Defending Shame: Its Formative Power in Paul's Letters
By: Te-Li Lau
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
2020 Center for Biblical Studies Book Award (New Testament) Our culture often views shame in a neg…
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1. Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
By: Timothy J. Keller , Katherine Leary Alsdorf
4.29
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"It (idolatry) means turning a good thing into an ultimate thing."-Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
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"The great danger is to always single out some aspect of God’s good creation and identify it, rather than alien intrusion of sin, as the villain."-Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
2. The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
By: C.S. Lewis
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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"My sister Susan,"-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
"Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?"-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
". . .[W]e have all been blind. We are only beginning to see. . . ."-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
"But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan."-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
3. Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works
By: James K.A. Smith
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
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4. Discipling: How to Help Others Follow Jesus
By: Mark Dever
3.33
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
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5. How People Change
By: Paul David Tripp , Timothy S. Lane
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
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6. Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
By: Ron Bennett , Brennan Manning
4.50
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7. 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
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8. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
By: Charles Duhigg
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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9. All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
By: Beth Moore
4.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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10. Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer
By: Tyler Staton
4.60
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
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11. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
By: Beth Allison Barr
4.40
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
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12. Forgive: Why Should I and How Can I?
By: Timothy J. Keller
4.60
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
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4.49
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14. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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"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
15. Exiles: The Church in the Shadow of Empire
By: Preston M. Sprinkle
4.45
Format: 189 pages, Kindle Edition
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16. Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America
By: Russell D. Moore
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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17. Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies
By: N.T. Wright
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Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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By: Richard V. Reeves
4.07
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
"A landmark, one of the most important books of the year" - David Brooks, New York Times“Real, prac… read more
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4.50
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3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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4.45
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22. The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
By: Kathryn J. Edin
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the a… read more
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23. Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes: Honor and Shame in Paul's Message and Mission
By: Jackson Wu
3.95
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
What does it mean to “read Romans with Eastern eyes”? Combining research from Asian scholars wit… read more
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24. A Praying Church: Becoming a People of Hope in a Discouraging World
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25. Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity
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4.37
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"Even though the Bible is God's inspired word, all biblical interpretation is informed for the cultural context of the interpreter."-Robert Chao Romero, Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity
"As we walk with Jesus, he sends us to where he has already been at work -- among the poor, the suffering, the immigrant, and all who are cast aside."-Robert Chao Romero, Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity
"God had given the Spaniards the opportunity to share the message of Jesus with love, and instead they exploited this divine opportunity for greed and selfish gain. The end result was genocide."-Robert Chao Romero, Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity
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4.50
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27. Does the Bible Support Same-Sex Marriage?: 21 Conversations from a Historically Christian View
By: Preston M. Sprinkle
4.51
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
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28. Flood and Fury: Old Testament Violence and the Shalom of God
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4.29
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By: Todd W. Hall
4.57
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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4.00
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31. Defending Shame: Its Formative Power in Paul's Letters
By: Te-Li Lau
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
2020 Center for Biblical Studies Book Award (New Testament) Our culture often views shame in a neg… read more
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