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
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