1 and 2 Kings for Everyone (The Old Testament for Everyone)
By: John E. Goldingay
4.12
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
This seventh volume in the popular Old Testament for Everyone series tells the story of Israel when…
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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
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller shows how God calls on eac… read more
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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
"Two things we want so desperately, glory and relationship, can coexist only in God."-Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
"Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck."-Timothy J. Keller, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
"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. Matthew for Everyone: Part One, Chapters 1-15
By: N.T. Wright , Tom Wright
4.39
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Tom Wright's eye-opening comments on the Gospel of Matthew and what it might mean for us are combin… read more
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3. Mark for Everyone
By: N.T. Wright , Tom Wright
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Tom Wright's eye-opening comments on the Gospel of Mark and what it might mean for us are combined,… read more
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4. 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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5. Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)
By: Kent Haruf
4.30
Format: None pages,
A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of… read more
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6. Gilead (Gilead, #1)
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.85
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more
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"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
7. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more
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8. Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
By: Richard Adams
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage an… read more
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9. John for Everyone: Part One, Chapters 1-10
By: N.T. Wright , Tom Wright
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Making use of his scholar's understanding, yet writing in an approachable and anecdotal style, Tom … read more
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10. Dark Night of the Soul
By: None , None
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
A 16th-century mystic, St. John of the Cross was also a Carmelite monk who helped reform the Order.… read more
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11. Church Zero: Raising 1st Century Churches out of the Ashes of the 21st Century Church
By: Peyton Jones
4.00
Format: None pages,
A radical call to reform, Church Zerois a punk-rock approach to the pressing issue of gaining groun… read more
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12. The Burnout Society
By: Byung-Chul Han
5.00
Format: 172 pages,
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more
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13. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.17
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications of this discovery that for th… read more
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"My God -- it's full of stars! -Dave Bowman."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
"Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
". . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
"Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
14. Everything Sad Is Untrue
By: Daniel Nayeri
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more
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"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
15. 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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16. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
By: Bono
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and… read more
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"Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience"-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
17. Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts
By: Jennie Allen
4.08
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
You can choose hope in the midst of chaos. The visionary behind the million-strong IF:Gathering cha… read more
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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. The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus
By: Rich Villodas
4.24
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
During our chaotic times, discover five forgotten values that can spark internal growth and help us… read more
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"Adam and Eve hid behind a tree, naked and conquered by shame. But Jesus hung on a tree, naked, and conquered shame. In Jesus, shame doesn’t have the last word."-Rich Villodas, The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus
"Sabbath is not a reward for hard work. Sabbath is a gift that precedes work and enables us to work. (…) As with God’s Grace, rest is never a reward; it’s a gift."-Rich Villodas, The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus
"The reason we are hospitable is to open our hearts to others in the way that God has opened His heart to us. (...) As the theologian Henri Nouwen said, "Hospitality is not to change people, but to of…"-Rich Villodas, The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus
"When I get to the portion that says, "Lead us not into temptation," That (...) doesn't mean that God leads us into temptation; rather, (...) It's us essentially saying, "Lord, (...) I'm vulnerable. D…"-Rich Villodas, The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus
20. The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
By: Karen Swallow Prior
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Contemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis--and a lot of bad press. … read more
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"For Hardy and other critics of the evangelical movement, too often the desire for purity encouraged hypocrisy, earnest ideals became mere performance, and the valuation of hard work turned into pursu…"-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
"The novel [ Pamela ] is also a very powerful early expression of the modern self, one who sees her soul as equal in human worth and dignity to anyone, regardless of social class or power--and this, t…"-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
21. The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
By: Kaitlyn Schiess
4.30
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
How do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn fro… read more
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"The Bible is not a free-floating book of ageless wisdom, an interesting historical document, or a weapon that can be put in the service of any political goal. The Bible is a gift from God to the chur…"-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
"What is government? What is the relationship between theology and politics? How should Christians think about their political participation? These questions typically get lost in our conversations. W…"-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here
22. Women and the Gender of God
By: Amy Peeler
4.47
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
A robust theological argument against the assumption that God is male. God values women. While many… read more
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23. Theologizin' Bigger: Homilies on Living Freely and Loving Wholly
By: Trey Ferguson
4.76
Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition
Theologizin' Bigger is a book by bestselling author, pastor, podcaster, and public theologian Trey … read more
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24. 1 and 2 Kings for Everyone (The Old Testament for Everyone)
By: John E. Goldingay
4.12
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
This seventh volume in the popular Old Testament for Everyone series tells the story of Israel when… read more
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