17 best-selling theology books like Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word) by Philip Graham Ryken

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Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)

By: Philip Graham Ryken

4.36

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The book of Ecclesiastes is "about life, the way it really is," writes commentator Philip Ryken. Re…

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1. The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts

By: John Piper , Joe Rigney

4.47

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

The world is full of good things. Ice-cold lemonade. The laughter of children. College football.… read more

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"Be the smile of God to your children."

-John Piper, The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts

"A full look at Jesus makes his gifts come alive."

-John Piper, The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts

"What many call 'plundering the Egyptians' is nothing more than dumpster diving in Egypt."

-John Piper, The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts

"In Christ, God is restoring what has been lost and reintegrating our love for him and our enjoyment of his gifts so that they do not compete with each other but instead mutually serve and enhance eac…"

-John Piper, The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts

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2. Affirming the Apostles’ Creed

By: J.I. Packer

4.04

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Apostles’ Creed is the oldest, most beautiful succinct summary of Christian beliefs. Though oft… read more

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3. The Masculine Mandate: God's Calling to Men

By: Jerry Bridges , Richard D. Phillips

4.13

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

There is a crying need in the church today for men to be men. But competing visions for what a man … read more

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"Of all men, Christians should work especially hard, giving more than an honest day's work for a day's wage."

-Jerry Bridges, The Masculine Mandate: God's Calling to Men

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4. The Expulsive Power of a New Affection

By: Thomas Chalmers

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Dr. Chalmers states that "It is seldom that any of our tastes are made to disappear by a mere proce… read more

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5. Living Life Backward: How Ecclesiastes Teaches Us to Live in Light of the End

By: David Gibson

3.24

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Only by keeping the end in mind can a person truly learn how to live in the here and now. Living in… read more

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6. Exalting Jesus in Ecclesiastes

By: Daniel L. Akin , Jonathan Akin

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Edited by David Platt, Daniel L. Akin, and Tony Merida, this new commentary series, projected to be… read more

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7. 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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8. Do More Better: A Practical Guide to Productivity

By: Tim Challies

4.03

Format: 208 pages,

Don't try to do it all. Do more good. Better. I am no productivity guru. I am a writer, a church le… read more

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9. 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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10. Ecclesiastes

By: Douglas Sean O'Donnell

4.33

Format: 300 pages,

Practical, biblical, redemptive-historical, expositional help with the unusual book of Ecclesiastes… read more

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11. A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

By: Eugene H. Peterson

3.50

Format: 424 pages,

This world is no friend to grace. God has given us some resources, however. As we grow in character… read more

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12. Be Satisfied (Ecclesiastes): Looking for the Answer to the Meaning of Life (The BE Series Commentary)

By: Warren W. Wiersbe

4.10

Format: 322 pages,

Warren Wiersbe introduces us to the Book of Ecclesiastes, an inspired road map that guides you thro… read more

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13. ESV Study Bible

By: Anonymous , Wayne Grudem , Lane T. Dennis

3.00

Format: 9 pages, Hardcover

The ESV Study Biblewas designed to help you understand the Bible in a deeper way. Created by a dive… read more

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14. Recovering Eden: The Gospel According to Ecclesiastes

By: Zack Eswine

4.00

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Ecclesiastes shows a frank, unafraid familiarity with transparency, beauty, and ugliness. Eswine's … read more

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15. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

By: Carl R. Trueman

4.57

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Modern culture is obsessed with identity. Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court … read more

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"[I]n the work of the New Left one finds philosophical justification for what are now intuitive commonplaces of our culture: to be free is to be sexually liberated; to be happy is to be affirmed in th…"

-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

"The expressive individual is now the sexually expressive individual. And education and socialization are to be marked not by the cultivation of traditional sexual interdicts and taboos but rather by …"

-Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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20. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more

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"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

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21. Mama Bear Apologetics: Empowering Your Kids to Challenge Cultural Lies

By: Hillary Morgan Ferrer

4.38

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

*Foreword written by Nancy Pearcey* #RoarLikeAMother The problem with lies is they don’t of… read more

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22. Tiger Chair

By: Max Brooks

3.57

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

When China invades America, guerrilla warfare explodes on the streets of Los Angeles in this provoc… read more

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23. The Bitterroots (Highway Quartet, #5)

By: C.J. Box

4.08

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

A riveting new novel from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar-Award winning author. Former … read more

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24. 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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25. What God Has to Say about Our Bodies: How the Gospel Is Good News for Our Physical Selves

By: Sam Allberry

4.27

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"God's eternal plan for us involves our body. We can't write off our physical life as spiritually i… read more

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26. 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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27. 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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28. 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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29. Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther: Restoring the Church (Preaching the Word)

By: Wallace P Benn

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Packed with exciting Biblical history, the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther display God’s faithf… read more

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30. 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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31. Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word)

By: Philip Graham Ryken

4.36

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The book of Ecclesiastes is "about life, the way it really is," writes commentator Philip Ryken. Re… read more

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17 best-selling christian books like Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters (Preaching the Word) by Philip Graham Ryken

Transform Your Habits

The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts

John Piper , Joe Rigney

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Affirming the Apostles’ Creed

J.I. Packer

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Masculine Mandate: God's Calling to Men

Jerry Bridges , Richard D. Phillips

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The Expulsive Power of a New Affection

Thomas Chalmers

3.00

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Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

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4.52

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Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

John Mark Comer

4.63

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How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

Emily P. Freeman

4.01

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Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

Jennie Allen

4.24

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