Suggested Reading
Apologetics
John Frame: Apologetics to the Glory of God
Leslie Newbigin: Proper Confidence
Francis Schaeffer: The God Who Is There
J.P. Moreland, Editor: Jesus Under Fire
J.P. Moreland: Scaling The Secular City
Sproul, Gerstner, Lindsley: Classical Apologetics
Norman Geisler: Christian Apologetics
Cornelius Van Til: The Defense of the Faith
C.S. Lewis: Mere Christianity
Timothy Keller: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
Biography
Praying Hyde
Alister McGrath: A Life of John Calvin
George Whitfield
Elisabeth Elliot: The Gates of Splendor
Corrie Ten Boom: The Hiding Place
Amy Carmichael
Alister McGrath: Luther's Theology of the Cross
John Piper: The Legacy of Sovereign Joy
Haralan Popov: Tortured For His Faith
Wurmbrand: Tortured For Christ
John Bury: The Life of St. Patrick and His Place In History
Ian Murray: Revival & Revivalism
Ian Murray: The Forgotten Spurgeon
Christian Life
G.K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Cost of Discipleship
Augustine: Confessions
John Bunyan: Pilgrims Progress
Max Picard: The Flight From God
John Piper: Desiring God and The Pleasures of God
Eugene Peterson: A Long Obedience In The Same Direction
Torrance: Worship, Community and the Triune God of Grace
Larry Crabb: Finding God
Gordon McDonald: Ordering Your Private World
Thomas Brooks: Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices
William Gurnall: Spiritual Armor
C.J. Mahaney (ed.), Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World
Church Government
Alexander Strauch: Biblical Eldership
Gene Getz: Elders and Leaders
Church History
Justos Gonzalez: The Story of Christianity 2 Volumes
Thomas Cahill: How the Irish Saved Civilization
Bruce Shelley: Church History in Plain Language
Alister McGrath: The History of Christian Thought
Louis Berkhoff: History of Church Doctrine
Church Planting
Ed Stetzer: Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age
Aubrey Malphurs: Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century
Ralph Moore: Starting a New Church
Mark Driscoll: Confessions of a Reformission Reverend
Courtship, Marriage, and Family
Wayne Grudem and John Piper: Recovering Biblical Womanhood and Manhood
Alexander Strauch: Equal Yet Different
Leon L. Podles: The Church Impotent – The Feminization of Christianity
Larry Crabb: The Silence of Adam
Larry Crabb: Men & Women – Enjoying the Difference
Dan Doriani: The Life of a God-Made Man
John Ensor: Doing Things Right in Matters of the Heart
Edward Welch: Addictions
Mark Driscoll: Porn Again Christian
Douglas Jones: Fidelity (Men)
Linda Dillow: Intimate Issues (Women)
Douglas Wilson: The Federal Husband (Men)
Douglas Wilson: Fidelity
Andreas J. Kostenberger: God, Marriage and Family
Joseph and Linda Dillow and Peter and Lorraine Pintus: Intimacy Ignited
Ted Tripp: Shepherding A Child's Heart
Douglas Wilson: Future Men
Cross Cultural Mission
Kehrein and Washington: Breaking Down the Walls
Tsering Markhu: Sharing Christ in a Tibetan Buddhist World
John Perkins: Restoring At Risk Communities
Cultural Missiology
Leslie Newbigin: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
George Hunsberger: The Church Between Gospel and Culture
The Christian Mission and Modern Culture, 6 Authors
Darrell Guder: The Missional Church
George Hunter: The Celtic Way of Evangelism
John Piper: Let the Nations Be Glad
Aubrerg Malphus: Planting Growing Churches
Cultural Postmodernism
Stanley Grenz: A Primer On Postmodernism,
Stanley Hauerwas, Wil Willomon: Resident Aliens
Zygmaunt Baumann: Postmodernity and its Discontents
Bruce Thiselton: Interpreting God and the Postmodern Self
Gene Veith: Postmodern Times
Devotional Reading
Thomas Merton: Bread In The Wilderness
A.W. Tozer: Pursuit of Holiness
Thomas a Kempis: The Imitation of Christ
Brother Lawrence: Practicing the Presence of God
Steven Rabey: In the House of Memory: Ancient Celtic Wisdom for Everyday
St. Theresa of Avila: The Interior Castle
St. John of the Cross: The Dark Night of the Soul
Thomas Merton: The Desert Fathers
Peter Kreeft: Three Philosophies of Life
Hermenutics and Bible Study
Robert Mullholland: Shaped By The Word (first half only)
Daniel Doriani: Getting the Message
Kevin Vanhoozer: Is There Meaning In the Text?
F.F. Bruce: The Canon
Leadership
Bobby Clinton: Making of a Leader
J.O. Sanders: Spiritual Leadership (a classic!)
Henry Blackaby & Richard Blackaby: Spiritual Leadership
Mission/Gospel
Lesslie Newbign: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society and/or The Open Secret
Darrell Guder: Missional Church
Frost and Hirsch: The Shaping of Things to Come
George Hunsburger: The Church Between Gospel and Culture
George Hunter: The Celtic Way of Evangelism
Mark Driscoll: The Radical Reformission
Pastoral Care and Counseling
John Owen: The Reformed Pastor
Jay Adams: Competent to Counsel
Eugene Peterson: The Contemplative Pastor
Eugene Peterson: Five Smooth Stones For Pastoral Work
Eugene Peterson: Working the Angles
John McArthur: Pastoral Ministry
Gregory The Great: Pastoral Care
Larry Crabb: Connecting
John Piper: Brothers, We are Not Professionals!
Prayer
Hans Urs Von Balthasar: Prayer
W. Bingham Hunter: The God Who Hears
Author Unknown: The Way of A Pilgrim
Charles Spurgeon: The Power of Christ's Prayer Life
E.M. Bounds: The Essentials of Prayer and Power Through Prayer
J. Oswald Sanders: Power Prayer Unlimited
Martin Luther: A Simple Way to Pray
Andrew Murray: The Ministry of Intercessory Prayer
Preaching
Bruce Bickel: Light and Heat: The Puritan View of the Pulpit
Bryan Chapell: Christ Centered Preaching
James Braga: Preparing Bible Messages
Charles Campbell: Preaching Jesus
William Perkins: The Art of Prophesying
Spiritual Disciplines
Richard Foster: Celebration of Discipline
Don Whitney: Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
Dallas Willard: The Divine Conspiracy or Spirit of the Disciplines
St. Ignatius of Loyola: Spiritual Exercises
Theology
Wayne Grudem: Systematic Theology
Wayne Grudem: Bible Doctrine (a little easier to read through)
Alister McGrath: An Introduction to Christian Theology
Millard Erickson: Christian Theology
RC Sproul: Chosen by God
RC Sproul: The Holiness of God
RC Sproul: What is Reformed Theology?
John Frame: Salvation Belongs to the Lord
J.I. Packer: Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God
-Ancient-
Athanasius: On the Incarnation,
Philokalia, 3 Volumes
Augustine: City of God
Harold Braun: Heresies
-Middle Ages-
Peter Kreeft: Summa of the Summa:The Essential Philosphical Passages of St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica Edited and Explained for Beginners
Douglas Jones: Angels In The Architecture
-The Early Modern World-
Peter Kreeft: Christianity For Modern Pagans, Peter Kreeft on The Pensees (Pascal)
Martin Luther: Romans
Martin Luther: Lectures on Galatians
John Calvin: The Institutes
Stephen Charnock: The Existence and Attributes of God
-18th Century-
Jonathan Edwards: Religious Affections
John Owen: The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
Jonathan Edwards: Freedom of the Will
A.H. Strong: Systematic Theology
Soren Kierkegaard: Edifying Discourses
John Owen: The Mortification of Sin
-20th Century-
Stanley Grenz: 20th Century Theology
Alister McGrath: Christian Theology and Introduction
Douglas Wilson: Easy Chairs, Hard Words
Geerhardus Vos: Biblical Theology
You and Your Family
Sally Lloyd-Jones: The Jesus Storybook Bible – Every Story Whispers His Name
James MacDonald: God Wrote a Book
Tremper Longman III: Reading the Bible with Heart and Mind