Recommended Reading
God's Word: Only a Prayer Meeting
Charles Spurgeon
40 informal addresses Spurgeon gave during the midweek prayer meetings.
The Holiness of God
R.C. Sproul
Central to God’s character is the quality of holiness. Yet most people struggle to define what God’s holiness precisely is. Many preachers today avoid the topic altogether because people don’t quite know what to do with words like “awe” or “fear.”
Holiness
J.C. Ryle
Few books on the subject of Holiness have had the influence of this work by J. C. Ryle. It has proved life-changing for many who have read it and is rightly recommended reading for all Christians. Written in Ryle’s characteristic style, each chapter focuses on a key theme related to a believer’s sanctification, and the reader is not permitted to avoid the vital necessity of a real relationship with God as opposed to the cold formality of so many. Later chapters illustrate principles by means of biblical examples including those that function as solemn warnings to us. The lightweight nature of so much that is written today on this theme is exposed by such writing as this.
Suffering is Never for Nothing
Elisabeth Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot knows suffering. She and her husband, Jim, moved into an unreached village, only for Jim to lose his life soon after arriving.
This never-before-published message is Elisabeth Elliot's last teaching on suffering, a subject with which she was deeply acquainted. In her final book, Elliot describes how it is often through the deepest suffering that God teaches us the deepest lessons. As we trust Him through our trials, we come to a greater affirmation of His love and sovereignty.
Shepherding a Child's Heart
Tedd Tripp
Shepherding a Child's Heart is about how to speak to the heart of your child. The things your child does and says flow from the heart. Luke 6:45 puts it this way: "...out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks." Written for parents with children of any age, this insightful book provides perspectives and procedures for shepherding your child's heart into the paths of life.
One with Christ
Marcus Johnson
Regeneration, justification, sanctification. These are the primary words that come to mind when talking about the theology of salvation. However, the Bible teaches that each of these concepts is firmly rooted in something more foundational: our union with Christ. In this accessible book, Johnson introduces us to this neglected doctrine, arguing that it is the dominant organizing concept for salvation in the New Testament. In eight thought-provoking chapters, Johnson shows how a believer’s position “in Christ” is the lens through which other all other facets of salvation should be understood. Interacting extensively with the biblical text and drawing on lessons from church history, Johnson presents a compelling case for the unique importance of this beautiful, biblical doctrine.