The following are books [and articles coming soon] that have challenged and helped some of our leaders in our faith and ministry work. The City Church may not endorse or believe everything written in these. Most book book links are to Amazon.com, where you can learn more and purchase them.

Bibles

• English Standard Version (for adults)
• ESV Study Bible (for going deeper)
• Jesus Storybook Bible (for kids)

Care/Counseling

• A Biblical View of Self-Esteem (Adams)
• You Can Change (Chester)
• Love to Eat, Hate to Eat (Fitzpatrick)
• A Grief Observed (Lewis)
• The Problem of Pain (Lewis)
• When I Don't Desire God (Piper)
• War of Words (Tripp)
• Addictions (Welch)
• Depression: A Stubborn Darkness (Welch)
• When People Are Big and God is Small (Welch)

Defending Your Faith

• The Reason for God (Keller)
• Mere Christianity (Lewis)
• Jesus Among Other Gods (Zacharias)

Finances

• Money, Possesssions, and Eternity (Alcorn)
• The Complete Financial Guide for Young Couples (Burkett)
• Your Money Counts (Dayton)

Marriage/Sexuality

• Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage in the Bible (Adams)
• When Sinners Say "I Do" (Harvey)
• God, Marriage, and Family (Kostenberger)
• Sacred Marriage (Thomas)
• Sex and the Supremacy of Christ (Piper/Taylor)
• Intended for Pleasure (Wheat)
• Most Important Year in a Man's/Woman's Life (Woglemuth/DeVries)

Ministry/Leadership

• Leading With a Limp (Allender)
• The Cross and Christian Ministry (Carson)
• Good to Great (Collins)
• Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (Dever)
• The Five Disfunctions of a Team (Lencioni)
• Humility: True Greatness (Mahaney)
• Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership (McIntosh/Rima)
• Brothers, We Are Not Professionals (Piper)
• Spiritual Leadership (Sanders)
• Communicating for a Change (Stanley/Jones)
• Breaking the Missional Code (Stetzer/Putnam)
• Biblical Eldership (Strauch)

Missions/Missional Living

• Radical Reformission (Driscoll)
• The Celtic Way of Evangelism (Hunter)
• Operation World (Johnstone)
• Salvation to the Ends of the Earth (Kostenberger/O'Brien)
• Let the Nations Be Glad (Piper)
• Glocalization (Roberts)

Parenting/Family

• Family-Driven Faith (Baucham)
• Shepherding a Child's Heart (Tripp)
• Big Truths for Young Hearts (Ware)

Personal Growth

• The Imitation of Christ (a Kempis)
• The Cost of Discipleship (Bonhoffer)
• The Pursuit of Holiness (Bridges)
• Total Church (Chester/Timmis)
• Just Do Something (DeYoung)
• Celebration of Discipline (Foster)
• Streams of Living Water (Foster)
• The Shaping of Things to Come (Frost/Hirsch)
• The Tangible Kingdom (Halter/Smay)
• The Forgotten Ways (Hirsch/Sweet)
• Counterfeit Gods (Keller)
• The Prodigal God (Keller)
• The Practice of the Presence of God (Lawerence)
• Living the Cross-Centered Life (Mahaney)
• Communion with the Triune God (Owen)
• The Mortification of Sin (Owen)
• Desiring God (Piper)
• Don't Waste Your Life (Piper)
• Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ (Piper)
• The Pursuit of God (Tozer)
• Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands (Tripp)

Theology Overview/Bible Study

• Institutes of Christian Religion (Calvin)
• Preaching Christ in All of Scripture (Clowney)
• Christian Beliefs (Grudem)
• Systematic Theology (Grudem)
• Living By the Book (Hendricks)
• Reading the Bible with Heart and Mind (Longman)
• Knowing God (Packer)
• How to Read the Bible as Literature (Ryken)
• The Attributes of God (Tozer)
• Knowledge of the Holy (Tozer)

Theological Issues

• The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God (Carson)
• The Church (Clowney/Bray)
• The Cross and Salvation (Demarest)
• Religious Affections (Edwards)
• Desiring God (Piper)
• God is the Gospel (Piper)
• Rediscovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (Piper/Grudem)
• Humanity and Sin (Pyne)
• The Cross of Christ (Stott)
• The Holiness of God (Sproul)

Web Resources

• Acts 29 Network
• Bible Gateway
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• Desiring God Ministries
• ESV Study Bible online
• Historic Creeds and Confessions
• The Resurgence