OK, so I LOVE to read books. Good solid books. You should to. But read books about GOD, not books about YOU. Don’t read “7 Secrets to Being More Happy/Healthy/Thin books” — read Biblically accurate books about who God is.
Here is my current list and my suggestions…I hope they bless you as much as they have blessed me.
Books I’m Reading Now:
- ESV Study Bible – I am reading thru this chronologically – and I intend to every year!
- Valley of Vision – Amazing collection of Puritan prayers – read each day before going to the Word!
- Music and Ministry – A Biblical Counterpoint - Calvin M. Johansson
Books you really need to read list:
Theology/Christian
Living:
- God’s Greater Glory – Bruce Ware
- Father, Son, Holy Spirit – Bruce Ware
- Scripture Alone – James White
- Systematic Theology – Grudem
- Doctrine of God, Frame
- Doctrine – What Christians Should Believe – Driscoll/Breshears
- Desiring God – Piper
- Future Grace – Piper
- Finally Alive – Piper
- When I Don’t Desire God – Piper
- Fifty Reasons Jesus Came to Die – Piper
- Humility – True Greatness – Mahaney
- Living the Cross Centered Life -Mahaney
- The Attributes of God – Pink
- The Pursuit of God – Tozer
- Knowing God – Packer
- Gospel Primer for Christians – Vincent
- Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life – Whitney
- Nine Marks of a Healthy Church -Dever
- The Case for Christ – Strobel
- Mere Christianity – Lewis
- Age of Opportunity – Paul David Tripp – perhaps the best book on parenting teens!
- Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God – Packer
- Crazy Love – Francis Chan
- Radical – David Platt
- The Discipline of Grace – Jerry Bridges
- Respectable Sins – Jerry Bridges
- Pursuit of Holiness – Jerry Bridges
- The Gospel for Real Life – Jerry Bridges
- Celebration of Discipline – Richard Foster
- Spirit of the Disciplines- Dallas Willard
- Growing True Disciples – Barna
- Counterfeit Gods – Timothy Keller
- Your Best Life Now – Osteen (KIDDING! Just making sure you were still reading….)
Counseling:
- Competent to Counsel, Jay Adams
- Christian Counselor’s Manual, Jay Adams
- Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands, Paul David Tripp
- Addictions: A Banquet in the Grave – Great book about the theology behind addictions
- Seeing with New Eyes, David Powilson
Biography:
- Spurgeon, Arnold Dalimore
- CH Spurgeon on Leadership, Steve Miller
- Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret, Howard and Geraldine Taylor
Worship:
- Worship Matters – Kauflin
- Whatever Happened to Worship – Tozer
- Worship By the Book -Carson
- Christ Centered Worship – Letting the Gospel Shape Our Practice -Chapell
- Who Stole My Church – Gordon MacDonald
Amazon Wish List of books I want to read soon… yeah, it’s a little outta control!
