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I know a lot of people here read books involving our beliefs, other peoples beliefs, and the likes. So instead of having a ton of individual threads I thought it would be best to just have a sticky on it. That way we won't have to go searching around the guild and we can keep a record of books that might give you some help if you happen to be searching for a specific topic or just want a good Christian book to read smile If you find a good book, fiction or nonfiction, please post it here. It'd be nice to give everybody a little reference. Reviews on the books also welcome. 3nodding

um, the full series of

Left Behind

or

Jesus Freaks by DCTalk

Wow! I don't know many atheists who would admit they're wrong after searching for proof against only to come up with nothing eek

Soul sista by Beth Redman
She wrote two of these books, one called
'How to be a girl of God'
and the other called
'The truth shall set you free'
The aim of these is to encourage, inform and equip young Christins today, and they have really opened my eyes to the things around me.
Give them a try
You won't want to put them down!

um.. if you like allegories, Hinds Feet On High Places is a really good book. So is Pilgrims Progress. They are both very touching though i haven't read prilgrims progress in a while. I recently read Hinds Feet On High Places.

When God Doesn't Answer Your Prayer
This touching novel by Jerry Sittser really pushed me to think more about prayer and what it really is. Sometimes hard to swallow, this book touches key ingredients to our prayer, what God does with it, and how we view our prayers. With such concepts as why we pray, how we pray, how prayers may be answered, and the heartwrenching truth that when we pray desperately we are setting ourselves up for disappointment, this book is a must for anyone who is struggling with prayers. Sittser, being a man who has gone through heartbreak at the loss of three loved ones, knows all about desperate prayer and how depressing matters can become which makes this book something of a comfort to know that the author knows just how badly you are seeking the answer you want to the prayer you're sending up to the Big Man Upstairs.
A nice thing about this book is that it's great for groups too. There are conversation questions at the end of each chapter, allowing you to try and apply what he talks about to your own life and really see the works of prayer in your life, even when you don't realize that a prayer was, indeed, answered. So whether it be for a bible study you're a part of or just reading for yourself because you're questioning prayer, this is a good book for the praying person.
(NOTE: The author also goes by Gerald L. Sittser in some of his publications as well as has some books "remade" per se with different titles so finding some of his books may be harder than usual.)

DONT BY THE LIE BY MARK MATTLOCK
it WILL change your outlook an spiritual beings (even GOD!!)

Well...I know I haven't been around lately (Sorry Matt for not doing too well as a mod lately gonk ) BUT! I have some new books I've been reading that I think some of you might enjoy.
Babylon Rising - Tim Lahaye I'm on the third book now and so far it's a very fast-paced, exciting pageturner worth a read. It's a fiction about a biblical archeologist who keeps getting clues from an annonymous person on how to find things that could prove the Bible is true and that God is real. But there's an evil force trying to stop the truth from spreading by using him to find the artifacts so they can destroy them. "The Seven" as they're called are trying to take over the world. If you've ever read Left Behind it's sorta like that. They're trying to create a one-world religion, currency, and all this in the end would be the end of the world. Very interesting read for those who are fans of Lahaye.
Also The Wounded Spirit - Frank Peretti It's about bullying and how it wounds our spirits. It's an incredibly personal account on the teasing he received as a child over his "disability" and how the teasing can batter and bruise you for life. It goes into such depths as the Columbine Tragedy, morals (and how they can disprove evolution in the sense that scientists want us to think of it as), looking into ourselves to stop the bullying in us and to help stop it around us. Got me to cry a few times. If you've been harassed at school or work this is a good read to start a healing process.
Another book by Frank Peretti is Hangman's Curse I have the second book with me too but I haven't started it yet. These are basically a set of mystery books about a family with a strong Christian spirit who are hired to go around solving mysteries in the country. This first book took me by surprise more than once. Mysterious incidents are happening at the high school and everyone wants to blame a ghost "controlled" by a certain group of kids. But when someone who "shouldn't have been attacked" comes down with the sudden symptoms of being hit by the ghost the family has to figure out what's REALLY causing all the students to get sick. Creepy to the core at times, if you have certain phobias it might be a good idea to read this during the day (I won't say which phobias but after finishing the book I woke up fast 4 times a night for a week thinking of the things in the book attacking me).