Your Next Favorite Book Aaron Armstrong

I love to read good stories—books and series that have been so enjoyable that I’ve wanted to share them with my kids. In this episode, I want to share one of those. The story of a boy whose life is turned upside down and he discovers that there is something more to his life—a destiny he never expected and a danger he never wanted. 

This is Orion and the Starborn, and it might just be your next favorite book.


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Please check out my new book, I'm a Christian—Now What?: A Guide to Your New Life with Christ, available to order where you buy books.


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One of my favorite “brain candy” genres is celebrity memoirs. In all honesty, there are a lot of them that are… not that great. A little too self-aggrandizing. A bit too self-interested and pompous. But there are some that are an absolute delight to read, that somehow manage to be self-deprecating and insightful in equal measure. 

Not too long ago, I overheard two people in a bookstore talking about a book in this genre. It was different, one that just from the description another reader gave, I needed to read. One that wasn’t so much of a memoir as it was the record of a conversation—an extended interview between two friends that covered everything from music, songwriting, life during a pandemic, the death of a child, drug addiction, the purpose of religion, and the possibility of hope.  

This is Faith, Hope, and Carnage and it might just be your next favorite book. 


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If you enjoyed this episode, please rate & review Your Next Favorite Book on your preferred podcast platform. This helps people find the show.
Please check out my new book, I'm a Christian—Now What?: A Guide to Your New Life with Christ, available to order where you buy books.


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What does it mean to be a new Christian when you're an adult—and when you might not have any familiarity with Christianity at all? That was what experienced when I became a Christian in my mid-20s. What I learned and experienced in those early years—especially the mistakes I made—are at the heart of my new book, I'm a Christian—Now What?: A Guide to Your New Life with Christ. 

In today's special episode of Your Next Favorite Book, I'm sharing some of the story behind this book and how I hope it will help those who read it. 


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Most people don't think in terms of lists. (At least, I don't think they do.) But for fans, collectors, and those of us who are maybe slightly obsessive about a particular area of interest, categories and lists really do matter. They're part of how we engage with the world, and with others. But these can also be a mask shielding us from dealing with greater realities—and keep us from growing as people. People, including fans, need something more than lists. And definitely something more than a string of broken relationships, a semi-failing business, and a collection of unanswered questions, fears, and anxieties.

Even if we do have a great record collection.

This is High Fidelity, and it might just be your next favorite book.


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If you enjoyed this episode, please rate & review Your Next Favorite Book on your preferred podcast platform. This helps people find the show.
Please check out my new book, I'm a Christian—Now What?: A Guide to Your New Life with Christ, available to order where you buy books.


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Douglas Adams is one the best-known and beloved comedic authors of the 20th century. Best known for The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Adams's peculiar work has delighted—or at least confused—readers the world over for decades. But in 1987, he released the first in a series of novels of a different sort. A series about a detective whose methods were founded upon the belief in the interconnectedness of all things. A novel involving a ghost, time travel, an electric monk, a murder… and a missing cat.

This is Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and it might just be your next favorite book.


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If you enjoyed this episode, please rate & review Your Next Favorite Book on your preferred podcast platform. This helps people find the show.
Please check out my new book, I'm a Christian—Now What?: A Guide to Your New Life with Christ, available to order where you buy books.


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Whatever our beliefs, we all believe something about God. Even if our belief is to disbelieve in the existence of any god or higher power, we still believe something about who God is and what he is like. And these ideas that really do affect every other aspect of our lives. And this has created a problem for many western Christians, who don't seem to really know the God we say we believe in—we lack a foundation in the truths we believe. We need to learn to re-ignite our relationship between the truths we confess, the way we live, and our emotional life. To not focus solely on the head or the hands, but to deal with our hearts too. 

One book that can help? Knowing God by J. I. Packer. After you read it, it might just be your next favorite book.


Purchase Knowing God from your favorite bookstore, including Amazon.com (affiliate link).
If you enjoyed this episode, please rate & review Your Next Favorite Book on your preferred podcast platform. This helps people find the show.
Please check out my new book, I'm a Christian—Now What?: A Guide to Your New Life with Christ, available to order where you buy books.


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