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Books We Love

Books We Love

Study Bibles:

  • The Companion Bible
  • Young’s Literal Translation

Discovering the original meaning of Hebrew and Greek words has never been more accessible or easy. You are no longer captive to the tyranny of the translation. You now have free access to the Bible in its original languages:

Evangelical Authors You need to look no further than the popular authors and leaders within evangelicalism to find the message of the ultimate restoration of all.The following books have encouraged us and revealed this “bigger picture”:

Restorative Justice and Redemption

  • Generous Justice by Tim Keller
  • Justice That Restores by Charles Colson
  • Not the Way Things Are Supposed to Be by Cornelius Plantinga
  • Far As the Curse is Found: The Covenant Story of Redemption by Michael Williams
  • Earth Restored by John Barber
  • Free of Charge by Miroslav Volf
  • The Cross Is Not Enough by Ross Clifford and Philip Johnson

Gospel of Grace

  • The Prodigal God by Tim Keller
  • Surprised By Grace by Tullian Tchividjian
  • One Way Love by Tullian Tchividjian
  • The Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler
  • Furious Pursuit by King and Martin
  • Jesus > Religion by Jefferson Bethke
  • Grace by Max Lucado
  • What’s So Amazing About Grace? by Phillip Yancey
  • The Gospel In Ten Words by Paul Ellis

Missional/Kingdom

The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society by Lesslie Newbigin

Speaking of Jesus by Carl Medearis

The Jesus Creed by Scot McKnight

The Gospel of the Kingdom by George Eldon Ladd

The Shaping of Things To Come by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost

Creating a Missional Culture by J. R. Woodward

Christian Living

  • A Community called Atonement by Scot McKnight
  • Simply Christian by N. T. Wright
  • Joy Unspeakableby D. Martin Lloyd-Jones
  • The Weight of Glory by C. S. Lewis
  • The Sermon on the Mount by Lloyd-Jones
  • The sacred Romance by John Eldridge
  • Journey of Desire by John Eldridge
  • The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer
  • Humility and Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray

The Calvinist-Arminian Debate

  • Why I Am Not a Calvinist by Walls/Dongell
  • Why I Am Not An Arminian by Peterson/Williams
  • Against Calvinism by Roger E. Olson
  • For Calvinism by Michael Horton

Theological Works

  • On the Incarnation by Athanasius
  • Church Dogmatics by Karl Barth
  • Incarnation by T. F. Torrance
  • Christian Doctrine of God by T. F. Torrance
  • Evangelical Calvinism by Myk Habets and Bobby Grow
  • Contours of Pauline Theology by Tom Holland
  • Romans: The Divine Marriage by Tom Holland

Trinitarian Theology

  • Delighting in the Trinity by Michael Reeves
  • Worship, Community and the Triune God of Grace by T. F. Torrance
  • The Great Dance by Dr. C. Baxter Kruger
  • The Shack Revisited by Dr. C. Baxter Kruger

Beauty

  • Beauty Will Save the World by Brian Zahnd
  • Restoring Beauty by Louis Markos

Eschatology

  • Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright
  • Compassionate Eschatology by Ted Grimsrud and Michael Hardin
  • From Eternity to Here by Frank Viola

Bible Storybooks

  • The Story NIV in story form with Max Lucado
  • The Book of God by Walter Wangerin
  • The Jesus Story Book by Sally Lloyd-Jones

Apologetics

  • Mere Christianity by C.S.Lewis
  • The Reason for God by Tim Keller
  • Inklings of God by Kurt Bruner
  • Jesus and the Religions of Man by David Marshall
  • True Son of Heaven: How Jesus Fulfills the Chinese Culture by David Marshall

Classics

  • Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
  • Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
  • The Narnia Series by C. S. Lewis
  • The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

Evangelicals who believe in the Ultimate Restoration of all

  • The Inescapable Love of God by Thomas Talbott
  • The One Purpose of God by J. Bonda
  • The Evangelical Universalist by Robin Parry (pseudonym “Gregory MacDonald”)
  • God’s Final Victory by John Kronen and Eric Reitan
  • Hope Beyond Hell by Gerry Beauchemin

We believe the authors, pastors and theologians listed here formed the infrastructure to the Christian Universalist view we hold today. They have loved us, served us, and had our best interests in mind and we are grateful. For us they have built, supported and enriched our understanding of the Story of God. And it is this foundation that continues to sustain our faith in the God of the Scriptures. But we have come to see and experience the Story as bigger and more glorious than we had ever dared to hope or dream.