Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say
By: Preston M. Sprinkle
4.32
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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1. Is God anti-gay?: And other questions about homosexuality, the Bible and same-sex attraction
By: Sam Allberry
4.31
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
It's the hot topic of the moment. Christians, the church and the Bible seem to be out of step with … read more
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"But the fact is that the gospel demands everything of all of us. If someone thinks the gospel has slotted into their life quite easily, without causing any major adjustments to their lifestyle or asp…"-Sam Allberry, Is God anti-gay?: And other questions about homosexuality, the Bible and same-sex attraction
2. Fight: A Christian Case for Non-Violence
By: Preston Sprinkle
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fightexplores violence in the Bible and challenges us to live out Jesus' call to non-violence. With… read more
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3. Single, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Faith and Sexual Identity
By: None
3.33
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
In an age where neither society nor the church knows what to do with gay Christians, Greg Coles tel… read more
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4. Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up
By: Francis Chan , Preston Sprinkle
4.11
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
How could a loving God send people to hell? Will people have a chance after they die to believe in … read more
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5. A Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture That Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing
By: Scot McKnight
4.34
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What is the way forward for the church?Tragically, in recent years, Christians have gotten used to … read more
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6. Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
By: Esau McCaulley
4.43
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despai… read more
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"Prayer for leaders and criticism of their practices are not mutually exclusive ideas. Both have biblical warrant in the same letter."-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
"While I was at home with much of the theology in evangelicalism, there were real disconnects. First, there was the portrayal of the Black church in these circles. I was told that the social gospel ha…"-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
7. Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
By: Jackie Hill Perry
4.36
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
"I used to be a lesbian." In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, … read more
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"Do you know why we have a hard time believing that a gay girl can become a completely different creature? Because, we have a hard time believing in God. ..."-Jackie Hill Perry, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
"From the outside looking in, it could be assumed that Preston's and my relationship was God's proof of turning a "gay girl good." But really, He'd already done that the moment He'd set me free from s…"-Jackie Hill Perry, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
"Trying to contain the small giggle welling up in her chest from the sincerity of my question, Santoria, full of confidence, responded while looking toward my direction, "Yes, Jackie.The gospel didn't…"-Jackie Hill Perry, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
"LGBT culture has done an excellent job of renewing or should I say, destroying, the mind of many, mainly by consistently using words as their greatest tool in their efforts to draw people into findin…"-Jackie Hill Perry, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
8. 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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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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10. 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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11. 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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12. Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace
By: John Mark Comer
4.49
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
We are at war. Not with a foreign government or domestic terrorists or a creepy new artificial inte… read more
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"Anxious to avoid a repeat of history, Edmund Burke laid out the logic behind the American architecture in a letter from 1791: "Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their dispos…"-John Mark Comer, Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace
13. 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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14. Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West
By: Andrew Wilson
4.51
Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition
How 7 Transformational Events in 1776 Paved the Way for Today’s Post-Christian West With dizzyin… read more
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15. Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
By: Nijay K. Gupta
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in … read more
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16. 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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17. Born Again This Way
By: Rachel Gilson
4.47
Format: 160 pages, paperback
As a Christian who experiences same-sex attraction, is it possible to live a life that's faithful a… read more
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"...sin loves to grow in secrecy."-Rachel Gilson, Born Again This Way
"Natural doesn't automatically mean good... every one of us was born sinful."-Rachel Gilson, Born Again This Way
"Singleness for the Christian testifies to the sufficiency of Christ - to the world and to the church."-Rachel Gilson, Born Again This Way
"What is the motivation to obey a law that seems nonsensical? It can only be deep trust in the one who asks."-Rachel Gilson, Born Again This Way
18. Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
By: Austen Hartke
4.40
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
In 2014, Time magazine announced that America had reached “the transgender tipping point,” suggesti… read more
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"The thing is, we can't be in right relationship to each other if we can't see each other. We can't be fully present in any relationship if we're walling off part of ourselves or hiding beneath a mask."-Austen Hartke, Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
"It might seem daunting to a congregation to have to learn about pronouns, or to designate a bathroom gender-neutral, or to have difficult conversations about what it means to affirm LGBTQ+ identities…"-Austen Hartke, Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
"When we look at stories of renaming in the Bible, we often find that a character is handed a new name they never asked for. While I'm sure Abraham treasured the new name and promise God gave him, and…"-Austen Hartke, Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
"There are two ways to interpret what Paul says in Galatians 3:28 about our being one in Christ: either it means that we're all whitewashed and homogenized and our differences are erased... or it mean…"-Austen Hartke, Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
19. Faith for Exiles: 5 Ways for a New Generation to Follow Jesus in Digital Babylon
By: David Kinnaman
4.34
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
Discover What's Working and Find Hope Negative perceptions. Church dropouts. Prodigals and nomads. … read more
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20. 7 Myths about Singleness
By: Sam Allberry
4.56
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
If marriage shows us the shape of the gospel, singleness shows us its sufficiency. Much of what… read more
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"We need to remind ourselves, daily, that our singleness is not for us but for the Lord."-Sam Allberry, 7 Myths about Singleness
"And having people with whom to do nothing is not necessarily a need [married people are] conscious of."-Sam Allberry, 7 Myths about Singleness
"Some of my friends have said something along the line of “You know where you are and you’re always welcome. Don’t wait for us to invite you."-Sam Allberry, 7 Myths about Singleness
"And singleness isn't actually a bad thing. In the Bible it's good. It's even described as a blessing. In and of itself it's a wonderful gift from God that should be affirmed and celebrated."-Sam Allberry, 7 Myths about Singleness
21. Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn from the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexuality
By: Greg Johnson
4.39
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
At the start of the gay rights movement in 1969, evangelicalism's leading voices cast a vision for … read more
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