23 must-read faith books like Aggressively Happy: A Realist's Guide to Believing in the Goodness of Life by Joy Marie Clarkson

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Aggressively Happy: A Realist's Guide to Believing in the Goodness of Life

By: Joy Marie Clarkson

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

This old world can be exhausting, despairing, and cynical. But you don't have to be. Instead, yo…

If you liked the faith plot in Aggressively Happy: A Realist's Guide to Believing in the Goodness of Life by Joy Marie Clarkson , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. The Scent of Water

By: Elizabeth Goudge

4.16

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Mary Lindsay met her little niece and namesake only once, but she saw in the quiet, imaginative chi… read more

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  • christian
"Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see."

-Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water

"She knew there could be no certainty, only faith. Could she find faith?"

-Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water

"What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew."

-Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water

"Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it."

-Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water

Cover of Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul by Hannah Anderson

2. Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul

By: Hannah Anderson

3.95

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

Find abundance in a humble life. A lot of books these days are trying to diagnose our discontentmen… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time by Sally Clarkson

3. The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith through Feasting, One Meal at a Time

By: Sally Clarkson

4.48

Format: 448 pages,

Make your table a place where your family and friends long to be--where they will find rest, renewa… read more

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  • faith
  • christian living
  • christian
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Mission of Motherhood: Touching Your Child's Heart for Eternity by Sally Clarkson

4. The Mission of Motherhood: Touching Your Child's Heart for Eternity

By: Sally Clarkson

3.44

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

A Fresh Vision for Motherhood -Do you long for your home to be life-giving and peaceful? -Is it you… read more

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  • christian
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
Cover of Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace by Sarah       Mackenzie

5. Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace

By: Sarah Mackenzie

3.81

Format: 225 pages, ebook

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  • self help
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

6. Own Your Life: How to Grow a Legacy of Faith, Love, and Spiritual Influence

By: Sally Clarkson , Sarah Mae , Ruth Schwenk , None

3.33

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

Do you ever long for days full of joy and energy--days that bring out the best version of you rathe… read more

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7. Surprised by Oxford

By: Carolyn Weber

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

A "girl-meets-God" style memoir of an agnostic who, through her surprising opportunity to study at … read more

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8. Pilgrim's Inn (Eliots of Damerosehay, #2)

By: Elizabeth Goudge

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Hardcover

After WW II, Lucilla's soldier son George and his beautiful wife Nadine lived with their five child… read more

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9. Different: The Story of an Outside-The-Box Kid and the Mom Who Loved Him

By: Sally Clarkson , Nathan Clarkson

3.19

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nathan was different and Sally knew it. From his early childhood, Nathan was bursting with creativi… read more

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Cover of Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too by Cindy Rollins

10. Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

By: Cindy Rollins

4.75

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Being a mom can sometimes feel like an overwhelming job with endless tasks and lofty, unattainable … read more

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  • christian
  • christianity
  • nonfiction
  • christian non fiction
  • self help
"The truth is that all humans are always seeing something, paying attention to something, learning something. Perhaps, we are learning every sort of sexual innuendo known to man by watching endless re…"

-Cindy Rollins, Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

Cover of The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom by Andrew       Peterson

11. The God of the Garden: Thoughts on Creation, Culture, and the Kingdom

By: Andrew Peterson

4.49

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

There’s a strong biblical connection between people and trees. They both come from dirt. They’re bo… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • christian non fiction
Cover of How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now by James K.A. Smith

12. How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now

By: James K.A. Smith

4.29

Format: 189 pages, Hardcover

Many Christians are disconnected from the past or imagine they are "above" history, immune to it, a… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of Every Woman a Theologian: Know What You Believe. Live It Confidently. Communicate It Graciously. by Phylicia D. Masonheimer

13. Every Woman a Theologian: Know What You Believe. Live It Confidently. Communicate It Graciously.

By: Phylicia D. Masonheimer

4.50

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Know what you believe and live it boldly! Phylicia Masonheimer believes that every woman should be … read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • christian non fiction
  • audiobook
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14. Modern Miss Mason

By: Leah Boden

4.30

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

For every mother who desires to cultivate a lasting foundation of curiosity and wonder for her chil… read more

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  • faith
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Mothering by the Book: The Power of Reading Aloud to Overcome Fear and Recapture Joy by Jennifer Pepito

15. Mothering by the Book: The Power of Reading Aloud to Overcome Fear and Recapture Joy

By: Jennifer Pepito

4.09

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Becoming a better, happier mom starts with the stories you tell your kids As a mom, you want to … read more

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  • christian
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Aggressively Happy: A Realist's Guide to Believing in the Goodness of Life by Joy Marie Clarkson

16. Aggressively Happy: A Realist's Guide to Believing in the Goodness of Life

By: Joy Marie Clarkson

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

This old world can be exhausting, despairing, and cynical. But you don't have to be. Instead, yo… read more

Similar categories in Joy Marie Clarkson's Aggressively Happy: A Realist's Guide to Believing in the Goodness of Life book and Joy Marie Clarkson's Aggressively Happy: A Realist's Guide to Believing in the Goodness of Life

  • self help
  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • christian non fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Being Elisabeth Elliot: The Authorized Biography: Elisabeth’s Later Years by Ellen Vaughn

17. Being Elisabeth Elliot: The Authorized Biography: Elisabeth’s Later Years

By: Ellen Vaughn

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a remote Amazonian indigenous pe… read more

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  • christian
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • christian non fiction
Cover of Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning by Sally Clarkson

18. Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning

By: Sally Clarkson

4.40

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

As a parent, you want to send your children into the world with healthy minds and vibrant faith. Yo… read more

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  • self help
  • christian
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • christian non fiction
  • audiobook
"God entrusted our children into our hands as one of the best works for which we answer to Him. He gave us the stewardship of shaping, investing in, and inspiring for His glory these little human bein…"

-Sally Clarkson, Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning

Cover of Giving Your Words: The Lifegiving Power of a Verbal Home for Family Faith Formation by Sally Clarkson

19. Giving Your Words: The Lifegiving Power of a Verbal Home for Family Faith Formation

By: Sally Clarkson

4.44

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Shaping the hearts, minds, and souls of your children starts with your words. As a parent, your he… read more

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  • self help
  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Teatime Discipleship: Sharing Faith One Cup at a Time by Sally Clarkson

20. Teatime Discipleship: Sharing Faith One Cup at a Time

By: Sally Clarkson

4.50

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Cultivate Friendship, Feasting, and Fellowship As a mother, friend, and traveler, Sally Clarkson h… read more

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  • christian
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • christian non fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Convivial Homeschool: Gospel Encouragement for Keeping Your Sanity While Living and Learning Alongside Your Kids by Mystie Winckler

21. 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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  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Habits for a Sacred Home: 9 Practices from History to Anchor and Restore Modern Families (Helping Moms Experience Peace & Return to Simple Daily Rhythms from Historic Christians like St. Benedict) by Jennifer Pepito

22. Habits for a Sacred Home: 9 Practices from History to Anchor and Restore Modern Families (Helping Moms Experience Peace & Return to Simple Daily Rhythms from Historic Christians like St. Benedict)

By: Jennifer Pepito

4.14

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Frightened by the chaos in society, many parents fear for their children's futures--and end up rais… read more

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  • christian
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Even If He Doesn't: What We Believe about God When Life Doesn’t Make Sense by Kristen LaValley

23. Even If He Doesn't: What We Believe about God When Life Doesn’t Make Sense

By: Kristen LaValley

4.57

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

How can I approach God if I’m struggling to believe in His goodness?So much of our belief can be fo… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • christian non fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness by Sarah Clarkson

24. This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness

By: Sarah Clarkson

4.53

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

We live in a broken world. Amid the daily realities of sickness and isolation, disappointment and p… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • christian non fiction
  • audiobook
"The real risk to faith is not to wrestle..."

-Sarah Clarkson, This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks into Our Darkness

Cover of Help, I'm Drowning: Weathering the Storms of Life with Grace and Hope by Sally Clarkson

25. Help, I'm Drowning: Weathering the Storms of Life with Grace and Hope

By: Sally Clarkson

4.50

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Life is filled with unexpected storms that take you by surprise. In these storms of life, it's eas… read more

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  • self help
  • christian
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • christian non fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life by Sarah    Clarkson

26. Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life

By: Sarah Clarkson

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When you hear a riveting story, does it thrill your heart and stir your soul? Do you hunger for tru… read more

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  • self help
  • christian
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"To know yourself as an agent in the story of the world, one able to bring light and goodness in the midst of suffering, is a profoundly empowering knowledge, one that I believe comes to every woman w…"

-Sarah Clarkson, Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life

"A woman who reads is a woman who knows she must act: in courage, in creativity, in kindness, and often in defiance of the darkness around her. She understands that life itself is a story and that she…"

-Sarah Clarkson, Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life

Cover of Jane Austen’s Genius Guide to Life: On Love, Friendship, and Becoming the Person God Created You to Be by Haley Stewart

27. Jane Austen’s Genius Guide to Life: On Love, Friendship, and Becoming the Person God Created You to Be

By: Haley Stewart

4.26

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Popular Catholic podcaster Haley Stewart insists that there’s no better life coach than nineteenth-… read more

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  • faith
  • christian
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Bitter and Sweet: A Journey into Easter by Tsh Oxenreider

28. Bitter and Sweet: A Journey into Easter

By: Tsh Oxenreider

4.40

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Celebrate A Season of Renewal and Reflection The theme of bitterness runs through the Bible as a… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
Cover of Girls' Club: Cultivating Lasting Friendship in a Lonely World by Sally Clarkson

29. Girls' Club: Cultivating Lasting Friendship in a Lonely World

By: Sally Clarkson

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In an era when many women struggle with feelings of isolation and deep loneliness, Girls' Club call… read more

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  • self help
  • christian
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • christian non fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lifegiving Parent: Giving Your Child a Life Worth Living for Christ by Clay Clarkson

30. The Lifegiving Parent: Giving Your Child a Life Worth Living for Christ

By: Clay Clarkson

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From the family that brought you The Lifegiving Home and The Lifegiving Table , discover how you ca… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • faith
  • christian living
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

16 Best audiobook books like Aggressively Happy: A Realist's Guide to Believing in the Goodness of Life by Joy Marie Clarkson

Transform Your Habits

Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace

Sarah Mackenzie

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Every Woman a Theologian: Know What You Believe. Live It Confidently. Communicate It Graciously.

Phylicia D. Masonheimer

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Modern Miss Mason

Leah Boden

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Mothering by the Book: The Power of Reading Aloud to Overcome Fear and Recapture Joy

Jennifer Pepito

4.09

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15 best-selling christianity books like Every Woman a Theologian: Know What You Believe. Live It Confidently. Communicate It Graciously. by Phylicia D. Masonheimer

Transform Your Habits

Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

Jen Wilkin

4.51

Transform Your Habits

Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

Jennie Allen

4.24

Transform Your Habits

How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments

Preston Perry

4.70

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