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