Christian inspirational books written for Christians were created to inspire them to live their daily lives better for Christ.

Novels written to inspire people for a better Christlike faith can either be written as devotional books or they can just be books with stories that with plots based on the Bible.

I mostly read religious books to know the personal experiences of how a certain person has come to know Christ. I find it amazing that there are so many stories of how different people found God's grace (even if sometimes the stories are fiction.) I personally hope to write fiction novels on how people find God in the mist of their struggles.

Devotionals are books that are sort of like guidelines or extras to go with your daily Bible-reading. They're really helpful in providing meanings of certain verses when they're hard to understand.

Below are titles of books you might enjoy if you want to grow in your faith with Christ. Joel Osteen has written two very helpful books to help us have a more positive life experience each day. They are Your Best Life Now and Become A Better You. His wife, Victoria Osteen, has recently published her first book, Love Your Life.

Your Best Life Now, written by Joel Osteen, gives you seven steps to fulfilling your potential in life.

Joel Osteen realizes that people have been wounded and hurt from prior life experiences. In this book, he wants us all to be healed from these hurts so we can begin to live an abundant life and be happy.

Joel Osteen is the senior pastor at Lakewood Church in Houston. This is a non-denominational church and the largest one in the United States. He inherited it from his father and since he has been the pastor, the church has grown phenomenally. They bought the old Compaq Center in downtown Houston and fixed it up. Millions of people throughout the world watch the broadcasts each week and millions are buying his books, CD's and DVD's. They are helpful and inspirational.

I have been in church my whole life and never have I heard such positive messages. The main points of the book follow.

Joel helps us to see in this book that our vision is way too small compared to how God wants to bless us.

God wants us to have a healthy self-image but most of us do not have one.

Our thoughts and words have power to control us so we need to choose good thoughts and words.

We need to let go of the past. This can be a hard thing to do.

When we go through trouble, the trouble should make us stronger and not defeat us.

We should give to others of our time, talents, encouragement, and money.

Happiness is a choice. Each day, we can choose to be miserable or happy.

Become A Better You, written by Pastor Joel Osteen, is a guide to improving your life in every way. Joel Osteen is the pastor of the largest church in the United States of America, Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas.

Once again, Joel Osteen uses seven points to help us to improve our lives. He is positive and encouraging, while helping us have a better life. He wants us to succeed in our lives, just as God does. Many people do not realize that God created us to be happy and have a great life, not to be sad and depressed all the time.

If you have ever watched his broadcasts on TV, Joel Osteen is a very positive and dynamic speaker. He is always smiling, kind of like he is advertising for toothpaste. My mom always watches him and comments on his positive messages. Why does he appeal to so many? Because he encourages them.

Well, he does the same thing in his books that he does on his TV broadcasts. He is just a totally positive person. He makes you believe that you can succeed in whatever God has for you, but you must believe it. Seems like I have heard that before in the Bible! I wonder if he might be onto something...preach positive things from the Bible and people will believe it and their lives will change for the best! A novel concept...

First, he wants us to keep on going. He wants us to be encouraged enough to go forward and break free from evil strongholds on our life.

He stresses that we need to be positive, not only towards others, but to ourselves.

Next, we should develop better relationships. If we only have relationships that pull us down instead of building us up, we need to cut those from our lives and make new friends.

We should form better habits in all areas of our lives.

We need to accept the place that God has us in and decide that this is a great place. Our attitude should be a positive one right where God has placed us.

Then we need to work on developing our inner life, the part of us that is known only to ourselves and to God.

Last, we must stay passionate about our lives. Getting up in the morning and going to school or work should excite us, not depress us.

Joel Osteen has discovered and shares with us how to Become A Better You in this inspirational book. It makes a great gift because everyone can use the steps in here to improve their lives.

Love Your Life is the new book written by Victoria Osteen, wife of Pastor Joel Osteen of Lakewood Church in Houston, the largest church in the United States.

I first saw Joel and Victoria  Osteen on a Barbara Walters special a few years ago. What got my attention is that Barbara Walters said she liked them. Normally, she does not go for Christian conservatives so this surprised me. They seemed pretty cool on the interview so our family watched one of Joel Osteen's shows and decided we like him. Sometimes Victoria preaches or talks.

Both of them have a very positive and encouraging way of speaking. They don't tell you that you are a worthless sinner going to hell. They tell you to meditate on God's goodness and to believe that God is going to help you to have the best life you can have.

People at my former Baptist church dislike them because they say that they do not teach salvation through Jesus Christ. This is not true. Each broadcast ends with Joel praying the sinner's prayer with viewers. They just have a positive twist instead of the typical negative twist that most churches have.

That is what is in Victoria's book, Love Your Life. In it, she talks about accepting others the way they are because that is how God accepts us.

She uses many examples from her life and the lives of others to let us see how God wants us to treat each other. We are all important in God's eyes and we should treat each other in the same way.

Victoria Osteen is the co-pastor of Lakewood Church and has two children of her own. She finds balance between work and family and helps women to find this same balance in their lives in the pages of her book. This book is an easy read and very encouraging.