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Recommended Books

Listed below are books that we recommend as trustworthy resources.

Devotionals

Give Us This Day: A Daily Bible Study, Devotion, Meditation, and Prayer For the Whole New Testament - Vol. 1: Matthew by Fr. Charles Erlandson.

Of Special Interest to Women

The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir

Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life by Alison Weir

A Woman God Can Use: Lessons from Old Testament Women Help You Make Today's Choices by Alice Mathews

General Theology

The following books provide a framework for your studies that will help you understand Scripture as a whole:

The Doctrine of God by Gerald Bray

Knowing God by J.I. Packer

Practical Religion by J.C. Ryle

That You May Prosper: Dominion by Covenant by Ray Sutton

Old Testament Studies

A House for My Name by Peter Leithart

New Testament/Early Church Studies

The Life and Times of Jesus Messiah: New Updated Edition by Alfred Edersheim

The Pastoral Epistles: An Introduction and Commentary by Donald Guthrie

Apostolic Fathers by J.B. Lightfoot

Notes on Epistles of St. Paul by J.B. Lightfoot

Saint Paul's Epistle to the Philippians by J.B. Lightfoot

Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of Mark by J.C. Ryle

Worship and Liturgy

Recalling the Hope of Glory by Allan P. Ross

Church History

The Story of Christianity by Justo L. Gonzalez