The Believer's Bookshelf

ecently, I’ve been casually reading through Crazy Love by Francis Chan. I say casually because I only have time to read it when I carve out some time for reading. Furthermore, I’m one of those people who begins way too many books. It’s kinda a running joke between Laura and I that start a bunch [...]

The Dangerous Duty of Delight: Daring to Make God Your Greatest Desire (LifeChange Books) by John Piper packs an insightful message into a brief delivery. Topping out at just around 100 pages, Piper delves into what he calls Christian Hedonism. In the progression of the book, Piper explains through careful textual inference the importance of [...]

Vintage Church: Timeless Truths and Timely Methods (Re:Lit: Vintage Jesus) by Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears comes as their second co-authored book in the “vintage” series. Their first related work was Amazon Vintage Jesus Title here, where they called believers back to the basic commands of Jesus. Carrying this throwback terminology yet once again, Vintage [...]

The Don’t Waste Your Life Sentence DVD depicts the lives of those within Louisiana’s Angola prison complex. Angola is one of the nation’s most secure and criminally severe prisons, comprised with the nation’s most severe sentenced inmates. Many of these individuals’ sentences are a life-term and some of them await a death-row sentence. In this [...]

Recently, I had the privilege of attending a pastoral conference on prayer. I think the truth that struck me most was found in Psalm 27:4, “One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to [...]

So, I was recently going through my library and came across a great commentary on the book of Romans. I read Douglas Moo’s work on Romans back during a class I took a few years ago. Coming from one who absolutely loves the book of Romans, I thoroughly enjoyed Moo’s treatment of this doctrinally-rich book! [...]

Grace: For Those Who Think They Don’t Measure Up by Bob Lenz aims to be a fresh look at God’s grace in a way that the average reader can grasp. Lenz, a motivational youth speaker, uses his passion for the Gospel and God’s grace to inspire youth toward positive change. Such change, Lenz explains in [...]

In Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit Francis Chan seeks to reverse the church’s all too often tragic neglect of the Holy Spirit. Francis Chan builds off his first book, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God, bringing us a new and equally weighty topic. If you have been around any [...]

“In a world starving for genuine, lasting intimacy, a loving Christian marriage is a powerful witness to the gospel and the goodness of God. Let’s overturn the worldly notion that only newlyweds can be expected to make frequent, romantic, touching a matter of lifestyle.” (page 79) C.J. Mahaney’s Sex, Romance, and the Glory of God: [...]

Originally published in 1961, J.I. Packer’s Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God (Ivp Classics) comes now in a newly published version as an IVP classic book. IVP states their passion at the back of the book, “IVP Classics are significant, compact books that have stood the test of time, written by trusted authors who shaped [...]