Hello. I'm looking for good insightful edifying Christian books to read. I just got finished reading "The Christian in Complete Armour" by William Gurnall. It's a novella over 400 years old that I ate up last month and found it to be one of the better books I've read on the subject of spiritual warfare. I also read "Desiring God" by John Piper the month before. It was also good. I'm looking for just about any Christian book on just about any Christian subject. Just so long as I can learn something from it, I'm all for it. Let me know about your favorite books. God bless
Try John Owen,
The Mortification of Sin. To me, reading that book is like eating food, every time. Also,
The Death of Death, in the Death of Christ
Easier reading, but with deep implications would be the Space Trilogy by CS Lewis:
Out of the Silent Planet,
Perelandra,
That Hideous Strength, but anything by CS Lewis is very edifying, and deep, yet relatively easy to read. One of my favorites by him is
Till We Have Faces (A fable retold). If you are into Theology, I recommend anything by RC Sproul, John Owen (of course), J.I. Packer, Sinclair Ferguson, Jonathan Edwards, Derek Thomas, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Benjamin Warfield, William S Plumer, Don Kistler, John MacArthur, Kevin DeYoung, BB Warfield, Archibald Alexander, Robert Dabney, Charles Hodge, Louis Berkhof
I would also urge you to watch any debate (YouTube, etc) with Dr James White. Many, many topics.
One great resource, including free reading online and a topical index is —
https://reformedbooksonline.com/
EDIT: I wanted to add, most of these authors are strong examples of the fact that the Reformers are as much if not more about dedication, self-discipline, works, love and pursuit of Christ as they are about the mechanics of theology. Particularly, in that, I have to point at John Owen.
