RESOURCES
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES FROM PASTOR ADRIAN
APPS, PODCASTS & RESOURCE CENTERS
Apps
- Following Jesus
- C3 Tri-Cities
- RightNow Media
- Angel Studios
- Voice of the Martyrs
Podcasts
Resource Centers
RightNow Media
Summit Ministries
The Gospel Coalition
Desiring God
Freedom in Christ Ministries
Enjoying God Ministries (Sam Storms)
Last Days Ministries
Stand to Reason
Ethics and Public Policy Center
PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY, DECONSTRUCTION, & HUMAN SEXUALITY
Progressive Christianity and Deconstruction
- Another Gospel (Alisa Childers)
- Faithfully Different (Natasha Crain)
- The Deconstruction of Christianity (Alisa Childers and Tim Barnett)
Human Sexuality
- Openness Unhindered (Rosaria Butterfield)
- Why Does God Care Who I Sleep With? (Sam Allberry)
- God and the Transgender Debate (Andrew Walker)
- When Harry Became Sally (Ryan T. Anderson)
- Holy Sexuality and the Gospel (Christopher Yuan)
- Gay Girl, Good God (Perry)
- A Change of Affection (Beckett Cook)
- Gender Ideology (Sharon James)
- Strange New World (Carl Trueman)
- The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self (Carl Trueman)
- What God Has to Say about Our Bodies (Sam Allberry)
- Is God Anti-Gay? (Sam Allberry)
- Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age (Rosaria Butterfield)
- The Broken Image (Leann Payne)
- Making All Things New (David Powlison)
POLITICS, TECHNOLOGY & CULTURAL ISSUES
Cultural Issues
- Confronting Christianity (Rebecca McLaughlin)
- Fire in the Streets (Douglas Groothius)
- Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth (Thaddeus Williams)
Politics and Religion in America
- Politics According to the Bible (Wayne Grudem)
- Why Government Can’t Save You (John MacArthur)
- City of Man (Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner)
- America’s Blessings (Rodney Stark)
- Onward (Russell Moore)
Technology
- My Tech-Wise Life (Amy Crouch and Andy Crouch)
- The Anxious Generation (Jonathan Haidt)
- The Opt-Out Family (Erin Loechner)
- The Tech-Wise Family (Andy Crouch)
MARRIAGE, PRE-MARRIAGE & PARENTING
Marriage
- The Meaning of Marriage (Timothy Keller)
- The Mystery of Marriage (Mike Mason)
- Sacred Marriage (Gary Thomas)
- Love and Respect (Emerson Eggerichs)
- Get Married (Brad Wilcox)
Pre-Marriage
- Things I Wish I’d Known (Gary Chapman)
- Before You Say “I Do” (H. Norman Wright)
- Saving Your Marriage before It Starts (Les & Leslie Parrott)
- 101 Questions to Ask before You Get Engaged (H. Norman Wright)
- The Sacred Search (Gary Thomas)
Parenting
- Shepherding a Child’s Heart (Tedd Tripp)
- Sacred Parenting (Gary Thomas)
- Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles (Paul David Tripp)
- Age of Opportunity (Paul David Tripp)
- The Intentional Father (Jon Tyson)
- What Do I Say When…? (Andrew Walker)
- Talking with Your Kids about God (Natasha Crain)
- Keeping Your Kids on God’s Side (Natasha Crain)
- What a Daughter Needs from Her Dad (Michael Farris)
- Preparing Your Son for Every Man’s Battle (Stephen Arterburn)
- How to Bring Your Children to Christ (Ray Comfort)
Parenting Young Adults
- Doing Life with Your Adult Children (Jim Burns)
- Christian Higher Education (Perry Glanzer)
READING FOR CHILDREN, TEENS & YOUNG ADULTS
For Children
- The Action Bible (illustrated for children)
- Is God for Real? (Jeriah Shank)
- Lies Girls Believe (Dannah Gresh)
- It’s Great to Be a Girl! (Dannah Gresh)
- Lies Boys Believe (Erin & Jason Davis)
- It’s Great to Be a Guy! (Dannah Gresh)
- So You’re about to Be a Teenager (Barbara & Dennis Rainey)
For Teens and Young Adults
- 10 Questions Every Teen Should Ask (Rebecca McLaughlin)
- Swipe Right (Levi Lusko)
- A Young Man’s Guide to Making Right Choices (Jim George)
- Every Young Man, God’s Man (Stephen Arterburn)
- Single, Dating, Engaged, Married (Ben Stuart)
- Passion and Purity (Elisabeth Elliot)
UNDERSTANDING CHRISTIANITY, THE BIBLE & THE CHURCH
Understanding God and Christianity
- Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)
- The Reason for God (Timothy Keller)
- Making Sense of God (Timothy Keller)
- I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist (Norman Geisler)
- How to Know God Exists (Josh McDowell)
- God Behaving Badly (David Lamb)
Becoming a Christian
- Following Jesus (Samuel Deuth)
- Stop Asking Jesus into Your Heart (J.D. Greear)
- A Dozen Things God Did with Your Sin (Sam Storms)
Understanding the Bible and the Church
- Taking God at His Word (Kevin DeYoung)
- Why I Trust the Bible (William D. Mounce)
- How (Not) to Read the Bible (Dan Kimball)
- Why We Love the Church (Kevin DeYoung)
PRAYER & FASTING, THE HOLY SPIRIT & GIFTS, SPIRITUAL WARFARE
Prayer and Fasting
- Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home (Richard Foster)
- With Christ in the School of Prayer (Andrew Murray)
- Fasting for Spiritual Breakthrough (Elmer Towns)
- Prayer (Timothy Keller)
- The Transforming Power of Prayer (James M. Houston)
- Prayer (Ole Hallesby)
- Praying the Bible (Donald Whitney)
The Holy Spirit and Spiritual Gifts
- Understanding Spiritual Gifts (Sam Storms)
- Practicing the Power (Sam Storms)
- The Beginner’s Guide to the Gift or Prophecy (Jack Deere)
Spiritual Warfare
- Victory over the Darkness (Neil Anderson)
- The Bondage Breaker (Neil Anderson)
- The Steps to Freedom in Christ (Neil Anderson)
- Deliverance from Evil Spirits (Francis MacNutt)
- The Screwtape Letters (C. S. Lewis)
- Unbound (Neal Lozano)
- They Shall Expel Demons (Derek Prince)
HEALING, FORGIVENESS & MIRACLES
Healing
- The Ministry of Healing (A. J. Gordon)
- The Gospel of Healing (A. B. Simpson)
- Healing and the Scriptures (David Martyn Lloyd-Jones)
- Healing (Francis MacNutt)
- A Guide for Listening and Inner-Healing Prayer (Rusty Rustenbach)
Forgiveness
- Total Forgiveness (R. T. Kendall)
- When You’ve Been Wronged (Erwin Lutzer)
- Choosing Forgiveness (Nancy Leigh DeMoss)
- The Gift of Forgiveness (Charles Stanley)
- The Bait of Satan (John Bevere)
- Forgive (Timothy Keller)
Miracles
- Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles? (Ian Hutchinson)
- Miracles (C.S. Lewis)
- Miracles Today (Craig Keener)
- The Case for Miracles (Lee Strobel)
GROWING AS A LEADER, SPIRITUAL FORMATION & WOMEN IN MINISTRY
Growing as a Leader
- Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be (Leroy Eims)
- Practicing Greatness (Reggie McNeal)
- The Making of a Leader (Frank Damazio)
- Spiritual Leadership (John Oswald Sanders)
- A Work of Heart (Reggie McNeal)
- Leadership Pain (Samuel Chand)
- The Dark Side of Leadership (Gary McIntosh)
Spiritual Formation
- The Practice of the Presence of God (Brother Lawrence)
- Celebration of Discipline (Richard Foster)
- Conformed to His Image (Kenneth Boa)
Women in Ministry
- Partners in Christ (John G. Stackhouse)
- 50 Women Every Christian Should Know (Michelle DeRusha)
CHRISTIAN HISTORY, THEOLOGY & DEVOTIONALS
Christian History
- Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (John Foxe)
- Jesus Freaks (Voice of the Martyrs)
- The Story of Christianity (Justo González)
Theology
- Systematic Theology (Wayne Grudem)
- Renewal Theology (J. Rodman Williams)
Devotionals
- A Diary of Private Prayer (John Baillie)
- My Utmost for His Highest (Oswald Chambers)
BIBLE TRANSLATIONS & RENDERINGS
Bibles
- New King James Version (NKJV)
- New American Standard (NASB)
- New International Version (NIV)
- New Living Translation (NLT)
- Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
- New Testament in Modern English (PHILLIPS)
- English Standard Version (ESV)
- Nueva Versión Internacional (NVI)
- Nueva Biblia de las Américas (NBLA)
Bible Renderings
- The Message (Peterson)
- The Action Bible (illustrated for children)
OTHER RECOMMENDED RESOURCES & AUTHORS
Miscellaneous
- Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus (Nabeel Qureshi)
- The Cost of Discipleship (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
- Sit, Walk, Stand (Watchman Nee)
- Waking the Dead (John Eldredge)
- What’s So Amazing about Grace? (Phillip Yancey)
- The Search for Significance (Robert McGee)
- Hearing God’s Voice (Henry Blackaby)
- Connecting (Larry Crabb)
- The Silence of Adam (Larry Crabb)
- Can Science Explain Everything? (John Lennox)
- Tortured for Christ (Richard Wurmbrand)
- The Overcoming Life (D. L. Moody)
- The Problem of Pain (C. S. Lewis)
Recommended Authors
- Francis Schaeffer
- Watchman Nee
- Timothy Keller
- Sam Storms
- D. L. Moody
- A. W. Tozer
- C. S. Lewis
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- John Piper
- Charles Spurgeon
- David Martyn Lloyd-Jones
- Philip Yancey
- J. Rodman Williams
- Derek Prince
- Francis MacNutt
- Andrew Murray