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"I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them."  Emma Thompson

Recommended Reading

  • The Bible

  • The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, Eugene Peterson

  • Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology, Gregory Boyd and Paul Eddy

  • Afterlife: A Personal Journey, Jim Jackson

  • Epic: The Story God is Telling, John Eldredge

  • Fathered by God: Learning What Your Dad Could Never Teach You, John Eldredge

  • Finishing Well: What People Who Really Live Do Differently, Bob Buford

  • Follow the Healer: Biblical and Theological Foundations for Healing Ministry, Steve Seamands

  • Game Plan: Winning Strategies for the Second Half of Your Life, Bob Buford

  • The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis

  • Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey

  • A Grief Observed, C. S. Lewis

  • Halftime: Moving from Success to Significance, Bob Buford

  • Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Richard Bach

  • The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis

  • In Christ: Devotions for Every Day of the Year, E. Stanley Jones

  • It’s Only a Demon: A Model of Christian Deliverance, Second Edition, David Appleby

  • The Joy Stealers: Overcoming Obstacles to Hope and Happiness, Rob Renfroe

  • Letter to the Father, Franz Kafka

  • Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl

  • Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis

  • Miracles, C. S. Lewis

  • No Man is an Island, Thomas Merton

  • On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

  • Once a Warrior: How One Veteran Found a New Mission Closer to Home, Jake Wood

  • Pensées, Blaise Pascal

  • The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan

  • The Problem of Pain, C. S. Lewis

  • The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?, Rick Warren

  • Questions of Life, Nicky Gumbel

  • Resilient: Restoring Your Weary Soul in These Turbulent Times, John Eldredge

  • The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis

  • Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work, Matthew Crawford

  • This Day with the Master: 365 Daily Meditations, Dennis Kinlaw

  • This Present Darkness, Frank Peretti

  • True Grit, Charles Portis

  • Waking the Dead: The Secret to a Heart Fully Alive, John Eldredge

  • The Way: 364 Daily Devotions, E. Stanley Jones

  • Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul, John Eldredge

  • The Word Became Flesh, E. Stanley Jones

  • Younger Next Year, Chris Crowley and Henry Lodge

  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values, Robert Pirzig

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