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