18 must-read nonfiction books like Judges, Ruth (The NIV Application Commentary) by K. Lawson Younger

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Judges, Ruth (The NIV Application Commentary)

By: K. Lawson Younger

4.37

Format: 656 pages, Kindle Edition

The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Judges, Ruth (The NIV Application Commentary) by K. Lawson Younger , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

By: Rod Dreher

3.80

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

In a radical new vision for the future of Christianity, NYT bestselling author and conservative col… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology
"To rediscover Christian asceticism is urgent for believers who want to train their hearts, and the hearts of their children, to resist the hedonism and consumerism at the core of contemporary culture…"

-Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

"Once, during my Catholic days, I was complaining with a Catholic friend about how terrible the teaching was in parish life. A priest listening to us said that everything we griped about was true, but…"

-Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

"We live liturgically, telling our sacred Story in worship and song. We fast and we feast. We marry and give our children in marriage, and though in exile, we work for the peace of the city. We welcom…"

-Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

Cover of Unceasing Kindness: A Biblical Theology of Ruth by None, Gregory Goswell, Peter H. W. Lau

2. Unceasing Kindness: A Biblical Theology of Ruth

By: None , Gregory Goswell , Peter H. W. Lau

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Old Testament book of Ruth is understandably a firm favorite in the church for small-group stud… read more

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  • old testament
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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3. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology
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4. Orthodoxy

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology

5. Heaven

By: Ajith Fernando , Gerald L. Bray , Stephen J. Wellum , Robert A. Peterson , Christopher W. Morgan , None , None , None , David B. Calhoun

3.96

Format: 425 pages, Paperback

Our culture has a lot to say about heaven. But too much of it is based more on imaginative speculat… read more

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  • theology

6. Discipling: How to Help Others Follow Jesus

By: Mark Dever

3.33

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

Before ascending to heaven, Jesus instructed his followers to "make disciples of all nations." But … read more

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7. Many Dimensions

By: Charles Williams

4.06

Format: None pages,

...One of the most gifted and influential Christian writers England has produced this century.- Tim… read more

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8. The Place of the Lion

By: Charles Williams

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Novelist, poet, critic, and dramatist Williams uses fiction to explore how people react when the su… read more

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9. Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

2.65

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

This volume is a provocative and entertaining collection of works which reveals the diversity of J.… read more

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10. The Letter of James

By: Douglas J. Moo

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Few books in the New Testament are better known or more often quoted as the Letter of James. Becaus… read more

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11. Study Bible: NIV

By: Anonymous

4.67

Format: 107 pages,

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12. Judges and Ruth: God in Chaos

By: Barry G. Webb

3.43

Format: 240 pages,

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13. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology
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14. Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West

By: Andrew Wilson

4.51

Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition

How 7 Transformational Events in 1776 Paved the Way for Today’s Post-Christian West With dizzyin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology
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15. Bully Pulpit: Confronting the Problem of Spiritual Abuse in the Church

By: Michael J. Kruger

4.49

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Are churches looking for the wrong kind of leaders? The last decade has witnessed a rising number o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology
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16. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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17. The Wonderful Works of God

By: Herman Bavinck

4.70

Format: 695 pages, Hardcover

110 years after its original publication, The Wonderful Works of God remains one of the finest sing… read more

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  • theology
  • nonfiction
  • reference
"The Gospel is sheer good tidings, not demand but promise, not duty but gift. But in order that as promise and gift it may be realized in us, it takes on the character of moral admonishment in accorda…"

-Herman Bavinck, The Wonderful Works of God

"All men are really seeking after God... but they do not all seek Him in the right way, nor at the right place. They seek Him down below, and He is up above. They seek Him on the earth, and He is in h…"

-Herman Bavinck, The Wonderful Works of God

"The conclusion, therefore, is that of Augustine, who said that the heart of man was created for God and that it cannot find rest until it rests in his Father’s heart. Hence all men are really seeking…"

-Herman Bavinck, The Wonderful Works of God

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18. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

By: Ellis Peters

4.17

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more

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"Love shared is no sin."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

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19. Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies

By: N.T. Wright

4.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Should Christians be politically withdrawn, avoiding participation in politics to maintain their pr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology
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20. Confronting Jesus: 9 Encounters with the Hero of the Gospels

By: Rebecca McLaughlin

4.26

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Rebecca McLaughlin explores who Jesus really is in this follow-up to Confronti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology
Cover of The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation by Daniel G. Hummel

21. The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation

By: Daniel G. Hummel

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating history of dispensationalism and its influence on popular culture, politics, and reli… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology
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22. Prayer: How Praying Together Shapes the Church (9marks: Building Healthy Churches)

By: John Onwuchekwa

4.41

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Prayer is as necessary to the Christian as breathing is to the human body--but it often doesn't com… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology
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23. Retrieving Augustine's Doctrine of Creation: Ancient Wisdom for Current Controversy

By: Gavin Ortlund

4.46

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

How might premodern exegesis of Genesis inform Christian debates about creation today? Imagine a ta… read more

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  • old testament
  • nonfiction
  • theology
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24. A Christian's Guide to Mental Illness: Answers to 30 Common Questions

By: David Murray

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A Mental Health Q&A from a Christian Perspective After the fall, the world was disordered from stru… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology
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25. Turnaround: The Remarkable Story of an Institutional Transformation and the 10 Essential Principles and Practices that Made It Happen

By: Jason K. Allen

4.34

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

How do you save a sinking ship?   When Dr. Jason K. Allen arrived on the campus of Midwestern Semin… read more

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26. From Famine to Fullness: The Gospel According to Ruth

By: Dean R. Ulrich

3.92

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Whether they are thrilled by the love story of Ruth and Boaz or encouraged by a happy ending for Na… read more

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  • old testament
  • theology
  • reference
"God does not help those who help themselves. Rather, he helps those who cannot help themselves, know it, and rely on him."

-Dean R. Ulrich, From Famine to Fullness: The Gospel According to Ruth

"...What is postmodernism but the renunciation of God's truth, God's standards, and God's story? Postmodernism is not really post-anything. It is Genesis 3 and the book of Judges all over again."

-Dean R. Ulrich, From Famine to Fullness: The Gospel According to Ruth

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27. How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-Women, Anti-Science, Pro-Violence, Pro-Slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture

By: Dan Kimball

4.20

Format: None pages, Audio CD

When Dan Kimball first sat down to meet with a student who was disillusioned by Christianity, he wa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology
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28. Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda

By: Megan Basham

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

“This may just be the single most important book on modern Evangelicalism in recent years. It is bo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • theology
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29. The First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: An Introduction and Commentary (Tyndale New Testament Commentaries)

By: Paul the Apostle

4.20

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Leon Morris's study on I Corinthians is a contribution to the Tyndale New Testament Commentaries, a… read more

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  • theology
  • nonfiction
  • reference
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30. Judges, Ruth (The NIV Application Commentary)

By: K. Lawson Younger

4.37

Format: 656 pages, Kindle Edition

The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's… read more

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  • old testament
  • theology
  • nonfiction
  • reference
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31. War in Heaven

By: Charles Williams

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more

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"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."

-Charles Williams, War in Heaven

20 Top theology books like Judges, Ruth (The NIV Application Commentary) by K. Lawson Younger

Transform Your Habits

The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

Rod Dreher

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Unceasing Kindness: A Biblical Theology of Ruth

None , Gregory Goswell , Peter H. W. Lau

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Confessions

Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Orthodoxy

G.K. Chesterton

4.11

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10 must-read history books like The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation by Daniel G. Hummel

Transform Your Habits

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation

Jon Ward

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West

Andrew Wilson

4.51

Transform Your Habits

Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture

Aaron Renn

4.23

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