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RECOMMENDED READING

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Bible

English Standard Version

Christian Standard Bible

*We encourage you to use any translation that helps you better understand God's Word.

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Theology

Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology

Stephen Wellum, Systematic Theology: From Canon to Concept

James Hamilton, God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment: A Biblical Theology

Mark Dever & Jonathan Leeman, Baptist Foundations 

J. I. Packer, Knowing God

Louis Berkhof, Systematic Theology
Danny Akin, A Theology for the Church

Timothy S. Tennett, Theology in the Context of World Christianity

Tim Challies & Josh Byers, Visual Theology: Seeing and Understanding the Truth About God

 

Church History

Bruce Shelley, Church History in Plain Language
Joel Beeke, Meet the Puritans
Winfield Bevins, Creed

 

Biography, Autobiography, & Memoirs

Arnold Dallimore, Spurgeon
Arnold Dallimore, Whitefield
John Piper, The Legacy of Sovereign Joy
Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer

Helen Roseveare, Give Me This Mountain

Darlene Deibler Rose, Evidence Not Seen

Mrs. Howard Taylor, Borden of Yale

Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

 

Spiritual Disciplines

Donald Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
John Piper, When I Don’t Desire God
Jerry Bridges, Respectable Sins
Jerry Bridges, The Gospel for Real Life
C.J. Mahaney, The Cross-Centered Life
C.J. Mahaney, Humility

James Montgomery Boice, Christ's Call to Discipleship

Richard Lamb, Following Jesus in the "Real World"
 

Attributes of God

A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy

Randy Alcorn, If God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil

D.A. Carson, The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God

D.A. Carson, Divine Sovereignty & Human Responsibility

Vern Poythress, Chance and the Sovereignty of God

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Parenting

Paul David Tripp, Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles that Can Radically Change Your Family

Tedd Tripp, Shepherding a Child’s Heart
Tedd Tripp, Instructing a Child’s Heart
Sinclair Ferguson, Big Book of Questions and Answers
C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
Sally Lloyd-Jones, The Jesus Story Book Bible
Bruce Ware, Big Truths for Young Hearts

 

Adoption & Orphan Care

Russell Moore, Adopted for Life
Tony Merida & Rick Morton, Orphanology

 

Church Planting

Timothy Keller, Church Planting Manual

Ed Stetzer, Planting Missional Churches
Darrin Patrick, Church Planter

 

Preaching/Hermeneutics

Bryan Chapell, Christ-Centered Preaching

Tim Keller, Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism
Tony Merida, Faithful Preaching
John Piper, The Supremacy of God in Preaching
Jim Shaddix, The Passion-Driven Sermon
Danny Akin, Engaging Exposition
Tony Merida, Proclaiming Jesus

Grant Osborne, The Hermeneutical Spiral

Andreas Kostenberger, Invitation to Biblical Interpretation

Greg Gilbert & Mark Dever, Preach

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Evangelism

Mark Dever, The Gospel and Personal Evangelism
Will Metzger, Tell the Truth

John Piper, Let the Nations Be Glad

J. Mack Stiles, Evangelism

J.I. Packer, Evangelism & The Sovereignty of God
 

Apologetics

Tim Keller, The Reason for God

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

 

The Gospel

Tim Keller, The Prodigal God
Tim Keller, Counterfeit Gods
John Piper, God Is the Gospel
Trevin Wax, Counterfeit Gospels
Matt Chandler, Explicit Gospel

Jared Wilson, Gospel Deeps

 

Church

Baptist Foundations edited by Dever & Leeman

Mark Dever, 9 Marks of a Healthy Church

Timothy Keller, Center Church

John Hammett, Biblical Foundations for Baptist Churches

Alexander Strauch, Biblical Eldership: An Urgent Call to Restore Biblical Church Leadership
Larry Osborne, Sticky Church
Larry Osborne, Sticky Teams
Colin Marshal and Tony Payne, The Trellis and the Vine

 

Pastoral Ministry

Paul David Tripp, Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry

R. Kent Hughes & Douglas Sean O'Donnell, The Pastor's Book

John Piper, Brothers We Are Not Professionals
Charles Spurgeon, An All-Round Ministry
Alistair Begg, On Being a Pastor

 

Marriage

Gary Thomas, Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy...

C. J. Mahaney, Sex, Romance, and the Glory of God
Dave Harvey, When Sinners Say I Do
Paul Tripp, What Did You Expect?
Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage

Dr. Emerson Eggerichs, Love & Respect

 

Bible Study

Logos Software
New Bible Dicti
onary (Packer, ed.)
D.A. Carson, Introduction to the New Testament
Tremper Longman III, Introduction to the Old Testament
Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth
Craig Bartholomew and Michael Goheen, The Drama of Scripture

James Hamilton, Typology: Understanding the Bible's Promise-Shaped Patterns

Christopher J.H. Wright, Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament

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Current Events & Cultural Engagement

Rod Dreher, Live Not By Lies

Carl Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self

Erwin Lutzer, We Will Not Be Silenced

Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert, When Helping Hurts

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