Here are 5 essential May 2023 ebook deals that are worth checking out: Richard Rohr, Jemar Tisby, Francois Vuilleumier, 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 Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation
Richard Rohr
*** $2.99 ***
Finding the sweet spot where contemporary science meets ancient mysticism, and theology meets poetry, The Divine Dance sketches a beautiful choreography for a life well-lived. In our joy or our pain, true life is always relational, a flow, a dance. (And was always meant to be.)
—Bono, U2
#2:
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
Jemar Tisby
*** $2.99 ***
“Jemar points courageously toward the open sore of racism-not with the resigned pessimism of the defeated but with the resilient hope of Christian faith.”
— Thabiti Anyabwile, pastor, Anacostia River Church
#3:
AMNH Birds of North America Eastern (DK North American Bird Guides)
Francois Vuilleumier, Ed.
*** $1.99 ***
Easily identify bird species west of the Great Plains with this comprehensive photographic guide.
A book for avid bird watchers young and old! These pages feature high-quality photographs and full-pages details of well-known and rare species of Western North American birds, for quick and easy identification in the wild.
This informative guide book profiles the extraordinary range of birds found in Western North America. The pages of the book are filled with stunning photographs and artworks of over 367 common bird species and 128 rare species seen west of the Great Plains. This field guide profiles each bird on its own page, highlighting its unique characteristics from the posture of the bird, its coloration to its flight patterns.

#4:
The Layperson’s Library: Essential Bible Study Tools for the Man and Woman in the Pew
Robert A. Yost
*** $ 2.99 ***
In the spirit of Cyril Barber’s classic work from the 1970s, The Minister’s Library, and the author’s 2017 book, The Pastor’s Library, Robert Yost provides the same expert guidance now for a lay audience. Finally, laypersons who desire to study the Bible have an invaluable resource for the acquisition of research tools as well as general Christian reading. From general reference works such as Bible atlases and concordances, commentaries, devotional works, and theological studies to Christian biography and fiction, this book is a trustworthy guide through the multiplicity of books that just seem to keep rolling off the presses. Overwhelmed by the proliferation of Christian books on the shelves? This handy guide is the book for you!
#5:
The Return of Oral Hermeneutics: As Good Today as It Was for the Hebrew Bible and First-Century Christianity
Tom Steffen and William Bjoraker
*** $2.99 ***
“Whatever you’ve thought about understanding the Bible, think again. Whatever you said in Bible studies, sermons, or wrote in commentaries, think again. Most of us were schooled only in textual ways to read Scripture. But that’s a serious neglect of how to listen to God’s voice, especially if we want to understand the Bible the way original hearers did. All of us need to enter into the world of oral culture, and Steffen and Bjoraker do a masterful job of showing the way. You owe it to yourself and to God to read this groundbreaking, hermeneutics-altering work.”
–D. Brent Sandy, co-author of The Lost World of Scripture: Ancient Literary Culture and Biblical Authority
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Stay tuned every week for essential ebook deals !!!
Prices and availability are subject to change at any time. These deals may or may not be available outside the United States.
Katie Selby is Associate Editor of The Englewood Review of Books. Prior to her family‘s recent transition to the Englewood Christian Church community, Katie served various churches and organizations in Nebraska, East Tennessee, India, and Ethiopia. She is an M.Div. graduate of Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan University.

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