Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or swerve from them. Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you. Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding.-Proverbs 4:5-7
At Christ Redeemer Church, we believe that ongoing study is an important part of the Christian life. This page shares both articles and books that we have found helpful in understanding many subjects in light of the Gospel. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it is a helpful start. Click on any topic to see the list of books and articles in that category.
Many of these books are also available on the book table in the lobby. For a complete list of books available, contact the
Below is a very narrow selection of books to begin with, assuming one’s goal is to growing biblical knowledge and understanding of the most basic Gospel doctrine. There are many more books in the categories that follow for further study and growth.
Pre-School & Elementary Children
Big Picture Story Bible
By David Helm
The Jesus Storybook Bible:
Every Story Whispers His Name
By Sally Lloyd-Jones
(This book is really good for every age to read.)
Junior High & High School Children
Junior High
Big Truths for Young Hearts:
Teaching and Learning the Greatness of God
By Bruce A. Ware
(This can be good for younger children as well)
High School
Transformed by Truth: Why and How to Study the Bible for Yourself as a Teen
By Katharine Forster
ESV Student Study Bible
Published by Crossway
Adults
Church History: An Essential Guide
By Justo Gonzalez
Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
By John Piper
ESV Study Bible
Published by Crossway
Christian Novice or Non-Believer
How Can I Know God?
by Dr. Tim Keller
The Gospel Study Guide
by Pastor Don Willeman
Mere Christianity
C.S.Lewis
The Walk: Steps for New and Renewed Followers of Jesus
By Stephen Smallman
Basic Christianity
By John Stott
The Everlasting Man
By G.K. Chesterton
For Your Joy by John Piper a free PDF download
The Gospel Declaration- A Call to Gospel Informed Ministry by Converge Worldwide
The Gospel Study Guide
by Pastor Don Willeman
A Gospel Primer for Christians
By Milton Vincent
Mere Christianity
By C.S. Lewis
Orthodoxy
By G.K. Chesterton
The Prodigal God
By Tim Keller
Reason for God
By Tim Keller
Simply Christian
By N.T. Wright
Ultimate Questions
By John Blanchard
The Walk: Steps for New and Renewed Followers of Jesus
By Stephen Smallman
What is Worship?
by Don Willeman
Lenten Devotionals are available from Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City. These may helpful in focusing on repentance and our need for salvation in preparation for the celebration of the resurrection on Easter Sunday. You may also find these devotionals arranged by date for the current year here.
The Family Devotional Guide is a tool that we developed almost 10 years ago. It is arranged in a weekly format that is convenient for use at the dinner table, bed time, or whenever. The catechisms in this are particularly helpful and the basic orthodox creeds appended at the end of the document are worth pondering for their basic gospel categories. It is available on the book table and here in PDF form.
M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
The M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan was developed by a Scottish pastor in the 1800s. This plan takes the reader through the New Testament and Psalms twice a year and the Old Testament once a year. There are also many other Bible reading plans available on the web.
For the Love of God
By D.A. Carson
Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
By John Piper
Do Hard Things
By Alex & Brett Harris
Don’t Waste Your Life
By John Piper
Fasting for the Purpose of Godliness
the purpose of fasting explained
Untangling Emotions
By J. Alasdair Groves & Winston T. Smith
How Long O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil
By D. A. Carson
Are Christians Human?
Audiobook version
By Nigel M. de S. Cameron
Lies Women Believe and the Truth that Sets Them Free
By Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Life Together
By Deitrich Bonhoeffer
Man in the Mirror
By Patrick Morley
A Praying Life
By Paul Miller
The Psychological Implications of the Gospel
By Don Willeman
Pilgrim’s Progress
By John Bunyan
The Screwtape Letters
By C.S. Lewis
Sex and the Supremacy of Christ
By John Piper & Justin Taylor
War of Words
By Paul David Tripp
Thoughts on Fasting & Prayer
From scripture and theologians
The Walk: Steps for New and Renewed Followers of Jesus
By Stephen Smallman
What is a Healthy Church Member?
By Thabiti M Anyabwile
Holy Sexuality and the Gospel
By Christopher Yuan
Gay Girl Good God
By Jackie Hill Perry
Adopted for Life
By Russell D. Moore
Age of Opportunity
By Paul David Tripp
For Men Only
By Shaunti & Jeff Feldhahn
For Parents Only
By Shaunti Feldhahn & Lisa Rice
For Women Only
By Shaunti Feldhahn
Grace-Based Parenting
By Tim Kimmel
Love and Respect
By Emerson Eggereichs
The Meaning of Marriage
By Tim Keller
The Mystery of Marriage
By Mike Mason
Passion and Purity:
Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ’s Control
By Elisabeth Elliot
Preparing for Marriage:
Help for Christian Couples
By John Piper
a free PDF download
Shepherding a Child’s Heart
By Tedd Tripp
They Were Single Too: 8 Biblical Role Models
By David M. Hoffeditz
Tying the Knot
By Rob Green
When Sinners Say “I Do”
By Dave Harvey
7 Myths about Singleness
By Sam Allberry
The Tech-Wise Family
By Andy Crouch
The Case for Christ, Student Edition
By Lee Strobel, Jane Vogel
Discovering God’s Way of Handling Money
A Financial Study for Teens
By Howard Dayton, Bev Dayton
Do Hard Things
By Alex Harris, Brett Harris
Don’t Waste Your Life
By John Piper
Transformed by Truth: Why and How to Study the Bible for Yourself as a Teen
By Katherine Forster
Guys are Waffles, Girls are Spaghetti
By Chad Eastham, Bill Farrel, Pam Farrel
Just Do Something
A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will
By Kevin DeYoung
Lies Young Women Believe:
And the Truth That Sets Them Free
By Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Dannah Gresh
Passion and Purity
Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ’s Control
By Elisabeth Elliot
ESV Student Study Bible
Published by Crossway
Big Picture Story Bible
By David Helm
The Chronicles of Narnia
By C.S. Lewis
The Case for Christ for Kids
By Lee Strobel
The Case for a Creator for Kids
By Lee Strobel
The Case for Faith for Kids
By Lee Strobel
CRC Family Devotional Guide
By Don Willeman
Egermeier’s Bible Story Book
by Elsie Egermeier, Clive Uptton
The Gospel Story Bible:
Discovering Jesus in the Old and New Testaments
By Marty Machowski
The Jesus Storybook Bible
By Sally Lloyd-Jones
The King Without a Shadow
By R.C. Sproul
The Lightlings
By R.C. Sproul
The Prince’s Poison Cup
By R.C. Sproul
Almost Christian
What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church
By Kenda Creasy Dean
The Cross and Christian Ministry
By D. A. Carson
Foolishness to the Greeks:
The Gospel and Western Culture
By Lesslie Newbigin
The Gospel Commission
Recovering God’s Strategy for Making Disciples
By Michael Horton
The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
By Lesslie Newbigin
Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands:
People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change
By Paul David Tripp
Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way
By J.I. Packer,
Gary A. Parrett
Ministries of Mercy: The Call of the Jericho Road
By Tim Keller
Preaching & Preachers
By D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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The Trellis and the Vine:
The Ministry Mind-Shift that Changes Everything
By Colin Marshall & Tony Payne
What is a Healthy Church Member?
By Thabiti M Anyabwile
What is the Mission of the Church
By Kevin DeYoung & Greg Gilbert
Why We’re Not Emergent: By Two Guys Who Should Be
By Kevin DeYoung & Ted Kluck
Worship by the Book
By Edited by D.A. Carson
Body Broken:
Can Republicans and Democrats
Sit in the Same Pew?
by Charles D. Drew
The Call
by Os Guinness
Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Plan for the World
by Timothy Keller
The Global Public Square
by Os Guiness
Gray Matter
by David Levy, Joel Kilpatrick
Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind
by Mark A. Noll
The Missional Entrepreneur
by Mark Russell
The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship
by George Marsden
The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief
by George Marsden
Vocation
by Douglass Schuurman
Aging Matters
by Gary W. Cox, Mathew D. McCubbins
Third Calling
by Dr. Richard Bergstrom and Leona Bergstrom
Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life
by Makoto Fujimura
Body Broken:
Can Republicans and Democrats
Sit in the Same Pew?
by Charles D. Drew
Christ & Culture Revisited
By D. A. Carson
The Global Public Square: Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity
by Os Guiness
Confident Pluralism: Surving and Thriving Through Deep Difference
by John D. Inazu
A Little Manual for Knowing
by Esther Lightcap Meek
Loving to Know: Covenant Epistemology
by Esther Lightcap Meek
Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
by James K. A. Smith
How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor
by James K. A. Smith
Church History: An Essential Guide
By Justo Gonzalez
Creeds of the Churches
By John Leith
The Essential Edwards Collection
By Owen Strachan & Doug Sweeney
Here I Stand
A Life of Martin Luther
By Roland H. Bainton
Jonathan Edwards
A Life
By George M. Marsden
Readings in the History of Christian Theology Volume 1
By William C. Placher
Readings in the History of Christian Theology Volume 2
By William C. Placher
Our Legacy
By John D. Hannah
The Reading and Preaching of Scripture
In the Worship of the Christian Church
By Hughes Oliphant Old
Spurgeon vs. Hyper-Calvinism
By Ian Murray
The Story of Christianity: Vol 1
By Justo Gonzalez
The Story of Christianity: Vol 2
By Justo Gonzalez
The Unquenchable Flame
Discovering the Heart of the Reformation
By Michael Reeves
The Forgotten Spurgeon
By Ian Murray
Destroyer of the gods
By Larry W. Hurtado
Delighting in the Trinity
By Michael Reeves
Rejoicing in Christ
By Michael Reeves
The Apostolic Preaching of the Cross
By Leon Morris
Christ & Culture Revisited
By D. A. Carson
The Cross of Christ
By John R.W. Stott
The Holiness of God, Revised and Expanded Edition
By R.C. Sproul
Institutes of the Christian Religion
By John Calvin
Jesus Christ and
the Life of the Mind
by Mark A. Noll
Justification
By Francis Turretin
Knowing God
By J.I. Packer
The Pleasures of God
By John Piper
The Race Set Before Us:
A Biblical Theology of Perseverance & Assurance
By Thomas R. Schreiner & Ardel B. Caneday
The Religious Affections
By Jonathan Edwards
Francis Schaeffer Trilogy
By Francis Schaeffer
The Wonderful Works of God
By Herman Bavinck
Calvin’s Institutes
By John Calvin
Augustine’s Confessions
By Saint Augustine
According to Plan:
The Unfolding Revelation of God in the Bible
By Graeme Goldsworthy
The Canon of Scripture
By F. F. Bruce
The Canon of the New Testament:
Its Origin, Development, and Significance
By Bruce M. Metzger
Is the New Testament Reliable?
By Paul Barnett
God’s Big Picture:
Tracing the Story-line of the Bible
By Vaughan Roberts
How to Read the Bible Book by Book: A Guided Tour
By Gordon D. Fee, Douglas Stuart
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses:
The Gospels As Eyewitness Testimony
By Richard Bauckham
The Historical Reliability of the Gospels
By Craig Blomberg
The Meaning of the Pentateuch:
Revelation, Composition, and Interpretation
By John H. Sailhamer
The New Testament Documents: Are they Reliable?
By F.F. Bruce
New Testament History
By F.F. Bruce
The Old Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?
By Walter C. Kaiser
Can We Trust the Gospel?
By Peter Williams
The Case for Jesus
By Brant Pitre
ESV Study Bible
Published by Crossway
The Reformation Study Bible
P & R Publishers
ESV Student Study Bible
Published by Crossway
ESV Seek and Find Bible
Published by Crossway
NIV Zondervan Study Bible
D.A. Carson, General Editor
The Island of Knowledge
By Marcelo Gleiser