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