Great Books
Great Books
Pastor Jay’s “Some of the Books that Have Influenced Me”
*******These are in no particular order*******
Just read 12 of these a year and in 5 years you will have read many of the great classics of our faith!
1. Augustine, Confessions, Translated by R. Pine-Coffin
2. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
3. A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy
4. C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
5. C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
6. John Owen, The Mortification of Sin
7. Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor
8. J.C. Ryle, Holiness
9. J.C. Ryle, A Call to Prayer
10. Joel Beeke, Taking Hold of God: Reformed and Puritan Perspectives on Prayer
11. Jan David Hettinga, Follow Me: Experience the Loving Leadership of Jesus
12. A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
13. J.I. Packer, Knowing God
14. John Piper, A Hunger For God: Desiring God through Fasting and Prayer
15. David Brainerd and Jonathan Edwards, The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
16. Robert W. Godfrey, John Calvin, Pilgrim and Pastor
17. Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed
18. L.J. Van Valen, Constrained by His Love
19. Martin Luther, Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther
20. John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to th Chief of Sinners
21. G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
22. C.H. Spurgeon, All of Grace
23. J.C. Ryle, Alive or Dead?
24. Sam Storms and Justin Taylor, For the Fame of God’s Name
25. John Calvin, Prayers of John Calvin
26. John Bunyan, Saved by Grace
27. John Piper, The Supremacy of God in Preaching
28. John Piper, Let the Nations Be Glad
29. John Dwyer, Stonewall
30. Jonathan Edwards, Freedom of the Will
31. Jonathan Edwards, Religious Affections
32. John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress
33. Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
34. John Owen, Overcoming Sin and Temptation
35. D.A. Carson, A Call to Spiritual Reformation
36. D.A. Carson, An Introduction to the New Testament
37. D.A. Carson and J.I. Packer, Be Still My Soul
38. David Brainerd, The Diary and Journal of David Brainerd
39. D.A. Carson, Scandalous: The Cross and Resurrection of Jesus
40. Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
41. John Foxe, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
42. John Knox, The Select Practical Writings of John Knox
43. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Jesus Christ and Him Crucified
44. Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will
45. John MacArthur, The Gospel According to Jesus
46. John MacArthur, Charismatic Chaos
47. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
48. D. A. Carson, Thomas R. Schreiner, John Piper and Wayne Grudem, Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
49. John Piper and D.A. Carson, The Pastor as Scholar and the Scholar as Pastor
50. J.C. Ryle, A Call to Prayer
51. Charles Spurgeon, All of Grace
52. F.F. Bruce, The Canon of Scripture
53. F.F. Bruce, The New Testament Documents: Are they Reliable?
54. Michael Reeves, The Unquenchable Flame
55. Thomas A’ Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
56. Jim Cymbala, Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire
57. John Flavel, Triumphing Over Sinful Fear
58. Andrew Bonar, The Good Pastor
59. Andrew Bonar, The Person of Christ
60. Charles Finney, The Spirit-Filled Life
61. John Piper and Jonathan Aitken, Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce