Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential
10 best books like Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential (Gordon T. Smith): Through Gates of Splendor, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man, Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home, Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation, Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life, The Pastor: A Memoir, Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus, Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now, Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us
Through Gates of Splendor
| Author | Elisabeth Elliot |
| ISBN | 0842371516 |
In 1956, five young men, including Elliot's husband, Jim, traveled into the jungles of Ecuador to establish communication with the fierce Huaorani Tribe, a people whose only previous response to the outside world has been to attack all strangers. The men's mission combined modern technology with...
The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man
| Author | Abraham Joshua Heschel |
| ISBN | 0374529752 |
Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabbath has been hailed as a classic of Jewish spirituality ever since its original publication-and has been read by thousands of people seeking meaning in modern life.
In this brief yet profound meditation...
Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home
| Author | Richard J. Foster |
| ISBN | 0060628464 |
Best-selling author Richard J. Foster offers a warm, compelling, and sensitive primer on prayer, helping us to understand, experience, and practice it in its many forms-from the simple prayer of beginning again to unceasing prayer. He clarifies the prayer process, answers common misconceptions,...
Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
Shadow of the Almighty is a modern classic story of faithfulness, obedience, and martyrdom. It is the best-selling account of the martyrdom of Jim Elliot and four other missionaries at the hands of the Huaorani Indians in Ecuador.
Shadow of the Almighty has inspired Christians since its first...
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
| Author | Parker J. Palmer |
| ISBN | 0787947350 |
With wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teacher and follow its leadings toward a sense of meaning and purpose. Telling stories from his own life and the lives of others who have made a difference, he shares insights gained from darkness and depression...
| Author | Marjorie J. Thompson |
| ISBN | 0664229476 |
Few books in Westminster John Knox's publishing history have been so embraced and so loved as Marjorie Thompson's Soul Feast. First released in 1995, this spiritual classic continues to be a best-seller, as thousands each year accept her invitation to the Christian spiritual life. Offering a framework...
| Author | Eugene H. Peterson |
| ISBN | 0061988200 |
In The Pastor, author Eugene Peterson, translator of the multimillion-selling The Message, tells the story of how he started Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland and his gradual discovery of what it really means to be a pastor. Steering away from abstractions, Peterson challenges...
| Author | Thomas Cahill |
| ISBN | 0385483724 |
Cahill's most daring and provocative subject yet: Jesus of Nazareth, the central figure of Western civilization.
In Desire of the Everlasting Hills, Thomas Cahill takes up his most daring and provocative subject yet: Jesus of Nazareth, the central figure of Western civilization.
Introducing...
| Author | Walter Brueggemann |
| ISBN | 0664239285 |
Discussions about the Sabbath often center around moralistic laws and arguments over whether a person should be able to play cards or purchase liquor on Sundays. In this volume, popular author Walter Brueggemann writes that the Sabbath is not simply about keeping rules but rather about becoming a...
Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us
| Author | Adele Ahlberg Calhoun |
| ISBN | 0830833307 |
Have you heard about these practices and wanted to try them? Have you wandered from one practice to another not sure quite what to do? Are you overwhelmed by all the to-dos of your spiritual life? We have good desires--for a more intimate prayer life, perhaps, or deeper insight from God's Word--but we...
The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
| Author | The Arbinger Institute |
| ISBN | 1626564310 |
NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED
Like Leadership and Self-Deception, The Arbinger Institute's first book, The Anatomy of Peace has become a worldwide phenomenon—not because of a media blitz, movie tie-in, or celebrity endorsement, but because readers have enthusiastically recommended...
A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix
Ten years after his death, Edwin Friedman's insights into leadership are more urgently needed than ever. He was the first to tell us that all organizations have personalities, like families, and to apply the insights of family therapy to churches and synagogues, rectors and rabbis, politicians and...
| Author | David Hansen |
| ISBN | 0830816690 |
Named one of the Top Ten Books of 1994 by the Academy of Parish Clergy! What should a pastor do? What makes a pastor good or effective? What is a pastor, after all? Hundreds of books, tapes, workshops and seminars promise to answer these impossible questions. Some offer a set of practical guidelines; others...
The Journals of Jim Elliot
| Author | Elisabeth Elliot |
| ISBN | 0800758250 |
Jim Elliot was part of a team of young missionaries murdered in Ecuador in 1956 by the Auca Indians to whom they were witnessing. At the age of 29, he left behind a young widow, a baby daughter, and volumes of personal journals written over many years.
In 1978, Revell published the complete and unabridged...
Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim's Tale
| Author | Ian Morgan Cron |
| ISBN | 1576838129 |
"Chase Falson has lost his faith so he crosses the Atlantic to visit his uncle, a Franciscan priest, where he encounters the teachings of Francis of Assisi and rediscovers his ancient faith. Follow Chase's spiritual journey in the footsteps of Francis, and then begin one of your own through the pilgrim's...
Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation
| Author | Ruth Haley Barton |
| ISBN | 0830833331 |
Winner of a 2006 Logos Book AwardDo you long for a deep, fundamental change in your life with God? Do you desire a greater intimacy with God? Do you wonder how you might truly live your life as God created you to live it? Spiritual disciplines are activities that open us to God's transforming love and the...
He That Is Spiritual: A Classic Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Spirituality
| Author | Lewis Sperry Chafer |
| ISBN | 0310223415 |
Few books have been more warmly received by Bible teachers and students. He That is Spiritual defines true Christian living and unfolds the biblical teaching concerning spirituality -- what it is, and how it is secured. Nothing could be more important to Christians than the theme of this book. Its sound...
