20 Best faith books like Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions by Fleming Rutledge

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Similar categories in Wendell Berry's Hannah Coulter book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

Similar categories in Richard J. Foster's Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• theology
• christianity
• faith
• christian living
• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• christianity
• faith
• theology

"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

Similar categories in Philip Yancey's The Bible Jesus Read book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

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• christianity
• faith
• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• christianity
• nonfiction
• theology

Similar categories in Eugene H. Peterson's Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• theology
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• faith
• christian living
• nonfiction
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Similar categories in Susan Elia MacNeal's Mr. Churchill's Secretary (Maggie Hope Mystery, #1) book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

"She wasn't happy, exactly; she was still too raw for that. But she was satisfied. Satisfied and relieved, too, with maybe just a bit of joy thrown in for good measure. Yes, that was it. She'd made it…"

-Susan Elia MacNeal, Mr. Churchill's Secretary (Maggie Hope Mystery, #1)

Similar categories in Mitri Raheb's Faith in the Face of Empire: The Bible Through Palestinian Eyes book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

Similar categories in Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove's Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

Similar categories in Timothy J. Keller's The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• theology
• christianity
• faith
• christian living
• nonfiction
• spirituality

"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

Similar categories in Dane C. Ortlund's Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• theology
• christianity
• faith
• christian living
• nonfiction
• spirituality

"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

Similar categories in Collin Hansen's Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• christianity
• faith
• nonfiction
• theology

Similar categories in Tom Holland's Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• christianity
• nonfiction
• theology

"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"

-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

Similar categories in Emily P. Freeman's How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• faith
• christian living
• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in Tim Alberta's The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• christianity
• faith
• nonfiction
• theology

Similar categories in Russell D. Moore's Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

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• faith
• christian living
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Tish Harrison Warren's Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

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• christianity
• faith
• christian living
• nonfiction
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"Voor christenen is slaap een belichaamde manier om te belijden dat we erop vertrouwen dat het werk van God niet van ons afhangt."

-Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

"Bescherm wie blij zijn. In dit gebed erkennen we de kwetsbaarheid van vreugde. We vragen God om mensen die blij zijn te beschermen, om dat deel in ons te beschermen dat moedig genoeg is om te geloven…"

-Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

"Hoewel de statistieken laten zien dat hier in het Westen met name jonge mensen afdwalen naar ongeloof, deels vanwege het probleem van het kwaad, lijkt onze welvaart veel meer twijfel te veroorzaken d…"

-Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

"Het profetisch getuigenis van de kerk in een woedecultuur is om mensen te zijn die weten hoe we samen moeten huilen over de pijn en onrechtvaardigheid in de wereld en over de realiteit van onze eigen…"

-Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

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"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."

-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems

Similar categories in Philip Yancey's Where the Light Fell book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• christianity
• faith
• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in Tish Harrison Warren's Advent: The Season of Hope (Fullness of Time) book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• theology
• christianity
• faith
• christian living
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Esau McCaulley's How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• faith
• nonfiction

"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

Similar categories in Annette Gordon-Reed's On Juneteenth book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• nonfiction

"History is always being revised, as new information, comes to light and when different people see known documents and have their own responses to them, shaped by their individual experiences."

-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth

"Origin stories matter, for individuals, groups of people, and for nations. They inform our sense of self; telling us what kind of people we believe we are, what kind of nation we believe in. They usu…"

-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth

"Why would White Texans be more obstreperous than other White southerners? It has been suggested that this was because, unlike other Southern states, Texas had not been defeated militarily. They had w…"

-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth

Similar categories in Kelly Minter's When You Pray - Bible Study Book with Video Access: A Study of Six Prayers in the Bible book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• christianity
• christian living
• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in Esau McCaulley's Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• theology
• christianity
• faith
• christian living
• nonfiction
• spirituality

"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

Similar categories in Jared C. Wilson's Gifts of Grace: 25 Advent Devotions book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

Similar categories in Lacy Finn Borgo's Faith Like a Child: Embracing Our Lives as Children of God book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• faith
• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in Thomas R. Kelly's The Eternal Promise: A Sequel to a Testament of Devotion book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• nonfiction
• spirituality
• theology

"Our surface potentialities are for selfishness and greed, for tooth and claw. But deep within, in the whispers of the heart, is the surging call of the Eternal Christ, hidden within us all. By an inn…"

-Thomas R. Kelly, The Eternal Promise: A Sequel to a Testament of Devotion

Similar categories in Christopher A. Hall's A Different Way: Recentering the Christian Life Around Following Jesus book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• christianity
• faith
• nonfiction
• spirituality

Similar categories in David Zahl's Low Anthropology: The Unlikely Key to a Gracious View of Others (and Yourself) book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• theology
• christianity
• faith
• christian living
• nonfiction
• spirituality

"While a low anthropologist may agree with the people around them that a given moral end is important, they will be hesitant to justify the adoption of unsavory means to achieve that end. That is, the…"

-David Zahl, Low Anthropology: The Unlikely Key to a Gracious View of Others (and Yourself)

"Low anthropology powerfully reframes the way we approach the good or beautiful things done by otherwise disreputable individuals -- namely, as evidence of grace rather than defilement. As musician Ni…"

-David Zahl, Low Anthropology: The Unlikely Key to a Gracious View of Others (and Yourself)

Similar categories in Timothy J. Keller's How to Reach the West Again: Six Essential Elements of a Missionary Encounter book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• theology
• christianity
• faith
• christian living
• nonfiction

"The Christian teaching on forgiveness and “turning the other cheek"

-Timothy J. Keller, How to Reach the West Again: Six Essential Elements of a Missionary Encounter

"Today’s culture believes the thing we need salvation from is the idea that we need salvation."

-Timothy J. Keller, How to Reach the West Again: Six Essential Elements of a Missionary Encounter

"The Christian sex ethic was revolutionary. It… requires sex to always be super-consensual—only for people ready to give their whole lives to each other."

-Timothy J. Keller, How to Reach the West Again: Six Essential Elements of a Missionary Encounter

"Political polarization... is one of the bitter fruits of the secular project, the first effort in history to build cohesive societies without a common set of shared moral and religious values."

-Timothy J. Keller, How to Reach the West Again: Six Essential Elements of a Missionary Encounter

Similar categories in Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions book and Fleming Rutledge's Means of Grace: A Year of Weekly Devotions

• theology
• christianity
• faith
• christian living
• nonfiction
• spirituality