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There are a lot of books out there and sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. While this bookshelf certainly isn’t exhaustive, our hope is that it provides a great starting point.

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Apologetics

Confronting Christianity

Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus

The Case for Christ

The Reason for God

Telling a Better Story

After Doubt

Set Adrift

Evidence That Demands A Verdict

Secular Creed

Counter Culture

Biblical Resources

ESV Study Bible

The Bible Recap

30 Days to Understanding the Bible

Beginning At Moses

How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth

Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes

Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes

Reading the Bible Supernaturally

The Story

The Unfolding Mystery

Understanding the Bible

Grasping God’s Word

series

God’s Word For You

The Big Book of Bible Difficulties

Tough Topics

Calling and Work

Courage & Calling

Every Good Endeavor

God At Work

The Call

What’s Best Next

The Lord's Work in the Lord's Way

Deep Work

Slow Productivity

Atomic Habits

Every Moment Holy, Volume III

Children’s Books

Any Time, Any Place, Any Prayer

God's Very Good Idea

The Giving Tree

The Tale of Three Trees

You Are Special

A World Wonder

Little Pilgrim's Big Journey

African Heroes

Brave Heroes and Bold Defenders

Do Great Things for God

Indescribable

Bibles

The Biggest Story

The Jesus Storybook Bible

Epic

Bible Recap: Kids

Big Picture Bible

Seek & Find Bible

The Promises of God Storybook Bible

Tough Topics

God Mad All of Me

Go Made Boys and Girls

Good Pictures, Bad Pictures

Good Pictures, Bad Pictures, Jr.

God Made Me and You

Like Me

God Made Me Unique

Heaven For Kids

God's Design for Sex Series

Big Theology for Little Hearts Series

The Great Big Sad

Christian Classics

A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

The Knowledge of the Holy

Mere Christianity

Orthodoxy

Pilgrim’s Progress

The Confessions of St. Augustine

The Cost of Discipleship

The Crucifixion

The Divine Conspiracy

The Imitation of Christ

A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23

Knowing God

The Practice of the Presence of God

The Bruised Reed

Church History, Creeds, & Confessions

Crisis of Confidence

Theological Retrieval

What It Means to be Protestant

Theologians You Should Know

The Nicene Creed

The New City Catechism

Church History

The Nicene Creed

Creeds, Confessions, & Catechisms

Truths We Confess

Christ & Creed

For Kids and Teens

Faith Builder Catechism

The Ology

Devotional

My Utmost for His Highest

Abide In Christ

The Prodigal God

God’s Wisdom for Navigating Life

The Songs of Jesus

The Valley of Vision

New Morning Mercies

He Is Strong

In The Lord I Take Refuge

Fiction

Gilead

The Chosen

series

The Chronicles of Narnia

The Hobbit

Hinds Feet on High Places

Silence

Leadership

Developing Female Leaders

Leadership Is An Art

The Power of Moments

Spiritual Leadership

The 360° Leader

The Culture Code

Loss and Suffering

A Grace Disguised

A Severe Mercy

Suffering

Suffering & the Heart of God

Walking with God through Pain & Suffering

Embodied Hope

Prayer in the Night

Heaven

Held

Suffering is Never for Nothing

Walking Through Infertility

Every Moment Holy, Volume II

Memoirs & Biographies

Timothy Keller

Adoniram Judson

Bonhoeffer

HIs Truth Is Marching On

The Unquenchable Flame

Steal Away Home

Through Gates of Splendor

Becomiong Elisabeth Elliot

8 Women of Faith

The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Amy Carmichael

Five Pioneer Missionaries

Mental Health

Christians Get Depressed Too

Darkness is My Only Companion

Grace for the Afflicted

Spiritual Depression

Spurgeon’s Sorrows

Finding Quiet

The Soul of Shame

Untangle Your Emotions

Missions & Evangelism

The 3D Gospel

Becoming Whole

Spiritual Multiplication in the Real World

The Art of Neighboring

The Gospel Comes with A House Key

When Helping Hurts

Loving The City

Across the Street & Around the World

The Master Plan of Evangelism

Questioning Evangelism

Money & Finances

Redeeming Money

Money, Possessions, and Eternity

Managing God's Money

The Treasure Principle

God and Money

Poetry and Art

Discovering God through the Arts

75 Masterpieces Every Christian Should Know

Art and the Bible

Poems

Adorning the Dark

Every Moment Holy, Volume I

Relationships

Friendship and Community

Boundaries

When The Church Was a Family

Made For Friendship

No Greater Love

Find Your People

True Friendship

Made For People

Life Together

The Path of Loneliness

Caring for One Another

Singleness & Marriage

7 Myths About Singleness

The Meaning of Marriage

Single Dating Engaged Married

Marriage

Redeeming Singleness

Parenting & Grandparenting

Parenting

The Tech-Wise Family

Boundaries with Kids

Boundaries with Teens

Raising Emotionally Strong Boys

Mama Bear Apologetics

Risen Motherhood

Parenting With Hope

Habits of the Household

Biblical Grandparenting

Grand Parenting

Grandparenting with Grace

God’s Grace for Every Family

Sexuality & Sexual Integrity

Gay Girl, Good God

Holy Sexuality and the Gospel

Is God Anti-Gay?

Love Thy Body

Rethinking Sexuality: God's Design and Why it Matters

Sex and the Supremacy of Christ

The Death of Porn

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self

Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing

Washed and Waiting

Why Does God Care Who I Sleep With?

Born Again This Way

Messy Grace

Loving My LGBT Neighbor

Spiritual Disciplines

A Praying Life

Habits of Grace

Life in the Presence of God

Ordering Your Private World

The Common Rule

The Listening Life

The Spirit of the Disciplines

Celebration of Discipline

Prayer

The Discipline of Grace

Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools

Spiritual Formation

Strong and Weak

The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness

The Pursuit of God

You Can Change

Practicing the Way

The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

Desiring God

A Gospel Primer for Christians

Counterfeit Gods

Gentle and Lowly

Humble Roots

Renovation of the Heart

Chasing Contentment

Sacred Pathways

Technology

The Tech-Wise Family

Analog Christian

Social Sanity in an Insta World

Glow Kids

The Anxious Generation

Screens and Teens

12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You

Teens

God’s Great Story

The Jesus I Wish I Knew In High School

New Morning Mercies For Teens

10 Questions Every Teen Should Ask (And Answer) About Christianity

Disciplines of a Godly Young Man

Disciplines of a Godly Woman

Crazy Love

Find Your People

Dangerous Prayers

Just Do Something

Outdate

Don’t Waste Your Life

Radical

Redefining Anxiety

Theology

Basic Christianity

Heaven is a Place on Earth

The Cross of Christ

Delighting in the Trinity

volume 1

Exploring Christian Theology

volume 2

Exploring Christian Theology

volume 3

Exploring Christian Theology

Systematic Theology

Everyone’s a Theologian

Christian Theology

You Are A Theologian

World Perspectives

Same Kind of Different As Me

Just Mercy

Letters to A Birmingham Jail

Oneness Embraced

The Color of Water

The Hiding Place

The Locust Effect

To Change The World

When Breath Becomes Air

Where the Wind Leads

Everything Sad is Untrue

Reading While Black

Jesus Through The Eyes of Women

Same Lake Different Boat

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