7 Essential Ebook Deals for Church Leaders – 17 July 2024

Here are 7 essential July 2024 ebook deals that are worth checking out: Tim Alberta, Walter Brueggemann, Diana Butler Bass, more…

Each week, we carefully curate a handful of books for church leaders that orient us toward the health and the flourishing of our congregations.

#1:

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

*** $1.99 ***

Instant New York Times Bestseller

One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the Year

An Economist and Air MailBest Book of the Year

“Brave and absorbing.” — New York Times

“Alberta is not just a thorough and responsible reporter but a vibrant writer, capable of rendering a farcical scene in vivid hues.” — Washington Post

“An astonishingly clear-eyed look at a murky movement.” — Los Angeles Times

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in America today. In his seminal new book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, journalist Tim Alberta, himself a practicing Christian and the son of an evangelical pastor, paints an expansive and profoundly troubling portrait of the American evangelical movement. Through the eyes of televangelists and small-town preachers, celebrity revivalists and everyday churchgoers, Alberta tells the story of a faith cheapened by ephemeral fear, a promise corrupted by partisan subterfuge, and a reputation stained by perpetual scandal.

#2:

Sabbath as Resistance

Walter Brueggemann

*** $3.75 ***

 *** PLUS, Buy the Ebook, and 
get the audiobook for $7.49!!!
In this new edition that includes a study guide, Walter Brueggemann writes that the Sabbath is not simply about keeping rules but rather about becoming a whole person and restoring a whole society. Brueggemann calls out our 24/7 society of consumption, a society in which we live to achieve, accomplish, perform, and possess. We want more, own more, use more, eat more, and drink more. Brueggemann shows readers how keeping the Sabbath allows us to break this restless cycle and focus on what is truly important: God, other people, all life. Perfect for groups or self-reflection, Sabbath as Resistance offers a transformative vision of the wholeness God intends, giving world-weary Christians a glimpse of a more fulfilling and simpler life through Sabbath observance.

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#3:

A People’s History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story

Diana Butler Bass

*** $1.99 ***

 
“It would be difficult to imagine anyone reading this book without finding some new insight or inspiration, some new and unexpected testimony to the astonishing breadth of Christianity through the centuries.” — Philip Jenkins, author of The Lost History of Christianity

“Interesting, insightful, illuminating, and remarkably relevant.” — Marcus Borg, author of The Heart of Christianity

In the tradition of Howard Zinn comes a new history of Christianity that reveals its bottom-up movements over the past 2,000 years, which preserved Jesus’s original message of social justice, and how this history is impacting the church today.

#4:

Into the Heart of Romans: A Deep Dive into Paul’s Greatest Letter

N.T. Wright

*** $4.99 ***

 
“Tom Wright models the Christian principle: ‘there’s always more to learn from the Bible.’ Wright has written extensively on Romans, but now offers fresh insight by focusing on chapter 8, a central text bringing together key themes like new covenant, new creation, the love of God, and restored humanity. At first, you’ll think you were studying Romans 8, but you’ll end up better understanding the whole Bible. This is vintage Wright and will undoubtedly generate robust conversation about the heart of Romans.” — Nijay K. Gupta, professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary

#5:

The Book of Delights: Essays

Ross Gay

*** $1.99 ***

 *** PLUS, Buy the Ebook, and 
get the audiobook for $7.49!!!
 
“The delights he extols here (music, laughter, generosity, poetry, lots of nature) are bulwarks against casual cruelties. As such they feel purposeful and imperative as well as contagious in their joy.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Ross Gay’s poems are little celebrations of joy, and this book of mini-essays—each centering around a particular ‘delight,’ from sleeping in your clothes to planting tomato seedlings to the nod of greeting between the only two black people in a room—is a pure balm for your soul. Savor one at a time every morning, this summer, or wolf them all down en masse on a gorgeous sunny day.”
—Celeste Ng

#6:

The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O’Connor

Jonathan Rogers

*** $2.99 ***

 
“Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics.”
—Flannery O’Connor

Flannery O’Connor’s work has been described as “profane, blasphemous, and outrageous.” Her stories are peopled by a sordid caravan of murderers and thieves, prostitutes and bigots whose lives are punctuated by horror and sudden violence. But perhaps the most shocking thing about Flannery O’Connor’s fiction is the fact that it is shaped by a thoroughly Christian vision. If the world she depicts is dark and terrifying, it is also the place where grace makes itself known. Her world—our world—is the stage whereon the divine comedy plays out; the freakishness and violence in O’Connor’s stories, so often mistaken for a kind of misanthropy or even nihilism, turn out to be a call to mercy.

#7:

Hope Is Here!: Spiritual Practices for Pursuing Justice and Beloved Community

Luther Smith

*** $3.75 ***

“Hope Is Here! is an invitation with a trumpet sound. Luther Smith offers his testimony born from years of adventure, revelation, and contemplation on the revolutionary power of hope. Herein is a glimpse of the expansive depth and inclusivity of the prophetic force of hope. Hope is shown as the agency of the Divine that is always present, purposeful, transformative, persistent, inclusive, boundary breaking, prophetic, and invitational. Hope is not a commodity to be possessed; it possesses us…” —Thomas Louis Brown Sr., Presiding Bishop, Sixth Episcopal District, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

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