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Mystical Union by John Crowder
The gospel is a mystical message, based on an instant and effortless union with God achieved at Christ's cross.
There is a delicious feast prepared for the believer. Nothing is more satisfying than the revelation of what Christ has conclusively accomplished for you. This book threatens to turn your Christianity upside down. No longer a struggle to please God -- the Truth will plunge you into a celebration of what He has done for you.
Recommended by Periecho Contributors Russell Croft and Mark Darling
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Exploring the unconscious movements of desire - how they form us, connect us, shape our greatest ideas, mold our societies, influence human history and ultimately, how they are unveiled.
Recommended by Periecho Contributors Russell Croft and Mark Darling
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Grace for the Contemplative Parent by Lily Crowder
Don't have luxurious hours of quiet time like a 17th century monk? You are not missing out. The gospel awakens us to the very real presence of Christ in our everyday, seemingly "mundane" state of affairs.
Recommended by Periecho Contributors Belinda Croft
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Love Wins gets to the heart of questions about life and death. Its perspective will surprise and challenge both Christians and atheists, and will inspire people of all faiths and none. Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgement: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this "good news"?
Recommended by Periecho Contributors Belinda Croft, Catherine Joy, Nathan Jennings, Russell Croft, and Mark Darling
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Take a grace-centered look at regeneration, the new creation and the new birth. Christ cured the human condition. John's new book explores the universal scope of the cross - if one died for all, then all died! "For God was in Christ reconciling the cosmos to Himself."
Recommended by Periecho Contributors Belinda Croft, Catherine Joy, Nathan Jennings, Russell Croft, and Mark Darling
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In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant The Shack wrestles with the timeless question, “Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?” The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him.
Recommended by Periecho Contributors Belinda Croft, Russell Croft, and Mark Darling
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Falling Upward by Richard Rohr
Fr. Richard Rohr helps us to understand the tasks of the two halves of life and teaches us that those who have failed, or gone down, are the only ones who can really understand "up." Those who have somehow fallen, and fallen well, are the only ones who can grow spiritually and not misuse "up." What looks like falling down can largely be experienced as "falling upward!"
Recommended by Periecho Contributors Russell Croft, and Mark Darling
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Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held-Evans
New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans embarks on a quest to find out what it really means to be part of the Church.
Like millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn’t want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy, the politics, the gargantuan building budgets, the scandals—church culture seemed so far removed from Jesus. Yet, despite her cynicism and misgivings, something kept drawing her back to Church. And so she set out on a journey to understand Church and to find her place in it.
Recommended by Periecho Contributors Belinda Croft
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