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
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
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