Recommended Reading List
Below are some resources that Matt recommends if you want to be InTheFight:
- How Now Shall We Live (Charles Colson) A readable mesh of theology and what we are called to be and do. All of Colson's books are great but one of my favorites remains Loving God.
- A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (John Wesley) Simple, profound.
- Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis) A wonderful classic. No serious Christian should go five years without reading, and re-reading. Other Lewis works to get to soon: Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, Chronicles of Narnia.
- Bruchko (Bruce Olsen) The incredible story of how Olsen, as a teenager, flew off to the mission field and evangelized a stone age tribe. Incredible.
- Called to be Holy (John Oswalt) Want to know what holiness is all about? This from one of the great biblical scholars of the evangelical world.
- Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret (Taylor) Missionary to China that taught how to pursue godly goals and do it with total reliance on God and the banishment of worry.
- A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (William Law) Easy-to-read classic that will change your perspective on a full-orbed life. A marvelous classic that penetrates through the phoniness
- Preaching in the Spirit (Dennis Kinlaw) Get it whether you are a preacher or not. And get everything else Kinlaw has written. A modern communicator without peer.
- Compassionate Conservatism (Marvin Olasky) Tons of examples here of how compassionate conservatism lives, and usually without any help from the government.
- Celebration of Discipline (Richard Foster) A modern day spiritual formation classic. Covers both corporate and personal disciplines.
- The Hour That Changes the World (Dick Eastman) Teaches a twelve step method of prayer that is refreshing, uplifting and very doable.
- Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience (Ron Sider) How low has the "evangelical" crowd sunk? Low...but there is hope.
- John Wesley’s Sermon #98 ("Google" it) Compassion is biblically necessary. And it is of the "hands-on" variety, not simply sitting on boards or giving money.
- Pursuit of God (A.W. Tozer) Anything you read of Tozer will draw you deeper in Christ; this is a good start.
- Heavenly Man (Brother Yun) Think you know a little bit about hungering and thirsting for righteousness and getting persecuted for it? No, you don’t.
- The Master Plan of Evangelism (Robert Coleman) If you make disciples by sitting around and talking, then your disciples will in all likelihood sit around and talk. Jesus had a better methodology.
- Tragedy of American Compassion (Marvin Olasky) How to take compassion seriously. American once did. No longer…but we can begin again.
- Books by Matt Friedeman you may find in used books (as they are currently out-of-print):
The Master Plan of Teaching (a Gold Medallion finalist),
The Accountability Connection,
In The Fight (actually still available @ afa.net),
Hidden in the Heart: a children’s catechism (available @ Wesley Biblical Seminary for $2 a piece)
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