Category: Christian books
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The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
When Grace Finds the Broken Brennan Manning begins The Ragamuffin Gospel with a confession, not a sermon.He doesn’t speak as a preacher looking down at the sinner,but as a sinner who has been found by grace. “Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all…
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Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
When Joy Becomes Worship John Piper begins Desiring God with a dangerous idea —dangerous not because it is wrong,but because it turns religion on its head. He writes: “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.” With that one line, Piper reframes the entire Christian life.Faith is not about duty,…
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The Screwtape Letters
Whispers from the Shadows C.S. Lewis once said that the greatest trick the devil ever playedwas convincing the world he didn’t exist.In The Screwtape Letters, Lewis makes the unseen visible —not through fear, but through wit and piercing irony. Written during the chaos of World War II,this book imagines a series of letters from Screwtape,…
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The Pursuit of God
When Faith Becomes a Fire Few Christian classics burn with the quiet intensity of A.W. Tozer’s The Pursuit of God.Written in a single train ride across the American Midwest in 1948,it reads less like a theological treatise and more like a prayer whispered in the dark. “To have found God and still to pursue Him…
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Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
The Quiet Revolution of the Soul When Richard Foster wrote Celebration of Discipline,he wasn’t introducing a new theology — he was reminding the modern church of something ancient and forgotten. “Superficiality is the curse of our age. The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, but for deep people.” Foster’s…
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The Cost of Discipleship
1. The Weight of True Discipleship Few books have shaped modern Christianity as profoundly as The Cost of Discipleship.Written in 1937 by German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer,it’s not a book you merely read — it’s a book that reads you. “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” These haunting words…
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The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
1. Awakening to the Present Moment When Eckhart Tolle first wrote The Power of Now, he wasn’t trying to start a movement.He was simply sharing a personal revelation — that freedom, peace, and clarity can only exist in one place: this very moment. He begins with a radical idea: most of our suffering isn’t caused…
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Knowing God (by J. I. Packer)
Knowing About God vs. Knowing God J. I. Packer opens Knowing God with a question that pierces modern Christianity:Do you know God — or do you just know about Him? “A little knowledge of God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge about Him.” He explains that many believers today study theology, attend…
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The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out by Brennan Manning
When Grace Finds the Broken Brennan Manning begins The Ragamuffin Gospel with a disarming confession: “Jesus came for the bedraggled, the beat-up, and the burnt out — not for the self-sufficient.” He reminds readers that the gospel isn’t about climbing toward God —it’s about realizing He already climbed down to us. In a world obsessed…
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The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Tim Keller
A Gentle Invitation to the Skeptical Mind When The Reason for God was first published in 2008, it entered a world flooded by skepticism.Books like The God Delusion and God Is Not Great dominated bestseller lists, portraying faith as naïve or dangerous. Tim Keller — a pastor in New York City, one of the world’s…
