God of the Possible: A Biblical Introduction to the Open View of God
10 best books like God of the Possible: A Biblical Introduction to the Open View of God (Gregory A. Boyd): Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease, Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It, The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It, The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs, The Idea of the Holy, The Four Loves, The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World, The Openness of God, The God Who Risks: A Theology of Divine Providence
Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease
| Author | Gary Taubes |
| ISBN | 1400040787 |
For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet despite this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates,...
Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
| Author | Gary Taubes |
| ISBN | 0307272702 |
An eye-opening, myth-shattering examination of what makes us fat, from acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes.
In his New York Times best seller, Good Calories, Bad Calories, Taubes argued that our diet’s overemphasis on certain kinds of carbohydrates—not fats and not simply excess...
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
| Author | Peter Enns |
| ISBN | 0062272020 |
The controversial Bible scholar and author of The Evolution of Adam recounts his transformative spiritual journey in which he discovered a new, more honest way to love and appreciate God’s Word.
Trained as an evangelical Bible scholar, Peter Enns loved the Scriptures and shared his devotion,...
The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs
The controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me So explains how Christians mistake “certainty” and “correct belief” for faith when what God really desires is trust and intimacy.
With compelling and often humorous stories from his own life, Bible scholar...
| Author | Rudolf Otto |
| ISBN | 0195002105 |
The thesis of this book is that a sense of God's presence, with its attendant emotions of sacredness, wonderment and awe, is the fundamental starting point of genuine religion. Everything else -- doctrine, ritual and theological speculation -- are reliant upon, and derived from this experience....
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0062565397 |
A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human love: affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God—part of the C. S. Lewis Signature Classics series.
C.S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster,...
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
| Author | Robert Iger |
| ISBN | 0399592091 |
A grand vision defined: The CEO of Disney, one of Time's most influential people of 2019, shares the ideas and values he embraced to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world and inspire the people who bring the magic to life.
Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005,...
Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Plan for the World
| Author | Timothy J. Keller |
| ISBN | 0525952705 |
New York Times bestselling author of The Songs of Jesus Timothy Keller shows how God calls each of us to express meaning and purpose through our work and careers.
In a work world that is increasingly competitive and insecure, people often have nagging questions: Why am I doing this work? Why...
| Author | Clark H. Pinnock |
| ISBN | 0830818529 |
Presents A Careful and Full-Orbed Argument that the God known through Christ desires "responsive relationship" with his creatures. While it rejects process theology, the book asserts that such classical doctrines as God's immutability, impassibility and foreknowledge demand reconsideration....
The God Who Risks: A Theology of Divine Providence
| Author | John Sanders |
| ISBN | 0830815015 |
I was deeply moved by Sanders' account of the way God genuinely desires relationship with his people, and the lengths He goes through to achieve that goal throughout the biblical narrative. This isn't to say that I uncritically subscribe to all the theological implications of Sanders' views here,...
Determined to Believe: The Sovereignty of God, Freedom, Faith and Human
Determined to Believe is written for those who are interested in or even troubled by questions about God’s sovereignty and human freedom and responsibility. John Lennox writes in the spirit of helping people to get to grips with the biblical treatment of this issue for themselves. In this comprehensive...
Wrestling the Angel: The Foundations of Mormon Thought: Cosmos, God, Humanity
| Author | Terryl L. Givens |
| ISBN | 0199794928 |
In this first volume of his magisterial study of the foundations of Mormon thought and practice, Terryl L. Givens offers a sweeping account of Mormon belief from its founding to the present day. Situating the relatively new movement in the context of the Christian tradition, he reveals that Mormonism...
Grace Is Not God's Backup Plan: An Urgent Paraphrase of Paul's Letter to the Romans
What follows is not a translation in the ordinary sense of the word. It’s more like a paraphrase. Rather than worry over the letter of the text, the goal has been to illuminate the large scale patterns that structure it. The King James Version, for instance, renders Paul’s letter with uncanny beauty...
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
| Author | Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
| ISBN | 1400069971 |
The Bed of Procrustes is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black...
Talking Doctrine: Mormons and Evangelicals in Conversation
Over the past two centuries relations between Mormons and evangelicals could at best be described as guarded and suspicious and at worst as antagonistic and hostile. In recent years, however, evangelicals and Mormons have frequently found themselves united against certain influences in society--militant...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0007461259 |
‘The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this.’
This is the key statement of ‘Miracles’, in which C. S. Lewis shows that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in...
Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
| Author | Timothy J. Keller |
| ISBN | 0525951369 |
The New York Times bestselling author of The Reason for God and The Songs of Jesus and a nationally renowned minister, Timothy Keller exposes the error of making good things “ultimate” in this book, and shows readers a new path toward a hope that lasts.
Success, true love, and the life...
“Weeping may last for the night, but a shout of joy comes in the morning” (Psalm 30:5, NASB).
Someone once said, “Grief never ends…but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith…It is the price of love.”
If you have ever...
