Library Recommendations

Bible

  • NASB Zondervan Study Bible 
  • 30 Days to Understanding the Bible by Max Anders

True Success

  • The 12 Essentials of Godly Success by Tommy Nelson

Biographies

  • Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones by Iain Murray
  • William Carey by S. Pearce Carey
  • Paul by John Pollock
  • George Whitfield by John Pollock
  • No Man Knows My History by Fawn M. Brodie

The Church

  • What is a Healthy Church? by Mark Dever
  • The Living Church by John Stott
  • Nine Marks of a Healthy Church 3rd Edition by Mark Dever
  • The Church: The Gospel Made Visible by Mark Dever

The Home

  • Divine Design by John Macarthur
  • Trained in the Fear of God: Family Ministry in Theological, Historical, and Practical Perspective by Randy Stinson and Timothy Paul Jones
  • God’s Design for Man and Woman: A Biblical-Theological Survey by Andreas J. Köstenberger and Margaret Elizabeth Köstenberger 
  • Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism by Wayne Grudem and John Piper
  • What’s the Difference?: Manhood and Womanhood Defined According to the Bible by John Piper 

The Culture

  • Understanding the Culture by Jeff Myers
  • Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes by Nancy Pearcey
  • Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity by Nancy Pearcy
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
  • Saving Leonardo by Nancy Pearcey

The Workplace

  • The Servant by James Hunter
  • God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life by Veith Jr., Gene Edward
  • Work and Our Labor in the Lord (Short Studies in Biblical Theology) by Hamilton Jr., James

Life Leadership

  • Living Forward by Michael Hyatt & Daniel Harkavy
  • Habits of Grace by David Mathis
  • What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done by Matthew Aaron Perman
  • Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God’s Agenda by Henry T. Blackaby and Richard Blackaby

Creation Care

  • Creation Care by Douglas Moo
  • Not Home Yet: How the Renewal of the Earth Fits into God’s Plan for the World by Ian K. Smith
  • The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry
  • The Total Outdoorsman Manual by Field & Stream

Craftsmanship

  • Art and the Bible by Francis A. Schaeffer
  • Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection by Robert F. Capon
  • How to Whittle: 25 Beautiful Projects to Carve by Hand by Josh Nava

Self Leadership

  • A Gospel Primer for Christians by Milton Vincent
  • Every Body Matters by Gary Thomas
  • When People Are Big and God is Small by Edward T. Welch
  • Spiritual Leadership by J. Oswald Sanders
  • Good to Great by Jim Collins
  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey

Worldview

  • The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation by Rod Dreher
  • Making Sense of Your World: A Biblical Worldview 2nd Edition by W. Gary Phillips, William E. Brown, and John Stonestreet
  • What’s Your Worldview?: An Interactive Approach to Life’s Big Questions by James N. Anderson
  • Christian Worldview: A Student’s Guide (Reclaiming the Christian Intellectual Tradition) by Philip Graham Ryken 
  • The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog 5th Edition by James W. Sire

Apologetics

  • Know Why You Believe by Paul E. Little
  • The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller
  • Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

Church History

  • Church History in Plain Language by Bruce Shelley
  • The Story of Christianity, Volume 1 and 2 by Justo Gonzalez

Systematic Theology

  • Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem
  • Biblical Doctrine: A Systematic Summary of Bible Truth by John MacArthur

Biblical Theology

  • Biblical Theology: How the Church Faithfully Teaches the Gospel by Nick Roark and Robert Cline
  • The Drama of Scripture: Finding Our Place in the Biblical Story 2nd Edition by Craig G. Bartholomew and Michael W. Goheen 
  • What Is Biblical Theology?: A Guide to the Bible’s Story, Symbolism, and Patterns by James Hamilton Jr.
  • Biblical Theology in the Life of the Church: A Guide for Ministry by Michael Lawrence

Missions

  • Let the Nations be Glad by John Piper
  • From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya: A Biographical History of Christian Missions by Ruth Tucker
  • Cross-Cultural Servanthood by Duane Elmer
  • The Insanity of God by Nik Ripken 

Prayer

  • Diary of Private Prayer by John Baillie
  • A Way to Pray by O. Palmer Robertson
  • The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence

Evangelism

  • Lost Letters of Pergamum by Bruce W. Longenecker
  • Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Coleman
  • The Soul Winner by Charles Spurgeon

Devotionals

  • Morning and Evening by Charles H Spurgeon
  • Voices From The Past – Puritan Devotional Readings by Richard Rushing
  • Humility by Andrew Murray

Classics

  • Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
  • The Life of God in the Soul of Man by Henry Scougal
  • Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer
  • Bendigo Shafter by Louis L’Amour
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  • The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkin
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • 1984 by George Orwell