20 Books Every Christian Should Read

I enjoy reading posts that recommend books and I thought I would jump in. I read between two and four books per week and I have a sense of what books are worth reading.

Here is a list of twenty books that I would recommend. They are not in any particular order but they are all good.

1. Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels by Craig A. Evans
2. Confessions by Saint Augustine
3. Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
4. How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth by Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart
5. Evidence That Demands a Verdict: Life-Changing Truth for a Skeptical World by Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell
6. Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics by William Lane Craig
7. Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
8. The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
9. Miracles by C. S. Lewis
10. City of God by Augustine of Hippo
11. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony by Richard Bauckham
12. When Work and Family Collide: Keeping Your Job from Cheating Your Family by Andy Stanley
13. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
14. The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
15. The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach by Michael R. Licona
16. Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church by N. T. Wright
17. Leading Me: Eight Practices for a Christian Leader’s Most Important Assignment by Steve A Brown
18. Introducing Paul: The Man, His Mission and His Message by Michael F. Bird
19. Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God by Gordon D. Fee
20. A Basic Guide to Eschatology: Making Sense of the Millennium by Millard J. Erickson

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