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Faith & Purpose

Books on living with meaning, conviction, and grace.

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12
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A still life that evokes the Faith & Purpose reading room

Collection index

A shelf with an argument.

Every collection gathers books around a practical life problem. Open the title that feels closest, then let the shelf widen the frame.

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01

Max Lucado

Anxious for Nothing

Calm, in this book, is not self-manufactured certainty. It is borrowed steadiness.

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02

Jennie Allen

Get Out of Your Head

You are not your thoughts. You are the one who gets to choose which thoughts to believe — and that changes everything.

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Kate Bowler

Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!

Blessed are we who discover that grace is not the reward for a beautiful life. It is the companion for a terrible one too.

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Lysa TerKeurst

It's Not Supposed to Be This Way

God is not asking you to call the hard thing good. He is asking you to bring Him every shard and trust that repair is still possible.

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Shauna Niequist

Present Over Perfect

The world can wait while you return to the life that is actually yours.

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06

Michael Todd

Relationship Goals

Love becomes safer when purpose is clearer than chemistry.

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07

Trent Shelton, Lou Aronica

The Greatest You

Your life changes when your private standards finally catch up to your public potential.

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Rick Warren · 2002

The Purpose Driven Life

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

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John Mark Comer · 2019

The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

If hurry is the disease that makes love impossible, the cure is a life arranged around presence.

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Gary Thomas

The Sacred Search

The holiest search is not for someone who completes your story. It is for someone who helps your life become a better offering.

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William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience

The deepest question is not what a soul claims to have seen, but what kind of life becomes possible after the seeing.

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DeVon Franklin, Meagan Good

The Wait

Waiting is not losing time. It is protecting the future from the version of you that only knows how to choose in a hurry.

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