BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

Apologetics

  • Darwin’s Black Box, Michael Behe
  • The Reason for God, Tim Keller
  • Tactics: A Game plan for Discussing Your Christian Conviction, Gregory Koukl
  • God in the Dock, C.S. Lewis
  • Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
  • Encyclopedic Dictionary of Cults, Sects, and World Religions, Nichols, George, Mather, and Schmidt
  • Defending Your Faith, R.C. Sproul
  • Christianity Considered, John Frame

Biblical Studies and The­ol­ogy

  • Biblical Teaching on the Doctrines of Heaven and Hell, Edward Donnelly
  • Sys­tem­atic The­ol­ogy, Wayne Gru­dem
  • The Prodi­gal God: Recov­er­ing the Heart of the Chris­t­ian Faith, Tim Keller
  • Bib­li­cal The­ol­ogy in the Life of the Church: A Guide for Min­istry, Michael Lawrence
  • Know­ing God, J.I. Packer
  • God’s Big Picture: Tracing the Story-Line of the Bible, Vaughan Roberts
  • How We Got the Bible, John Sailhamer
  • How to Understand Your Bible, T. Norton Sterrett
  • Basic Christianity, John Stott
  • The Knowledge of the Holy, A.W. Tozer

Biography and History

  • William Tyndale, David Daniell
  • Through the Gates of Splendor, Elizabeth Elliot
  • 131 Christians Everyone Should Know, Mark Galli
  • Faithful Witness, Timothy George
  • The Story of Christianity (Volume 1 and 2), Justo Gonzalez
  • Prophet Without Honour: the Billy Graham Story, William Martin
  • Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, Eric Metaxas
  • Turning Points, Mark Noll
  • For the Glory of God, Rodney Stark
  • Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret, Howard and Geraldine Taylor

Children’s Books

  • The Big Pic­ture Story Bible, David Helm
  • Jesus Story Book Bible, Sally Lloyd-Jones
  • Big Truths for Small Hearts, Bruce Ware

The Church 

  • Christ Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon, Bryan Chapell
  • 9 Marks of a Healthy Church, Mark Dever
  • The Deliberate Church, Mark Dever and Paul Alexnder
  • Church Discipline, Jonathan Leeman
  • Preaching and Preachers, Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Discipleship  

  • Holi­ness Day by Day, Jerry Bridges
  • Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate, Jerry Bridges
  • The Discipline of Grace, Jerry Bridges
  • Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
  • You Can Change: God’s Trans­form­ing Power for Our Sin­ful Behav­ior and Neg­a­tive Emo­tions, Tim Chester
  • Discipling, Mark Dever
  • Because He Loves Me, Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
  • Jesus Continued, J. D. Greear
  • Rid of My Dis­grace: Hope and Heal­ing for Vic­tims of Sex­ual Assault, Justin and Lind­sey Hol­comb
  • Disciplines of a Godly Man, Kent Hughes
  • Coun­ter­feit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Mat­ters, Tim Keller
  • How Peo­ple Change, Tim­o­thy Lane and Paul David Tripp
  • Truth for Today, John MacArthur
  • Humility, Wayne Mack
  • Now That I’m a Christian, C. Michael Patton
  • Total Truth, Nancy Pearcy
  • Desir­ing God, John Piper
  • Morn­ing and Evening, Charles Spur­geon
  • Instru­ments in the Redeemer’s Hands: Peo­ple in Need of Change Help­ing Peo­ple in Need of Change, Paul David Tripp
  • Ten Ques­tions to Diag­nose Your Spir­i­tual Health, Don­ald Whit­ney
  • Spir­i­tual Dis­ci­plines for the Chris­t­ian Life, Don­ald Whit­ney
  • Redemp­tion: Freed by Jesus from the Idols We Wor­ship and the Wounds We Carry, Mike Wilk­er­son

Evan­ge­lism and Missions 

  • A Meal with Jesus: Dis­cov­er­ing Grace, Com­mu­nity, and Mis­sion Around the Table, Tim Chester
  • When Help­ing Hurts: How to Alle­vi­ate Poverty with­out Hurt­ing the Poor And Your­self, Steve Cor­bett and Brian Fikkert
  • The Gospel and Per­sonal Evan­ge­lism, Mark Dever
  • Com­mu­nity: Tak­ing Your Small Group Off Life Sup­port, Brad House
  • Gen­er­ous Jus­tice: How God’s Grace Makes Us Just, Tim Keller
  • Ministries of Mercy, Tim Keller
  • Serv­ing with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short Term Mis­sions with Cul­tural Intel­li­gence, David Livermore
  • Tell the Truth, Will Metzger
  • Evan­ge­lism and the Sov­er­eignty of God, J.I. Packer
  • Let the Nations be Glad, John Piper
  • Evangelism, J. Mack Stiles
  • The Soul Win­ner, Charles Spurgeon
  • Total Church, Steve Tim­mis and Tim Chester
  • Why Cities Mat­ter, Steven Um and Justin Buzzard

Finding God’s Will

  • The Greener Grass Con­spir­acy: Find­ing Con­tent­ment on Your Side of the Fence, Stephen Altrogge
  • The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment, Tim Challies
  • Just Do Some­thing: A Lib­er­at­ing Approach to Find­ing God’s Will, Kevin DeYoung
  • The Call, Os Guiness

The Gospel

  • The Gospel for Real Life, Jerry Bridges
  • What is the Gospel?, Greg Gilbert
  • Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart, J. D. Greear
  • Am I Really a Chris­t­ian, Mike McKin­ley
  • The Cross of Christ, John Stott
  • A Gospel Primer for Chris­tians: Learn­ing to See the Glo­ries of God s Love, Mil­ton Vin­cent

Lead­er­ship

  • Do More Better, Tim Challies
  • Good Sol­diers: A Bib­li­cal Approach to Lead­er­ship Devel­op­ment, Allen Duty
  • Mis­takes Lead­ers Make, Dave Kraft
  • Sticky Teams: Keep­ing Your Lead­er­ship Team and Staff on the Same Page, Larry Osborne
  • Spir­i­tual Lead­er­ship: Prin­ci­ples of Excel­lence for Every Believer, J. Oswald Sanders
  • Basic Chris­t­ian Lead­er­ship: Bib­li­cal Mod­els of Church, Gospel and Min­istry, John Stott
  • Biblical Eldership, Alexander Strauch

Mar­riage

  • Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage in the Bible, Jay Adams
  • Date Your Wife, Justin Buz­zard
  • When Sin­ners Say, I Do: Discover­ing the Power of the Gospel for Mar­riage, Dave Har­vey
  • The Mean­ing of Mar­riage: Fac­ing the Com­plex­i­ties of Com­mit­ment with the Wis­dom of God, Tim and Kathy Keller
  • Strengthening Your Marriage, Wayne Mack
  • Did I Kiss Mar­riage Good­bye: Trust­ing God with a Hope Deferred, Car­olyn McCulley
  • Sacred Mar­riage, Gary Thomas
  • Exemplary Husband, Paul David Tripp
  • What Did You Expect?, Paul David Tripp
  • Fidelity, Douglas Wilson

Money

  • Money, Pos­ses­sions, and Eter­nity, Randy Alcorn
  • The Trea­sure Prin­ci­ple: Dis­cov­er­ing the Secret of Joy­ful Giv­ing, Randy Alcorn
  • Money: God or Gift?, Jamie Mun­son

On Being a Baptist

  • Bap­tism: Help­ful Answers to Com­mon Ques­tions, Allen Duty
  • Biblical Foundations for Baptist Churches, John Hammett
  • The Baptism of Disciples Alone, Fred Malone
  • Why I am a Baptist, Tom J. Nettles, Russell Moore
  • The Lord’s Sup­per: Remem­ber­ing and Pro­claim­ing Christ Until He Comes, Thomas Schreiner and Matthew Crawford
  • Believer’s Bap­tism: Sign of the New Covenant in Christ edited, Thomas Schreiner and Shawn Wright

Orphan Care

  • The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family, David R. Cross, Karyn B. Purvis, and Wendy Lyons Sunshine
  • Adopted For Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches, Russell Moore

Parenting/Family Dis­ci­ple­ship

  • Fam­ily Shep­herds: Call­ing and Equip­ping Men to Lead their Homes, Vod­die Baucham
  • Help­ing Chil­dren to Under­stand the Gospel, Chil­dren’s Desir­ing God
  • Gospel Pow­ered Par­ent­ing: How the Gospel Shapes and Trans­forms Par­ent­ing, William P. Far­ley
  • The Three Big Ques­tions for the Fran­tic Fam­ily, Patrick Lencioni
  • Sacred Par­ent­ing: How Rais­ing Chil­dren Shapes Our Souls, Gary Thomas
  • Age of Opportunity, Paul David Tripp
  • Shep­herd­ing a Child’s Heart, Tedd Tripp
  • Instruct­ing a Child’s Heart, Tedd and Margy Tripp
  • Big Truths for Young Hearts: Teach­ing and Learn­ing the Great­ness of God, Bruce Ware

Prayer

  • A Call to Spir­i­tual Ref­or­ma­tion: Pri­or­i­ties from Paul and His Prayers, D. A. Car­son
  • Praying Backwards, Bryan Chapell
  • Prayer, Tim Keller
  • A Praying Life, Paul Miller

Sexuality

  • God on Sex, Danny Akin
  • The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert, Rosaria Butterfield
  • God and the Transgender Debate, Andrew Walker
  • Holy Sexuality and the Gospel, Christopher Yuan
  • Homosexuality, Kevin DeYoung

Suffering

  • Trusting God, Jerry Bridges
  • How Long, O Lord?, D.A.Carson
  • When God Weeps, Joni Eareckson Tada and Steve Estes
  • Suffering, Paul David Tripp
  • Depression a Stubborn Darkness, Ed Welch
  • Running Scared, Ed Welch

Vocational Min­istry

  • The New Pastor’s Handbook, Jason Helopoulos
  • Cen­ter Church, Tim Keller
  • Dan­ger­ous Call­ing, Paul David Tripp

Work and Government

  • Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, Andy Crouch
  • Work, Daniel Doriani
  • Busi­ness for the Glory of God, Wayne Gru­dem
  • Politics According to the Bible, Wayne Grudem