Reading Lists

Quick notes on my reading lists

• If you are what you read, these lists may explain my mental problems.
• If you assume I believe everything I read, you’re the one that’s crazy.

  Recent Reads

 

Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Westerners, Margaret K. Nydell

 

A Man in the Shadows, Efraim Halevy

 

Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture, Michael Frost

 

Perspectives, Ralph D. Winter and Steven C. Hawthorne, General Editors

 

Radical, David Platt

Walk Across the Room, Bill Hybels

The Cathers, Sean Martin

Missional Church, Darrell L. Guder

Let the Nations Be Glad, John Piper

Understanding God’s Will, Kyle Lake

Crazy  Love, Francis Chan

The Shack, William P. Young

The Forgotten Ways, Alan Hirsch

The Shape of Things to Come, Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost

Breaking the Missional Code, Ed Stetzer and David Putman

Thinking Passover, Ben Kamin

Jesus’ Call to Discipleship, James D.G. Dunn

The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, Leslie Newbigin

The End of Time, David Horowitz

The Gathered AND Scattered Church, Hugh Halter and Matt Smay

The Open Secret:  An Introduction to the Theology of Mission, Leslie Newbigin

City Reaching, Jack Dennison

Missional Map Making:  Skills for leading in times of Transition, Alan J. Roxburgh

Transforming Mission, David Bosch

The Tangible Kingdom, Hugh Halter and Matt Smay

Mere Discipleship, Lee Camp

A Western Jesus:  The Wayward Americanization of Christ and the Church, Mike Minter

Imperial Hubris, Michael Scheuer

Simply Christian:  Why Christianity Makes Sense, N.T. Wright

ReJesus:  A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church, Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost

Transformation:  How Glocal Churches Transform Live and the World, Bob Roberts Jr.

A Work of Heart : Understanding How God Shapes Spiritual Leaders, Reggie McNeal

The Present Future:  Six Tough Questions for the Church, Reggie McNeal

Total Church, Tim Chester and Steve Timmis

Organic Leadership, Neil Cole

What Would the Founders Do?, Richard Brookhiser

Revolutioin:  The First 17 Years of the Church, Gene Edwards

Simple Church Revolution, Roger Thoman

The Pilgrim Church,Edmund Broadbent

From Eternity to Here, Frank Viola

Organic Church, Neil Cole

History of the Waldenses, Paul Tice

Indiginous Church Planting, Charles Brock

There’s A Sheep in My Bathtub, Brian Hogan

Communion of the Saints, Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Birth of the Church, Ivor J. Davidson

A Summary of Christian History, Robert A Baker

Rethinking the Wineskins, Frank Viola

The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Origins of Nazi Violence,  Enzo Traverso

Dennis Miller: Ranting Again,  Dennis Miller

Racial and Ethnic Groups,Richard T. Schaeffer

Baseball in the Lone Star State,  Tom Kayser and David King

Reimagining the Church, Frank Viola

Christianity Rediscovered: An Epistle to the Masai, Vincent J. Donovan

Hooked for Life, Jimmy Houston

Journal of a Mountain Man, James Clyman

House Chruch and Mission: The Importance of Household Structures In Early Christianity, Roger W. Gehring

The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church,Edited by Gerand Mannion and Lewis S. Mudge

The History of Primitive Christianity, Johannes Weis

 

All-Time Favorites

The  Bible  (The most remarkable book I’ve ever read.  Supernatural beyond any doubt.)

My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers

True Spirituality,Francis Schaeffer

Autobiography of George Muller

One Hundred Days In the Secret Place (Guyon, Fenelon, Molinos.  Edited by Gene Edwards)

Mere Christianity,  C.S. Lewis

The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey

Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

The Normal Christian Life,  Watchman Nee

The God Who Is There, Francis Schaeffer

Drawing Closer,Glen Martin and Dian Ginter

Organic Church, Neil Cole

Purpose In Prayer,  E.M. Bounds

Houses That Change The World, Wolfgang Simpson (If you’ve never read anything on the subject.)

A Fine and Pleasant Misery,  Patrick McManus (Outdoor humourist.  You’ve got to have a little “country” in you.  If you do, I recommend all of his books.)

Memoirs of McCheyne,  Andrew Bonar

The Best of  A.W. Tozer,  Warren Wiersbe

Can Man Live without God,  Ravi Zacharias

The Glory of their Times,  Lawrence S. Ritter

Rise To Rebellion, Jeff Shaara

Community 101,  Gilbert Bilezikian

The Search For Significance,  Robert McGee

Sexual Happiness In Marriage,  Herbert J. Miles