Helpful Websites 

• Two Ways to Live (www.matthiasmedia.com.au/2wtl/) – A clear presentation of the basic message of the Bible, the gospel of Jesus Christ
• Founders (www.founders.org) – A website devoted to bringing back the historic doctrines of the Baptist faith
• 9marks (www.9marks.org) – A ministry devoted to helping Baptist churches become more biblical and therefore healthier
• ESV.org (www.esv.org) – The complete text of the English Standard Version Bible (that’s the main translation we use at FBC Lindale), available for free on-line.
• CCEL Study Bible (www.ccel.org/wwsb/) – This resource must be used with discretion due to its ecumenical focus, but it offers access to some very good public domain commentaries including Matthew Henry and John Calvin, as well as several different Bible translations.
• Simeon Trust (www.simeontrust.org) – An organization committed to the advancement of expositional teaching and preaching.
• Desiring God (www.desiringGod.org) – A large collection of bold, insightful, biblically-grounded resources on a wide variety of topics.  We have found the Christian biographies particularly valuable.
• Grace to You (www.gty.org) – A ministry committed to upholding the Word of God through verse-by-verse explanation of the Bible.

Recommended Reading 

Parenting

• Shepherding a Child’s Heart (Tripp)
• Parenting in the Pew (Castleman)
• Disciplines of a Godly Family (Hughes)
• The Shaping of a Christian Family (Elliot)
• The Family (MacArthur)
• Christian Living in the Home (Adams)

Marriage

• When Sinners Say ‘I Do’ (Harvey)
• Solving Marriage Problems (Adams)

Students

• Don’t Waste Your Life (Piper)

Children’s

• Big Picture Story Bible (Helm)
• The Young Peacemaker

Literature

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)
• Narnia Series (Lewis)
• Lord of the Rings Series (Tolkein)
• Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan)
• The Great Divorce (Lewis)

Biography

• Through Gates of Splendor (Elliot)
•  Mrs. C. H. Spurgeon (Ray)
•  Confessions (Augustine)
•  Here I Stand – Martin Luther (Bainton)
•  Whitfield 2 Volumes (Dallimore)
•  Shadow of the Almighty (Elliot)
•  Memoirs of Mrs. Ann Judson (Knowles)
•  The Swans are Not Silent Series (Piper)

 Church

• Deliberate Church (Alexander/Dever)
• Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (Dever)
• Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome (Hughes)
• Franchising McChurch (White/Yeats)
• What is a Healthy Church Member (Anyabwile)

 Depression

• Depression (Welch)
• Spiritual Depression (Lloyd-Jones)

 Addiction

• Banquet in the Grave (Welch)

General Counseling

• When People are Big and God is Small (Welch)
• Competent to Counsel (Adams)
• War of Words (Tripp)
• The Peacemaker (Sande)
• Respectable Sins (Bridges)
• Speaking Truth in Love (Powlison)
• How People Change (Tripp)

Prayer

• A Call to Spiritual Reformation (Carson)
• A Journey to Victorious Praying (Thrasher)
• Prayer and the Knowledge of God (Goldsworthy)
• Prayer and the Voice of God (Jensen/Payne)
• Valley of Vision (various)
• A Method for Prayer (Henry)

Spiritual Disciplines

• 10 Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health (Whitney)
•  Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (Whitney)
•  Discipline of Spiritual Discernment (Challies)

Singleness

• Fine China is for Single Women Too (Brownback)
• A Match Made in Heaven (Widder)
• For Single Men and Women: Eight Theses (Piper)
• A Biblical Theology of Singleness (Danylak)

For Men

• Disciplines of a Godly Man (Hughes)

For Women

• Feminine Appeal (Mahaney)
• Let Me Be a Woman (Elliot)
• Disciplines of a Godly Woman (Hughes)

 Church History

• Church History in Plain Language (Shelley)
• Foxe’s Christian Martyrs of the World (Foxe)
•           Meet the Puritans (Beeke) 

General Christian Living

• Set Apart to Save (Hughes)
• Keep in Step with the Spirit (Packer) 

Leadership

• Spiritual Leadership (Sanders)
  

Theology

• Knowing God (Packer)
• Truth and Power (Packer)
• Holiness (Ryle)
• No Place for Truth (Wells)
• God’s Big Picture (Roberts)        
• Gospel and Kingdom (Goldsworthy)
• Systematic Theology (Grudem)
• Scripture Alone (White)
• The Cross of Christ (Stott)
• The God who Justifies (White)
• Desiring God (Piper)
• The Truth War (MacArthur)
• God’s Passion for His Glory (Piper)
• Now that’s a Good Question (Sproul)

Missions/Evangelism

• Let the Nations be Glad (Piper)
• Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God (Packer)
• Two Ways to Live
• Tell the Truth (Metzger)
• Basic Christianity (Stott)
• The Gospel According to Jesus (MacArthur)

Bible Study

• How to Read the Bible for All It’s Worth (Stuart/Fee)
• Dig Deeper (Beynon/Sach)

General Hardship

• God in the Storm (Maillefer)

 Apologetics

• Evidence that Demands a Verdict (McDowell)
• Deliver us from Evil (Zacharias)
• Can Man Live Without God (Zacharias)

 God’s Will

• Guidance and the Voice of God (Jensen/Payne)
• Finding God’s Will, A Pagan Notion? (Waltke)
• Found: God’s Will (MacArthur)

 Bible Commentary

• Message of the New Testament (Dever)
• Message of the Old Testament (Dever)
• New Bible Commentary (Carson, etc.)
• Introduction to the New Testament (Carson, Moo, Morris)
• Introduction to the Old Testament (Dillard, Longman)

 Other “Christian” sects

• Is the Mormon my Brother (White)
• The Roman Catholic Controversy (White)