Further Reading
Books we recommend for training in Presence, Community, and Mission. Pick a pathway, choose an easy read or something deeper, and find your next book.
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Before You Open Your Bible
Nine heart postures for coming to Scripture; very short.
How to Pray
A simple guide to prayer for ordinary people, built on the Lord’s Prayer.
Living by the Book
A step-by-step way to observe, interpret and apply the Bible for yourself.
Practicing the Way
What it means to apprentice yourself to Jesus: be with him, become like him, do as he did.
A Praying Life
Honest, warm help for people who struggle to pray.
Praying the Bible
A short method for turning Scripture into your prayers.
Red Moon Rising
The story of how the 24-7 Prayer movement began and what it taught about prayer.
Respectable Sins
The everyday sins churches tend to overlook, and how to face them.
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
Rest, Sabbath and a slower pace as the way to stay close to Jesus.
Spirit Rising
A pastor’s call to depend on the Holy Spirit’s power in daily life and in the church.
Women of the Word
A simple, repeatable method for studying a book of the Bible.
You’ll Get Through This
Hope in hard seasons, told through the story of Joseph.
Celebration of Discipline
The most widely used guide to the spiritual disciplines, inward, outward and corporate.
Concise Theology
Basic Christian beliefs, a few pages per topic.
Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy
Learning to lament: bringing grief honestly to God.
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
Why spiritual maturity requires emotional maturity, with practices for both.
Gentle and Lowly
The heart of Christ toward sinners and sufferers.
The Glorious Pursuit
Growing in the virtues of Christ, such as humility, patience and gentleness, as a way of life.
Good and Angry
What anger is, what it guards, and how it can be redeemed.
How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth
How each kind of writing in the Bible works and how to read it well.
The Knowledge of the Holy
Short meditations on the attributes of God, written to stir worship.
The Pursuit of God
A short classic on hungering for God himself.
The Radical Disciple
Eight neglected marks of following Jesus, from simplicity to dependence; Stott’s last book.
Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
A practical tour of the classic disciplines: Bible intake, prayer, fasting, silence and more.
Trusting God
God’s goodness and control when life hurts.
After You Believe
How Christian character forms: virtues practiced until they become second nature.
The Cost of Discipleship
Cheap grace versus costly grace, worked out through the Sermon on the Mount.
Knowing God
A modern classic on who God is and what it means to know him.
Miracles
A two-volume scholarly defense of the miracle accounts, with hundreds of modern reports. (Miracles Today is his short version.)
The Mortification of Sin
The Puritan classic on putting sin to death by the Spirit.
Prayer
A full treatment of what prayer is and how to practice it.
The Problem of Pain
How a good and powerful God can allow suffering.
The Spirit of the Disciplines
Why the disciplines change us: a theology of training for the whole person.
Find Your People
Building deep community in a lonely world, with practical first steps.
Improving Your Serve
The art of unselfish living: what a servant’s heart looks like.
Made for Friendship
A short, warm case for deep Christian friendship.
The Master Plan of Evangelism
How Jesus trained the Twelve, and how to invest in a few people the same way.
Multiply
A hands-on guide to being a disciple who makes disciples.
Side by Side
How ordinary Christians help each other: asking for help and giving it.
Caring Enough to Confront
How to speak hard truth in love without attacking or avoiding.
Forgive
Why forgiveness is so hard and how the gospel makes it possible.
Forgive and Forget
A gentle, practical path through the stages of forgiving a deep hurt.
Life Together
What real Christian community requires.
The Peacemaker
Practical steps for conflict, confession and forgiveness.
The Trellis and the Vine
Why every member, not just staff, is called to make disciples.
The Four Loves
Affection, friendship, romantic love and charity, and how each can go right or wrong.
Free of Charge
Giving and forgiving as the shape of the Christian life.
Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands
How God uses ordinary people to help one another change.
Praying with Paul
Paul’s prayers as a model for how and what to pray for others.
Spiritual Formation as if the Church Mattered
Argues that people are formed in the local church, and shows how a church can do it on purpose.
With Christ in the School of Prayer
Thirty-one lessons on prayer and intercession from the words of Jesus.
The Art of Neighboring
Taking Jesus literally about loving the people who live next door.
Evangelism
How a whole church, not just individuals, shares its faith.
A Field Guide for Everyday Mission
Thirty days and 101 small, practical ways to live on mission.
The Insanity of God
Stories from the persecuted church that reset what bold faith looks like.
The Treasure Principle
A very short, compelling case for joyful generosity.
Every Good Endeavor
Seeing your work as part of God’s work in the world.
Garden City
Work, rest and what you were made to do.
The Gospel Comes with a House Key
A moving case for ordinary, daily hospitality.
The King Jesus Gospel
The gospel as the announcement that Jesus is Messiah and Lord, the story of Israel fulfilled, with salvation flowing from it.
Out of the Saltshaker and into the World
Evangelism as a natural way of life, modeled on how Jesus related to people.
When Helping Hurts
How to serve people in need without harming them or yourself.
Faithful Presence
Seven practices by which a church lives out God’s mission in its neighborhood.
The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
How to hold and share the gospel with confidence in a culture of many beliefs.
The Mission of God’s People
A whole-Bible account of what God’s people are sent to be and do.
Money, Possessions, and Eternity
A comprehensive biblical treatment of money and giving.
Tell the Truth
A thorough, God-centered guide to personal evangelism.