Pastoral Reading – Alister Begg

Alister Begg offers the following book suggestions in his bookletPreaching for God’s Glory.” (HT: Adrian Warnock)

“READ YOURSELF FULL
The pastor should read widely and regularly. There are certain books we should return to routinely. Baxter’s The Reformed Pastor, Augustine’s Confessions, and as daunting as we may find it, Calvin’s Institutes. I also find great profit in reading biographies. The two volumes on Lloyd-Jones should be a prerequisite for all pastors, as well as at least the first volume on Whitefield by Arnold Dallimore.”

The Christian Pastor’s Manual, edited by John Brown

In the September 2006 edition of the Journal of Dispensational Theology, Paul Martin Henebury highly recommended for pastors and ministerial students the The Christian Pastor’s Manual: A Selection of Tracts on the Duties, Difficulties, and Encouragements of the Christian Ministry. The book, edited by John Brown, is a retypset edition of the 1826 original. Henebury writes, “It provides an urgently needed tonic to the newer books on the subject, which seem more geared towards producing wafer-thin Christian talk-show hosts than real men of depth who will make true shepherds of God’s flock.

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