Lights a Lovely Mile: Collected Sermons of the Church Year
By: Eugene H. Peterson
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Eugene H. Peterson’s never-before-published wisdom for each season of the Christian year The glori…
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1. A Way Other Than Our Own: Devotions for Lent
By: Walter Brueggemann , None
4.26
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
Lent recalls times of wilderness and wandering, from newly freed Hebrew slaves in exile to Jesus' t… read more
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"I imagine Lent for you and for me as a great departure from the greedy, anxious antineighborliness of our economy, a great departure from our exclusionary politics that fears the other, a great depar…"-Walter Brueggemann, A Way Other Than Our Own: Devotions for Lent
2. The Cost of Discipleship
By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
4.30
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between… read more
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"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
"Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
"Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
"Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
3. Till We Have Faces
By: C.S. Lewis
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis rewo… read more
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4. Orthodoxy
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more
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5. The Good Shepherd: A Thousand-Year Journey from Psalm 23 to the New Testament
By: Kenneth E. Bailey
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Logos Bookstores' 2015 Best Book in Theology/Doctrine/Reference "The Lord is my shepherd."Thus begi… read more
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6. The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
By: Peter Enns
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
The controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me Soexplains how Christi… read more
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7. The Book of the Dun Cow (Chauntecleer the Rooster, #1)
By: Walter Wangerin Jr.
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Walter Wangerin's profound fantasy concerns a time when the sun turned around the earth and the ani… read more
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8. The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is
By: N.T. Wright
4.16
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Today a renewed and vigorous scholarly quest for the historical Jesus is underway. In the midst of … read more
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9. 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. The Cross and the Lynching Tree
By: James H. Cone
4.51
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the … read more
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"For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity."-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
"The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. …"-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
"The cross and the lynching tree interpret each other. Both were public spectacles, shameful events, instruments of punishment reserved for the most despised people in society. Any genuine theology an…"-James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
11. A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2)
By: Louise Penny
4.34
Format: 592 pages,
Welcome to winter in Three Pines, a picturesque village in Quebec, where the villagers are preparin… read more
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12. God Has a Name
By: John Mark Comer
4.67
Format: 523 pages,
Many of us ache for relationship with God, yet feel distant and disconnected from him. As if he's m… read more
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13. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
By: David Brooks
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more
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"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
14. A Grief Observed
By: C.S. Lewis
4.22
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Written with love, humility, and faith, this brief but poignant volume was first published in 1961 … read more
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"Time itself is one more name for death."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"The death of a beloved is an amputation."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
15. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
16. 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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17. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
18. 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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19. Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
By: Russ Ramsey
4.53
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
How do art and faith intersect? How does art help us see our own lives more clearly? What can we un… read more
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"The pattern in Scripture is that of God working through unlikely servants for the glory of his name and the spread of the gospel."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
"The more we engage with beauty, the more we train our hearts to anticipate finding beauty, until eventually, everywhere we go, we're looking for it."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
"Many artists took their easels and paints outside and captured what they saw. Vincent wanted to capture what he felt as he tried to remember what he saw."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
"Vincent didn't see the world as a collection of plain, unaffected objects. He saw the unfolding drama of the human story, which to him was a heartbreaking tale."-Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
20. Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies
By: N.T. Wright
4.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Should Christians be politically withdrawn, avoiding participation in politics to maintain their pr… read more
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21. Advent: The Season of Hope (Fullness of Time)
By: Tish Harrison Warren
4.52
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
"Christians believe not just in one coming of Christ, but in three." We tend to think of Advent as … read more
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22. How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
By: Esau McCaulley
4.62
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black… read more
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"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, …"-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
23. Broken Signposts: How Christianity Makes Sense of the World
By: Tom Wright
4.15
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In this thoughtful follow-up to Simply Christian , today’s leading Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, … read more
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24. Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal
By: Esau McCaulley
4.43
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
"Lent is inescapably about repenting." Every year, the church invites us into a season of repentanc… read more
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"We hope that as Christians we mature and grow and become more and more like Christ. But the church and its wisdom assumes we will fail even after our baptism. The church presumes that life is long an…"-Esau McCaulley, Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal
25. Ghosted: An American Story
By: Nancy French
4.45
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--fr… read more
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26. Epiphany: The Season of Glory (Fullness of Time)
By: Fleming Rutledge
4.41
Format: 165 pages, Kindle Edition
"We have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father." This line from the prologue … read more
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27. What If Jesus Was Serious about Heaven?: A Visual Guide to Experiencing God's Kingdom among Us
By: Skye Jethani
4.48
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Many Christians think about heaven as a distant place we go after we die. But what if it's a very r… read more
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28. Mary's Voice: Advent Reflections to Contemplate the Coming of Christ
By: Amy Orr-Ewing
4.64
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Find guidance through the advent season with the mother of Jesus and central figure in the story of… read more
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29. Lights a Lovely Mile: Collected Sermons of the Church Year
By: Eugene H. Peterson
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Eugene H. Peterson’s never-before-published wisdom for each season of the Christian year The glori… read more
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30. Gratitude: Why Giving Thanks Is the Key to Our Well-Being
By: Cornelius Plantinga
4.07
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
What is gratitude? Where does it come from? Why do we need it? How does it change us? In Gratitu… read more
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31. Waiting in Gratitude: Prayers for Joy (Collected Prayers of Walter Brueggemann, 3)
By: Walter Brueggemann
4.29
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
This collection of prayers by noted Hebrew Bible scholar Walter Brueggemann can be used in both pub… read more
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