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Eric Metaxas

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In a decidedly eclectic career, Eric Metaxas has written for VeggieTales, Chuck Colson, Rabbit Ears Productions and the New York Times, four things not ordinarily in the same sentence. He is a best-selling author whose biographies, children’s books, and works of popular apologetics have been translated into more than 25 languages.

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My Friend Charlie.

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Before I get serious, as I must, I should start with the inescapable humor and joking that were at the heart of my friendship with Charlie. We could never stop sarcastically teasing each other, privately and publicly. It really became difficult sometimes to force ourselves to get serious when we were together. Could the ultra-liberal Larry David — with whom I was once friends —

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	Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas (Goodreads Author), Timothy J. Keller (Foreword) 4.22 avg rating — 81,405 ratings — published 2010 — 91 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery 4.20 avg rating — 9,068 ratings — published 2007 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World 4.14 avg rating — 8,707 ratings — published 2017 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seven Women: And the Secret of Their Greatness 4.18 avg rating — 6,889 ratings — published 2015 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	7 Men: And the Secret of Their Greatness 4.23 avg rating — 6,742 ratings — published 2013 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letter to the American Church 4.24 avg rating — 3,309 ratings — published 2022 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty 4.22 avg rating — 2,653 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life 4.04 avg rating — 2,303 ratings — published 2014 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Is Atheism Dead? 4.37 avg rating — 1,668 ratings — published 2021 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving by Eric Metaxas (Goodreads Author), Shannon Stirnweis (Illustrator) 4.39 avg rating — 852 ratings — published 1996 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.”
― Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

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“Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer”
― Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

tags: bible, christianity, theology

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“...when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If you board the wrong train,' he said, 'it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.”
― Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

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George Boleyn: Tudor Poet, Courtier and Diplomat by Claire Ridgway

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Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

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To Die For: A Novel of Anne Boleyn by Sandra Byrd

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Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey

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Fatal Throne by Candace Fleming

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Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas

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