Resources
Bible study materials and suggested reading are available as resources for your spiritual growth.
Understanding the Bible
This semester we are walking through the book of Philippians.
- Paul for Everyone: The Prison Letters by N.T. Wright
- Philippians by N.T. Wright
- Philippians by Moisés Silva
- The Letter to the Philippians by G. Walter Hansen
Recommended Reading
- Getting Started
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- The Bible
- Apostles Creed
- Nicene Creed
- Heidelberg Catechism
- John Stott, Basic Christianity
- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
- Trevor Hart, Faith Thinking
- Eugene Peterson, Answering God
- Jerry Sittser, The Will of God As a Way of Life
- Debra Rienstra, So Much More: An Invitation to Christian Spirituality
- Classics
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- Augustine, The Confessions
- Athanasius, On The Incarnation
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies
- Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care
- Teresa of Avila, The Collected Works
- John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
- Augustine, City of God
- Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
- Ignatius Loyola, The Spiritual Exercises
- Blaise Pascal, Pensees
- John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress
- Martin Buber, I and Thou
- Bonaventure, The Souls Journey into God/The Tree of Life; The Life of St. Francis
- John of the Cross, The Collected Works
- Soren Kiekegaard, Purity of Heart
- Karl Barth, The Church Dogmatics
- Hans Urs Von Bathasar, The Glory of the Lord
- Thomas Aquinas, The Summa Theological
- Reshaping the Imagination
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- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov; Crime & Punishment; The Idiot
- David James Duncan, The Brothers K; The River Why
- George Elliot, Middlemarch
- George Bernanos, Diary of a Country Priest
- George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin
- Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
- C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces/The Chronicles of Narnia
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
- Sigrid Undset, Kristen Lavransdatter
- Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose/Crossing to Safety
- Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow
- Susan Howatch, Glittering Images
- Richard Adams, Watership Down
- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Flannery O’Connor, Everything that Rises Must Converge
- Chaim Potock, The Chosen/My Name is Asher Lev; The Gift of Asher Lev; The Promise
- Leaf Enger, Peace Like a River
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
- Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
- Frederick Buechner, Godric
- Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Illych
- Tony Morrison, Beloved
- Nicholas Wolterstorff, Lament for a Son
- Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies
- Shusako Endo, Silence
- Kathleen Norris, Dakota
- Walker Percy, The Second Coming
- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
- Ivan Doig, This House of Sky
- Walter Wangerin, The Book of the Dun Cow
- Anne Tyler, Saint Maybe
- William Shakespeare, anything
- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
- Forrest Carter, Education of Little Tree
- Poetry
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- Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems
- Dante, The Divine Comedy
- John Milton, Paradise Lost
- Richard Wilbur, Poems
- Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems
- George Herbert, The Temple
- John Donne, The Holy Sonnets
- Luci Shaw, A Widening Light
- Czeslaw Milosz, The Collected Poems
- T.S. Elliot, The Four Quartets/The Wasteland
- Wendell Berry, The Timbered Choir
- Seamus Heaney, The Collected Poems
- Raymond Carver, A New Path to the Waterfall
- Garrison Keillor, ed., Good Poems
- Prayer
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- The Psalms, (The Bible)
- Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer
- P.T. Forsyth, The Soul of Prayer
- Frederic von Hugel, The Life of Prayer
- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, I am an Impure Thinker
- Friedrich Heiler, Prayer: A study in the History and Psychology of Religion
- C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
- Jacques Ellul, Prayer and Modern Man
- Harry Emerson Fosdick, The Meaning of Prayer
- Steven Chase, The Tree of Life
- James M. Houston, The Transforming Friendship
- Richard Foster, Prayer: Finding the Hearts True Home
- The Book of Common Worship
- John Bailie, A Diary of Private Prayer
- David Adam, The Edge of Glory: Prayers in the Celtic Tradition
- John Oliver Nelson, ed., The Student Prayerbook
- Ben Patterson, Deepening Your Conversation with God
- Jim Cymbala, Fresh Wind Fresh Fire
- Wesley L. Duewel, Mighty Prevailing Prayer
- Spiritual Theology
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- Martin Thornton, Pastoral Theology: Reorientation
- Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places; Eat This Book
- Jonathan Edwards, A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Spiritual Care
- Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America
- Benedict, The Rule
- Stanley Hauerwas, A Community of Christian Character
- Evelyn Underhill, The Spiritual Life
- Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man; The Prophets
- Spiritual Direction & Disciplines
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- Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath
- P.T. Forsyth, The Cure of Souls
- Stanley Hauerwas, A Community of Character
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
- Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline
- Aelred of Rievaulx, Spiritual Friendship
- Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life/Letters of Spiritual Direction
- Thomas Merton, Spiritual Direction/Seven Story Mountain
- Keith Anderson, Spiritual Mentoring
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Divine Milieu
- Martin Luther, Letters of Spiritual Counsel
- Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Flannery O’Connor, The Habit of Being
- Eugene Peterson, Under The Unpredictable Plant; Five Smooth Stones; Subversive Spirituality; Working the Angles; The Contemplative Pastor
- Henri J.M. Nouwen, Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life
- Frederick Buechner, The Sacred Journey, Now and Then, and Telling Secrets
- A.W. Tozer, Pursuit of God and Knowledge of the Holy
- Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos
- Dorothy Day, The Long Lonliness
- Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines
- J.I. Packer and Loren Wilkinson, eds., Alive to God: Studies in Spirituality
- Basil M. Pennington, Lectio Divine: Renewing the Ancient Practice of Praying Scripture
- Worship
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- James Torrance, Worship Community and the Triune God of Grace
- Evelyn Underhill, Worship
- Marva Dawn, Reaching Out without Dumbing Down/A Royal Waste of Time
- Annie Dillard, Teaching A Stone to Talk
- J.G. Davies, Westminster Dictionary of Worship
- Robert Weber, Ancient Future Faith
- Sally Morgenthaler, Worship Evangelism
- James F. White, An Introduction to Christian Worship
- Don E. Saliers, Worship & Spirituality
- Edward Folwy, From Age to Age
- Frank Senn, Christian Liturgy: Catholic and Evangelical
- James 0’Connor, The Hidden Manna: A Theology of the Eucharist
- Tim Dearborn and Scott Coil, Worship At the Next Level: insight from contemporary voices
- Mission & Evangelism
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- Stanley Hauerwas & William Willimon, Resident Aliens
- Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture
- Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community
- James Davidson Hunger, Cultural Wars
- Brian McLaren, A New Kind of Christian
- David Bosch, Believing in the Future: Toward a Missiology of Western Culture
- David Bosch, Transforming Mission: paradigm Shifts in Theology and Mission
- Darrell Guder, Missional Church: Toward an Ecclesial Christian Ethic
- George Hunsberger & Craig Van Gelder, The Church Between Gospel and Culture
- Patrick R. Keifert, Welcoming the Stranger: A Public Theology of Worship and Evangelism
- Robert Weber, Liturgical Evangelism
- Stanley Hauerwas, After Christendom? How the Church Is to Behave If Freedom, Justice and Christian Nation Are Bad Ideas.
- Norman Kraus, The Community of the Spirit: How the Church Is in the World
- Sherwood Lingenfelter & Marvin Mayers, Ministering Cross-Culturally: an Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships
- John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus
- Charles VanEngen, Mission on the Way: issues in Modern Theology
- Michael Green, Evangelism in the Early Church
- Hippolytus, The Treatise on the “Apostolic Tradition.”
- Vocation
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- Richard Bolle, How to Find your Mission in Life
- Robert Coles & Brian Mahan, Forgetting Ourselves On Purpose: Vocation and the Ethics of Ambition
- Craig Dykstra, Growing into the Life of Faith: Education and Christian Practice
- Gill Farnham & Ward McLean, Listening Hearts: Discerning Call in Community
- Os Guiness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
- Steven Garber, The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behavior During the University Years.
- Gregory L. Jones and Stephanie Paulsell, ed., The Scope of Art: The Vocation of the Theological Teacher.
- Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
- Sharon Daloz Parks, Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Young Adults in Their Search for Meaning , Purpose, and Faith.
- Cornelius Plantinga, Engaging God’s World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living.
- Mark Schwen, Exiles in Eden: Religion and the Academic Vocation in America
- Gerald Sittser, The Will of God as a Way of Life
QUESTIONS?
Chaplain of Discipleship, Jill Nelson