Show Notes:10. Alan Baker — Books, Books, Books: From Biographies to the Spiritual Life
Pastor, author, and coach, Alan Baker joins me to discuss books. From pastoral resources to reading for the spiritual life, your Amazon wish-list is about to get a lot longer.
“What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.” — Anne Lamott
Take and Read: Eugene Peterson
Pastor Books
- Dangerous Calling: Paul David Trip
- The Contemplative Pastor: Eugene Peterson
- Working the Angles: Eugene Peterson
- Under the Unpredictable Plant: Eugene Peterson
- Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work: Eugene Peterson
- On the Brink: Clay Werner
- Survive or Thrive: 6 Relationships Every Pastor Needs: Jimmy Dodd
- The Art of Pastoring: David Hansen
- The Power of Loving Your Church: David Hansen
- Creative Ministry: Henri Nouwen
- Wounded Healer: Henri Nouwen
On The Spiritual Life
- Way of the Heart: Henri Nouwen
- Discernment: Henri Nouwen
- Ordering Your Private World: Gordon MacDonald
- The Mystery of the Cross: Judith Couchman
- The Cross of Christ: John Stott
- Celebrations of Foster: Richard Foster
- The Discipline of Grace: Jerry Bridges
- Letters to Malcolm: C. S. Lewis
- Life Together: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The Cost of Discipleship: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Leap Over A Wall: Eugene Peterson
- Back to Virtue: Peter Kreeft
Old Books
- The Imitation of Christ: Thomas a Kempis
- Preaching and Preachers: Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
- Love, Acceptance, and Forgiveness: Jerry Cook
- In The Gap: David Bryant
- Religious Affections: Jonathan Edwards
- Romans: Karl Barth
- The Institutes: John Calvin
- City of God: Augustine
- He is There and He is not Silent: Francis Schaeffer
- Christian Apologetics: Van Til
Study Resources
- The IVP New Testament Commentary Series
- New Testament Commentary Survey
- Old Testament Commentary Survey
- IVP New & Old Testament Dictionary Set
- The Biblical Expositor: Carl F.H. Henry
- Talk Through The Bible: Wilkinson and Boa
- The Invitation: Eugene Peterson
- The Message of the Old Testament: Mark Dever
- The New International Commentary On The Old & New Testament
- Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament
- Zondervan Handbook of Biblical Archaeology: Price
- The Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
- Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
Biographies
- Bonhoeffer: Eric Metaxas
- The Life of David Brainerd
- The Journals of Jim Elliot
- Praying Hyde: Captain E.G. Carre
- The Navigator: Robert Foster
- Adoniram Judson
- Out of the Black Shadows: Stephen Lungu
- Smith Wigglesworth: George Sormount
- Martin Luther: Eric Metaxas
- John Adams: David McCullough
- Moses: A Life: Jonathan Kirsh