Must Reads
BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ
Loving Christ
1. The Jesus Storybook Bible (this is not a typo), Jones
2. The Mark of the Christian, Schaeffer
3. The Chronicles of Narnia, Lewis
4. The Prodigal God, Keller
5. Mere Christianity, Lewis
Loving His World
1. Creation Regained, Wolters
2. Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be, Plantiga
3. Engaging God’s World, Plantiga
4. Bringing Heaven to Earth, Bierma
Loving the Church
1. The Enduring Community, Habig & Newsom
2. Life Together, Bonhoeffer
3. Living in Christ’s Church, Clowney
4. On Being Presbyterian, Lucas
5. The Church, Clowney
Seeking Maturity
1. The Discipline of Grace, Bridges
2. Concise Theology, Packer
3. A Quest for More, Tripp
4. The Enemy Within, Lundgaard
5. Children of the Living God, Ferguson
6. Holiness, Ryle
7. Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, Peterson
8. Putting Amazing Back into Grace, Horton
Thinking Christianly
1. A Reason for God, Keller
2. Step by Step, Petty
3. Longing to Know, Meek
4. Every Thought Captive, Pratt
5. Discovering God’s Will, Ferguson
6. Total Truth, Pearcy
7. Proper Confidence, Newbigin
Serving Others
1. Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands, Tripp
2. Evangelism: Preaching Grace & Doing Justice, Conn
3. The Heart of Evangelism, Barrs
4. Ministries of Mercy, Keller
5. The Contemplative Pastor, Peterson
6. Under the Unpredictable Plant, Peterson
Relating to Others
1. Bold Love, Allender
2. When People are Big and God is Small, Welch
3. Life of a God made Man, Doriani
4. War of Words, Tripp
5. Intimate Mystery, Allender
Leading Others
1. Leading With a Limp, Allender
2. In the Name of Jesus, Nouwen
Life after College
1. Twenty Someone, Serven
2. Engaging God’s World, Plantiga
3. When Faith Is Not Enough, Clark
4. The Way of the Modern World, Gay
5. Fabric of Faithfulness, Garber
Bible Studies & Curriculum
1. Gospel Transformation, www.whm.org
2. Redeemer Church, NY www.redeemer.com
3. www.SeeJesus.net
4. www.modernparables.com
5. Assorted RUF Bible Studies
How Do I Study the Bible?
1. Let the Reader Understand, McCartney
2. The Unfolding Mystery, Clowney
3. Getting the Message, Doriani
4. How to Read the Bible for all Its Worth
5. Reading the Bible with Heart and Mind
References
1. ESV Study Bible
2. Survey of the Bible
3. New Dictionary of Theology
4. New Bible Commentary
5. New Dictionary of Biblical Theology
OTHER GOOD READS
Vacation/Summer books
1. Anything by Flannery O’Connor
2. Anything by Anne Lamott
3. Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, Rice
More Marriage, Family, & Relationships
1. Each for the Other
2. Intimate Allies
3. When Sinners Say I do
4. False Intimacy
5. Relationships: A Mess Worth Making
6. Shepherding a Child’s Heart
7. Don’t Make Me Count to Three
8. Age of Opportunity
9. Making Room
10. What’s a Family
More Worldview
1. Seeing Through Cynicism
2. Perfecting Ourselves to Death
3. World According to God
4. Still Bored in a Culture of Entertainment
5. Resounding Truth
6. Amusing Ourselves to Death
7. Eyes Wide Open
8. Reel Spirituality
More Maturity Seeking
1. Transforming Grace
2. The Cost of Discipleship
3. Surprised by Hope
4. Heart of Prayer
5. Cry of the Soul
6. Being Human
7. Knowing God
8. True Spirituality
9. Designed for Dignity
Digging Very Deep
1. Westminster Confession of Faith
2. Heidelberg Catechism
3. Systematic Theology, Grudem
4. As Far As the Curse Is Found
5. Created in God’s Image
6. Christ of the Covenants
7. Saved by Grace
8. Redemption Accomplished and Applied
9. The Holy Spirit
10. Principals of Conduct
11. Institutes of the Christian Religion
12. The Bible & the Future
13. Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes
Presbyterian Awesomeness
1. Lectures on Calvinism
2. Preaching Christ in All of Scripture
3. Presbyterian Doctrine of Children in the Covenant
4. Feed My Sheep: A Passionate Plea for Preaching
5. Given for You
6. Women in Ministry
7. Biblical Eldership
8. The Work of a Pastor