The Cost of Discipleship: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Dietrich Bonhoeffer answers these timeless questions by providing a seminal reading of the dichotomy between “cheap grace” and “costly grace.”

Sergeant-Major Do-Your-Best of Darkington No. 1: William Booth

“Sergeant-Major Do-Your-Best of Darkington No. 1” contains 26 narrative sketches based on real characters and events written by William Booth for the instruction of Salvation Army officers. Each story models an aspect of the character the ideal Salvation Army officer embodies.

Eat this Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading: Eugene H. Peterson

“Eat This Book” challenges us to read the Scriptures on their own terms, as God’s revelation, and to live them as we read them. With warmth and wisdom Peterson offers greatly needed, down-to-earth counsel on spiritual reading.

The Essence of Spiritual Religion: D. Elton Trueblood

“The Essence of Spiritual Religion” by D. Elton Trueblood explores the core principles of spiritual religion, emphasizing the importance of personal experience and inner transformation in one’s faith journey. 

Surprised by Scripture: Engaging Contempory Issues: N.T. Wright

An unusual combination of scholar, churchman, and leader, N. T. Wright—hailed by Newsweek as “the world’s leading New Testament scholar”—is not only incredibly insightful, but conveys his knowledge in terms that excite and inspire Christian leaders worldwide, allowing them to see the Bible from a fresh viewpoint. 

C.S. Lewis – A Life: Eccentric Genius,  Reluctant Prophet: Alister McGrath

In “C.S. Lewis—A Life,” Alister McGrath, prolific author and respected professor at King’s College of London, paints a definitive portrait of the life of C. S. Lewis. He paints a portrait of an eccentric thinker who became an inspiring, though reluctant, prophet for our times.

Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?: Philip Yancey

Philip Yancey probes the very heartbeat of our relationship with God: prayer. What is prayer? Does it change God’s mind or ours or both? This book is an invitation to communicate with God the Father who invites us into an eternal partnership through prayer.

C. S. Lewis’ Little Book of Wisdom: Meditations on Faith, Life, Love, and Literature

“This charming volume of quotes from C.S. Lewis’s works includes his Christian apologia (Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, Surprised by Joy) and his fiction (The Chronicles of Narnia, “The Space Trilogy”). Editors Assaf and Leahy have selected brief quotations and placed them in thematic groupings relevant to modern Christians, such as “Living a Full Life with Christ” and “Recognizing Sin.” Quotes are mainly short but pack punches: “Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead”; “As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.” A complete Lewis bibliography is included for those interested in following up on works quoted. Also provided are several blank pages at the end of the volume for readers to jot their own thoughts. These well-chosen Lewis quotes will inspire readers and prompt them to make their own spiritual reflections.” – Publishers Weekly, (Sept. 2018)

The Wisdom of the Desert (New Directions Book 295) Kindle Edition

The Wisdom of the Desert was one of Thomas Merton’s favorites among his own books — surely because he had hoped to spend his last years as a hermit. The personal tone of the translations, the blend of reverence and humor so characteristic of him, show how deeply Merton identified with the legendary authors of these sayings and parables, the fourth-century Christian Fathers who sought solitude and contemplation in the deserts of the Near East.

On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts

This is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it’s a book Augustine has written about each of us. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith has spent time on the road with Augustine, and he invites us to take this journey too, for this ancient African thinker knows far more about us than we might expect.