Pastor James' Book Picks

Who were the Celts?

By Kevin Duffy
This concise 3,000-year history of the Celts is packed with facts never before assembled together in a single volume.

Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?

By Richard J. Maybury
A Fast, Clear, and Fun Explanation of the Economics You Need for Success in Your Career, Business, and Investments

Whatever Happened To Justice?

By Richard J. Maybury
"Whatever Happened to Justice?" shows what's gone wrong with America's legal system and economy and how to fix it.

Ancient Rome

By Richard J. Maybury
"Ancient Rome" discusses what happens when higher law principles and a free market economy are ignored.

The Story Of Philosophy

By Will Durant
The Story of Philosophy is a key book for any reader who wishes to survey the history and development of philosophical ideas in the Western world.

Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History

By Eusebius Pamphilus
Eusebius authored his history as the Roman Empire's influence upon the European continent waned amid insurgencies and surrender of Roman lands to other peoples

The 5000 Year Leap

By W. Cleon Skousen

In The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World, Discover the 28 Principles of Freedom our Founding Fathers said must be understood and perpetuated by every people who desire peace, prosperity, and freedom.

Josephus

By Flavius Josephus

The ancient historian Josephus is key to a proper understanding of the time of Christ and the early church era.

For Men Only

by Jeff & Shaunti Feldhahn
In their groundbreaking classic, For Men Only, Jeff and Shaunti Feldhahn reveal the eye-opening truths and simple acts that will radically improve your relationship with the woman you love

For Women Only

by Shaunti Feldhahn
In her landmark bestseller, For Women Only, Shaunti Feldhahn reveals what every woman—single or married—needs to know. Based on rigorous research with thousands of men, Shaunti delivers one eye-opening revelation after another

Boundaries

by Henry Cloud
Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend help you learn when to say yes and know how to say no in order to take control of your life and set healthy, biblical boundaries with your spouse, children, friends, parents, co-workers, and even yourself.

C.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium

By Peter Kreeft

Kreeft, one of the foremost students of Lewis' thought, distills Lewis' reflections on the collapse of western civilization and the way to renew it. Few writers have more lucidly grasped the meaning of modern times than Lewis.

The Book That Made Your World

Vishal Mangalwadi historically demonstrates how the Bible's influence on culture has developed some of the greatest achievements in the history of the world.

Creation's Tiny Mystery

By Robert V. Gentry
This book provides unrefuted evidence for Earth’s instant creation. Dr. Gentry examines the implications of the halos of three polonium isotopes found in granite. He shows how these indicate that the pre-Cambrian granites crystalized instantly rather than cooling slowly over millions of years.

Buried Alive

By Jack Cuozzo
Fascinated by Neanderthal Man for over two decades, Cuozzo, an orthodontist, has fashioned a research book that will clutch the attention of scientists and laypersons alike, for the Neanderthal family has finally emerged to tell a shocking story.

Signature In The Cell

By Stephen C. Meyer A Cambridge University-trained theorist and researcher, director of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, Dr. Meyer is the first to bring the relevant data together into a powerful demonstration of the intelligence that stands outside nature and directs the path life has taken.

Bones of Contention

By Marvin L. Lubenow

When it comes to human evolution, only the fossils tell the real story. With over thirty five years of research, Professor Marvin Lubenow seeks to disprove both the philosophical and scientific untruths in the theory of human evolution.

Habits of the Heart

By Robert N. Bellah
First published in 1985, Habits of the Heart continues to be one of the most discussed interpretations of modern American society, a quest for a democratic community that draws on our diverse civic and religious traditions.

Postmodern Times

By Gene Edward Veith, Jr
Provides Christians with a guide to the contemporary landscape of the Postmodern era, and tells how to embrace the opportunities and avoid the traps of the age.

State Of The Arts

By Gene Edward Veith, Jr
Art--like all things human--needs to be redeemed. Christians cannot abandon the arts to the secular world, but can use them to display God's glory.

How Then Should We Live?

By Francis A. Schaeffer
In this brilliant book he analyzed the reasons for modern society's state of affairs and presented the only viable alternative: living by the Christian ethic, acceptance of God's revelation, and total affirmation of the Bible's morals, values, and meaning.

Out of the Silent Planet

By C.S Lewis
In the first novel of C.S. Lewis’s classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars.

Perelandra

By C.S Lewis
Perelandra, the second novel in Lewis's science fiction trilogy, tells of Dr. Ransom's voyage to the paradise planet of Perelandra, or Venus, which turns out to be a beautiful Eden-like world

That Hideous Strength

By C.S Lewis
That Hideous Strength is the third novel in Lewis's science fiction trilogy. Set on Earth, it tells of a terrifying conspiracy against humanity.

The Abolition of Man

By C.S Lewis
In the classic The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis, the most important Christian writer of the 20th century, sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor in contemporary society.

A Requiem For Love

By Calvin Miller
A Requiem for Love is a dramatic work in the tradition of Milton's Paradise Lost and J. R. R. Tolkien's Ring Triology. It is a work which chronicles the death of inncence and the birth of a passionate and powerful love that survives for time and eternity.

The Pilgrim's Regress

By C.S. Lewis
Though the dragons and giants here are different from those in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Lewis's allegory performs the same function of enabling the author to say simply and through fantasy what would otherwise have demanded a full-length philosophy of religion.

Christus Praesens

By James F. Kay
This volume reintroduces Rudolf Bultmann's exegetical work into today's theological conversation. Seeking to enliven the act of preaching in our postmodern world, James Kay shows how Bultmann's approach to proclaiming the gospel renders Christ present to hearers today.

Pilgrim Theology

By Michael Bauman
Michael Bauman says that theology should be an exploration and a discovery rather than the provincial holding action it often becomes. He offers a challenge to the fortress mentality that too often prevails in evangelical studies and tells students how to construct a theological method for intellectual pilgrimage. A call to be biblical, skeptical, and tolerant in doing theology.

God Came Near

By Max Lucado
Travel back in time and relive Christ the Son of God becoming man. Come with Max as he brings to life the most important event in history ... when God came near. And as you catch a vision of this incredible moment, let it mark the beginning of a new life for yourself.

The Passover

Author Rick Joyner profiles the ancient occasion of the first Passover to the contemporary church in a powerful and prophetic demonstration of our release from the bondage of sin.

The Story Of Philosophy

By Will Durant
The Story of Philosophy is a key book for any reader who wishes to survey the history and development of philosophical ideas in the Western world.

The Problem Of Pain

By C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis, one of the most renowned Christian authors and thinkers, examines a universally applicable question within the human condition: “If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?”