Recommended Reading

We want to see all creation renewed under Christ the King. “All creation” can be categorized into three main spheres of life that need renewing: the home, the church and the world. The work of renewing all things belongs to Christ, and it’s his pleasure to bring us - his people - into that work. If we want to be faithful stewards of creation a great place to start is with a good book.

Home

  • How to Eat Your Bible, Nate Pickowicz
    PersistentPrayer, Guy M. Richard
    Habits of the Household, Justin Whitmel Earley
    The Book of Common Prayer, 2019
    Disciplines of a Godly Man, R. Kent Hughes
    Disciplines of a Godly Woman, Barbara Hughes
    Spiritual Disciplines For the Christian Life, Donald Whitney

  • The Hole in Our Holiness, Kevin DeYoung
    The Enemy Within, Kris Lundgaard
    When People Are Big and God is Small, Edward Welch
    Addictions, Edward Welch
    Finally Free, Heath Lambert
    How People Change, Timothy S. Lane & Paul David Tripp
    A Little Book on the Christian Life, John Calvin

  • The Masculine Mandate, Richard D. Phillips
    Leadership and Emotional Sabotage, Joe Rigney
    Daughters of the Covenant, Hunt, Thompson & Hodge
    Aging With Grace, Sharon Betters & Susan Hunt
    The Fruit of Her Hands, Nancy Wilson
    The Hidden Art of Homemaking, Edith Schaeffer
    My Life For Yours, Douglas Wilson
    It’s Good to Be a Man, Foster & Tennant
    Eve in Exile, Rebekah Merkle
    The Christian Family, Herman Bavinck
    The Household and the War for the Cosmos, C.R. Wiley
    Parenting By God’s Promises, Joel Beeke
    Big Truths for Little Kids, Susan & Ritchie Hunt
    Family Worship, Donald Whitney

  • The Kingdom of God Storybook Bible, Tyler Van Halteren (Lithos Kids)
    The Child’s Story Bible, Catherine Vos
    The Biggest Story, Kevin DeYoung
    The Moon is Always Round, Jonathan Gibson
    The Garden, The Curtain and The Cross, Carl Laferton
    Little Pilgrim’s Big Journey, Tyler Van Halteren (Lithos Kids)
    Little Pilgrim’s Progress, Helen L. Taylor

  • Suffering, Paul David Tripp
    God’s Grace in Your Suffering, David Powlison
    Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy, Mark Vroegop
    Suffering in 3-D, John Kwasny

  • The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
    The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis

Church

  • The Lord’s Service, Jeffrey J. Meyers
    Recalling the Hope of Glory, Allen P. Ross
    What Happens When We Worship, Jonathan Landry Cruse
    Parenting in the Pew, Robbie Castleman
    Theopolitan Liturgy, Peter Leithart
    Given For You, Keith Mathison
    Why Do We Baptize Infants?, Bryan Chapell
    Why Baptize Babies?, Mark Horne
    Covenantal Baptism, Jason Helopoulos

  • Devoted to God’s Church, Sinclair Ferguson
    Pursuing Peace, Robert D. Jones
    Side By Side, Edward Welch
    Crosstalk, Michael R. Emlet
    Face to Face, Steve Wilkins
    Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  • What is Church Government?, Sean Michael Lucas
    On Being Presbyterian, Sean Michael Lucas
    Biblical Church Government, Don Clements

  • The Story of Christianity, Vols. 1 & 2, Justo Gonzales
    2000 Years of Christ’s Power Vols. 1-5, Nick Needham
    Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, John Foxe

  • Foundations of Christian Education, Louis Berkhof & Cornelius Van Til
    Jesus Above School, Noah Samuel Brink
    The Lost Tools of Learning, Dorothy L. Sayers
    On Education, Abraham Kuyper

  • Living By The Book, Howard G. & William D. Hendricks
    How to Understand and Apply the New Testament, Andy Naselli
    How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament, Jason S. DeRouchie
    Theopolitan Reading, Peter Leithart
    Walking With Jesus Through His Word, Dennis E. Johnson
    According to Plan, Graeme Goldsworthy
    Biblical Typology, Vern Poythress

  • The Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms
    Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin
    Covenants Made Simple, Jonty Rhodes
    The Christ of the Covenants, O. Palmer Robertson
    From Paradise to the Promised Land, T.D. Alexander
    The Wonderful Works of God, Herman Bavinck
    Biblical Theology, Geerhardus Vos
    Introduction to Systematic Theology, Cornelius Van Til
    Delighting in the Trinity, Michael Reeves
    Created in God’s Image, Anthony A. Hoekema
    Christianity and Liberalism, J. Gresham Machen

World

  • Every Believer Confident, Mark J. Farnham
    Covenantal Apologetics, K. Scott Oliphint
    Reasons of the Heart, William Edgar
    Christian Apologetics, Cornelius Van Til
    Making Faith Magnetic, Daniel Strange
    Finding Truth, Nancy Pearcey
    The Gospel Comes With a Housekey, Rosaria Butterfield

  • Creation Regained, Albert M. Wolters
    Strangely Bright, Joe Rigney
    Naming the Elephant, James Sire
    What’s Your Worldview?, James Anderson
    Lectures of Calvinism, Abraham Kuyper
    Total Truth, Nancy Pearcey
    The Genesis of Gender, Abigail Favale
    The End of Woman, Carrie Gress
    5 Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age, Rosaria Butterfield
    Lifting the Veil, Malcolm Guite
    Notes From the Tilt-A-Whirl, N.D. Wilson

  • Work, Daniel Doriani
    Do More Better, Tim Challies

  • The Calvinistic Concept of Culture, Henry Van Til
    Plowing In Hope, David Bruce Hegeman
    Created & Creating, William Edgar
    Culture Matters, T.M. Moore
    Christianity & Culture, T.S. Eliot
    Christ and Culture, H. Richard Niebuhr
    Idols for Destruction, Herbert Schlossberg
    Out of the Ashes, Anthony Esolen
    Pro Rege, Vols. 1-3, Abraham Kuyper

  • Politics and Evangelical Theology, Brian Mattson
    Politica, Althusius
    Christ and the Kingdoms of Men, David C. Innes
    The Forgotten Realm, Elizabeth Landis
    The Maker Versus the Takers, Jerry Bowyer
    A Christian Manifesto, Francis Schaeffer

  • When Helping Hurts, Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert
    In the Shadow of Plenty, George Grant

“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
— G. K. Chesterton