Recommended Reading

The staff at FBC recommends the books below to help Christians in their daily walk.
The books have been divided into several categories… enjoy!
+ Addictions
+ Apologetics
+ Bible Commentary
+ Bible Study
+ Biography
+ Children
+ Church History
+ Depression
+ Finding God’s Will		 + For Men
+ For Women
+ General Christian Living
+ General Counseling
+ General Hardship
+ Leadership
+ Literature
+ Marriage
+ Missions / Evangelism		 + Other “Christian” Sects
+ Parenting
+ Prayer
+ Singleness
+ Spiritual Disciplines
+ Students
+ The Church
+ Theology

Parenting

Tripp: Shepherding
a Child’s Heart		 Hughes: Disciplines of
a Godly Family		 Castleman: Parenting
in the Pew
Elliot: The Shaping of
a Christian Family		 MacArthur:
The Fulfilled Family		 Adams: Christian Living
in the Home

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Marriage

Harvey:
When Sinners Say “I Do”		 Adams:
Solving Marriage Problems

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Students

Piper:
Don’t Waste Your Life

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Children

Helm:
The Big Picture Story Bible		 Sande:
The Young Peace Maker

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Literature

Stowe:
Uncle Tom’s Cabin		 Lewis: The Chronicles
of Narnia Series		 Tolkien: The Lord of
the Rings Series
Bunyan:
Pilgrim’s Progress		 Lewis:
The Great Divorce

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Biography

Elliot: Through Gates
of Splendor		 Piper: The Swans Are
Not Silent Series		 Augustine:
Confessions
Bainton: Here I Stand -
A Life of Martin Luther		 Dallimore:
George Whitefield		 Elliot: Shadow of
the Almighty
Ray:
Mrs. C.H. Spurgeon		 Knowles: Memoir of
Mrs. Ann H. Judson

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The Church

Dever: Nine Marks
of a Healthy Church		 Dever, Alexander:
The Deliberate Church		 Anyabwile: What Is
a Healthy Church Member?
Hughes: Liberating Ministry
from the Success Syndrome		 White, Yeats:
Franchising McChurch

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Depression

Welch: Depression -
A Stubborn Darkness		 Lloyd-Jones: Spiritual Depression -
Its Causes and Cure

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Addictions

Welch: Addictions -
A Banquet in the Grave

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General Counseling

Welch: When People
Are Big and God Is Small		 Lane, Tripp:
How People Change		 Sande:
The Peace Maker
Tripp:
War of Words		 Bridges:
Respectable Sins		 Powlison: Speaking
Truth in Love
Adams:
Competent to Counsel

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Prayer

Carson: A Call to
Spiritual Reformation		 Bennett: Valley of Vision
(Puritan Prayers)		 Thrasher: A Journey
to Victorious Praying
Jensen, Payne: Prayer
and the Voice of God		 Goldsworthy: Prayer and
the Knowledge of God		 Henry: A Method
for Prayer

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Spiritual Disciplines

Whitney: Ten Questions to
Diagnose Your Spiritual Health		 Challies: The Discipline
of Spiritual Discernment		 Whitney: Spiritual Disciplines
for the Christian Life

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Singleness

Brownback: Fine China Is
for Single Women, Too		 Widder: A Match
Made in Heaven

Article:

Piper: For Single Men
and Women (Eight Theses)

Article:

Danylak: A Biblical Theology
of Singleness

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For Men

Hughes: Disciplines
of a Godly Man

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For Women

Mahaney:
Feminine Appeal		 Hughes: Disciplines
of a Godly Woman		 Elliot: Let Me
Be a Woman

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Church History

Foxe:
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs		 Shelley: Church History
in Plain Language		 Beeke, Pederson:
Meet the Puritans

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General Christian Living

Hughes: Set Apart – Calling a
Worldly Church to a Godly Life		 Packer: Keep in Step
with the Spirit

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Leadership

Sanders:
Spiritual Leadership

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Theology

Packer:
Knowing God		 Grudem:
Systematic Theology		 Roberts:
God’s Big Picture
Ryle:
Holiness		 Wells:
No Place for Truth		 Piper:
Desiring God
Goldsworthy: Gospel
and Kingdom		 White:
Scripture Alone		 Stott:
The Cross of Christ
White: The God
Who Justifies		 Packer:
Truth and Power		 MacArthur:
The Truth War
Piper: God’s Passion
for His Glory		 Sproul: Now, That’s
a Good Question

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Missions/Evangelism

Piper: Let the
Nations Be Glad		 Packer: Evangelism and
the Sovereignty of God		 Matthias Media:
Two Ways to Live
Metzger:
Tell the Truth		 Stott:
Basic Christianity		 MacArthur: The Gospel
According to Jesus

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Bible Study

Fee, Stuart: How to Read
the Bible for All It’s Worth		 Beynon, Sach:
Dig Deeper

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General Hardship

Maillefer:
God in the Storm

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Apologetics

McDowell: Evidence
That Demands a Verict		 Zacharias:
Deliver Us from Evil		 Zacharias: Can Man
Live without God?

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Finding God’s Will

Jensen, Payne: Guidance
and the Voice of God		 Waltke: Finding the Will
of God – A Pagan Notion?		 MacArthur:
Found – God’s Will

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Bible Commentary

Carson: New
Bible Commentary		 Dever: The Message of
the New Testament		 Dever: The Message of
the Old Testament
Carson, Moo: Introduction
to the New Testament		 Longman, Dillard: An Introduction
to the Old Testament

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Other “Christian” Sects

White: Is the Mormon
My Brother?		 White: The Roman
Catholic Controversy

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