REcOMMENdEd booKS: pRayER & cELtic cHRiStiaN

“Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.”

Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)

“We read to know that we are not alone.”   

 

“I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”

 

   -C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) 

 

Our Monastery Library contains our 200 favorite Christian Books.

 In the past, we have Reviewed all of them on our Website.  

 

For our Site Visitors,

we have narrowed them down to these that we consider to be Best of the Best!

 Books may Be available in Print, Audio, or Ebook Formats, and some may be available at Your Public Library.

 

bASic ESSENtiAl CHRiStiaNity

(Click On/See Review) "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis (Foreword by Kathleen Norris; Available On Audio)
"Knowing God" by J.I. Packer
"On the Incarnation" by St. Athanasius Forward by C.S. Lewis (Scholarly)
"Growing in Christ" by J.I. Packer
"The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life" by Hannah Whitall Smith
"Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist" by John Piper (Available On Audio)
"The Knowledge of the Holy" by A.W. Tozer
"Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life" by Donald S. Whitney (Foreword by J.I. Packer)
"Knowing Scripture" by R.C. Sproul Foreward by J.I. Packer (Available On Audio)

pRayER & pRayER biOGrApHy

(Click On/See Review) "Power Through Prayer" by E.M. Bounds
"The Kneeling Christian" by An Unknown Christian
"Prayer" by O. Hallesby
"The Path of Prayer" by Samuel Chadwick
"Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible" by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Click On/See Review) "The Practice of the Presence of God" by Brother Lawrence (Available On Audio)
(Click On/See Review) "L'Abri" by Edith Schaeffer
"On Prayer" by Dr. J. Vernon McGee
"A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23" by W. Philip Keller
(Click On/See Review) "Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret" by Dr. & Mrs. Howard Taylor
"A Layman Looks at the Lord's Prayer" by W. Philip Keller
(Click On/See Review) "George Muller: Delighted in God" by Roger Steer
"With Christ in the School of Prayer" by Andrew Murray
(Click on to go to Amazon Books: "Prayer as a Total Lifestyle" by S.G. Preston
"The Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer" by Dick Eastman (Foreword by Joni Eareckson Tada)
(Click on to go to Amazon Books: "Prayer as a Celtic Lay Monk" by S.G. Preston
(Click on to go to Amazon Books: "Answers to Prayer" by S.G. Preston

AudiOBooKS

"Prayer & Praying Men" by E.M. Bounds (Available On Audio)
"The Cost of Discipleship" by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Scholarly)
"The Holy Bible On Compact Disc" King James Version (Read by Alexander Scourby) Best King James Audio Bible (Dramatized Version Not Recommended)
"Word of Promise Old Testament" (Dramatized) New King James Version Over 20 Top Actors (Best Audio Bible)
"Word of Promise New Testament" (Dramatized) New King James Version Over 20 Top Actors (Best Audio Bible)
"Johnny Cash Reads the New Testament" New King James Version (New Testament Only)

deVOtiONaL & BiOGrApHy

cELtic cHRiStiaN

(Click On/See Review) "The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas a Kempis (Devotional)
"St. Francis of Assisi: A Biography" by Omer Englebert
"Flame in My Heart: St. Aidan for Today" by David Adam (Celtic Monk Founder of Lindisfarne: Converted Northern England to Christ)
"How the Irish Saved Civilization" by Thomas Cahill - Second Half of Book Only: St. Patrick & the Irish Missionary Monks (This is a Secular History Book)
(Click On/See Review) "Sun Dancing" by Geoffrey Moorhouse - Story of the Monks of Skellig Michael (This is a Secular History Book)
"Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede (Celtic Christian Sections: Scholarly)

cELtic cHRiStiaN

LutHER & ApOLOGEticS

"Thin Places: An Evangelical Journey Into Celtic Christianity" by Tracy Balzer
"The Path of Celtic Prayer: An Ancient Way to Everyday Joy" by Calvin Miller
"Celtic Christianity: Yesterday, Today, and for the Future" by Paul D.J. Arblaster
"The Celtic Way of Evangelism: How Christianity Can Reach the West...Again" by George G. Hunter III
"Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther" by Roland H. Bainton (Best Book On Martin Luther & the Reformation)
"I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be An Atheist" by Norman L. Geisler & Frank Turek (Best Apologetics Book)

CHRiSTiAN fictiON

cOMpaRatiVE RELiGiON & CULTS

"The Chronicles of Narnia" Vol. 1-7 by C.S. Lewis
"The Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis
"The Great Divorce" by C.S. Lewis (A Bus Ride to Heaven and Hell)
"The Rebirth of Orthodoxy: Signs of New Life in Christianity" by Thomas C. Oden (Liberal Clergyman's Conversion to Biblical Christianity via Church Fathers)
"So What's the Difference?" by Fritz Ridenour
"The Kingdom of the Cults" by Walter Martin (Foreword by Ravi Zacharias)
"The Hiding Place" by Corrie Ten Boom

    Click on the Picture of Jesus (At Left) to go to our webpage:  “How to Receive Christ.”

Painting: “Heart’s Door” by Warner Sallman. © Warner Press, Inc. Anderson, Indiana. Used by permission.

(Click On/See Review) "Spurgeon on Leadership" by Larry J. Michael

St. AtHaNaSiuS / SAyiNGS Of tHE dESERt fAtHERS (AbbA ApOLLO):

                                     

You cannot put

straight in

others what

is warped in

yourself.”

__________

                                          “The holy and

inspired Scriptures

are sufficient of

themselves for the

preaching of the

truth.”

__________

                                            “Even on the Cross

He did not hide

Himself from sight;

rather, He made all creation witness to the presence

of its Maker.”

_____________________

 

“For, indeed,

everything about is marvelous, and

wherever a man

turns his gaze he sees the Godhead of the Word and is

smitten with awe.”

_____________________

             

-St. Athanasius,

Bishop of Alexandria

 (296-373 A.D.)

 

Abba Apollo used to say,

Those who are

going to inherit the

kingdom of heaven

must not be despondent about their salvation…

 

We who have been

considered worthy of so

great a hope,

how shall we not rejoice

without ceasing?

 

Since the Apostle urges

us to:

                                                                        Rejoice always.                 Pray without ceasing.  

In everything give

   thanks.””

 

(1 Thessalonians 5:16-18)

_____________________

 

-Sayings of the Desert

Fathers (200’s A.D.)

 

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