Highly reviewed passion books

Keith and Kristyn Getty travelled, performed and listened to congregational singing all over the world. They trieed to understand why we sing and the immense pleasure and holy blessing that comes with music, to understand how singing influences our hearts and minds and all our lives to foster a tradition of family singing in our everyday lives, to prepare our churches to sing to the Lord and to each other wholeheartedly as an act of unity, to inspire us. They also added some bonus tracks at the end of some more realistic tips for different groups that are more interested in church singing. God wants to include you in this inspiring dream of His men celebrating a nation joyfully uniting in songs of brothers and sisters around the world and his celestial throne.

John Owen was a former minister from Great Britain. Owen, born and raised in Oxfordshire as a Puritan, make his classes at Queen’s College, where he was ordained. Owen became a priest in a number of separate parishes since being ordained. Owen would later return to Oxford and become the academic administrator. Owen became more involved in politics when Cromwell died and entered the party at the Wallingford House. Owen has written on a number of subjects throughout his career, including the defense of Calvinism in A Display of Arminianism.

Jeff Goins, a brilliant new voice to be numbered among his followers by Seth Godin and Jon Acuff, discusses how to leave the status quo and lead a life that matters with true zeal and purpose. The path to a career with greater purpose is daunting and terrifying, which is why few take the risk. In the beginning, passion guide our search, but only our interests are rarely in connection with the world’s needs. Still, the ones courageous enough to pursue, will experience something exceptionnal once reaching this connection. Jeff teaches readers how to discover their vocation and what to expect along the way through personal observation, convincing case studies, and recent work on the complexities of inspiration and creativity.

In this instant bestseller of the New York Times, visionary therapist Angela Duckworth tells those aspiring to excel that it is not talent but a rare combination of enthusiasm and determination that she calls ‘grit.’ Drawing on her own compelling experience as the daughter of a physicist who has always experienced her lack of ‘genius,’ Duckworth, now a respected scholar and professor, outlines her early eye-opening stints in teaching, business advising, and psychology, contributing to the theory that what truly fuels achievement is not ‘genius,’ but rather a special blend of passion and persistence. Grit is a winningly intimate, profound, and sometimes life-changing book about what’s going through your mind when you fall down, and why it makes all the difference.

The human heart has an infinite capacity to care and love. But it’s sadly connected to a capacity to easily experience pain. It’s hard to overcome this kind of suffering. So in the face of this, it may feel much more difficult to continue to love. Sharing his own personal pain tale, pastor and bestselling New York Times writer Jentezen Franklin teaches us how to seek the energy, and courage to set away the hurt, treat people as God sees them, and reach out in compassion. He addresses various forms of emotional frustration and pulse through biblical and modern-day narratives, and asks questions like Why should I trust again? The same walls that block us from finding light, experiencing redemption, and love are the walls that we build around our hearts to cut ourselves off from suffering. In this book are the tools that you need to break down this walls, work through your pain, fix broken relationships, and continue to experience love like you were never hurt.

Rev. Tony Evans, one of the country’s most influential Christian pastors, is the founder and senior pastor of the 8,000-strong Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas. Dr. Evans presents a clear and profound reality in this timely, groundbreaking study of religious warfare: any battle and confrontation in the physical world has its origin in the spiritual realm. Dr. Evans is persuasive, down to earth, for believers eager to witness their salvation in Christ and accept God’s love and faith.