Resources

Over the past few years I have collected a list of books, sermons, and other resources related to Christian worldview, leadership, and vocation.  I hope you find this list helpful.

*Anything with a star is something I have read or heard and can personally recommend.

MATERIAL – BY CATEGORY

Calling: Vocation, Roles, etc.

*Os Guiness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life

*Gene Edward Veith, God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life

*Andreas Köstenberger and David Jones, God, Marriage, and Family: Rebuilding the Biblical Foundation

A.J Conyers, The Listening Heart: Vocation And the Crisis of Modern Culture

John Calvin, “Vocation,” Institutes of the Christian Religion

William Perkins, “A Treatise of the Vocations or Callings of Men”

Work: Leadership, Planning, etc.

*Tim Keller, Work

*Tim Keller, Made for Stewardship

*Tim Keller, Work and Rest

*Henry Blackaby, Spiritual Leadership

*John Piper, Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce

*Grant Layman, Message on Roles & Goals at Family Room

Worldview: Concepts of Theology, Apologetics, and Cultural Engagement

*Nancy Pearcey, Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity

*John Frame, Doctrine of God

John Piper, The Blazing Center

*Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism (review)

Cornelius Van Til, The Defense of the Faith

J.P. Moreland, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview

Chuck Colson, Kingdoms in Conflict

James Montgomery Boice, Two Cities, Two Loves: Christian Responsibility in a Crumbling Culture

James Sire, The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalogue

Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth

*Tim Keller, The Supremacy of Christ and the Gospel in a Postmodern World

*John Piper, The Supremacy of Christ and Joy in a Postmodern World

*Mark Driscoll, The Supremacy of Christ and the Church in a Postmodern World

*D.A. Carson, The Supremacy of Christ and Love in a Postmodern World

D.A. Carson, The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism

*David Wells, The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World

David Wells, Above All Earthly Pow’rs: Christ in a Postmodern World

*Carl Henry, Twilight of a Great Civilization

Carl Henry, The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism

*Stanley Kurtz, Culture and Values in the 1960s

Francis Schaeffer, A Christian Manifesto

*Rodney Stark, The Victory of Reason: How Christianity, Freedom, and Capitalism Led to Western Success

Worldview-based Approaches to Personal Engagement

*John Piper, “No Swagger in Cultural Engagement”

*Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There

Michael Ramsden, “Conversational Apologetics” messages

*Brian Follis, Truth with Love: The Apologetics of Francis Schaeffer

Mercy & Peacemaking

Ken Sande, The Peacemaker

Marvin Olasky: Freedom, Justice and Hope: Toward a Strategy for the Poor and the Oppressed

Marvin Olasky, The Tragedy of American Compassion

Business

Wayne Grudem, Business to the Glory of God

Michael Novak, Business as a Calling: Work and the Examined Life

*Jim Collins, Good to Great

Cultivating Christian Thought

J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

Mark Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

James Sire, Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling

Christianity and Media

Marvin Olasky, The Anti-Christian Bias of the American News Media

*Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

RELATED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES, EVENTS, & PORTALS

Desiring God. Dr. Piper’s ministry is a great place to start for just about anything.

The Clash: Forging a Mind to Engage the World. Recent worldview conference from Sovereign Grace, the family of churches to which I belong.

Focus on the Family’s Total Truth DVD curriculum. A twelve-part in-depth worldview training series covering subjects of philosophy, ethics, anthropology, theology, science, history, and sociology with experts such as Ravi Zacharias, Os Guinness, and R. C. Sproul.

BreakPoint & Prison Fellowship Wilberforce Weekend conference. Chuck Colson’s worldview training program conference.

Passing the Baton. The founder, Jeff Myers, has set a compelling mission for this ministry: “By 2015, we will mobilize one million adults to pass the baton of culture-shaping leadership to the next generation.”

Biblicaltraining.org. I have only reviewed their site briefly and do not know any of the principals, but they have a lot of available online leadership training materials (mainly downloadable sermons), including a track by Dr. Piper.

Sermonaudio.com. A clearinghouse of available sermons in audio formats.

Monergism.com. A clearinghouse of reformed theology and links to volumes of materials all over the web.

Christian Leadership Ministries’ Academic Initiative. A more scholarly organization, they too reference volumes of external materials, mainly through their bibliography sections.

Center for Reformed Theology and Apologetics. Another good source of references and materials specific to apologetics from a reformed perspective

Calvin College’s Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Once you join (it’s free), you can download numerous classics in PDF format, and some in audio format that they created.

History and Theology of Calvinism. This set of 75 seminary lectures by Dr. Curt Daniel at Covenant Theological Seminary is straight meat. If you believe Calvinism accurately represents God as He reveals Himself in Scripture, or if you want to learn more about this often-maligned term “Calvinism” I encourage you to listen to some of these messages with an open heart and mind.