Books

Reading well is something every Christian benefits from. The beauty and power of our spiritual tradition has strengthened skeptics and believers ever since Paul first penned his epistles. Here we have collected some of the classics, both old and new, to give you a place to start in exploring, engaging, and deepening your spiritual journey.

Christianity EXPLORED

The Reason For God - Tim Keller

Basic Christianity - John Stott

Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis

Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton

Concise Theology - J.I. Packer

Unapologetic: How Despite Everything Christianity Still Makes Surprising Emotional Sense - Francis Spufford

Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion - Rebecca McLaughlin

THE gospel

The Cross of Christ - John Stott

Fifty Reason Jesus Came to Die - John Piper

Far As the Curse is Found - Micheal Williams

What’s So Amazing about Grace? - Phillip Yancey

The Ragamuffin Gospel - Brennan Manning

Christian Life

On Loving God - Bernard of Clairvoux

Desiring God - John Piper

Knowing God - JI Packer

Transforming Grace - Jerry Bridges

The Confessions - St. Augustine

You Are What You Love - James KA Smith

Practicing the Presence of God - Brother Lawrence

The Imitation of Christ - Thomas a Kempis

Liturgy of the Ordinary - Tish Harrison Warren

Gentle and Lowly - Dane Ortlund

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality - Pete Scazerro

A Praying Life - Paul Miller

The Cost of Discipleship - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

True Spirituality - Francis Schaeffer

In the Name of Jesus - Henri Nouwen

Understanding the Bible

Getting the Message - Dan Doriani

The Gospel of Our King - Bruce Ashford

God’s Big Picture - Vaughan Roberts

The Unfolding Mystery: Discovering Christ in the Old Testament - Ed Clowney

Knowing Scripture - RC Sproul

The Jesus Storybook Bible - Sally Lloyd-Jones

Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament - Christopher J.H. Wright

Show them Jesus - Jack Klumpenhower

Why should I trust the Bible?

The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? - FF Bruce

Who Chose the Gospels? - CE Hill

The Historical Reliability of the Gospels - Craig Blomberg

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses - Richard Bauckham

How God Became Jesus: The Real Origins of Belief in Jesus Divine Nature - A response to Bart D. Ehrman - Micheal F. Bird (and 4 others)

intro to theology

Union with Christ - Rankin Wilbourne

Delighting in the Trinity - Michael Reeves

Redemption Accomplished and Applied - John Murray

Creation Regained - Al Wolters

Systematic Theology - John Frame

Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be - Cornelius Plantinga

Surprised by Hope by - NT Wright

On the Incarnation - Athansius

The Church

The Church - Ed Clowney

The Church: The Gospel Made Visible - Mark Dever

Nine Marks of a Healthy Church - Mark Dever

Why We Love the Church - Kevin DeYoung & Ted Kluck

Life Together - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Why Church?: A basic Introduction - Scott Sunquist

Calling, Vocation, and work

Work: Its Purpose, Dignity, & Transformation - Dan Doriani

Every Good Endeavor - Tim Keller

Kingdom Calling - Amy Sherman

Work Matters - Tom Nelson

Culture-Making - Andy Crouch

Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power - Andy Crouch

The Seamless Life: A Tapestry of Love and Learning, Worship and Work - Steve Garber

Marriage, Sex, & Relationships

The Meaning of Marriage - Tim Keller

What Did You Expect? Redeeming the Realities of Marriage - Paul Tripp

Boundaries in Dating - Henry Cloud & John Townsend

What is a Family? - Edith Schaeffer

Relationships: A Mess Worth Making - Tim Lane and Paul Tripp

Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality - Nancy Pearcy

Washed & Waiting - Wesley Hill

Born Again This Way - Rachel Gilson

Is God Anti-Gay? - Sam Allberry

Surfing For God - John Micheal Cusick

Divine Sex: A compelling Vision for Christian Relationships in a Hyper Sexualized Age - Jonathan Grant

Questions & Doubts about Faith

Is God a Moral Monster? - Paul Copan

Making Sense of God - Tim Keller

Walking With God Through Pain and Suffering - Tim Keller

Warranted Christian Belief - Alvin Plantinga

The Case for Christ - Lee Strobel

One Minute Answers to Skeptics - Charlie Campbell

SHaring your faith with others

Telling a Better Story -Jonathan Chatraw

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert - Rosaria Butterfield

The Heart of Evangelism - Jerram Barrs

Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God - J.I. Packer

Evangelism as Exiles - Elliot Clarke

The Master Plan of Evangelism - Robert Coleman

Dealing with Hard Stuff

Changes that Heal - Henry Cloud

The Healing Path - Dan Allender

The Wounded Heart - Dan Allender

The Soul of Shame - Curt Thompson

Perfecting Ourselves to Death - Richard Winter

Anatomy of the Soul - Curt Thompson

Inside out - Larry Crab

Science & Faith

The Language of God - Francis Collins

Science & Faith: Friends or Foes? - C. John Collins

The Faith of a Physicist - John Polkinghorne

Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design ed. - Jim Stump

Mere Science & Christian Faith - Greg Cootsona

The Case for a Creator - Lee Strobel

Where the Conflict Really Lies - Alvin Plantinga

Race, Ethnicity, and Justice

The Color of Compromise - Jemar Tisby

Let Justice Roll Down - John Perkins

Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson

The Beautiful Community: Unity, Diversity, and the Church at its Best - Irwyn Ince

Generous Justice: How God’s Grace Makes Us Just - Tim Keller

The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander

On Social Justice - Basil the Great

Global Missions

Let the Nations be Glad - John Piper

Operation World - Jason Mandryk

Finish the Mission: Bringing the Gospel to the Unreached & Unengaged by John Piper & David Mathis

Through Gates of Splendor - Elisabeth Elliott

Live Life on Purpose - Claude Hickman

The Arts

Echoes of Eden -Jerram Barrs

Art for God’s Sake - Phil Ryken

The Mind of the Maker - Dorothy Sayers

For the Beauty of the Church: Casting a Vision for the Arts ed. - W. David O. Taylor 

Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life - Makoto Fujimura

The Creative Gift - Hans Rookmaker

On Fairy Stories - J.R.R. Tolkien 

Poetry

The Divine Comedy - Dante

The Holy Sonnets - John Donne

The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Works of T.S. Elliot

The Works of W.H. Auden

The Works of George Herbert

God’s Silence - Franz Wright

The Peace of the Wild Things - Wendell Berry

fiction

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Complete Fairy Stories - George McDonald

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

The Space Trilogy - C.S. Lewis

Lord Peter Whimsey Series - Dorathy Sayers

Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling

The Complete Stories - Flannery O’Connor

Gilead Series- Marylinne Robinson

Caring for Creation

Stewards of Eden: What Scripture Says About the Environment and Why it Matters - Sandra Richter

Creation Care - Douglas and Jonathan Moo

Pollution and the Death of Man - Francis Schaeffer

spiritual biography

God’s Smuggler - Brother Andrew

The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom

Cheer Up! The Life and Ministry of Jack Miller - Micheal Graham

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners - John Bunyan

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Biography - Eberhard Bethge

Surprised By Joy - C.S. Lewis

Guy Girl , Good God: The Story of Who I was and Who God has always been - Jackie Hill Perry

Tortured For Christ - Richard Wurmbrand

A Chance to Die - Elizabeth Elliot

Here I Stand - Roland Bainton