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John's Recent Reads
Here's a list of what I've read recently. Some are "Christian books," some are most definitely not (they are marked with an asterisk), and some are...well, you decide. Don't be surprised if a book shows up twice. Sometimes, I think it is valuable to read books again!

2018
  • Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique, J.P. Morleand, et al, eds.
  • In Defense of the Bible: A Comprehensive Apologetic for the Authority of Scripture, Steven. B. Cowan and Terry L. Wilder
  • God Space: Where Spiritual Conversations Happen Naturally, Doug Pollock
  • If God, Then What, Andrew Wilson
  • Right  Side Up: Is a Better Life Possible?, Craig L. Morris
  • Reinventing Jesus, How Contemporary Skeptics Miss the Real Jesus and Mislead Popular Culture, J. Ed Komoszewski, M. James Sawyer, and Daniel B. Wallace
  • More Than a Carpenter, Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell
  • Hidden in Plain View, Undesigned Coincidences in the Gospels and Acts, Lydia McGrew
  • The Case for Miracles, Lee Strobel
  • Christianity Considered: A Guide for Skeptics and Seekers, John M. Frame
  • Talking with your Kids about God, Natasha Crain
  • Room for Doubt, Ben Young
  • Science and the Mind of the Maker, Melissa Cain Travis
  • 40 Days of Doubt, Eric Huffman
  • Imagine Heaven, Near Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future that Awaits You, John Burke
  • Canon Revisited: Establishing the Origins and Authority of the New Testament Books, Michael J. Kruger
  • Say "No" to Vanilla, Dwight Edwards

2017
  • The True Measure of a Man, Richard E. Simmons III
  • Victory Over Darkness: Realize the Power of Your Identity in Christ, Neil T. Anderson
  • Who Chose the Gospels? Probing the Great Gospel Conspiracy, C.E. Hill
  • Love Lives Here: Find What You Need in a World Telling You What You Want, Maria Goff
  • Beyond Matter: Why Science Needs Metaphysics, Roger Trigg
  • Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical, Timothy Keller
  • Zombie Science: More Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells
  • You and Me Forever: Marriage in Light of Eternity, France and Lisa Chan
  • Classic Christianity, Bob George
  • The Bondage Breaker, Neil T. Anderson
  • How God Makes Men: Ten Epic Stories. Ten Proven Principles. One Huge Promise for Your Life, Patrick Morley
  • Questioning Evangelism: Engaging People's Hearts the Way Jesus Did, Randy Newman
  • Walking with God: How to Hear His Voice, John Eldridge
  • Know Why You Believe, K. Scott Oliphint
  • Dug Down Deep: Unearthing What I Believe and Why It Matters, Joshua Harris
  • The Story of Reality: How the World Begins, How It Ends, and Everything Important that Happens in Between, Gregory Koukl
  • The Power of the Other, Henry Cloud
  • God Among Sages: Why Jesus Is Not Just Another Religious Leader, Kenneth Richard Samples
  • My Hundred Helpers, Jeff Hopper
  • Eats with Sinner: Loving Like Jesus, Arron Chambers
  • Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity and the Things We've Made Up, Francis Chan
  • Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and other God Substitutes , Nancy Pearcey
  • Leaving Mormonism: Why Four Scholars Changed Their Minds, Correy Miller, Lynn K. Wilder, Vince Eccles, and Latyane C. Scott

2016
  • Be You. Do Good. Having the Guts to Pursue What Makes You Come Alive, Jonathan David Golden
  • The Flip Side: Breaking Free of the Behaviors that Hold You Back, Flip Flippen
  • The Most Misused Verses in the Bible, Eric J.Bargerhuff 
  • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, Simon Sinek
  • The Inside Out Effect: A Practical Guide to Transformational Leadership, Behnam Tabrizi & Michael Terrell
  • Finding God Beyond Harvard, Kelly Monroe Kullberg
  • A New Kind of Apologist, Sean McDowell
  • Finding God at Harvard, Kelly Monroe Kullberg (ed.)
  • Questioning the Bible: 11 Major Challenges to the Bible's Authority, Jonathan Morrow
  • The Meal Jesus Gave Us, N.T. Wright
  • Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World, Michael Horton
  • Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will, Kevin DeYoung
  • Longing to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People, Esther Lightcap Meeks
  • Miracles: How Intervenes in Nature and Human Affairs, C.S. Lewis
  • Rescuing Ambition, Dave Harvey
  • Game Plan for Life: Your Personal Playbook for Success, Joe Gibbs
  • Seven Men and the Secret of Their Greatness, Eric Metaxas
  • Seven Women and the Secret of Their Greatness, Eric Metaxas
  • The Giver and the Gift: Principles of Kingdom Fundraising, Peter Greer & David Weekley
  • The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness: The Path to True Christian Joy, Tim Keller
  • Finding Common Ground: How to Communicate with Those Outside the Christian Community, While We Still Can, Tim Downs
  • How Good is Good Enough, Andy Stanley
  • Game Changing Christianity, Dwight Edwards
  • This Is Water, David Foster Wallace*
  • Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better, Brant Hansen
  • Funding Your Ministry: An In-Depth, Biblical Guide for Successfully Raising Personal Support, Scott Morton
  • No God But One: A Former Muslim Investigates the Evidence for Islam & Christianity, Nabeel Qureshi
  • The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists, Ravi Zacharias
  • The God Ask: A Fresh Biblical Approach to Personal Support Raising, Steve Shadrach
  • Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where It Is Not Safe, Tom Doyle
  • The Prodigal Son: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith, Timothy Keller

2015
  • Science Vs. Religion, What Scientists Really Think, Elaine Howard Ecklund
  • The Art of Work: The Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do, Jeff Goins
  • True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World, David Skeelh
  • The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations, James M. Kouzes, and Barry Z. Posner
  • The Reason: How I Discovered a Life Worth Living, Lacey Sturm
  • Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work, Tim Keller
  • Is God Anti-Gay? And Other Question about Homosexuality, The Bible and Same-Sex Attraction, Sam Allberry
  • Fairness Is Overrated: And 51 Other Leadership Principles to Revolutionize Your Workplace, Tim Stevens
  • Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes Are High, Patterson, Grenny, McMillan & Switzler
  • The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results, Gary Keller
  • 20 Compelling Evidences that God Exists, Kenneth Boa & Robert M. Bowman
  • Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, and Lead, Brené Brown
  • The Small Big: Small Changes that Spark Big Influence, Steve J. Martin, Noah J. Goldstein, and Robert B. Cialdini
  • Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success, Adam Grant
  • Finding Truth: Five Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes, Nancy Pearcey.
  • Sell Your Book Like Wildfire: The Writer's Guide to Marketing and Publicity, Rob Eager
  • The Volunteer Church: Mobilizing Your Congregation for Growth and Effectiveness, Leith Anderson & Jill Fox
  • Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing the New Game of Work, Ellizabeth Wiseman
  • The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Daniel James Brown
  • One of the Few: A Marine Fighter's Reconnaissance of the Christian Worldview, Jason B. Ladd
  • Creativity Inc,: Overcoming the Forces that Stand in the Way of True Creativity, Ed Catmull
  • Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges, Stephen M. Southwick & Dennis S. Charney
  • We Cannot Be Silent: Speaking Truth to a Culture Redefining Sex, Marriage, & the Very Meaning of Right & Wrong, R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
  • God's Crime Scene: A Cold Case Detective Examines the Evidence for a Divinely Created Universe, J. Warner Wallace
  • The Unexpected Adventure: Taking Everyday Risks to Talk to People about Jesus, Lee Strobel & Mark Mittelberg: 

2014
  • Can We Trust the Gospels?: Investigating the Reliability of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Mark Roberts
  • The New Testament Documents, F.F. Bruce
  • Is the New Testament Reliable?, Paul Barnett
  • True Tolerance: Liberalism and the Necessity of Judgment. J. Budziszewski
  • Politics and Evangelical Theology, Brian G. Mattson
  • Generation iY: Our Last Chance to Save Their Future, Tim Elmore
  • The Truth about Tolerance: Pluralism, Diversity, and the Cultural Wars, Brad Stetson and Joseph G. Conti
  • The Millennials: Connecting to American's Largest Generation, Thom S. Rainer and Jess W. Rainer
  • The Historical Reliability of the Gospels, Craig L. Blomberg
  • Memory, Jesus, and the Synoptic Gospels, Robert K. McIver
  • God and Evil: The Case for God in a World Filled with Pain, Chad Mesiter and James K. Dew, eds.
  • The Many Faces of Evil, John S. Feinberg
  • Understanding World Religions, Irving Hexham
  • Buddhism for Dummies, Jonathan Landaw, Stephan Bodian, Gunrun Buhnemann
  • Neighboring Faiths, Winfried Corduan
  • World Religions: An Indispensable Introduction, Gerald R. McDermmott
  • Marriage on Trial: The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting, Glenn T. Stanton and Bill Maier
  • The Truth about Same-Sex Marriage, Erwin Lutzer
  • Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth, Jeffrey Satinover
  • Same-Sex Marriage: Is It Really the Same?, Mark Christopher
  • Homosexuality and American Public Life, Christopher Wolfe
  • The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics, Robert A. Gagnon
  • The Ambassador's Guide to Homosexuality, Alan Shlemon
  • My Genes Made Me Do It, Neil & Briar Whitehead
  • Christianity on Trial: A Lawyer Examines the Christian Faith, W. Mark Lanier
  • Walking in Gardens Alone: Trading Private Faith for Biblical Community, Jason Michael Smith
  • Navigating Genesis: A Scientist's Journey through Genesis, Hugh Ross
  • Go a Little Further: W. Ian Thomas and the Torchbearer Story, Joan Thomas
  • Leading with Love: A Different Way to Create Real Success, Ken Blanchard & Colleen Barrett
  • The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business, Patrick Lencioni
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
  • Choosing to Cheat: Who Wins When Family and Work Collide, Andy Stanley
  • Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, Laura Hllenbrand
  • Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending, Elizabeth Dunn & Michael Norton
  • The Book of Deuteronomy (NICOT), Peter C. Craigie

2013
  • Knowing Christ Today: Why We Can Trust Spiritual Knowledge, Dallas Willard
  • Passionate Conviction: Contemporary Discourses on Christian Apologetics, Paul Copan and William Lane Craig, eds.
  • Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, J. P. Moreland & William Lane Craig 
  • Six Modern Myths about Christianity and Western Civilization, Philip J. Sampson
  • Teaching to Change Lives, Howard Hendricks
  • The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church, Reggie McNeal
  • World Religions & Cults 101: A Guide to Spiritual Beliefs, Bruce Bickel & Stan Jantz
  • The Recalcitrant Imago Dei: Human Person and the Failure of Naturalism, J.P. Moreland
  • The Evolution of the Soul, Richard Swinburne
  • The Magician's Nephew, C.S. Lewis
  • C.S. Lewis--A Life: Eccentric Genius. Reluctant Prophet, Alister McGrath
  • A Horse and His Boy, C.S. Lewis
  • The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus, Gary R. Habermas and Michael R. Licona
  • The Case for Christianity, C.S. Lewis
  • Prince Caspian, C.S. Lewis
  • There is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind, Antony Flew with Roy Abraham Varghese
  • Love Does, Bob Goff
  • Modern Physics and Ancient Faith, Stephen M. Barr
  • Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message, Ravi Zacharias
  • Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will, Kevin DeYoung
  • Kisses from Katie, Katie J. Davis
  • Piety and Philosophy: A Primer for Christian Schools, Richard A. Riesen
  • The Seven Laws of the Learner: How to Teach Almost Anything to Practically Anyone!, Bruce Wilkinson
  • Communicating for a Change, Andy Stanley & Lane Jones
  • The Teaching Ministry of the Church, William R. Yount ed.
  • Apologetics for a New Generation, Sean McDowell ed.
  • The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey into Christian Faith, Rosario Champagne Butterfield
  • Is Your Church Ready?: Motivating Leaders to Live an Apologetic Life, Ravi Zacharias & Norman 
  • Cold Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospel, J. Warner Wallace
  • The Kalam Cosmological Argument, William Lane Craig
  • A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller
  • Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, David Bentley Hart
  • Exposing Myths about Christianity: A Guide to Answering 145 Viral Lies and Legends, Jeffrey Burton Russell
  • A Little Primer on Humble Apologetics, James W. Sire
  • Conversational Evangelism: How to Listen and Speak So You Can Be Heard, Norman Geisler & David Geisler
  • Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions, Gregory Koukl
  • Humble Apologetics: Defending the Faith Today, John G. Stackhouse
  • The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach, Michael R. Lincona
  • The Son Rises, William Lane Craig
  • The Risen Jesus & Future Hope, Gary Habermas
  • "But Don't All Religions Lead to God?" Navigating the Mutli-Faith Maze, Michael Green
  • Choosing Your Faith: In a World of Spiritual Options, Mark Mittelberg
  • Making Sense of Suffering, Peter Kreeft
  • The End of Christianity: Finding a Good God in an Evil World, William Dembski

2012
  • The Culturally Savvy Christian, Dick Staub
  • The Soul of Science: Christian Faith and Natural Philosophy, Nancy R. Pearcey & Charles B. Thaxton
  • Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Christian Faith, Douglas Groothuis
  • Christ & Culture Revisited, D.A. Carson
  • Growing Grateful Kids, Susie Larson
  • Is God a Moral Monster? Making Sense of the Old Testament God, Paul Copan
  • Love Your God with All Your Mind, J.P. Moreland
  • A Brief History of the Soul, Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro
  • Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethics, Scott B. Rae
  • Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism, Paul C. Vitz
  • Sex Is Not the Problem (Lust Is): Sexual Purity in a Lust-Saturated World, Joshua Harris
  • The Heresy of Orthodoxy: How Contemporary Culture's Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity, Andreas J. Kostenberger & Michael J. Kruger
  • A Brief Illustrated History of Western Philosophy, Anthony Kenny
  • Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy, Nancy Leigh DeMoss
  • Five Sacred Crossings: A Novel, Craig J. Hazen
  • Love Never Fails: Delivering Jesus' Love to Your Adult Children, Jeffrey Cranford & Jeff Hopper
  • Mind Your Faith: A Student's Guide on Thinking and Living Well, David A. Horner
  • Being Good: Christian Virtues for Everyday Life, Michael W. Austin and Douglas Geivett
  • T4T: A Discipleship Re-revolution, Steve Smith with Ying Kai
  • Not God's Type: A Rational Academic Finds a Radical Faith, Holly Ordway
  • Darwin on Trial, Phillip E. Johnson
  • A Free People's Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future, Os Guinness
  • Come Let Us Reason: New Essays in Christian Apologetics, Paul Copan & William Lane Craig
  • By Design or by Chance? The Growing Controversy on the Origins of Life in the Universe, Denyse O'Leary
  • The Case for a Creator, Lee Strobel
  • On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision, William Lane Craig
  • Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers & Skeptics Find Faith, Alister McGrath
  • Seven Days that Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science, John Lennox
  • Healing for a Broken World, Steve Monsma
  • Culture Matters: A Call for Consensus on Christian Cultural Engagement, T.M. Moore
  • To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, & Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World, James Davison Hunter
  • Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ, Dallas Willard
  • The Case for Civility and Why Our Future Depends On It, Os Guinness
  • The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement, Jean M. Twenge & W. Keith Campbell
  • The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis
  • The Wonder of the Universe: Hints of God in Our Fine-Tuned World, Karl W. Giberson
  • God, Freedom, and Evil, Alvin Plantinga
  • Mere Christians: Inspiring Stories of Encounters with C.S. Lewis, Mary Anne Phemister and Andrew Lazo, eds.
  • Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False, Thomas Nagel (Nagel is anti-theistic, but also anti-Darwinist)

2011
  • Heaven Is Not My Home: Learning to Live in God’s Creation, Paul Marshall
  • Judges: Such a Great Salvation, Dale Ralph Davis
  • Saving Leonardo, Nancy Pearcey
  • Transforming Discipleship: Making Disciples a Few at a Time, Greg Ogden
  • The Christian Mind, Harry Blamires
  • Work & Leisure in Christian Perspective, Leland Ryken
  • Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God, John Piper
  • The Justification of God: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Romans 9:1-23, John Piper
  • Philosophy Made Slightly Less Difficult, J.P. Moreland and Garrett J. DeWeese
  • Letter to a Christian Nation*, Sam Harris
  • Christianity with Power, Charles H. Kraft
  • Body and Soul, J.P. Moreland and Scott Rae
  • The Last Word*, Thomas Nagel
  • A Matter of Days, Hugh Ross
  • Naming the Elephant, James W. Sire
  • Truth and the New Kind of Christian, R. Scott Smith
  • Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church, D.A. Carson
  • Kingdom Triangle, J.P. Moreland
  • The God Conversation: Using Stories and Illustrations to Explain Your Faith, J.P. Moreland and Timothy Muehlhoff
  • Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyers
  • Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World, Hick, Pinnock, McGrath, Geivett, and Phillips
  • Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views, Boyd, Hunt, Craig, and Helm
  • Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology, William Dembski
  • Body, Soul, and Everlasting Life, John W. Cooper
  • Hidden Worldviews: Eight Cultural Stories that Shape Our Lives, Steve Wilkens & Mark L. Sanford
  • The God Question, J.P. Moreland
  • The Myth of Free Will, Cris Evat
  • The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality, Andre Comte-Sponville
  • Encountering Naturalism: A Worldview and Its Uses, Thomas W. Clark
  • Back to Virtue, Peter Kreeft
  • Truth Decay: Defending Christianity Against the Challenges of Postmodernism, Douglas Groothuis
  • Is Everything Really Relative: Examining the Assumptions of Relativism and the Culture of Truth Decay, Paul Copan
  • Song of Songs (NICOT), Tremper Longman
  • Biblical Lovemaking: A Study of the Song of Solomon, Arnold Fruchtenbaum
  • In the Beginning: The Opening Chapters of Genesis, Henri Blocker
  • Faith, Film, and Philosophy: Big Ideas on the Big Screen, edited by R. Douglas Geivett and James S. Speigel
  • Politics According to the Bible, Wayne Grudem
  • The Prayer Life, Andrew Murray




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