22 must-read christian books like The World Next Door by Rory Shiner

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The World Next Door

By: Rory Shiner

4.34

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

“This book is our best shot at commending the Christian message to our friends and neighbours. It’s…

If you liked the christian plot in The World Next Door by Rory Shiner , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. Saving Eutychus: How to Preach God's Word and Keep People Awake

By: J. Gary Millar , Phil Campbell

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Poor Eutychus might have tumbled off his perch in Acts 20, but it's humbling to notice that what to… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
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2. Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

By: Timothy J. Keller

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author and renowned pastor explores the power of prayer. Christians … read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • theology

3. Discipling: How to Help Others Follow Jesus

By: Mark Dever

3.33

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

Before ascending to heaven, Jesus instructed his followers to "make disciples of all nations." But … read more

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4. Lifted: Experiencing The Resurrection Life

By: Sam Allberry

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

The resurrection is usually mentioned only during Easter and discussions of apologetics but it has … read more

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5. How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In

By: Jim Collins

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed. Amidst the desolate lands… read more

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6. Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

By: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

4.54

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling Author Rosaria Butterfield Confronts 5 Cultural Lies She Once Believed Modern culture i… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
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7. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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8. A Non-Anxious Presence: How a Changing and Complex World will Create a Remnant of Renewed Christian Leaders

By: Mark Sayers

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

For much of recent history individuals and institutions could plan, execute, and flourish with thei… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • theology
Cover of Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation by Collin Hansen

9. 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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  • faith
  • christian
  • theology
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10. 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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  • christian
  • theology
"[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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11. Do Not Be True to Yourself: Countercultural Advice for the Rest of Your Life

By: Kevin DeYoung

4.26

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

Countercultural Yet Biblical Advice for High School and College Students, Ideal for Graduation and … read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • theology
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12. 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

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13. The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1)

By: Amanda Hampson

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Trade Paperback

They keep everyone's secrets, until there's a murder... Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter w… read more

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14. All Our Shimmering Skies

By: Trent Dalton

3.95

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton returns with All Our Shimmering Skies… read more

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"In all these years, he said, he was yet to come across a single gold nugget that brought any real happiness to the person who held it. Long coat bob said his family had found one large nugget long ag…"

-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

"She spots a large army of green ants building a nest between two thin twig branches of a flimsy tree with floppy green leaves. "Look at this, Yukio," Molly whispers, leaning into the tree where a lin…"

-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

"And you wouldn't believe what he said then, Tom Berry whispered to his enraptured audience. He said, he and his family saw no value whatsoever in all that gold. He said real treasure was a fresh wate…"

-Trent Dalton, All Our Shimmering Skies

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15. 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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  • faith
  • christian
  • theology
Cover of Rejoice and Tremble: The Surprising Good News of the Fear of the Lord by Michael Reeves

16. Rejoice and Tremble: The Surprising Good News of the Fear of the Lord

By: Michael Reeves

4.38

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Fear is one of the strongest human emotions, and it is one that often baffles Christians. "The f… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • theology
Cover of Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion by Rebecca McLaughlin

17. Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion

By: Rebecca McLaughlin

4.32

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

Although many people suggest that Christianity is declining, research indicates that it continues t… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • theology
"Suffering is not an embarrassment to the Christian faith. It is the thread with which Christ's name is stitched into our lives."

-Rebecca McLaughlin, Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion

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18. True Friendship

By: Vaughan Roberts

4.15

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

In a culture where online communications and communities can be set up in seconds, it is striking t… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
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19. The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality

By: Glen Scrivener

4.50

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Is Christianity history? Or is Christian history the deepest explanation of the modern world?Today … read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • theology
Cover of Blessed: Experiencing the Promise of the Book of Revelation by Nancy Guthrie

20. Blessed: Experiencing the Promise of the Book of Revelation

By: Nancy Guthrie

4.67

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An Understandable and Reliable Guide to Revelation Blessed , by bestselling author and speaker Nanc… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
"Jesus doesn't just look at us; he looks into us. And if we are willing to hold his gaze, he will burn away what is meaningless and frivolous and contaminating."

-Nancy Guthrie, Blessed: Experiencing the Promise of the Book of Revelation

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21. Jesus through the Eyes of Women: How the First Female Disciples Help Us Know and Love the Lord

By: Rebecca McLaughlin

4.39

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

If the women who followed Jesus could tell you what he was like, what would they say? Jesus’s tr… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
Cover of Futureproof: How to Live for Jesus in a Culture That Keeps on Changing (Discipleship resource: a Christian response to cultural change and the future of the church) by Stephen McAlpine

22. Futureproof: How to Live for Jesus in a Culture That Keeps on Changing (Discipleship resource: a Christian response to cultural change and the future of the church)

By: Stephen McAlpine

3.94

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

How the gospel equips Christians to live confidently for Christ in an increasingly secular society,… read more

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  • christian
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23. Being the Bad Guys: How to Live for Jesus in a World That Says You Shouldn't

By: Stephen McAlpine

4.21

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

How to have confidence in the gospel, even when Christian values clash with secular ones. The churc… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • theology
Cover of Jesus, Lover of My Soul: Fresh Pathways to Spiritual Passion by Julian Hardyman

24. Jesus, Lover of My Soul: Fresh Pathways to Spiritual Passion

By: Julian Hardyman

4.27

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Do you long for a closer, deeper walk with God? Would you like to know more about what the Bible sa… read more

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  • christian
Cover of Embracing Complementarianism: Turning Biblical Convictions into Positive Church Culture by Graham Beynon

25. Embracing Complementarianism: Turning Biblical Convictions into Positive Church Culture

By: Graham Beynon

4.15

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

A biblical vision for the roles of men and women in the church—and how to put them into practice. … read more

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  • theology
Cover of The Good Life in the Last Days: Making Choices When the Time is Short by Mikey Lynch

26. The Good Life in the Last Days: Making Choices When the Time is Short

By: Mikey Lynch

4.26

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

A popular-level book about how we should live as we await Christ’s return, and how we work out what… read more

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  • christian
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27. The World Next Door

By: Rory Shiner

4.34

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

“This book is our best shot at commending the Christian message to our friends and neighbours. It’s… read more

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  • christian
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Cover of The Gender Revolution: A biblical, biological and compassionate response by Patricia Weerakoon

28. The Gender Revolution: A biblical, biological and compassionate response

By: Patricia Weerakoon

4.49

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

How can you show love to someone who feels that their gender identity does not match how God made t… read more

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Cover of Subjects and Citizens: The politics of the gospel - Lessons from Romans 12-15 by Michael P. Jensen

29. Subjects and Citizens: The politics of the gospel - Lessons from Romans 12-15

By: Michael P. Jensen

4.41

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

Michael writes to help Christian rediscover “a truly Christ-centred vision for human politics”. The… read more

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  • christian
Cover of Making Good Return: Biblical Wisdom on Honoring Aging Parents by Kathleen B. Nielson

30. Making Good Return: Biblical Wisdom on Honoring Aging Parents

By: Kathleen B. Nielson

4.31

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Caring for our aging parents—whether we take them into our homes or support them from a distance—is… read more

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31. What on Earth is Heaven?

By: James Paul

4.32

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

What happens to us when we die? Will heaven be a place of fluffy clouds, angels and cherubs playing… read more

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  • theology

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Transform Your Habits

Saving Eutychus: How to Preach God's Word and Keep People Awake

J. Gary Millar , Phil Campbell

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

Timothy J. Keller

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

4.54

Transform Your Habits

A Non-Anxious Presence: How a Changing and Complex World will Create a Remnant of Renewed Christian Leaders

Mark Sayers

4.06

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Susan Duncan

3.57

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Back on Track

Tricia Stringer

3.95

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Fiona McIntosh

3.89

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Kerryn Mayne

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