Recommended Reading

There’s a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve him, boldness to share him, and contentment in him. This edition of Packer’s classic has been totally retyped, includes a new preface, and has been updated and revised. 288 pages, softcover from InterVarsity Note: This does not include the study guide.

Scripture reveals that the great business of life is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. Now revised and expanded, Desiring God reveals how delighting in God can motivate us to glorify Him through worship, stewardship, loving our neighbor, rejoicing in suffering, and other “duties.” John Piper reveals that the debate between duty and delight doesn’t truly exist: Delight is our duty. Discover how to lay a biblical foundation for a life of celebration by truly desiring the Lord.

When you ponder what it means to be loved by God, are your thoughts God-centered or self-centered? Best-selling author and pastor Piper reveals that the most loving thing about God is not his making much of us, but his enabling us to make much of him. Paradigm-challenging reflections on the gospel message! 160 pages, hardcover from Crossway Books.

Are life’s ups and downs blocking your view of what’s really important? Mahaney strips away the distractions to help you focus on the core of your faith: Jesus. Blending material from The Cross-Centered Life and Christ Our Mediator with new insights, he presents a breathtaking view of what God intends to accomplish in and through you. 176 pages, hardcover from Multnomah.

Now you can get Bridges’s three bestsellers in one value-priced volume! Engage in The Pursuit of Holiness and put away the sin in your life. Learn the Bible’s guidelines for holy living with the 12-lesson companion study guide. Then discover how The Practice of Godliness builds Christian character. Ideal for individual or group study. 448 pages, softcover from NavPress.

Stephen Charnock was a Puritan theologian, whose hours of daily Bible study contributed to a vast and intimate knowledge of the Scriptures. Though this book was written in the seventeenth century, Charnock’s keen grasp of biblical theology ensures its relevance in all eras, particularly today. His exhaustive discussions on the existence and attributes of God form one of the best general theology books available.

His reflections on the Bible clarify for all readers the full implications of understanding God as he was revealed in both the Old and New Testaments. Ever the pragmatist, Charnock focuses his reflections on sustainable, practical application, offering Christians at all times the knowledge that leads to greater obedience and more invigorating worship.

The discourses in this book cover such important theological themes as: the existence of God; the failure of practical atheism; the spiritual nature of God; spiritual worship; God’s eternality; God’s immutability; God’s omnipresence; God’s knowledge (omniscience); God’s wisdom; God’s power; God’s holiness; God’s goodness; God’s dominion; God’s patience. Each discourse combines with all others to produce a truly broad, multifaceted look at God and God’s qualities, giving all readers an inspirational, devotional, and scholarly look at Christian theology.

Let this seventeenth century classic bring your twenty-first century faith to a whole new level. As you learn more about God, you will begin to reflect more of His character and nature to the world.

Many of us have memorized the Great Commandment. However, tragically, quite few of us have learned how to live by it. In The Jesus Creed Scot McKnight explores how Jesus connected the ancient Jewish commandments to “love the Lord your God with all our heart, soul and strength” and to “love your neighbor as yourself” in order to create a creed that transforms his disciples’ lives. If you are passionate about discipleship and love the writings of John Ortberg, Dallas Willard and Richard Foster, you will treasure The Jesus Creed by Scot McKnight.