9 Top New Books for People of Faith
Every institution and discipline is built on study. Nothing makes sense unless it is studied. Studying opens the mind to things unseen and unknown about the world. And where study hits a roadblock, faith comes in to pave the way.
Even faith is strengthened by study. Finding information that threatens your faith is easy when you’re a person of faith. That is why people of faith must study to find further information to strengthen their faith.
There are several books you can study as a person of faith. In this article, you will learn about some books you can add to your library as you study to strengthen your faith.
The Bible
The Bible, which is one of the oldest books for people of faith, contains religious texts, stories of past happenings, and scriptures that are sacred to Christians. With its numerous inspiring stories of miracles, studying the Bible builds one’s faith and belief in God.
With their timeless language and enduring wisdom, KJV Bibles remain one of the oldest and most popular versions of the Bible. Some newer versions include the New International Version (NIV), the American Standard, and The Message Bible. There are also teenagers and children’s Bibles, written in age appropriate language to make Bible study for children and teenagers easy.
Christianity and the Law of Separation
Christianity and the Law of Separation by Dr. Byron Hardy is a treatise on the life of every Christian. It discusses how the Christian’s life is separated from this world and to God. In this book, he explores the impact of the law of separation on the Christian community. Studying this book as a person of faith will open your eyes to how a Christian should live.
Christian History: An Enthralling Guide to the Story of Christianity, From Its Early Origins Through the Crusades and Knights Templar to Modern Times
Billy Wellman put together a textbook that details the timeline of Christianity. It contains four manuscripts in one book:
History of Christianity: An overview of the most critical events in the Church’s history
Early Christianity: An overview of Jesus and his Apostles and the spread of Christianity
The Crusades: An overview of one of the most significant events in Christian history.
The Knights Templar: A history of the rise and fall of the most influential Catholic Military Order
To know where you’re headed, you must know where you’re coming from. This book will help you put things into perspective.
Billy Wellman is a professional historian who has authored countless historical texts for modern audiences. He loves researching and discovering captivating stories from the past. His books are written in a style that contemporary audiences can relate to as they also seek an understanding of their past.
Living in the Daze of Deception – How to Discern Truth from Culture’s Lies
Knowing Christian history is not enough. Truly, scripture knowledge comes with doubts. There’s no field of study that doubt cannot creep into.
Pastor Jack Hibbs wrote this book to help people of faith recognize the enemy’s deception as they navigate this world.
Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age
As a person of faith on a journey to strengthen that faith, you tend to encounter false truths that shake the foundation of your faith. Unchecked, these sentiments grow into opinions presented as facts or truth.
This book, based on author Rosaria Butterfield’s personal experiences, addresses the five most dangerous lies of the enemy today. In it, she argues that scriptures answer such sentiments and that the answers are in God’s word.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield is an American writer who lived freely and as a lesbian until 1999, when she found faith. Since then, she has dedicated her time to spreading the faith through her writings and public appearances.
Confessions by Saint Augustine
While this book was not written in 2024, it remains one of the most important for people of faith. New converts must look for texts or studies they can relate to as they start their faith journey.
Saint Augustine wrote this book in his forties to detail his previous life of sin, his conversion and his eventual ministry up until that point.
It is not a complete autobiography, but it carries so much weight that centuries later, it remains relevant to the Christian faith.
Augustine of Hippo, known as Saint Augustine, was a North African Catholic bishop who lived in the third century. He lived freely in his youth and came into the faith as he approached his Middle Ages. He then became one of the most influential figures in Christianity.
Master of the Pieces
If you pay attention to the Bible, you will find it is a book of lived experiences. Every Bible prophet, preacher, king, and teacher talk to us about God as directed by the Holy Spirit.
We already have that, so we yearn for something more relatable.
What happens when your life turns upside down in 2024, at a time when things are, frankly, a lot easier? What is the journey away from faith and back to it like? What happens when you have tasted fame and later find Jesus? Joelle Maryn tells it all in her autobiography.
Joelle Maryn discarded God after a tragic fire took her sister’s life when she was six. She carved out her path, becoming a famous actor and television star. Hollywood disenfranchised her, and she regained her faith. She is now a Christian author, television personality, and speaker who champions faith.
Knowledge of the Holy – What God is like
Faith is the belief in God and all he has revealed. That knowledge is revealed in the Bible and through the Holy Spirit, who comes into our lives to open our eyes to the Holy.
Faith also goes with understanding, which, though a gift of the Holy Spirit, is strengthened by study. From his knowledge, A.W. Tozer put this book together to help all people of faith enhance theirs.
The book aims to help people of faith revitalize their prayer habits, ponder more reverently, understand God better, and walk with him daily.
Pieces of Forever – A Christian Romance
Want a fictional story about Christians discovering how difficult the faith is yet living it through and true? Look no further than Valerie M. Bodden’s romance novel Pieces of Forever.
The story is set in the fictional town of River Falls and tells the story of a young couple driven apart by a terrible accident and the man’s fight to keep their promise of “Forever.”
This is one of many Christian romance books that Valerie has authored. She seeks to touch the heart and soul of every person of faith in ways that exhortations may not.
The Bible remains the ultimate study material for every person of faith. These books only come in handy when you need extra context to what you study in the Word of God.
The authors above are our friends, brothers, and sisters in this Christian life who have written down their understanding derived from study to sharpen your Christian faith.
