Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace
10 best books like Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace (Cathleen Falsani): Sour Heart, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home, Sarah, Plain and Tall, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith, The Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers, Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair, John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace, John MacArthur: Servant of the Word and Flock, In My Place Condemned He Stood: Celebrating the Glory of the Atonement
| Author | Jenny Zhang |
| ISBN | 0399589384 |
A fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant experience in America. In this debut collection, she conjures the disturbing and often hilarious experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American...
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
A hilarious and moving memoir—in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron—about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisis
Not long after Rhoda Janzen turned forty, her world turned upside down. It was bad enough that her brilliant husband of fifteen...
| Author | Patricia MacLachlan |
| ISBN | 0618062416 |
This beloved Newbery Medal–winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter book series about the Witting family.
Set in the late nineteenth century and told from young Anna's point of view, Sarah, Plain and Tall tells the story of how Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton comes...
| Author | Barbara Brown Taylor |
| ISBN | 0060872632 |
By now I expected to be a seasoned parish minister, wearing black clergy shirts grown gray from frequent washing. I expected to love the children who hung on my legs after Sunday morning services until they grew up and had children of their own. I even expected to be buried wearing the same red vestments...
The Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot,' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental...
Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
A New York Times bestseller from the author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything
Author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times, difficult days and the hardships of daily life
Readers of all ages have followed...
Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair
| Author | Anne Lamott |
| ISBN | 1594632588 |
“Lamott’s …most insightful book yet, Stitches offers plenty of her characteristic witty wisdom…this slim, readable volume [is] a lens on life, widening and narrowing, encouraging each reader to reflect on what it is, after all, that really matters.”—People
What do we...
John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace
| Author | Jonathan Aitken |
| ISBN | 1581348487 |
Most Christians know John Newton as a man who once captained a slave ship, was dramatically converted to Christ on the high seas, and later penned one of the greatest hymns of the faith, “Amazing Grace.” But he also had a huge impact on his times as an icon of the evangelical movement, as a great preacher...
John MacArthur: Servant of the Word and Flock
| Author | Iain H. Murray |
| ISBN | 1848711123 |
MacArthur has proved, without ever intending to do so, that true preaching of the Word of God is international, 'because if you teach the Bible it transcends every border, every language, every culture. It is as relevant today, and will be tomorrow, as in all the years since God put it down. 'That is why...
In My Place Condemned He Stood: Celebrating the Glory of the Atonement
| Author | J.I. Packer |
| ISBN | 1433502003 |
An important anthology that reaffirms the classic doctrine of substitutionary atonement and counters the ongoing attacks against it. If ever there was a time and a need for an enthusiastic reaffirmation of the biblical doctrine of substitutionary atonement, it is now. With this foundational tenet...
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The First Forty Years, 1899-1939 v. 1
| Author | Iain H. Murray |
| ISBN | 0851513530 |
When Martyn Lloyd-Jones, physician, preacher and Christian Leader, died in 1981, after more then 40 years in London, few knew the remarkable story of his formative earlier years which, in the authorised biography, is now told for the first time. From his rural Welsh background to St Bartholomew’s...
Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future
| Author | Donella H. Meadows |
| ISBN | 0930031628 |
A scientific book for the general public which proposes a sustainable world. They explain a computer model they built back in the 1970s, which they then updated and ran again in the 90s. The results most certainly illustrate that our current world system is headed for an overshoot (using too many resources...
The Heroic Boldness of Martin Luther
| Author | Steven J. Lawson |
| ISBN | 1567693210 |
In The Heroic Boldness of Martin Luther, new from Reformation Trust Publishing, author Steven J. Lawson shows the convictions and practices that fed Luthers pulpit boldness. It all began with his deep commitment to the Word of God, through which he had come to his freeing understanding of justification...
The Legacy of Sovereign Joy: God's Triumphant Grace in the Lives of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin
| Author | John Piper |
| ISBN | 1581348134 |
We admire these men for their greatness, but the truth is Augustine grappled with sexual passions. Martin Luther struggled to control his tongue. John Calvin fought the battle of faith with worldly weapons.
Yet each man will always be remembered for the messages he declared-messages that...
| Author | George M. Marsden |
| ISBN | 0300105967 |
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is a towering figure in American history. A controversial theologian and the author of the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, he ignited the momentous Great Awakening of the eighteenth century.
In this definitive and long-awaited biography,...
| Author | Iain H. Murray |
| ISBN | 0851511562 |
Spurgeon biographies abound. Like those of many famous figures, they range from the multiple-volume older versions to the abbreviated paperbacks tailored to appease the modern reader. This one, however, as the title suggests, looks at the "last of the Puritans" from a unique perspective. Instead...
| Author | Bruce Gordon |
| ISBN | 0300120761 |
During the glory days of the French Renaissance, young John Calvin (1509-1564) experienced a profound conversion to the faith of the Reformation. For the rest of his days he lived out the implications of that transformation—as exile, inspired reformer, and ultimately the dominant figure of the...
To the Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judson
| Author | Courtney Anderson |
| ISBN | 0817011218 |
I enjoyed this but I think it could've been a little shorter. I have recently read a biography about Ann Judson and there was some overlap. I preferred the first book to this one maybe just because of the contemporary language making for easier reading.
There is no doubt that the story of Adoniram...
Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
| Author | Eric Metaxas |
| ISBN | 0061173002 |
Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759–1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament.
At the center of this...
Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
| Author | Anne Lamott |
| ISBN | 0525537449 |
From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we need from her now: How to bring hope back into our lives
"I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott...
Good Fences: The Boundaries of Hospitality
| Author | Caroline A. Westerhoff |
| ISBN | 0819221406 |
Hospitality and inclusion are important to the Church. Monastic communities are held up as a model, opening their doors to those who need a place to rest. But they also place boundaries on that hospitality, asking guests to observe house rules, and maintaining a cloistered area where guests are not...
Gracism: The Art of Inclusion
| Author | David A. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0830834400 |
This book is an easy-to-read, thought-provoking work that whets the appetite for learning to live as a "gracist" rather than a racist. Anderson defines gracism as "the positive extension of favor on other humans based on color, class or culture." Using real life examples, he breaks down 1 Corinthians...
Steeple Envy: Losing My Religion and Rediscovering Jesus
Could it be that the church has become something other than what Jesus intended? Did he have in mind the construction of multimillion dollar buildings and pastors who achieve rock star status, when he sacrificed everything and allowed himself to be beaten and crucified? Is there any place in the Bible...
Heaven on Earth: Capturing Jonathan Edwards's Vision of Living in Between
| Author | Stephen J. Nichols |
| ISBN | 1581347855 |
Heaven isn't only about the future. It has everything to do with life on earth-life "in between." Jonathan Edwards understood this well. His writings are full of his thoughts on heaven and how those thoughts should make a difference in our lives.
This book focuses on key sermons by Edwards,...
I See You: How Love Opens Our Eyes to Invisible People
| Author | Terence Lester |
| ISBN | 0830845720 |
We don't care about what we don't see. Countless people are invisible to us. We overlook the poor and homeless, partly because we don't share much space with them. More seriously, we often choose not to see the realities around us. We hold misconceptions about who is deserving or not, or make false assumptions...
| Author | Brian Dixon |
| ISBN | 0310357772 |
IF YOU'RE READY TO GET UNSTUCK, LOVE YOUR WORK, AND MAKE THE DREAM HAPPEN, ENTREPRENEUR AND BUSINESS COACH BRIAN DIXON HAS A MESSAGE FOR YOU: "START WITH YOUR PEOPLE."
After one too many burned bridges and failed projects, Brian Dixon set out to discover the secret to work you love and a life that...
These Truths: A History of the United States
| Author | Jill Lepore |
| ISBN | 0393357422 |
Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three...
From an Idea to Nike: How Marketing Made Nike a Global Success
| Author | Lowey Bundy Sichol |
| ISBN | 1328453626 |
From an Idea to Nike is a fully-illustrated look into how Nike stepped up its sneaker game to become the most popular athletic brand in the world. Humorous black & white illustrations throughout.
Ever wonder how Nike became the athletics empire it is today? From an Idea to Nike digs...
Norwegian Complete Course Package (Teach Yourself)
| Author | Margaretha Danbolt-Simons |
| ISBN | 0071451137 |
From Cantonese to Thai, Gaelic to Modern Persian, learning the languages of the world isattainable for any beginning student. Learners can use the Teach Yourself Complete LanguageCourses at their own pace or as a supplement to formal courses.
All Teach Yourself Complete Language Courses...
Norwegian-English Dictionary: A Pronouncing and Translating Dictionary of Modern Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk) with a Historical and Grammatical Introduction
| Author | Einar Ingvald Haugen |
| ISBN | 0299038742 |
For more than forty years, the Haugen Norwegian–English Dictionary has been regarded as the foremost resource for both learners and professionals using English and Norwegian. With more than 60,000 entries, it is esteemed for its breadth, its copious grammatical detail, and its rich idiomatic...
