Resources for Growth

We recommend these resources to help build up our Body spiritually. Of course, these are not blanket endorsements of everything these authors/organizations represent. As with any media, they must be used discerningly. 

 

Reading

Bible Reading

Devotional Warmers

• The Valley of Vision
• Morning and Evening (Charles Spurgeon)
• My Utmost for His Highest (Oswald Chambers)
• Hymns of Grace and Glory
• Amazing Grace (hymn stories)

 

Bible Reading Plans

• One year Bible
• Chronological Bible
• McCheyne Calendar for daily Bible Reading
• Other plans

 

Bible Online

• www.esvbible.org
• www.e-sword.net

 

Bible Listening

ESV Audio Bible

 

Bible Study

Study Bibles

• The MacArthur Study Bible
• ESV Study Bible

 

Devotional Commentaries

• The Bible Exposition Commentary – Warren Wiersbe
• www.gracegems.org

 

Expository Commentaries

• The Bible Knowledge Commentary (Walvoord and Zuck)
• The MacArthur Bible Commentary (MacArthur)

 

Bible Words

• Strong’s Concordance
• The Crossway Comprehensive Concordance of the Holy Bible (ESV)
• An Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words (Vine)

 

Bible Geography

Bible.org/maps

 

Bible Culture

• The New Manners and Customs of Bible Times (Ralph Gower)
• Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia
• International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE) 

 

Online

"For the Love of God" blog (D.A. Carson)

"Rooted Thinking" blog

 

Smartphone/Tablet

• The Bible study app - www.olivetree.com
• Blue Letter Bible
• Bible +1

 

Marriage and Family

• The Meaning of Marriage (Tim Keller)
• When Sinners Say I Do (Dave Harvey)
• Parenting (Paul Tripp)
• Shepherding a Child’s Heart (Ted Tripp)
• Wise Words for Moms (Ginger Plowman) iPhone app
• The Heart of Anger (Lou Priolo)
• Age of Opportunity (Paul Tripp)
• The Resolution for Men (Stephen and Alex Kendrick)
• Putting on a Gentle and Quiet Spirit (Elizabeth George)
• The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert (Rosaria Butterfield)

 

Family Worship

• ABC Memory Verse Program (Alpha Omega Publications)
• Leading Little Ones to God (Marian M. Schooland)
• The Big Book of Questions and Answers (Sinclair Ferguson)
• A Child’s Book of Character Building - Book 1 and Book 2 (Ron & Rebekah Coriell)
• Rejoice in Christ the Newborn King (Taigen Joos)
• Big Truths for Young Hearts (Bruce Ware)

 

Christian Biographies

• The Life and Diary of David Brainerd (Jonathan Edwards)
• Hudson Taylor (Hudson Taylor)
• To the Golden Shore (Adoniram Judson)
• Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons (Arabella Stuart)
• From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya (Ruth Tucker)

 

Christian Living

• Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan)
• Little Pilgrim's Progress (Helen Taylor) - for children
• Trusting God (Jerry Bridges)
• Spiritual Depression (Martyn Lloyd-Jones)
• Changed into His Image (Jim Berg)
• Not by Chance  (Layton Talbert)
• Winning the Inner War (Erwin Lutzer)
• Respectable Sins (Jerry Bridges)
• Knowledge of the Holy (A.W. Tozer)
• God’s Passion for His Glory (John Piper on Jonathan Edwards)
• Uprooting Anger (Robert Jones) 
• Finally Free (Heath Lambert) 
• The Truth War (John MacArthur)
• Quality Friendship (Gary Inrig)
• The Next Story (Tim Challies) - technology  
• Reformation Resources
  • Five English Reformers (J.C. Ryle)
  • Martin Luther (Ligonier Ministries)
  • Church History / Reformation (Ligonier Ministries)
  • Luther DVD

 

Listening

Sermons available from our website, iPhone and Android apps, and as podcasts

 

Church Directory

In addition to our printed copy, the church directory is also available as an app. Click here for more info.

 

Hymn of the Month

2012

• Oct. - Constrained by Christ (HH* 15)
• Nov. - Your Beauty Fills Our Eyes (HH 6) 
• Dec. - Thou Didst Leave Thy Throne (HGG** 93)

2013

• Jan. - May the Mind of Christ My Saviour (HGG 476)
• Feb. - If Thou but Suffer God to Guide Thee (HGG 616)
• March - MARTYRDOM tune (HGG 153)
• April - For the Sake of His Name (HH 19)
• May - How Sweet and Awful Is the Place (HGG 238)
• June - GRAFENBERG tune (HGG 126)
• July - I Run to Christ (HH 14) / How Firm a Foundation (HGG 610)
• Aug. - God Moves in a Mysterious Way (HGG 55)
• Sept. - O for a Closer Walk with God (HGG 472)
• Oct. - Draw Near Through Christ (HH 7 text to ELLACOMBE tune [HGG 19])
• Nov. - Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven (HGG 2)
• Dec. - Once in Royal David's City (HGG 91)

2014

• Jan. - Praise Ye the Lord! (HGG 42)
• Feb. - Let Us Love (HGG 483)
• Mar. - A Triune Prayer (HH 3)
• April - Great God of Wonders (HGG 26) 
• May - How Sad Our State (HGG 333)
• June - Praise Ye Jehovah (HGG 4)
• July - The Living Stone (HGG 225)
• Aug. - O for a Faith That Will Endure (HGG 593)
• Sept. - 'Tis the Christ (HGG 150)
• Nov. - I Hear the Words of Love (HGG 288)
• Dec. - Hark the Herald Angels (HGG 90)

2015

• Jan. - Come, Holy Ghost, Our God and Lord (HGG 209)
• Feb.-Mar. - The Name High over All (HGG 31)
• April - Grace Alone (printout)
• May - I Love the Church (HH 21)
• June - Begone, Unbelief (HGG 498) 
• Dec. - Gloria Deo! (HH 23)

2016

• Jan. - My Shepherd Will Supply My Need (HH 17)
• Feb. - Depth of Mercy! Can There Be (HGG 282)
• Mar./April - Gaze on the Christ (HH 12)
• May - Chosen as His Children (HH 8)
• June - Behold the Glories of the Lamb (HH 16)
• Aug. - Here Is Love (HH 9)

2017

• Jan. - From Depths of Woe (HGG 337)
• Aug. - What God Ordains (HH 20)
  • Listen to a choral version here.
• Oct. - Reformation Hymn

2018

• Mar. - 'Tis the Christ (HGG 150)

 

*Heritage Hymns supplemental hymn notebook (Download a copy here.)

**Hymns of Grace and Glory