Getting the Most out of Scripture
Devotional Helps
Theology and Biblical Studies
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If you only read one, make it:
Read the Bible for Life: Your Guide to Understanding and Living the Bible
George H. Guthrie
Getting the Most out of Scripture
The Drama of Scripture: Finding Your Place in the Biblical Story
Craig Bartholomew and Michael Goheen
Journey into God’s Word: Your Guide to Understanding and Applying the Bible
J. Scott Duvall and J. Daniel Hays
Read the Bible for Life: Your Guide to Understanding and Living the Bible
George H. Guthrie
Renewing Your Mind in a Secular World
edited by John Woodbridge
Devotional Helps
For the Love of God: A Daily Companion for Discovering the Riches of God’s Word, 2 vol.
D.A. Carson
My Utmost for His Highest
Oswald Chambers
Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions
edited by Arthur G. Bennett
Theology and Biblical Studies
Biblical Reference Helps
An Introduction to the Old Testament, 2nd ed.
Tremper Longman III and Raymond Dillard
An Introduction to the New Testament, 2nd ed.
D.A. Carson and Doug Moo
Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible
edited by Kevin Vanhoozer
Exegetical Fallacies, 2nd ed.
D.A. Carson
Zondervan Handbook to the Bible
David and Pat Alexander
Comprehensive systematic theologies
Systematic Theology
Wayne Grudem
Christian Theology
Millard Erickson
Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, 2nd ed.
Walter E. Elwell
God
Knowing God
J.I. Packer
The Knowledge of the Holy
A.W. Tozer
No One Like Him: The Doctrine of God
John S. Feinberg
Scripture
The Heresy of Orthodoxy: How Contemporary Culture’s Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity
Andreas J. Kostenberger and Michael J. Kruger
The Historical Reliability of the Gospels
Craig Blomberg
Honoring the Written Word of God: Collected Shorter Writings of J.I. Packer
J.I. Packer
The Canon of Scripture
F.F. Bruce
Humanity and Creation
Three Views on Creation and Evolution
edited by J.P. Moreland and John Mark Reynolds
Created in God’s Image
Anthony Hoekma
Sin
Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate
Jerry Bridges
Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin
Cornelius Plantinga
Overcoming Sin and Temptation
John Owen (edited by Kelly Kapic and Justin Taylor)
Jesus Christ
King’s Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus
Tim Keller
The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is
N.T. Wright
Jesus Manifesto: Restoring the Supremacy and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ
Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola
Pauline Christology: An Exegetical-Theological Study
Gordon Fee
The Holy Spirit
He Who Gives Life: A Theology of the Holy Spirit
Graham Cole and John Feinberg
Forgotten God
Francis Chan
Keep in Step with the Spirit
J.I. Packer
Church
The Living Church: Convictions of a Lifelong Pastor
John Stott
Vintage Church: Timeless Truths and Timely Methods
Mark Driscoll and Gary Breshears
Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional
Jim Belcher
Church: An Insider’s Look at How We Do It
John Stackhouse
Salvation
The Cross and Salvation
Bruce Demarest and John Feinberg
Salvation Belongs to Our Lord
Christopher J.H. Wright
Salvation to the Ends of the Earth: A Biblical Theology of Mission
Andreas Kostenberger
The Gospel
Recovering the Real Lost Gospel: Reclaiming the Gospel as Good News
Darrell Bock
What is the Gospel?
Greg Gilbert
This We Believe: The Good News of Jesus Christ for the World
John N. Akers, John H. Armstrong, John D. Woodbridge
The Gospel for Real Life: Turn to the Liberating Power of the Cross…Every Day
Jerry Bridges
Living the Cross-Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing
C.J. Mahaney
Evil and Suffering
How Long, O Lord? Reflections on Suffering and Evil, 2nd ed.
D.A. Carson
If God is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil
Randy Alcorn
Evil and the Justice of God
N.T. Wright
Suffering and the Sovereignty of God
edited by John Piper and Justin Taylor
Last Things
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
N.T. Wright
Heaven
Randy Alcorn
Three Views on the Millennium and Beyond
edited by Darrell L. Bock
The Restoration of All Things
Sam Storms
