Book Recommendations

Understanding the Bible

• God’s Big Picture – Vaughan Roberts
  
• Gospel and Kingdom – Goldsworthy
  
• New Bible Dictionary
  
• New Bible Commentary (4th Edition)

For more recommendations on specific commentaries or other study tools for different books of the Bible please speak to a member of the Pastoral Staff.

The Christian Life
Materials to help you in your personal devotions

• For the Love of God – Don Carson
  
• Daily Reading Bible
  

Books on Marriage

• One Flesh – Amelia and Greg Clarke
  
• The Meaning of Marriage – Tim Keller
  

Books on Money and Generosity

• Beyond Greed – Brian Rosner
  
• Neither Poverty nor Riches – Craig Blomberg (*)
  

Books on Prayer

• A Call to Spiritual Reformation
  

Books on Social Issues

• New Issues facing Christians Today – John Stott
  

Books on being a Godly Man

• Disciplines of a Godly Man – Kent Hughes
  

Books on Evangelism

• Promoting the Gospel – John Dickson
  

General

• The Discipline of Grace – Jerry Bridges
  
• Cost of Discipleship – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  

Theology
General Overviews

• Milne – Know the Truth
  
• Packer – Concise Theology
  

Books about the future

• Whatever happened to hell – John Blanchard
  
• The Bible and the Future – Anthony Hoekema (*)
  

Books about the nature and function of the Church

• The Living Church – John Stott 
  

Books about God

• Knowing God – Packer 
  
• Trusting God – Bridges 
  

Books about the Person and Work of the Holy Spirit

• Keep in step with the Spirit – Packer
  
• Showing the Spirit – DA Carson
  

Books about the Person and Work of Jesus

• The Cross of Christ – John Stott 
  

Books about Salvation

• Transforming Grace – Jerry Bridges
  

Books about humanity

• Created in God’s Image – Anthony Hoekema (*)
  

Big Questions and Reasons for Believing
General

• But is it real?  Amy Orr-Ewing
  
• More than a carpenter – Josh McDowell
  
• Reason for God – Keller
  
• Gunning for God – John Lennox
  

Science and Christianity

• Unnatural Enemies – Kirsten Birkett
  

Suffering

• If I were God I’d end all the pain – Dickson
  
• How long O Lord? – Carson
  

Is the Bible historically reliable? 

• The Christ Files – John Dickson
  
• Is the NT history – Paul Barnett
  
• The truth about Jesus – Paul Barnett
  
• Historical Reliability of the Gospels – Craig Blomberg (*)
  

Church History

• Church history in plain language – Shelley
  
• Turning Points – Mark Noll
  

Global Mission 

• Let the nations be glad – Piper
  
• Beyond Borders – Bruce Dipple
  

Other Religions

• A spectators guide to world religions - Dickson
  

Introduction to Christianity

• Simply Christianity – John Dickson
  

Homosexuality

• What some of you were - Keane
  
• Straight and narrow? Compassion and clarity in the homosexual debate – Schmidt (*)
  

Youth (and Children)

• Everything you want to know about Jesus – Downey and Shaw
  
• The Experiment – Todd Temple
  
• Hell of a life – Dickson
  
• Case of the Empty Tomb – Kel Richards
  
• The Jesus Storybook Bible
  
• Scott Petty’s stuff
  
• Sneaking Suspicion and Hanging in There
  
• Everything you want to know about the Bible – Downey and Shaw