Recommended Reading

Prefer magazines to books?

Back issues of the Newfrontiers magazine are available to read on line for free! Each one is based on a key theme like the role of women, Israel, church planting etc. and contains loads of biblical teaching.

Where do I start in recommending good Christian books?  Well, these are some of my favourites at the moment...enjoy!  Some of these books and many more recommended titles have been reviewed and can be purchased on the newfrontiers resources website. Alternatively visit www.amazon.co.uk

Jon Beardon

PS What on earth is the church for? is enjoying rave reviews in the Christian press and is really helpful and provocative reading.

ESV Study Bible; try www.eden.co.uk for a copy.

Terry Virgo: No Well Worn Paths (Kingsway publications)

Terry Virgo: Enjoying the Grace of God (Kingsway publications)

Terry Virgo: God's Lavish Grace (Monarch Books)

John Hosier: The End Times (Thinking Clearly Series)

John Hosier: Christ's Radiant Church

David Devenish: Demolishing Strongholds: Effective Strategies for Spritual Warfare  (Authenitc Lifestyles)

David Devenish: What on earth is the Church for?: A Blueprint for the Future for Church-based Mission and Social Action (Authentic Media)

John Piper: Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (Multnomah Publishers)

John Piper: The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God (Multnomah Publishers)






John Piper: Let The Nations Be glad

This new edition of a bestselling textbook (over 185,000 copies sold) draws on key biblical texts to demonstrate that worship is the ultimate goal of the church and that proper worship fuels missionary outreach. John Piper offers a biblical defense of God's supremacy in all things, providing readers with a sound theological foundation for missions. He examines whether Jesus is the only way to salvation and issues a passionate plea for God-centeredness in the missionary enterprise, seeking to define the scope of the task and the means for reaching 'all nations'. The third edition has been revised and expanded throughout and includes new material on the prosperity gospel. The book is essential reading for those involved in or preparing for missions work. It also offers enlightenment for college and seminary students, pastors, youth workers, campus ministers, and all who want to connect their labors to God's global purposes.

Let the Nations be Glad! by John Piper was published by Baker Publishing Group in May 2010. The ISBN for Let the Nations be Glad! is 9780801036415.

Don't Waste Your Life

John Piper declares that God created us to live with a single passion: joyfully to display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life – a life that counts for nothing – is one without this passion.

Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper was published by Intervarsity Press in July 2005. The ISBN for Don't Waste Your Life is 9781844740987.

The Mission of God

by Christopher J.H Wright was published by Intervarsity Press in November 2006 and is our 1488th best seller. The ISBN for The Mission of God is 9781844741526.

Chris Wright believes that there is a missional basis for the whole Bible - it is generated by, and is all about God's mission. In this Ground-breaking new study, he offers a comprehensive wide-ranging interpretative approach as the basis for holistic Christian mission.

This study, pays specific attention to the Old Testament roots of mission, while focussing on the three major points of God, Israel and the World.

It is acessible to non-specialists and theorists alike and is meant as a companion to the author's 'Old Testament Ethics for the People of God'. 

Salvation Belongs To Our God

Salvation Belongs To Our God by Christopher Wright was published by Intervarsity Press in January 2008 and is our 12302nd best seller. The ISBN for Salvation Belongs To Our God is 9781844742431.

'After this, I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no-one could count …
And they cried out in a loud voice:
“Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb”' (Revelation 7:10).

Christopher Wright uses this verse as a lens through which he surveys the Bible's teaching on 'salvation'. Every phrase in the verse resonates with significant themes in the Old and New Testaments, all of which combine to show that the Bible tells the story of God's salvation very broadly indeed, in relation to the character and purposes of God, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the redemption of all creation, the joy of Christian experience and the responsibility of Christian mission.

This clear, deep and warm-hearted exposition enriches our grasp of the Bible's multi-faceted teaching about salvation.

God Knows You're Human

Good News for People Who Slip and Fall -- Lessons on Weakness and Strength

The Cross of Christ:"I could never myself believe in God, if it were not for the cross. . . . In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?" With compelling honesty John Stott confronts this generation with the centrality of the cross in God's redemption of the world -- a world now haunted by the memories of Auschwitz, the pain of oppression and the specter of nuclear war.

Can we see triumph in tragedy, victory in shame? Why should an object of Roman distaste and Jewish disgust be the emblem of our worship and the axiom of our faith? And what does it mean for us today?

Now from one of the foremost preachers and Christian leaders of our day comes theology at its readable best, a contemporary restatement of the meaning of the cross. At the cross Stott finds the majesty and love of God disclosed, the sin and bondage of the world exposed.

More than a study of the atonement, this book brings Scripture into living dialogue with Christian theology and the twentieth century. What emerges is a pattern for Christian life and worship, hope and mission.

Destined to be a classic study of the center of our faith, Stott's work is the product of a uniquely gifted pastor, scholar and Christian statesman. His penetrating insight, charitable scholarship and pastoral warmth are guaranteed to feed both heart and mind. 

Alpha: Questions of Life by Nicky Gumble. 

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The knowledge of the holy

by A.W. Tozer