Katya and I recently started seminary, which means we are reading a ton of more books. Also, my pastor has given me many more opportunities to preach or teach Bible studies, which means research… Which means more books! However, one of the problems with being a missionary overseas is the trouble of finding English books. I know that the obvious answer is Kindle; however, that starts to hurt my eyes after a little while, gets very expensive very fast, and is not nearly as enjoyable (or comprehendible) as reading a real, physical, paper book.
All of this is why our sending church has decided to help us by sending boxes of books over here from time to time – and you can help! Please take a look at this list, head down (or visit online) the local Half-Priced Books, and bring / send the books to this address:
Snead Missions
C/O Horizon Christian Fellowship
7702 Indian Lake Road
Indianapolis, IN 46236
P.S. Some of these books may be a little contraversial. Just because they are on the list doesn’t mean that I agree with them – they may be for research, for a class, a book that an unbeliever asked me to read, or for reference for something later. Several of them aren’t Christian books, but we use even those books in seminary to analyze current areas of thought and better minister to unbelievers.
Here’s the list of books that we need (already sent if crossed out):
Specifically for upcoming classes:
- Toward an Exegetical Theology, Kaiser
- How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, Fee
- The Hermeneutical Spiral, Osborne
Books for everything else:
Harvest, Chuck Smith- Why Grace Changes Everything, Chuck Smith
- ESV Reader’s Bible
- NIV, The Books of the Bible (4 volumes)
- New Morning Mercies, Paul Tripp
- Dear Timothy, Ascol
- Halley’s Bible Handbook: Deluxe Edition
- The Didache: Text, Translation, Analysis, and Commentary, Milavec
- Reading Koine Greek, Rodney J. Decker
- Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Kittel and Friedrich
- A New English Translation of the Septuagint
- The New City Catechism
- Concordance to the Septuagint, Hatch and Redpath
- Genesis: A Commentary, Bruce K. Waltke
- The Art of War, Sun Tzu
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Covey
- The Prince, Machiavelli
- The Reason for God, Timothy Keller
- The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
- The IVP Bible Background Commentary (Old and New Testament)
- Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, D. A. Carson and Gregory K. Beale
- Christian Theology, Erickson
- Confessions, Augustine
- Institutes, Calvin
- The Cross of Christ, Stott
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership (updated), Maxwell
- Light from the Ancient East, Deismann
- Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament, Moulton and Milligan
- How to Prepare Bible Messages, Braga
- Preaching, Keller
- A Story of Grace, Metzger
- War of Words, Paul Tripp
- One Thing You Can’t Do in Heaven, Cahill
- Debating Calvinism: Five Points Two Views, Hunt and White
- A Free Grace Primer, Hodges
- All of Grace, Spurgeon
- Making Sense of God, Keller
- Jacob Arminius: Theologian of Grace, Stanglin
- Manual of Christian Doctrine, Berkhof
- The Prodigal God, Keller
- Deep and Wide, Stanley
- The Next Generation Leader, Stanley
- Moral Letters to Lucilus, Seneca
- The Westminster Confession
- Extreme Ownership, Willink
Effective Prayer Life, Chuck Smith- Why We Pray, Philip
- Lifting Up Our Hearts, Calvin
- Prayer, Timothy Keller
- Praying the Bible, Whitney
- City Changers, Platt
- The Gift of Prophecy in the New Testament and Today, Grudem
- Are Miraculous Gifts for Today? Four Views, Grudem
- Center Church, Keller
- Systematic Theology, Grudem
- The Moody Handbook of Theology
- Basic Theology, Ryrie
- Reflections on the Psalms, Lewis
- Lectures in Systematic Theology, Thiessen
- The Songs of Jesus, Keller
- Psalms, Bonhoeffer
- A Tale of Three Kings, Edwards
- Brothers We Are Not Professionals, Piper
- The Leader’s Bookshelf, Stavridis
- Mere Christianity, Lewis
- The Great Divorce, Lewis
- (Everything else by Lewis)
- Maps of Meaning, Peterson
- 12 Rules for Life, Peterson
- On War, Von Clausewitz
Married and How to Stay That Way, Carr- What Did You Expect, Tripp
- The Meaning of Marriage, Keller
- Relationships a Mess Worth Making, Lane and Tripp
- Anything by Spurgeon
- Disciplines of a Godly Young Man, Hughes
- Homo Deus, Harari
- Sapiens, Harari
- Cross-Cultural Servanthood, Elmer
- 1984, Orwell
- Classic Philosophy for the Modern Man, Lynn
- The Essential Jonathan Edwards, Strachan
- Predictable Success, McKeown
- God’s Love, Sproul
- Autopsy of a Deceased Church, Rainer
- Spurgeon’s Sorrows, Eswine
- The Seven Basic Plots, Booker
- Spy the Lie, Houston
- The Code of Man, Waller Newell
- Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl
- Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
- The entire LoTR series, including the Hobbit and the Silmarillion, Tolkien
- The Lost Sermons of C.H. Spurgeon (I-III)
- Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard
- Anything else by Kierkegaard
- The Republic, Plato
- The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Anything else by Dostoevsky
- War and Peace, Tolstoy
- The Iliad & The Odyssey, Homer
- A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean
- Lives, Plutarch
- To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- The Histories, Herodotus
- Ulysses, James Joyce
- The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Book of Deeds of Arms and Chivalry, Christine de Pizan
- Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
- Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
- Resilience, Eric Greitens
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
- The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
- Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
… And whatever else you would like to send us!
Beware of the person of one book.
– Thomas Aquinas