22 must-read theology books like Privilege the Text!: A Theological Hermeneutic for Preaching by Abraham Kuruvilla

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Privilege the Text!: A Theological Hermeneutic for Preaching

By: Abraham Kuruvilla

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Privilege the Text! spans the conceptual gap between biblical text and life application by providin…

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1. Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon

By: Bryan Chapell

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

This complete guide to expository preaching teaches the basics of preparation, organization, and de… read more

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2. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

By: C.S. Lewis , Pauline Baynes

4.09

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

NARNIA... the world of wicked dragons and magic spells, where the very best is brought out of even … read more

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"Courage, dear heart."

-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

"Adventures are never fun while you're having them."

-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

"Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people."

-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."

-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)

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3. Crossover Preaching: Intercultural-Improvisational Homiletics in Conversation with Gardner C. Taylor

By: Jared E. Alcántara

4.08

Format: 348 pages,

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4. Counseling the Hard Cases: True Stories Illustrating the Sufficiency of God’s Resources in Scripture

By: Heath Lambert , Stuart W. Scott

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

Biblical counselors have worked for decades to demonstrate that God's resources in Scripture are su… read more

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5. You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit

By: James K.A. Smith

3.63

Format: None pages, Hardcover

You are what you love. But you might not love what you think. In this book, award-winning author Ja… read more

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6. Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

By: Thomas Brooks

4.39

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Brooks treated the seductive influence and terrible power of Satan in a way 'greatly more full and … read more

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7. Tell the Truth: The Whole Gospel to the Whole Person by Whole People

By: Will Metzger

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

Will Metzger's training manual on the message and methods of God-centered evangelism is now in its … read more

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8. Preaching Christ from the Old Testament: A Contemporary Hermeneutical Method

By: Sidney Greidanus

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Arguing for the need both to preach Christ in every sermon and to preach regularly from the Old Tes… read more

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9. Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

By: Jen Wilkin

4.51

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Many Christian women find great encouragement and joy in and through women's Bible studies. However… read more

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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

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10. 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

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11. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.93

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more

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"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

12. Power in the Pulpit: How to Prepare and Deliver Expository Sermons

By: Jerry Vines , James Shaddix

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The call to preach is also a call to prepare. Too many pastors have refrained from preparation whil… read more

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13. 360-Degree Preaching: Hearing, Speaking, and Living the Word

By: None

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

With 360-Degree Preaching, veteran preacher Michael Quicke brings expository preaching to a postmod… read more

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14. The Bruised Reed

By: Richard Sibbes

4.44

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

In this famous exposition of Isaiah 42:3, Sibbes unfolds the tender ministry of Jesus Christ, who i… read more

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"Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgement of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect his strength in; for cons…"

-Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed

"Moses, without any mercy, breaks all bruised reeds, and quenches all smoking flax. For the law requires personal, perpetual and perfect obedience from the heart, and that under a most terrible curse,…"

-Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed

15. Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning

By: James M. Lang

4.24

Format: 128 pages, ebook

Employ cognitive theory in the classroom every day Research into how we learn has opened the door f… read more

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16. Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

By: C.S. Lewis

4.00

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Pla… read more

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"Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,"

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"About this time tomorrow, you will have done the impossible."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

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17. 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

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18. Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation

By: Collin Hansen

4.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Timothy Keller takes readers behind the scenes to meet the people and understand the events that fo… read more

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19. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

By: Carl R. Trueman

4.57

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Modern culture is obsessed with identity. Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court … read more

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"[I]n the work of the New Left one finds philosophical justification for what are now intuitive commonplaces of our culture: to be free is to be sexually liberated; to be happy is to be affirmed in th…"

-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

"The expressive individual is now the sexually expressive individual. And education and socialization are to be marked not by the cultivation of traditional sexual interdicts and taboos but rather by …"

-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

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20. 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

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21. The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

By: Justin Whitmel Earley

4.32

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Habits form us more than we form them. The modern world is a machine of a thousand invisible hab… read more

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"Habits form much more than our schedules: they form our hearts."

-Justin Whitmel Earley, The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

"Anger and fear have something in common: we become the center of things."

-Justin Whitmel Earley, The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

"...failure is not the enemy of formation; it is the liturgy of formation."

-Justin Whitmel Earley, The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

"Practicing the Common Rule can keep a hard season from becoming a dangerous season... (p. 23)"

-Justin Whitmel Earley, The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

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22. Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America

By: Russell D. Moore

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Former Southern Baptist pastor and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore calls for repen… read more

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23. Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture

By: Christopher Watkin

4.55

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

*With a foreword from Tim Keller* A bold vision for Christians who want to engage the world in a wa… read more

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24. Be Thou My Vision: A Liturgy for Daily Worship (Gift Edition)

By: Jonathan Gibson

4.69

Format: 352 pages, Imitation Leather

A 31-Day Liturgical Style Devotional, Now in a Timeless Gift Edition Every Christian knows the impo… read more

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25. Embodied: Living as Whole People in a Fractured World

By: Gregg R. Allison

4.10

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

We rarely give thought to our bodies until faced with a physical challenge or crisis. We have someh… read more

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26. Preaching with Bold Assurance: A Solid and Enduring Approach to Engaging Exposition (Bold Assurance Series, 2)

By: Hersheal York

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Preachers are under the biblical mandate to preach with conviction, passion, and in a way that the … read more

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27. Expositional Leadership: Shepherding God's People from the Pulpit

By: R. Scott Pace

4.04

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Practical Wisdom to Effectively Lead, Preach, and Pastor Shepherding a congregation comes with many… read more

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28. Missions: Biblical Foundations and Contemporary Strategies

By: Gailyn Van Rheenen

3.58

Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition

“In a rapidly changing world,… the central missionary vision of the church must be constantly renew… read more

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29. Privilege the Text!: A Theological Hermeneutic for Preaching

By: Abraham Kuruvilla

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Privilege the Text! spans the conceptual gap between biblical text and life application by providin… read more

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Cover of Graciousness: Tempering Truth with Love by John Crotts

30. Graciousness: Tempering Truth with Love

By: John Crotts

4.23

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

Sometimes we have important things to say to other Christians, but if we deliver our message ungrac… read more

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31. People of the Screen: How Evangelicals Created the Digital Bible and How It Shapes Their Reading of Scripture

By: John Dyer

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

People of the Screen traces the history of Bible software development, showing the unique and power… read more

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