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THE FAITH BOOKS ON MY ROAD LIST: What I Listen To Between Appointments
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items I drive about 200 days a year selling apparel across the Southeast, which means I get through a lot of audiobooks between appointments. These are the faith books in my library - the ones I keep coming back to, not a reading list somebody handed me. I...
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The Ones I Recommend First
For the Skeptic in the Passenger Seat
When Faith Costs You Something
The Ones I Recommend First
Both by Joby Martin, and both are what I hand somebody who asks where to start. Read them in this order - the first one convicts you, the second one is why you don't stay stuck there.
The best book I've ever read. Joby Martin doesn't let you off the hook - it's about being the man you were created to be instead of the one the world keeps telling you to settle for. If you're a husband or a father and you only pick one book off this...
Stand Firm and ACT Like Men - Joby Martin
Same author, different job. This one walks through nine miracles and what they say about how God actually sees you. I keep it right behind Stand Firm - if that one convicts you, this is the reason you don't stay stuck there.
Anything Is Possible - Joby Martin
For the Skeptic in the Passenger Seat
All three were written by men who came at it from the outside - an atheist, a journalist who set out to disprove it, and a devout Muslim. If you want an argument instead of a sermon, start here.
Lewis was an atheist first, and it shows - he argues his way in instead of asking you to just feel it. He starts with something as ordinary as two people arguing over who's being fair and builds from there. If somebody tells you faith means shutting ...
Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
Strobel was a legal-affairs journalist and an atheist who set out to disprove the whole thing for his wife's sake. He interviews the experts like he's cross-examining them. I like that it reads like reporting instead of preaching - you can hand it to...
The Case for Christ - Lee Strobel
Qureshi grew up a devout Muslim and spent years arguing against Christianity with a friend in college before he changed his mind. What stayed with me is the cost - this wasn't an argument he was having for sport, it was his family. The most honest bo...
Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus - Nabeel Qureshi
When Faith Costs You Something
These two are about what it actually asks of you. One was written by a man the Nazis executed for it; the other is about the fight that happens in your own head on a long drive. Neither one is comfortable, and that's the point.
Bonhoeffer wrote this in Germany in the 1930s and was executed by the Nazis before the war ended, so when he separates cheap grace from costly grace he isn't speaking theoretically. It's the hardest book on this list and the one that has changed the ...
The Cost of Discipleship - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Built on Psalm 23 - the table is prepared for you, so quit setting a place for the voice that tells you you're failing. I spend a lot of hours alone in a car and that's exactly where that voice gets loud. This is the practical one on the list: it giv...
Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table - Louie Giglio