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items My list of books that I've been thrilled by, fascinated by, and humbled by...
Troy uses story and humor to connect and exhort us to live our Christian faith out genuinely. He illustrates his points through use of Jesus' difficult teachings and paradox to jar our paradigm to awaken us to new growth.
Get a Hold of Yourself: Embracing Authenticity in a Complicated World
Rodney Stark, the notable sociologist, tackles the impact of Christianity on the West, and the rest of the world through it. He's a "warts and all" academic. He IS a Christian, but has an honest perspective on the ups and downs. His take on the so-ca...
For the Glory of God: Monotheism & Science
Terrify no more, by Gary Haugen, founder of International Justice Mission takes a heart-wrenching, yet hopeful look at modern day slavery, which we call human trafficking. He exhorts the Christian to understand how God's demand for righteousness and ...
Terrify No More: Young Girls Held Captive
Gary Haugen’s The Good News About Injustice is both eye-opening and deeply hopeful. Drawing from his work with the International Justice Mission, Haugen shares real stories of people trapped in slavery, violence, and poverty—situations that feel over...
Good News About Injustice, 10th Anniv Ed
C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man is a short but weighty book about why objective truth and moral values matter. Lewis argues that when education dismisses the idea of universal right and wrong, it leaves us with clever people who lack the inner stre...
The Abolition of Man: Lewis, C. S.: 9780060652944
Josh McDowell’s Evidence That Demands a Verdict is like a one-stop resource for anyone curious about whether Christianity really holds up under scrutiny. Instead of offering vague claims, McDowell digs into history, archaeology, manuscript studies, a...
Evidence That Demands a Verdict: Life-Changing Truth
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Famed Christian theologian and philosopher Francis Schaeffer’s How Should We Then Live? is both a sweeping story of Western civilization and a challenge to think about the direction of our own lives. Schaeffer walks readers through key turning points...
How Should We Then Live?: Rise & Decline of Western Thought
Chuck Colson’s final book, The Faith: What Christians Believe, Why They Believe It, and Why It Matters, is an empassioned call for Christians to return to the unshakable foundations of historic Christianity. If you are new to Christianity, or if you ...
The Faith: What Christians Believe & Why
Andy Crouch’s Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling invites Christians to see themselves not just as critics or consumers of culture, but as creators and cultivators. Crouch explains that culture is simply what humans make of the world—our ...
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
Rodney Stark’s The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success makes the case that much of what we enjoy in the modern West—science, democracy, prosperity—grew out of Christian thought. He shows how the Christi...
The Victory of Reason: Christianity & Freedom