April 18th, 2007

Recommended Reading

Worldview

Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview by Albert Wolters

 Engaging God’s World: a Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living by Cornelius Plantinga

 Apologetics

The Reason for God by Timothy Keller

 Reason for the Hope Within by Michael J. Murray 

Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense by N. T. Wright 

Evil and the Justice of God by N. T. Wright 

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

 Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture by Lesslie Newbiggin

 The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society by Lesslie Newbiggin 

Theology

Confessions St. Augustine

 Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin

Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther

Freedom of the Will by Jonathan Edwards 

Our Reasonable Faith by Herman Bavinck

Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport by Richard Mauw

Concise Theology by J. I. Packer

Reformational Theology Gordon Spykman 

Not the Way its Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin by Cornelius Plantinga 

Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation by Miroslav Volf 

Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church by N. T. Wright 

Biblical Theology 

According to Plan: The Unfolding Revelation of God in the Bible by Graeme Goldsworthy 

The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative by Christopher Wright 

The Moral Vision of the New Testament: a Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics by Richard Hays 

Old Testament Ethics for the People of God  by Christopher Wright 

Christian Growth

Real Sex: The Naked Truth About Chastity by Lauren Winner 

What’s So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey

The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey 

The Call by Os Guinness 

Spiritual Disciples for the Christian Life by Donald S. Whitney 

True Spirituality by Francis Schaeffer 

Renewal as a Way of Life: a Guidebook for Spiritual Growth by Richard Lovelace

Growing in Christ J. I. Packer 

Evangelism 

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

Evangelism Through the Local Church by Michael Green 

The Heart of Evangelism by Jerram Barrs