Books I've read in the past year.

I love books. I spend a lot of time and inordinate amounts of money on books. Books are life itself!  

People often ask me what I am reading, and the answer is usually complicated - I often have five or more books on the go at once. Some books I read in one sitting, some I read over two days, some drag on for a few months. Below is a list of books I have read over the past year and a bit (from about January 2015 but I don't keep a tally so I may have missed some off). They are in no particular order though I have created sections to make it easier to see. I have put an * beside the books I would most highly recommend in each section.   For the commentaries section I have included commentaries of which I have read at least the majority of the book but not the whole thing - all of these were read in preparation for sermons and sermon series and so I didn't always have to read every page.

Just for fun I have also included at the bottom a list of the fiction, fantasy, and comic books I have read - the books I escape into at the end of a rough day, books which offer me something completely and utterly different from everything real in my life! As with my other books, I have a somewhat rather eclectic taste.

Anglicanism:

• Old Books
• The Lord's Supper - Thomas Cranmer*
• Christian Leaders of the Seventeenth Century - J.C. Ryle
• The Book of Common Prayer in its history and interpretation with special reference to existing controversies 1866 - Richard Paul Blakeney
• The Principles of Theology - W. H. Griffith Thomas
• Old Anglicanism and Modern Ritualism - F. Meyrick*
• New Books
• Preachers, Pastors, and Ambassadors - various
• A Fragile Unity: anti-ritualism and the division of Anglican Evangelicalism in the Nineteenth Century - James C Whisenant
• Our Inheritance of Faith: A Commentary on the Thirty-Nine Articles - Martin Davie
• The Effective Anglican - ed. Lee Gatiss
• Reformation Anglicanism: BIblical, Generous, Beautiful - Chuck Collins
• Divine Allurement: Cranmer's Comfortable Words - Ashley Null*
• Instruction in the Way of The Lord: A guide to the catechism of the BCP - Martin Davie
• A Fruitful Exhortation:A Guide to the Homilies - Gerald Bray
• Till Death us Do Part: The solemnization of Matrimony in the BCP - Simon Vibert
• God Truly Worshipped - ed Jonathan Dean
• Royal Priesthood in the English Reformation - Malcolm Yarnell III*
• The Collects of Thomas Cranmer - C Frederick Barbee & Paul Zahl
• The Devout Prayers of Thy Church - Peter Blake

Ministry:

• Burn Out
• Mad Church Disease - Anne Jackson
• Crazy Busy - Kevin deYoung
• Leading on Empty - Wayne Cordeiro*
• The Baxter Model: guidelines for pastoring today - Bishop Wallace Benn
• Evangelism - J Mack Stiller
• Expositional Preaching - David Helm*
• Church Discipline - Jonathan Leeman
• Church Elders - Jeramie Rinne
• Church Membership - Jonathan Leeman*
• I Am A Church Member - Thomas Rainer
• Online Mission and Ministry - Pam Smith
• Liturgy and Liberty - John Leach
• Simplicity in Preaching - JC Ryle*
• 100 Ways to Get Your Church Noticed - Neil Pugmire

Moral and Patoral:

• Understanding Gender Dysphoria - Mark Yarhouse*
• Same Sex Attraction
• Christian Faith and Same-Sex Attraction: Eastern Orthodox Reflections - Thomas Hopko
• Can you be gay and Christian? - Michael L. Brown
• What does the Bible teach about Homosexuality? - Kevin deYoung*
• The Bible and Homosexual Practice - Robert Gagnon

• Can Christian Men and Women be friends? - Joshua D. Jones
• Mental Health
• Depression: A Rescue Plan - Jim Winter
• Spurgeon's Sorrows - Zack Eswine*
• Bi-Polar Disorder: The Ultimate Guide - Sarah Owen & Amanda Saunders
• Forgotten Factors of Sexual Sin - Roy Hession*

Theology:

• The Historical Adam: Four Views - various
• The Law and Gospel: Five Views - various
• The God Who Justifies - James White
• The Holy Trinity - Robert Leetham*
• For us and for our Salvation - Lee Gatiss*
• The Future of Justification - John Piper
• Given for you: reclaiming Calvin's doctrine of the Lord's Supper - Keith A Mathison
• A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life - Joel R Beeke and Mark Jones
• A Case for Historic Premillenialism - ed. Craig Blomberg and Sung Chung*
• Without Precedent: Scripture, Tradition, and the Ordination of Women - Geoffrey Kirk
• Hearing Her Voice: A Biblical invitation for women preachers - John Dickson*
• Are We Together? - R.C. Sproul*
• Wycliffite Spirituality - eds J. Patricl Hornbeck II, Stephen E. Lahey, & Fiona Somerset
• From Heaven He Came and Sought Her - eds David Gibson & Jonathan Gibson

Sermons and Tracts:

• Discovering Romans - S Lewish Johnson Jr.
• The New Park Street Pulpit Vol.1 - Charles Spurgeon*
• The New Park Street Pulpit Vol.2 - Charles Spurgeon*
• Jonah: His life, character, and Mission - Patrick Fairbairn
• Are You Ready for the End of Time? J.C. Ryle
• Churches Beware! - J.C. Ryle
• God is For Us - Simon Ponsonby*
• The One Year Book of Discovering Jesus in the Old Testament - Nancy Guthrie

Charismatic Theology and Practice:

• Surprised by the Power of the Spirit - Jack Deere
• The Beginner's Guide to the Gift of Prophecy - Jack Deere
• The Beginner's Guide to Spiritual Gifts - Sam Storms
• Stranger to Fire: When Traditions Trumps Scripture - ed. Robert Graves *
• God Inside Out - Simon Ponsonby*

'Popular' Theology:

• Crazy Love- Francis Chan*
• Stop Asking Jesus into your Heart - J.D. Greear
• Taking God at His Word - Kevin DeYoung*
• The Good News We Almost Forgot - Kevin DeYoung
• A Call to Spiritual Reformation - Don Carson
• PROOF: finding freedom through the intoxicating joy of irresistible grace - Daniel Montgomery and Timothy Paul Jones
• The Hyper Grace Gospel: a response to Michael Brown and those opposed to the modern grace message - Paul Ellis
• Surprised by Grace: God's relentless pursuit of Rebels - Tullian Tchividjian
• Glorious Ruin: how suffering sets you free - Tullian Tchividjian
• Evidence for the Gospel - Clive Anderson & Brian Edwards
• For Calvinism - Michael Horton
• Chosen for Life - Sam Storms
• God's Unwelcome Recovery - Sean Oliver-Dee
• The Calvary Road - Roy Hession*

Commentaries:

• Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries
• Joel and Amos - David Hubbard
• Obadiah, Jonah, and Micah - David Baker, T. Desmond Alexander, & Bruce K. Waltke
• Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi - Andrew Hill
• The Preacher's Commentary: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah - Lloyd J. Ogilvie
• Teaching Amos - Bob Fyall*
• New American Commentary
• Hosea and Joel - Duane Garrett
• Amos, Obadiah, Jonah - Billy Smith & Frank Page
• Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah - Kenneth Barker & Waylon Bailey
• Haggai and Malachi - Richard Taylor & E Ray Clendenen
• Mark - James Brooks
• Acts - John Polhill
• The NIV Application Commentary
• Hosea, Amos, Micah - Gary Smith
• Haggai and Zechariah - Mar Boda
• Jonah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah - James Bruckner
• Acts - Ajith Fernando*
• Zondervan Exegetical Commentary*
• Matthew - Grant R. Osborne
• Mark - Mark Strauss
• Acts - Eckhard Schnabel
• Pillar New Testament Commentary
• Mark - James Edwards
• Acts - David Peterson
• Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament
• Acts - Darrel Bock
• Christ-centered Exposistion
• Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi - Micah Fries, Stephen Rummage, & Robby Gallaty*

Fiction:

• R.A. Salvatore
• Gauntlgrym
• Neverwinter
• Charon's Claw
• The Last Threshold
• The Companions
• Night of the Hunter
• Rise of the King
• Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf
• Archmage
• The Return of Nagash - Josh Reynolds
• The Fall of Altdorf - Chris Wraight
• G. M. Berrow
• Twilight Sparke and the Crystal Heart Spell
• Pinkie Pie and the Rockin' Pony Party
• Rainbow Dash and the Daring Do Double Dare
• Rarity and the Curious Case of Charity
• Applejack and the Secret Diary Switcheroo
• Fluttershy and the Furry Friends Fair
• Princess Celestia and the Royal Rescue
• Lyra & BonBon and the Mares from S.M.I.L.E
• Daring Do and the Masked Thief of Marapore
• MLP:FiM Offical Guidebook - ed. Brandon T. Snider
• The Journal of Two Sisters - Amy Keating Rogers
• IDW Comics (various artists and authors)
• MLP:FiM Omnibus vol.1
• MLP:FiM Omnibus vol.2
• MLP:FiM 'fiendship is magic' omnibus