Recommended Reading List

PASTOR STEVE'S ESSENTIAL READING LIST FOR THE REFORMED CHRISTIAN

Reading Difficulty Ratings:

Elementary

Challenging

Meaty

Scholarly

SANCTIFICATION (Growing in your love for Christ)

1. Pilgrims Progress; John Bunyan
2. Seeking the face of God; Gary Thomas


3. Desiring God; John Piper 
4. John Owen on the Christian Life; Sinclair Ferguson 

PRAYER (Intimacy with God)

1. The Valley of Vision; Arthur Bennet (A collection of Puritan Prayers)
2. Gospel Incense; Thomas Cobbet (Former Pastor in Lynn Mass in the 1600’s)

MARRIAGE (The picture of Christ’s love)

1. The Excellent Wife; Martha Peace
2. The Exemplary Husband; Stuart Scott

RAISING KIDS (Sharing our life in Christ)

1. Age of Opportunity; David Trip
2. Parenting Adolescents; Kevin Huggins

DISAPPOINTMENT (Losing your view of God)

1. Shattered Dreams; Larry Crabb
2. The Crook in the Lot; Thomas Boston
3. The Bruised Reed; Richard Sibbes

ELECTION (The beginning of salvation)

1. Chosen by God; R.C Sproul
2. The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination; Lorraine Boettner

BAPTISM (The public display of personal faith)

1. Infant Baptism and the Covenant of Grace; Paul K. Jewett
2. Biblical Baptism; Samuel Waldron
3. Should Babies be Baptized; T.E. Watson

DOCTRINE (The skeleton of the church)

1. Bite Size Theology; Peter Jeffery
2. A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith; Robert Reymond
   (Dr. Reymond upholds Reformed distinctive, but is not Reformed Baptist.)

HERMENEUTICS (Reading God’s word correctly)

1. Knowing Scripture; R.C. Sproul
2. Principles of Biblical Interpretation; Louis Berkof

APOLOGETICS (Sharing your faith

1. The Defense of the Faith; Cornelius Van Til
2. Every Thought Captive; Richard Pratt (A simpler reading of Van Til)
3. The Case for Christ; Lee Strobel (Helpful information)

CHURCH LIFE IN POSTMODERN TIMES (How we are affected by this generation)

1. No Place for Truth; David Wells
2. God in a Wasteland; David Wells
3. Post-Modern Times; Edward Veith

ESCHATOLOGY

1. The New International Greek Testament Commentary; G.K.Beale
   (unmatched introductory material)
2. More than Conquerors; William Hendrickson