Summer Reading From Our Pastors And Directors

David Gieser, elder

Cultural Intelligence — Living For God in a Diverse, Pluralistic World by Darrell Bock

Christians in the Age of Outrage by Ed Stetzer

The Splendid and the Vile — A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson

Amy Kruis, deaconess

R. C. Sproul: A Life (Stephen Nichols) Audio book

Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl Trueman

Providence by John Piper

Josh Maurer, pastoral resident

Providence by John Piper

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl Trueman

Tim Hollinger, technology director

Analog Church by Jay Y. Kim

Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortlund

Diane Jordan, director of visitation and care

It Takes Time to Love by Hugh Steven

The Romantic Rationalist — Edited by John Piper and David Mathis

Nearing Home by Billy Graham

Mark Berg, elder

The Conqueror by Bryan Litfin

Heaven by Randy Alcorn

Dante's Inferno

Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortlund

The Shepherd Leader by Tim Witmer

Sarah Nelson, deaconess

I love to reach children’s books! Reading The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis is like visiting an old friend.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming. This is a fun book and has nothing to do with the movie.

Nancy Taylor, deaconess

Another Gospel? By Alisa Childers

Either Way, We’ll Be All Right by Eric Tonjes

Ministries of Mercy by Tim Keller

The Inspector Gamache mysteries by Louise Penny (best to start at the beginning go the series with Still Life)

Jeff Oslund, elder

The Reformed Pastor by Richard Baxter

The Power of Prayer in a Believer’s Life Complied and Edited by Robert Hall from the sermons of Charles Spurgeon

A Journey to Victorious Praying: Finding Discipline and Delight in Your Life by Bill Thrasher

10 Questions Every Teen Should Ask (and Answer) about Christianity by Rebecca McLaughlin

Men and Women in the Church A Short, Biblical, Practical Introduction by Keven DeYoung

Mary Miller, deaconess

Sooley by John Grisham (college/pro basketball recruiting and refugee camps in South Sudan and Uganda)

Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends by Carmen Joy Imes

Reading While Black by Esau McCauley (African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope)

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (for the fourth time)

Kevin Cassel, deacon

Dead Wake — The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein — Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists that Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe by Mario Livio

Getting to Know the Church Fathers — An Evangelical Introduction by Bryan Litfin