Recovering the Lost Art of Reading: A Quest for the True, the Good, and the Beautiful
By: Leland Ryken
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A Christian Perspective on the Joys of Reading In today's technology-driven culture, reading has…
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1. Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry
By: John Piper
4.30
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
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"...when Paul says in Romans 4:3, 5, 9, and 22 that 'faith is counted as righteousness,' he does not mean that our faith is our righteousness. He means that our faith unites us to Christ so that God's…"-John Piper, Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry
"Banish professionalism from our midst, Oh God, an din its place put passionate prayer, poverty of spirit, hunger for God, rigorous study of holy things, white-hot devotion to Jesus Christ, utter indi…"-John Piper, Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry
2. You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
By: James K.A. Smith
3.63
Format: None pages, Hardcover
You are what you love. But you might not love what you think. In this book, award-winning author Ja… read more
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3. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
By: Nicholas Carr
3.28
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
"Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Mont… read more
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4. Surprised by Oxford
By: Carolyn Weber
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
A "girl-meets-God" style memoir of an agnostic who, through her surprising opportunity to study at … read more
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5. Disciplines of a Godly Man
By: R. Kent Hughes
4.33
Format: 242 pages,
Beginning with a stirring challenge from 1 Timothy 4:7b, "train yourselves to be godly", Hughes cal… read more
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6. A Woman After God's Own Heart
By: Elizabeth George
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A new cover and fresh updates enrich Elizabeth Georges bestselling A Woman After Gods Own Heart® … read more
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"Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will."-Elizabeth George, A Woman After God's Own Heart
"Only one life, it will soon be past, only what’s done for Christ will last."-Elizabeth George, A Woman After God's Own Heart
"Each day is God’s gift of a fresh unspoiled opportunity to live according to His priorities."-Elizabeth George, A Woman After God's Own Heart
"God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life."-Elizabeth George, A Woman After God's Own Heart
7. Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
By: C.S. Lewis
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Lifeis a partial autobiography describing Lewis' conversion… read more
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8. Knowing God
By: J.I. Packer
2.00
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
For over 40 years, J. I. Packer's classic has been an important tool to help Christians around the … read more
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9. Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture
By: David P. Murray
3.29
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
Largely due to overwork and the stresses of modern life, men in work and ministry are increasingly … read more
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10. What Are People For?
By: Wendell Berry
4.34
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the twenty-two essays collected here, Wendell Berry, whom "The Christian Science Monitor "called… read more
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11. Seasons of Sorrow: The Pain of Loss and the Comfort of God
By: Tim Challies
4.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An honest look at grief and fears, faith and hope. Combining personal narrative, sound theology, an… read more
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"...one of the hardest parts of my loss is that all my feelings of love remain, but there's no way to express them."-Tim Challies, Seasons of Sorrow: The Pain of Loss and the Comfort of God
"The father instinct that was so strong within me went from abundant to empty. And so while I miss Nick so very deeply, I also miss the part of my life and identity that was wrapped up in being his da…"-Tim Challies, Seasons of Sorrow: The Pain of Loss and the Comfort of God
12. 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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13. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
By: Abigail Shrier
4.14
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
Irreversible Damage is an exploration of a mystery: Why, in the last decade, has the diagnosis "gen… read more
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"Women feel things deeply. We empathize. For good reason, when asked to identify their best friend, most men name their wives; most women name another woman."-Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
"For those of you who have ever been an adolescent or attempted the toe-curling, hair-whitening endeavor of raising one—hold your laughter. Resist the urge to squeal out loud at the preposterous notio…"-Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
"Nearly every novel problem teenagers face traces itself back to 2007 and the introduction of Steve Jobs’s iPhone. In fact, the explosion in self-harm can be so precisely pinpointed to the introductio…"-Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
14. 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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15. Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners
By: Dane C. Ortlund
4.58
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
“Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” —2 Peter 3:18 How do Chri… read more
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16. Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution
By: Carl R. Trueman
4.50
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
From Philosophy to Technology, Tracing the Origin of Identity Politics How did the world arrive … read more
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17. Finding the Right Hills to Die on: The Case for Theological Triage
By: Gavin Ortlund
4.34
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
In theology, just as in battle, some hills are worth dying on. But how do we know which ones? When … read more
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18. Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age
By: Samuel James
4.44
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
How the Habitat of Internet Technology Undermines Christian Wisdom With advancements in internet te… read more
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19. The Yield
By: Tara June Winch
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spen… read more
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"My mummy, she said, 'The Aborigine is a pity, my son.' She said everyone was always insulted by her no matter what she did, so she let herself do the most insulting thing she could think of - take th…"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
"The story goes that the church brought time to us, and the church, if you let it, will take it away. I’m writing about the other time, though, deep time. This is a big, big story. The big stuff goes …"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
"I was born on Ngurambang — can you hear it? — Ngu-ram-bang. If you say it right it hits the back of your mouth and you should taste blood in your words. Every person around should learn the word for …"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
"The evidence of their civilisation, after so many years of farming, was difficult to find on the surface of the land. But they said it was embedded in the language of Albert’s dictionary, that with t…"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
20. 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
21. Positively, Penelope (Skymar, #2)
By: Pepper Basham
4.21
Format: 396 pages, Paperback
Told mostly through letters, texts, and email, this contemporary romance will charm its way into he… read more
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"But don’t let all those big dreams in your head stop you from seeing that sometimes the best adventures can still be in the simplest things. Like home and family."-Pepper Basham, Positively, Penelope (Skymar, #2)
"He’d never met anyone who wore sunshine quite like Penelope Edgewood. At first, it had been too much. Too overpowering and seemingly inauthentic, but then, over the weeks, her vibrancy melded into th…"-Pepper Basham, Positively, Penelope (Skymar, #2)
22. Deep Discipleship: How the Church Can Make Whole Disciples of Jesus
By: J.T. English
4.48
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
Everyone is being discipled. The question what is discipling us? The majority of Christians to… read more
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23. 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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24. The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes
By: Nancy R. Pearcey
4.51
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How the Script for Masculinity Turned Toxic--and How to Fix It "Why Can't We Hate Men?" asks a hea… read more
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25. The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?
By: Jim Davis
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
We are currently experiencing the largest and fastest religious shift in US history. It is greater … read more
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26. 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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27. Mark For You: For Reading, for Feeding, for Leading (Expository Guide to the Gospel of Mark with commentary to help sermon preparation, personal devotions and Bible study leading) (The Whole)
By: Jason C. Meyer
4.44
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Applied expository Bible-study guide to Mark—a book that portrays Jesus in a stunningly compelling … read more
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28. Foundations for Lifelong Learning: Education in Serious Joy
By: John Piper
4.26
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
John Piper Offers 6 Habits to Spur a Lifetime of Wisdom and Wonder for the Glory of Christ Humans… read more
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29. Suffering Wisely and Well: The Grief of Job and the Grace of God
By: Eric Ortlund
4.48
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Why Suffering God’s Purpose for Pain in the Life of Job and throughout Scripture Why does God allo… read more
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"After all, the only kind of relationship with God that will save us is one where he is loved for who he is, for his own sake, irrespective of what secondary, earthly blessings we gain or lose because…"-Eric Ortlund, Suffering Wisely and Well: The Grief of Job and the Grace of God
30. Before We Were Us
By: Denise Hunter
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
She can't remember. He can't forget. Seven months ago, after graduating with a hospitality degree,… read more
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31. Recovering the Lost Art of Reading: A Quest for the True, the Good, and the Beautiful
By: Leland Ryken
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A Christian Perspective on the Joys of Reading In today's technology-driven culture, reading has… read more
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