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Josh McDowell, The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict.

—. More Than a Carpenter.

Norman Geisler, When Critics Ask.

Charles Finney, True Saints, “Doubtful Actions Are Sinful,” pp. 44-45, 58.

Thomas Boys, The Suppressed Evidence.

Jeff Doles, Miracles and Manifestations.

They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way. –Luke 4:29-30

Inspired by this Paul Washer article here; and modified by J.B.
Updated 6/20/26.

Studying the Scriptures

• Holy Bible: Complete King James Bible on DVD: Narrated by Alexander Scourby.
• The NIV Study Bible.
• The Revival Study Bible.
• The Fire Bible.
• The Wesley Bible.
• Matthew Henry’s Commentary (Puritan).
• Adam Clarke’s Commentary (Early Methodist).

Study Aids

• The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (4 vols).
• studylight.org: Interlinear Bible and Study Tools.

Systematic Theology

• A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life by Joel R. Beeke & Mark Jones.
• Christian Theology by Adam Clarke (Early Methodist).
• Wesleyana by John Wesley (Early Methodist).
• John Wesley’s Scriptural Christianity by Thomas C. Oden.
• John Wesley’s Teachings by Thomas C. Oden.
• Bible Doctrines by P. C. Nelson (AG).
• Knowing the Doctrines of the Bible by Myer Pearlman (AG).
• Systematic Theology by Ernest Williams (AG).
• Christian Doctrine by French Arrington (COG).
• Institutes of Elenctic Theology by Francis Turretin.
• Theoretical-Practical Theology (4 vols) by Petrus van Mastricht.
• A Body of Divinity by Thomas Watson.
• Dogmatic Theology by William G. T. Shedd. 
• Concise Theology by J. I. Packer.
  
  As to the books you speak of: Mastricht is sometimes in one volume, a very large thick quarto, sometimes in two quarto volumes. I believe it could not be had new under 8 or 10 pounds. Turretin is in three volumes in quarto, and would probably be about the same price. They are both excellent. Turretin is on polemical divinity, on the 5 points & all other controversial points, & is much larger in these than Mastricht, & is better for one that desires only to be thoroughly versed in controversies. But take Mastricht for divinity in general, doctrine, practice & controversy, or as an universal system of divinity; & it is much better than Turretin or any other book in the world, excepting the Bible, in my opinion.” —Jonathan Edwards to Joseph Bellamy, January 15, 1747

Attributes of God

• Knowledge of the Holy by A. W. Tozer.

Person and Work of the Holy Spirit

• Keep in Step with the Spirit by J. I. Packer.
• The Graces of Interior Prayer by Augustin Poulain (Catholic mystical theology).
• Spiritual Gifts and Their Operation by Howard Carter (AG).

The Gospel

• The Gospel’s Power and Message, Paul Washer. 
• The Gospel of Jesus Christ by J. B. (WesleyGospel).
• Pierced for Our Transgressions by Steve Jeffery, etc.
• The Death of Death in the Death of Christ by John Owen.
• The Gospel According to Jesus by John MacArthur.
• Wesley and Sanctification by Harald Lindstrom.
• Wesley on Salvation by Kenneth J. Collins.

Conversion

• The Doctrine of Regeneration by Stephen Charnock.
• The Puritans on Conversion by Samuel Bolton, Nathanael Vincent, Thomas Watson.
• Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards.
• Thoughts on Religious Experience by Archibald Alexander.

Evangelism

• A Call to the Unconverted by Richard Baxter.

Christian Living

Sanctification

• Holiness by J. C. Ryle.
• The Christian in Complete Armor by William Gurnall.
• Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan.
• The Charles G. Finney Memorial Library (Kregel Publications).
• The Works of John Wesley.
• Five Views on Sanctification ed. Stanley Gundry.

Prayer

• Why Revival Tarries by Leonard Ravenhill.
• Revival God’s Way by Leonard Ravenhill.
• The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer.
• The Graces of Interior Prayer by Augustin Poulain (Catholic mystical theology).
• How to Experience God by J. B. (WesleyGospel).

Worship

• “Charismatic Worship” by Don Williams in Exploring the Worship Spectrum.

Finances

• The Word on Finances by Larry Burkett.
• The Religious Tradesman by Richard Steele.
• Biblical Economics by J. B. (WesleyGospel).
• John Wesley on Money ed. J. B. (WesleyGospel).

Church

Answering the Call to Preach

• Preaching and Preachers by Martyn Lloyd-Jones.
• Lectures to My Students by C. H. Spurgeon.
• In Light of Eternity: The Life of Leonard Ravenhill by Mack Tomlinson.
• What Every Preacher Should Know! by Hugh Pyle.
• An Autobiography by Charles Finney.

Saints in Church History

• Torch of the Testimony by John Kennedy.
• The Pilgrim Church by E. H. Broadbent.
• The Suppressed Evidence by Thomas Boys (charismatic gifts in the Reformation).
• The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine (lives of Catholic saints).
• Miracles and Manifestations by Jeff Doles.
• Mysteries Marvels Miracles by Joan Carroll Cruz.
• Butler’s Lives of the Saints ed. Herbert Thurston.
• Foxe’s Book of Martyrs.

The Christian Family

• Building a Godly Home (3 vols) by William Gouge.

Missions

• St. Paul the Traveler and Roman Citizen by William Ramsay.

Pastoral Ministry

• The Reformed Pastor by Richard Baxter.
• Pastoral Ministry by John MacArthur.
• Pastoral Theology by Thomas C. Oden.
• Classical Pastoral Care (3 vols) by Thomas C. Oden.
• This Little Church Went to Market by Gary Gilley.
• Churches That Abuse by Ronald Enroth.

Introduction to the Puritans

• Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were by Leland Ryken.
• A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life by J. I. Packer.
• The Puritans: Their Origins and Successors by Martyn Lloyd-Jones.
• A Guide to the Puritans by Robert Martin.
• Meet the Puritans by Joel Beeke and Randall J. Peterson.

Puritan Works

• The Works of Jonathan Edwards (2 vols; Banner of Truth).
• The Practical Works of Richard Baxter (4 vols; Soli Deo Gloria).

Revival

• Jonathan Edwards on Revival by Jonathan Edwards.
• Lectures on Revivals of Religion by Charles Finney.
• Why Revival Tarries by Leonard Ravenhill.

 

 

Charles Hodge, Systematic Theology, vol. 3, ch. 18.

Stanley Gundry, ed. Five Views of Sanctification.

John Wesley, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection.

Charles Finney, Lectures to Professing Christians.