Summer Reading Ideas!

Here are some great summer reading ideas.  You can probably find most of them at the church library although many are worth buying and adding to your home library! 

1.       Anything by A.W. Tozer: The Knowledge of the Holy, The Pursuit of God, The Best of Tozer Book 1 & 2

2.       Anything by Mike Bickle: The Pleasure of Loving God, The Rewards of Fasting, Passion for Jesus, Growing in the Prophetic, etc.

3.       Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Cost of Discipleship

4.       Keith Green:  No Compromise (biography)

5.       Brother Lawrence: The Practice of the Presence of God

6.       Brother Yun: The Heavenly Man (biography)

7.       Richard Wurmbrand: Tortured for Christ (biography)

8.       Roy Hession: The Calvary Road

9.       Corey Russel: Pursuit of the Holy

10.   Anything by Oswald Chambers: My Utmost for His Highest Devotional, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, etc.

11.   Tedd Tripp: Shepherding a Child’s Heart (parenting)

12.   John Bevere:  Fear of the Lord, Bait of Satan (warning: his recent books are prosperity gospel)

13.   C. Peter Wagner: Apostles and Prophets

14.   Charles Swindoll: Jesus, David, Joseph, Esther (biographies of Biblical characters)

15.   Ravi Zacharias: Why Jesus? (apologetics)

16.   Elie Wiesel: Night (biography of the holocaust)

17.   Corrie Ten Boom: The Hiding Place (biography of the holocaust)

18.   John Bunyan: Pilgram’s Progress (allegory, available in old and updated English)

19.   John Piper: Desiring God, A Hunger for God

20.   Jim Bakker: I Was Wrong (biography)

21.   Anything by C.S. Lewis: Screwtape Letters, Miracles, Mere Christianity, Chronicles of Narnia, etc.

22.   Randy Alcorn: Heaven, Safely Home

23.   William P. Young: The Shack (fiction)

24.   Richard J Foster: Celebration of Discipline

25.   Henry Cloud and John Townsend: Boundaries (self-help)

26.   Josh McDowell: Evidence that Demands a Verdict (apologetics)

27.   J.I. Packer: Knowing God

28.   The Autobiography of George Muller

29.   The Complete Works of E.M. Bounds on Prayer

Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is —his good, pleasing and perfect will. (NIV)