The Pastor's Library

Trusting the Scriptures

Can We Trust the Gospels? By Mark D. Roberts (great place to start)

Creeds, Councils, And Controversies Edited by J. Stevenson (academic)

Documents of the Christian Church edited by Henry Bettenson (academic)

Early Christian Doctrines by J.N.D. Kelly (Academic)

Finding God in the Questions by Timothy Johnson

How to Read the Bible For All Its Worth by Gordon Fee & Douglas Stuart

Letters from a Skeptic by Gregory Boyd and Edward Boyd

The Cannon of Scripture by F.F. Bruce

The Case for Faith by Lee Strobel

The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel

The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable by F.F. Bruce (great place to start)

Guy’s Stuff

To Own a Dragon: Reflections on Growing Up without a Father by Donald Miller

Why Guys Need God by Mike Erre

Why Men Hate Going to Church by David Murrow

Spiritual Life for Everyone

An Unstoppable Force by Erwin McManus

Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller

Everybody’s Normal Till You Get to Know Them by John Ortberg

Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace by Miroslav Volf

Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God by Dallas Willard

If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat by John Ortberg

In the Likeness of God by Paul Brand and Philip Yancey

Leap Over a Wall by Eugene Peterson

Renovation of the Heart by Dallas Willard

Rumors of Another World by Philip Yancey

Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality by Rob Bell

Soul Survivor by Philip Yancey

The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God by Dallas Willard

The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey

The Life You’ve Always Wanted by John Ortberg

The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning

Through Painted Deserts by Donald Miller

Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell

What’s So Amazing About Grace? By Philip Yancey

The Jesus Quest (most of these books are academic)

Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels edited by Joel Green, Scot McKnight, I. Howard Marshall

Following Jesus by N.T. Wright (Devotional)

God and the Crisis of Freedom by Richard Bauckham

God Crucified by Richard Bauckham

One God, One Lord by Larry Hurtado

Pauline Christology by Gordon Fee

Putting Jesus in His Place by Robert M. Bowman and J. Ed Komoszewski (Devotional)

Jesus Among Other Gods by Ravi Zacharias

Jesus and Judaism by E.P. Sanders

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses by Richard Bauckham

Jesus and the Victory of God by N.T. Wright

Jesus Christ by Donald Bloesch

Recovering Jesus by Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld (Devotional)

The Case for the Real Jesus by Lee Strobel (Devotional)

The Challenge of Jesus by N.T. Wright (Devotional)

The Christology of Jesus by Ben Witherington

The Death of Jesus in Early Christianity by John Carroll and Joel Green

The Faith of Jesus by Richard Hays

The Historical Figure of Jesus by E.P. Sanders

The Jesus Creed by Scot McKnight (Devotional)

The Many Faces of the Christ by Ben Witherington

The Word of Life by Thomas Oden

Jesus the Sage by Ben Witherington

The Jesus Quest by Ben Witherington

The Story of the Christ by Scot McKnight

Who Was Jesus? by N.T. Wright

Why God Became Man by Anselm of Canterbury

Wesleyan Theology
Works of John Wesley (Primary Source) edited by Albert C. Outler

Charles Wesley on Sanctification: A Biographical and Theological Study by John R. Tyson

Conversion in the Wesleyan Tradition by Kenneth J. Collins and John H. Tyson

The Scripture Way of Salvation: The Heart of John Wesley's Theology by Kenneth J. Collins

Responsible Grace: John Wesley’s Practical Theology (Academic) by Randy L. Maddox

Charles Wesley: Poet and Theologian (Academic) edited by St Kimbrough, Jr.

Doctrine and Theology in the United Methodist Church (Academic) edited by Thomas A. Langford

The Revelation Series
Revelation, NIV Application Commentary by Craig S. Keener

Revelation and the End of All Things by Craig R. Koester (Academic/Overview)

This Beautiful Mess by Rick McKinley

The New International Commentary on Revelation by Robert Mounce

Reversed Thunder: Revelation & the Praying Imagination by Eugene H. Peterson (Devotional)

The Message of Revelation, The Bible Speaks Today by Michael Wilcock (Devotional)

Revelation: The New Cambridge Bible Commmentary by Ben Witherington III (Academic)

Women in the Earliest Churches by Ben Witherington III