First and Second Samuel: Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching
By: Walter Brueggemann
4.16
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
With critical scholarship and theological sensitivity, Walter Brueggemann traces the people of God …
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1. Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
By: John M. Marzluff , Tony Angell
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Stan Coren’s groundbreaking The Intelligence of Dogs meets Bernd Heinrich’s classic Mind of the Rav… read more
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"Imagine the world from a bird’s perspective. Sounds that we cannot discern play in slow motion to a bird’s musical ears, enabling it to discriminate messages hidden to us. Most objects loom large to …"-John M. Marzluff, Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
2. Salvation by Allegiance Alone: Rethinking Faith, Works, and the Gospel of Jesus the King
By: Scot McKnight , Matthew W. Bates
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
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3. Sandworms of Dune (Dune Chronicles #8)
By: Brian Herbert , Kevin J. Anderson
3.75
Format: 132 pages,
At the end of Frank Herbert's final novel, Chapterhouse: Dune,a ship carrying a crew of refugees es… read more
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4. 2 Samuel
By: Robert Barron , R.R. Reno
4.37
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible encourages readers to explore how the vital roots of… read more
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5. Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
By: Tish Harrison Warren
4.08
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present t… read more
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6. The Cross & the Prodigal: Luke 15 Through the Eyes of Middle Eastern Peasants
By: Kenneth E. Bailey
1.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Honored in 2006 as a "Year's Best Book for Preachers" by Preaching magazine. Where is the cross in … read more
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7. Hunters of Dune (Dune Chronicles #7)
By: Brian Herbert , Kevin J. Anderson
5.00
Format: 229 pages,
Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines … read more
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8. The Pursuit of God
By: A.W. Tozer
3.80
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
During a train trip from Chicago to Texas in the late 1940s, A.W. Tozer began to write The Pursuit … read more
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10. For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy
By: Alexander Schmemann
3.75
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
An approach to the world and to life that stems from the liturgical experience of the Orthodox Chur… read more
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11. Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament
By: Peter Enns
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this accessible study, Peter Enns offers an evangelical affirmation of biblical authority that c… read more
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12. Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
By: Dane C. Ortlund
4.52
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Christians know that God loves them, but often think that he is perpetually disappointed and frustr… read more
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"Looking inside ourselves, we can anticipate only harshness from heaven. Looking out to Christ, we can anticipate only gentleness."-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
"The fall also entrenched in our minds dark thoughts of God, thoughts that are only dug out over multiple exposures to the gospel over many years. Perhaps Satan’s greatest victory in your life today i…"-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
"John's point in 13:1 is that in going to the cross, Jesus did not retain something for himself, the way we tend to do when we seek to love others sacrificially. He does not love like us. We love unti…"-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
"It is one thing, as a child, to be told your father loves you. You believe him. You take him at his word. But it is another thing, unutterably more real, to be swept up in his embrace, to feel the wa…"-Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
13. Once Upon a Wardrobe
By: Patti Callahan Henry
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
College student Megs Devonshire sets out to fulfill her younger brother George’s last wish by uncov… read more
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"The way stories change us can't be explained,' Padraig says. 'It can only be felt. Like love."-Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe
"Because even with the dark and the light parts and the good parts and the bad parts, dinner must still be served."-Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe
"The fantastic and the imaginative aren't escapism . . . Good stories introduce the marvelous. The whole story, paradoxically, strengthens our relish for real life. This excursion sends us back with r…"-Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe
14. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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15. 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
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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"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
17. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
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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"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
19. Ten Words to Live By: Delighting in and Doing What God Commands
By: Jen Wilkin
4.55
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
"For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensom… read more
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"While legalism builds self-righteousness, lawfulness builds righteousness. Obedience to the law is the means of sanctification for the believer."-Jen Wilkin, Ten Words to Live By: Delighting in and Doing What God Commands
"Is Jesus adding to the law by broadening our attention from murder to anger and contempt? By no means. He is pointing out the seedling that grows into the thorny vine that chokes out life. He is appe…"-Jen Wilkin, Ten Words to Live By: Delighting in and Doing What God Commands
"Our patterns of work and rest reveal what we believe to be true about God and ourselves. God alone requires no limits on his activity. To rest is to acknowledge that we humans are limited by design. …"-Jen Wilkin, Ten Words to Live By: Delighting in and Doing What God Commands
20. This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
By: Cole Arthur Riley
4.63
Format: 203 pages, Hardcover
In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her … read more
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"Anxiety is not a passive predator."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"Rest is an act of defiance, and it cannot be predicated on apology."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"Those who believe love is a scarcity are less likely to give it away freely."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"In community, we can push back on the expectation that we exhaust ourselves."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
21. Becoming Mrs. Lewis
By: Patti Callahan Henry
4.05
Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition
In a most improbable friendship, she found love. In a world where women were silenced, she found he… read more
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"I'm trying because I must."-Patti Callahan Henry, Becoming Mrs. Lewis
"Desperation fuels one to believe idiocy is insight"-Patti Callahan Henry, Becoming Mrs. Lewis
"You tolerate what you must when it becomes your reality."-Patti Callahan Henry, Becoming Mrs. Lewis
"If you knew all the answers, there'd be no need for trust, little one."-Patti Callahan Henry, Becoming Mrs. Lewis
22. The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.27
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Dr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another … read more
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23. The Keeper of Hidden Books
By: Madeline Martin
4.13
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A heartwarming story about the power of books to bring us together, inspired by the true story of t… read more
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24. The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.32
Format: 400 pages, ebook
Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, “one of the great fictional heroines” (Parade), investigates the myst… read more
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"The irony in any investigation was that lies were often protectors of the truth—unless they became too powerful, in which case lies were like worker bees who turn on their queen."-Jacqueline Winspear, The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)
"People don't realize how desolate you feel. How this ache never goes; it's like a weight in the middle of the body, a bad ache in the gut every single day. And the thing is, it's not simply a case of…"-Jacqueline Winspear, The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)
25. The German Wife
By: Kelly Rimmer
4.37
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
The New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan returns with a gripping novel inspir… read more
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26. 1 and 2 Samuel (The NIV Application Commentary Book 19)
By: Bill T. Arnold
4.18
Format: 1065 pages, Kindle Edition
Why do the books of Samuel pack such broad appeal? Taken together as a single narrative, they certa… read more
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27. A Hanging at Dawn (Bess Crawford, #11.5)
By: Charles Todd
4.01
Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Bess Crawford mystery series, a short story that … read more
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"A lot of people have to spend so much energy on overcoming their low opinion of themselves that they seldom get round to asking about the purpose of their existence. And if they do, it is often out o…"-Charles Todd, A Hanging at Dawn (Bess Crawford, #11.5)
28. The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing: A Theological Commentary
By: Jonathan T. Pennington
4.60
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The Sermon on the Mount, one of the most influential portions of the Bible, is the most studied and… read more
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29. Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament
By: Sandra L. Glahn
4.49
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Some Christians think Paul's reference to "saved through childbearing" in 1 Timothy 2:15 means that… read more
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30. Exodus for Normal People: A Guide to the Story—and History—of the Second Book of the Bible
By: Peter Enns
4.30
Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition
Behind the scenes of movies like The Ten Commandments, The Prince of Egypt, or Gods and Kings is a… read more
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31. First and Second Samuel: Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching
By: Walter Brueggemann
4.16
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
With critical scholarship and theological sensitivity, Walter Brueggemann traces the people of God … read more
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