The Quest for Meekness and Quietness of Spirit
By: Matthew Henry
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1. Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
By: Timothy J. Keller
4.35
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Reason for God and The Songs of Jesus and a nationally… read more
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"The true god of your heart is what your thoughts effortlessly go to when there is nothing else demanding your attention."-Timothy J. Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
"When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's."-Timothy J. Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
"People "at the top" are eager to attribute their position to their own intellect, savvy, and hard work. The reality is much more complicated. Personal connections, family environment, and what appear…"-Timothy J. Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
"When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When such a thing is threatened, your anger is …"-Timothy J. Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
2. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more
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"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
3. Hannah Coulter
By: Wendell Berry
4.38
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more
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"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
4. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Spa… read more
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5. The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name
By: Sally Lloyd-Jones , Jago
4.16
Format: 84 pages, Hardcover
The Moonbeam Award Gold Medal Winner in the religion category, The Jesus Storybook Bible tells the … read more
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6. Eve in Exile and the Restoration of Femininity
By: Rebekah Merkle
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
The swooning Victorian ladies and the 1950s housewives genuinely needed to be liberated. That much … read more
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7. Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
By: John Piper
3.85
Format: 220 pages,
Scripture reveals that the great business of life is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. In thi… read more
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8. The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions
By: None , Arthur Bennett
4.53
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
The strength of Puritan character and life lay in prayer and meditation. In this practice the spiri… read more
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"O God, make me worthy of this calling, that the name of Jesus may be glorified in me and I in him."-None, The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions
"Oh God, it is amazing that men can talk so much about man's creaturely power and goodness, when, if thou didst not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate."-None, The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions
"Work in me more profound and abiding repentance; Give me the fullness of godly grief, that trembles and fears, yet ever trust and loves, which is ever powerful, and ever confident; Grant through the …"-None, The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions
"O MY FORGETFUL SOUL, Awake from thy wandering dream; turn from chasing vanities, look inward, forward, upward, view thyself, reflect upon thyself, who and what thou art, why here, what thou must soon…"-None, The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions
9. The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
By: Jeremiah Burroughs
4.33
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Jeremiah Burroughs is worthily reckoned as belonging to the front rank of English puritan preachers… read more
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"So be satisfied and quiet, be contented with your contentment. I lack certain things that others have, but blessed be God, I have a contented heart which others have not."-Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
"Christian, how did you enjoy comfort before? Was the creature anything to you but a conduit, a pipe, that conveyed God's goodness to you? 'The pipe is cut off,' says God, 'come to me, the fountain, a…"-Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
"In a clock, stop but one wheel and you stop every wheel, because they are dependent upon one other. So when God has ordered a thing for the present to be thus and thus, how do you know how many thing…"-Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
10. All of Grace
By: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
4.56
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of it is the gift of God (Ephesians 2:8). T… read more
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"The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace."-Charles Haddon Spurgeon, All of Grace
"None but God would ever have thought of justifying me. I am a wonder to myself."-Charles Haddon Spurgeon, All of Grace
"Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties."-Charles Haddon Spurgeon, All of Grace
"Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ."-Charles Haddon Spurgeon, All of Grace
11. The Quest for Meekness and Quietness of Spirit
By: Matthew Henry
3.50
Format: 270 pages,
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12. On the Incarnation
By: C.S. Lewis , Athanasius of Alexandria , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
A universally acknowledged masterpiece of fourth-century patristic theology. As C. S. Lewis observe… read more
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13. The Doctrine of Repentance
By: Thomas Watson
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Knowing what repentance is, and actually repenting, are essential to true Christianity. Few better … read more
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14. The Godly Man's Picture
By: Thomas Watson
2.50
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Watson is always the essence of sanity and reliability. Christians of all stages will feel as if th… read more
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15. The Pilgrim's Progress
By: John Bunyan
4.06
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most ent… read more
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"Follow your heart"-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
"Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none."-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
"They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?"-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
"Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion."-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
16. Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)
By: Patricia MacLachlan
3.83
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
This beloved Newbery Medal–winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter… read more
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"I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall."-Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)
"There are always things to miss," said Maggie. "No matter where you are."-Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)
"My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogbound sea the water is a color for which there is no name."-Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)
17. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
By: Eric Metaxas
4.16
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate t… read more
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18. Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
By: C.S. Lewis
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Lifeis a partial autobiography describing Lewis' conversion… read more
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19. The Abolition of Man
By: C.S. Lewis
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more
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20. Knowing God
By: J.I. Packer
2.00
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
For over 40 years, J. I. Packer's classic has been an important tool to help Christians around the … read more
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21. The Fruit of Her Hands: Respect and the Christian Woman
By: Nancy Wilson
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Imagine where the Church would be today if the men in it were respected as they ought to be by thei… read more
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22. Loving the Little Years: Motherhood in the Trenches
By: Rachel Jankovic
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the author: "I didn t write this book because mothering little ones is easy for me. I wrote it… read more
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23. The Mortification of Sin (Puritan Paperbacks)
By: John Owen
4.36
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
In this abridgement of a classic work, the famous Puritan John Owen shows the need for Christians t… read more
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"Let not man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts."-John Owen, The Mortification of Sin (Puritan Paperbacks)
"a sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification"-John Owen, The Mortification of Sin (Puritan Paperbacks)
"Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls. Live in this, and thou wilt die a conqueror; yea, thou wilt, through the good provi…"-John Owen, The Mortification of Sin (Puritan Paperbacks)
"A man may beat down the bitter fruit from an evil tree until he is weary; while the root abides in strength and vigour, the beating down of the present fruit will not hinder it from bringing forth mo…"-John Owen, The Mortification of Sin (Puritan Paperbacks)
24. 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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25. 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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"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
26. Can We Trust the Gospels?
By: Peter J. Williams
4.46
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
Is there evidence to believe the Gospels? The Gospels--Matthew, Mark, Luke, John--are four accou… read more
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27. Suffering is Never for Nothing
By: Elisabeth Elliot
4.68
Format: 108 pages, Hardcover
Hard times come for all in life, with no real explanation. When we walk through suffering, it has t… read more
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"Faith is not a feeling. Faith is willed obedience in action."-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing
"The love of God is not a sentiment. It is a willed and inexorable love that will command nothing less than the very best for us. The love of God wills our joy. I think of the love of God as being syn…"-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing
"It’s He who was the Word before the foundation of the world, suffering as a lamb slain. And He has a lot up His sleeve that you and I haven’t the slightest idea about now. He’s told us enough so that…"-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing
"We are not adrift in chaos. To me that is the most fortifying, the most stabilizing, the most peace-giving thing that I know about anything in the universe. Every time that things have seemingly fall…"-Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing
28. The Convivial Homeschool: Gospel Encouragement for Keeping Your Sanity While Living and Learning Alongside Your Kids
By: Mystie Winckler
4.70
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Thirty daily readings to build up your confidence and cheerfulness as you homeschool. Homeschool… read more
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"It does not discredit our authority when we admit we are wrong and seek forgiveness. In fact, ignoring sin discredits our authority. When we repent before God and our children, we give them a categor…"-Mystie Winckler, The Convivial Homeschool: Gospel Encouragement for Keeping Your Sanity While Living and Learning Alongside Your Kids
29. Impossible Christianity: Why Following Jesus Does Not Mean You Have to Change the World, Be an Expert in Everything, Accept Spiritual Failure, and Feel Miserable Pretty Much All the Time
By: Kevin DeYoung
4.36
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling Author Kevin DeYoung Offers Hope for Those Who Feel Like Christianity Has Become Hopele… read more
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30. How to be Free from Bitterness, and Other Essays on Christian Relationships
By: Jim Wilson
4.55
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Bitterness often grows out of a small offense: perhaps a passing word, an accidental shove, or a pa… read more
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31. The Interior Design Handbook: Furnish, Decorate, and Style Your Space
By: Frida Ramstedt
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The new comprehensive bible of interior design, from a home styling guru who has coached an entire … read more
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