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The Devotional Classics Shelf - Chambers, Tozer, Lewis, and the Books That Outlive Us
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items Some Christian books are a hundred years old and outsell this year's releases - because they were written by people who walked with God at cost. This is the classics shelf: daily devotionals, life stories, and thinking books every believer's home lib...
Sections
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The Daily Devotionals
The Life Stories
The Thinking Classics
The Daily Devotionals
One page a day, for decades: the devotionals Christians inherit from their grandparents.
My Utmost for His Highest is Oswald Chambers' daily devotional - the gift book of a century, in the classic wording that made it famous. Choose the original-language edition; the sentences are the point.
Authorized Oswald Chambers Publications My Utmost for His Highest: Classic Language Paperback (a Daily Devotional with 366 Bible-Based Readings), (Paperback)
The Imitation of Christ has formed Christians since the 1400s - second only to the Bible in its reach for most of history. Thomas a Kempis on humility and eternity, one short chapter at a sitting.
The Imitation of Christ (Paperback) by Thomas a Kempis
Brother Lawrence washed monastery dishes and practiced God's presence doing it - his letters and conversations are the shortest classic on this shelf and the one people reread yearly. Joy in the ordinary, proven.
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence, (Paperback)
Hinds' Feet on High Places is Hannah Hurnard's allegory of a fearful shepherd girl climbing to the High Places - the devotional story generations of women have given each other in hard seasons.
Hinds' Feet on High Places (Paperback)
The Life Stories
True accounts that read like novels: hiding places, jungle airstrips, and China Inland Mission faith.
The Hiding Place is Corrie ten Boom's account of hiding Jewish families and surviving Ravensbruck with her faith intact. It is the twentieth century's great Christian testimony, full stop.
The Hiding Place, (Paperback)
Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret tells how the founder of the China Inland Mission learned rest in the middle of impossible work. Missionaries have carried it for a century; the secret holds.
Moody Classics Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret, (Paperback)
Evidence Not Seen is Darlene Deibler Rose's story of a New Guinea mission, a Japanese prison camp, and a faith that survived both. Lesser known than the Hiding Place and its equal in weight.
Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II, (Paperback)
Through Gates of Splendor tells of the five missionaries killed in Ecuador in 1956 - and of their widows' forgiveness and return. Elisabeth Elliot wrote the standard for missionary biography here.
Through Gates of Splendor (Paperback)
The Thinking Classics
The mind's shelf: Lewis, Packer, Tozer, and Bunyan - read slowly, argue gladly.
Mere Christianity is Lewis's plain case for the faith, argued from the radio microphone to the page - the book skeptics in your life will actually read. Start every thinking shelf here.
Mere Christianity (Paperback)
J. I. Packer's Knowing God walks the character of God chapter by chapter - the theology book that reads like a devotional. It has discipled two generations quietly.
IVP Signature Collection Knowing God, (Paperback)
A. W. Tozer wrote The Pursuit of God on a train, hungry for more of God than routine religion offered - every chapter ends in prayer. Short, burning, and impossible to read fast.
The Pursuit of God, (Paperback)
The Pilgrim's Progress is the best-selling allegory in English - Christian's road from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. Choose a well-made edition; this one gets handed down.
Penguin Classics The Pilgrim's Progress, (Paperback)