Reddit mentions of The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

If you have any questions about the Sermon on the Mount, this book is a great place to start.

Hey carrotslayer! So happy for you. I hope you continue to grow and fall deeper and deeper in love with Christ. To help you along, I'd like to suggest a couple of resources that have really challenged me to grow and examine my faith.

The first is a daily devotional by Oswald Chambers, "My Utmost for His Highest." Get the updated version. Chambers gets to the heart of how we think and why we sin to really challenge us to a closer walk with Christ.

The second is Dallas Willard's "The Divine Conspiracy". Willard addresses the big picture of God's love and his plan for us, while touching on things that have been revelatory for me, such as the need to banish hate and anger from my heart. It's a slow read because of the weight of the topic, but it's totally worth it. I've been brought to tears (usually joyful) by this book many times.

I'll pray for you in your new walk. Have a great day!

There’s a lot of good responses here already but I wanted to offer some resources and ideas that have helped me.
First of all, despite what the new atheists say, you don’t need faith to believe in God, which is why there are so many deists in academia. The weight of the scientific evidence alone is enough to conclude that there must be some kind of intelligence behind reality. This includes the fine-tuning argument, a variation of which convinced Antony Flew, a life long atheist academic and strong critic of religion to change his mind about God and embrace deism, and quantum mechanics, which doesn’t prove God’s existence but rather undermines materialist assumptions about the fundamental nature of reality. These findings have convinced others in the scientific community such as lifelong atheist, Richard Conn Henry, a professor of theoretical physics at MIT to embrace deism.
So just based on what’s happening with physics, it’s reasonable to believe that there’s some kind of intelligence behind reality. However, this in no way proves the existence of the God of the Bible.
To support the Christian view of God you can look at the evidence for the reliability of New Testament accounts. This is where faith comes in. You have to decide whether or not you believe that Jesus actually rose from the dead. Obviously, there isn’t a scientific way to definitively prove whether or not an historical event happened. But if you want support for the idea that miracles happen and are relatively common, even today, I’d recommend Craig S Keeners magisterial 2 volume work “Miracles” which details hundreds of modern day miracle accounts.

Other reading:
The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard who was a professor of philosophy for many years at USC, helped me to understand my faith at a deeper level, which has helped immensely. It turns out it’s much easier to believe in something when it actually makes sense to you.

On Guard by William Lane Craig explains many of the logical proofs that other commenters have offered here, which are great but can be really difficult to understand without spending a good amount of time with them.

Atheist Delusions by David Bentley Hart: Hart is a leading Orthodox theologian and philosopher who spends a lot of time talking about the logical incoherence of materialism. All his stuff is great but it’s difficult.

This is just a small sample of what’s out there in terms of apologetics but it’s a start. There’s enough that you could spend your entire life reading compelling arguments for the God’s existence. However, the most effective way to strengthen your faith, in my opinion, is to see how effective the teachings of Jesus are for yourself, to ACTUALLY DO what he says and see how it transforms your life first hand. This is how you make your faith unshakable. Nothing beats personal experience.

If you're a reader, I strongly suggest The Divine Conspiracy

You can't expect to get answers to all of your questions in a couple of paragraphs on reddit, but Willard address this topic directly. What does it look like to be a Christian today, what is our role and calling? Great book, highly recommend it.