Recommended Books
The Cross of Christ
John R.W. Stott
Stott confronts this generation with the centrality of the cross in God's redemption of the world. Can we see triumph in tragedy, victory in shame? Why should an object of Roman distaste and Jewish disgust be the emblem of our worship and the axiom of our faith? And what does it mean for us today?
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself
Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert, John Perkins (Foreword), David Platt (Foreword)
Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it. This book encourages us to see the dignity in everyone, to empower the materially poor, and to know that we are all uniquely needy – and that God in the gospel is reconciling all things to himself.
Knowing God
J.I. Packer
Explaining both who God is and how we can relate to him, Packer divides his book into three sections: The first directs our attention to how and why we know God, the second to the attributes of God, and the third to the benefits enjoyed by a those who know him intimately.
Money, Possessions, and Eternity: A Comprehensive Guide to What the Bible Says about Financial Stewardship, Generosity, Materialism, Retirement, Financial Planning, Gambling, Debt, and More
Randy Alcorn
Who wants to settle for fleeting treasures on earth... when God offers everlasting treasures in heaven? It’s time to rethink our perspectives on money and possessions. Alcorn shows us how to view these things accurately – as God’s provision for our good, the good of others, and his glory.
7 Myths about Singleness
Sam Allberry
This book seeks to help Christians – married and unmarried alike – value singleness as a gift from God so that we can all encourage singles to take hold of the unique opportunities their singleness affords and see their role in the flourishing of the church as a whole.
What God Has to Say about Our Bodies: How the Gospel Is Good News for Our Physical Selves
Sam Allberry, Paul David Tripp (Foreword)
Allberry explains that all of us are fearfully and wonderfully made, and should regard our physicality as a gift. He offers biblical guidance for living, including understanding gender, sexuality, and identity; dealing with aging, illness, and death; and considering the physical future hope that we have in Christ.
Simply Anglican: An Ancient Faith for Today's World
Winfield Bevins
Bevins provides an accessible overview of Anglican history, theology, and worship. With discussion questions and recommended reading at the end of each chapter, plus a glossary of terms in the back, this book is the ideal introduction to Anglicanism!
Finding Your Best Identity: A short Christian introduction to identity, sexuality and gender
Andrew Bunt
In this short Christian introduction to identity, Bunt explores and examines different ways we can discover who we are. Blending his personal story with careful Bible teaching and genuine cultural awareness, this is a book to get conversations going and help us all understand our best identity.
The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
Jeremiah Burroughs
Burroughs is worthily reckoned as belonging to the front rank of English puritan preachers. His writings are marked by sanity, clarity, aptness of illustration, and warmth of appeal to the heart.
The God Who Is There: Finding Your Place in God's Story
D.A. Carson
In this basic introduction to faith, Carson takes seekers, new Christians, and small groups through the big story of Scripture. He helps readers to know what they believe and why they believe it.
The Explicit Gospel
Matt Chandler, Jared C. Wilson (Contributor)
Chandler begins with the specifics of the gospel – outlining what it is and what it is not – and then switches gears to focus on the fullness of the gospel and its massive implications on both personal and cosmic levels.
Singled Out: Why Celibacy Must Be Reinvented in Today's Church
Christine A. Colón, Bonnie E. Field
Thoughtful and accessible, this book is an invaluable voice of realistic encouragement for any single as well as an important tool for church leaders and others concerned with mission and ministry for singles.
Does God Care about Gender Identity?
Samuel D. Ferguson
In this concise booklet, Ferguson carefully and compassionately compares the core beliefs and practices of the transgender movement with fundamental truths expressed in Scripture.
Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
Richard J. Foster
Foster discusses living a Christian life that includes meditation, prayer, fasting, study, simplicity, solitude, service, confession, worship, and much more. He speaks passionately about making sure that the habits we develop will not distance us from God.
Devotional Classics: Selected Readings for Individuals and Groups
Richard J. Foster (Editor), James Bryan Smith (Editor)
These fifty-two selections have been organized to introduce readers through the course of one year to the great devotional writers. Each reading features a linked biblical passage, discussion questions, and individual and group excercises.
Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home
Richard J. Foster
Foster offers a primer on prayer, helping us to understand, experience, and practice it in its many forms. He clarifies the prayer process, answers common misconceptions, and shows the way into prayers of contemplation, healing, blessing, forgiveness, and rest.
The Challenge of the Disciplined Life: Christian Reflections on Money, Sex, and Power
Richard J. Foster
This book explores the three great ethical themes crucial to people of faith living faithfully. Foster guides the reader in day-to-day ethical decision making while helping each of us determine "the proper place in Christian life of money, sex, and power."
Fasting: Opening the door to a deeper, more intimate, more powerful relationship with God
Jentezen Franklin
Franklin explains the spiritual power of fasting and offers a deeper understanding of God’s plan for fasting and the benefits available to those who participate. The book contains inspiring and practical information that readers need to know in order to access the power of biblical fasting.
Lent: The Journey from Ash Wednesday through Holy Week
Greg Goebel, Joshua Steele, Tish Harrison Warren (Foreword)
Join Christians around the world in observing the ancient tradition of Lent — 40 days of preparing to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Lent is for all Christians, and this book is your guide on the journey from Ash Wednesday through Holy Week to Easter Sunday.
A Different Way: Recentering the Christian Life Around Following Jesus
Christopher A. Hall
Hall reminds us that faith is not meant to be merely rigid and static and so guides us back to Christianity’s spiritual foundation, helping us reconnect with Jesus and live the life he calls to live.
Reading Scripture with the Church Fathers
Christopher A. Hall
Hall introduces us to the early church, its unique world, and the sights and sounds of Scripture that are highlighted for them. This book provides an introduction to who these leaders and scholars were, how they read and interpreted Scripture, and how we might read Scripture with them for all its worth.
Just Courage: God's Great Expedition for the Restless Christian
Gary A. Haugen
Haugen has found that engaging in the fight for justice is the most deeply satisfying way of life. This book shows how we too can be a part of God's great expedition.
Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality
Wesley Hill, Kathryn Greene-McCreight and Eve Tushnet (Foreword)
Hill's personal experiences and biblical reflections offer insight into how a nonpracticing gay Christian can "prove, live out, and celebrate" the grace of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit.
Gods at War: Defeating the Idols that Battle for Your Heart
Kyle Idleman
Idleman helps every believer recognize there are false gods at war within each of us, and they battle for the place of glory and control in our lives. What keeps us from truly following Jesus is that our hearts are pursuing something or someone else.
The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
Timothy J. Keller
Keller takes his trademark intellectual approach to understanding Christianity and uses the parable of the prodigal son to reveal an unexpected message of hope and salvation. Within that parable Jesus reveals God's prodigal grace toward both the irreligious and the moralistic.
The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
Timothy J. Keller
Keller uses literature, philosophy, real-life conversations and reasoning, and even pop culture to explain how faith in a Christian God is a soundly rational belief, held by thoughtful people of intellectual integrity with a deep compassion for those who truly want to know the truth.
Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions
Gregory Koukl, Lee Strobel (Foreword)
Tactics provides the game plan for communicating the truth about Christianity with confidence and grace. Koukl shows readers how to initiate conversations effortlessly; present the truth clearly, cleverly, and persuasively; graciously and effectively expose faulty thinking; skillfully manage the details of dialogue; and maintain an engaging, disarming style even under attack.
The Practice of the Presence of God
Brother Lawrence
Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection (c. 1614 12 February 1691) served as a lay brother in a Carmelite monastery in Paris. He is remembered for the intimacy he expressed concerning his relationship to God as recorded in the classic Christian text, The Practice of the Presence of God.
The Anglican Way: A Guidebook
Thomas McKenzie
This is a guidebook for anyone interested in following Jesus as an Anglican Christian. Written for both the newcomer and the person who wants to go deeper, this book answers hundreds of questions about history, theology, worship, and more.
A Praying Life: Connecting With God In A Distracting World
Paul E. Miller
Miller shares his insights and conclusions about how to connect the broken pieces of your life and allow prayer – even poorly delivered – to fill the gaps with meaning and substance. Parents will find Miller’s family-life experiences especially helpful.
The Autobiography of George Muller
George Müller
These excerpts from his diary allow Müller to tell his own story. Join him on his journey from a life of sin and rebellion to his glorious conversion. Müller's unwavering, childlike dependence upon his heavenly Father will inspire you to confidently trust the God of the impossible in every area of your life.
A Passion for Faithfulness: Wisdom from the Book of Nehemiah
J.I. Packer
Using a Bible-study approach, Packer looks at how Nehemiah, one of the Bible's greatest leaders, led the people – and how God led Nehemiah – to ultimately build up His Kingdom. Through this book you will discover a model for revival in your church.
Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God
J.I. Packer
Packer seeks to help Christians reaffirm the biblical call to holiness and the Spirit's role in keeping our covenant with God. Packer discusses both the merits and shortcomings of the current charismatic movement and how Christ must always be at the center of true Spirit-led ministry.
Rediscovering Holiness
J.I. Packer
"There was a time when all Christians laid great emphasis on God's call to holiness. But how different it is today!" In this book, the highway is once more clearly marked out for a new generation of readers, pointing to true freedom and joy, both now and in eternity.
With justice for all
John M. Perkins
Perkins’s invitation to live out the gospel in a way that brings good news to the poor and liberty to the oppressed is extended to every racial and ethnic group to be reconciled to one another, to work together to make our land all God wants it to be.
Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
David Platt
Platt challenges you to consider with an open heart how we have manipulated the gospel to fit our cultural preferences. He shows what Jesus actually said about being his disciple – then invites you to believe and obey what you have heard.
Peace Child
Don Richardson
In 1962, Don and Carol Richardson risked their lives to share the gospel with the Sawi people of New Guinea. Peace Child tells their unforgettable story of living among these headhunters and cannibals, who valued treachery through fattening victims with friendship before the slaughter.
Giving Up: How Giving to God Renews Hearts, Changes Minds, and Empowers Ministry
David Roseberry
Roseberry challenges churches to rethink everything they know about generosity, giving, and the gospel by drawing on examples from the biblical record, from church history, and today's culture wars. He shows how the influence of sacrificial generosity is the most powerful antidote to the self-obsessed, cynical spirit of our age.
The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ
Fleming Rutledge
Rutledge addresses the issues and controversies that have caused pastors to speak of the cross only in the most general, bland terms. She examines in depth all the various themes and motifs used by the New Testament evangelists and apostolic writers to explain the meaning of the cross of Christ.
The Undoing of Death
Fleming Rutledge
This volume, representing twenty-five years of Holy Week and Easter preaching, offers a vision of the Cross and Resurrection that will inform and inspire committed believers and serious seekers alike. These sermons incorporate the biblical themes of sacrifice for sin, vicarious suffering, victory over evil and death, and the new creation arising out of eternal love.
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity
Ronald J. Sider
Despite a dramatic reduction in world hunger, children still die daily of starvation and preventable disease, and people worldwide remain in abject poverty. In this new look at an age-old problem, Sider offers not only a detailed explanation of the causes, but also a comprehensive series of practical solutions, in the hopes that Christians like him will choose to make a difference.
You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
James K.A. Smith
Smith shows that who and what we worship fundamentally shape our hearts. And while we desire to shape culture, we are not often aware of how culture shapes us. Smith helps readers recognize the formative power of culture and the transformative possibilities of Christian practices.
Christian Mission in the Modern World
John R.W. Stott
Stott shows that Christian mission must encompass both evangelism and social action. He offers careful definitions of five key terms – mission, evangelism, dialogue, salvation and conversion. Through a thorough biblical exploration of these concepts, Stott provides a model for ministry to people's spiritual and physical needs alike.
The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God
Dallas Willard
Willard skillfully weaves together biblical teaching, popular culture, science, scholarship, and spiritual practice, revealing what it means to "apprentice" ourselves to Jesus. Using Jesus’s Sermon of the Mount as his foundation, Willard masterfully explores life-changing ways to experience and be guided by God on a daily basis, resulting in a more authentic and dynamic faith.
The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives
Dallas Willard
Willard presents a way of living that enables ordinary men and women to enjoy the fruit of the Christian life. He reveals how the key to self-transformation resides in the practice of the spiritual disciplines, and how their practice affirms human life to the fullest.
Beyond Racial Gridlock: Embracing Mutual Responsibility
George Yancey
Sociologist George Yancey surveys a range of approaches to racial healing that Christians have used and offers a new model for moving forward. Yancey's vision offers hope that people of all races can walk together on a shared path – not as adversaries, but as partners.
The Jesus I Never Knew
Philip Yancey
Yancey offers a new and different perspective on the life of Christ and his work – his teachings, his miracles, his death and resurrection – and ultimately, who he was and why he came. Yancey presents a complex character who generates questions as well as answers; a disturbing and exhilarating Jesus who wants to radically transform your life and stretch your faith.
The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun
Brother Yun, Paul Hathaway (Co-writer)
This is the gripping story of how God took a young, half-starved boy from a poor village in Henan province and placed him on the front line for Jesus, in the face of impossible odds. Instead of focusing on the many miracles or experiences of suffering, however, Yun prefers to focus on the character and beauty of Jesus.