13 Top theology books like Supernatural Living for Natural People: The Life-giving message of Romans 8 by Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.

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Supernatural Living for Natural People: The Life-giving message of Romans 8

By: Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.

4.36

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

ROMANS EIGHT is a favourite of many Christians for it contains verse after verse of pure spiritual …

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1. The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

By: Timothy J. Keller , Kathy Keller

4.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Renowned pastor of New York’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church and author of The Songs of Jesus, Timoth… read more

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"Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

"Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

"A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

"Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

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2. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

By: Frederick Douglass

4.11

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more

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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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3. The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness

By: Timothy J. Keller

4.51

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

‘What are the marks of a supernaturally changed heart?’ This is one of the questions the Apostle… read more

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"...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness

"In other words, we are only proud of being more successful, more intelligent or more good-looking than the next person, and we are in the presence of someone who is more successful, intelligent and g…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness

"Up until the 20th century, traditional cultures (and this is still true of most cultures in the world) always believed that too high a view of yourself was the root cause of all the evil in the world…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness

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4. The Great Divorce

By: C.S. Lewis

4.31

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3 C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christi… read more

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"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?"

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

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5. Crossroads of Twilight (The Wheel of Time, #10)

By: Robert Jordan

3.78

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

In the tenth book of The Wheel of Time from the New York Times #1 bestselling author Robert Jordan,… read more

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"Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive."

-Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight (The Wheel of Time, #10)

"If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third."

-Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight (The Wheel of Time, #10)

"The surface of the water may be still, but the fish never stop swimming."

-Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight (The Wheel of Time, #10)

"When you knew you were going to hang, the only thing to do was grin at the noose."

-Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight (The Wheel of Time, #10)

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6. Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.27

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

After his martyrdom at the hands of the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer continued his witness … read more

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"God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated"

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

"The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren. Not in the former but in the latter is the lack."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

7. Right Color, Wrong Culture: The Type of Leader Your Organization Needs to Become Multiethnic

By: Bryan Loritts

4.00

Format: None pages,

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8. Basic Christian Leadership: Biblical Models of Church, Gospel and Ministry

By: John R.W. Stott

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Leadership today is no easy task. Christian leaders called to shepherd others get caught in power s… read more

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9. The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, From the Civil Rights Movement to Today

By: Charles Marsh

3.29

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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10. The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

By: Timothy J. Keller

4.42

Format: 139 pages, Hardcover

Newsweek called renowned minister Timothy Keller "a C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century" in a … read more

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"If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jes…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting th…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"The targets of this story are not "wayward sinners" but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to …"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: "If I was saved by my good works -- then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me throug…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

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11. 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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12. 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

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13. Lead: 12 Gospel Principles for Leadership in the Church

By: Paul David Tripp

4.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The church is experiencing a leadership crisis. For every celebrity pastor exiting in the spotl… read more

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14. Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome

By: R. Kent Hughes

4.29

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Why do so many ministers abandon their churches in frustration? These concepts and biblical lessons… read more

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15. The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #2)

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.98

Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition

"You shouldn’t be here. It’s too late…" These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded word… read more

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16. Ten Words to Live By: Delighting in and Doing What God Commands

By: Jen Wilkin

4.55

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

"For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensom… read more

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"While legalism builds self-righteousness, lawfulness builds righteousness. Obedience to the law is the means of sanctification for the believer."

-Jen Wilkin, Ten Words to Live By: Delighting in and Doing What God Commands

"Is Jesus adding to the law by broadening our attention from murder to anger and contempt? By no means. He is pointing out the seedling that grows into the thorny vine that chokes out life. He is appe…"

-Jen Wilkin, Ten Words to Live By: Delighting in and Doing What God Commands

"Our patterns of work and rest reveal what we believe to be true about God and ourselves. God alone requires no limits on his activity. To rest is to acknowledge that we humans are limited by design. …"

-Jen Wilkin, Ten Words to Live By: Delighting in and Doing What God Commands

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17. Theo of Golden

By: Allen Levi

4.73

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

Questions linger about Theo, a pleasant but mysterious stranger, after his arrival in the southern … read more

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18. One Blood: A Parting Word to the Church on Race

By: John M. Perkins

4.35

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Dr. Perkins’ final manifesto on race, faith, and reconciliation We are living in historic times… read more

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"Perhaps the strongest indictment against us as the Church is that we have settled for an Americanized version of the Church that mirrors whatever culture says, and there is no collective sense of los…"

-John M. Perkins, One Blood: A Parting Word to the Church on Race

"For too long, many in the Church have argued that unity in the body of Christ across ethnic and class lines is a separate issue from the gospel. There has been the suggestion that we can be reconcile…"

-John M. Perkins, One Blood: A Parting Word to the Church on Race

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19. Supernatural Living for Natural People: The Life-giving message of Romans 8

By: Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.

4.36

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

ROMANS EIGHT is a favourite of many Christians for it contains verse after verse of pure spiritual … read more

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20. Teaching Romans Volume 1: Unlocking Romans 1 - 8 for the Bible Teacher (Teaching.. Series)

By: Christopher Ash

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

There are commentaries and there are books on preaching - but very few books that combine elements … read more

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21. Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church: Mandate, Commitments, and Practices of a Diverse Congregation

By: Mark DeYmaz

3.13

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Through personal stories, proven experience, and a thorough analysis of the biblical text, Building… read more

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4.38

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Charles Martin

3.75

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A.S. Peterson

3.46

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