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the best CHRISTIAN NON-FICTION I’ve read in the last year (or two) plus a giveaway!
Welcome to my book-ish website for those who haven’t made their way here before! I am so excited to use this space to bring you even more book-ish content. I have so many ideas for different posts for this space so be sure to check back often because there will be new blog posts almost every day of the week! Anyway, it’s been awhile since I shared a list of my favorite Christian non-fiction books (like over a year, maybe…
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Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life
Author: Jeff VandersteltEven if they want to, many Christians find it hard to talk to others about Jesus. Is it possible this difficulty is because we're trying to speak a language we haven't actually spent time practicing? To become fluent in a new language, you must immerse yourself in it until you actually start to think about life through it. Becoming fluent in the gospel happens the same way―after believing it, we have to intentionally rehearse it (to ourselves…
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The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
Author: Timothy KellerTimothy Keller uses one of the best-known Christian parables to reveal an unexpected message of hope and salvation. Taking his trademark intellectual approach to understanding Christianity, Keller uncovers the essential message of Jesus, locked inside his most familiar parable. Within that parable Jesus reveals God's prodigal grace toward both the irreligious and the moralistic. This book will challenge both the devout and skeptics to see Christianity in a whole new way.
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A Face for Picasso
Author: Ariel HenleyI am ugly. There's a mathematical equation to prove it. At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome -- a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive it. Growing up, Ariel and her sister endured numerous appearance-altering procedures. Surgeons would break the bones in their heads and faces to make room for their growing organs. While…
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The Betrayal of Anne Frank
Author: Rosemary SullivanDespite the many works devoted to Anne Frank's story, none has conclusively explained how the Franks and four other people managed to hide undetected for over two years, and who or what finally brought the Nazis to their door. Former FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and a team of indefatigable investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documents - some never before seen - and interviewed scores of descendants of the people involved, both…
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