The Pastor's Library

Trusting the Scriptures

Can We Trust the Gospels? By Mark D. Roberts (great place to start)

Creeds, Councils, And Controversies Edited by J. Stevenson (academic)

Documents of the Christian Church edited by Henry Bettenson (academic)

Early Christian Doctrines by J.N.D. Kelly (Academic)

Finding God in the Questions by Timothy Johnson 

Jesus in Context: Background Readings for Gospel Study. ed. Darrell L. Bock and Gregory J. Herrick
Jesus according to Scripture: Restoring the Portrait from the Gospels by Darrell L. Bock

Letters from a Skeptic by Gregory Boyd and Edward Boyd

Studying the Historical Jesus: A Guide to Source and Methods. by Darrell L. Bock (Great place to start)

The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnightThe Cannon of Scripture by F.F. Bruce

The Case for Faith by Lee Strobel

The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel

The Last Word by N.T. Wright
The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable by F.F. Bruce (great place to start)

Guy's Stuff

To Own a Dragon: Reflections on Growing Up without a Father by Donald Miller

Why Guys Need God by Mike Erre

Why Men Hate Going to Church by David Murrow

Spiritual Life for Everyone

An Unstoppable Force by Erwin McManus

Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller

Doubting: Growing Through the Uncertainties of Faith by Alister McGrath

Everybody?s Normal Till You Get to Know Them by John Ortberg

Faith & Doubt by John Ortberg

Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace by Miroslav Volf

Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God by Dallas Willard

If You Want to Walk on Water, You?ve Got to Get Out of the Boat by John Ortberg

In a Pitt with a Lion by Mark Batterson

In the Likeness of God by Paul Brand and Philip Yancey

Leap Over a Wall by Eugene Peterson

Original Sin: A Cultural History by Alan Jacobs

Renovation of the Heart by Dallas Willard

Rumors of Another World by Philip Yancey

Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality by Rob Bell

Soul Survivor by Philip Yancey

The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God by Dallas Willard

The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? by David Bentley Hart

The God Conversation: Using Stories and Illustrations to Explain Your Faith by J.P. Moreland & Tim Muehlhoff

The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey

The Life You?ve Always Wanted by John Ortberg

The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning

Through Painted Deserts by Donald Miller

Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell

What?s So Amazing About Grace? By Philip Yancey

Wild Goose Chase by Mark Batterson

When God Goes to Starbucks: A Guide to Everyday Apologetics by Paul Copan

The Jesus Quest (most of these books are academic)

Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels edited by Joel Green, Scot McKnight, I. Howard Marshall

Following Jesus by N.T. Wright (Devotional)

God and the Crisis of Freedom by Richard Bauckham

God Crucified by Richard Bauckham

Jesus Among Other Gods by Ravi Zacharias

Jesus and Judaism by E.P. Sanders

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses by Richard Bauckham

Jesus and the Victory of God by N.T. Wright

Jesus Christ by Donald Bloesch

Jesus the Sage by Ben Witherington 

One God, One Lord by Larry Hurtado

Pauline Christology by Gordon Fee

Putting Jesus in His Place by Robert M. Bowman and J. Ed Komoszewski (Devotional)

Recovering Jesus by Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld (Devotional)

The Case for the Real Jesus by Lee Strobel (Devotional)

The Challenge of Jesus by N.T. Wright (Devotional)

The Christology of Jesus by Ben Witherington

The Death of Jesus in Early Christianity by John Carroll and Joel Green

The Faith of Jesus by Richard Hays

The Historical Figure of Jesus by E.P. Sanders

The Jesus Creed by Scot McKnight (Devotional)

The Many Faces of the Christ by Ben Witherington

The Word of Life by Thomas Oden

The Jesus Quest by Ben Witherington

The Story of the Christ by Scot McKnight

Who Was Jesus? by N.T. Wright

Why God Became Man by Anselm of Canterbury

Wesleyan Theology

Charles Wesley on Sanctification: A Biographical and Theological Study by John R. Tyson

Charles Wesley: Poet and Theologian (Academic) edited by St Kimbrough, Jr.

Conversion in the Wesleyan Tradition by Kenneth J. Collins and John H. Tyson

Doctrine and Theology in the United Methodist Church (Academic) edited by Thomas A. Langford

The Scripture Way of Salvation: The Heart of John Wesley's Theology by Kenneth J. Collins

Responsible Grace: John Wesley?s Practical Theology (Academic) by Randy L. Maddox

Works of John Wesley (Primary Source) edited by Albert C. Outler

The Revelation Series
Revelation and the End of All Things by Craig R. Koester (Academic/Overview)

Revelation, NIV Application Commentary by Craig S. Keener

Revelation: The New Cambridge Bible Commmentary by Ben Witherington III (Academic)

This Beautiful Mess by Rick McKinley

The Message of Revelation, The Bible Speaks Today by Michael Wilcock (Devotional)
The New International Commentary on Revelation by Robert Mounce

Thunder: Revelation & the Praying Imagination by Eugene H. Peterson (Devotional)

Women in the Earliest Churches by Ben Witherington III