You Must Read: Books That Have Shaped our Lives - Hardcover

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Have you ever wondered what influences have shaped the preachers, teachers and authors you respect? You Must Readbrings together more than thirty well-known Christian leaders and gives them the opportunity to talk about a book that has made a lasting impact on their lives. Their personal narratives and recommendations of the literature that has moulded and matured them combine to produce a book full of interest from start to finish, but also one that can be ‘dipped into’ for occasional reading. Best of all, You Must Read will be an indispensable guide to some of the truly great books that have transformed, encouraged, instructed and challenged countless Christians’ lives. You Must Read is a ‘must read’ in itself, and a marvelous stimulus to read more.

You Must Read is an ambiguous title. As Christians ‘we are what we read’. God’s word is the instrument by which the Holy Spirit renews our minds and transforms our lives. The same is true, to a lesser extent, of Christian literature. The biographies of Christians whose lives have left a permanent mark on the church often disclose the influence of a particular book, or books, they themselves have read. So, You Must Read is a perennial maxim. You really must read!

But we also use these words when we are enthusiastic about a good book. We instinctively ask our friends, ‘Have you read …?’ And if the answer is ‘no’ we tend to say ‘Oh, you must read …’

But where do you begin? There are so many books from which to choose. Many of us want to ask, ‘Can somebody please tell me what books I should read?’ You Must Read provides some answers from the pens of a number of well-known Christian leaders.

Table of Contents:

1	The Forgotten Spurgeon by Iain H Murray
	R Albert Mohler, Jr	1
2	The Works of John Bunyan
	Faith Cook	9
3	Today’s Gospel: Authentic or Synthetic? by Walter J Chantry
	Thomas E Richwine	17
4	The Reformed Pastor by Richard Baxter
	Edward Donnelly	25
5	What Is an Evangelical? by D Martyn Lloyd-Jones
	Alistair Begg	33
6	The Valley of Vision by Arthur Bennett
	Mark G Johnston	41
7	Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography by Iain H Murray
	Sharon James	49
8	The Calvinistic Methodist Fathers of Wales by John Morgan Jones and William Morgan
	Geoffrey Thomas	57
9	Expository Thoughts on the Gospels by J C Ryle
	Derek W H Thomas	63
10	The Two-Volume Autobiography of C H Spurgeon
	Jonathan Watson	71
11	Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans by Robert Haldane
	Maurice Roberts	79
12	Historical Theology by William Cunningham
	Keith Underhill	87
13	The Great Christian Doctrine of Original Sin Defended by Jonathan Edwards
	RC Sproul	93
14	Evangelical Eloquence by R L Dabney
	Hywel Jones	101
15	Tracts and Letters of John Calvin
	Ian Hamilton	109
16	The Work of the Holy Spirit by Octavius Winslow
	Iain D Campbell	117
17	The Apostles’ Doctrine of the Atonement by George Smeaton
	Jerry Bridges	125
18	A Body of Divinity by Thomas Watson
	Walter J Chantry	131
19	Diary of Kenneth A MacRae
	John J Murray	137
20	Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century by J C Ryle
	Peter Barnes	145
21	The Works of Richard Sibbes
	Mark Dever	153
22	The Diary and Life of Andrew Bonar
	Andrew Swanson	161
23	Revival Year Sermons (1859) by C H Spurgeon
	Stuart Olyott	169
24	Human Nature in Its Fourfold State by Thomas Boston
	Cor L Onderdelinden	175
25	Letters of Samuel Rutherford
	Joel R Beeke	185
26	Thoughts on Religious Experience by Archibald Alexander
	Pieter de Vries	193
27	Redemption Accomplished and Applied by John Murray
	Albert N Martin	201
28	Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices by Thomas Brooks
	J Ligon Duncan	209
29	D Martyn Lloyd-Jones: Volume 1: The First Forty Years; Volume 2: The Fight of Faith by Iain H Murray
	John MacArthur	221
30	The Life and Letters of Benjamin Morgan Palmer by Thomas Cary Johnson
	John R de Witt	235
31	The Glory of Christ by John Owen
	Sinclair B Ferguson	247
32	The Forgotten Spurgeon by Iain H Murray
	Ian S Barter	259
	Epilogue: The Books from Three Perspectives
	(1) A View from Latin America
	William Barkley	265
	(2) A View from the Philippines
	Brian Ellis	271
	(3) A View from the Grey House, Edinburgh
	John Rawlinson	277