Messy Church: A Multigenerational Mission for God's Family
By: Ross Parsley
3.80
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
When you look at the church today, what do you see? A corporation with a CEO at the helm? A social …
Want to Read $ 9.17"Many churches approach ministry to people through the lens of an educational system instead of through the analogy of the family."-Ross Parsley, Messy Church: A Multigenerational Mission for God's Family
"Many churches approach ministry to people through the lens of an educational system instead of through the analogy of the family."-Ross Parsley, Messy Church: A Multigenerational Mission for God's Family
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1. 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
2. Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
By: James K.A. Smith
2.00
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our t… read more
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3. Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
By: Kate Bowler
3.80
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of… read more
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"I was immediately worn out by the tyranny of prescriptive joy."-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
"I failed to love what was present and decided to love what was possible instead."-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
"They would find something simple and that would be the end of it. I'd just have to schedule my life around a surgery, nothing major."-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
"A lot of Christians like to remind me that heaven is my true home, which makes me want to ask them if they would like to go home first."-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
4. Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now
By: Walter Brueggemann
3.89
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Discussions about the Sabbath often center around moralistic laws and arguments over whether a pers… read more
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5. Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better
By: Brant Hansen
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Not entitled to get angry? Really? It's a radical, provocative idea: We're not entitled to get offe… read more
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6. The Pursuit of God
By: A.W. Tozer
3.80
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
During a train trip from Chicago to Texas in the late 1940s, A.W. Tozer began to write The Pursuit … read more
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7. A Life of Obedience
By: Andrew Murray
4.07
Format: 112 pages,
Andrew Murray traces obedience through the Bible, from Genesis to the final chapter of Revelation, … read more
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8. The Wiersbe Bible Study Series: Hebrews: Live by Faith, Not by Sight
By: Warren W. Wiersbe
4.75
Format: 14 pages,
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9. Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help
By: Robert D. Lupton
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Veteran urban activist Robert Lupton reveals the shockingly toxic effects that modern charity has u… read more
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10. Undistracted: Capture Your Purpose. Rediscover Your Joy.
By: Bob Goff
4.24
Format: 221 pages, Hardcover
Through his pithy and inspiring storytelling that has endeared him to millions, New York Times best… read more
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- leadership
11. A Non-Anxious Presence: How a Changing and Complex World will Create a Remnant of Renewed Christian Leaders
By: Mark Sayers
4.06
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
For much of recent history individuals and institutions could plan, execute, and flourish with thei… read more
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12. The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
By: John Mark Comer
4.53
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
"Who am I becoming?" That was the question nagging pastor and author John Mark Comer. Outwardly, he… read more
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"Hurry is violence on the soul."-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
"In the cruciform kingdom, only the bad things die: image and status and bragging rights, all vanity."-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
"The point of a trellis isn’t to make the vines stand up straight in neat rows, but rather to attain a rich, deep glass of wine. It’s to create space for the vine to grow and bear fruit."-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
"The Hebrew word Shabbat means ‘to stop.’ But it can also be translated ‘to delight.’ It has this dual idea of stopping and also of joying in God and our lives in his world. The Sabbath is an entire d…"-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
13. 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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14. Tending Roses (Tending Roses, #1)
By: Lisa Wingate
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Librarian Note: This is the updated cover for ISBN 9780451203076 Author Lisa Wingate drew upon h… read more
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"Time passes... but memories do not."-Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses (Tending Roses, #1)
"...It's hard to feel like much is wrong in the world when you're looking into the eyes of a happy baby."-Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses (Tending Roses, #1)
"...The best times of my life, the times that passed by me the most quickly, were the times when the roses grew wild."-Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses (Tending Roses, #1)
"Sometimes life moves so fast, the road splits in an instant, and you only have a heartbeat to decide which way to turn."-Lisa Wingate, Tending Roses (Tending Roses, #1)
15. Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say
By: Preston M. Sprinkle
4.32
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Compassionate, biblical, and thought-provoking, Embodied is an accessible guide for Christians who … read more
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16. All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
By: Beth Moore
4.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller! An incredibly thoughtful,… read more
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"Once you've broken to pieces, the luxury of imagining yourself unbreakable evaporates."-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
"You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children."-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
"A teenager doesn't know she's still a child. A teenager feels like an adult, I suppose primarily because her outside, her flesh and her face, her body, her size, her width and height, look like - and…"-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
17. Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms
By: Justin Whitmel Earley
4.61
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Discover simple habits and easy-to-implement daily rhythms that will help you find meaning beyond t… read more
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18. How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
By: James K.A. Smith
4.29
Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
Many Christians are disconnected from the past or imagine they are "above" history, immune to it, a… read more
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19. 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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20. Forgive: Why Should I and How Can I?
By: Timothy J. Keller
4.60
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller outlines the reasons why forgiveness ha… read more
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21. The Four Loves
By: C.S. Lewis
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human lov… read more
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"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"To know that one is dreaming is to be no longer perfectly asleep."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"El amor empieza a ser un demonio desde el momento en que comienza a ser un dios."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often."-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
22. Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World
By: Jennie Allen
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head offers practical solutions for creati… read more
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23. Art and Faith: A Theology of Making
By: Makoto Fujimura
4.29
Format: 167 pages, Hardcover
From a world-renowned painter, an exploration of creativity’s quintessential—and often overlooked—r… read more
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24. Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future
By: Jean M. Twenge
4.05
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United Stat… read more
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"John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, spoke to hundreds of young people for his 2022 book, Fight: How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Sa…"-Jean M. Twenge, Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future
25. Where the Light Fell
By: Philip Yancey
4.52
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this searing meditation on the bonds of family and the allure of extremist faith, one of today's… read more
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26. Following Jesus: Finding Our Way Home in an Age of Anxiety
By: Henri J.M. Nouwen
4.48
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
In this brand-new, never before published work of inspiration, the bestselling author of The Return… read more
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"Even people who are immensely praised and have made an enormous amount of money, who have awards, success, and applause, can be deeply depressed. If you get closer and you prick the balloon, you real…"-Henri J.M. Nouwen, Following Jesus: Finding Our Way Home in an Age of Anxiety
27. 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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28. Slow Ride Home (A Sunburned Land #4)
By: Juliette Duncan
4.76
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
He’s a cowboy who lives his life with abandon. She’s spirited and fiercely independent… Joshua G… read more
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29. Preaching: A God-Centred Vision
By: Michael Reeves
4.71
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
“I want to cast a vision for preaching that is nourished by the very being of God, the glory of his… read more
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30. Messy Church: A Multigenerational Mission for God's Family
By: Ross Parsley
3.80
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
When you look at the church today, what do you see? A corporation with a CEO at the helm? A social … read more
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"Many churches approach ministry to people through the lens of an educational system instead of through the analogy of the family."-Ross Parsley, Messy Church: A Multigenerational Mission for God's Family
31. Messiah in the Passover
By: Darrell L. Bock
4.42
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Messiah in the Passover is for anyone who wants to explore the traditions of the Passover and deepe… read more
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