 | Life Application Study Bible-NIV by Tyndale House Publishers
Buy used from: £13.60 the niv is pretty standard these days... and the simple notes are at times genius, picking out vast eternal themes in everything
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 | What's So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey
Buy new: £7.16 / Used from: £2.94 let's not approach god in a worldly way - he's already come to us
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 | Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.70 settles the science / christianity debate with as much clarity as the 'philosophy of science' masters module i took - science can only answer limited questions - all else is belief and philosophy
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 | Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith by Rob Bell
Buy new: £6.23 / Used from: £2.21 it's not really our own belief and faith if we haven't wrestled with it and worked it out for ourselves - god spoke, and everything else is interpretation, right?
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 | Surprised by Joy (The C.S. Lewis signature classics) by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.50 a good read when i was going through a hard time - and an example of god's intervention throughout our whole lives, even when we're not looking
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 | Master and Man and Other Stories: The Two Hussars; Strider; a Prisoner in the Caucasus; God Sees the Truth But Waits; What Men Live By; Neglect a ... Hermits; Master and Man (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £6.34 / Used from: £3.95 especially master and man - don't take everything from tolstoy, just the essence of christ
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 | Confessions by Saint Augustine
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £1.50 the story of augustine's life from his and god's perspective - an personal journey which i have perhaps felt closest to in all literature - like he's a close friend - a great philosopher to boot
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 | The Four Loves (The C.S. Lewis signature classics) by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £1.68 god is love - in 4 (and from these infinitely many) ways
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 | War and Peace (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £3.49 a plethora of lives lived with and without god
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 | The Imitation of Christ (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Kempis
Buy new: £5.28 / Used from: £1.51 living close to god and others - in such short chapters that i can glance at a most helpful section at will - but let's remember his monastic life needs a little transposition to our modern lives...
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 | The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £4.82 / Used from: £2.43 god's redemptive plan for everyone and everything - though i don't think the fall could be as Lewis thinks?
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 | City of God (Penguin Classics) by Augustine
Buy new: £9.22 / Used from: £6.65 the city of god and the city of man placed in their proper perspective - we must look outside and beyond this world, die to its basic principles in society, economics, politics, everything
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 | The Method and Message of Jesus' Teachings by Robert H. Stein
Buy new: £17.99 / Used from: £4.55 jesus as teacher and as god
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 | How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth by Gordon D. Fee
Buy new: £7.20 / Used from: £5.00 all i've learnt at uni about using and interpreting historical literature applied to our everyday bible reading - everything in its proper context!
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 | Persuasion (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £3.36 / Used from: £0.01 believe it or not it shows the virtue many of jesus' teachings about relationships
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 | A Secure Base (Routledge Classics) by John Bowlby
Buy new: £8.28 / Used from: £6.61 god as the ultimate secure base
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 | Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No, to Take Control of Your Life by Dr. Henry Cloud
Buy new: £6.45 / Used from: £4.58 how to have proper, real and pure relationships with people
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 | David Copperfield: Personal History of David Copperfield: The Personal History of David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.59 an amazing thread of interlinked stories - incorporates a number of gospel stories - look out for the prodigal son - and 'the tempest!'
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 | A Tale of Two Cities (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.05 and here the end says it all about christ
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 | The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, Christian Speaker, Aged 45 3/4 by Adrian Plass
Buy new: £5.68 / Used from: £3.46 real christianity draws this stuff out of all of us, if we're honest
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 | Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth by Richard Foster
Buy used from: £1.32 we've lost this stuff in our modern world - how discipline leads to true freedom - though there are many little snippets to disagree with...
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 | The Cost of Discipleship (SCM Classics) by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Buy new: £8.16 / Used from: £5.71 what a personal deveotion to jesus really means - foresaking all for him is the only way
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 | Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart by John Ortberg
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £2.79 a wonderful compliment to lewis' 4 loves. god's love is so different to our own
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