For nearly 500 years, Martin Luther’s little instruction book has helped teach youth and adults the basics of the Christian faith. The book contains 6 core texts along with questions and answers: Ten Commandments, the Apostles’ Creed, the Lord’s Prayer, Baptism, Confession, and the Lord’s Supper.

Is your faith more like an “insurance” policy? If it is, you’re missing out on an important part of Christianity – God’s life-changing power. In this book. Ortberg reveals how prayer, meditation, fasting, servanthood, and other spiritual disciplines can lead to a fulfilling life.

What does being a Christian really mean? Smith believes we need a pattern for transformation. This book helps us re-examine what we think about God, how we practice spiritual disciplines, and whom we interact with to discover the life Jesus lived and then grow in the knowledge of a good and beautiful God.

Who are you becoming as a Christian? Are toxic self-narratives holding you back from a deep, marvelous transformation in Christ? How you see yourself shapes the way you interact with God and others. Smith shows that allowing the Lord to bring healing opens you up to living fully as the amazing person you were created to be.

We all want to be happy and live the good life. James Bryan Smith says the problem is that we have bought into false notions of happiness and success. Our self-centered decisions lead us into vices that cause ruin: anger, lust, lying, worry, and judging. Following the Sermon on the Mount, this book guides us to look behind these character flaws and replace our false beliefs with Jesus’ narratives about life in God’s Kingdom.

This classic book by Richard Foster explores the core practices of the Christian faith: the inward Disciplines of meditation, prayer, fasting, and study offer avenues of personal examination and change. The outward Disciplines of simplicity, solitude, submission, and service help prepare us to make the world a better place. The corporate Disciplines of confession, worship, guidance, and celebration bring us nearer to one another and to God.