Karen Kingsbury
https://www.karenkingsbury.com/
Recommend Books: Baxter’s Series, Miracles Devotional, all her other books
The Baxter series books from Karen Kingsbury tell of an ordinary Christian family and their lives. The books each have their own story weaved into the bigger family story. Each teach Christian values and shows how even though we are flawed as human beings, through Christ our mistakes can be redeemed. They show the true struggles everyone faces and the triumphs as well. These great stories will teach, inspire, encourage, comfort, motivate and help you see things through Gods perspective.
Karen also writes many other books that have the same impact. Her writing will take you into the story and journey of the characters lives, feelings, individual stories and situations. Through their trials and triumphs, the stories will help you learn, grow and develop a better understanding of your world and those around you while showing you more about God and His character.
Max Lucado
Recommend Books: His Story Your Story, The Gift for All People, all his other books
These are well written non fiction Christian books. He writes devotionals as well as books covering many biblical topics. His books are encouraging and uplifting while teaching fundamental truths about God. They reach and speak to many different people from all paths as Christians and nonbelievers. His way of writing is simple, authentic, and easy to follow and understand.
As a pastor his books are straight to the point, engaging you with thought provoking content spoken gently with the love of Christ to each reader. There are many great subjects and topics covered that can appeal to anyone.
Dan Baumann
https://www.danbaumann.com/
Recommend Books: A Beautiful Way, Cell 58
His testimony and writing are simple, authentic and powerful.
A Beautiful Way describes our walk with God as His children. Our journey with Him can be beautiful every step of the way. Leaning on His love and faithfulness, hearing and listening to His Spirit as He guides us. It’s the way God meant it to be. He wants to walk with us in everything, gently teaching us His ways and showing us the plan He has for our lives.
Cell 58 is Dans powerful testimony of persecution, being in prison for Christ. He tells the whole story. The feelings and emotions he went through, the miracles he witnessed and ultimately how God used His imprisonment to witness to a restricted country and mold and use Dan for His Kingdom.
His books will impact you for the better. They will challenge you and help you grow in Christ.
Richard & Sabina Wurmbrand
Recommend Books: Tortured for Christ, Reaching Towards the Heights devotional and The Pastor’s Wife (Sabina)
Richard and Sabina were imprisoned and tortured for their faith. You can read their story at the above website.
In Tortured for Christ Richard tells His story of imprisonment for 14 years because of his faith in Christ. He details what he went through and how God used it in His life. He tells of his release and ransom when he went to the free world. He covers how he used his experience to open the eyes of the free world to the suffering of the persecuted church. Christians didn’t know much or believed the lies of the nations that persecuted believers, so Richard helped them understand. Even today we need to realize brothers and sisters in other nations are being persecuted for their faith. We should pray for them and give to help them. We need to remember them and their suffering because we are all part of the same body of Christ. His books help shine a light on this part of the body of Christ and enlighten Christians in the free world.
Sabina tells her story in The Pastors Wife. She tells of her and her husband’s ministry and how through it all they raised their son with the help of other Christians. Covering her work in the underground church and efforts to get her husband released and her own imprisonment for 2 years, she tells of it all. How God provided and cared for them and eventually helped them leave and spread their testimony and the truth of the persecuted church to the fee world.
Richard wrote many other books throughout his life. All his books are thought provoking and bring light to the suffering of the persecuted church. They draw you deeper into Gods Word and bring understanding and insight building up your faith.
Jennifer Miskov
https://jenmiskov.com/jen-miskov
Recommend Books: Walking on Water, Silver to Gold, her other books
Her books are inspiring and based on the truth of scripture. They are encouraging and uplifting while challenging you to grow in faith and trust in God with greater focus and determination, reigniting or stoking the fire within as Christians.
Walking on Water challenges you to a life of full faith. To claim the power of God within us to be bold for Him. To encounter and be transformed my Gods love and His Word. To live the life we were meant to have through and in Him. It takes you step by step and helps you apply Gods Word, faith and truth into real life. It’s empowering and opens your eyes to the impossible, but doable only in Christ, showing the miracles all around us of Gods great love and mercy, igniting in us passion for Him.
Silver to Gold is a fictional story illustrating the journey with God and our life’s path. Showing the hardships and setbacks, the up’s and down’s of life and the choices we make based on our circumstances. It illustrates what God really wants for us in our lives. He wants to give us so much if we just let Him lead. So often though we stop midway or partway through. We settle for part of the prize, part of the blessing. God wants it all for us because of His magnificent love, grace and mercy towards us. This book tells how to go all the way and encourages you to pick back up and keep going with God.
She has written many other books too. All are inspired by her walk with Christ and Gods Word. All challenge your faith and journey with God for the better to encourage you to live the abundant life Jesus came to give.
Paul Hathaway
https://www.asiaharvest.org/bookstore
Recommended Books: An Asia Harvest, The China Chronicles
His books are written with enthusiasm, authenticity and a strong desire to spread the gospel and grow Gods Kingdom.
An Asian Harvest is his autobiography, telling his testimony of how God drew him to himself, molded him and inspired him into the mission and passion he has for growing Gods Kingdom in Asia. It covers the struggles, hardships, and temptations as well as the miracles, joy, hope and triumphs through Christ. It details the start of his organization, Asia Harvest, and its growth as well as its perseverance through adversity and him and his wife’s endurance through Christ.
The China Chronicles showcase each province of China and its unique people. It tells of Gods work in each part through the history of each area while giving testimonies from the people. It brings encouragement as believers bringing us closer together as the body of Christ.
Danny Gokey
Recommended Books: Hope in Front of Me
Danny Gokey’s story of the heartbreak of loosing His first wife and his journey with God through it is told in this book. He honestly speaks of the hurt and pain of loosing his first wife in an unexpected turn of medical issues. He talks of his questions, doubts and fears as he grappled with his loss and with God. But he shows how God patiently and lovingly helped him through to the other side. He tells us how God can do the same and bring us hope again.
We may not understand all that God allows here in earth, but God can help us through everything and someday in heaven we will understand, but for now we are to trust God as our loving Father. God understands our hurt and deep pain over things in our lives, but through it all God is there right by our side ready to help us through anything and give us a hope and a future.
Dr. Robert Leslie
https://robertlesslie.com/
Recommend Books: Angels on Call, Angels in the ER, Angels and Heroes, Angels on the Night Shift and all the rest of his books
All of the books are true stories written from the perspective of hope and purpose. They bring you into the story and move you deeply. There is tragedy and grief, but also redemption, grace and heartwarming moments through each story. You come to know each person in each situation. There is lightheartedness and joy amongst the stories too. Each is different and unique but all leave a mark and have a lesson in them. God’s Word is woven throughout at the beginning of each story and Gods work is shown in the stories. The authentic writing, personally recording each story and every detail, compels you to keep reading to the end.
Grace Lee Whitney
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/969874.The_Longest_Trek
Recommended Book: The Longest Trek
I am a huge Star Trek fan, but you don’t have to be a Star Trek fan to appreciate this book. Even though Star Trek is a secular show, God can work with and through anything.
She goes through her whole life and career. All the ups and downs and twists and turns. It is a very personal writing including emotions, mistakes, pain and hurt, joy and victory in all the things she battled and endured eventually coming to salvation and redemption in Christ. It is a great story of God’s love and grace. How God pursued her and drew her to himself after she tried everything but Him to fill herself. It is a wonderful testament of God’s goodness and how He can work in any situation to bring salvation and good out of anything. How only He can change hearts and minds and the lives of anyone. It is a great testimony to read.
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