RECOMMENDED READING FOR CHRISTIAN WORKERS

| Bibles | Bible Doctrines | Commentaries | Christian Growth | Demonology | Gifts of the Spirit |

|History | Leadership | Pastoral Helps | Prayer |  Spiritual Warfare |

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Bibles  

Publisher:  Kregel Publications

Description:  Called The Companion Bible because its wide margin is tended to be a Companion to the Text; and the whole book is designed as the Companion of all readers of the Bible.  It is designed to make the Bible the interpreter of God’s Word and will.  KJV with structures and critical, explanatory, and suggestive notes.  Plus 198 Appendixes.  

Published by: Finis Jennings Dake

Description:  A KJV Bible with thousands of helpful resources.  Fundamental and dispensational in its theological perspective.  Has a 4-column format (two center columns with KJV Bible text; two outer columns with notes and references).  In-text symbols indicating whether the text is prophecy, promise, command, or specific messages from God.  Some Hebrew and Greek word definitions and translations.  35,000 commentary notes; 500,000 cross-references; 8,000 sermon outlines; concordance; dictionary, and atlas.  

Bible Doctrines  

Author:  Myer Pearlman

Description:  This is a comprehensive study of the nature, value, and classification of doctrine.  It answers questions like: Why are the Scriptures important?  Who is God?  It describes angels, man, sin, Christ, the atonement, salvation, the Holy Spirit, the Church, death, resurrection, and the Second Coming of Christ.  

Commentaries

Author:  Adam Clarke

Description:  This is a three-book commentary that for over a century and a half has been the choice of  preachers, teachers, students, and laypersons seeking God’s truth through disciplined Bible study.  Study this commentary with an open mind and a receptive heart and you will gain deep spiritual insight into the Word of God.  

Edited by:  John F. Walvoord & Roy B. Zuck

Description:  These are two commentaries, one on the Old Testament and the other on the New Testament.  They are filled with study aids to help you grasp the biblical text, including book outlines and introductions, cross-references, maps, and charts.  Scriptures are based on the NIV.  

Author:  Finis Jennings Dake

Description:  The Key to God’s Storehouse of Wisdom – This study book has been acclaimed equal to a 3-year Bible School course.  It is one of the most complete and comprehensive studies of the Scriptures.  Within its covers is a storehouse of teaching and sermon material.  The contents of this book is broken up into four parts:  The Origin of All Things (Lessons 1-8); God’s Historical Dealings With Man  (Lessons 9-18); God’s Present Dealings With Man (Lessons 19-36); and God’s Future Dealings With Man (Lessons 37-52).  It is over 1000 pages of Bible Truths backed by thousands of scriptures.  Also includes thousands of questions on all Bible subjects, including prophecy, and answers are given directly from the Scriptures. 

Through the Bible Book by Book:  Genesis to Esther/Part 1

Through the Bible Book by Book:  Job to Malachi/Part 2

Through the Bible Book by Book:  Gospels to Acts/Part 3

Through the Bible Book by Book:  Epistles to Revelations/Part 4  

Author:  Myer Pearlman

Description:  This is an inspiring series of four books that will acquaint you with a general knowledge of the contents of each book of the Bible.  The books do not deal primarily with details, but with the main facts of each book.  Myer Pearlman was a “born again” Jew.  Each book has about 100 pages.  

Christian Growth  

Author:  Jessie Penn-Lewis

Description:  A book for Christian Workers.  Contains a bird’s eye view of the battlefield of conflict and warfare with the powers of darkness, as depicted in the story of Israel’s war in Canaan.  These messages on the book of Joshua were delivered during 1911.  

Author:  E. W. Kenyon

Description:  An unveiling of the subconscious mind.  It is an attempt to reveal yourself to you.  Modern psychologists do not really know man because all they deal with is the mind.  Man is a spirit.  What we call conscience is really the voice of the spirit.  God, through His Holy Spirit, guides our regenerated spirits.  This book teaches you how to develop your spiritual life by listening to your recreated spirit through intimate contact with your heavenly Father.   

Author:  Jessie Penn-Lewis

Description:  The ignorance of Christians concerning the distinction between “soul” and “spirit” is very general, and is a primary cause of the lack of full growth in the spiritual life in many devoted and earnest believers.  This book is a glimpse into Bible Psychology.  It contains subjects such as:  Soul and Spirit, The “Carnal” Christian, How the Soul and Spirit Are Divided, The Spiritual (Pneumatikos) Christian, and Soul Force Versus Spirit Force.  

Author:  Tim LaHaye

Description: Temperament is fascinating, whether it be sanguine, choleric, melancholy, or phlegmatic!  It provides man with both strengths and weaknesses.  In this book, Dr. LaHaye shows how temperament provides each human being with the distinguishing qualities of uniqueness that make him individually different from his fellowmen. Temperament is the unseen force underlying human action, a force that can destroy a normal and productive human being unless it is disciplined and directed.  Although we like to think only of our strengths, everyone has weaknesses!  This book will help you to see and understand your temperament. It will also give you insight on how you can overcome your weaknesses and develop your strengths.

Author:  Jessie Penn-Lewis

Description:  This is a message to all of God’s children who are walking with the Lord in integrity of heart and loyal obedience to His known will, and yet are placed by Him in such a fiery trial that they are often times perplexed and dismayed.  It sheds light on God’s way not necessarily being our way.  The book is a brief outline of the story of Job from the experimental standpoint and in narrative form, simple to understand.  

Author:  Tim LaHaye

Description:  This book is a follow-up to Spirit Controlled Temperament.  Dr. LaHaye brings to light the temperament strengths and weaknesses of some of our Bible heroes—Peter the Sanguine, Paul the Choleric, Moses the Melancholy, and Abraham the Phlegmatic.  Can the struggles of these men help us today?  By studying these great biblical leaders, we can see ourselves and what we must do to overcome our weaknesses through the Holy Spirit.  

Demonology  

Author:  Jessie Penn-Lewis with Evan Roberts

Description:  This book is a treatise on how to recognize, identify, and effectively oppose the work of demons.  It explains carefully how the enemy works and what has to be done to defeat him.  Also, it clearly reveals and scatters ignorance of Satan’s devices!

Gifts of the Spirit

Author:  Ralph M. Riggs

Description: The author clearly and logically presents a thorough study of the Person and the work of the Holy Spirit. He includes a description of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit and the Gifts of the Spirit. Bro. Riggs also describes the three gifts of revelation (Word of Wisdom, Word of Knowledge, and Discerning of Spirits), three gifts of power (Faith, Miracles, and Healings), and the three gifts of utterance (Prophecy, Tongues, and Interpretation).

History  

Author:  David Edwin Harrell, Jr.

Description:  This book gives an unbiased opinion of the entrepreneurs in the American Pentecostal movement who have or had personal followings.  Its narrative format makes it easy to read, and it is full of surprises—of seriousness and scandal strangely blended.  It draws sympathetic and telling portraits of the evangelists, their styles, their ministries, their financial organizations, and the audiences to whom they appealed.  From unique personal interviews and thousands of publications, “All Things Are Possible” rescues and records an important chapter in American religious and cultural history.

Leadership  

Author:  John Maxwell

Description:  This book will help you develop the vision, value, influence, and motivation that will make you a successful leader!  It shows you different leadership styles, and gives practical principles to help you promote integrity and self-discipline and bring about a positive change in your organization.  You’ll find meaningful applications here no matter what rung of the leadership ladder you are on.  

Author:  John Maxwell

Description:  Developing leadership qualities in others is the way to ensure success in today’s competitive world.  This book takes personal leadership one-step further by showing you how to identify and train potential leaders and foster a productive team spirit.

Pastoral Helps

Author:  Edward T. Hiscox

Description:  This book is a classic that has been a trusted companion and reference for many generations of evangelical pastors.  It contains:  Suggestions to Ministers, Selections of Sacred Scriptures, the Funeral Service, the Marriage Service, Regulations for Deliberative Assemblies, and Ecclesiastical Forms and Blanks. 

Prayer

Author:  Andrew Murray

Description:  You can have an exciting relationship of intimate communion with Christ!  In these dynamic pages, Andrew Murray explains biblical guidelines for effective, vital communication with God.  Discover essential keys to developing a vibrant prayer life.  

Author:  E. W. Kenyon

Description:  An unveiling of what we are in Christ and what He can do through us.  It is a lifting of the curtain and a revealing of the holy of holies and our ability to enter it and stand in the presence of the Father.  It also shows us our legal rights and our authority in Christ.  

Spiritual Warfare

Author:  Jessie Penn-Lewis

Description:  This is a book with sixty-one power-packed pages.  These speeches were reported verbatim by Mrs. Penn-Lewis in 1910 at the Llandrindod Wells Convention in Wales.  Some of the chapter titles are:  The Heavenly Warfare and the Weapons, A Glimpse into Life in the Spirit, and Overcoming the Accuser.  What most Christians do not understand today is that they are in “a spiritual conflict with a spiritual foe, waged with spiritual weapons, with spiritual power.”  They do not understand “spiritual conflict” in the Lord’s service, and therefore they become fearful. This booklet will help you to understand what it means to live in the Spirit, so you can become effective in your Christian walk.  

Author:  Jessie Penn-Lewis

Description:  This 46 page book is filled with insight on the Christian’s power in prayer.  Prayer is work; it is warfare between the Christian and the Devil!  The only effectual prayer is based on the Christian standing on the finished work of Christ at Calvary.  This book will help you understand how to keep your soul-life (or the emotional part of you) still, so that the spiritual life can ascend and rule.

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