Recommended Reading

New Christians

• Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die – John Piper
• The Knowledge of the Holy – A. W. Tozer
• Trusting God – Jerry Bridges

Christian Living

• A Gospel Primer for Christians – Milton Vincent
• Relationships: A Mess Worth Making – Timothy Lane and Paul Tripp
• Respectable Sins – Jerry Bridges
• Ten Questions To Diagnose Your Spiritual Health – Donald Whitney
• The Godly Man’s Picture – Thomas Watson
• The Gospel According to Jesus – John MacArthur
• The Enemy Within – Kris Lundgaard
• The Vanishing Conscience – John MacArthur

Theology

• A Body of Divinity – Thomas Watson
• God’s Greater Glory – Bruce Ware
• Systematic Theology – Robert Duncan Culver
• Systematic Theology – Wayne Grudem (or thinner version here)
• The Knowledge of the Holy – A. W. Tozer

Christology

• The Man Christ Jesus – Bruce Ware

Discipleship

• One to One Bible Reading – David Helm
• Discipling – Mark Dever

Biblical Counseling

• Blame It on the Brain – Edward Welch
• Competent to Counsel – Jay Adams
• Depression: Looking Up from the Stubborn Darkness – Ed Welch
• From Grief to Glory – James W. Bruce III
• Good Mood, Bad Mood – Charles Hodges
• How People Change – Timothy Lane and Paul Tripp
• Out of the Blues – Wayne Mack
• Speaking Truth in Love – David Powlison
• The Biblical Counseling Movement After Adams – Heath Lambert
• Trusting God – Jerry Bridges

Men

• Disciplines of a Godly Man – R. Kent Hughes
• The Exemplary Husband – Stuart Scott

Women

• The Excellent Wife – Martha Peace

Marriage and Family

• God, Marriage, and Family – Andreas Köstenberger
• Your Family God’s Way – Wayne Mack

Parenting

• Big Truths for Young Hearts – Bruce Ware
• Get Outta My Face! – Rick Horne
• Shepherding a Child’s Heart – Tedd Tripp

Church Issues

• Life in the Father’s House – Wayne Mack and Dave Swavely
• Nine Marks of a Healthy Church – Mark Dever
• Sojourners and Strangers – Gregg Allison
• What Is a Healthy Church Member? – Thabiti Anyabwile
• When the Church Was a Family – Joseph Hellerman

Worship

• Give Praise to God – edited by Phillip Graham Ryken

Prayer

• A Way to Pray – Matthew Henry (edited by O. Palmer Robertson)
• Praying the Bible – Donald Whitney
• The Valley of Vision – Arthur Bennett

Pastoral Ministry

• Lectures to My Students – Charles Spurgeon
• Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome – R. Kent Hughes
• Preaching and Preachers – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
• Spiritual Leadership – J. Oswald Sanders

Apologetics/Evangelism

• Always Ready – Greg Bahnsen
• The Defense of the Faith – Cornelius Van Til

Eschatology

• Are You Ready for the End of Time – JC Ryle
• Future Israel – Barry Horner
• Progressive Dispensationalism – Craig Blaising and Darrell Bock
• The Messianic Hope – Michael Rydelink
• Christ’s Prophetic Plans – John MacArthur and Richard Mayhue