Good Books

I love books. These are what I would consider must-have, must-read books. Not only do I benefit from them , but I return to them again and again. I’ll keep adding categories and books as they come to mind.

Bible Study

• Gordon Fee/Doug Stuart – How to Read the Bible for All its Worth
• Gordon Fee/Doug Stuart – How to Read the Bible Book-by-Book

Biographies

• Adoniram Judson – To the Golden Shore
• J. Gresham Machen – J. Gresham Machen: A Guided Tour of His Life and Thought
• D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The First Forty Years, 1899-1939; D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The Fight of Faith, 1939-1981.
  
• John Newton – John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace
• John Paton – John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides
• Nate Saint – Jungle Pilot

Children

• Gonn & Hal Iggulden – The Dangerous Book for Boys
• Sally Lloyd-Jones & Jago – The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name

Church/Pastoring

• Thabiti Anyabwile – What is a Healthy Church Member?
• Richard Baxter – The Reformed Pastor
• Tim Chester & Steve Timmis – Total Church: A Radical Reshaping Around Gospel and Community
• Mark Dever – The Deliberate Church
• Mark Dever – Nine Marks of a Healthy Church
• C. John Miller – Outgrowing the Ingrown Church
• John Piper – Brothers, We Are Not Professionals
• Charles Spurgeon – Lectures to My Students

Church & Culture

• DeYoung, Kevin and Ted Kluck – Why We’re Not Emergent: By Two Guys Who Should Be
• David Wells – Above All Earthly Pow’rs: Christ in a Postmodern World
• Tim Keller – The Reason for God: Belief In An Age of Skepticism

Church Planting

• Redeemer Presbyterian Church – Church Planter Manual
  

Counseling

• Timothy Lane & Paul David Tripp – How People Change
• David Powlison – Power Encounters: Reclaiming Spiritual Warfare
• David Powlison – Seeing with New Eyes: Counseling and the Human Condition Through the Lens of Scripture
• David Powlison – Speaking the Truth in Love: Counseling in Community

Evangelism

• D. A. Carson, ed. – Telling the Truth
• Mark Dever – The Gospel & Personal Evangelism
• J. Mack Stiles – Speaking of Jesus
• Will Metzger – Tell the Truth: The Whole Gospel to the Whole Person by Whole People

Global Issues

• Ishmael Beah – A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
• P.W. Singer – Children at War
  

Marriage & Family

• Andreas Kostenberger – God, Family, and Marriage
• John Younts – Everyday Talk: Talking Freely and Naturally about God with Your Children
  

Men & Women

• Wayne Grudem – Evangelical Feminism: A New Path to Liberalism?
• Andreas Kostenberger & Thomas Schreiner, eds. – Women in the Church: An Analysis and Application of 1 Timothy 2:9-15
  

Missions

• David Livermore – Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence
• John Piper – Let the Nations Be Glad: The Sovereignty of God in Missions
  

Poetry

• G.K. Chesterton – The Works of G.K. Chesterton
• George Herbert – The Complete English Poems
• Gerard Manley Hopkins – The Major Works

Politics

• J. Budziszewski – The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man

Prayer

• Arthur Bennett – The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions

Theology

• Robert Culver – Systematic Theology: Biblical and Historical
• Sinclair Ferguson – The Christian Life: A Doctrinal Introduction
• Wayne Grudem – Systematic Theology
• John Murray – Redemption, Accomplished and Applied
• R. C. Sproul – What is Reformed Theology? Understanding the Basics