15 must-read christianity books like The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis

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The Problem of Pain

By: C.S. Lewis

4.13

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all: If God is good and all-powerful…

"Man is to be understood only in his relation to God."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Man is to be understood only in his relation to God."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

If you liked the christianity plot in The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

By: Timothy J. Keller , Kathy Keller

4.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Renowned pastor of New York’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church and author of The Songs of Jesus, Timoth… read more

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"Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

"Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

"A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

"Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

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2. Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

By: David Platt

4.18

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

What is Jesus worth to you? It's easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followe… read more

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"I had the faith of a sermon, but not the faith of his son. – John Wesley"

-David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

"We may have loved the god that we made up in our minds, but the God of the Bible, we hate."

-David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

"God's revelation in the Gospel not only reveals Who He is, but it also reveals who we are."

-David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

"My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him. "

-David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

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3. The Cost of Discipleship

By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between… read more

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"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

"Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

"Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

"Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

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4. The Case for Christ

By: Lee Strobel

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Using the dramatic scenario of an investigative journalist pursuing his story and leads, Lee Strobe… read more

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5. 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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6. Orthodoxy

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… 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 Holy Bible: King James Version

By: Anonymous

4.44

Format: 1590 pages, Hardcover

Biblija ili Sveto pismo jest zbirka knjiga koje Hebreji i kršćani na svoj način smatraju svetima. D… read more

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"Not my will, but thine, be done."

-Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

"We live by faith and not by sight."

-Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

"I'm my beloved's and my beloved is mine."

-Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

"If God is for us, who can be against us?"

-Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

9. Left Behind (Left Behind, #1)

By: Tim LaHaye , Jerry B. Jenkins

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An airborne Boeing 747 is headed to London when, without any warning, passengers mysteriously disap… read more

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10. The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

By: Rick Warren

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

This book will help you understand why you are alive and God's amazing plan for you - both the here… read more

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"You must begin with God."

-Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"Familiarity breeds complacency."

-Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"God never does anything accidentally..."

-Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

"Knowing your purpose focuses your life."

-Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

11. The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

By: Timothy J. Keller

4.00

Format: None pages,

. The End of Faith. The God Delusion. God Is Not Great. Letter to a Christian Nation. Bestseller l… read more

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12. The Practice of the Presence of God

By: Brother Lawrence

4.32

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0883681056 can be found here Brother Lawrence was a man of hum… read more

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"We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed."

-Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God

"We must know before we can love. In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure."

-Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God

" Prayer is so simple. It is like quietly opening a door and slipping into the very presence of God. There, in the stillness, to listen to His voice, perhaps in petition or only to listen. It matters …"

-Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God

"That with him the set times of prayer were not different from other times: that he retired to pray, according to the directions of his Superior, but that he did not want such retirement. nor ask for …"

-Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God

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13. 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

14. The Pursuit of God

By: A.W. Tozer

3.80

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

During a train trip from Chicago to Texas in the late 1940s, A.W. Tozer began to write The Pursuit … read more

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15. 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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16. The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

By: Timothy J. Keller

4.42

Format: 139 pages, Hardcover

Newsweek called renowned minister Timothy Keller "a C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century" in a … read more

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"If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jes…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting th…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"The targets of this story are not "wayward sinners" but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to …"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: "If I was saved by my good works -- then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me throug…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

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17. Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

By: Francis Chan , Danae Yankoski , Chris Tomlin

4.17

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Have you ever wondered if we're missing it? It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the unive… read more

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"True faith manifests itself through our actions."

-Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

"We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator."

-Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

"Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers."

-Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

"Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God."

-Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

18. The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

By: John Sherrill , Elizabeth Sherrill , Corrie ten Boom

3.81

Format: None pages,

At one time Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that there would ever be a story to tell… read more

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19. 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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20. The Problem of Pain

By: C.S. Lewis

4.13

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all: If God is good and all-powerful… read more

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"Man is to be understood only in his relation to God."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him."

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

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21. George MacDonald

By: George MacDonald

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDo… read more

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"The one principle of hell is – “I am my own"

-George MacDonald, George MacDonald

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The Cost of Discipleship

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Confessions

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3.41

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Orthodoxy

G.K. Chesterton

4.11

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The Holy Bible: King James Version

Anonymous

4.44

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Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

David Platt

4.18

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The Cost of Discipleship

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.30

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C.S. Lewis

4.31

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