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5 Books for Summer Reading

Here’s a list of five books that I recommend for you readers out there. I also own every book listed here, so if you want to borrow it, let me know. Every book listed is given a link to Amazon.Com, so you can purchase it for your own library. Every book listed is $15 or cheaper, and so is easy on the wallet, but hard on the heart.

• The Reason for God by Tim Keller
  • This book is the new Mere Christianity. In my humble opinion, it’s light years better. It not only refutes the “defeater questions” of our post-modern, secular society, but it presents why Christianity is a viable, and indeed the only viable, option.
• The Radical Reformission by Mark Driscoll
  • Mark Driscoll, while controversial in the past, has revolutionary old things to say about mission in our culture. He addresses everything from redeeming culture to shunning sinfulness without shunning people. It’s a great book, easy to read, and brings us to the heart of what it means to redeem a city and it’s culture.
• Christian Beliefs by Wayne Grudem
  • Wayne Grudem, father of Elliot Grudem, pastor of Christ the King in the Raleigh area, has very plainly explained what it means to be a Christian. This is a great “refresher” course in areas of the Gospel such as the Atonement, the Resurrection, and sanctification. Never too basic for a believer, I promise.
• Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper
  • This book speaks to what we at Harmony call “looking at the world through crimson-colored glasses”. Don’t let your life drift by, while you work towards things that are not only unachievable without Christ, but are often utterly trivial. This book is extremely challenging, but well worth reading.
• Resolutions and Advice to Young Converts by Jonathan Edwards
  • This book is $3 on Amazon. It’s 40 pages from cover to cover. But it’s the hardest book to apply and put into practice. These are the great American Puritan preacher’s life-guiding resolutions that he attempted to put into practice everyday. Digest it. Think on the resolutions. But ultimately, try to put them into practice. Start with the first one:
    • Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory and to my own good, profit, and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now or never so many myriads of ages hence. Resolved to do whatever I think to be my duty, and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general. Resolved to do this, whatever difficulties I meet with, how ever so many and how ever so great.

Good luck.