• Let the Nations Be Glad! The Supremacy of God in Missions by John Piper
• The Mission of God by Christopher J.H. Wright
• Perspectives on the World Christian Movement: A Reader by Ralph Winter and Steven Hawthorne (eds.)
• Salvation to the Ends of the Earth: A Biblical Theology of Mission by Andreas Kostenberger and Peter O’Brien
• A Vision for Missions by Tom Wells
• Paradigms in Conflict: 10 Key Questions in Christian Missions Today by David Hesselgrave
• The Church Is Bigger Than You Think: The Unfinished Work of World Evangelisation by Patrick Johnstone
• Announcing the Kingdom: The Story of God’s Mission in the Bible by Arthur Glasser
• Mission on the Way: Issues in Mission Theology by Charles Van Engem
• The Open Secret: An Introdution to the Theology of Mission by Lesslie Newbigin

• Tell the Truth: A Training Manual on the Message and Methods of God-Centered Witnessing by Will Metzger
• God-Centered Evangelism by R.B. Kuiper
• The Soul Winner by Charles Spurgeon
• Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God by J.I. Packer
• A Pastor’s Sketches (2 vol.) by Ichabod Spencer
• The Gospel and Personal Evangelism by Mark Dever
• The Heart of Evangelism by Jerram Barrs
• Questioning Evangelism: Engaging People’s Hearts the Way Jesus Did by Randy Newman
• Puritan Evangelism: A Biblical Approach by Joel Beeke
• A Sure Guide to Heaven by Joseph Alleine
• Today’s Evangelism: Its Message and Methods by Ernest Reisinger

• Redeemer Church Planting Manual by Timothy Keller and J. Allen Thompson
• Planting Missional Churches by Ed Stetzer
• Planting Churches Cross-Culturally: North America and Beyond by David Hesselgrave
• Planting Growing Churches by Aubrey Malphurs
• Confessions of a Reformission Rev. by Mark Driscoll
• Beyond Church Growth by Bob Logan
• Church Planter’s Toolkit by Bob Logan and Steve Ogne
• Spin-Off Churches: How One Church Successfully Plants Another by Rodney Harrison, Tom Cheyney, and Don Overstreet
• Starting a New Church: The Church Planter’s Guide to Success by Ralph Moore
• Church Planting Landmines by Gary Rohrmayer and Tom Nebel

Joseph Aldrich, Lifestyle Evangelism

J.N.D. Anderson, Christianity and Comparative Religion

Kenneth Boa, God I Don’t Understand

Kenneth Boa, Cults, World Religions, and You

James Montgomery Boice, Does Inerrancy Matter?

James Mongomery Boice, ed., The Foundation of Biblical Authority

Colin Brown, ed., History, Criticism, & Faith

F.F. Bruce, The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?

Edward John Carnell, The Case for Biblical Christianity

Edward John Carnell, An Introduction to Christian Apologetics

Edward John Carnell, A Philosophy of the Christian Religion

J.V. Langmead Casserly, Apologetics and Evangelism

Colin Chapman, The Case For Christianity

Colin Chapman, Christianity on Trial

Gordon, H. Clark, ed., Can I Trust My Bible

Robert E.D. Clark, Science and Christianity–A Partnership

James F. Coppedge, Evolution: Possible or Impossible?

William Lane Craig, the Existence of God and the Beginning of the Universe

William Lane Craig, the Son Rises: Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

Bolton Davidheiser, Evolution and Christian Faith

David A. DeWitt, Answering the Tough Ones

David Hugh Freeman, A Philosophical Study of Religion

Norman L. Geisler, Apologetics

Norman L. Geisler, ed., Inerrancy

Norman L. Geisler, Philosophy of Religion

Norman L. Geisler an Paul D. Feinberg, Introduction to Philosophy

John Gerstner, Reason for Faith

Jerry H. Gill, the Possibility of Religious knowledge

Michael Green, Man Alive!

Os Guinness, The Dust of Death

Don J. Gutteridge, Jr., The Defense Rests Its Case

Gary R. Habermas, The Resurrection of Jesus

R. Laird Harris, Inspiration and Canonicity of the Bible

Arthur F. Holmes, Faith Seeks Understanding

Arlie J. Hoover, The Case for Christian Theism

Arlie J. Hoover, Fallacies of Unbelief

Cedric B. Johnson and H. Newton Malony, Christian Conversion: biblical and Psychological Perspectives

C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

C.S. Lewis, Miracles. A Preliminary Study

C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

Gordon R. Lewis, Judge for Yourself

Gordon R. Lewis, Testing Christianity’s Truth Claims

Paul E. Little, How to Give Away Your Faith

Paul E. Little, Know Why You Believe

Wayne McDill, Making Friends for Christ

Josh McDowell, Evidence That Demands a Verdict

Josh McDowell, More Than A Carpenter

Josh McDowell, The Resurrection Factor

Josh McDowell and Don Stewart, Answers To Tough Questions

Josh McDowell and Don Stewart, Reasons Why Skeptics Ought to Consider Christianity

Alan Loy McGinnis, The Friendship Factor

John Warwick Montgomery, ed., Christianity for the Tough Minded

John Warwick Montgomery, Faith Founded on Fact

John Warwick Montgomery, ed., God’s Inerrant Word

John Warwick Montgomery, History and Christianity

Frank Morrison, Who Moved the Stone?

Henry Morris, biblical Cosmology and Modern Science

Henry Morris, Many Infallible Proofs

Jon Tal Murphree, A Loving God and A Suffering World

J.I. Packer, God Has Spoken

Jim Peterson, Evangelism As A Lifestyle

Clark Pinnock, Reason Enough

Clark H. Pinnock, Set Forth Your Case

Mattew Prince, Winning Through Caring

Richard L. Purtill, Reason To Believe

Earl Radmacher, ed., Can We Trust the Bible?

Bernard Ramm, A Christian Appeal to Reason

Robert L. Reymond, The Justification of Knowledge

Don Richardson, Eternity In Their Hearts

Francis Schaeffer, Escape From Reason

Francis Schaeffer, The God Who Is There

Francis Schaeffer, He Is There and he Is Not Silent

Francis Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live

Hugh Sylvester, Arguing With God

James Sire, The Universe Next Door

A.E. Wilder Smith, Man’s Origin, Man’s Destiny

R.C. Sproul, If There Is a God, Why Are There Atheists

R.C. Sproul, Objections Answered

Kenneth E. Stevenson and Gary R. Habermas, Verdict on the Shroud

John R.W. Stott, Basic Christianity

Merrill C. Tenney, The Reality of the Resurrection

L. Duane Thurman, How to Think About Evolution

Cornelius Van Til, Apologetics

Cornelius Van Til, Christian-Theistic Evidences

Cornelius Van Til, The Defense of the Faith

John Wenham, The Goodness of God

Rheinallt Nantlais Williams, Faith, Facts, History, Science–and How They Fit Together

Clifford A. Wilson, Rocks, Relics, and Biblical Reliability

Nicholas Wolterstorff, Reason Within the Bounds of Religion

Barry Wood, Questions Non-Christians Ask

Edwin Yamauchi, The Stones and the Scriptures

Philip Yancey, Where is God When It Hurts?

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More Books of Interest

J.N.D. Anderson, Christianity and Comparative Religion

David A DeWitt, Answering The Tough Ones

Norman Geisler, The Roots of Evil

Paul E. Little, How to Give Away Your Faith

Josh McDowell and Don Stewart, Answers To Tough Questions

Gordon R. Lewis, Judge For Yourself

Don Richardson, Eternity In Their Hearts

R.C. Sproul, Objections Answered

Barry Wood, Questions Non-Christians ask

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More Books of Interest

Operation World, Patrick Johnstone

Let the Nations Be Glad, John Piper

Christian Mission in the Modern World, John Stott

From the seminary catalog:

Urban Mission Seminar

Purpose:
• To guide students in the use of critical analysis when evaluating ministries or strategizing for new ministries
• To provide oppor tunities for students to learn from the life experiences of other students
• To present challenging situations facing those in ministry for students to evaluate in terms of theology, social sciences, and mission

Topics covered will change every semester so students can take the course more than once. These topics will include ministry models, mission case studies, reconciliation issues, and presentation of books for discussion.

From the seminary catalog:

Missions and Mercy Ministries

Purpose:
• To acquaint students with biblical material in reference to doing community analysis
• To guide students into ways of discovering the will of God for their communities
• To challenge students to uncover personal and systemic issues in society affecting the lives of people living in the city
• To assist students in utilizing demographic information for the purpose of understanding sociological realities as well as theological implications and missiological applications
• To provide students with field experience in assessing needs for urban ministries

Topics covered include demographics as an applied science, theological and missiological reasons for demographics and mercy ministry, definitions, community analysis, case studies, reasons
for mercy/compassion ministr y and community development, clarification of issues leading towards community development, liberation theology, and community development.

From the seminary catalog:

Church Growth and Church Planting

Purpose:
• To provide the student with various aspects of church growth methods, principles, and practices
• To review a brief history of the School of Church Growth
• To evaluate church growth principles and practices in order to become better equipped in the area of church growth ministries
• To develop skills in relationship to growing a church

Topics covered include church growth philosophy, history of church growth, organic church growth, theological presuppositions, critique of church growth, review of various urban models of church growth, and signs and wonders as a means to growth.

From the seminary catalog:

Contextual Theology

Purpose:
• To understand some of the issues involved in contextualization
• To sketch the history and recent developments revolving around contextualization
• To outline the general issues involved in contextualization with special attention to evangelism and hermeneutics
• To provide students with opportunities to test their understanding

Topics covered include history of contextualization, recent developments in contextualization, dangers inherent in contextualization, and models of contextualization.