Books

Books I am Currently Reading

  • Justo Gonzalez, A History of Christian Thought, Volume 1

  • Johann Gerhard, Gerhard’s Commentary on 1 & 2 Timothy

  • Lutheran Service Book, Companion to the Services

  • J.R.R. Tolkien, the Hobbit

Books I Recommend

Prayer/Meditation:

  • Treasury of Daily Prayer (book) / PrayNow (app for Apple and Android devices)

  • Lutheran Service Book

  • C.F.W. Walther, God Grant It (daily devotional book)

  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas


Introduction to the Christian Faith:

  • Gene Edward Veith, The Spirituality of the Cross: The Way of the First Evangelicals

  • Daniel Preus, Why I Am a Lutheran: Jesus at the Center

Luther, Lutheranism:

  • Concordia: The Lutheran Confessions (A Readers Edition of the Book of Concord, ed. McCain), CPH

  • Hermann Sasse, Here We Stand: The Nature and Character of the Lutheran Faith

  • Bo Giertz, The Hammer of God (fiction)

  • Arthur Just, Heaven on Earth: The Gifts of Christ in the Divine Service

  • Scot Kinnaman, Lutheranism 101

  • Robert Preus, Justification and Rome

  • Hermann Sasse, This Is My Body

  • CPH, The Lutheran Difference

  • Klemet I. Preus, The Fire and the Staff

Apologetics (addressing challenges to Christianity):

  • James W. Sire, The Universe Next Door

Ethics, Culture, Contemporary Issues:

  • Gene Edward Veith, God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life

  • Gene Edward Veith, Family Vocation: God’s Calling in Marriage, Parenting, and Childhood

  • Richard Eyer, Holy People, Holy Lives: Law and Gospel in Bioethics

  • Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option

  • Edna Hatlestad Hong, Bright Valley of Love

  • Gary L. Thomas, Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Happy?

Church History:

  • Justo Gonzalez, A History of Christian Thought, Volumes 1-3

Pastoral Care and Leadership:

  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together and Prayerbook of the Bible

  • St. Gregory the Great, the Book of Pastoral Rule

Leadership:

  • Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, Extreme Ownership

  • Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win