Romans for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Misused, Problematic and Prooftexted Letter in the Bible
By: J.R. Daniel Kirk
4.12
Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition
Paul’s letter to the Roman church is one of the most widely read, rigorously discussed and minutely…
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1. What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything
By: Rob Bell
4.32
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Rob Bell, the beloved author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God, goes deep … read more
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2. With Open Hands
By: Henri J.M. Nouwen , Sue Monk Kidd
3.86
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
Now updated, 'With Open Hands' offers gentle encouragement to readers seeking God & insight to the … read more
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3. The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
By: Joe Barrett , Peter Enns
3.63
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
The controversial Bible scholar and author of The Evolution of Adamrecounts his transformative spir… read more
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4. Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
By: Rob Bell
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
We have to test everything.I thank God for anybody anywhere who is pointing people to the mysteries… read more
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5. The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic... or Awesome?
By: Tripp Fuller
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Recognizing that the battle over Jesus is no longer a public debate between the skeptic and believe… read more
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6. The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
By: Peter Enns
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
The controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me Soexplains how Christi… read more
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7. Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News
By: Brian Zahnd
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Does God's Wrath Define Christianity? Or Does God's Love? In his famous sermon -Sinners in the Hand… read more
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8. Genesis for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Controversial, Misunderstood, and Abused Book of the Bible
By: Peter Enns , Jared Byas
4.60
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
Given the fever-pitched controversies about evolution, Adam and Eve, and scientific evidence for th… read more
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9. The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say about Human Origins
By: Peter Enns
3.91
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Can Christianity and evolution coexist? Traditional Christian teaching presents Jesus as reversing … read more
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10. The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society
By: Henri J.M. Nouwen
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
The Wounded Healeris a hope-filled and simple book that speaks directly to those men and women who … read more
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11. Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
By: Rachel Held Evans
4.39
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
One Woman’s Journey Back to Loving the Bible If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instructio… read more
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"How could I love God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength while disengaging those very faculties every time I read the Bible?"-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
"The point is, if you pay attention to the women, a more complex history of Israel's conquests emerges. Their stories invite the reader to consider the human cost of violence and patriarchy, and in th…"-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
"In other words, the prophets are weirdos. More than anyone else in Scripture, they remind us that those odd ducks shouting from the margins of society may see things more clearly than the political a…"-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
"What I love about the Bible is that the story isn't over. There are still prophets in our midst. There are still dragons and beasts. It might not look like it, but the Resistance is winning. The ligh…"-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
12. Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
By: Rob Bell
3.66
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God… read more
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"You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs."-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
"Forgiveness is unilateral. God isn’t waiting for us to get it together, to clean up, shape up, get up - God has already done it."-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
"...Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. "What do you think? How do you read it?" he asks, again and again and again."-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
"Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want."-Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
13. Romans for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Misused, Problematic and Prooftexted Letter in the Bible
By: J.R. Daniel Kirk
4.12
Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition
Paul’s letter to the Roman church is one of the most widely read, rigorously discussed and minutely… read more
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14. Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future
By: Jean M. Twenge
4.05
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United Stat… read more
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"John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, spoke to hundreds of young people for his 2022 book, Fight: How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Sa…"-Jean M. Twenge, Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future
15. The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
By: Karen Swallow Prior
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Contemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis--and a lot of bad press. … read more
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"For Hardy and other critics of the evangelical movement, too often the desire for purity encouraged hypocrisy, earnest ideals became mere performance, and the valuation of hard work turned into pursu…"-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
"The novel [ Pamela ] is also a very powerful early expression of the modern self, one who sees her soul as equal in human worth and dignity to anyone, regardless of social class or power--and this, t…"-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis
16. How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News
By: Peter Enns
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Controversial evangelical Bible scholar, popular blogger and podcast host of The Bible for Normal P… read more
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17. 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)
18. Love Matters More: How Fighting to Be Right Keeps Us from Loving Like Jesus
By: Jared Byas
4.47
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
For years, Christians have argued, debated, and fought one another while "speaking the truth in lov… read more
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19. Southernmost
By: Silas House
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles… read more
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"Some nights he thinks they are just a dream God is having"-Silas House, Southernmost
"Surely there is a light in that boy that will never go out, no matter what he has to face along the way. That's all a father can hope for his child, that a little fire will burn in them to keep them …"-Silas House, Southernmost
20. Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End
By: Bart D. Ehrman
4.25
Format: 8 pages, Audiobook
A “humane, thoughtful, and intelligent” (The New York Times Book Review) bestselling Biblical schol… read more
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21. Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It
By: Brian D. McLaren
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of A New Kind of Christianity comes a bold proposal: only doubt can save the world … read more
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22. Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned
By: Brian D. McLaren
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Dubbed "a heroic gate-crasher" by New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Brian D. McLaren… read more
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23. Jesus' Alternative Plan: The Sermon on the Mount
By: Richard Rohr
4.61
Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition
When Jesus talked about the Kingdom of God, he was talking about an utterly different way of relati… read more
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"We know everything today and believe almost nothing. It is not reason that drives our lives, but passion or the search for it. It is not words and concepts, but living images that grab our souls. It …"-Richard Rohr, Jesus' Alternative Plan: The Sermon on the Mount
24. John for Normal People: A Guide through the Depth & Drama of the Fourth Gospel (The Bible for Normal People)
By: Jennifer Bashaw
4.18
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
In this thoughtfully researched, playful commentary, Jennifer Garcia Bashaw illuminates the theolog… read more
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25. Jonah for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Misunderstood Prophet of the Bible (The Bible for Normal People)
By: Jared Byas
4.49
Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition
Jonah’s encounter with a big fish is one of the most widely recognised—and misunderstood—stories in… read more
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26. Open and Relational Theology: An Introduction to Life-Changing Ideas
By: Thomas Jay Oord
4.16
Format: 155 pages, Kindle Edition
Most theologies suck. They’re too technical or they describe a God nobody understands. Sometimes th… read more
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"God is likely bigger and wilder than any box."-Thomas Jay Oord, Open and Relational Theology: An Introduction to Life-Changing Ideas
27. God Can't: How to Believe in God and Love after Tragedy, Abuse, and Other Evils
By: Thomas Jay Oord
4.03
Format: 212 pages, ebook
Many people wrestle with questions of evil. Some appeal to mystery (“God’s ways are not our ways”).… read more
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28. Exodus for Normal People: A Guide to the Story—and History—of the Second Book of the Bible
By: Peter Enns
4.30
Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition
Behind the scenes of movies like The Ten Commandments, The Prince of Egypt, or Gods and Kings is a… read more
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29. Psalms for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Relentlessly Theological Book in the Bible (The Bible for Normal People Book)
By: Joshua T. James
4.46
Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition
For millennia the psalms have been whispered in prayer, lifted in song, and recited in worship. The… read more
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30. Revelation for Normal People: A Guide to the Strangest and Most Dangerous Book in the Bible (The Bible for Normal People)
By: Robyn J. Whitaker
4.47
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
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"One of the key themes in Revelation is about who you worship, because the object of your worship is a sign of your true allegiance."-Robyn J. Whitaker, Revelation for Normal People: A Guide to the Strangest and Most Dangerous Book in the Bible (The Bible for Normal People)
"Revelation is a highly political, but also deeply theological, text. It offers us a profound way to think about evil as something found in structures and systems, and to ponder what an ethical respon…"-Robyn J. Whitaker, Revelation for Normal People: A Guide to the Strangest and Most Dangerous Book in the Bible (The Bible for Normal People)
"Justice and worship are intertwined in John's theology. In modern terms, John is saying that worship is not something that stays within the walls of the church. In John's theology, the songs and ritu…"-Robyn J. Whitaker, Revelation for Normal People: A Guide to the Strangest and Most Dangerous Book in the Bible (The Bible for Normal People)
31. Revelation for Normal People: A Guide to the Strangest and Most Dangerous Book in the Bible (The Bible for Normal People)
By: Robyn Whitaker
4.11
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
It has never been more important to read Revelation well.Whether you love it, hate it, or avoid it … read more
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