Good Books

God’s Will/Guidance

Decision Making and the Will of God (Friesen)
Do You Feel Called by God? (Bennett)
Finding the Will of God, A Pagan Notion? (Waltke)
Found: God’s Will (MacArthur)
Guidance and the Voice of God (Payne)
Good News for Anxious Christians (Cary)
Just Do Something (DeYoung)

Prayer

A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World (Miller)
A Way to Pray (Henry)
Prayer and the Knowledge of God (Goldsworthy)
Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God (Keller)
Prayer: How Praying Together Shapes the Church (Onwuchekwa)
Praying with Paul: a Call to Spiritual Reformation (Carson)
Valley of Vision (various Puritan prayers)

Missions

A History of Christian Missions (Neill)
Cross-cultural Servanthood (Elmer)
Foolishness to the Greeks (Newbign)
From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya (Tucker)
Introducing World Missions (Moreau/Corwin/McGee)
Let the Nations Be Glad (Piper)
Salvation to the Ends of the Earth (Kostenburger/O’Brien)
Shadow of the Almighty (Elliot)
Through Gates of Splendor (Elliot)
When Helping Hurts (Fikkert/Corbett)

Evangelism/Apologetics

Bringing the Gospel Home (Newman)
Christians are Hate-filled Hypocrites (Wright)
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God (Packer)
Historic Reliability of the Gospels (Blomberg)
One-to-One Bible Reading (Helm)
Origin of the Bible (Comfort)
Questioning Evangelism (Newman)
Tell the Truth (Metzger)
The Case for Christ (Stroebel)
The Gagging of God (Carson)

Singleness

7 Myths About Singleness (Allberry)
Fine China is for Single Women, Too (Brownback)
Redeeming Singleness (Danylak)

Marriage

A Promise Kept (McQuilken)
The Meaning of Marriage (Keller)
This Momentary Marriage (Piper)
What Did You Expect (Tripp)
When Sinners Say “I Do” (Harvey)

Sexual Intimacy

Intended for Pleasure (Wheat)
Making All Things New – Restoring Joy to the Sexually Broken (Powlison)
Sex and the Supremacy of Christ (Piper/Taylor)
Song of Solomon (O’Donnell)
What is the Meaning of Sex? (Burk)

Sexual Sin

At the Altar of Sexual Idolatry (Gallagher)
Finally Free (Lambert)
Purity is Possible (Thorne)
Sex in a Broken World (Tripp)
Sexual Brokenness and the Hope of the Gospel (Moore)
Sexual Detox (Challies)
Undefiled (Schaumburg)
Wired for Intimacy (Struthers)

Family/Parenting

Adopted for Life (Moore)
“Don’t Make Me Count to Three!” – a Mom’s Look at Heart-Oriented Discipline (Hubbard)
Family Worship (Whitney)
Future Men – Raising Boys to Fight Giants (Wilson)
Give them Grace (Fitzpatrick)
Loving the Little Years (Jankovic)
Parenting (Tripp)
Parenting in the Pew (Castleman)
Shepherding a Child’s Heart (Tripp)
Treasuring Christ When Your Hands are Full – Gospel Meditations for Busy Moms (Furman)

Manhood and Womanhood

Disciplines of a Godly Man (Hughes)
Disciplines of a Godly Woman (Hughes)
Fatherhood (Payne)
Feminine Appeal (Maheney)
Man in the Mirror (Morley)
Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (Piper, Grudem, et al)
What’s the Difference? (Piper)
Women of the Word (Wilken)

General Counseling

Addictions: Banquet in the Grave (Welch)
Because He Loves Me (Firtzpatrick)
Christians Get Depressed Too (Murray)
Depression: A Stubborn Darkness (Welch)
God in the Storm (Maillefer)
How People Change (Lane/Tripp)
Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands (Tripp)
Peacemaker – any in the series (Sande)
Relationships: A Mess Worth Making (Lane/Tripp)
Seeing With New Eyes – Counselling and the Human Condition Through the Lens of Scripture (Powlison)
Speaking the Truth in Love (Powlison)
War of Words (Tripp)
When People are Big and God is Small (Welch)
When the Darkness Will Not Lift – Doing What We Can While We Wait for God and Joy (Piper)

General Theology

Delighting in the Trinity (Reeves)
Desiring God (Piper)
Knowing Christ (Jones)
Knowing God (Packer)
Living for God’s Glory (Beeke)
Our Triune God (Toon)
The Glory of God (Morgan/Peterson)

Biblical Theology

According to Plan (Goldsworthy)
Any volume from New Studies in Biblical Theology (Carson, editor)
God Dwells Among Us (Beale/Kim)
God’s Big Picture (Roberts)
Gospel and Kingdom (Goldsworthy)
Knowing Jesus through the Old Testament (Wright)
The God Who is There: Finding Your Place in God’s Story (Carson)

Systematic Theology

According to Plan (Goldsworthy)
Big Picture Story Bible (Helm)
Concise Theology: a Guide to Historic Christian Beliefs (Packer)
God’s Big Picture (Roberts)
Gospel and Kingdom (Goldsworthy)
Know the Truth: a Handbook of Christian Belief (Milne)
Knowing Jesus through the Old Testament (Wright)
Pilgrim Theology: Core Doctrines for Christian Disciples (Horton)
Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian Belief (Frame)
The London Baptist Confession of 1689

Church

Biblical Eldership (Strauch)
Biblical Foundations for Baptist Churches (Hammett)
Deliberate Church (Dever/Alexander)
Elders in Congregational Life (Newton)
Growth Groups (Marshall)
Listen Up! (Ash)
The Enduring Community (Habig/Newsom)
The Trellis & the Vine (Marshall/Payne)
What is a Healthy Church? (Dever)
What is a Healthy Church Member? (Anyabwile)
What is the Mission of the Church? (DeYoung)

Growth in Holiness

Don’t Waste Your Life (Piper)
Holiness (Ryle)
Holiness by Grace: Delighting in the Joy that is our Strength (Chapell)
Maturity: Growing Up and Going on in the Christian Life (Ferguson)
Mortification of Sin (Owen)
Respectable Sins (Bridges)
Set Apart to Save (Hughes)
Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health (Whitney)
The Holiness of God (Sproul)

Understanding the Bible

Dig Deeper (Beynon/Sach)
God’s Story in 66 Verses (Guthrie)
How to Read the Bible for All It’s Worth (Fee/Stuart)
How to Read the Bible Through the Jesus Lens (Williams)
The Word Became Fresh (Davis)

Christian Classics

Anything by C.S. Lewis
Confessions (Augustine)
Hind’s Feet in High Places (Hurnard)
How Should We Then Live (Schaeffer)
Life & Diary of David Brainerd (Edwards)
Life Together (Bonhoeffer)
Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan)

Music

God’s Lyrics (O’Donnell)
Rhythms of Grace (Cosper)
Systematic Theology
Systematic Theology (Grudem)
Worship Matters (Kauflin)

Bible Study

Introduction to the New Testament (Moo/Carson/Morris)
Introduction to the Old Testament (Dillard/Longman)
What the Bible is All About (Mears)
Old Testament Theology (House)
The Expositor’s Bible Commentary

Heaven

A Brief History of Heaven (McGrath)
Future Grace (Piper)
Heaven (Alcorn)
One Minute After You Die (Lutzer)

Suffering

A Sacred Sorrow: Reaching Out to God in the Lost Language of Lament (Card)
God’s Grace in Your Suffering (Powlison)
How Long, O Lord? – Reflections on Suffering and Evil (Carson)
If God is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil (Alcorn)
Why Does It Have to Hurt? – the Meaning of Christian Suffering (McCartney)

Church History

A History of Christianity in the Unites States and Canada (Noll)
Church History in Plain Language (Shelley)
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity (Noll)
Worldly Saints: The Puritans as They Really Were (Ryken)

Children’s Bible

Big Picture Story Bible (Helm)
The Action Bible (Cariello)
The Big Picture Interactive Bible Storybook (The Gospel Project)
The Biggest Story: How the Snake Crusher Brings Us Back to the Garden (DeYoung)

In general, we recommend these publishers:

Banner of Truth
Crossway Books
Good Book Company
Matthias Media
R&R