Greetings!

While at Duke Divinity School, my alma mater, I learned how crucial reading is to Christian discipleship.  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 to help you learn about loving God and being a disciple of Jesus Christ.

• 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

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

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

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

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

• 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

• The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, by Mark Noll

• To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility, by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

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