RESOURCES

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES FROM PASTOR ADRIAN

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