Book Recommendations

* Please note that inclusion of these books in our list does not imply full endorsement of all their contents. No one will agree with every point made, of course, but these works are all thought-provoking.

Bible Study Aids

  • Fee & Stuart, How to Read the Bible for All It’s Worth

  • MacArthur, How to Study the Bible

Biographies

  • Bainton, Here I Stand (Martin Luther)

  • Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

  • Carey, S. Pearce, William Carey

  • Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life

  • Murray, A Scottish Christian Heritage

  • Murray, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2 volumes)

  • Parker, Calvin: A Biography

  • Piper, Hidden Smile of God (John Bunyan, William Cowper, and David Brainerd)

  • Piper, Legacy of Endurance (John Newton, Charles Simeon, and William Wilberforce)

  • Piper, Contending for our All (Athanasius, John Owen, and J. Gresham Machen)

  • Piper, Filling up the Afflictions of Christ (William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and John Paton)

  • Ryle, Five English Reformers (John Hooper, Rowland Taylor, Hugh Latimer, John Bradford, and Nicholas Ridley)

  • Spurgeon, C. H. Spurgeon, Autobiography (2 volumes)

Discipling/Spiritual Formation

  • Helm, One-to-One Bible Reading

  • Dever, Discipling: How to Help Others Follow Jesus

  • Marshall & Payne, The Trellis and the Vine: The Ministry Mind-shift that Changes Everything

Evangelism & Missions

  • Dever, The Gospel and Personal Evangelism

  • Gilbert, What is the Gospel?

  • Metzger, Tell the Truth

  • Murray, The Old Evangelicalism

  • Packer, Evangelicalism and the Sovereignty of God

  • Piper, Let the Nations be Glad

  • Spurgeon, The Soul Winner

Christian Living

  • Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices

  • Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress

  • Carson, A Call to Spiritual Reformation

  • Edwards, Resolutions of Jonathan Edwards

  • Owen, Mortification of Sin

  • Owen, The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

  • Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life

  • Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

  • Powlison, Seeing With New Eyes

  • Ryle, Holiness

  • Sande, Peacemaker

  • Scazzero, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

  • Tripp, Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands

  • Welch, When People are Big and God is Small

  • Wells, The Courage to be Protestant

  • Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life

The Church

  • Brand & Norman, Eds., Perspectives on Church Government: Five Views of Church Polity

  • Brown, Called to Serve: Essays for Elders and Deacons

  • Clowney, The Church

  • Cowan, Ed., Who Runs the Church? 4 Views on Church Government

  • Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church

  • Hyde, Welcome to a Reformed Church

  • MacArthur, The Master’s Plan for the Church

  • Strauch, Biblical Eldership

History

  • D’Aubigne, The English Reformation

  • Gonzales, The Story of Christianity (2 Volumes)

  • Murray, Evangelicalism Divided

  • Shelley, Church History in Plain Language

Marriage & Family

  • Havey, When Sinners Say “I Do”: Discovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage

  • Keller, The Meaning of Marriage

  • Mack, Preparing for Marriage God’s Way

  • Tripp, Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens

  • Tripp, Shepherding a Child’s Heart

  • Tripp, What did you Expect?: Redeeming the Realities of Marriage 

  • Ware, Big Truths for Young Hearts: Teaching and Learning the Greatness of God

Theology & Apologetics

  • Berkhof, Systematic Theology

  • Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

  • Grudem, Systematic Theology

  • Kaiser, The Promise-Plan of God 

  • Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

  • Packer, Knowing God

  • Piper, The Pleasures of God

  • Schreiner, The Law and Its Fulfillment: A Pauline Theology of Law 

  • Sproul, The Holiness of God