12 must-read christian books like A Little Handbook for Preachers: Ten Practical Ways to a Better Sermon by Sunday by Mary S. Hulst

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A Little Handbook for Preachers: Ten Practical Ways to a Better Sermon by Sunday

By: Mary S. Hulst

4.10

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

No function of the pastor is as visible and stress inducing as preaching. Being a good preacher req…

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1. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

By: Steve Martin

3.88

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concer… read more

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"I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years."

-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

"...teaching is, after all, a form of show business."

-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

"How many people have never raised their hand before?"

-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

"Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent."

-Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

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2. The Witness of Preaching

By: Thomas G. Long

3.70

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

This thorough and detailed revision of The Witness of Preachingis even clearer and more helpful tha… read more

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3. The Holy Spirit & Preaching

By: James Forbes

3.86

Format: 568 pages, Paperback

Describes what it means to be anointed with the Spirit so that one can preach "to raise the dead." … read more

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4. The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pre… read more

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5. Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages

By: Haddon W. Robinson

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Haddon Robinson's classic, with more than 150,000 in print, is a lesson in the basics. This updated… read more

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6. The Pilgrim's Progress

By: John Bunyan

4.06

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most ent… read more

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"Follow your heart"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

7. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

By: Chip Heath , Dan Heath

3.97

Format: 12 pages,

Why is change so difficult and frightening? How do you create change when you have few resources an… read more

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8. So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us

By: Beth Moore

3.84

Format: 523 pages,

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9. 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works

By: Dan Harris

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan Harris knew he had to… read more

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10. John Wesley: A Theological Journey

By: Kenneth J. Collins

4.28

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

John Wesley: A Theological Journey has been nominated for a Wesleyan Theological Society Book Award… read more

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11. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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12. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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

By: Jackie Hill Perry

4.36

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

"I used to be a lesbian." In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, … read more

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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

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14. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

By: Arthur C. Brooks

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. In Build the Life… read more

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"feel the feel, then take the wheel pg30"

-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."

-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

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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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16. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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17. 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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18. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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19. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.21

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more

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"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

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20. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

By: Arnold Schwarzenegger

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—di… read more

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"The fact that I had such vivid impressions and expectations at all is the reason I got there in the first place."

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

"The beauty of pain, not only is it temporary...is it tells you when you begin to give enough of yourself in pursuit of your dreams. If the work hasn't hurt or cost you anything, or at least made you …"

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

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21. No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

By: Kate Bowler

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) asks, how do … read more

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"We live and we are loved and we are gone."

-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

"Nothing will exempt me from the pain of being human."

-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

"People say carpe diem. I mean, yes, unless you need a nap."

-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

"I feel a spark of horror each time I remember it: we come undone."

-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

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22. Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church

By: Nijay K. Gupta

4.35

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in … read more

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23. The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy)

By: William H. McRaven

4.42

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of  Make Your Bed —a short, inspirational book of advice and… read more

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24. The Story of American Methodism

By: Frederick A. Norwood

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

A comprehensive one-volume history of American Methodism, tracing the development of a new church i… read more

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25. The Sermons of John Wesley: A Collection for the Christian Journey

By: Kenneth J. Collins

4.39

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

A new and engaging collection of sermons that embraces the historic 44 sermons that John Wesley app… read more

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26. Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter

By: Timothy J. Keller

4.43

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Resurrection accounts of Jesus in the Gospels are the most dramatic and impactful stories ever … read more

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Cover of The Love Prescription: Seven Days to More Intimacy, Connection, and Joy by John M. Gottman

27. The Love Prescription: Seven Days to More Intimacy, Connection, and Joy

By: John M. Gottman

4.47

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

What makes love last? Why does one couple stay together forever, while another falls apart? And mos… read more

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28. BLESS: 5 Everyday Ways to Love Your Neighbor and Change the World

By: Dave Ferguson

4.20

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

What If You Could Change the World without Changing Your Daily Routine? When you’ve been transform… read more

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"Things that are important to us are written in our calendars. If you want to be intentional about setting aside time to pray, you need to plan for it."

-Dave Ferguson, BLESS: 5 Everyday Ways to Love Your Neighbor and Change the World

"I cannot change the world. You cannot change the world. Even prayer alone doesn't change the world. Only God can change the world! However, God uses prayer to change us, and then God uses us to chang…"

-Dave Ferguson, BLESS: 5 Everyday Ways to Love Your Neighbor and Change the World

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29. Beauty of Preaching: God's Glory in Christian Proclamation

By: Michael Pasquarello lll

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What does beauty have to do with healing the fragmentation within our churches? According to Michae… read more

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30. A Little Handbook for Preachers: Ten Practical Ways to a Better Sermon by Sunday

By: Mary S. Hulst

4.10

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

No function of the pastor is as visible and stress inducing as preaching. Being a good preacher req… read more

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31. The Expectation Gap: The Tiny, Vast Space between Our Beliefs and Experience of God

By: Steve Cuss

4.68

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Untangling our deepest beliefs about ourselves from our most precious beliefs about God Christians … read more

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10 must-read christianity books like A Little Handbook for Preachers: Ten Practical Ways to a Better Sermon by Sunday by Mary S. Hulst

Transform Your Habits

The Witness of Preaching

Thomas G. Long

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages

Haddon W. Robinson

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan

4.06

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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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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