Pastor's Page

Rev. Craig M. Toth

Loving God rightly involves the mind. Jesus confirmed this when he said, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind" (Matthew 22:37, Today's New International Version).

To this end, I recommend the following books:

• Life Together, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

• Living Our Beliefs the United Methodist Way, by Kenneth Carder

• Culture Making, by Andy Crouch

• How to Choose a Translation for All Its Worth, by Gordon D. Fee and Mark L. Strauss

• How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, by
  Gordon D. Fee

• Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation, by Joel B. Green

• Seized By Truth, by Joel B. Green

• The Democratization of American Christianity, by Nathan O. Hatch

• The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation, A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics, by Richard B. Hays

• Wesley and the People Called Methodists, by Richard P. Heitzenrater

• Responsible Grace: John Wesley's Practical Theology, by Randy L. Maddox

• Foolishness to the Greeks, by Lesslie Newbigin

• The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, by Mark Noll

• Reaching Out, by Henri Nouwen

• John Wesley's Sermons, by Albert Outler and
  Richard Heitzenrater

• Making Room: Recovering Hospitality As a Christian Tradition, by Christine D. Pohl

• Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations,
  by Robert Schnase

• Jesus and Money, by Ben Witherington

• Justification, by N.T. Wright

• Surprised by Hope, by N.T. Wright