readings

There are a handful of books that have been formative and foundational to our church. We derive much of our vision and identity from these authors and their work.

Dallas Willard

• The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering our Hidden life in God
• The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives
• Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
• Great Omission: Rediscovering Jesus' Essential Teachings on Discipleship

N.T. Wright

• The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture
• Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
• The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering who Jesus was and is

Brian McLaren

• The New Kind of Christian Trilogy
• A Generous Orthodoxy

Steven Garber

• The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behavior During the University Years

Joseph Myers

• The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimate Community and Small Groups

Brian J. Walsh and Richard Middleton

• Transforming Vision: Shaping a Christian World View

Robert Bellah

• Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life

Lesslie Newbigin

• Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship
• The Gospel in a Pluralist Society

Daniel Taylor

• The Myth of Certainty: The Reflective Christian and the Risk of Commitment

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

• Life Together

Walter Brueggemann

• The Prophetic Imagination

Stanley Hauerwas

• Resident Aliens

C.S. Lewis

• Mere Christianity

John Howard Yoder

• The Politics of Jesus: Vicit Agnus Noster

Robert E. Webber

• Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World

First Things
Editor, Richard John Neuhaus