The other day I posed the following question on Twitter:
I’d like to hear your thoughts. What three books are first in your library (assuming you already have a Bible)?
What’s In Your Library?
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1. Systematic Theology – Grudem
2. God is the Gospel – Piper
3. Overcoming Sin and Temptation – John Owen (that one might be cheating, since it is 3 books in one)
or The Valley of Vision.
Strong’s concordance
JFB one volume commentary/ tied with MH one volume
Tie between Grudem’s theology and John Gill (technically two volumes)
game day for the glory of god, game day for the glory of god and game day for the glory of god.
1. Bible
2.The Gospel for Real Life (Jerry Bridges)
3. The Holiness of God (R.C. Sproul)
1. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
2. All of Grace – Charles Spurgeon
3. Desiring God – John Piper
Assuming I already had a Bible
1. The Pursuit of God – A.W. Tozer
2. Hard to Believe – John MacArthur
3. Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible
Grudem’s Systematic Theology
Piper’s Pleasures of God
Packer’s Knowing God
Inside Out by Larry Crabb
Lectures To My Students
Pleasures of God
1. Systematic Theology By: Wayne Grudem
2. The Cross Centered Life By: CJ Mahaney
3. Hard to Believe By: John MacArthur
1. Grudem’s Systematic Theology
2. Future Grace – John Piper
3. Christian Life- Sinclair Ferguson
My Library in General:
1. The Complete works of William Shakespeare
2. The Iliad/ The Odyssey, Homer
3. Persuasion, Jane Austen
My Theological Library:
1. Bible Doctrine, Grudem
2. Transforming Grace, Bridges
3. Morning by Morning, Spurgeon
1. Desiring God – John Piper
2. Knowing God – J.I. Packer
3. A Gospel Primer – Milton Vincent
Grudem’s Systematic Theology
Harvey’s When Sinners Say “I Do”
Tripp’s Shepherding A Child’s Heart
1. Institute of the Christian Religion – Calvin
2. Charity and Its fruits – Edwards
3. Reformed Dogmatics – Bavinck (ok, this one has 4vol. I’ll choose a different one)
3. Systematic Theology – Berkhof
Anything by John Piper
Bible Doctrine by Wayne Grudem (takes up less space than Systematic Theology!…room for more books!)
The Cross Of Christ by John Stott
I already have a Bible, and it can be an ESV Study Bible, right?
1) Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin
2) Desiring God, John Piper
3) Knowing God, J.I. Packer
1- Living the Cross-Centered by Life CJ Mahaney
2- The Gospel for Real Life by Jerry Bridges
3- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
1. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan (because it scared me and drove me to the Word of God)
2. Entropy – Jeremy Rifkin (because it depressed me and drove me to the Word of God)
3. The Gospel of the Kingdom: Scriptural Studies in the Kingdom of God – George Eldon Ladd (because it encouraged me and drove me to the Word of God)
1. Knowing God – J.I. Packer
2. The Discipline Of Grace – Jerry Bridges
3. Desiring God – John Piper
1.) Christian Theology by Millard Erickson
2.) Overcoming Sin and Temptation by John Owen
3.) New Bible Commentary by D.A. Carson, et al.
The Pursuit of God – Jerry Bridges
The Joy of Fearing God – Jerry Bridges
The Finished Work of Christ – Francis Shaeffer
Wow, these are great lists. Keep them coming. I think my three would be (and this is really hard):
Calvin’s Institutes
The Cross of Christ – John Stott
Systematic Theology – Grudem
MMMmmmm???? Tough question.
1. You Call Me Lord – John MacArthur
2. Systematic Theology – Wayne Grudem
3. The Great Gain of Godliness – Thomas Watson
This is so hard. My current selection not counting my ESV and NASB Bibles.
1. Sovereignty of God by A.W. Pink
2. Valley of Vision
3. Pleasures of God by Piper (I haven’t finished yet but is definitely an awesome read!)
Thanks! This is fun!
1. Shakespeare
2. Homer
3. Dante
wait, no: Shakespeare, Homer, and Milton. (assuming there is a one-volume Complete Works collection for each of those authors.)
Three books? Just THREE BOOKS? *gulp* Okay, I’ll do my best:
1. Mere Christianity
2. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
3. The Complete Works of Shakespeare
At least I’ve already got a Bible!
1. Valley of Vision by Arthur G. Bennett
2. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary on the whole Bible
3. Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
1. Robert Reymond’s Systematic Theology
2. Calvin’s Institutes
3. The Lord of the Rings
I’m in:
Calvin’s Institutes (readin’ … again)
Dever – Promises Made
Dever – Promise Kept
A Quest for More by Paul David Tripp
Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges
What Jesus Demands From the World- John Piper
The Pleasures of God – Piper
Institutes – Calvin
The Lord of the Rings – Tolkein
“The Great Divorce” – CS Lewis
“Anne of Avonlea” – LM Montgomery
“Letters of John Newton” – John Newton
Thanks, that was a fun exercise!
only 3 is hard.
so for today my 3 would be…
1. till we have faces by cs lewis
2. death by love by mark driscoll
3. spiritual depression by m.lloyd jones
1. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
2. Desiring God by John Piper
3. Crazy Love by Francis Chan
All 3 cover a little different aspect of faith, to keep my mind sharp in every way
Mountain Rain (the biography of James O Fraser) – the best book on prayer I know
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis
Three men in a boat by Jerome K Jerome
I don’t seem to be taking this as seriously as everyone else – but honestly I would need Three men in a boat to keep me sane.