Resources
Bible study materials and suggested reading are available as resources for your spiritual growth.
Understanding the Bible
This semester we are walking through the book of Philippians.
- Paul for Everyone: The Prison Lettersby N.T. Wright
- Philippiansby N.T. Wright
- Philippiansby Moisés Silva
- The Letter to the Philippiansby G. Walter Hansen
Recommended Reading
- Getting Started
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- The Bible
- Apostles Creed
- Nicene Creed
- Heidelberg Catechism
- John Stott,Basic Christianity
- C.S. Lewis,Mere Christianity
- Trevor Hart,Faith Thinking
- Eugene Peterson,Answering God
- Jerry Sittser,The Will of God As a Way of Life
- Debra Rienstra,So Much More: An Invitation to Christian Spirituality
- Classics
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- Augustine,The Confessions
- Athanasius,On The Incarnation
- Irenaeus,Against Heresies
- Gregory the Great,Pastoral Care
- Teresa of Avila,The Collected Works
- John Calvin,Institutes of the Christian Religion
- Augustine,City of God
- Thomas a Kempis,The Imitation of Christ
- Ignatius Loyola,The Spiritual Exercises
- Blaise Pascal,Pensees
- John Bunyan,The Pilgrim’s Progress
- Martin Buber,I and Thou
- Bonaventure,The Souls Journey into God/The Tree of Life; The Life of St. Francis
- John of the Cross,The Collected Works
- Soren Kiekegaard,Purity of Heart
- Karl Barth,The Church Dogmatics
- Hans Urs Von Bathasar,The Glory of the Lord
- Thomas Aquinas,The Summa Theological
- Reshaping the Imagination
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- Fyodor Dostoyevsky,The Brothers Karamazov; Crime & Punishment; The Idiot
- David James Duncan,The Brothers K; The River Why
- George Elliot,Middlemarch
- George Bernanos,Diary of a Country Priest
- George MacDonald,The Princess and the Goblin
- Graham Greene,The Power and the Glory
- C.S. Lewis,Till We Have Faces/The Chronicles of Narnia
- J.R.R. Tolkien,The Lord of the Rings(trilogy)
- Sigrid Undset,Kristen Lavransdatter
- Wallace Stegner,Angle of Repose/Crossing to Safety
- Wendell Berry,Jayber Crow
- Susan Howatch,Glittering Images
- Richard Adams,WatershipDown
- Mark Twain,The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Flannery O’Connor,Everything that Rises Must Converge
- Chaim Potock,The Chosen/My Name is Asher Lev; The Gift of AsherLev; The Promise
- Leaf Enger,Peace Like a River
- Nathaniel Hawthorne,The Scarlet Letter
- Norman Maclean,A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
- Frederick Buechner,Godric
- Leo Tolstoy,The Death of Ivan Illych
- Tony Morrison,Beloved
- Nicholas Wolterstorff,Lament for a Son
- Anne Lamott,Traveling Mercies
- Shusako Endo,Silence
- Kathleen Norris,Dakota
- Walker Percy,The Second Coming
- Leo Tolstoy,War and Peace
- Ivan Doig,This House of Sky
- Walter Wangerin,The Book of the Dun Cow
- Anne Tyler,Saint Maybe
- William Shakespeare,anything
- Victor Hugo,Les Misérables
- Forrest Carter,Education of Little Tree
- Poetry
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- Gerard Manley Hopkins,Poems
- Dante,The Divine Comedy
- John Milton,Paradise Lost
- Richard Wilbur,Poems
- Mary Oliver,New and Selected Poems
- George Herbert,The Temple
- John Donne,The Holy Sonnets
- Luci Shaw,A Widening Light
- Czeslaw Milosz,The Collected Poems
- T.S. Elliot,The Four Quartets/The Wasteland
- Wendell Berry,The Timbered Choir
- Seamus Heaney,The Collected Poems
- Raymond Carver,A New Path to the Waterfall
- Garrison Keillor, ed.,Good Poems
- Prayer
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- The Psalms, (The Bible)
- Hans Urs von Balthasar,Prayer
- P.T. Forsyth,The Soul of Prayer
- Frederic von Hugel,The Life of Prayer
- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy,I am an Impure Thinker
- Friedrich Heiler,Prayer: A study in the History and Psychology of Religion
- C.S. Lewis,Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
- Jacques Ellul,Prayer and Modern Man
- Harry Emerson Fosdick,The Meaning of Prayer
- Steven Chase,The Tree of Life
- James M. Houston,The Transforming Friendship
- Richard Foster,Prayer: Finding the Hearts True Home
- The Book of Common Worship
- John Bailie,A Diary of Private Prayer
- David Adam,The Edge of Glory: Prayers in the Celtic Tradition
- John Oliver Nelson, ed.,The Student Prayerbook
- Ben Patterson,Deepening Your Conversation with God
- Jim Cymbala,Fresh Wind Fresh Fire
- Wesley L. Duewel,Mighty Prevailing Prayer
- Spiritual Theology
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- Martin Thornton,Pastoral Theology: Reorientation
- Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places; Eat This Book
- Jonathan Edwards,A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer,Spiritual Care
- Wendell Berry,The Unsettling of America
- Benedict,The Rule
- Stanley Hauerwas,A Community of Christian Character
- Evelyn Underhill,The Spiritual Life
- Abraham Joshua Heschel,God in Search of Man;The Prophets
- Spiritual Direction & Disciplines
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- Abraham Joshua Heschel,The Sabbath
- P.T. Forsyth,The Cure of Souls
- Stanley Hauerwas,A Community of Character
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer,Life Together
- Richard Foster,Celebration of Discipline
- Aelred of Rievaulx,Spiritual Friendship
- Francis de Sales,Introduction to the Devout Life/Letters of Spiritual Direction
- Thomas Merton,Spiritual Direction/Seven Story Mountain
- Keith Anderson,Spiritual Mentoring
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,The Divine Milieu
- Martin Luther,Letters of Spiritual Counsel
- Annie Dillard,Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Flannery O’Connor,The Habit of Being
- Eugene Peterson,Under The Unpredictable Plant; Five Smooth Stones; Subversive Spirituality; Working the Angles; The Contemplative Pastor
- Henri J.M. Nouwen,Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life
- Frederick Buechner,The Sacred Journey, NowandThen, and Telling Secrets
- A.W. Tozer,Pursuit of GodandKnowledge of the Holy
- Walker Percy,Lost in the Cosmos
- Dorothy Day,The Long Lonliness
- Dallas Willard,The Spirit of the Disciplines
- J.I. Packer and Loren Wilkinson, eds.,Alive to God: Studies in Spirituality
- Basil M. Pennington,Lectio Divine: Renewing the Ancient Practice of Praying Scripture
- Worship
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- James Torrance,Worship Community and the Triune God of Grace
- Evelyn Underhill,Worship
- Marva Dawn,Reaching Out without Dumbing Down/A Royal Waste of Time
- Annie Dillard,Teaching A Stone to Talk
- J.G. Davies,Westminster Dictionary of Worship
- Robert Weber,Ancient Future Faith
- Sally Morgenthaler,Worship Evangelism
- James F. White,An Introduction to Christian Worship
- Don E. Saliers,Worship & Spirituality
- Edward Folwy,From Age to Age
- Frank Senn,Christian Liturgy: Catholic and Evangelical
- James 0’Connor,The Hidden Manna: A Theology of the Eucharist
- Tim Dearborn and Scott Coil,Worship At the Next Level: insight from contemporary voices
- Mission & Evangelism
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- Stanley Hauerwas & William Willimon,Resident Aliens
- Lesslie Newbigin,Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture
- Wendell Berry,Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community
- James Davidson Hunger,Cultural Wars
- Brian McLaren,A New Kind of Christian
- David Bosch,Believing in the Future: Toward a Missiology of WesternCulture
- David Bosch,Transforming Mission: paradigm Shifts in Theology and Mission
- Darrell Guder,Missional Church: Toward an Ecclesial Christian Ethic
- George Hunsberger & Craig Van Gelder,The Church Between Gospel and Culture
- Patrick R. Keifert,Welcoming the Stranger: A Public Theology of Worship and Evangelism
- Robert Weber,Liturgical Evangelism
- Stanley Hauerwas,After Christendom? How the Church Is to Behave If Freedom, Justice and Christian Nation Are Bad Ideas.
- Norman Kraus,The Community of the Spirit: How the Church Is in the World
- Sherwood Lingenfelter & Marvin Mayers,Ministering Cross-Culturally: an Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships
- John Howard Yoder,The Politics of Jesus
- Charles VanEngen,Mission on the Way: issues in Modern Theology
- Michael Green,Evangelism in the Early Church
- Hippolytus,The Treatise on the “Apostolic Tradition.”
- Vocation
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- Richard Bolle,How to Find your Mission in Life
- Robert Coles & Brian Mahan,Forgetting Ourselves On Purpose: Vocation and the Ethics of Ambition
- Craig Dykstra,Growing into the Life of Faith: Education and Christian Practice
- Gill Farnham & Ward McLean,Listening Hearts: Discerning Call in Community
- Os Guiness,The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
- Steven Garber,The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behavior During the University Years.
- Gregory L. Jones and Stephanie Paulsell, ed.,The Scope of Art: The Vocation of the Theological Teacher.
- Parker Palmer,Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
- Sharon Daloz Parks,Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Young Adults in Their Search for Meaning , Purpose, and Faith.
- Cornelius Plantinga,Engaging God’s World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living.
- Mark Schwen,Exiles in Eden: Religion and the Academic Vocation in America
- Gerald Sittser,The Will of God as a Way of Life
QUESTIONS?
Chaplain of Discipleship,Jill Nelson
van Andel Huys der Hope110 East 12th StreetHolland,MI49423
workP. 616.395.7145
chaplain@m.icarseries.com