I have been able to read a lot of books this year at a larger scale than before (nearly a hundred thus far and the year isn’t quite over yet). Most of the books have been reviewed here on our blog. The following are what I consider the top 10 books that I have read in 2013. It wasn’t easy picking out only 10. These 10 books have greatly encouraged me to worship God more and/or gave me a better understanding of God, the Bible and the Christian worldview.
Enjoy the list and looking back at the reviews!
1.) Against the Gods: The Polemical Theology of the Old Testament by John D Currid
So much debate today about the Old Testament and it’s relationship with the Ancient Near East backdrop. This book is an important discussion of the polemical theology of the Old Testament as well as an apologetic for the likes of Peter Enns.
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2.) The Stone And The Glory by Greg Harris
An excellent work on a little known group of Messianic prophecies that’s part apologetics, deep devotional, biblical theology, and worship of Jesus. Talk about a Christ-centered exposition that leads to a love of the Savior and doxological apologetics!
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3.) Fearless: The Heroic Story of One Navy SEAL’s Sacrifice by Eric Blehm
Gutwrenching. An incredible book that gives insight of a life a Christian in Navy SEALS team six. Made me appreciate so much more the guys who sacrificed so much in serving our country in Special Operations Forces.
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4.) One Nation Under Therapy by Christina Hoff Sommers, Sally L. Satel
Very insightful book that’s not a Christian book into the culture of ours and the problem with pop psychology and therapy. There is so much in this book!
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5.) God with Us by Scott Oliphint
I like the way Oliphint brought in philosophy, historical theology, Scripture and Van Til into this discussion of Theology Proper. There’s something about the way we intergrate different field of study to nuance our theology that makes me want to worship God with all our mind!
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6.) Review: Is God Anti-Gay? by Sam Allberry
This small work surprisingly turned out to be one of my favorite work for counseling on this subject.
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7.) Joel and Obadiah by Irvin Busenitz
I like this book because it’s what I like my commentary to be like–lexical insight, grammatical details that leads to implications and interacting with various interpretative issues and landing on a conclusion on the basis of exegetical reasoning. Edifying!
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8.) What Every Christian Needs to Know about the Qur’an by James R. White
Excellent scholarly work minus the sensationalism one sometimes find with pseudo-apologist. Dr. White is definitely the real deal when it comes to Christian apologetics addressing Islam.
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9.) Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror by Mary Habeck
One of the best work I’ve read on the ideology of Jihad. Nuance and very very informative.
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10.) The Man Christ Jesus by Bruce A. Ware
Excellent treatment on the topic of the humanity of Christ!
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Thank you brother. There is one book which I read from the list, which is by James White. Many of those other books I have on hand but I have not read. I look forward to reading a few of them.
EvangelZ,
You’re welcome brother. There’s so many books out there, so little time to read them all, sometime we just have to try to find the best works and read those.
Hope you are doing well!
wow, I can’t believe I haven’t read any of those! i’ll definitely be reading the reviews and adding some to next year’s list!
Ah, my list might be a lot more random than yours; they are not necessarily as new or block buster hits.