Recommended Resources

Here are resources that I would recommend for further reading and study. This list is a growing list that will be updated with more resources as time goes on. I would highly encourage you to not only use these for your learning and walk with Christ but also in group studies with others, especially within your local church.

You will notice that books will have different learning levels. They are as follows:

  • Level 0 - Non-Christian/New Christian: You are not a Christian and you don’t have much or any background in the basics of Christianity. Or, you just started following Jesus and you only have a Bible in your library. Reading the Bible and praying is very new to you, and going to church is still a new experience.

  • Level 1 - Beginner: You may be a faithful member of your local church and learn from the preaching at every worship gathering, but this is your first time diving into deeper biblical and theological study. You know you should be reading the Bible and praying regularly but could use some guidance on how to grow in them than where you are now.

  • Level 2 - Intermediate: You can have biblical and theological conversations and have a regular discipline in Bible reading and prayer. You understand the core basics of Christianity and the biblical narrative but realize the more you read and study, the more questions, connections, and implications there are to uncover. If asked by your pastor or church leader, you could volunteer in your church to lead a small group Bible study or book study.

  • Level 3 - Advanced: You have a working knowledge of exegetical, biblical, systematic, historical, and practical theology. Your level of studying can lead you to do classes in seminary or you already have gone. You are either a pastor, a church leader, or someone who aspires to be.

Enjoy!

Websites, Blogs, Schools, and Organizations:

Books:

The Gospel

  • What is the Gospel by Greg Gilbert - Level 0: Non-Christian/New Christian

  • Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler

  • Gospel by J. D. Greear

The Christian Life

  • Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortlund - Level 1: Beginner

  • Deeper by Dane Ortlund - Level 1: Beginner

  • Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper - Level 0: Non-Christian/New Christian

  • Crazy Love by Francis Chan - Level 0: Non-Christian/New Christian

  • Desiring God by John Piper - Level 1: Beginner

  • Finishing Strong by Steve Farrar - Level 1: Beginner

  • Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life by Donald Whitney - Level 1: Beginner

  • Devoted to God by Sinclair Ferguson - Level 1: Beginner

Systematic Theology: Introduction/Whole Systematic Theology

  • Systematic Theology Vol. 1: From Canon to Concept by Stephen Wellum

  • Christian Theology: The Biblical Story and Our Faith by Christopher W. Morgan and Robert A. Peterson - Level 2: Intermediate

  • Systematic Theology by Louis Berhkof

  • The Wonderful Works of God by Herman Bavinck - Level 2: Intermediate

  • Reformed Dogmatics by Herman Bavinck

  • God Without Measure Vol. 1 by John Webster

  • The Apostles’ Creed by R. Albert Mohler Jr. - Level 0: Non-Christian/New Christian

  • Everyone is a Theologian by Jen Wilkin & J. T. English - Level 1: Beginner

Systematic Theology: Doctrine of Revelation and the Word of God

  • The Doctrine of the Word of God by John Frame

  • Scripture and Truth edited by D. A. Carson and John Woodbridge

  • Christ and the Bible by John Wenham

  • A Peculiar Glory by John Piper - Level 2: Intermediate

  • Light in a Dark Place: The Doctrine of Scripture by John S. Feinberg

  • The Doctrine of Scripture: An Introduction by Mark D. Thompson - Level 1: Beginner

Systematic Theology: Doctrine of the Triune God (Being/Nature of God)

  • None Greater by Matthew Barrett - Level 2: Intermediate

  • The Holiness of God by R. C. Sproul - Level 1: Beginner

  • The Attributes of God by Gerald Bray - Level 1: Beginner

  • The Doctrine of God by Gerald Bray - Level 2: Intermediate

  • All That is in God by James Dolezal - Level 2: Intermediate

  • God Without Parts by James Dolezal - Level 3: Advanced

  • Divine Simplicity by Jordan Barrett - Level 3: Advanced

Systematic Theology: Doctrine of the Triune God (The Trinity)

  • Delighting in the Trinity by Michael Reeves - Level 0: Non-Christian/New Christian

  • The Triune God by Fred Sanders

  • The Deep Things of God by Fred Sanders

  • The Trinity by Gilles Emery

  • Simply Trinity by Matthew Barrett

  • The Trinity: An Introduction by Scott Swain - Level 1: Beginner

  • Trinitarian Dogmatics by D. Glenn Butner Jr.

Systematic Theology: Doctrine of Man and Sin

  • Reenchanting Humanity by Owen Strachan

  • Created in His Image by Anthony Hoekema

  • Embodied: Living as Whole People in a Fractured World by Gregg R. Allison

  • To Be a Woman: The Confusion Over Female Identity and How Christians Can Respond by Katie McCoy

  • Humanity (Theology for the People of God) by Katie McCoy and John S. Hammett

Systematic Theology: Doctrine of Christ (The Person of Christ)

  • The Person of Christ: An Introduction by Stephen Wellum

  • God the Son Incarnate by Stephen Wellum

  • The Deity of Christ edited by Christopher Morgan

  • On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius

  • Divinity and Humanity by Oliver Crisp

  • Jesus and the God of Israel by Richard Bauckham

Systematic Theology: Doctrine of Christ (The Work of Christ)

  • Pierced for Our Transgressions by Steve Jeffery, Michael Ovey, and Andrew Sach

  • From Heaven He Came and Sought Her edited by David Gibson and Jonathan Gibson

  • The Atonement by Leon Morris

  • The Cross of Christ by John Stott

  • It is Well by Mark Dever and Michael Lawrence

Systematic Theology: Doctrine of the Holy Spirit

  • The Holy Spirit by Andreas Kostenberger and Gregg Allison

Systematic Theology: Doctrine of Salvation

  • Salvation by Christopher W. Morgan and Thomas R. Schreiner

Biblical Theology

  • What is Biblical Theology by Jim Hamilton

  • God’s Glory in Salvation Through Judgment by Jim Hamilton

  • The King and His Beauty by Thomas Schreiner

  • Kingdom Through Covenant by Stephen Wellum and Peter Gentry

  • Progressive Covenantalism edited by Brent Parker and Stephen Wellum

Historical Theology

  • Historical Theology by Gregg Allison

More to come in the future . . .