Recommended Books

This is a growing list of books recommended for pastors and church leaders (it is in no particular order).

Pastoral Ministry/Church Leadership

The Intentional Church - Randy Pope

Brothers, We Are Not Professionals - John Piper

Nine Marks of a Healthy Church - Mark Dever

Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor: The Life and Reflections of Tom Carson - D.A. Carson

Spiritual Leadership - J. Oswald Sanders

Biblical Eldership: Restoring the Eldership to Its Rightful Place in Church - Alexander Strauch

Preaching

Lectures to My Students - C.H. Spurgeon

Preaching & Preachers - D. Martyn Lloyd Jones

Biblical Preaching - Haddon Robinson

Theology

Knowing God - J.I. Packer

Systematic Theology - Wayne Grudem

Institutes of the Christian Religion - John Calvin

Christian Theology - Millard Erickson

Worship Through Music

Unceasing Worship - Harold Best

Worship Matters - Bob Kauflin

Youth Ministry

The Ministry of Nuture - Duffy Robbins

Your First Two Years in Youth Ministry - Doug Fields

Feeding Your Forgotten Soul - Paul Borthwick

Speaking to Teenagers - Doug Fields and Duffy Robbins