 | Taliesin (The Pendragon Cycle, Book 1) by Stephen R. Lawhead
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 As a youth, this series (5 books) had a profound effect on how I perceived beauty, honor, and the importance of faithful friends.
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 | Ben-Hur (Signet Classics) by Lew Wallace
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $3.21 God used this book to help me understand the Jewish mindset of the first century. The idea that one must think like a Bible character in order to understand the Bible began to seep in here.
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 | Extreme Righteousness: Seeing Ourselves in the Pharisees by Tom Hovestol
Buy used from: $0.70 Pure gold! This smote me with the notion that I was a Pharisee. I don't sin like a first century Jew. I sin like a white, male, Republican, Calvanist, American.
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 | Deliver Us From Evil by Ravi Zacharias
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $4.50 This book drives home the consequenses of Secularism, Pluralism, Privatization of morals in American life.
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 | The Light and the Glory by Peter Marshall; David Manuel
Buy used from: $0.01 This book and it's two sequels cured me of much damage done by being educated in government schools. The book's power lies in the quotations.
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 | Eternity in Their Hearts: Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True God in Hundreds of Cultures Throughout the World by Don Richardson
Buy used from: $0.86 But what about the innocent native in Central Africa? This book shows how that Romans 1 is not just theoretical, but true. For me it was an early help in destroying Arminian assumptions.
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 | Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (Left Behind No. 1) by Tim LaHaye
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.01 Not included because of any endorsment. Yet God used the ridiculousness of this series of books to drive me into what His Word actually says.
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 | Right Behind: A Parody of Last Days Goofiness by Nathan D. Wilson
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.13 Sometimes humor is the best medicine. Warning! It probably won't be funny if you enjoyed Left Behind.
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 | Rediscovering Expository Preaching by John MacArthur
Buy used from: $7.90 I had already been conviced of expository preaching by the time this book reached me, but I was convinced by a man who had read this book.
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 | That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, Book 3) by C.S. Lewis
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $4.25 Read the whole series. But this book has the greatest impact.
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 | The Pursuit of God by Aiden W. Tozer
Buy used from: $0.01 This book shows the beauty of following God, and the ugliness of any other pursuit.
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 | Revelation: Four Views: A Parallel Commentary
Buy new: $21.77 / Used from: $17.62 In the midst of eschatological head scratching, this book gave me an even handed presentation of all views.
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 | The Beast of Revelation by Kenneth L., Jr. Gentry
Buy new: $16.66 / Used from: $14.89 Antedote for "Left Behind" thinking. There are other orthodox options.
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 | Last Days Madness: Obsession of the Modern Church by Gary Demar
Buy new: $25.95 / Used from: $12.98 Good medicine for any who are tired of being embarrased by some books that are labeled "Christian", and yet ingrone sound reason and scripture.
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 | Loved By God by R.C. Sproul
Buy used from: $4.19 RC Sproul did wonders for my understanding of who God really is. This is one book that shows the true nature of the God of the Bible.
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 | Future Men by Douglas Wilson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.15 My first exposure to Mr. Wilson. After reading this I was convinced to read all his other books (about 25 in all).
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 | Revival and Revivalism by Iain H. Murray
Buy new: $21.78 / Used from: $19.00 One antedote God used to bring me out of narrow thinking
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 | Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education (Turning Point Christian Worldview Series) by Douglas Wilson
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.01 Reoriented my thinking to look at education as completely under God's authority. How then can we educate in any sense of the word without Him?
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 | The Lord's Service: The Grace of Covenant Renewal Worship by Jeffrey J. Meyers
Buy new: $21.37 / Used from: $10.47 It this book that convinced me that the revivalistic service structure was wrong, but it did give a very detail exposition on how to fill the void after revivalism has been rejected.
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 | A House for My Name: A Survey of the Old Testament by Peter J. Leithart
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $5.58 The Old Testament is God's Word. This books shows how the testaments (man's invention) knit together into one Bible (God's invention)
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 | Through New Eyes by James B. Jordan
Buy new: $27.92 / Used from: $31.05 Scripture is it's own interpreter. Therefore allow the scriptures to teach you how to view everything (even the scriptures themself).
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 | Creation in Six Days: A Defense of the Traditional Reading of Genesis One by James B. Jordan
Buy new: $17.00 / Used from: $6.84 James Jordan is a must in gaining a biblical view of how to interperet the Bible. (Sounds circular but it is true - the Bible can and does teach us how to read itself).
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 | The Reformed Pastor by Richard Baxter
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $1.92 The Puritan's knew God and they knew Men. This book explains how to minister to the latter by knowing the former.
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 | The Deliberate Church: Building Your Ministry on the Gospel by Mark Dever
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $3.40 This book and Dever's other book "9 Marks of a Healthy Church" gave me a roadmap for reformation in the local church.
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