Twelve Most Important Books (Other Than the Bible) That I’ve Read

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  • @monicaaleixo5378
    @monicaaleixo5378 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I will definitely check these out. 🙏

  • @geoffreyverkade8760
    @geoffreyverkade8760 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Love Heiser's books and research/scholarship. Great to see A and D here!

  • @e.m.8094
    @e.m.8094 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Heiser was an awesome scholar. Looking forward to the release of his final/previously unavailable material.

  • @edh.9839
    @edh.9839 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    May I suggest, "He Leadeth Me" by Fr. Walter Ciszek? This is his story of imprisonment in the Soviet Union for 23 years and how he almost lost his faith, then found it through the Holy Spirit. It's an amazing story and I learned so much when I read it. I think you may enjoy it.

  • @darrelnelson6027
    @darrelnelson6027 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Very much looking forward to this!

  • @luxbookplanners
    @luxbookplanners หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    this is going to be so helpful! can’t wait!

  • @kainech
    @kainech หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Twelve books for me (alphabetical order by author's forename), though the list varies with my mood:
    1. _The Aposotlic Fathers:_ They helped me bypass several prejudices I'd been taught about the Bible and forced me to rethink a host of issues (e.g. Christians still sacrifice, the nature of priesthood, the structure of the early church, and so on). I include Hippolytus' _On the Apostolic Constitutions_ because I think it's a revision of the _Didache._
    2. St. Athanasius _On the Incarnation:_ When I realized how worthless the common defenses of the deity of Christ were (I learned the hard way after they fell apart and my family joined a cult), it was this book that helped me understand the actual reasons it's important and how to defend it. Consequently, it provided some of the key arguments that got them out.
    3. Beowulf: Beowulf is an ideal king and warrior. He represents the ideal approach to wealth and fame for a king (written by a Christian, with the ascended Christ in mind). Grendel resents the joy of others, and so he seeks to destroy what gave others mirth, a monster on the fringes of society driven by jealousy and rage. His mother loves him and seeks revenge for what was done him. The dragon is unbridled avarice when the powerful horde all things for themselves, then his thanes represent the cowardice of leadership to defend what holds them together. And when that restrainer is removed, then war and disorder follows. And I think the author intended all of this. This makes it a wonderful model for society, religion, and almost everything else (and I think _The Wanderer_ was attached with it on purpose for this end).
    4. Eric Raymond _The Cathedral and the Bazaar:_ This is a book on software development. Raymond convinced me that the most robust systems are designed from the bottom up through distributed thinking. All bugs are shallow with enough eyeballs. I took this idea to places Raymond didn't, and I'm quite certain he wouldn't approve of: from understanding biblical manuscripts, to how groups treat beliefs, to making me understand when tadition is and is not reliable.
    5. G.K. Chesterton, _What I Saw in America:_ Chesterton traveled to America, and he observed how the American political system operates as a sort of religion that would be strange and unthinkable elsewhere. This really helped me to understand a lot of what happens in our nation, and it helped me to understand the limits of civic involvement in the democratic process. Here, it is participating in another religion, effectively, and one that I realized from other sources was cosnciously designed to subvert Christianity. Of course, this couldn't be separated form his other works, as he was also my gateway drug into things like distributism.
    6. H.G. Wells, _The War of the Worlds:_ I read this over and over as a child. From the fact that the Martians weren't overtly evil, to the role of technology steamrolling other civilizations, to the demonizing nature it played on the Martians, this helped shape a lot of things for me.
    7. Homer _Iliad_ and _Odyssey_ (taken together, even though they're all that's left of the Epic Cycle):. For religion it helped me resolve God hardening Pharoah's heart, the relation of gods and angels (it introduced me to what Heiser has now popularized), helped to explain what Hades is and bypass popular imagery, and it taught much that wasn't religious.
    8. St. John of Damascus, _On the Holy Images:_ When I was a Baptist, I was an iconoclast. Not the kind most people are, but a thorough-going iconoclast. I took the 2C prohibition not to be venerating images, but to prohibit the making of images, and I still think that's the intent of the second commandment; if the command is unaltered, even video content on the internet should be seen as a violation. I was given a cross keychain and struggled with that. I liked video games and comics. I read them, but it felt like a sin. The Damascene helped me to understand this was in place because, in Moses words "[they] saw no form." In Christ a form was made manifest, and just as it did many other commandments, it changed that one.
    9. Peter Kreeft, _The Platonic Tradition:_ I'd like to say that I'm a nice, intellectual and learned most of what I know about the fall of Christian Society from Taylor's work, but Kreeft was more punchy and more convincing. This helped me to understand the process that has been going on that has gotten us to where we are.
    10. (Preface: this is a Protestant, not a RC or Orthodox work) Philip Lee, _Against the Protestant Gnostics:_ Like Kreeft, Lee was ahead of his time in terms of changes that came on Christianity. He identified gnosticizing elements in hymns, social trends, and burial practices that indicated a form of Gnosticism was taking hold. Read together with Smith's _Desiring the Kingdom,_ which I didn't have at the time I read it, he also has an outline of how to combat it.
    11. _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:_ Like all good epics, it weaves together several things that monographs treat as individual themes. There is the question of renewal, as it is focused on New Year's Day. The most virtuous man in the book is actually aligned with one of the villains of the Arthurian legends. The hero is caught between conflicting allegiances and must navigate his moral compromises and must own his infedility, which leads to him becoming more virtuous at the end.
    12. Sophocles, _Antigone:_ This is, I think, the most important political work I ever read. Antigone's brother betrayed the city. This threatened the lives of everyone, but he died in the process. The king sought to punish him by forbidding burial. This wasn't an unjust decision in the context and values. Antigone was bound by familial piety to bury him. The king went into a crazed obsessive round of retribution rather than recognizing the conflict and lessing his response, so he set himself against the gods and justice, and ultimately everyone was destroyed by it. Sometimes, there are conflicting just claims that cannot really be reconciled, and if we try to destroy one of them, we bring everything down on our heads.

    • @anickelsworthbiblereviews
      @anickelsworthbiblereviews  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Can you send me a link to The Apostolic Fathers?

    • @kainech
      @kainech หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@anickelsworthbiblereviews I've tried to twice. It won't let me. Search for ccel lightfoot apostolic fathers, and it should link you to their site. I'm afraid every comment I try gets deleted, and I suspect this one will too

  • @Yesica1993
    @Yesica1993 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "Knowing God" by J.I. Packer. I recently found my 30+ (!!!) year old copy on my shelf and decided to reread it. (I should get a new one, but this one is full of underlining/highlights & notes.) It was just as powerful this time around as the first time. It will lead you to worship like few things can!

  • @ericdickinson482
    @ericdickinson482 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for this! Many will be in my Christmas list.

  • @FredHenry1850
    @FredHenry1850 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I grew up in an AOG church as a youth. I respect Pentecostal churches that try to honor the Holy Spirit and obey the Bible in church order. Some books that highly influenced me are:
    1) Why Revival Tarries (Leonard Ravenhill).
    2) John Owen's "Overcoming Sin & Temptation" Trilogy by Crossway. A) Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers, B) Of Temptation, C) Indwelling Sin.
    3) Absolute Surrender, & Humility (Andrew Murray).
    4) Power Through Prayer (E.M. Bounds).
    5) The Path of Prayer (Samuel Chadwick).
    6) The Kneeling Christian (Unknown Christian).
    7) The Diary and Journal of David Brainerd Edited by Jonathan Edwards.
    8) The Treasure Principle (Randy Alcorn).
    9) Don't Waste Your Life (John Piper).
    10) The Power of Prayer (R.A. Torrey).
    11) Poised For Harvest, Braced For Backlash (Timothy Miller).
    12) George Muller of Bristol (A.T. Pierson).
    13) Shadow of the Almighty (Elizabeth Elliot).
    14) Praying Hyde (E.G. Carre').

  • @e.m.8094
    @e.m.8094 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I'd have to add some of Dr Brown's books to my list.

  • @Matthew-307
    @Matthew-307 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I really like the ante-nicene fathers’ writings; Irenaeus, Origen, Clement of Rome, etc.

  • @monicaaleixo5378
    @monicaaleixo5378 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you Tim for sharing these. I have believed in the gifts of the Spirit and have attended both Pentecostal and Baptist churches, and I believe we have to have a balance in all things. I did have a supernatural encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ and that changed my life. Blessings to all.

  • @Yesica1993
    @Yesica1993 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I don't travel in Pentecostal circles, but I've always been concerned about some of the excesses in those settings. It's good to see biblical balance from someone from that background.

    • @jimborice
      @jimborice 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The flip side can be even worse

  • @sandracoombs2255
    @sandracoombs2255 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So pleased to see Dr Heiser’s books included here. A wonderful scholar who gave us so much and helped Christians to understand the unseen realm again. Thanks Pastor Tim. ❤

  • @Yesica1993
    @Yesica1993 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I look forward to it!

  • @michaelsayad5085
    @michaelsayad5085 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    If you are a charismatic who likes apologetics and Lee Strobel, then you might like his book The Case For Miracles! There’s others like J.P. Moreland and Craig S. Keener who defend a case for miracles and J.P. Moreland has an interesting story about three angels that multiple people have seen standing behind him. He also has a theory of how you can determine whether or not something was a miracle or a mere coincidence! Very helpful information!!

    • @jimyoung9262
      @jimyoung9262 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was just telling someone today about Keener's research on miracles. That dude is legit.

    • @jimborice
      @jimborice 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Keener is wonderful teacher at Asbury in Wilmore KY. Love Strobel's too

  • @tsukareppi
    @tsukareppi หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for this list! It is refreshing to find a pentecostal view that eschews the excesses often seen today in the NAR and hyper-charismatic churches. I look forward to reading some of these, especially When the Spirit Speaks and the Heiser books. I've stayed away from Heiser, uncertain of his reasoning, but with your recommendation, I might check him out!

    • @jimyoung9262
      @jimyoung9262 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Heiser says some radical stuff. And his following is pretty loyal and vocal. So I've always approached him with caution. The stuff I've been listening to over the past six months seems solid.

    • @anickelsworthbiblereviews
      @anickelsworthbiblereviews  หลายเดือนก่อน

      He has some odd views, and he’s fixated on them. But he’s mostly solid. Definitely had a grasp on the gospel and essentials. He treated these issues as his signature but admitted they were secondary.

    • @tsukareppi
      @tsukareppi หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, that’s why I’ve vacillated between reading or not reading his stuff-his supporters can be very vocal. But glad to have another person recommending him. Thank you! I can appreciate how his later work might be more coherent and complete in the evolution of his thought.

  • @rhondanewbolt9110
    @rhondanewbolt9110 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you Pastor Tim, I'm Pentecostal and sometimes cringe at the silliness!

  • @missinglink_eth
    @missinglink_eth หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    All things Heiser are worth every penny. The world lost a good teacher when he passed away.

  • @777propheticvoice
    @777propheticvoice หลายเดือนก่อน

    For me:
    #1 Why Revival Tarries by Leonard Ravenhill (followed by Revival Praying and Revival God’s Way.
    #2 It is Finished by David Wilkerson
    #3 Mighty Prevailing Prayer by Wesley L. Duewell
    #4Operating in the Miraculous by Steve Hill
    #5 How Saved Are We? By Michael L. Brown
    #6 Go and Sin No More by Michael L. Brown
    #7 Rees Howells Intercessor by Norman Grubb
    #8 Azusa Street by Frank Bartleman
    #9 God Chasers by Tommy Tenney
    #10 Knowledge of the Holy by A.W Tozer.

    • @jimborice
      @jimborice 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You are ALL over the Target! With this list!

  • @NVprods
    @NVprods หลายเดือนก่อน

    "The Holiness of God" by R.C. Sproul.

    • @jimborice
      @jimborice 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Be a 4 point not 5 though

    • @Yesica1993
      @Yesica1993 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I MUST read this one this coming year! Thanks for the reminder. Maybe I will start off the year with it. If I ever did read it, it was decades ago and I cannot remember and no longer even have the book.

  • @analogoutdoors
    @analogoutdoors 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    As a Baptist preacher and teacher, The Gifts and Ministries of the Holy Spirit, by Lester Sumrall, is a fantastic book on understanding the doctrine of the Holy Spirit.

  • @carlose4314
    @carlose4314 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Imitation of Christ is a pretty good book as well. Very popular among Catholics, Anglicans, and Lutherans.

  • @joe1940
    @joe1940 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The other side of Calvinism by Laurence M. Vance is pretty good, haven't finished it yet, but it's interesting. R.L.Solberg's books on the modern Hebrew Roots movement are worth checking out as well. Great video, I'll definitely check out some of the books on your list.👍

  • @ReformedBaptist.1689
    @ReformedBaptist.1689 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "The Sovereign Grace of God" by James White and "The Holiness of God" by R. C. Sproul are two incredible books i highly recommend. They are both in the reformed camp, they are still brilliant. If your interested in modern-day apostle stuff, read "The apostolic revelation" by John Alley.

  • @67MercuryXR7
    @67MercuryXR7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Knowledge of the Holy ~ A.W. Tozer

  • @BKNeifert
    @BKNeifert หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm low on the totem pole. Just an evangelist. Used to call myself a prophet, but probably only in the sense of "Interpreter". I don't do fortunes, just read the culture and rebuke its crimes.
    Mine were:
    1. The Apostolic Fathers (Clement, The Didache, Ignatius, Polycarp, Barnabas)
    2. The Old Testament Apocrypha
    3. Martyr's Mirror by Thielman Van Braght
    4. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
    5. The City of God by Saint Augustine
    6. Confessions by Saint Augustine
    7. Summa Theologica by Saint Aquinas
    8. The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton
    9. Evidence that Demands a Verdict by Sean and Josh McDowell
    10. Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

  • @BillyJBailey
    @BillyJBailey หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where’d you get that jacket from? I like it.

  • @jimborice
    @jimborice 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What are examples of crismatic excess? Thanks!

  • @mattgunia942
    @mattgunia942 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mine: "It Was Never About Books" by J Taylor Ludwig (example of Christ-centered pastoral care); "The Care of Souls" by Harold Senkbiel (the pastor as a physician of souls); "Two Ways of Praying" by Paul Bradshaw (two historic models for prayer, an introduction to a topic that doesn't receive enough scholarship); "Fourteen Consolations" and "Comfort for Women Who Have Had a Miscarriage" by Martin Luther (examples of pastoral care for the fearful and grieving); "Built on the Rock" by Ted Kober (on forgiveness, reconciliation, and Word-centered faith). These are off the top of my head; I'm sure I forgot some.

  • @johnenglish4652
    @johnenglish4652 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "In the Great Tradition - Arthur Farstad" is available as a Kindle book.
    After the Bible, Les Miserables is my favorite novel that, in it's complete version, is a big fat book; so it made me unafraid to try a long book. And I think it is a good one to read if you are involved in prison ministry.

    • @Yesica1993
      @Yesica1993 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm a huge fan of the musical. (Don't laugh!) I finally read the book a few years ago. It was a hard go at times, especially when he goes on and on and on about some (seemingly) random thing. But I am glad I read it. I would like to read it again.

  • @monicaaleixo5378
    @monicaaleixo5378 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One book that I highly recommended would be “The Triumphant Church” by Kenneth Hagin

    • @jimborice
      @jimborice 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Monica, be careful with "word of faith" folk. just my 2 cents but lots of heretical teaching in those circles

  • @carlittasnewlife4404
    @carlittasnewlife4404 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ✝️📚

  • @BrendaBoykin-qz5dj
    @BrendaBoykin-qz5dj หลายเดือนก่อน

    🌹🌟✨☀️✨🌟🌹

  • @BigStack-vg6ku
    @BigStack-vg6ku หลายเดือนก่อน

    WWJD was the only way to live. Difficult, but awesome.

  • @BigStack-vg6ku
    @BigStack-vg6ku หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where are your Catholic books? God bless you Tim.. just kidding.

    • @anickelsworthbiblereviews
      @anickelsworthbiblereviews  หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have a Catechism.

    • @BigStack-vg6ku
      @BigStack-vg6ku หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@anickelsworthbiblereviews Same here. I moderate for four channels so I can learn more about what the other faiths teach. You are a based man of God. May our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ continue to bless this channel!

  • @Kinetic.44
    @Kinetic.44 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Angel means messenger. Demon means distributor of fortunes. The word god means judge or magistrate. Satan is Jehovah's servant, not a co-god. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit always agree with each other. This so called supernatural council theology is nonsensical.

    • @anickelsworthbiblereviews
      @anickelsworthbiblereviews  23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      None of what you are saying is in this book.

    • @jimborice
      @jimborice 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@anickelsworthbiblereviews I think they are referring to Heiser "work" & "Three rebellions" - We do have it as a debated topic. The key is don't get caught up in stuff that's not in the "non-negotiable" i.e. resurrection, triune & etc.