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How I Choose Books
Daily deals are divided into Christian Book Deals and General Market Book Deals. For the Christian Book Deals, I apply discernment to my choices and try to only include books I can recommend without significant caveats. For the General Market Book Deals, I do my best to include books that will be interesting and inoffensive. That said, these books are from the general market and, therefore, may not reflect a Christian worldview.
September 4
Christian deals for September 4:
Made to Tremble
Blair Linne
Linne’s anxiety had been with her for years before a car accident brought on symptoms that overwhelmed her, and she tells that story here without ever letting the book become merely a story. It sits where memoir meets theology — warm and personal on one page, working carefully through what God does in the trials he does not lift on the next — and it stays deliberately on its own side of the line, leaving to physicians what belongs to physicians. Linne is a spoken word artist and the author of Finding My Father; B&H Books published this in September 2025 at around 242 pages, with a foreword by Paul David Tripp.
Managing God’s Money
Randy Alcorn
Alcorn’s premise is that none of it was ours to begin with — that we are managers of money and possessions God owns, and that how we handle them says a good deal about what we actually believe. He works through ownership, stewardship, debt, giving, saving and what he calls the treasure principle, that you cannot take it with you but you can send it on ahead, and he does it briefly enough that the book can be read in an evening and felt for rather longer. This is Alcorn’s third book on the subject, sitting between the much larger Money, Possessions, and Eternity and the very short The Treasure Principle; Tyndale House published it in 2011 at about 271 pages.
The Deconstruction of Christianity
Alisa Childers and Tim Barnett
Childers and Barnett take up the deconstruction movement — the hashtags, the podcasts, the public unravellings — and work to say precisely what it is before saying what is wrong with it. They distinguish the process from the person and from the beliefs being pulled apart, note that it usually begins in a crisis of abuse, suffering or doubt rather than in an argument, and give the last third of the book to how one might love someone who is in the middle of it. Childers hosts the Alisa Childers Podcast and Barnett works with Stand to Reason; Tyndale Elevate published this in January 2024 at around 283 pages, with a foreword by Carl Trueman.
Before You Open Your Bible
Matt Smethurst
Smethurst’s concern is not with technique but with the heart we bring to Scripture before we have read a word of it, and he sets out nine postures — prayerful, humble, desperate, studious, obedient and so on — each in a chapter of a few pages. It is a very short book, built to be read once quickly and then applied every morning after, and it is aimed squarely at people whose Bible reading has gone stale on them. Smethurst is managing editor of The Gospel Coalition and a pastor in Louisville; 10Publishing published this in 2019 at about 98 pages.
The Perpetual Battle
Simon Vibert
Vibert treats the old triad of the world, the flesh and the devil as a field manual rather than a museum piece: three enemies, each with its own tactics, at work on Christians who often do not notice they are in a fight at all. He draws on the Puritans and on Ryle, Lewis, Lloyd-Jones and Stott as much as on his own reading of Scripture, and the aim throughout is practical — to name the enemy accurately so that resistance becomes possible. Vibert was Vice Principal and Director of the School of Preaching at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, before becoming a vicar in Surrey; Christian Focus published this in 2018 at around 224 pages.
The Missionary-Theologian
E. D. Burns
Burns argues that the missionary and the theologian were once the same person, and that prising them apart has left those working in the hardest places least equipped for what they will meet there. He makes the case for serious theological formation as the ordinary preparation for mission rather than a luxury for those who stay home, and he writes with some heat — the tone is frankly polemical in places, which readers will find bracing or wearying according to temperament. Burns served long-term in the Middle East, East Asia and Alaska and now directs a graduate programme in global leadership studies; Christian Focus published this in 2020 at around 264 pages.
Iron Sharpens Iron
Orlando Saer
Saer wrote this for the person who has agreed to lead a small group Bible study and is not entirely sure what that involves, and he takes the job in order: why small groups are worth the trouble, how to prepare, how to map out a study, how to run the meeting, and how to care for the people in the room once it ends. Appendices and worked examples keep it practical rather than theoretical, and it is short enough to hand to a new leader without discouraging them on sight. Saer is senior pastor of Christ Church Southampton and has served churches in Sydney, London and Surrey; Christian Focus published it in 2010 at about 129 pages.
Fault Lines
Voddie Baucham Jr.
Baucham argues that critical race theory has entered evangelicalism as an unacknowledged worldview rather than a set of tools, and that the fault line it has opened runs through churches, denominations and seminaries that have not yet reckoned with how far apart the two sides have moved. He writes partly as analyst and partly as witness, drawing on his own upbringing in south central Los Angeles and on years of pastoral work, and the book was among the most argued-over releases of its year. Baucham is a pastor and author and was dean of the school of divinity at African Christian University in Zambia; Salem Books published this in April 2021 at around 271 pages.
General market deals for September 4:
The Beatles
Bob Spitz
Spitz spent the better part of a decade on this, interviewing hundreds of people and going back over the Liverpool years in more detail than anyone had, and the result carries the band from skiffle groups and Hamburg clubs to the end without ever feeling hurried. He is particularly good on the ordinary texture of it — the families, the money, the boredom between the famous moments — and he does not soften the falling-out. Spitz has written about music for decades and previously produced a life of Bob Dylan; Little, Brown published this in 2005, and the paperback runs to very nearly a thousand pages.
The Kill Chain
Christian Brose
Brose’s argument is that America has spent decades buying exquisite and expensive platforms — carriers, fighters, tanks — while its competitors have been quietly building cheap ways to find and destroy them, and that the decisive contest is now over the kill chain itself: how quickly a military can understand what is happening, decide, and act. He writes as a man who watched the problem from the inside and could not get it fixed, which gives the book the character of a warning rather than a forecast. Brose was staff director of the Senate Armed Services Committee under John McCain; Hachette Books published this in April 2020 at around 288 pages.
Tribe
Sebastian Junger
Junger begins with a puzzle: why so many soldiers miss war, and why the mental health of a society often improves during a disaster rather than declining. His answer is that human beings are built for small interdependent groups, that modern affluence has quietly dissolved them, and that veterans coming home are grieving the loss of a tribe as much as they are processing what they saw. It is a short book, barely more than a long essay, and it has been argued with ever since. Junger wrote The Perfect Storm and War and co-directed the documentary Restrepo; Twelve published this in 2016 at about 181 pages.
The Party
Richard McGregor
McGregor spent years reporting from Beijing and uses that access to describe the machinery most accounts leave out: the Party organisation sitting behind the government, appointing the executives of the largest state companies, controlling the courts and the army, and keeping its own disciplinary proceedings entirely in-house. The red telephones on the desks of chief executives serve as his emblem for the whole arrangement — a private network for the few hundred people who actually run the country. McGregor was the Financial Times bureau chief in China; Harper published this in 2010, with the Harper Perennial paperback of about 336 pages following in 2012.
September 3
Christian deals for September 3:
Single Ever After
Dani Treweek
Treweek writes for single Christians who have been told, in a hundred quiet ways, that their life is a waiting room until marriage arrives. She takes the questions up plainly — does my singleness have a purpose, what is the gift of singleness actually meant to be, is marriage really the answer to loneliness — and argues that marriage and singleness alike are signposts to an eternity in which the church is married to Christ and each of us is, as her title has it, single ever after. It is a warm and frequently witty book rather than a merely consoling one. The Good Book Company published it in September 2025 in a paperback of about 176 pages.
Here to Love
Chris Cipollone
Cipollone takes up Jesus’ greatest command — love God, love neighbour — and asks why something so plainly central so often drifts to the edges of an ordinary Christian life. He works through what the Bible actually means by love, why the call to love sits at the core of our purpose and calling, and what it looks like in the places where it costs something, with questions for reflection or group discussion set throughout. He writes with good humour and a light hand. The Good Book Company published it in 2025.
Life with Jesus
Tim Chester
This is a twelve-session discipleship course, built to be worked through with a single friend as readily as in a group, covering how the gospel and God’s grace reshape our attitude to church, Bible reading, prayer, suffering, money and a good deal besides. Each session opens with a short story, moves into a passage of Scripture with explanation and comprehension questions, and closes with something concrete to go and do; notes at the back suggest ways for leaders to adapt the material. It is aimed squarely at newer Christians who want the basics laid out in order. The Good Book Company published it.
We Are All Philosophers
John M. Frame
Frame’s premise is that everyone is already a philosopher, whether or not they have ever read one, because everyone is working with answers to questions like what the world is made of, whether we are free, how we know anything, and how we ought to live. He takes seven such questions in turn — adding the existence of God, the basis of rights, and salvation — setting the usual philosophical answers beside the Bible’s, and he does it in a small fraction of the space of his much larger History of Western Philosophy and Theology. Frame is the retired J. D. Trimble Chair of Systematic Theology and Philosophy at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando; Lexham Press published this in 2019 at around 224 pages.
Mormonism 101
Bill McKeever and Eric Johnson
McKeever and Johnson set out the major tenets of Latter-day Saint theology — God, Christ, scripture, salvation, the afterlife, temple practice — and place each beside orthodox Christian teaching, quoting Mormon sources at length so that readers can weigh the differences for themselves rather than take the authors’ word for them. It is written as a reference for Christians who want to understand their Mormon neighbours accurately, and it is careful to represent the teaching fairly before disagreeing with it. Both men work with Mormonism Research Ministry, which McKeever founded; this revised and expanded edition from Baker Books appeared in 2015 at about 336 pages.
General market deals for September 3:
The Chaos Machine
Max Fisher
Fisher spent years reporting on what happens when algorithms built to maximise engagement are turned loose on human psychology, and he follows the consequences from Silicon Valley conference rooms to mob violence in Sri Lanka and Myanmar. His argument is not simply that social media amplifies what was already there, but that its incentives actively manufacture outrage, conspiracy and tribalism, and that the people who built the machines understood this sooner than they admitted. Fisher is a reporter for the New York Times; Little, Brown published this in 2022 at around 400 pages.
Social Justice Fallacies
Thomas Sowell
Sowell takes the assumptions lying underneath most social justice arguments — that unequal outcomes imply unfair treatment, that experts can be trusted to engineer better ones, that the historical record runs the way the story requires — and tests each of them against the empirical evidence. As ever he writes in short declarative sentences and leans on data rather than indignation, which is a good deal of why his critics find him difficult to answer. Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and was ninety-three when this appeared; Basic Books published it in 2023 at around 224 pages.
The Second World War
Antony Beevor
Beevor attempts the whole war in a single volume — Europe and the Pacific, the eastern front and the desert, the strategy rooms and the men in the mud — and the achievement of it is that it never reads as a summary. He is particularly good on what the war did to civilians, and he does not spare the reader the atrocities committed on any side. Beevor is among the best-known historians of the period, the author of Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945; Little, Brown published this in 2012 at around 880 pages.
Alexander the Great
Philip Freeman
Freeman tells the life straight through — the boy tutored by Aristotle, the twenty-year-old who inherited a kingdom and a grudge, the campaigns that carried a Macedonian army as far as the Indus, and the death at thirty-two that undid nearly all of it within a generation. He works from the ancient sources and writes narrative rather than analysis, which makes this a good place to begin for anyone who has never read the story whole. Freeman is a classicist who has also written lives of Julius Caesar and St Patrick; Simon and Schuster published this in 2011 at around 416 pages.
The American School of Spies
Stephan Talty
When the Nazis moved on Greece, a group of American archaeologists and classicists who had spent their careers digging in the Aegean found themselves recruited into the OSS as what became known as the Greek Desk, assembled and led by the archaeologist Rodney Young. Talty follows them out of the excavation trench and into occupied territory, working to keep the antiquities of ancient Greece out of German hands, and he keeps the pace of a thriller without inventing anything. Talty has written six previous works of narrative nonfiction; Dutton published this in June 2026 at around 320 pages.
September 2
Christian deals for September 2:
A Praying Life★ Tim’s Pick
Paul E. Miller
Miller argues that most of us struggle with prayer because we treat it as a discipline to be mastered rather than as conversation with a Father, and so he sets out to teach a whole praying life instead of a set of techniques. Drawn from seminars he has led many times over, the book moves through childlike trust, cynicism, petition, and living inside God’s larger story, closing with practical helps such as prayer cards and journaling — all of it carried along by small, ordinary stories from his own family. Miller directs seeJesus, a discipleship ministry, and has also written A Loving Life and J-Curve; NavPress issued this revised second edition in 2017 in a paperback of around 304 pages.
The Pursuit of Holiness◆ Must Read
Jerry Bridges
Bridges takes up the question of what part God plays in our sanctification and what part we must play ourselves, answering it with the image of a farmer who plows, sows and cultivates while depending entirely on rain and sun he cannot produce. From there he works through the holiness of God, our remaining appetite for sin, obedience, the training of desire, and the daily discipline of putting sin to death — plainly, and with rather more conviction than comfort. Bridges (1929–2016) served more than sixty years with The Navigators and wrote a shelf of related books, among them The Discipline of Grace and Respectable Sins; this NavPress edition from 2016 runs to roughly 208 pages and adds a twelve-lesson study guide.
Concise Theology
J. I. Packer
Packer works through ninety-four short studies — most only two or three pages — covering what he calls the permanent essentials of Christianity: revelation, the Trinity, providence, sin, the atonement, the church, the last things, and a good deal besides. Each entry is dense with Scripture references, so the book serves equally well as a first systematic theology for someone who has never attempted one and as a quick reference for those who have. Packer (1926–2020) held a doctorate from Oxford and taught for years at Regent College in Vancouver, and is best known for Knowing God; first published in 1993, this Tyndale House paperback runs to about 274 pages.
I Want to Escape
Rush Witt
Witt writes for people who, under the accumulated weight of pressure, regret and disappointment, find themselves wanting simply to bolt — and he begins by naming the ordinary shapes escapism takes: denial, distraction, self-destruction, and thoughts of death. In place of running away he sets out what he calls courageous dependence: praying with humility, believing the gospel afresh, and acting in reliance on the Christ who stays near even when we are ready to flee. Witt holds an MDiv and DMin, serves as lead pastor of Paramount Church in Bexley, Ohio, is a certified biblical counselor, and also wrote Diehard Sins; New Growth Press published this in 2022 in its Ask the Christian Counselor series, a compact paperback of roughly 105 pages.
The Mission-Centered Life
Bethany Ferguson
Ferguson spent most of fifteen years serving with Serge in Uganda, South Sudan and Kenya, and she writes here for Christians who want to serve in hard places but are not sure where to begin. Across the study she works through why holistic mission is needed, how God’s grace equips ordinary people to serve, what to do when you fail at it, and where hope comes from when the brokenness does not lift — weaving Scripture study together with essays, stories from her own years in East Africa, and questions for reflection or group discussion. Rather than treating missions as adventure or as a tally of conversions, she argues that our own weakness and need is precisely what prepares us to serve a needy world. New Growth Press published this in 2019 in a paperback of around 128 pages.
Social Media Pressure
John Perritt
This is four weeks of devotions written for teenagers about what social media actually does to them — the fear of missing out, the endless comparison, the bullying, the simple addiction — and about turning to Jesus for rest instead. Each entry pairs a passage of Scripture with a story and an “Alongside Practice,” a small concrete habit to try, and each week closes with a conversation meant to be had with a parent, mentor or friend rather than worked through alone. Perritt holds an MDiv and a DMin, directs Reformed Youth Ministries, and has written Your Days Are Numbered and What Would Judas Do? among others; New Growth Press published this in 2023 in a paperback of about 128 pages, the second title in its Devotions for Teenagers series.
In the Presence of My Enemies
Gracia Burnham with Dean Merrill
Gracia and Martin Burnham were New Tribes Mission missionaries in the Philippines — he a jungle pilot — when they were seized from a resort island by the Abu Sayyaf while marking their wedding anniversary in May 2001. This is Gracia’s account of the 376 days that followed: forced marches through the jungle, near-starvation, gun battles, ransom demands their mission would never pay, and finally the rescue attempt in which Martin was killed and she was wounded. She writes with real candour about a faith that wavered and yet held, and about watching Christ’s kindness surface in the most hostile place imaginable. Tyndale first published the book in 2003; the updated softcover of 2010 runs about 304 pages and adds material on the capture and trial of the captors.
Hoping for Happiness
Barnabas Piper
Everyone wants to be happy, but we chase it in different ways—and as Christians we often pin our hopes on earthly things we know won’t last. Barnabas Piper offers a warm, honest look at where lasting happiness is actually found, redirecting our restless longings toward God himself.
Does Science Make God Irrelevant?
Hans Madueme
Are faith and science really at war? In this concise, accessible book, theologian Hans Madueme makes a biblically informed case that Christians can rightly love both God and science—showing how the natural world, far from threatening faith, gives us reason to glorify our Creator.
General market deals for September 2:
The Wide Wide Sea
Hampton Sides
In 1776 Captain James Cook set out on a third and final voyage, ostensibly to return a Pacific Islander to his home but really to hunt for the fabled Northwest Passage — and three years later he was killed on a beach in Hawaii. Sides retraces the whole journey, from Tahiti and New Zealand up to the Alaskan ice, giving real attention both to the peoples Cook encountered and to the commander’s own fraying temper as the expedition wore on. Sides is a longtime magazine journalist and the author of In the Kingdom of Ice and Blood and Thunder; Doubleday published this in 2024 at 432 pages.
✕ Deal EndedLivingstone
Tim Jeal
Tim Jeal’s acclaimed biography—revised and expanded—strips away the legend to reveal David Livingstone as he really was: the missionary-explorer who crossed Africa, found Victoria Falls, and searched for the source of the Nile. A gripping portrait of one of history’s greatest and most complicated explorers.
Reagan
Max Boot
Boot spent roughly a decade on this life of Ronald Reagan, interviewing more than a hundred aides, friends and family members and working through documents only recently made available. The result is neither takedown nor monument — it follows Reagan from small-town Illinois through Hollywood and the California governor’s office to the White House, and argues that his real political gift was a pragmatism his admirers on the right have largely forgotten. Boot is a historian and foreign-policy writer, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Washington Post columnist who once counted himself a Reagan conservative. Liveright published it in 2024, and at 880 pages it is a genuinely long read.
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
Diamond’s question is a simple one: why did some peoples end up with the guns, the germs and the steel, and others did not? His answer sets race aside entirely in favour of geography — the shape and orientation of the continents, the plants and animals available for domestication, and the diseases that followed close behind. First published in 1997 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize the following year, it remains one of the most discussed and most argued-over works of popular history of the last generation. Diamond is a professor of geography at UCLA who came to human history by way of physiology and ornithology; this is Norton’s twentieth anniversary edition, issued in 2017 with a new afterword, at 528 pages.
American Dreams
H. W. Brands
Brands carries the story of the United States from the end of the Second World War through to the early years of this century — the Cold War and Vietnam, the civil rights movement and Watergate, the Reagan years and September 11. He writes narrative rather than argument, braiding politics together with popular culture so the decades feel lived in rather than catalogued. Brands teaches history at the University of Texas at Austin and has twice been a Pulitzer finalist, for his lives of Benjamin Franklin and Franklin Roosevelt. Penguin Press published it in 2010, with the Penguin Books paperback following in 2011 at 432 pages.
September 1
Christian deals for September 1:
2 Corinthians
Trent Casto
Casto works through Paul’s most personal letter — its candour about suffering, weakness and money, and its long defence of a ministry the Corinthians had begun to doubt — keeping the pastoral point in view throughout. Like the rest of the Reformed Expository Commentary series it grows out of preaching rather than lecturing, which makes it as useful to an ordinary reader as to a preacher. Casto holds an MDiv from Covenant Theological Seminary and a DMin from Gordon-Conwell and is senior pastor of Covenant Church of Naples in Florida; P&R published this in 2023 as a hardcover of about 376 pages.
Colossians & Philemon
Richard D. Phillips
Phillips reads Colossians as Paul’s answer to a young church being pulled towards a fashionable spirituality, and finds the cure in a very high view of Christ; the short companion letter to Philemon then shows what that doctrine looks like once it reaches an actual household. Phillips is senior minister of Second Presbyterian Church in Greenville, South Carolina, coeditor of the Reformed Expository Commentary series, and the author of more than forty books. P&R published this volume in 2024 at around 392 pages.
When Helping Hurts
Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
Corbett and Fikkert argue that poverty is never merely a shortage of money but a set of broken relationships — with God, with self, with others and with creation — and that well-meant giving which ignores this can leave the poor and the giver alike worse off. They distinguish relief from rehabilitation and development, and press churches to ask which of the three a situation actually calls for. Both men have long been associated with the Chalmers Center at Covenant College; this third edition, published by Moody in 2014, runs to roughly 275 pages.
✕ Deal EndedThe God Who Hears
Sarah Ivill
Ivill traces prayer across the whole sweep of Scripture — the garden, the patriarchs, the exile, the Psalms, and then the prayers of Jesus and of the early church — showing how the Old Testament prayers find their answer in Christ our high priest. Her aim is less to teach a method than to introduce the covenant God being addressed. Ivill holds a ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary and has been leading and writing women’s Bible studies for many years; Reformation Heritage Books published this in 2022 at about 187 pages.
The Case for Heaven
Lee Strobel
Strobel turns the interview-driven method of The Case for Christ towards what happens after death, putting questions about the soul, near-death experiences, heaven, hell and reincarnation to a series of scholars and scientists in turn. It is journalism rather than exposition, and it moves at a brisk pace. A former legal editor at the Chicago Tribune who went on to serve as a teaching pastor, Strobel published this with Zondervan in 2021 at around 320 pages.
How to Read the Bible Like a Seminary Professor
Mark M. Yarbrough
Yarbrough sets out to hand the ordinary reader the tools a seminary classroom would supply — how the canon came together, how the various genres work, and how to move from a single passage to its place in the whole story — without the jargon that usually comes attached. He writes cheerfully and with a good deal of humour along the way. Yarbrough teaches Bible exposition at Dallas Theological Seminary; FaithWords published this in 2015 at roughly 356 pages.
30 Days to Understanding the Bible
Max E. Anders
Anders offers a month-long survey built for fifteen minutes a day, working through the Bible’s main eras, its geography and its central figures, with review exercises meant to fix the framework in memory rather than to cover every detail. It is aimed squarely at readers who have never had the whole story laid out in order. Anders is a pastor and the author of some thirty books, and this thirtieth-anniversary edition from Thomas Nelson appeared in 2018 at around 385 pages.
Spiritual Leadership
J. Oswald Sanders
Sanders sets out the qualities that mark leadership in the church — prayer, discipline, humility, a willingness to be spent — and illustrates each of them from Scripture and from lives such as those of David Livingstone and Charles Spurgeon. Sanders led the China Inland Mission and its successor, wrote more than forty books, and this one has sold well over a million copies since it first appeared in 1967. The revised Moody edition of 2017 updates the language and adds a study guide, running to about 247 pages.
General market deals for September 1:
Area 51
Annie Jacobsen
Jacobsen sets out to write the history of the Nevada test site as a place where real and documented things happened — nuclear testing, the U-2 and the A-12, the first radar-evading aircraft — drawing on interviews with dozens of men who had worked there and never spoken publicly before. The book also advances a startling claim about the origin of the 1947 Roswell wreckage, which drew a great deal of dispute when it appeared. Jacobsen is a Los Angeles journalist and a former contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine; Little, Brown published this in 2011.
Operation Paperclip
Annie Jacobsen
In the months after the war the United States quietly recruited more than a thousand German scientists — rocket engineers, chemists, doctors — and set them to work on American weapons and space programmes, notwithstanding how deeply some of them had been implicated in the Nazi regime. Jacobsen follows twenty-one of them closely, drawing on declassified files and family papers, and does not soften what several had done. Little, Brown published it in 2014.
The Pentagon’s Brain
Annie Jacobsen
Jacobsen traces DARPA from its founding in the panic that followed Sputnik, through Vietnam-era counterinsurgency research, to drones, robotics and brain-machine work, arguing that no other agency has shaped modern American war-fighting so profoundly. She draws on interviews with scientists who had not previously spoken about their work. The book was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History; Little, Brown published it in 2015.
The Stolen Crown
Tracy Borman
For four centuries it has been taken as fact that the dying Elizabeth I named James of Scotland her heir, on the authority of her earliest biographer William Camden. Borman’s examination of Camden’s original manuscript found key passages pasted over and rewritten, and she builds from that a case that the naming never happened and that James’s path to the throne was murkier than the official account allows. Borman is Chief Historian of Historic Royal Palaces and has written widely on the Tudors; Atlantic Monthly Press published this in 2025.
August 31
Christian deals for August 31:
Gentle and Lowly
Dane Ortlund
Dane Ortlund turns to Matthew 11, where Jesus describes himself as “gentle and lowly in heart,” and spends twenty-three short chapters asking not what Christ has done for his people so much as who he actually is towards them. He leans heavily on the Puritans — Thomas Goodwin, Richard Sibbes and John Bunyan among them — yet writes for the weary and the guilty rather than for the academy. Ortlund holds a PhD from Wheaton and serves as a pastor in Illinois; Crossway published this in 2020 in a hardcover of around 224 pages, and it has since become one of the most widely read Christian books of the decade.
New Morning Mercies
Paul David Tripp
Paul David Tripp offers a full year of daily readings, each opening with a short, pointed gospel statement that then unfolds into a longer meditation, with questions for reflection and passages for further study. His concern throughout is less behaviour management than a fresh daily encounter with God’s grace. First published by Crossway in 2014 and repackaged in 2024, it runs to roughly 385 pages and has sold more than a million copies; Tripp trained at Westminster Theological Seminary, lives in Philadelphia, and has written widely on marriage, parenting and leadership.
Everyday Gospel
Paul David Tripp
This is Tripp’s second year-long devotional, and unlike New Morning Mercies it follows a one-year Bible reading plan running from Genesis through to Revelation, with each entry reflecting on that day’s passage. His aim is to show how the whole of Scripture — narrative, law, poetry and epistle alike — bears on the ordinary business of life. Crossway published it in 2024 as a hardcover of nearly 500 pages, and a companion edition that weaves in the full ESV text is also available; Tripp is a pastor, counsellor and conference speaker based in Philadelphia.
The Lord of Psalm 23
David Gibson
David Gibson works slowly through Psalm 23, drawing out three pictures of the believer’s union with Christ: sheep and shepherd, traveller and companion, guest and host. Adapted from three sermons and set within the wider sweep of Scripture, it is a short and warmly pastoral book — the Crossway hardcover ran to about 180 pages — carrying a foreword by Sinclair Ferguson, and this newer edition adds study questions for personal or small-group use. Gibson holds a PhD from Aberdeen and is minister of Trinity Church in that city; his other books include Living Life Backward.
Respectable Sins
Jerry Bridges
Jerry Bridges turns his attention to the sins Christians are most inclined to excuse — anger, envy, impatience, discontentment, judgmentalism and the rest — and shows why not one of them is small in the sight of God. Bridges, who served some sixty years with the Navigators and is best known for The Pursuit of Holiness, lays a gospel foundation before pressing his readers towards change, chapter by chapter. First published in 2007, this NavPress edition runs to roughly 288 pages and folds in the study guide that was once sold separately.
✕ Deal EndedThe Message of the Sermon on the Mount
John Stott
John Stott walks slowly through Matthew 5–7, treating the Sermon on the Mount as Jesus’ own portrait of a Christian counter-culture — a people visibly different from both the religious and the irreligious around them. Stott (1921–2011), for many years rector of All Souls, Langham Place, in London, joins careful exposition to pointed application, and this revised IVP Academic edition of 2020 runs to some 224 pages, with lightly updated language, current NIV quotations and a seven-session study guide. It remains one of the best-loved volumes in the Bible Speaks Today series.
✕ Deal EndedBrothers, We Are Not Professionals
John Piper
In a series of short, pointed chapters John Piper urges pastors to abandon the professional model of ministry and to take up something far costlier and far more dependent on God. Piper served for more than three decades as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis and now teaches through Desiring God, and this updated and expanded B&H edition of 2013 adds several fresh chapters to the 2002 original, running to about 308 pages. It is a bracing book, and one that many pastors find themselves returning to more than once.
Live Your Truth and Other Lies
Alisa Childers
Childers turns a critical eye on the slogans that circulate everywhere in contemporary culture — follow your heart, you are enough, live your truth — and weighs each one against Scripture, arguing that they leave people more anxious and self-absorbed rather than genuinely free. She writes as a former member of the CCM group ZOEgirl who came through a serious crisis of faith of her own and who now hosts a widely followed apologetics podcast. Tyndale published it in 2022 and it runs to roughly 240 pages; readers who valued Another Gospel? will find the same blend of warmth and firmness here.
Love Walked Among Us
Paul E. Miller
Miller works slowly through the four Gospel accounts to watch how Jesus actually dealt with people — his compassion, his plain speaking, his refusal to flatter anyone — and then asks what that pattern might look like in ordinary friendships, marriages and workplaces. He is the founder of seeJesus, a discipleship ministry, and is best known for A Praying Life; here he leans on family stories quite as much as on exposition. First published in 2001, the book was revised and reissued by NavPress in 2014 at around 270 pages.
✕ Deal EndedAuthentic Masculinity
Seth Troutt
Troutt sets out a constructive account of Christian manhood in two halves: first four virtues — humility, discipline, responsibility and chivalry — and then the roles a man may be called to fill as son, brother, maker, husband and father. He is an Arizona pastor whose doctoral research dealt with the body, gender and digital technology, and he writes with one eye on the online influencers now shaping so many young men. Moody Publishers released it in 2026 and it runs to about 240 pages.
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✕ Deal EndedEnola Gay
Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts
Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts reconstruct the mission that carried the first atomic bomb to Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, moving between the crew of the B-29, the scientists and soldiers who built the weapon, the politicians who authorised its use and the Japanese civilians who woke that morning to what they took to be an ordinary day. First published in 1977 and built from hundreds of first-hand interviews and documents, it reads as a minute-by-minute account rather than an argument. Thomas was a Welsh investigative journalist and BBC producer who wrote more than fifty books, and Morgan-Witts a television producer and his frequent collaborator; the Open Road Media reissue of 2014 runs to some 470 pages.
✕ Deal EndedDead Reckoning
Dick Lehr
Dick Lehr recounts Operation Vengeance, the American mission of April 1943 that tracked and shot down the aircraft carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval strategist behind the attack on Pearl Harbor. He braids two lives together — Yamamoto’s and that of Major John Mitchell, the Mississippi-born pilot who led the long-range flight of P-38s over the Solomons — drawing on Mitchell’s private papers and hundreds of his letters. Lehr is a professor of journalism at Boston University and a long-serving former Boston Globe reporter; Harper published the book in 2020 at around 416 pages.
✕ Deal EndedDas Reich
Max Hastings
Within days of the Normandy landings the 2nd SS Panzer Division set out from southern France to reinforce the German front, a march that ought to have taken three days and instead took a fortnight, because the French Resistance and Allied special forces harried it the whole way. Max Hastings follows that column north and does not look away from what its passage cost the villages en route, above all the killings at Tulle and the destruction of Oradour-sur-Glane. First published in 1981 and reissued by Zenith Press in 2013 at just under three hundred pages, it is the work of a British historian and former Fleet Street editor who has written widely on the Second World War.
✕ Deal EndedThe Princess Spy
Larry Loftis
Aline Griffith was a young American model who talked her way into the OSS in 1943 and was posted to Madrid under commercial cover, spending the rest of the war among the diplomats, aristocrats and Nazi sympathisers of a nominally neutral Spain; she later married a Spanish nobleman and became the Countess of Romanones. Larry Loftis follows her from training camp to the drawing rooms of Madrid, drawing on declassified records as well as her own accounts of those years. A former corporate lawyer who has made a speciality of wartime espionage in books such as Code Name: Lise, Loftis published this with Atria Books in 2021 at around 384 pages.
August 30
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Born Again This Way
Rachel Gilson
Gilson tells the story of her own conversion — an atheist student at Yale, in a relationship with a woman, who came to Christ and then had to work out what followed. She writes for Christians who experience same-sex attraction and for the churches that love them, taking up loneliness, friendship, whether desire changes, and whether there is a larger purpose in any of it. The Good Book Company published it in March 2020 at 160 pages, with a foreword by Sam Allberry.
True Friendship
Vaughan Roberts
Roberts argues that friendship has quietly slipped down our list of priorities, crowded out by romance, by work, and by the thin substitutes we settle for online. Working from Proverbs and from the friendships of Scripture, he sets out what a real friend is for — loyalty, honesty, counsel, and the willingness to stay when things are hard. 10Publishing issued this short book in 2013; Roberts is also the author of God’s Big Picture.
Unbreakable
Andrew Wilson
Wilson begins not with arguments for the Bible but with Jesus, on the conviction that our confidence in Scripture follows from our confidence in the one who said it cannot be broken. He works through what Christ himself said about the Old Testament — its authority, its accuracy, its sufficiency — and argues that this ought to settle the matter for anyone who already calls him Lord. 10Publishing issued this brief book of about 80 pages in 2015.
The Tinker’s Progress
Jacob Tanner
Tanner follows Bunyan from an unpromising and misspent youth through his conversion, his preaching, his long imprisonment in Bedford, and on to the book that outlived him by centuries. It is a short life rather than an exhaustive one, written throughout with an eye to what a twenty-first-century Christian might learn from a tinker who would not stop preaching. Christian Focus published it in January 2024 at around 200 pages.
Fulfil Your Ministry
Lee Gatiss
Gatiss works through 2 Timothy and Titus and finds in them a bracing charge to anyone serving the gospel: be confident in the message, and be willing to suffer for it. He is director of Church Society in the United Kingdom and has spent years editing and translating the Reformers, and that long apprenticeship shows in how carefully he handles Paul’s parting instructions. Christian Focus published it in July 2024.
Taking the Bible at its Word
Paul Wells
Wells offers what his publisher fairly calls the distillation of a lifetime of study and teaching: a full presentation of the doctrine of Scripture, tracing how God makes himself known to his people through the Old Testament and finally in the coming of Christ. He taught theology for many years at the Faculté Jean Calvin in Aix-en-Provence and edits the journal Unio Cum Christo. Christian Focus published it in 2013 at just over 300 pages.
10 Dead Gals You Should Know
Ian J. Maddock and Rachel Ciano
Ten women drawn from two millennia and several continents — Mary, Perpetua, Catherine of Siena, Jane Grey, Anne Hutchinson, Anne Dutton, Selina Countess of Huntingdon, Catherine Booth, Gladys Aylward and Corrie ten Boom. For some of them faith cost them their lives; for others it meant a long and largely unglamorous life of service, and the chapters are short enough to take one at a time. Christian Focus published it in September 2023 at 264 pages.
The Bible Story Handbook
John H. Walton and Kim E. Walton
A working reference for anyone who teaches the Bible to children — Sunday school teachers, camp leaders, parents at the kitchen table. For each of 175 stories the Waltons supply the lesson focus, the application, and a caution about the ways that particular passage is most often mistaught, which may be the most useful part of the book. Crossway published it in 2010 at 450 pages; John Walton teaches Old Testament at Wheaton College.
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✕ Deal EndedThe Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Gordon S. Wood
Wood, who won the Pulitzer Prize for The Radicalism of the American Revolution, argues that the Franklin Americans think they know — the homespun tradesman, the folksy sage of the almanacs — is largely a later invention. For most of his long life Franklin was a loyal servant of the British empire and an ornament of London society, and he became a patriot late, reluctantly, and at considerable personal cost. Penguin published this edition in 2005 at around 350 pages.
✕ Deal EndedThe Lion’s Gate
Steven Pressfield
Pressfield, better known for Gates of Fire and The War of Art, spent hundreds of hours interviewing Israeli veterans of the Six Day War — fighter and helicopter pilots, tank commanders, paratroopers, reconnaissance soldiers, and the wives who waited at home. He then assembled their voices into a first-person account of June 1967 that moves with the pace of a novel while staying with what the men and women actually said. Sentinel published it in May 2014 at 448 pages.
✕ Deal EndedThe Promise of the Grand Canyon
John F. Ross
In 1869 John Wesley Powell, who had lost an arm at Shiloh, took a handful of men down the Colorado through a canyon no one had run before; those who came out the far end were starving, battered and very nearly naked. Ross tells that story well, but the better half of the book is the one that follows it, as Powell turned into the country’s earliest and most stubborn advocate for settling the arid West within its actual limits — advice nobody wanted to hear. Viking published it in 2018 at around 400 pages.
✕ Deal EndedMy Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass
Douglass published this second autobiography in 1855, ten years after the Narrative that made his name, and it is the fuller and more searching of the two — slower over his childhood in Maryland, harder on the racism he met in the free North, and franker about his break with the abolitionists who had first put him on a platform. He was writing by then as a free man and an editor rather than as anyone’s exhibit, and the confidence shows on every page. Maple Spring Publishing issued this edition in February 2025.
August 29
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Our God Reigns
Sam Storms
Storms works through Revelation as an amillennialist, convinced that the book was meant to be understood, believed and enjoyed rather than merely decoded. His approach is scholarly in substance but conversational in tone — he engages the harder exegetical questions without assuming his readers know any Greek, and he keeps returning to what it all means for ordinary Christian living. Christian Focus published this 560-page volume under its Mentor imprint in November 2024.
✕ Deal EndedEverything Is Never Enough
Bobby Jamieson
Jamieson reads Ecclesiastes as a book for the restless and the disappointed — for anyone who has chased money, work, pleasure or achievement and found the returns thinner than promised. He writes as a pastor rather than a commentator, setting the Preacher alongside modern critics of Western life and arguing that lasting happiness comes not from grasping but from receiving each day as a gift of God’s grace. WaterBrook published it in April 2025 at 288 pages, and it went on to win book awards from both Christianity Today and The Gospel Coalition.
Get Married, Have Babies, Join a Church
Sean DeMars
DeMars, pastor of Glory Community Church in Decatur, Alabama, pushes back on the habit of postponing marriage, children and committed church membership until credentials, career, cash and comfort are all safely in hand. He argues that this instinct owes rather more to the assumptions of the surrounding culture than to Scripture, and he takes the trouble to answer objections and awkward cases rather than waving them away. It is a brief book of a little over a hundred pages; DeMars has also written Health, Wealth, and the (Real) Gospel and The Perfect Church.
✕ Deal EndedOn Getting Out of Bed
Alan Noble
Noble writes briefly and very personally about the weight of ordinary life — about sorrow, anxiety and mental illness, and about the mornings when simply getting out of bed is the whole of what a person can manage. He offers no quick fixes, but argues that carrying on, one plain day at a time, is itself a quiet witness to the goodness of life and of God. IVP published this short hardback of 120 pages in April 2023 and it earned a Christianity Today Award of Merit; Noble also wrote You Are Not Your Own and Disruptive Witness.
✕ Deal EndedCounterfeit Gods
Timothy Keller
Keller works his way through a series of biblical narratives — Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and Esau, Jonah, Zacchaeus — to show how the human heart quietly takes good gifts and makes them ultimate. He gives particular attention to love and sex, money, success and political power, then widens the lens to the idols an entire culture can share without ever recognising them. Penguin published it in 2009 at a little over 200 pages, using the same story-driven approach as The Prodigal God before it, and its closing argument is the memorable one: idols cannot simply be uprooted, they have to be replaced.
Redeeming Your Time
Jordan Raynor
Raynor draws seven time-management principles from the way Jesus himself worked — starting with Scripture, letting your yes be yes, making room for silence, prioritising your commitments, doing one thing at a time, resting productively and eliminating hurry altogether. He writes from within the faith-and-work movement, and the book is a practical one, offering habits and systems as much as theology. WaterBrook published it in 2021 at around 240 pages, with a paperback edition following in 2023.
Christ the Eternal Son
A.W. Tozer
Tozer works through the opening chapters of John’s Gospel, dwelling on the eternal deity of Christ and on all that follows from those first stark words, “In the beginning.” It is Tozer in his familiar mode — devotional rather than academic, unhurried, and given to the sort of arresting sentence that stops a reader mid-page. Moody Publishers issued this edition in 2009 and it runs to fewer than 200 pages, which makes it an approachable place to begin with him.
Risky Gospel
Owen Strachan
Strachan builds this book around the parable of the talents, arguing that a hunkered-down, fear-managed Christian life is precisely what the servant who buried his master’s money settled for. From there he works outward into identity, spiritual growth, family, vocation, church, evangelism and public witness, always with an eye to what a reader might actually do next. Thomas Nelson published it in 2013 at 240 pages; Strachan was teaching Christian theology and church history at Boyce College when he wrote it.
When Politics Becomes Heresy
Tim Perry
Perry, a pastor in Steinbach, Manitoba, argues that the church’s entanglement with political power is not merely unwise but genuinely heretical. He works through five ancient errors — simony, Gnosticism, Arianism, Pelagianism and Donatism — and shows how each has quietly reappeared in evangelical life, with the remedy in every case being repentance rather than a cleverer strategy. Lexham Press published it in 2025 at around 200 pages.
Praying Backwards
Bryan Chapell
Chapell takes the familiar closing words “in Jesus’ name” and moves them to the front of our praying, on the conviction that a prayer we could not honestly begin that way is a prayer we ought not to pray at all. Chapters on praying in the Spirit, praying boldly and praying within God’s will keep the book practical without ever making it mechanical, and each one closes with a summarising thought and a short prayer. Baker Books published it in 2005 at a little over 200 pages.
Let Me Be a Woman
Elisabeth Elliot
Elliot, who also gave us A Chance to Die, wrote these short chapters for her daughter Valerie in the weeks before Valerie’s wedding, and the book keeps the unhurried, personal feel of a mother writing to a daughter she loves. She moves through marriage, singleness, submission, self-discipline and what it means to be a woman before God, urging her reader to ask not “Who am I?” but “Whose am I?” First published in 1976 and kept in print by Tyndale ever since, it runs to fewer than 200 pages.
✕ Deal EndedThe Loveliness of Christ
Samuel Rutherford
Rutherford (1600–1661) was a Scottish minister and covenanter whose letters have consoled readers for centuries. This little collection gathers short extracts from them, a sentence or a paragraph at a time, each one turning the reader back to the beauty and sufficiency of Christ. It belongs to GLH Publishing’s Vintage Puritan series, and at around fifty pages it can be read in a sitting or savoured slowly over many weeks.
✕ Deal EndedPrevailing Prayer
Dwight L. Moody
The great nineteenth-century evangelist takes prayer apart a piece at a time — adoration, confession, restitution, thanksgiving, forgiveness, unity, faith, petition, submission — and asks along the way what it is that so often stops our praying from getting anywhere. Moody writes plainly and leans hard on Scripture and on stories gathered from his own ministry, which is part of why the book has stayed in print since it first appeared in the 1880s. This GLH Publishing edition runs to just over a hundred pages, short enough to finish in an evening or to take slowly, a chapter at a time.
✕ Deal EndedThoughts for Young Men
J.C. Ryle
Ryle, who became the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool, wrote this short address to young men in the nineteenth century, naming the dangers he thought most likely to ruin them — sloth, lust, the love of pleasure, and the fear of what other people think. He is direct without ever being unkind, and the counsel that follows is practical, warm and thoroughly biblical. GLH Publishing’s edition is a slim one, the matching paperback running to only 74 pages, which makes it an easy thing to read alongside a son or a younger friend.
✕ Deal EndedThe Heidelberg Catechism
Zacharias Ursinus and Caspar Olevianus
Drawn up in Heidelberg in 1563 at the request of Elector Frederick III, and traditionally credited to Ursinus and Olevianus, this is the warmest and most pastoral of the Reformation catechisms. Its 129 questions and answers are divided into fifty-two Lord’s Days for weekly use and arranged in three movements — our misery, our deliverance, and our gratitude — opening with the much-loved question about a Christian’s only comfort in life and in death. GLH Publishing’s edition runs to roughly 140 pages, so it favours steady devotional reading over a single sitting.
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✕ Deal EndedLincoln
David Herbert Donald
Donald won the Pulitzer Prize twice — for his lives of Charles Sumner and Thomas Wolfe — before turning to the president Americans have never stopped arguing about. Published by Simon & Schuster and running to some 720 pages in print, the book won the Lincoln Prize and spent fourteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Donald’s method is to stay close to what Lincoln himself knew and felt at each stage, so the reader watches an untried country lawyer grow slowly into a leader equal to a war he never wanted.
Marcus Aurelius
Frank McLynn
McLynn is a British historian with more than twenty biographies to his name, and here he gives the philosopher-emperor a full-scale life drawn from the surviving ancient sources. Running to roughly 720 pages in print, it sets the serene voice of the Meditations alongside the harder realities of his reign — plague, long wars on the Danube, rebellion in the east, and a succession that went badly wrong. Readers who know Marcus Aurelius only through his private notebook will find a more complicated and more human figure here, and one whose reputation McLynn is willing to question.
