resources > links > recommended reading

Recommended Reading

Scott Wieking's Favorite Spiritual Reads

  1. Leap Over a Wall by Eugene Peterson
  2. The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard
  3. Knowing God by J.I. Packer
  4. A Long Obedience in the Same Direction by Eugene Peterson
  5. The Practice of the Presence of God translated by John Delaney; forward by Henri Nouwen
  6. Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places by Eugene Peterson
  7. What's So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey
  8. The Sacred Romance by John Eldredge and Brent Curtis
  9. The Life You've Always Wanted by John Ortberg
  10. Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster
  11. Out of Solitude by Henri Nouwen
  12. The Jesus Creed by Scot McKnight
  13. The Spirit of the Disciplines by Dallas Willard
  14. The Sermon on the Mount by John R. W. Stott
  15. Out of the Saltshaker and Into the World by Rebecca Pippert
  16. Disappointment with God by Philip Yancey
  17. Spiritual Leadership by J. Oswald Sanders
  18. Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial and Time Reserves to our Overloaded Lives by Richard A. Swenson, M.D.
  19. The Jesus I Never Knew by Phillip Yancey
  20. The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri Nouwen

Commentary Series: "For Everyone" Series (example: Matthew for Everyone).  Tom Wright's New Testament Commentaries are accessible, relevant and pithy