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:

1. Toward an Exegetical Theology, Kaiser
2. How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, Fee
3. The Hermeneutical Spiral, Osborne

Books for everything else:

1. Harvest, Chuck Smith
2. Why Grace Changes Everything, Chuck Smith
3. ESV Reader’s Bible
4. NIV, The Books of the Bible (4 volumes)
5. New Morning Mercies, Paul Tripp
6. Dear Timothy, Ascol
7. Halley’s Bible Handbook: Deluxe Edition
8. The Didache: Text, Translation, Analysis, and Commentary, Milavec
9. Reading Koine Greek, Rodney J. Decker
10. Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Kittel and Friedrich
11. A New English Translation of the Septuagint
12. The New City Catechism
13. Concordance to the Septuagint, Hatch and Redpath
14. Genesis: A Commentary, Bruce K. Waltke
15. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
16. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Covey
17. The Prince, Machiavelli
18. The Reason for God, Timothy Keller
19. The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
20. The IVP Bible Background Commentary (Old and New Testament)
21. Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, D. A. Carson and Gregory K. Beale
22. Christian Theology, Erickson
23. Confessions, Augustine
24. Institutes, Calvin
25. The Cross of Christ, Stott
26. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership (updated), Maxwell
27. Light from the Ancient East, Deismann
28. Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament, Moulton and Milligan
29. How to Prepare Bible Messages, Braga
30. Preaching, Keller
31. A Story of Grace, Metzger
32. War of Words, Paul Tripp
33. One Thing You Can’t Do in Heaven, Cahill
34. Debating Calvinism: Five Points Two Views, Hunt and White
35. A Free Grace Primer, Hodges
36. All of Grace, Spurgeon
37. Making Sense of God, Keller
38. Jacob Arminius: Theologian of Grace, Stanglin
39. Manual of Christian Doctrine, Berkhof
40. The Prodigal God, Keller
41. Deep and Wide, Stanley
42. The Next Generation Leader, Stanley
43. Moral Letters to Lucilus, Seneca
44. The Westminster Confession
45. Extreme Ownership, Willink
46. Effective Prayer Life, Chuck Smith
47. Why We Pray, Philip
48. Lifting Up Our Hearts, Calvin
49. Prayer, Timothy Keller
50. Praying the Bible, Whitney
51. City Changers, Platt
52. The Gift of Prophecy in the New Testament and Today, Grudem
53. Are Miraculous Gifts for Today? Four Views, Grudem
54. Center Church, Keller
55. Systematic Theology, Grudem
56. The Moody Handbook of Theology
57. Basic Theology, Ryrie
58. Reflections on the Psalms, Lewis
59. Lectures in Systematic Theology, Thiessen
60. The Songs of Jesus, Keller
61. Psalms, Bonhoeffer
62. A Tale of Three Kings, Edwards
63. Brothers We Are Not Professionals, Piper
64. The Leader’s Bookshelf, Stavridis
65. Mere Christianity, Lewis
66. The Great Divorce, Lewis
67. (Everything else by Lewis)
68. Maps of Meaning, Peterson
69. 12 Rules for Life, Peterson
70. On War, Von Clausewitz
71. Married and How to Stay That Way, Carr
72. What Did You Expect, Tripp
73. The Meaning of Marriage, Keller
74. Relationships a Mess Worth Making, Lane and Tripp
75. Anything by Spurgeon
76. Disciplines of a Godly Young Man, Hughes
77. Homo Deus, Harari
78. Sapiens, Harari
79. Cross-Cultural Servanthood, Elmer
80. 1984, Orwell
81. Classic Philosophy for the Modern Man, Lynn
82. The Essential Jonathan Edwards, Strachan
83. Predictable Success, McKeown
84. God’s Love, Sproul
85. Autopsy of a Deceased Church, Rainer
86. Spurgeon’s Sorrows, Eswine
87. The Seven Basic Plots, Booker
88. Spy the Lie, Houston
89. The Code of Man, Waller Newell
90. Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl
91. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
92. The entire LoTR series, including the Hobbit and the Silmarillion, Tolkien
93. The Lost Sermons of C.H. Spurgeon (I-III)
94. Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard
95. Anything else by Kierkegaard
96. The Republic, Plato
97. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
98. Anything else by Dostoevsky
99. War and Peace, Tolstoy
100. The Iliad & The Odyssey, Homer
101. A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean
102. Lives, Plutarch
103. To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
104. The Histories, Herodotus
105. Ulysses, James Joyce
106. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
107. The Book of Deeds of Arms and Chivalry, Christine de Pizan
108. Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
109. Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
110. Resilience, Eric Greitens
111. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche
112. The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
113. The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
114. 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