Unbreakable Joy: Recommended Resources

Monday, June 17, 2013

Recommended Resources

Recently I have been thinking about a resource list for new Christians, really for any Christians. Here is what I have come up with thus far.

What would you add?

RESOURCE LIST:

Free Bible Software for Computers:
E-Sword - http://www.e-sword.net/

Study Bible:
ESV Study Bible

Bible Commentaries:
New Bible Commentary, by Gordon J. Wenham, J. Alec Motyer, Donald A. Carson and R. T. France
The Bible SpeaksToday, a commentary series edited by John Stott

For Children:
Jesus Story Book Bible
The Little Pilgrim’s Progress

Biographies:
Bonhoeffer, by Eric Metaxas
Amazing Grace, the Life of William Wilberforce, by Eric Metaxas
Tortured for Christ, the Life of Richard Wurmbrand

Suffering:
The Misery of Job and the Mercy of God, by John Piper
The Loveliness of Christ, by Samuel Rutherford

Authors / Books:
Dr. John Piper – Desiring God, God is the Gospel, Future Grace
Dr. Tim Keller – The reason for God, The Prodigal God
C.S. Lewis – Mere Christianity, The Weight of Glory, Screwtape Letters
Mark Driscoll – Vintage Church
R. C. Sproul – The Holiness of God
A. W. Tozer – The Pursuit of God, The Pursuit of Man
Jerry Bridges – The Disciplines of Grace, Trusting God
Francis Chan – Forgotten God, Crazy Love
John Stott – Basic Christianity, The Radical Disciple, The Cross of Christ
William Wilberforce – Real Christianity
Randy Alcorn – Heaven
Corrie Ten Boom - The Hiding Place
Jackie Pullinger - Chasing the Dragon
Philip Yancy – What’s So Amazing About Grace?
Rick Joyner - The Final Quest, The Call
J.I. Packer - Knowing God
Gary Thomas - Sacred Marriage
Dr. Wayne Grudem - Systematic Theology

Books on Preaching:
Preaching Christ in All of Scripture - Edmund Clowney
The Supremacy of Christ in Preaching - Dr. John Piper
Preaching and Preachers - D. Martin Lloyd-Jones
Christ-Centered Preaching - Bryan Chapell
Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture - Graeme Goldsworthy

Free & excellent audio / video / text bible teaching resources:
DesiringGod.org (Dr. John Piper)
MarsHill.com (Pastor Mark Driscoll)

Biographical Messages (Audio):
http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/biographies/by-title

1 comment:

Mike said...: My Additions:

"The Parables He Told" (1954), David A. Redding

"The Life and Teaching of Jesus Christ" (1961), James S. Stewart

"End Times Fiction" (2001), Gary Demar

"The Cost of Discipleship" (1959), Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Decision Making and the Will of God" (2004), Garry Firesen

"The Pleasures of God", (2012), John Piper

"Man, the Dwelling Place of God" (1966), Aiden Wilson Tozer

Agreements:

I agree 100% with Sproul's "The Holiness of God" and Packer's "Knowing God".

The two books that I've most frequently purchased as gifts to others have been (1)Knowing God (Packer) and (2)End Times Fiction (Demar).; September 12, 2013 at 8:24 PM

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- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord.
- George Mueller

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
- C.S. Lewis

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, a spiritual man is hard on himself and easy on others.
- A. W. Tozer

Our hearts are restless until we find our rest in Thee.
- Augustine

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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
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- C. S. Lewis

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
- Augustine

The men of this world are children. Offer a child an apple or a bank note, and he will doubtless choose the apple.
- John Newton

In the end the heart longs not for any of God's good gifts, but for God Himself. To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul's final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.
- John Piper

God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Him, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- C.S. Lewis

It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him. He must count no time wasted which is spent in the cultivation of His acquaintance. He must give himself to meditation and prayer hours on end. So did the saints of old, the glorious company of the apostles, the Godly fellowship of the prophets and the believing members of the holy church in all generations. And so must we if we would follow in their train.
- A.W. Tozer

If God contains the fullness of all good things in Himself like an inexhaustible fountain, nothing beyond him is to be sought by those who strike after the highest good and all the elements of happiness.
- John Calvin

God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in Him.
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