A Far Green Country

Christian Hedonism

• Desiring God (Piper)
• When I Don’t Desire God (Piper)
• Pleasures Evermore (Storms)

The Life of the Mind

• Love Your God with All Your Mind (Moreland)
• No Place for Truth (Wells)
• Habits of the Mind (Sire)
• Fit Bodies, Fat Minds (Guiness)

Christian Worldview

• Lectures on Calvinism (Kuyper)
• God's Renaisance Man: Abraham Kuyper (McGoldrick)
• The Universe Next Door (Sire)
• Turning Point Christian Worldview Series (Crossway Books; Olasky, gen. ed.)

General Theology

• Now That's a Good Question (Sproul)
• God's Passion for His Glory (Piper; includes the complete text of Edwards' The End for Which God Created the World)
• The Instructed Christian (Lyford)
• The Arraignment of Error (Bolton)
• Body of Divinity (Watson)

Historical Theology

• Historical Theology (Cunningham)
• The Reformers and the Theology of the Reformation (Cunningham)
• The Theology of the Reformers (George)

Systematic Theology

• Systematic Theology (Grudem)
• A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith (Reymond)
• Systematic Theology (Berkhof)

The Attributes of God

• The Doctrine of God (Bavinck)
• Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God (Carson)
• The Existence and Attributes of God (Charnock)
• God the Father Almighty (Erickson)
• Knowing God (Packer)
• The Holiness of God (Sproul)
• The Pleasures of God (Piper)
• The Doctrine of God (Frame)
• The Attributes of God (Pink)

The Trinity

• On the Trinity (Augustine)
• The Forgotten Trinity (White)
• The Trinity (Bickerseth)

The Person of Christ

• The Person of Christ (MacLeod)
• The Glory of Christ (Owen)
• Through the Looking Glass (Lundgaard)

Providence and Predestination

• The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination (Boettner)
• The Five Points of Calvinism (Dabney)
• The Sovereignty of God (Pink)
• Still Sovereign (Schreiner)
• Potter's Freedom (White)
• Chosen by God (Sproul)

Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility

• Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God (Packer)
• The Freedom of the Will (Edwards)

Open Theism

• God's Lesser Glory (Ware)
• Bound Only Once (Wilson)
• No Other God (Frame)
• Beyond the Bounds (Piper, Helseth, Taylor)

Doctrine of Scripture

• Inerrancy (Geisler)
• Disputations on Holy Scripture (Whitaker)
• Thy Word is Truth (Young)
• The Sufficiency of Scripture (Weeks)

Doctrine of Humanity & Sin

• Human Nature in its Fourfold State (Boston)
• Body and Soul (Moreland)
• The Bondage of the Will (Luther)

Law & Gospel

• Treatise on Law and Gospel (Colquhoun)
• The Law & Its Fulfillment (Schreiner)
• Paul & the Law (Thielman)
• Understanding Dispensationalists (Poythress)
• Economy of the Divine Covenants (Witsius)
• New Covenant Theology (Wells & Zaspel)

Doctrine of Salvation

• The Doctrine of Justification (Buchanan)
• Justification by Faith Alone (Edwards)
• Putting Amazing Back into Grace (Horton)
• Redemption: Accomplished and Applied (Murray)
• The Death of Death in the Death of Christ (Owen)
• Saved by Grace (Hoekema)

Doctrine of Sanctification

• Keep in Step with the Spirit (Packer)
• Future Grace (Piper)
• Five Views on Sanctification (Dieter)

Spiritual Warfare

• Power Encounters: Reclaiming Spiritual Warfare (Powlison)
• Winning the War Within (Adams)

Miraculous Gifts

• Showing the Spirit (Carson)
• Satisfied by the Promise of the Spirit (Edgar)
• Are Miraculous Gifts for Today? (Grudem)
• Pentecost Today? (Murray)

Doctrine of the Church

• Worship in Spirit and Truth (Frame)
• Glorious Body of Christ (Kuiper)
• Biblical Eldership (Strauch)
• The Reformed Pastor (Baxter)
• Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (Dever)

Preaching

• The Supremacy of God in Preaching (Piper)
• Preaching & Preachers (Lloyd-Jones)
• Lectures to My Students (Spurgeon)
• Christ-Centered Preaching (Chapel)

Preaching and Hermeneutics

• Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text (Greidanus)
• Preaching Christ from the Old Testament (Greidanus)
• Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture (Goldsworthy)

Doctrine of Last Things

• Basic Guide to Eschatology (Erickson)
• Crucial Questions about Hell (Fernando)
• The Bible and the Future (Hoekema)
• The Blessed Hope (Ladd)

Apologetics

• New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? (Bruce)
• Apologetics to the Glory of God (Frame)
• Mere Christianity (Lewis)
• Christianity and Liberalism (Machen)
• Beyond Death: Exploring the Evidence for Immortality (Moreland)
• Reasonable Faith (Craig)
• Faith & Reason (Nash)
• Francis Schaeffer Trilogy (Schaeffer)
• Every Thought Captive (Pratt)
• Persuasions (Wilson)
• Can Man Live Without God? (Zacharias)

World Religions

• Answering Islam (Geisler)
• Roman Catholics & Evangelicals (Geisler)
• Compact Guide to World Religions (Halverson)
• Pocket Dictionary of New Religious Movements (Hexham)
• Neighboring Faiths (Corduan)
• Reasoning from the Scriptures with Jehovah's Witnesses (Rhodes)

Postmodernism

• Gagging of God (Carson)
• Postmodern Times (Veith)
• Truth Decay (Groothuis)
• The Vanishing Word (Hunt)
• Reclaiming The Center (Erickson, Helseth, and Taylor)

Science

• Darwin's Black Box (Behe)
• Intelligent Design (Dembski)
• The Soul of Science (Percy)
• Darwin on Trial (Johnson)
• Life is a Miracle (Berry)
• A History of Nearly Everything (Bryson)
  
• Redeeming Science (Poythress)

Philosophy

• Introduction to Philosophy (Geisler)
• Life's Ultimate Questions (Nash)
• The Consequences of Ideas (Sproul)
• Longing to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People (Meek)
• Socratic Logic: A Logic Text Using Socratic Method, Platonic Questions, and Aristotelian Principles (Kreeft)
• The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God (Frame)

Politics

• The Federalist Papers (Hamilton)
• Democracy in America (Tocqueville)
• God's Name in Vain (Carter)
• Beyond Good Intentions (Bandow)
• Practical Christianity (Wilberforce)

Economics

• Capitalism and Freedom (Friedman)
• Wealth and Poverty: Why Socialism Doesn't Work (Nash)
• Wealth of Nations (Smith)
• Applied Economics (Sowell)
• Basic Economics (Sowell)
• The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (Novak)
• Economics in One Lesson (Hazlitt)
  

Business Ethics

• Beyond Integrity (Rae)
• Business for the Glory of God (Grudem)

Ethics

• Ethics for a Brave New World (Feinberg)
• Christian Ethics (Geisler)
• Principles of Conduct (Murray)
• When is it Right to Fight? (Morey)

Abortion

• Polictically Correct Death (Beckwith)
• Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments (Alcorn)

Homosexuality

• Homsexuality (DeYoung)
• Straight and Narrow (Schmidt)

Feminism

• Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (Piper)
• Equality in Christ (Hove)
• Men and Women: Equal Yet Different (Strauch)
• Feminism and Evangelical Truth (Grudem)

Racial Harmony

• Divided by Faith (Emerson)
• Mighty Long Journey (George)
• Winning the Race to Unity (Shuler)

Technology

• Technopoly (Postman)
• Technics and Civilization (Mumford)

Work & Leisure

• Redeeming the Time (Ryken)
• God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life (Veith)
• The Call (Guiness)
• Getting Things Done (Allen)
• Business to the Glory of God (Grudem)
  

Arts

• State of the Arts (Veith)
• Reviewing the Movies (Fraser)
• Art and the Bible (Schaeffer)
• The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts (Ryken)
• The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing (Ryken)

Literature

• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Dillard)
• The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky)
• Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)
• Robinson Crusoe (Defoe)
• Till We Have Faces (Lewis)
• The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)
• Book of the Dun Cow (Wangerin)
• Jane Eyre (Bronte)
• East of Eden (Steinbeck)
  

On Literature

• Great Books of the Christian Tradition (Glaspey)
• Invitation to the Classics (Cowan)
• Reading Between the Lines (Veith)
• Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective (Ryken)

Christian Classics

• Confessions (Augustine)
• City of God (Augustine)
• Pilgrim's Progress (Bunyan)
• Institutes of the Christian Religion (Calvin)
• The Weight of Glory (Lewis)

Reading

• How to Read a Book (Adler)
• How to Read Slowly (Sire)
• Validity in Interpretation (Hirsch)

Education

• Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning (Wilson)
• Repairing the Ruins (Wilson)
• Paideia of God (Wilson)
• The Well-Trained Mind (Bauer)
• The Well-Educated Mind (Bauer)
• The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them (Hirsch)
• The New Lifetime Reading Plan (Fadiman)
• Teaching the Trivium (Bluedorn)

Culture

• Roaring Lambs (Briner)
• All God's Children and Blue Suede Shoes (Myers)
• Where in the World is the Church (Horton)
• How Should We Then Live (Schaeffer)
• Cultural Literacy (Hirsch)
• Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Hirsch)
• Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Postman)
• The Art of the Commonplace (Berry)
• The Image (Boorstin)
  

Spiritual Growth

• Righteous Sinners (Julian)
• The Enemy Within: Straight Talk About the Power and Defeat of Sin (Lundgaard)
• Sin and Temptation (Owen; volume 6 of his Works)
• Holiness (Ryle)
• The Spiritual Quest (Whitlock)
• Way of Life (Hodge)
• The Christian in Complete Armor (Gurnall)
• The Sermon on the Mount (Lloyd-Jones)
• War Psalms of the Prince of Peace (Adams)

Communion with God

• Communion with God (Owen; volume 2 of his Works)
• The Life of God in the Soul of Man (Scougal)
• Joy of Fearing God (Bridges)
• Experiencing God's Forgiveness (Ensor; forward by John Piper)
• Fear of God (Bunyan)

God's Guidance

• Step by Step (Petty)
• Decision Making and the Will of God (Friesen)

Devotionals

• Godward Life [Books I and II] (Piper)
• For The Love of God [Volumes I and II] (Carson)
• Morning & Evening (Spurgeon)
• Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions (Bennet)

Prayer & Fasting

• Pray With Your Eyes Open (Pratt)
• Hunger for God (Piper)
• Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers (Carson)
• Theology of Prayer (Palmer)
• A Method for Prayer (Henry)

Women's Spirituality

• Personal Touch (Crabb)
• Women Helping Women (Fitzpatrick)
• By Design (Hunt)
• True Woman (Hunt)
• Female Piety (James)
• Fearlessly Feminine (Ortlund)
• Becoming A Titus 2 Woman (Peace)
• Praise Her in the Gates (Wilson)

Men's Spirituality

• A Godly Man's Picture (Watson)
• Disciplines of a Godly Man (Hughes)
• Fidelity (Wilson)

Marriage

• Mystery of Marriage (Mason)
• Each for the Other (Chapel)
• The Excellent Wife (Peace)
• The Complete Husband (Priolo)
• Love Life for Every Married Couple (Wheat)
• Sex, Romance, and the Glory of God (Mahaney)
• Reforming Marriage (Wilson)

Parenting & Family

• The Family: God's Weapon for Victory (Andrews)
• Your Home: A Place of Grace (Hunt)
• Training Hearts, Teaching Minds (Meade)
• For the Family's Sake (MacAulay)
• Age of Opportunity (Tripp)
• Shepherding a Child's Heart (Tripp)
• The Fruit of Her Hands (Wilson)

Young People

• Passion and Purity (Eliott)
• Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery)
• Anne Henry and the Birth of Liberty (Olasky)
• Thoughts for Young Men (Ryle)
• Choosing My Religion (Sproul)

Children

• Big Book of Questions and Answers (Ferguson)
• Big Truths for Little Kids (Hunt)
• My ABC Bible Verses (Hunt)
• International Children's Bible Dictionary (Waller)
• Someone Awesome (Libby)
• Hero Tales, Volumes 1-4 (Jackson)
• God Made Them All (Carlson)
• Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children (Russell)
• Three Beloved Classics (White)
• Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis)
• Leading Little Ones to God (Schooland)

Counseling

• Competent to Counsel (Adams)
• Ready to Restore (Adams)
• Christian Counselor's Manual (Adams)
• A Theology of Christian Counseling (Adams)
• Love to Eat, Hate to Eat (Fitzpatrick)
• Genius of Puritanism (Lewis)
• Spiritual Depression (Lloyd-Jones)
• Biblical Counseling (MacArthur)
• Case and Cure of a Deserted Soul (Symonds)
• A Christian Directory (Baxter)

Suffering

• When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty (Tada)
• Why Does it Have to Hurt? The Meaning of Christian Suffering (McCartney)
• How Long, O Lord? Reflections on Suffering and Evil (Carson)

Missions & Evangelism

• Let the Nations Be Glad! (Piper)
• The Church is Bigger Than You Think (Johnstone)
• From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya : A Biographical History of Christian Missions (Tucker)
• Autobiography of John Paton (Paton)
• A Vision for Missions (Wells)
• Through Gates of Splendor (Eliot)
• Tell the Truth (Metzger)
• Bruchko (Olson)
• A History of Christian Missions (Neil)

History

• The 100 Most Important Events in Christian History (Curtis, et al)
• Turning Points : Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity (Noll)
• A History of Christianity (Latourette)
• Sketches from Church History (Houghton)
• Hitler's Cross (Lutzer)
• Evangelicalism Divided (Murray)
• Timetables of History (Grun)
• Annals of the World (Ussher)
• The Reformers and Their Stepchildren (Verduin)

Biography

• Legacy of Sovereign Joy:…Augustine, Luther, and Calvin (Piper)
• Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography (Murray)
• Jonathan Edwards (Marsden)
• Wesley and Men Who Followed (Murray)
• Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (Bainton)
• The Forgotten Spurgeon (Murray)
• George Whitefield (Dallimore)
• Foxe's Book of Martyrs (Foxe)

The Puritans

• Worldly Saints: The Puritans as They Reallly Were (Ryken)
• A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life (Packer)
• The Puritans (Lloyd-Jones)

Theological Dictionaries

• New Dictionary of Biblical Theology (Carson)
• Evangelical Dictionary of Theology (Elwell)

Biblical Reference

• The Essential IVP Reference Collection (CD Rom)
• Bible Works (Windows)
• Accordance (Mac)
• Holman Bible Atlas (Brisco)
• New Bible Dictionary (Packer, ed.)
• Introduction to the New Testament (Carson)
• Introduction to the Old Testament (Longman)

Biblical Background

• Backgrounds of Early Christianity (Ferguson)
• IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament (Keener)
• IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament (Walton)
• Dictionary of NT Background (Evans)
• Understanding the Land of the Bible (Robertson)

Biblical Interpretation

• Introduction to Biblical Interpretation (Blomberg)
• Exegetical Fallacies (Carson)
• Basic Guide to Interpreting the Bible (Stein)
• How to Read the Psalms (Longman)
• Reading the Bible with Heart and Mind (Longman)
• He Gave us Stories (Pratt)
• Interpreting the Pauline Epistles (Schreiner)
• The Hermeneutical Spiral (Osborn)
• Foundations of Contemporary Interpretation (Silva)
• Interpreting the Prophetic Word (VanGemeren)
• Is There a Meaning in This Text? (Vanhoozer)

Biblical Studies

• Historical Reliability of the Gospels (Blomberg)
• Toward an Old Testament Theology (Kaiser)
• Paul & His Letters (Polhil)
• The Progress of Redemption (VanGemeren)

Sets

• Practical Works of Richard Baxter (4 volumes)
• Works of Benjamin B. Warfield (10 volumes)
• Works of John Newton (6 volumes)
• The Works of Jonathan Edwards (2 volumes)
• The Collected Writings of John Murray (4 volumes)
• The Works of John Owen (16 volumes)
• Sermons of Charles Spurgeon (5 volumes)
• The Collected Shorter Writings of J.I. Packer (4 volumes)
• God, Revelation, and Authority (6 volumes) (Carl F.H. Henry)
  
  

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