5 Year Christian Reading List….

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I found this on a website this evening that I saw a link to today...check out this list of books to read for the next 5 years!!!(Repost from my old blog from 2007…I am not sure about all these books especially as my walk with the Lord has gotten stronger since 2007, I would need to look closely at these before reading.)

Year 1 Reading List

• Basic Christianity, John R.W. Stott
• Don’t Waste Your Life, John Piper
• The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate, Gary Chapman
• God Wrote a Book, James MacDonald
• Honesty, Morality, and Conscience, Jerry White
• The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey
• Knowledge of the Holy, A.W. Tozer
• The Master Plan of Evangelism, Robert Coleman
• More than a Carpenter, Josh McDowell
• My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers
• No Compromise: The Life Story of Keith Green, Melody Green
• The Pursuit of Holiness, Jerry Bridges
• The Saving Life of Christ, Ian Thomas
• A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23, W. Phillip Keller
• Shepherding a Child's Heart, Tedd Tripp
• The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving, Randy Alcorn
• Through Gates of Splendor, Elisabeth Elliot
• The Unquenchable Worshipper: Coming Back to the Heart of Worship, Matt Redman
• What the Bible is All About, Henrietta Mears
• Word Biblical Commentary, Gordon Wenham

Year 2 Reading List

• At Home in Mitford, Jan Karon
• The Case for Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus, Lee Strobel
• Concise Theology, J.I. Packer
• The Excellent Wife: A Biblical Perspective, Martha Peace
• The Exemplary Husband: A Biblical Perspective, Stuart Scott
• The Gospel According to Jesus, John MacArthur
• Hard Questions, Real Answers, William Lane Craig
• The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway
• How to Give Away Your Faith, Little
• Living by the Book, Howard Hendricks
• I Really Want to Change ...: So, Help Me God : God’s Power to Transform Lives, James MacDonald
• Message of the Sermon on the Mount, John R.W. Stott
• New Bible Dictionary, I. Howard Marshall
• Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life under Christ's Control, Elisabeth Elliot
• The Practice of the Presence of God, Brother Lawrence
• Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Enjoying God, Sam Storms
• Pursuit of God, A.W. Tozer
  Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life/Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health, by Donald S. Whitney
• Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity, Mark Noll
• Your Money Counts: The Biblical Guide to Earning, Spending, Saving, Investing, Giving, and Getting Out of Debt, Howard Dayton

Year 3 Reading List

• Bible Translation Differences: Criteria for Excellence in Reading and Choosing a Bible Translation, Leland Ryken
• Brokenness, Nancy Leigh DeMoss
• Continuous Revival, Norman Grubb
• Disciplines of a Godly Man, R. Kent Hughes
• Fit Bodies Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don’t Think and What to Do About It, Os Guiness
• The God Who Hears, W. Bingham Hunter
• Holman Bible Atlas: A Complete Guide to the Expansive Geography of Biblical History, Thomas C. Brisco
• How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, Dr. Gordon D. Fee, Dr. Douglas Stuart
• I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, Norman L. Geisler
• Jack: A Life of C.S. Lewis, George Sayer
• Letters along the Way: A Novel of the Christian Life, D. A. Carson, John D. Woodbridge
• Marriage under Fire: Why We Must Win This Battle, James Dobson
• Operation World: When We Pray God Works, Patrick Johnstone
• Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War against Christianity, David Limbaugh
• The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
• Psychobabble: The Failure of Modern Psychology and the Biblical Alternative, Richard Ganz
• Strengthening Your Marriage, Wayne A. Mack
• Systematic Theology, Wayne Grudem
• What Is the Difference?: Manhood and Womanhood Defined according to the Bible, John Piper
• Why Pro-Life? : Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers, Randy Alcorn

Year 4 Reading List

• The Beginner’s Guide to Spiritual Gifts, Sam Storms
• Church History in Plain Language, Bruce L. Shelley
• Feminine Appeal: Seven Virtues of a Godly Wife and Mother, Carolyn Mahaney
• Keep in Step with the Spirit, J.I. Packer
• Hard Sayings of the Bible, Walter C. Kaiser, ed
• Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther, Roland H. Bainton
• How Now Shall We Live?, Charles Colson, Nancy Pearcey
• Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret, Hudson Taylor
• Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change, Paul David Tripp
• On Being a Servant of God, Warren W. Wiersbe
• Overcoming Fear, Worry, and Anxiety: Becoming a Woman of Faith and Confidence, Elyse Fitzpatrick
• Sacred Marriage, Gary L. Thomas
• Set Apart: Calling a Worldly Church to a Godly Life, R. Kent Hughes
• Sex, Romance and the Glory of God: What Every Christian Husband Needs to Know, C. J. Mahaney, Carolyn Mahaney
• A Tale of Three Kings, Gene Edwards
• Three Crucial Questions about Spiritual Warfare, Clinton E. Arnold
• When Life Is Changed Forever/by the Death of Someone Near, Rick Taylor
• Why Small Groups? by C. J. Mahaney, ed.
• Why Revival Tarries, Leonard Ravenhill

Year 5 Reading List

• Ashamed of the Gospel: When the Church Becomes Like the World, John F. MacArthur
• Backgrounds of Early Christianity, Everett Ferguson
• The Celebration of Discipline, Richard Foster
• The Cost of Discipleship, Deitrick Bonhoeffer
• The Cross of Christ, John R.W. Stott
• Darwin on Trial, Phillip E. Johnson
• Decision Making and the Will of God : A Biblical Alternative to the Traditional View Garry Friesen
• Desiring God, John Piper
• How to Read a Book, Charles Van Doren, Mortimer J. Adler
• The Kingdom of God: The Biblical Concept and Its Meaning for the Church, John Bright
• The Kingdom of the Cults, Walter Ralston Martin
• Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
• Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Mark Dever
• Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton
• Prophetic Untimeliness: A Challenge to the Idol of Relevance, Os Guinness
• Religious Affections: A Christian’s Character before God, Jonathan Edwards
• The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Mark A. Noll
• Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
• Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity, Nancy R. Pearcey
• The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog, James W Sire

There are 100 books on here to develop the Christian mind....well if I could get that many books done in a year...along with lets see the sewing, the meal preparations, the home schooling, ....at least it is something to start with!