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What’s your favourite Christian non-fiction genre?
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I don’t really have a favourite non-fiction genre I mostly read devotionals.
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Biblical archeology, Early Church history. Sometimes I find things in those useful for my Roman history website. I buy those in print editions. I also get devotionals, mostly day-by-day ones, and those are mostly e-book for cost and convenience. Also books to help with sharing the faith with nonbelievers.
Sounds good. I get the day by day devotions. I just did one on Ruth it went verse by verse and it was really good. was looking forward to Esther but it wasn’t as good. I did one on Anne of Green Gables and also When Calls the Heart which were both really good too.
I like Biblical archaeology books, or any apologetics books, particularly on the first 11 chapters of Genesis (up to & including Tower of Babel). I also love Matthew Henry’s commentary.
Mum loved Matthew Henry’s commentaries and I have the set now. She also loved Warren Wiesbie.
I’ll be honest, I’d never even heard of Weirsbe until just now, but if your mum was a fan of Henry AND him he might be worth checking out!
He did commentaries on many on the books I always remember Philippians, Be joyful it beats being happy. I might have spelt his last name wrong but the other commenter got it right.
Devotionals are a genre (or if they aren’t, they should be)!
That’s what I mainly read too.
Other than that, it depends on what topics I’m trying to learn more about.
True. Although some are way better than others. True I am sure I read more than I realise.
Yes, devotionals are definitely a genre 🙂
I love study books that help me learn more about the history of what I’m reading. Cultural context can be a real eye opener, even little things like having flat roofs instead of pitched roofs. My current favourites were written by H Richard Hester and Kevin Currell.
There is also my trusty Strong’s concordance and Rock of Ages study Bible. I’ve never been into devotionals though. Not sure why. They just don’t appeal to me. I prefer to read the Bible and meditate on it rather than have someone direct my thoughts. If I can’t get anywhere on my own than I turn to my Warren Wiersbe commentaries to understand what I read or I ask my pastor or my dad, but then I read the Bible systematically and I found devotionals to be a bit all over the place.
Thanks for stopping by. All devotions are different but I know what you mean some are hard to get into and some are ok. The one I did on Ruth was like a bible study. Mum use to use the Warren Wiersbe books to help with bible study and to do study on her own.
That one on Ruth sounds interesting. I do use devotionals for my sons quite a bit. I just never found one I liked for myself. And my mum gave me my Warren Wiersbe commentary. 🙂
I never thought about nonfiction having genres!! To me, it was all nonfiction (shoulder shrug). I love reading commentaries, Bible Studies, spiritual development…
I hadn’t either (I just do the questions as they come up). But I guess there is bio-graphical, autobiography, memoirs, Christian Living.