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We'll keep adding to this list, but here's a few great titles to get you started on the Way. Grouped by author and topic as much as possible, all these books have been read by someone in theeffect who found them helpful, inspiring, essential, all the above. Click on the cover icons for more information, book previews, and online ordering.



thefifthway
Looking at the Way of Jesus from an ancient Hebrew point of view and coming to a fuller understanding of the true meaning of Jesus' words as his first followers would have understood them is crucial to recreating the experience of the spiritual journey and breaking through limiting thought processes. Full of colorful stories, intimate journal entries, and the words of Jesus seen in light of the ancient Hebrew mindset, languages, worldview, culture, and historical setting, The Fifth Way is a window on a completely different way of approaching God and our spiritual journey--a Fifth Way. The Way of Jesus.

Dave Brisbin

The Fifth Way


experiencinggod
For readable and accessible titles on the unconditional love of God and the relationship we have with him, especially through centering prayer or prayer of the heart, check these out.

Henri Nouwen Brennan Manning



Life of the
Beloved
Return of the
Prodigal Son
The Way of
the Heart
Out of
Solitude
The Ragamuffin
Gospel


Thomas Keating Philip Yancey
Ruthless Trust Abba's Child Invitation
to Love

Open Mind,
Open Heart
What's So Amazing
About Grace?


spirituraljourney
Here's some titles on a variety of topics from contemplative prayer to the spiritual journey to approaching the scriptures.
A little more scholarly in approach, but worth the read.

Thomas Merton




The Essential
Thomas Merton
The New Seeds
of Contemplation
The Wisdom
of the Desert
Opening
the Bible
Thoughts in
Solitude


Brother Lawrence Anonymous Author

Thomas Merton:
Spiritual Master
Practice of the
Presence of God

The Cloud of
Unknowing


contemporarychurch
Now for some titles dealing with the church and the struggle to find new expressions of worship and communication in the 21st century and the "postmodern" era.

 Leonard Sweet Dan Kimball
Aqua Church Soul Tsunami Out of the Question
Into the Mystery
Emerging
Worship
The Emerging
Church


Brian McLaren
A New Kind
of Christian
The Story We
Find Ourselves In
A Generous
Orthodoxy


jewishstudies
For a greater understanding of the Hebrew/Aramaic Jesus, Yeshua, through a better understanding of the language, customs, and worldview of the Ancient, near-Eastern Jews,..

Marvin Wilson Neil Douglas-Klotz Brad Young D. Biven/R. Blizzard
Our Father Abraham The Hidden Gospel Prayer of
the Cosmos
Jesus, the
Jewish Theologian
Understanding the
Difficult Words


Ron Moseley David Friedman Thorleif Borman Michael Munk George Lamsa
Yeshua They Loved the Torah Hebrew Thought Wisdom in Hebrew Alphabet Holy Bible from
Ancient Eastern Txt


F.F. Bruce Jeff Benner David Stern
Hard Sayings
of Jesus
His Name is One The Ancient
Hebrew Language

Jewish NT
Commentary


scripturalstudies
And for some good studies on the origin of the scriptures and general study guides.

Paul Wegner Orville Daniel John Sailhammer
The Journey from
Text to Translations
A Harmony of
the Four Gospels
How We Got
The Bible


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