Growing in Christ
Reads and Books
Books I’ve read in 2012:
- The Christian Ministry by Charles Bridges
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
- A Treatise on Self-Denial by Thomas Manton
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe by Douglas Adams
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
- The Message of 1 Timothy & Titus by John Stott
- Private Thoughts on Religion by Thomas Adam
- The Fellowship of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Open Sea and Other Poems by William Meredith
- The Complete Calvin and Hobbes: Vol. 1 by Bill Watterson
- The Birds our Teachers by John Stott
- Spirit Empowered Preaching: Involving the Holy Spirit in Your Ministry by Arturo G. Azurdia III
2011:
- A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age by Alan Jacobs
- The Nature of Indwelling Sin in Believers by John Owen (Quotes & outline here)
- When People Are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man by Ed Welch
- Entrusted with the Gospel: Pastoral Expositions of 2 Timothy
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Rid of my Disgrace: Hope and Healing for Victims of Sexual Abuse by Justin S. Holcomb and Lindsey A. Holcomb(Review: here)
- 100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson
- God the Peacemaker by Graham A. Cole
- Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by George Horace Lorimer
- Practicing Affirmation by Sam Crabtree
- A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life by William Law
- Organized Simplicity by Tsh Oxenreider
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
- Proverbs by Derek Kidner
- The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy Sayers
- Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler
- The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distractions by Alan Jacobs
- The Man who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
- New Poems by Richard Wilbur
- Mayflies: New Poems and Translations by Richard Wilbur
- New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ by John Piper
- When I Don’t Desire God by John Piper
- Biblical Theology in the Life of the Church: A Guide for Ministry by Michael Lawrence
- The Godly Man’s Picture by Thomas Watson
- The Mind-Reader: New Poems by Richard Wilbur
- Walking to Sleep: New Poems and Translations by Richard Wilbur
- Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems by Richard Wilbur
- Tempted and Tried: Temptation and the Triumph of Chris by Russel Moore (My Review)
- Things of This World by Richard Wilbur
- Ceremony and Other Poems by Richard Wilbur
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Michell
- Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson
- The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems by Richard Wilbur
- The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life by Brad Green
- Under the Glacier by Halldor Laxness
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
- The Fountain of Life by John Flavel - The Works of John Flavel: Volume 1
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
- The Lightning Thief by Rick Roirdan
- My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
- The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
- Anterooms by Richard Wilbur
- The Meaning of the Pentateuch by John Sailhamer
- The Horse and his Boy by C.S. Lewis
- The Next Story: Life and Faith after the Digital Explosion by Tim Challies
- Consider The Lillies: A Plea for Creational Theology by T.M. Moore
- The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
- Die Young: Burring yourself in Christ By Hayley DiMarco, Michael DiMarco
- Preaching Christ by Charles P McIlvaine
2010:
- Memoir of Robert Murray M’Cheyne by Andrew Bonar
- Lectures to my Students by C.H. Spurgeon
- Spurgeon v. Hyper-Calvinism by Iain Murray
- Preaching and Preachers by D.Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Review: Here)
- Steering Through Chaos by Scott Wilson (Review: Here)
- The Supremacy of God in Preaching by John Piper
- Crazy Love by Frances Chan
- The Book on Leadership by John MacArthur
- Different Eyes: The Art of Living Beautifully by Steve Chalke and Alan Mann (Review: Here)
- Wired for Intimacy – How pornography hijacks the male brain by William M. Struthers
- Reasons for Faith: Philosophy in the Service of Theology by K. Scott Oliphint
- Scandalous by D.A. Carson
- What Is The Gospel? by Greg Gilbert (Review: Here)
- Reformed Dogmatics, Vol. 2: God and Creation by Herman Bavinck
- The Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin (Book 1)
- The Institutes of Elenctic Theology, Vol. 1 by Francis Turretin
- Reforming Marriage by Douglas Wilson
- Simplicity in Preaching by J.C. Ryle
- Slave of Christ by Murray Harris
- Instructing a Child’s Heart by Tedd Tripp
- AND: The Gathered and Scattered Church by Hugh Halter and Matt Smay (Review: here)
- Justification Vindicated by Robert Traill
- Why Small Groups?
- Rescuing Ambition by Dave Harvey
- Knowing God by J.I. Packer (hardcover)
- The Power of a Whisper by Bill Hybels
- The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage
- Church Planter by Darrin Patrick (Review: Here)
- The Secret of Communion with God by Matthew Henry
- Just Do Something by Kevin DeYoung
- Seeing With New Eyes by David Powlison
- Collected Writings on Scripture by D.A. Carson (Review: Here)
- Think by John Piper (Review: Here)
- George Whitefield: Volume 1 by Arnold Dallimore
- Jonathan Edwards on the Good Life
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien






