7 must-read psychology books like Family Systems and Congregational Life: A Map for Ministry by R. Robert Creech

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Family Systems and Congregational Life: A Map for Ministry

By: R. Robert Creech

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Experienced pastor and seminary teacher R. Robert Creech helps pastoral leaders increase their effe…

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1. Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living

By: Brené Brown , Shauna Niequist

4.26

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

LIVE A LIFE OF MEANING AND CONNECTION Instead of pushing for perfection A few years ago, I found my… read more

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  • christian
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2. Sacred Fire: A Vision for a Deeper Human and Christian Maturity

By: Ronald Rolheiser

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

"When one reaches the highest degree of human maturity, one has only one question left: How can I b… read more

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  • christian
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3. Revelations of Divine Love

By: Julian of Norwich , A.C. Spearing , Elizabeth Spearing

4.20

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Lovea remarkabl… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
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4. Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.27

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

After his martyrdom at the hands of the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer continued his witness … read more

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  • christian
  • church
  • theology
"God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated"

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren. Not in the former but in the latter is the lack."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

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5. The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

By: Ian Morgan Cron , Suzanne Stabile

4.21

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Ignorance is bliss except in self-awareness... What you don't know about yourself can hurt you a… read more

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  • christian
  • psychology
"The Enneagram is a tool that awakens our compassion for people just as they are, not the people we wish they would become so our lives would become easier."

-Ian Morgan Cron, The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

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6. Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation

By: M. Robert Mulholland Jr.

3.50

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

"The process of being conformed to the image of Christ for the sake of others: " so M. Robert Mulho… read more

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  • christian
  • theology

7. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

By: Stephen R. Covey , Ron McMillan , Kerry Patterson , Joseph Grenny , Al Switzler

3.78

Format: None pages,

Learn how to keep your cool and get the results you want when emotions flare. When stakes are high,… read more

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8. A Spirituality of Fundraising

By: Henri J.M. Nouwen , John S. Mogabgab

4.27

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

A succinct and powerful witness that fundraising is a form of ministry and can be a deeply spiritua… read more

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9. A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix

By: Edwin H. Friedman , None , None

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

Ten years after his death, Edwin Friedman's insights into leadership are more urgently needed than … read more

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10. The Making of a Leader: Recognizing the Lessons and Stages of Leadership Development

By: J. Robert Clinton

3.79

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

By studying the lives of hundreds of historical, biblical, and contemporary leaders, author Robert … read more

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11. 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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12. Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

By: Parker J. Palmer

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

With wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teach… read more

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13. I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working

By: Shauna Niequist

4.01

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When everything we've been clinging to falls apart, how do we know what to keep and what to let go … read more

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  • christian
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14. 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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  • christian
  • theology
"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

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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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  • christian
  • theology
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16. 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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  • christian
"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

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17. 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
"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

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18. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

By: Beth Allison Barr

4.40

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, an… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
"Glorifying the past because we like the story better isn't history; it's propaganda."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"When we differentiate women because of their sex, we objectify them and deny them their humanity."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Like racism, patriarchy is a shapeshifter—conforming to each new era, looking as if it has always belonged."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Historically, one of the greatest problems for women is that we do not remember our past and we do not work together to change our future. We do not stand together. But what if we did?"

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

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19. Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

By: Tish Harrison Warren

4.63

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

ECPA Christian Book of the YearChristianity Today Book of the YearForeword INDIES Book of the Year … read more

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  • christian
  • theology
"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

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20. Art and Faith: A Theology of Making

By: Makoto Fujimura

4.29

Format: 167 pages, Hardcover

From a world-renowned painter, an exploration of creativity’s quintessential—and often overlooked—r… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
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21. Wisdom of Your Body

By: Hillary L. McBride

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Many of us have a complicated relationship with our body.Maybe you've been made to feel ashamed of … read more

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  • counselling
  • psychology
"She cupped her hands around the remnant flame of spirit inside me, protecting the flickering light until it grew stronger, and then placed my own hands around the flame and made me the protector of t…"

-Hillary L. McBride, Wisdom of Your Body

"Transcendence is beautiful, but I'm not convinced it's the full picture. One of my psychology professors used to remind us that if there are only two options and one of them is bad, then we aren't se…"

-Hillary L. McBride, Wisdom of Your Body

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22. The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

By: Amy C. Edmondson

3.99

Format: 233 pages, Hardcover

Conquer the most essential adaptation to the knowledge economy The Fearless Organization: Creati… read more

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  • psychology
Cover of Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton

23. Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World

By: Tara Isabella Burton

3.92

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

A sparklingly strange odyssey through the kaleidoscope of America's new spirituality: the cults, pr… read more

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  • psychology
  • theology
"When it comes to Remixed religion, at least, we all come out from under Severus Snape's robes."

-Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World

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24. Managing Leadership Anxiety: Yours and Theirs

By: Steve Cuss

4.34

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

You Can Learn to Handle the Onslaught of Internal and External Pressures Does anxiety get in the wa… read more

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  • christian
  • psychology
  • theology
Cover of Shadow and Light: A Journey into Advent by Tsh Oxenreider

25. Shadow and Light: A Journey into Advent

By: Tsh Oxenreider

4.39

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Celebrate a Season of Wonder and Waiting Though the holidays are often jam-packed with busyness, th… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
"Too many good ideas are overwhelming, and they can keep us from doing anything at all."

-Tsh Oxenreider, Shadow and Light: A Journey into Advent

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26. Everything Isn't Terrible: Conquer Your Insecurities, Interrupt Your Anxiety, and Finally Calm Down

By: Kathleen Smith

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In the spirit of You Are a Badass and The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck, a helpful and h… read more

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  • psychology
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27. Churches and the Crisis of Decline: A Hopeful, Practical Ecclesiology for a Secular Age

By: Andrew Root

4.31

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

Named One of Fifteen Important Theology Books of 2022, Englewood Review of Books Congregations oft… read more

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  • ecclesiology
  • christian
  • church
  • theology
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28. A Beginner's Guide to New Testament Studies: Understanding Key Debates

By: Nijay K. Gupta

4.45

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This accessible and balanced introduction helps readers sort out key views on the most important de… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
Cover of Church Planting in Post-Christian Soil: Theology and Practice by Christopher James

29. Church Planting in Post-Christian Soil: Theology and Practice

By: Christopher James

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

National headlines regularly herald the decline of Christianity in the United States, citing histor… read more

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  • theology
Cover of Family Systems and Congregational Life: A Map for Ministry by R. Robert Creech

30. Family Systems and Congregational Life: A Map for Ministry

By: R. Robert Creech

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Experienced pastor and seminary teacher R. Robert Creech helps pastoral leaders increase their effe… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • counselling
  • ecclesiology
  • psychology
  • church
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31. Creating Cultures of Belonging: Cultivating Organizations Where Women and Men Thrive

By: Beth Birmingham

4.45

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

With increasing interest from donors and board members to see faith-based, missional organizations … read more

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19 must-read christian books like Family Systems and Congregational Life: A Map for Ministry by R. Robert Creech

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4.26

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Ronald Rolheiser

3.80

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4.20

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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