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ABBA'S CHILD
by Brennan Manning

This book is one of two that inspired Stan Mitchell's 'You Are The Beloved' series. Click here to listen to Stan's life-changing message.

Book Description
The liberating message of this book is that God longs for us to know that He loves and accepts us as we are. God is our 'Abba', our loving Father, who knows us far better than we know ourselves. The revelation of this book is two-fold: Sin has a far greater grip on our hearts and lives than we imagine, and God, who knows this, longs to bring us into a passionate relationship with Himself.

MESSY SPIRITUALITY
by Mike Yaconelli

From the Back Cover
"I Guess I'm Not a Very Good Christian..."

Do you feel like: I don't pray enough, I don't read my Bible enough, I don't share my faith enough, I don't love God enough, I'm not committed enough, I'm not spiritual enough?

Then, this book is for you. Messy Spirituality was written for the silent majority of us who have been convinced that we just don't do Christianity right. We spend most of our lives worried about what we don't do instead of what we have done, focused on our imperfections instead of God's fondness for the imperfect. Why? Because we've been bombarded with books, tapes, talks, seminars, and movies convincing us that real Christianity is all about perfection.

Michael Yaconelli dares to suggest that imperfection, unfinishedness and messiness are, in fact, the earmarks of true Christianity; that real Christianity is messy, erratic, lopsided . . . and gloriously liberating.

What if genuine faith begins with admitting we will never have our act completely together? Maybe messy disciples are exactly the kind of imperfect people Jesus came to earth for and whose company He actually enjoyed - and still enjoys. If you want to find Jesus today, look for Him in the midst of burned-out believers, moral misfits, religious incompetents . . . men and women whose lives are, well, messy.

Messy Spirituality is a strong antidote for the spiritual perfectionism in us all. Here are truths that can cut you loose from the tyranny of ought-to's and open your eyes to the deep spirituality of being loved, shortcomings and all, by the God who meets you and transforms you in the midst of a messy and unpredictable life.

Mike passed away in October, 2003.

BLUE LIKE JAZZ
by Donald Miller

Book Description:
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. ... I used to not like God because God didn’t resolve. But that was before any of this happened.”

In Donald Miller’s early years, he was vaguely familiar with a distant God. But when he came to know Jesus Christ, he pursued the Christian life with great zeal. Within a few years he had a successful ministry that ultimately left him feeling empty, burned out, and, once again, far away from God. In this intimate, soul-searching account, Miller describes his remarkable journey back to a culturally relevant, infinitely loving God.

LIFE OF THE BELOVED
by Henri Nouwen

This book is one of two that inspired Stan Mitchell's 'You Are The Beloved' series. Click here to listen to Stan's life-changing message.

Book Description
A spiritual master shows us how to live a life of spiritual assurance in the midst of difficult life situations. This book was born in response to personal requests asked many times by a variety of people - many of whom are far removed from any traditional religious base - for Nouwen to describe the way to live a spiritual life in a material world. Nouwen's answer is both a challenge and a promise that life works, has deep meaning, and is worth all the pain and struggle.  

RUTHLESS TRUST
by Brennan Manning

I read this book when it first came out. We are, as of this writing, going through Ruthless Trust in my Thursday morning book club. Brennan Manning is an honest man. He shows his scars and challenges us to do the same. This book will make you think. And, it challenged me to do an inventory of my trust in God.  - Mark Lowry

PECULIAR TREASURES
by Frederick Buechner

Book Description
This is a Biblical 'Who's Who'. If you've never read it, I highly recommend it. Mr. Buechner is a writer's writer! He re-tells, in his own inimitable way, different stories from many known and little-known characters in the Bible. To read Peculiar Treasures is to realize that many of these legendary figures are not who we thought they were. But they are - in their human dreams, ambitions and imperfections - very much like us.

THE GRACE AWAKENING
by Chuck Swindoll

This book had a profound impact on me. It should be read by anyone who was raised in an atmosphere of legalism and has had a distorted image of God - thanks to people who take a preference, find a Scripture to wrap around it and, then, call it a conviction that we all must live by. Originally, this book was to be called 'The Grace Killers'. This book exposes those who load their flocks down like pack-animals with legalism, watch them stagger under the load and, when they're about to crumble beneath the weight, they add more rules.  - Mark Lowry

It was for freedom that Christ has set us free. - Gal. 5:1

SOUL SURVIVOR
by Philip Yancey

Like many Christians, Philip Yancey has often felt kicked around, abused and damaged by the institutional church. And, like many
Christians, he has found solace in reading about and getting to know some extraordinary individual believers. He profiles 13 of those believers in Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church.

"I became a writer, I now believe, to sort out words used and misused by the church of my youth," Yancey writes in the book's first chapter. The church of his youth, which described itself as "New Testament, Blood-bought, Born-again, Premillennial, Dispensational, fundamental," Yancey now describes as a frightening place where racism and bigotry were regularly preached from the pulpit. After graduating from Bible college, Yancey became a writer and chose to direct his attention to "people I could learn from, people I might want to emulate," such as C. Everett Koop and Robert Coles. He also read widely and passionately - Leo Tolstoy, Martin Luther King Jr., G.K. Chesterton and Annie Dillard, to name a few.

Soul Survivor offers probing, honest profiles of 13 individuals who have "helped restore to me the mislaid treasures of God." For most readers, these profiles will serve as starting points to explore the lives and minds of the individuals who have inspired Yancey.  - Michael Joseph Gross

A GRIEF OBSERVED
by C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis joined the human race when his wife, Joy Gresham, died of cancer. Lewis, the Oxford don whose Christian apologetics make it seem like he's got an answer for everything, experienced crushing doubt, for the first time, after his wife's tragic death.

A Grief Observed contains his epigrammatic reflections on that period: "Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high," Lewis writes. "Nothing will shake a man - or, at any rate, a man like me - out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."

This is the book that inspired the film Shadowlands but it is more wrenching, more revelatory and more real than the movie. It is a beautiful and unflinchingly-honest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe and how he can gradually regain his bearings.  - Michael Joseph Gross

THE MESSAGE BIBLE
by Eugene Peterson

Readers who have either found the Bible to be an intimidating proposition or who are so familiar with it that the words have lost their meaning will discover that Eugene Peterson's The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language is a welcome way to read and reread one of the best-loved books of all time. It's directly translated from the Greek and Hebrew texts and is intentionally designed to be a reading Bible rather than a study Bible. Each of the 66 books has an introduction by Peterson, and there are no verse numbers to interrupt the flow of the passages.

The vibrant flavor of the text is evident from the opening verses of the book of Genesis: "First this: God created the Heavens and Earth - all you see; all you don't see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness." There's renewed vigor in some of Jesus' most well-known words of the New Testament in John 3: "This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again."

Whether it's the poetry of the Psalms, the thundering tirades of the Old Testament prophets or the ageless words of Jesus, Peterson breathes new life into timeless passages in this fresh-voiced paraphrase.  - Cindy Crosby

GOD CAME NEAR
by Max Lucado

Book Description
Christians want so desperately to see Jesus - to squint through their pain, struggles, fear and dizzying distractions, and really focus on Him. Now they can, with the help of much-loved pastor Max Lucado!

In this newly-repackaged edition of a timeless bestseller, beloved author Max Lucado gently leads readers to glimpse the risen Lord in all His glory and feel His loving presence in their lives. This warm, insightful book offers an irresistible opportunity for seekers and Christians alike to begin anew their journey - to the God who came near just so they could know Him.

NO WONDER THEY CALL HIM THE SAVIOR
by Max Lucado

Book Description
Its tragedy summons all sufferers, its hope lures all searchers - no one can ignore the Cross. In this compelling quest for the Messiah, best-selling author Max Lucado invites readers to meet the blue-collar Jew whose claim altered a world and whose promise has never been equaled. Readers will come to know Jesus the Christ in a brand-new way as Lucado brings them full circle to the foot of the Cross and the man who sacrificed His life on it.

THE ALPHABET OF GRACE
by Frederick Buechner

Frederick Buechner's The Alphabet of Grace is a small, but lyrical, volume of essays that moves through a single day in three chapters. It is no particular day, and yet, as Buechner suggests, each day of life is an invitation to be truly alive. "Live a day of it and see," he writes. "Nobody claims that it will be entirely painless, but no matter. It is your birthday, and there are many presents to open. The world is to open."

This gets us very close to the sweet center of this little book - and of Buechner's work more generally. He makes no claims for himself as special; "most of the time, I am indistinguishable from the rest of the herd that jostles and snuffles at the great trough of life." But he also knows how to listen, how to pay attention to the small moments of life where grace, in fact, breaks through. Two apple branches clack together: this becomes the metaphor for the "clack-clack" of his life, which is also the sign of "the occasional, obscure glimmering through of grace." Sometimes, this book reminds us, God comes not in the whirlwind but in the still small voice of our ordinary moments. - Doug Thorpe