2025 Summer Reading Recommendations

    April 20, 2025

    Need a good book to read this summer? We asked our staff to give some recommendations for summer reading, and we got everything from Christian living and biographies to spiritual growth and parenting resources.
      

    Christian Living

    • One with My Lord: The Life-Changing Reality of Being in Christ by Sam Allberry
    • Platforms to Pillars by Mark Sayers
    • Impossible Christianity by Kevin DeYoung
    • Strengthening the Soul of your Leadership by Ruth Haley Barton
    • Lost Art of Discipleship by Leroy Eims
    • Waiting on God by Andrew Murray
    • How to Give Away Your Faith by Paul Little
    • Dark Clouds Deep Mercy by Mark Vroegop
    • Holding on to Hope by Nancy Guthrie
    • Hearing Jesus Speak into Your Sorrow by Nancie Guthrie
    • Reading Black Books by Claude Atcho
    • Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    Fiction

    • The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
    • Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
    • The Dean’s Watch by Elizabeth Goudge
    • The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

    Nonfiction

    • Strange Rights by Tara Isabella Burton
    • How to Know a Person by David Brooks book genre
    • Perfecting Ourselves to Death by Richard Winter

    Topical

    • Parenting without Panic in a LGBTQ Affirming World by Rachel Gilson
    • Making Good Return: Honoring Aging Parents by Kathleen Nielson
    • Time Out! The Gift Or God of Youth Sports by John Perritt
    • Hope for the Caregiver by Peter Rosenberger

    Biography

    • Our Witchdoctors Are Too Weak by Davey and Marie Jank
    • Missionary to the New Hebrides by John G. Paton
    • Clothed With Strength: Single Women Serving Christ in the Arab World by Christine McLaren

    Missions

    • Mission Smart by David Frazier
    • Foreign to Familiar by Sarah Lanier
    • Six Dangerous Questions by Paul Borthwick
    • The Art of Crossing Cultures by Craig Storti

    Theology

    • Church History in Plain Language by Bruce Shelley

    Memoir

    • Surprised by Oxford by Carolyn Weber

    Devotional

    • ESV Devotional Journal, Fruit of the Spirit Series

    For New Believers

    • Praying the Bible by Donald Whitney
    • Need to Know: Your Guide to the Christian Life by Gary Millar

     
    Many of these titles are available in our church bookstore and library—feel free to stop by and browse!

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