A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, by Donald Miller
Callings, by Gregg LeVoy
Discover Your Destiny, by Bill & Kathy Peel
Divine Conspiracy, by Dallas Willard
Experiencing God, by Henry T. Blackaby
Halftime, by Bob Buford
Let Your Life Speak, by Parker Palmer
Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
Spiritual Rhythm: Being with Jesus Every Season of You Life, by Mark Buchanan
Strategic Concepts That Clarify a Focused Life, by Dr. J. Robert Clinton
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
The Barbarian Way, by Erwin McManus
The Call, by Os Guinness
The Echo Within, by Robert Benson
The Gift of Being Yourself, by David Benner
The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas A’ Kempis
The Journey of Desire, by John Eldredge
The Pursuit of Purpose, by Myles Munroe
To Be Told, by Dan Allender
Windows of the Soul, Ken Gire
CS Lewis on reading old books (from his Introduction to Athanasius’s Incarnation):
Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistakes of our own period. And that means the old books. All contemporary writers share to some extent the contemporary outlook—even those, like myself, who seem most opposed to it. Nothing strikes me more when I read the controversies of past ages than the fact that both sides were usually assuming without question a good deal which we should now absolutely deny. We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century—the blindness about which posterity will ask, “But how could they have thought that?”—lies where we have never suspected it. None of us can fully escape this blindness, but we shall certainly increase it, and weaken our guard against it, if we read only modern books. The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books. (C.S. Lewis, edited)
Old Christian Books:
J. I. Packer (late 1900’s)
– Finishing Our Course with Joy
– Knowing God
Lewis (mid 1900’s)
– Narnia
– Screwtape Letters
– Mere Christianity
– Weight of Glory
Orthodoxy (G. K. Chesterton, early 1900’s)
Oswald Chambers (early 1900’s)
– My Utmost For His Highest
– Approved Unto God
– Biblical Psychology
Religious Affections (Jonathan Edwards, 1700’s)
Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan, 1600’s)
Practicing the Presence of God (Brother Lawrence, 1600’s)
Heidelberg Catechism: What is Your Only Comfort in Life and Death? (1500’s)
The Belgic Confession (1500’s)
Institutes of the Christian Religions – 1536 Edition (1500’s)
The Imitation of Christ (Thomas à Kempis, 1400’s)
The Rule of St. Benedict (500’s)
Augustine of Hippo (400’s):
– Confessions
– On Christian Doctrine
On the Incarnation (300’s Athanasius)
– (Google intro by Lewis)