oth… read more
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29. I Shouldn't Feel This Way: Name What’s Hard, Tame Your Guilt, and Transform Self-Sabotage into Brave Action
By: Alison Cook
4.47
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
When you're tangled up inside, it's hard to find clarity. Yet so many of us guilt-trip or gaslight … read more
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30. John Wesley: The World His Parish (Christian Heroes: Then and Now)
By: Janet Benge
3.98
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Passionate and tireless, this Anglican clergyman rode a quarter of a million miles on horseback dur… read more
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31. The Emotions of God: Making Sense of a God Who Hates, Weeps, and Loves
By: David T. Lamb
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The God of the Bible is emotional. Many Christians don't want to associate emotions with God. Emoti… read more
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