Rooted in God’s Word

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