Recommended Books
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If you’ve only got time to read 3 shorter books
Living the Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing
C.J. Mahaney
The Holiness of God
R.C. Sproul
God is the Gospel
John Piper
If you’ve only got time to read 3 longer books
Desiring God
John Piper
The Reason for God
Tim Keller
Radical Reformission
Mark Driscoll
The Bible & How to Read It
The ESV Study Bible
Crossway Publishing
The ESV Literary Study Bible
Crossway Publishing
Knowing Scripture
R.C. Sproul
The Message of the Old Testament
Mark Dever
The Message of the New Testament
Mark Dever
Everyday Life
Living the Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing
C.J. Mahaney
Desiring God
John Piper
The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
Tim Keller
Humility: True Greatness
CJ Mahaney
The Weight of Glory
C.S. Lewis
When I Don’t Desire God: How to Fight for Joy
John Piper
Holiness by Grace: Delighting in the Joy That is Our Strength
Bryan Chapell
The God Who Smokes
Timothy Stoner
The Discipline of Grace
Jerry Bridges
Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life (Books I and II)
John Piper
God is the Gospel
John Piper
Humility: The Forgotten Virtue
Wayne A. Mack
Business for the Glory of God: The Bible’s Teaching on the Moral Goodness of Business
Wayne Grudem
The Religious Affections (*extra heavy reading)
Jonathan Edwards
The World According to God: A Biblical View of Culture, Work, Science, Sex & Everything Else
Greg Johnson
Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions
Arthur Bennett
Marriage, Family & Parenting
When Sinners Say “I Do”
Dave Harvey
Reforming Marriage
Doug Wilson
Family Driven Faith
Voddie Baucham
Do Hard Things
Alex & Brett Harris
Sex and the Supremacy of Christ
John Piper & Justin Taylor
Sex, Romance and the Glory of God
C.J. Mahaney
Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education
Doug Wilson
Girl Talk: Mother-Daughter Conversations on Biblical Womanhood
Carolyn Mahaney & Nicole Mahaney Whitacre
50 Crucial Questions: An Overview of Central Concerns About Manhood and Womanhood
John Piper & Wayne Grudem
Training Hearts, Teaching Minds
Starr Meade
Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens
Paul Tripp
Shepherding a Child’s Heart
Paul Tripp
The Jesus Storybook Bible
Sally Lloyd-Jones
Church
The Deliberate Church: Building Your Ministry on the Gospel
Mark Dever
Radical Reformission: Reaching Out Without Selling Out
Mark Driscoll
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church
Mark Dever
Culture
The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World
David Wells
Christ & Culture Revisited
D.A. Carson
The Weight of Glory
C.S. Lewis
Art and the Bible
Francis Schaeffer
The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts
Leeland Ryken
The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing
Leeland Ryken
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman
Theology
Salvation Belongs to the Lord: An Introduction to Systematic Theology
John Frame
The Holiness of God
R.C. Sproul
The Truth of the Cross
R.C. Sproul
Humanity and Sin
Robert Pyne
The Cross and Salvation
Bruce Demarest
The Doctrine of God (*heavy reading)
John Frame
The Freedom of the Will (*extra heavy reading)
Jonathan Edwards
Systematic Theology
Wayne Grudem
Christian Theology
Millard Erickson
A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith
Robert Reymond
Mission
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God
J.I. Packer
Let the Nations be Glad
John Piper
Radical Reformission
Mark Driscoll
Apologetics
The Reason for God
Tim Keller
Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis
Vintage Jesus
Mark Driscoll
Apologetics to the Glory of God
John Frame
Tell the Truth
Will Metzger
I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist
Norman Geisler & Frank Turek
Worldview
The Reason for God
Tim Keller
The Universe Next Door
James Sire
The Consequences of Ideas
R.C. Sproul
History
Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity
Mark Noll
Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions
Arthur Bennett
Our Legacy
John Hannah
Counseling, Addiction & Recovery
How People Change
Timothy Lane & Paul Tripp
Competent to Counsel
Jay Adams
A Theology of Christian Counseling
Jay Adams
Love to Eat, Hate to Eat
Elyse Fitzpatrick
When People Are Big and God is Small
Edward T. Welch