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Recommended Reading for Anchored Series

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Recommended Reading List from our Anchored Series

  1. General Theology Books
    1. Systematic Theology by John M. Frame
    2. Biblical Doctrine edited by John MacArthur and Richard Mayhue
    3. Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem
    4. Essential Truths of the Christian Faith by R.C. Sproul
    5. Systematic Theology by Louis Berkhof
    6. A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith by Robert Reymond
    7. The Moody Handbook of Theology by Paul Enns
  2. Trinity
    1. Delighting in the Trinity by Michael Reeves
    2. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit by Bruce Ware
    3. The Deep Things of God by Fred Sanders
    4. The Forgotten Trinity by James White
  3. Bible
    1. The Doctrine of the Word of God by John Frame
    2. The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible by B.B. Warfield
    3. Fundamentalism and the Word of God by JI Packer
    4. Grasping God’s Word by J. Scott Duvall and J. Daniel Hays
    5. A Peculiar Glory by John Piper
  4. God the Father
    1. No One like Him by John S. Feinberg
    2. The Existence and Attributes of God by Stephen Charnock
    3. Holiness by JC Ryle
    4. All that is in God by James Dolezal
    5. The Difficult Doctrine on the Love of God by D.A. Carson
  5. Creation
    1. Dogmatic Theology Vol. 1 by William G.T. Shedd
    2. Systematic Theology Vol. 1 by Charles Hodge
    3. Battle for the Beginning by John MacArthur
    4. Genesis Unbound by John Sailhamer
    5. Creation out of Nothing by Paul Copan and William Lane Craig
  6. Man
    1. The Christian View of Man by J. Gresham Machen
    2. Created in God’s image by Anthony Hoekema
    3. No Adam, No Gospel by Richard B. Gaffin Jr.
    4. The Quest for the Historical Adam by William VanDoodewaard
    5. G.C. Berkouwer Man: The Image of God
  7. Sin
    1. The Doctrine of Sin by Iain Campell
    2. Sin by G.C. Berkouwer
    3. Fallen: A Theology of Sin edited by Christopher Morgan
    4. Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther
    5. Willing to Believe by R.C. Sproul
    6. The Freedom of the Will by Jonathan Edwards
    7. Adam, the Fall, and Original sin edited by Hans Madueme and Michael Reeves
  8. Christ
    1. The Cross of Christ by John Stott
    2. The Resurrection of the Son of God by N.T. Wright
    3. Putting Jesus in His place by Robert M. Bowman and J. Ed Komoszewski
    4. The Man Christ Jesus by Bruce Ware
    5. God the Son Incarnate by Stephen J. Wellum
  9. Salvation
    1. The Cross and Salvation by Bruce Demarest
    2. Pierced for our Transgressions by Steve Jeffrey, Michael Ovey, and Andrew Sach
    3. The Future of Justification by John Piper
    4. The Atonement by Leon Morris
    5. Justification by Faith by John Owen
  10. Holy Spirit
    1. He who Gives Life by Graham A. Cole
    2. The Holy Spirit by John Owen
    3. Satisfied by the Promise of the Spirit by Thomas R. Edgar
    4. Plain Talk about the Holy Spirit by Manford Gutzke
    5. The Holy Spirit by A.W. Pink
    6. Baptism and Fullness by John Stott
    7. The Biblical Anthology on the Spirit of God by W.R. Simmons
  11. Church
    1. Nine Marks of a Healthy Church by Mark Dever
    2. The Master’s Plan for the Church by John MacArthur
    3. Biblical Eldership by Alexander Strauch
    4. Strangers and Sojourner by Gregg R. Allison
    5. God Redeeming His Bride by Robert G. Cheong
  12. Things to Come
    1. The Rapture by Gleason Archer, Paul Feinberg, Douglas Moo, and Richard Reiter
    2. The Meaning of the Millennium edited by Robert G. Clouse
    3. What to do until Jesus comes back by W.A. Criswell
    4. Christ’s Prophetic Plans by MacArthur and Mayhue
    5. The Presence of the future by George Eldon Ladd
    6. Whatever happened to hell by John Blanchard
    7. Heaven by Randy Alcorn