Thursday, May 30, 2013

HAPPY SUMMER '13! Stay in the WORD & GOOD READING HELPS then list these books ...


Dr. Al’s SUMMER OF 13 READING LIST

Classics You Should’ve read by now:

Mere Christianity, C S Lewis.                            Biographies!:
Fenelon.                                                             Jonathan Edwards, a Life, by Marsden.
Divine Conspiracy, Dallas Willard.                   Bonhoeffer, by Eric Metaxas.
The Holiness of God, R C Sproul.                     Through Gates of Splendor, E Elliot.
Desiring God, John Piper.                                 David Brainerd’s Diary.
The Cost of Discipleship, Bonhoeffer.              A Chance to Die, by E Elliot.
 (Amy Carmichael)
Pursuit of God, Pursuit of Man, Tozer.

Great Dead Guys reading:
Religious Affections, Jonathan Edwards.            New & of interest
Practical Christianity, by Wilberforce               CS Lewis bio by McGrath
Confessions, of St Augustine.                              The intolerance of Tolerance by DA Carson
The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe.
Modern & moving (for 20 something’s, too)
Donald Miller (anything, esp. Blue Like Jazz)
Reaching for the Invisible God, by Yancey.
The Jesus I Never Knew, by Yancey. 

                              Alison’s personal Faves:
                       The Pleasures of God
                                        David Wells, Losing Our Virtue.
                        God in the Wasteland.
                                   Valley of Vision (Ed Bennett)
                                               Anything by Mark Noll (Historian) 

Staples for your Head’s Library!
Tim Keller (anything!) esp. The King’s Cross
Every Good Endeavor
** A Reason for God
Surprised by Hope, by N T Wright. 
Apologetics/Outreach/Inquiry
Ravi Zacharias (anything) 
D A Carson  Mark Devere 
 The Supremacy of God in the Postmodern

Devotionals World, J Piper.
31 days of prayer/or praise. Ruth Myers
My Utmost For His Highest, by Oswald Chambers.
The Godward Life, by Piper.
Phyllis Tickle: Liturgical Devos...
Valley of Vision (Ed: Bennett)
Prayers for Prodigals, by James Banks.

GET READING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!