Necessary Christianity: What Jesus Shows We Must Be and Do
By: Claude R. Alexander Jr.
3.48
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
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1. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more
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"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
2. Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing
By: Andy Crouch
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Flourishing people are strong and weak. Two common temptations lure us away from abundant living wi… read more
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3. 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
4. Till We Have Faces
By: C.S. Lewis
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis rewo… read more
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5. 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
6. Sabbath: The Ancient Practices
By: Dan B. Allender
4.06
Format: None pages,
What would you do for twenty-four hours if the only criteria were to pursue your deepest joy? Dan A… read more
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7. Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation
By: Ruth Haley Barton
4.27
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
Winner of a 2006 Logos Book Award! Do you long for a deep, fundamental change in your life with God… read more
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8. Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
By: Henry Cloud , None
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Having clear boundaries is essential to a healthy, balanced lifestyle. A boundary is a personal pro… read more
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9. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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10. Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did
By: John Mark Comer
4.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The author of the international bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry calls us to rediscover… read more
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11. 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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12. Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer
By: Tyler Staton
4.60
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Prayer is the source of Jesus's most astonishing miracles and the subject of Jesus's most audacious… read more
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13. Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church
By: Katelyn Beaty
4.22
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning writer shows how and why celebrity is woven into the fabric of the evangelical mov… read more
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"Celebrity, in the final analysis, is a worldly form of power and evaluation of human worth. It is not a spiritually neutral tool that can be picked up and put down, even for godly projects. The momen…"-Katelyn Beaty, Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church
14. The Wood Between the Worlds: A Poetic Theology of the Cross
By: Brian Zahnd
4.53
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
The cross is the heart of Scripture Everything about the gospel message leads to the cross, and pro… read more
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15. Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple
By: Scot McKnight
4.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
See how the Book of Revelation can be read as a book of discipleship , challenging Christ-followers… read more
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16. Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation
By: Jon Ward
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Jon Ward's life is divided in half: two decades inside the evangelical Christian bubble and two dec… read more
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17. The Stories We Tell: Every Piece of Your Story Matters
By: Joanna Gaines
3.48
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
We all have a story to tell. This happens to be mine—every chapter a window into who I am, the jour… read more
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18. The Lost World of the Flood: Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate (Volume 5) (The Lost World Series)
By: Tremper Longman III
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it… read more
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19. Bearing God's Name: Why Sinai Still Matters
By: Carmen Joy Imes
4.53
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Biblical Foundations Award Finalist Have you ever wondered what the Old Testament―especially the Ol… read more
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"The law envisions a different kind of life, characterized by self-discipline and self-giving love. Imagine a community where every member actively worked to love and protect their neighbor!"-Carmen Joy Imes, Bearing God's Name: Why Sinai Still Matters
20. She Deserves Better: Raising Girls to Resist Toxic Teachings on Sex, Self, and Speaking Up
By: Sheila Wray Gregoire
4.49
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
This research-based, biblically informed book helps moms reject harmful teachings from the church a… read more
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21. On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living
By: Alan Noble
4.33
Format: 108 pages, Hardcover
We aren't always honest about how difficult normal human life is. For the majority of people, sorro… read more
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22. Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
By: Nijay K. Gupta
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in … read more
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23. Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal
By: Esau McCaulley
4.43
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
"Lent is inescapably about repenting." Every year, the church invites us into a season of repentanc… read more
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"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
24. The Thrill of Orthodoxy: Rediscovering the Adventure of Christian Faith
By: Trevin K. Wax
4.24
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Every generation faces the temptation to wander from orthodoxy—to seek out the jolt that comes with… read more
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"The best way to avoid new errors is to love old truths, to hear the story fresh again and again, and to be “caught up in the process of being slain and made alive by the gospel."-Trevin K. Wax, The Thrill of Orthodoxy: Rediscovering the Adventure of Christian Faith
"When you lose your place in the history of redemption, you no longer have…the ability to escape the immediacy of the moment and look imaginatively at the present from a perspective that is informed b…"-Trevin K. Wax, The Thrill of Orthodoxy: Rediscovering the Adventure of Christian Faith
"In orthodoxy, we see the coming together of seemingly contrary opposites, not in some sort of amalgamation or compromise, but simply affirming both in their fiery fullness. Our vision must be big eno…"-Trevin K. Wax, The Thrill of Orthodoxy: Rediscovering the Adventure of Christian Faith
25. 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
26. Learning Humility: A Year of Searching for a Vanishing Virtue (Renovare Resources Set)
By: Richard J. Foster
4.14
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
In a society where raging narcissism dominates the moral landscape, the virtue of humility is often… read more
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27. The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor
By: Kaitlyn Schiess
4.29
Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition
A generation of young Christians are weary of the political legacy they've inherited and hungry for… read more
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"Perhaps our kitchens can be outposts of the kingdom of God, as well as our churches."-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor
"It might be the most common perversion of God's people: to expect our religious devotion to excuse our injustice."-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor
"The line between our political beliefs, our moral beliefs, and our theological beliefs is blurry, if not entirely invented."-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor
"Our religious activities are worthless if they aren't causing us to live and act justly. God does not divide between justice and worship."-Kaitlyn Schiess, The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor
28. Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community
By: Bonnie Kristian
4.39
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Christianity Today 2023 Award of Merit (Politics & Public Life) Logos 2022 Book of the Year Award (… read more
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"We've spent forty years dramatically increasing how much information the average person encounters daily, then we've made no effort to equip ourselves to handle that shift."-Bonnie Kristian, Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community
"Responsible and humane use of language in public is a skill that requires cultivation. It is not something we are born knowing, nor is it something we are all taught, though it is certainly something…"-Bonnie Kristian, Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community
"If we profess to follow Jesus, we cannot be content with our sin, nor can we withhold forgiveness and ceaselessly hurl shame. Our inclination must always be toward mercy. This isn't because Christian…"-Bonnie Kristian, Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community
"Conspiracism is always epistemic poison. this accusatory, credulous mindset, more than any individual theory, is what contributes to our epistemic crisis. it treats confirmation bias as confirmation,…"-Bonnie Kristian, Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community
29. Necessary Christianity: What Jesus Shows We Must Be and Do
By: Claude R. Alexander Jr.
3.48
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
We live in a world of options, where we might do this or that if we feel like it. But for followers… read more
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30. The Emotions of God: Making Sense of a God Who Hates, Weeps, and Loves
By: David T. Lamb
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The God of the Bible is emotional. Many Christians don't want to associate emotions with God. Emoti… read more
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31. Becoming the Church: God's People in Purpose and Power
By: Claude R. Alexander
3.75
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Many today have given up on church. But God has not and does not give up on the church. The church … read more
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