Recommended Reading
READING LIST
Romans 12:2
"You are what you read" is more true than we know. Since Scripture teaches that we are transformed by the renewal of our minds (Romans 12:2), we believe that reading is a key practice for cultivating spiritual growth.
Reading, meditation, and study of the Scriptures themselves form the most important part of the Christian's diet. But other books can help us as well. Here's a list of recommended books in different categories.
Reading List
168 Books
Recommended Books
Bible Study
8 books
The NIV Zondervan Study Bible
The ESV Study Bible
The Reformation Study Bible
New Bible Commentary: 21st Century Edition
New Bible Dictionary
The Bible Speaks Today series
The Pillar New Testament Commentary series
The New Studies in Biblical Theology series
The Gospel
9 books
The Gospel: How the Church Portrays the Beauty of Christ
A Gospel Primer for Christians
The Prodigal God
Who is Jesus?
The Story of His Glory
Christ All Sufficient
The God Who is There: Finding Your Place in God’s Story
The Gospel According to Jesus
Christ’s Glorious Achievements
Apologetics
7 books
Core Christianity: Finding Yourself in God’s Story
Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical
The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
Hope Has Its Reasons
Basic Christianity
Mere Christianity
Is God a Moral Monster? Making Sense of the Old Testament God
Church
10 books
Center Church
The Deliberate Church: Building Your Ministry on the Gospel
Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emergent and Traditional
The Church
Everybody’s Normal Till You Get to Know Them
Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way
The Vine Project
No Little Women: Equipping All Women in the Household of God
Outgrowing the Ingrown Church
Worship by the Book
Spirituality
32 books
Rejoicing in Christ
Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life
Christ Formed in You: The Power of the Gospel for Personal Change
Licensed to Kill: A Field Manual for Mortifying Sin
The Enemy Within: Straight Talk about the Power and Defeat of Sin
Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
The Life You’ve Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
Seeking the Face of God
Habits of Grace
Desiring God
Future Grace
Overcoming Sin and Temptation
The Religious Affections
Children of the Living God
The Christian Life: A Doctrinal Introduction
Studies on the Sermon on the Mount
Choosing Forgiveness
For the Love of God: A Daily Companion, vols. 1 and 2
Morning and Evening
The Cheque-book of Faith
The Pursuit of God
The Christian in Complete Armour
Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices
Decision Making and the Will of God
Money, Possessions, and Eternity
Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and Their Remedies
Hit List: Taking Aim at the Seven Deadly Sins
Watchfulness: Recovering a Lost Spiritual Discipline
The Discipline of Grace
Counterfeit Gods
The New Park Street Pulpit
The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit
Theology
31 books
Words of Life: Scripture as the Living and Active Word of God
Gospel and Kingdom
Delighting in the Trinity
Knowing God
The Existence and Attributes of God
Knowing Christ
The Cross of Christ
Christ Crucified: Understanding the Atonement
The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God
Turning to God: Reclaiming Christian Conversion
Institutes of the Christian Religion
The Pleasures of God
The Holiness of God
Faith Alone: The Doctrine of Justification
The Holy Spirit
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
The Knowledge of the Holy
What is Reformed Theology?
The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way
With Jesus: Finding Your Place in the Story of Christ
God’s Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards
The Holy Spirit
Keeping in Step with the Spirit
Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin
Biblical Authority after Babel
Reformed Dogmatics
Heaven
Introducing Covenant Theology
Putting the Amazing Back into Grace
The Invisible Hand: Do All Things Really Work for Good?
The Race Set Before Us: A Biblical Theology of Perseverance & Assurance
Suffering
7 books
How Long, O Lord? Reflections on Suffering and Evil
Trusting God Even When Life Hurts
Walking with God through Pain and Suffering
A Lifting Up for the Downcast
The Mystery of Providence
Deserted by God?
When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty
Soul Care
14 books
Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands
Active Spirituality: Grace and Effort in the Christian Life
God and Soul Care
Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture
Seeing with New Eyes: Counseling through the Lens of Scripture
Closing the Window: Steps to Living Porn Free
Making All Things New: Restoring Joy to the Sexually Broken
Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Its Cure
When People are Big and God is Small
Addictions: A Banquet in the Grave
The Peacemaker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Everyday Conflict
How People Change
Rid of My Disgrace: Hope and Healing for Victims of Sexual Assault
Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest
Marriage / Family / Sexuality
14 books
Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles that Can Radically Change Your Family
When Sinners Say “I Do”: Discovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage
The Meaning of Marriage
Sacred Marriage
Sacred Parenting
The Mystery of Marriage
Each for the Other: Marriage as It’s Meant to Be
Finding God at the Kitchen Sink: Search for Glory in the Everyday Grime
Together: Growing Appetites for God
Family Worship
Come Back, Barbara
Same Sex Attraction and the Church
Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Sexuality
What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality?
Children
11 books
The Jesus Storybook Bible
The BIG Picture Story Bible
The Biggest Story: How the Snake-Crusher Brings Us Back to the Garden
The Garden, the Curtain, and the Cross
The Prince’s Poison Cup
The Chronicles of Narnia
100 Cupboards series
The Harry Potter series
The Heroes of the Faith series
A Wrinkle in Time
The Tale of Despereaux
Prayer
11 books
Praying the Bible
Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
Praying with Paul: A Call to Spiritual Reformation
A Praying Life
Communion with the Triune God
Praying Backwards: Transform Your Prayer Life by Beginning in Jesus’ Name
A Hunger for God: Desiring God through Prayer and Fasting
The Hidden Life of Prayer
Calling on the Name of the Lord: A Biblical Theology of Prayer
Enjoy Your Prayer Life
Power through Prayer
Culture
14 books
Christ and Culture Revisited
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview
Engaging God’s World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living
Living in God’s Two Kingdoms
State of the Arts
Reading Between the Lines: A Christian’s Guide to Literature
The Stories We Tell: How TV and Movies Long for and Echo the Truth
Echoes of Eden: Reflections on Christianity, Literature, and the Arts
Gray Matters: Navigating the Space Between Legalism and Liberty
Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work
Saving Leonardo
Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity
Amusing Ourselves to Death