Top Ten Christian Books (The Prayer Foundation)

Top Ten Christian Books:

(Other than the Bible, of course!)

This Page Contains The Following Lists:

Top Ten Christian Books of All Time
Top Ten Christian Books On Prayer
Top Ten Christian Prayer Biographies
Top Ten Christian Biographies
Top Ten "Basic Christian Teaching" Books
Top Ten "Classic" Christian Books
Top Ten Christian Histories
Top Ten "Celtic Christian" Books
Top Ten Works of Christian Fiction
Top Ten Christian Books We Read (or Listen to On Audio) Over and Over Again

(After the Bible itself, of course!) _______________________________________________

Top Ten Christian Books of All Time

1. Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
2. My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers
3. The Imitation of Christ by Thomas á Kempis
4. The Confessions (of St. Augustine)
5. The Complete Works of E. M. Bounds On Prayer
6. Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
7. The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
8. Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster
9. The Kingdom of the Cults by Walter Martin
10. I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist by Norman Geisler & Frank Turek

Top Ten Christian Books On Prayer

(After the The Book of Psalms, which has always been the premiere "prayer-book", as well as the premiere "song-book" of the Church)

1. The Complete Works of E. M. Bounds On Prayer
2. The Kneeling Christian (Anonymous)
3. The Practice of the Presence of God (Brother Lawrence)
4. The Autobiography of George Muller
5. Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret by Dr. Taylor
6. Life and Diary of David Brainerd Edited: Jonathan Edwards
7. With Christ in the School of Prayer by Andrew Murray
8. Why Revival Tarries by Leonard Ravenhill
9. Rees Howells, Intercessor by Norman Grubb
10. God's Chosen Fast by Arthur Wallis

Top Ten Christian Prayer Biographies

1. Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret by Dr. Taylor
2. George Müller: Delighted In God by Roger Steer
3. The Autobiography of George Muller
4. L'Abri by Edith Schaeffer
5. Praying Hyde: Apostle of Prayer Editor: Captain E.G. Carré
6. Rees Howells, Intercessor by Norman Grubb
7. Life and Diary of David Brainerd Edited: Jonathan Edwards
8. George Muller: Man of Faith by Bonnie Harvey
9. Hudson Taylor: Founder China Inland Mission by V. Christie
10. David Brainerd (Men of Faith) Author: Ranelda Hunsicker

Top Ten Christian Biographies

1. Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland Bainton
2. St. Francis of Assisi: A Biography by Omer Englebert
3. Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret by Dr. Taylor
4. L'Abri by Edith Schaeffer
5. The Confessions (of St. Augustine) by St. Augustine
6. 131 Christians Everyone Should Know (Christian Hist. Mag.)
7. The Autobiography of George Muller
8. The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
9. God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew (John, Elizabeth Sherrill)
10. David Livingstone: Missionary and Explorer by Sam Wellman

Top Ten "Basic Christian Teaching" Books

1. Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
2. Thru the Bible Vols. 1-6 by Dr. J. Vernon McGee
3. So What's the Difference? by Fritz Ridenour
4. The Kingdom of the Cults by Walter Martin
5. Knowing God by J. I. Packer
6. Knowing Scripture by R. C. Sproul
7. Know What You Believe by Paul E. Little
8. On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius of Alexandria
9. Basic Christianity by John R. W. Stott
10. Know Why You Believe by Paul E. Little

Top Ten Christian "Classics"

1. Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
2. My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers
3. The Imitation of Christ by Thomas á Kempis
4. Thru the Bible Vols. 1-6 by Dr. J. Vernon McGee
5. Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Venerable Bede)
6. History of the Christian Church by Eusebius of Caesarea
7. Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
8. On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius of Alexandria
9. The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
10. Life and Diary of David Brainerd Edited: Jonathan Edwards

Top Ten Christian Histories

1. The Shape of the Liturgy by Dom Gregory Dix
2. History of the Christian Church (Vols. 1-8) by Philip Schaff
3. The Christian Tradition (Vols. 1-5) by Jaroslav Pelikan
4. Credo by Jaroslav Pelikan
5. Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Venerable Bede)
6. History of the Christian Church by Eusebius of Caesarea
7. Sun Dancing by Geoffrey Moorhouse
7. How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
8. Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland Bainton
8. St. Francis of Assisi: A Biography by Omer Englebert
9. The Creeds of Christendom by Philip Schaff
10. History of the Jewish People by Flavius Josephus*

*Technically a Jewish History by a Jewish Historian.

Top Ten "Celtic Christian" Books

1. Sun Dancing by Geoffrey Moorhouse
2. How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
3. Ecclesiastical History of the English People byVenerable Bede
4. Flame in My Heart: St. Aidan for Today by David Adam
5. The Celtic Way of Evangelism by George G. Hunter III
6. Fire of the North: Illustrated Life of St. Cuthbert (D. Adam)
7. Celtic Christianity, Yesterday, Today, and for the Future by Paul D. J. Arblaster
8. Celtic Daily Prayer by Northumbria Community
9. Every Pilgrim's Guide to Celtic Britain & Ireland by A. Jones
10. Celtic Sites and Their Saints by Sr. Elizabeth Rees, O.C.V.

Top Ten Works of Christian Fiction

1. The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
2. The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis
3. The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
4. The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
5. Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
6. Hind's Feet On High Places by Hannah Hurnard
7. Mountains of Spices by Hannah Hurnard
8. In His Steps by Charles Sheldon
9. The Gifts of the Child Christ: And Other Stories and Fairy Tales by George MacDonald
10. The Father Brown Omnibus by G. K. Chesterton

Top Ten Christian Books We Read (or Listen to On Audio) Over and Over Again

1. Thru the Bible (5-Yr. Program: Audio) Dr. J. Vernon McGee
2. Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
3. My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers
4. The Imitation of Christ by Thomas á Kempis
5. How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
6. Sun Dancing by Geoffrey Moorhouse
7. The Shape of the Liturgy by Dom Gregory Dix
8. Credo by Jaroslav Pelikan
9. The Christian Tradition (Vols. 1-5) by Jaroslav Pelikan
10. History of the Christian Church (Vols. 1-8) by Philip Schaff

Note: Monk Preston begins every other January by listening (primarily while driving) to the entire Bible (2-3 months) followed by Dr. J. Vernon McGee's entire 5-Year "Thru the Bible" teachings (2-3 Months), leaving the rest of the year for a different book every week or two.

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more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than
by twenty books which he has merely skimmed,
lapping at them."

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