16 best-selling christianity books like Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words Are Vanishing-and How We Can Revive Them by Jonathan Merritt

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Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words Are Vanishing-and How We Can Revive Them

By: Jonathan Merritt

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

As America rapidly becomes a pluralistic, postmodern society, many of us struggle to talk about fai…

"Libraries hold more than books - they also contain salvation."

-Jonathan Merritt, Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words Are Vanishing-and How We Can Revive Them

"We are word-shaped beings who live word-shaped lives within word-shaped communities."

-Jonathan Merritt, Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words Are Vanishing-and How We Can Revive Them

"Our words may not cause plants to sprout, but they can make hope spring forth in a human heart."

-Jonathan Merritt, Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words Are Vanishing-and How We Can Revive Them

"God could have launched this new era of history [the birth of Christianity] in an infinite number of ways, but God chose a linguistic miracle."

-Jonathan Merritt, Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words Are Vanishing-and How We Can Revive Them

If you liked the christianity plot in Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words Are Vanishing-and How We Can Revive Them by Jonathan Merritt , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

By: Anne Lamott

3.70

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow and Stitches comes a powerful exploration of mercy… read more

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"...being sober delivered almost everything drinking promised."

-Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

"...my disease wanted me dead, but would settle for getting me drunk..."

-Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

"Sigh: who was it who said that to get into heaven, you needed a letter of recommendation from the poor?"

-Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

"Trauma, which is stored differently in the brain than memory, seeps out of us as warnings of worse to come."

-Anne Lamott, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

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2. Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

By: Ben Montgomery

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography Emma Gatewood told her family… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

By: Richard Rohr

4.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

This popular and bestselling book of the renowned Franciscan challenges people to move beyond the c… read more

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4. 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

5. The Family of Jesus (Heart of the Story, #1)

By: Karen Kingsbury

4.22

Format: 129 pages, Hardcover

Through The Family of Jesus, listeners will develop an emotional connection to the family members o… read more

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6. Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

By: Rachel Held Evans

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

New York Timesbestselling author Rachel Held Evans embarks on a quest to find out what it really me… read more

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7. Learning to Walk in the Dark

By: Barbara Brown Taylor

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor's Learnin… read more

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8. I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working

By: Shauna Niequist

4.01

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When everything we've been clinging to falls apart, how do we know what to keep and what to let go … read more

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9. 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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10. 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

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11. Ferris

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real … read more

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12. The Lazy Genius Kitchen: Have What You Need, Use What You Have, and Enjoy It Like Never Before

By: Kendra Adachi

4.07

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lazy Genius Way comes a fresh perspective for get… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church by Katelyn Beaty

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

Cover of Bully Pulpit: Confronting the Problem of Spiritual Abuse in the Church by Michael J. Kruger

14. 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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15. The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus

By: Rich Villodas

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

During our chaotic times, discover five forgotten values that can spark internal growth and help us… read more

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"Adam and Eve hid behind a tree, naked and con­quered by shame. But Jesus hung on a tree, naked, and conquered shame. In Jesus, shame doesn’t have the last word."

-Rich Villodas, The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus

"Sabbath is not a reward for hard work. Sabbath is a gift that precedes work and enables us to work. (…) As with God’s Grace, rest is never a reward; it’s a gift."

-Rich Villodas, The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus

"The reason we are hospitable is to open our hearts to others in the way that God has opened His heart to us. (...) As the theologian Henri Nouwen said, "Hospitality is not to change people, but to of…"

-Rich Villodas, The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus

"When I get to the portion that says, "Lead us not into temptation," That (...) doesn't mean that God leads us into temptation; rather, (...) It's us essentially saying, "Lord, (...) I'm vulnerable. D…"

-Rich Villodas, The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus

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16. Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere

By: Savannah Guthrie

4.36

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Mostly what God does is love you. If we could believe this, really believe this, how different w… read more

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"He doesn't even need words from us. Just a sigh, a tear, or a whimper. What an amazing resource we have in a God who already understands our whole history, our intricate emotional fabric, our every i…"

-Savannah Guthrie, Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere

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17. All It Takes Is a Goal: The 3-Step Plan to Ditch Regret and Tap Into Your Massive Potential

By: Jon Acuff

4.62

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"This is my new favorite book about goals!" -- Mel Robbins , podcaster and New York Times bestselli… read more

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Cover of No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear by Kate Bowler

18. No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

By: Kate Bowler

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) asks, how do … read more

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"We live and we are loved and we are gone."

-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

"Nothing will exempt me from the pain of being human."

-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

"People say carpe diem. I mean, yes, unless you need a nap."

-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

"I feel a spark of horror each time I remember it: we come undone."

-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

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19. The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe

By: Richard Rohr

4.45

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - With a new afterword - From one of the world's most influential spiritu… read more

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Cover of Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God) by Peter Enns

20. Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

By: Peter Enns

4.36

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

“Peter Enns is brilliant at taking the big topics, those Christian ideas that usually scare us or i… read more

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"Does the God of Abraham look lovingly upon ancient cave drawings and temples dedicated to the only gods ancient humans could have known?"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"Like a frail plant that needs careful tending and constant protection from sun and wind, perhaps the real problem wasn’t me but the fragile, unsustainable version of Christianity I had been told was …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"Placeholder theology is the very nature of theology. By it we acknowledge the human need to say something about ultimate meaning concerning the Creator and the creation while also understanding that …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"A God who does not connect to the world around us is a God who cannot speak to us. Believing in a God who demands that we continue to adopt only biblically ancient ways of thinking of God, which are …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

Cover of In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character by Jen Wilkin

21. In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character

By: Jen Wilkin

4.45

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

Sometimes we ask What is God's will for my life? when we should really be asking Who should I be? T… read more

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"How should the knowledge that God is ______ change the way I live?"

-Jen Wilkin, In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character

"God's will for our lives is that we conform to the image of Christ, whose incarnation shows us humanity perfectly conformed to the image of God."

-Jen Wilkin, In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character

"No longer can we parse our fellow humans into the categories of ‘lovable’ and ‘unlovable.’ If love is an act of the will — not motivated by need, not measuring worth, not requiring reciprocity — then…"

-Jen Wilkin, In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character

"If we focus on our actions without addressing our hearts, we may end up merely as better behaved lovers of self (...) The hope of the gospel in our sanctification is not simply that we would make bet…"

-Jen Wilkin, In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character

Cover of I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening): A Guide to Grace-Filled Political Conversations by Sarah Stewart Holland

22. I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening): A Guide to Grace-Filled Political Conversations

By: Sarah Stewart Holland

4.08

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

More than ever, politics seems driven by conflict and anger. People sitting together in pews every … read more

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"Molds are for Jell-O, not for people."

-Sarah Stewart Holland, I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening): A Guide to Grace-Filled Political Conversations

"We have to stop fearing difficult discussions and start seeing them as opportunities for growth."

-Sarah Stewart Holland, I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening): A Guide to Grace-Filled Political Conversations

"Paradox is disorienting at times. It is also empowering. It can be empowering to say “I don’t know."

-Sarah Stewart Holland, I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening): A Guide to Grace-Filled Political Conversations

"Learning to have healthy conflict with each other over political challenges is of utmost importance; in fact, it is a spiritual imperative."

-Sarah Stewart Holland, I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening): A Guide to Grace-Filled Political Conversations

Cover of The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here by Kaitlyn Schiess

23. 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

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24. Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age

By: Alan Noble

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

We live in a distracted, secular age. These two trends define life in Western society today. We are… read more

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Cover of You Are the Girl for the Job: Daring to Believe the God Who Calls You by Jess Connolly

25. You Are the Girl for the Job: Daring to Believe the God Who Calls You

By: Jess Connolly

4.27

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Get ready to leave defeat and disbelief in your dust, and step boldly into the life God has purpose… read more

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26. Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

By: Gregory Boyle

4.57

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In a moving example of unconditional love in dif­ficult times, the Jesuit priest and bestselling au… read more

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"What if we ceased to pledge our allegiance to the bottom line and stood, instead, with those who line the bottom?"

-Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

"Moral outrage is the opposite of God; it only divides and separates what God wants for us, which is to be united in kinship. Moral outrage doesn't lead us to solutions - it keeps us from them. It kee…"

-Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

"But I know, with all the certainty of my being, that Jesus has no interest in my doing this. To just say, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, I'm your biggest fan," causes him to stare at his watch, tap his feet, …"

-Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

"[...] But then he adds quickly, "You know what I do when I'm low on faith?" I shake my head and lean in. My faith's gas tank has been known to hover at "E", so I wanted to know. "I stand right here a…"

-Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

Cover of Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First: 10 Questions to Take Your Friendships to the Next Level by Laura Tremaine

27. Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First: 10 Questions to Take Your Friendships to the Next Level

By: Laura Tremaine

3.92

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir and part guidebook, Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. is the invitation you've been wait… read more

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". . . sharing our stuff drags it out of the dark and into the light, and everything looks better in the light."

-Laura Tremaine, Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First: 10 Questions to Take Your Friendships to the Next Level

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28. Parenting: Getting It Right

By: Andy Stanley

4.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Am I getting parenting right? Most parents, at any and every stage, find themselves asking this que… read more

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Cover of Every Moment Holy Volume II: Death, Grief, and Hope by Douglas Kaine McKelvey

29. Every Moment Holy Volume II: Death, Grief, and Hope

By: Douglas Kaine McKelvey

4.84

Format: 384 pages, Leather Bound

EVERY MOMENT HOLY, Vol. 2: DEATH, GRIEF, & HOPE, is a book of liturgies for seasons of dying and gr… read more

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Cover of Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith by April Ajoy

30. Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith

By: April Ajoy

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and eye-opening account of leaving Christian Nationalism behind to follow Jesus better.… read more

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Cover of Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words Are Vanishing-and How We Can Revive Them by Jonathan Merritt

31. Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words Are Vanishing-and How We Can Revive Them

By: Jonathan Merritt

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

As America rapidly becomes a pluralistic, postmodern society, many of us struggle to talk about fai… read more

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"Libraries hold more than books - they also contain salvation."

-Jonathan Merritt, Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words Are Vanishing-and How We Can Revive Them

"We are word-shaped beings who live word-shaped lives within word-shaped communities."

-Jonathan Merritt, Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words Are Vanishing-and How We Can Revive Them

"Our words may not cause plants to sprout, but they can make hope spring forth in a human heart."

-Jonathan Merritt, Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words Are Vanishing-and How We Can Revive Them

"God could have launched this new era of history [the birth of Christianity] in an infinite number of ways, but God chose a linguistic miracle."

-Jonathan Merritt, Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words Are Vanishing-and How We Can Revive Them

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