The best Christian Inspiration eBooks: Reddit reviews

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Easy stuff first all the way! If you like that approach, you might like this book because it's what the author recommends: https://www.amazon.com/Decluttering-Speed-Life-Winning-Never-Ending-ebook/dp/B072TMNCBH/ref=sr_1_1

Ex-KGB agent - https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Undercover-Tangled-Allegiances-America-ebook/dp/B01I5J0OVM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=391DS7WAT77XE&keywords=Deep+Undercover&qid=1661215761&sprefix=deep+undercover+%2Caps%2C277&sr=8-1

Interesting. Possibly what was happening to the anonymous author of The Way of a Pilgrim

I just read "Decluttering at the Speed of Life" and I really thought her matter of fact voice/tone in the book was nice! I definitely took a few good things from the book.

BTW it's free to borrow/read right now on kindle if you have prime. https://www.amazon.com/Decluttering-Speed-Life-Winning-Never-Ending-ebook/dp/B072TMNCBH/ref=sr\_1\_1?keywords=decluttering+at+the+speed+of+life&qid=1660268552&sprefix=DECLUT%2Caps%2C116&sr=8-1

Right. As a Christian, it is frustrating to see someone like Russell dismiss revelation so superficially, while criticizing Aquinas who extensively documented every objection he heard of to any of his claims.

It's not exactly a philosophical treatise, but there is a modern work I recommend commonly for understanding whether scripture/revelation is reliable. An atheist man's wife decided to become Christian. He was an investigative reporter, and he thought it was really important to show his wife how mistaken she was, so he used all his skills as a reporter to write the story of why the Bible, particularly belief in the Resurrection, isn't reliable. He read extensively, and he flew around the country talking to experts, all to disprove his wife's new faith.

He published his notes on this investigation under the title, The Case for Christ, and ended up converting to Christianity as well.

Is Atheism Dead? by Eric Metaxas would be a good read for you, based on your responses, assuming they are in good faith.

You might be interested in the desert fathers and hesychasm. You might also read The Way of a Pilgrim and especially the selections from the Philokalia that it references (found in the appendix of the version I linked), and The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church.

https://www.amazon.com/Decluttering-Speed-Life-Winning-Never-Ending-ebook/dp/B072TMNCBH

I've started her blog from the beginning, forward. She really sounds like she might have ADHD, to me. She has got a handle on her house and has made a lot of progress.

There is a book put together by the band D.C. Talk titled, “Jesus Freaks” I would humbly recommend for your consideration. 🙂

https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Freaks-Martyrs-Stories-Ultimate-ebook/dp/B007KOGWF6

I may be mistaken, but I believe there are multiple volumes.

Maybe put the Old Testament down for now and explore the New Testament, starting with one of the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. Continue to pray and ask God to give you faith in him. You might consider reading this book. https://www.amazon.com/Case-Christ-Journalists-Personal-Investigation-ebook/dp/B01863JLK2

I would encourage you to start reading the Bible with an open mind. Pray and ask God to reveal himself to you. Start with the gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. "The Case for Christ" by Lee Strobel is a popular book for people in your position. https://www.amazon.com/Case-Christ-Journalists-Personal-Investigation-ebook/dp/B01863JLK2

Here is a good book on the subject. It is starting to look the other way around - https://www.amazon.com/Atheism-Dead-Eric-Metaxas-ebook/dp/B097CWGMML/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1NQ33TT62LLH7&keywords=is+atheism+dead+eric+metaxas&qid=1644679993&sprefix=is+ath%2Caps%2C87&sr=8-1

The Desert Fathers and the Jesus Prayer are how I came to Orthodoxy. If you like those then you will probably like the writings of hesychasts. I recommend The Way of a Pilgrim and St. Silouan the Athonite.

Start with trash, donate things that are still good but are easy to part with.

If it's broken, torn, worn, doesn't work, throw it away. How long have you had it waiting for you to mend?

How long have you had perfectly good things that you have never used? Donate them.

Do you have things that have a home but aren't where they belong? Put them away, if there is not room, look for trash and easy to let go of things to make room.

For things that have no home, where is the first place you would look for it? If you needed it, would it even occur to you that you had one? If not, donate it.

The next time you go through your things some of the things you kept before will be easier to let go of.

This is Dana White's method https://www.amazon.com/Decluttering-Speed-Life-Winning-Never-Ending-ebook/dp/B072TMNCBH/

Declutter first.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072TMNCBH/

If you can afford it, have someone come in to do your dishes, and laundry, and take your trash out, that you have bagged up, so you can concentrate on thinning out your things.

If you can just sit there and pick trash out of the places around you, get a box for donating things that are still good, but that you don't need, and a big black trash bag.

Don't pull everything out into big piles or empty entire closets. You will get tired and have to stop. Then the big mess will make you feel worse.

At least if you are only picking trash and donations out of places, when you have to stop, it won't be any worse.

When it is cleared out enough, have a room deep cleaned.

Once you have thinned out your things and had rooms deep cleaned, then think about organizing. A professional organizer will probably get you to get rid of a lot more stuff, btw.

For anyone contemplating views of Hell, I highly recommend "All You Want to Know About Hell" by Steve Gregg. It gives an overview of the three main views of hell, the arguments for and against each view, and each view's rebuttals to those arguments.

The argument that really pushed me away from Eternal Conscious Torment is the mismatch between the punishment for sin and the severity of the sin. I simply cannot reconcile the idea of an infinite punishment for a finite crime with the concept of a just God.

Pretty much have to do it yourself unless you want them to take it all out, google for hoarding clean up if that's what you want.

If you don't want that, https://www.amazon.com/Decluttering-Speed-Life-Winning-Never-Ending-ebook/dp/B072TMNCBH/

She tells you to start with the easy stuff. She has videos and a blog.

I found The Case for Christ to be a pretty good summary of why the Resurrection was a real event. It was written by an atheist trying to prove to his wife that the Resurrection wasn't real by talking to all the best experts he could, but he ended up converting. Otherwise, even though I grew up Catholic, I like the stories of those who converted later in life, like CS Lewis (see his book Surprised by Joy), or a less famous but more recent Holly Ordway (Not God's Type).

There was a journalist once whose wife decided to become a Christian. He thought this was stupid, and that she was joining a cult. So, he set about trying to save his wife, by proving to her definitively that Christianity was wrong (and that atheism is right). He did this by trying to disprove the core of Christianity: the Resurrection.

He talked to all sorts of experts on history, textual analysis, archeology, and so forth. After spending a lot of time researching, he had enough material to write a book about what he found. And why he decided to become a Christian.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01863JLK2/

It's worth a read.

I'm so glad it could help! I remember being flabbergasted the first time I heard this way of putting things together.

This book by Steve Gregg was very helpful for me in thinking through the Bible-based for and against cases for the popular belief about hell ("eternal conscious torment") and two other Christian beliefs: "annihilation" (the belief that those who go to hell eventually cease to exist) and "reconciliation" (the belief that those who go to hell eventually are reconciled to God through Christ). It even has a helpful summary guide of key Scriptures in the back and how each "side" responds to various challenges.

I wish I could upvote this a million times, coming from the land of dirt and wannabe Christian martyrs spiritually jerking off to what is essentially Christian murder porn.

In addition to that they taught us to fear the world in it's entirety aside from Christianity and basically worship the early church (except the socialist and taking care of the sick/poor parts NYEAAHHHHH), so it absolutely breeds ignorance and these martyrdom fantasies.

I have read that that one is the worst translation. It's translated by Catholics who do not understand Orthodoxy or hesychasm and so they "latinize" it to make it seem closer to Catholic practice. I am biased but I do not think Catholic spirituality comes close to hesychasm. See here for some of the details on what the translation changes.

This is the version that I read. I cannot speak to how good of a translation it is, but I absolutely loved the book and it is a major part of my journey to Orthodoxy.

Good book on this subject written by a transgender Christian woman:

God Doesn’t Make Mistakes: Confessions of a Transgender Christian

I'm somewhere in between Reconciliationism (Christian Universalism) and Annihilationism (Conditional Immortality). I hope that everyone will be saved, but baring that I think scripture and logic support an annihilatory hell over an eternal hell. I found the book All You Want to Know About Hell by Steve Gregg to be a helpful resource when looking into the different views on hell. Gregg provides the arguments for each view, the arguments against each view, and that view's rebuttals to those arguments. It's a really good book for understanding the differing viewpoints on hell.

In 2018, Anthony Scaramucci wrote a book called Trump, the Blue-Collar President, where he argued that "Donald Trump and his economic policies were the best bet for our country's future". By 2020, he had completely changed his mind, saying "that experiment has failed spectacularly and tragically".

I often recommend The Case for Christ. The author started in a similar position as you - doubting the resurrection was a real event or that the Bible was a reliable source, and it details him raising every objection he can think of and researching the objection thoroughly by talking to experts.

I hope it helps!

How do you prove that either Scaramucci or the Germans of Pri Nazi German didn't know what they were doing?

> If Scaramucci wasn't fired from Trump wouldn't it stand to reason he would still be working for Trump administration? Isn't Scarmucci book still being sold on Amazon? It is

Scaramucci is playing both sides, he is not to be believed.

> the bible does not say anything about hell being finite

I have the positions of "conditional immortality" and "annihilationism" for reasons such as these listed by Greg Boyd.

Those with the 'universal reconciliation' position also believe that each person's actual time in hell is finite.

If any reader wants to learn more, I recommend this book by Steve Gregg.

Without Buddha I could not be a Christian