Sam’s Spring/Summer 2022 Reading List

Here are some books I’ve recently read or hope to get to soon!

Christian Life

• Mark Dever, Discipling: How to Help Others Follow Jesus (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2016)
• Garrett Kell, How Can I Find Someone to Disciple Me? (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2020)
• J. I. Packer, A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010)
• Dane C. Ortlund, Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners (Wheaton, IL: Crossway: 2021)
• Ligon Duncan, Does God Care How We Worship? (P&R Publishing, 2020)
• Matt Smethurst, Before You Open Your Bible: Nine Heart Postures for Approaching God’s Word (The Gospel Coalition Publishing, 2019).
• Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1998)

Understanding Culture and Important Issues

• Alan Jacobs, How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds (New York, NY: Currency, 2017).
• Tim Muehlhoff and Richard Langer, Winsome Conviction: Disagreeing without Dividing the Church (Downers Grove, IL: IVP 2020)
• Isaac Adams, Talking about Race: Gospel Hope for Hard Conversations (Zondervan: 2022).
• Carl R. Trueman, Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution (Wheaton, IL: Crossway: 2022).
• Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey, Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press: 2021)

History

• Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2019)

Apologetics

• Rebecca McLaughlin, Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2019)
• Joshua Chatraw, Telling a Better Story: How to Talk about God in a Skeptical Age (Grand Rapids, Mi: Zondervan, 2020)
• Rebecca M. Pippert, Stay Salt: The World Has Changed: Our Message Must Not (The Good Book Company, 2020)

Biography

• James P. Eglinton, Bavinck: A Critical Biography (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2020)
• Ellen S. Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot (Nashville, TN: B & H, 2020)