Recommended Reading

Theology & Reference

  • Systematic Theology – Wayne Grudem
  • Systematic Theology – Louis Berkhoff
  • The New Dictionary of Biblical Theology – Edited by T. Desmond Alexander, Brian S. Rosner, D.A. Carson, Graeme Godlsworthy
  • According to Plan – Graeme Goldsworthy
  • Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament – Edited by G.K. Beale and D.A. Carson
  • Institutes of the Christian Religion – John Calvin
  • Knowing God – J.I. Packer
  • Taking God at His Word – Kevin DeYoung
  • Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis
  • The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God – D.A. Carson
  • Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free – F.F. Bruce
  • Know What you Believe – Paul E. Little

Christ in the Old Testament

  • The Scriptures Testify About Me – Edited by D.A. Carson
  • Preaching Christ in All of Scripture – Edmund Clowney
  • The Unfolding Mystery – Edmund Clowney
  • Christ from Beginning to End – Trent Hunter & Stephen Wellum

Pastoral Ministry & the Church

  • Biblical Eldership – Alexander Strauch
  • Dangerous Calling – Paul Tripp
  • Lectures to My Students – Charles Spurgeon
  • Trellis & the Vine – Colin Marshall & Tony Payne
  • The Supremacy of Christ in Preaching – John Piper
  • Preaching & Preachers – Martin Lloyd-Jones
  • Prepared to Preach – Greg Scharff
  • Simplicity in Preaching – J.C. Ryle
  • Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God – J.I. Packer
  • Zeal Without Burnout – Christopher Ash
  • Faithful Endurance – Collin Hansen & Jeff Robinson
  • Sing – Keith & Kristyn Getty
  • Visionary Church – Rob Rienow

Hermeneutics

  • Living by the Book – Howard G. Hendricks & William D. Hendricks
  • Getting the Message – Daniel Doriani
  • The Hermeneutical Spiral – Grant Osborne
  • Exegetical Fallacies – D.A. Carson

Marriage

  • Visionary Marriage – Rob Rienow
  • Sacred Marriage – Gary Thomas
  • This Momentary Marriage – John Piper
  • Love and Respect – Emmerson Eggerich

Parenting

  • Visionary Parenting – Rob Rienow
  • Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles – Paul Tripp
  • The Godly Home – Richard Baxter
  • Family Worship – Donald Whitney
  • Family Driven Faith – Voddie Baucham
  • Relentless Parenting – Brian & Angela Haynes

Hospitality Ministry

  • The Gospel Comes with a House Key – Rosaria Butterfield
  • The Simplest Way to Change the World – Dustin Willis & Brandon Clements

Male & Female Roles, Gender & Sexuality

  • Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood – Edited by John Piper & Wayne Grudem
  • Designed for Joy – Jonathan Parnell & Owen Strachan
  • God and the Transgender Debate – Andrew T. Walker
  • What does the Bible Really Say About Homosexuality – Kevin DeYoung
  • Homosexuality: Contemporary Claims Examined in Light of the Bible and Other Ancient Literature and Law – James B. DeYoung
  • Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth – Jeffery Satinover, MD

Culture & Politics

  • Defending Life – Francis Beckwith
  • The Case for Life – Scott Klusendorf
  • Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments – Randy Alcorn
  • Why Pro-Life? – Randy Alcorn
  • Why Social Justice is Not Biblical Justice – Scott David Allen
  • Fault Lines – Voddie Baucham
  • One Race One Blood – Ken Ham & Charles Ware
  • By What Standard – Edited by Jared Longshore
  • Slaying Leviathan: Limited Government and Resistance in the Christian Tradition – Glenn Sunshine
  • Live Not By Lies – Rod Dreher
  • Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos: A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants – Stephen Junius Brutus and Glenn Sunshine
  • Gashmu Saith It: How to Build Christian Communities that Save the World – Doug Wilson
  • When a Nation Forgets God – Erwin Lutzer
  • The Church in Babylon – Erwin Lutzer

Apologetics

  • The New Evidence that Demands a Verdict – Josh McDowell
  • Know Why You Believe – Paul Little
  • How We Got the Bible – Timothy Paul Jones
  • The Historical Reliability of the Gospels – Craig Blomberg
  • How Should We Then Live – Francis Schaeffer
  • The Ever-loving Truth – Voddie Baucham
  • Darwin’s Black Box – Micahel Behe

Christian Living

  • Holiness – J.C. Ryle
  • Humility – Andrew Murray
  • Don’t Waste Your Life – John Piper
  • What Jesus Demands from the World – John Piper
  • Thoughts for Young Men – J.C. Ryle
  • A Little Book on the Christian Life – John Calvin
  • Suffering – Paul Tripp
  • Contentment – Nancy Wilson
  • Union with Christ – Rankin Wilbourne
  • The Practice of the Presence of God – Brother Lawrence
  • Spiritual Leadership – J. Oswald Sanders
  • Crazy Busy – Kevin DeYoung
  • Money, Possessions, & Eternity – Randy Alcorn
  • A Hunger for God – John Piper
  • The Cost of Discipleship – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Bondage Breaker – Neil T. Anderson
  • In the House of Tom Bombadil – CR Wiley & Bradley J. Birzer

Prayer

  • Prayer – Spurgeon
  • Power Through Prayer – E.M. Bounds
  • A Call to Spiritual Reformation – D.A. Carson

Biography

  • John Newton – Jonathan Aitken
  • Martin Luther – Eric Metaxas
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer – Eric Metaxas
  • Reformation Women – Rebecca VanDoodewaard
  • 12 Faithful Men – Collin Hansen & Jeff Robinson
  • William Tyndale – Stephen Lawson
  • John Owen – Sinclair Ferguson
  • 21 Servants of Sovereign Joy – John Piper

Fiction:

  • Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
  • The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
  • Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
  • The Narnia Series – C.S. Lewis

Helpful Secular Works:

  • Amusing Ourselves to Death – Neil Postman
  • Deep Work – Cal Newport
  • 1984 – George Orwell
  • Brave New World – Aldous Huxley