We often get asked for book recommendations from families and individuals who are looking to learn more about our doctrinal and familial beliefs. To that end, we have put together a list of what we believe is the “basic” library for the Christian family. This is an “evergreen” list – we already see a need for a hospitality section!

The Basics

A Bible

A Hymnal

A Psalter

Family

Being a Husband

Federal Husband – Doug Wilson

Fidelity – Douglas Wilson

The Complete Husband – Lou Priolo

The Exemplary Husband – Stuart Scott

Being a Wife

Becoming a Titus 2 Woman – Martha Peace

Becoming a Woman of Discretion – Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Biblical Womanhood and the Home – Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Damsels in Distress – Martha Peace

Let Me Be a Woman – Elisabeth Elliot

Lies Women Believe – Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Passionate Housewives, Desperate for God – Jennie Chancey and Stacy McDonald

The Excellent Wife – Martha Peace

Marriage

Love and Respect – Emmerson Eggerich

Reforming Marriage – Douglas Wilson

Strengthening Your Marriage – Wayne A. Mack

Family Order

Christian Living in the Home – Jay Edward Adams

Family Practice – R.C. Sproul and Elisabeth Elliot

The Natural Family – Allan C. Carlson and Paul T. Mero

Your Family, God’s Way – Wayne A. Mack

Child Training

Everyday Talk – Jay Younts

Raising Godly Children (DVD) – Michael and Susan Bradrick

Shepherding your Child’s Heart – Tedd Tripp

Standing on the Promises – Douglas Wilson

The Heart of Anger – Lou Priolo

Withhold Not Correction – Bruce Ray

Raising Sons

Future Men – Douglas Wilson

The Mark of a Man – Elisabeth Elliot

Thoughts for Young Men – J. C. Ryle

Raising Daughters

Beautiful Girlhood – Mable Hale

Raising Maidens of Virtue – Stacy McDonald

So Much More – Anna Sophia and Elizabeth Botkin

Stepping Heavenward – Elizabeth E. Prentiss

Victorious Living

Classics

City of God – Augustine

Fox’s Book of Martyrs

Freedom of the Will – Jonathan Edwards

Institutes of the Christian Religion – John Calvin

Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyun

Table Talk – Martin Luther

The Mortification of Sin – John Owen

Family Integration

A Critique of Modern Youth Groups – Christopher Schlect

Uniting Church and Home – Eric Wallace

Homeschooling

Teaching the Trivium – Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn

The Book Tree – Elizabeth McCallum and Jane Scott

When You Rise Up – R.C. Sproul, Jr

Family Worship

Leading Little Ones to God- Marian M. Schooland

Rediscovering Catechism – Donald Van Dyken

The Family Worship Book – Terry L. Johnson

Training Hearts, Teaching Minds – Starr Meade

Ethics/Culture

All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes – Kenneth Myers and Marvin Olasky

Amusing Ourselves to Death – Neil Postman

Salvation and Godly Rule – R. J. Rushdooney

The Marketing of Evil – David Kupelian

The Sabbath

Celebrating the Sabbath – Bruce A. Ray

The Rest of God – Mark Buchanan

Creation

Creation in Six Days – James B. Jordan

The Genesis Flood – John C. Whitcomb and Henry Madison Morris

The Modern Creation Trilogy – Henry M. Morris and John D. Morris

The Soul of Science – Nancy Pearcey, Charles Thaxton, and Marvin Olasky

Worldview

Biblical Economics – R. C. Sproul, Jr

How Shall We Then Live? – Francis Schaffer

Through New Eyes – James B. Jordan

Whatever Happened to the Human Race? – C. Everett Koop and Francis Schaffer

Theology

Soteriology

Chosen By God R. C. Sproul

Easy Chairs, Hard Words – Douglas Wilson

Putting Amazing Back Into Grace – Michael Horton

The Doctrines of Grace – James M. Boice

The Five Points of Calvinism – David N. Steele, Curtis C. Thomas, and S. Lance Quinn

Eschatology

He Shall Have Dominion – Ken Gentry

Last Days Madness – Gary DeMar

Postmillennialism: An Eschatology of Hope – Keith A. Mathison

The Greatness of the Great Commission – Ken Gentry

Hermeneutics

Dispensationalism: Rightly Dividing the People of God? – Keith A. Mathison

Far As the Curse Is Found – Michael D. Williams

God of Promise – Michael Horton

Sacramentology

Children of the Promise – Robert Booth

Feed My Lambs – Tim Gallant

Given for You – Keith A. Mathison and R. C. Sproul

To a Thousand Generations – Douglas Wilson

Bibliology

The Shape of Sola Scriptura – Keith A. Mathison

What is in the Bible – R. C. Sproul and Robert Wolgemuth

Ecclesiology

Kingdom and the Power – C. Peter Wagner, Gary S. Greig, and Kevin N. Springer

Mother Kirk – Douglas Wilson

The Lord’s Service – Jeffrey Myers

Apologetics

By This Standard – Greg Bahnsen

Persuasions – Douglas Wilson

Van Til’s Apologetic – Greg Bahnsen

History

100 Most Important Events in Church History – Curtis, Lang, and Peterson

Angels in the Architecture – Douglas Jones and Douglas Wilson

Reformation Sketches – W. Robert Godfrey

Revival and Revivalism – Ian Murray

The Church in History – B.K. Kuiper

The Great Christian Revolution – Otto Scott

Standards

Westminster Confession of Faith: For Study Classes – G. I. Williamson

Westminster Shorter Catechism: For Study Classes – G. I. Williamson

Westminster Larger Catechism: A Commentary – Johannes Geerhardus Vos