17 best-selling nonfiction books like The Creaking on the Stairs: Finding Faith in God Through Childhood Abuse (Biography) by Mez McConnell

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The Creaking on the Stairs: Finding Faith in God Through Childhood Abuse (Biography)

By: Mez McConnell

4.61

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

I think there is real hope to be found, in the middle of our deepest traumas, in the good news abou…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Creaking on the Stairs: Finding Faith in God Through Childhood Abuse (Biography) by Mez McConnell , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. CrossTalk: Where Life & Scripture Meet

By: Michael R. Emlet

4.00

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

An Antidote to "Take Two Verses and Call Me in the Morning" Your friend just left his wife. You cat… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • counselling
  • nonfiction
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2. 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
  • christian
  • biography
  • theology

3. The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith

By: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. She had a tenured position at a lar… read more

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4. The Holiness of God

By: R.C. Sproul

4.33

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Central to God's character is the quality of holiness. Yet, even so, most people are hard-pressed t… read more

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5. Hinds' Feet on High Places

By: Hannah Hurnard

3.67

Format: 220 pages,

Hinds' Feet on High Placesis one of Hannah Hurnard's best known and best loved books. This book is … read more

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6. Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

By: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

4.54

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling Author Rosaria Butterfield Confronts 5 Cultural Lies She Once Believed Modern culture i… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • nonfiction
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7. Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

By: Mark Vroegop

4.54

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Lament is how you live between the poles of a hard life and trusting God's goodness. Lament is h… read more

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  • faith
  • counselling
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"To cry is human, but to lament is Christian."

-Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

"Every lament is a prayer; a statement of faith"

-Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

"When brokenness becomes your life, lament helps you turn to God. It lifts your head and turns your tear-filled eyes toward the only hope you have: God's grace."

-Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

"The lament of Good Friday was answered three days later with the empty tomb. The greatest injustice in history became the greatest display of divine mercy. Tragedy became triumph. Lament was the voic…"

-Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

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

By: Dane C. Ortlund

4.52

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Christians know that God loves them, but often think that he is perpetually disappointed and frustr… read more

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"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

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9. Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation

By: Collin Hansen

4.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Timothy Keller takes readers behind the scenes to meet the people and understand the events that fo… read more

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  • christian
  • biography
  • memoir
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • nonfiction
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10. 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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  • christianity
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
"[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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11. Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

By: Jennie Allen

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head provides a revolutionary path to embr… read more

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  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
"Feelings aren’t meant to be fixed. Feelings are meant to be felt."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

"Let me be clear, you will never be emotionally healthy outside the will of God."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

"Our willingness to feel what we feel connects us to ourselves, to others, to God."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

"After all, where did those of us who know Jesus get the idea that we were going to have a straight and easy path all the way to heaven? It’s a wild ride all the way home."

-Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

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12. M Is for Mama: A Rebellion Against Mediocre Motherhood

By: Abbie Halberstadt

4.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER Mama of ten Abbie Halberstadt helps women humbly and gracefully ri… read more

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  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
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13. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

By: Abigail Shrier

4.06

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

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14. 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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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • counselling
  • nonfiction
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15. The Lord of Psalm 23: Jesus Our Shepherd, Companion, and Host

By: David Gibson

4.74

Format: 157 pages, Kindle Edition

Expository Study of Psalm 23 Reveals the Beauty and Deep Theological Meaning behind a Familiar Part… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • nonfiction
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16. Rediscover Church: Why the Body of Christ Is Essential

By: Collin Hansen

4.13

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

“A Christian without a church is a Christian in trouble.” Since a global pandemic abruptly closed p… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Mere Christendom

By: Douglas Wilson

4.28

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Evangelical elites tell us that Christian nationalism and theocracy are grave dangers to our Christ… read more

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  • christian
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  • theology
"Anyone who conforms to the Westminster Confession of Faith is a Christian Nationalist."

-Douglas Wilson, Mere Christendom

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18. 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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  • christian
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  • christianity
  • faith
  • nonfiction
Cover of Love the Ones Who Drive You Crazy: Eight Truths for Pursuing Unity in Your Church (9Marks) by Jamie Dunlop

19. Love the Ones Who Drive You Crazy: Eight Truths for Pursuing Unity in Your Church (9Marks)

By: Jamie Dunlop

4.32

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Loving Those at Church Who Are Hard to Love Churches are full of differences. Those differences mig… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • theology
"Is your friendship moving toward affection, or is it settled in obligation? Does your friendship honor the individual or debase him as a charity case? Is your desire for this person’s good zealous, o…"

-Jamie Dunlop, Love the Ones Who Drive You Crazy: Eight Truths for Pursuing Unity in Your Church (9Marks)

"The differences that threaten to tear your church apart are opportunities to demonstrate that being ‘in accord with Christ Jesus’ is all we need to be in ‘harmony with one another.’ That’s how ‘with …"

-Jamie Dunlop, Love the Ones Who Drive You Crazy: Eight Truths for Pursuing Unity in Your Church (9Marks)

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20. The Creaking on the Stairs: Finding Faith in God Through Childhood Abuse (Biography)

By: Mez McConnell

4.61

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

I think there is real hope to be found, in the middle of our deepest traumas, in the good news abou… read more

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  • christian
  • biography
  • memoir
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • counselling
  • nonfiction
  • abuse
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21. Pastoral Perseverance

By: Brian Croft

4.78

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

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16 must-read christian books like The Creaking on the Stairs: Finding Faith in God Through Childhood Abuse (Biography) by Mez McConnell

Transform Your Habits

CrossTalk: Where Life & Scripture Meet

Michael R. Emlet

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Confessions

Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

Mark Vroegop

4.54

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Transform Your Habits

When People Are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man (Resources for Changing Lives)

Edward T. Welch

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Good and Angry: Redeeming Anger, Irritation, Complaining, and Bitterness

David A. Powlison

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change (Resources for Changing Lives)

Paul David Tripp

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Seasons of Sorrow: The Pain of Loss and the Comfort of God

Tim Challies

4.80

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