My Reading List

The following is a list of the books that, aside from the Bible, have had the greatest impact on my life and my ministry.  I share them here as a list of resources that might be helpful to other ministers and to lay people.  Some of these books are not religious or Christian in nature.  However, they have impacted me to a great degree.  I see the impact as positive.

I am not the perfect minister, and I have not stopped learning.  In the course of my learning I have come to the conclusion that no learning is complete without a corresponding move of God in my heart   Therefore, seek God as you look over the list and as you read any or all of the books.

If this were your list, it might be significantly different.  I would like to see it.  But if you are a student, then these books might be helpful.  Look over this list, and choose carefully and prayerfully.  May God bless you through them as He has me!

                                                                                                            Pastor Rob

Books That Have Influenced Me the Most

Carnegie, Dale.  How to Stop Worrying and Start Living.  New York: Simon & Schuster,

1948.

Carnegie, Dale.  How to Win Friends and Influence People.  New York: Simon &

Schuster, 1981.

Chambers, Oswald.  My Utmost for His Highest.  Westwood, NJ: Barbour and Company,

Inc., 1963.

Cornwall, Judson.  Let Us Worship.  So. Plainfield, NJ: Bridge Publishing, Inc., 1983.

Covey, Steven R.  The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.  New York: Simon &

Schuster, 1989.

Dallimore, Arnold A.  A Heart Set Free: The Life of Charles Wesley.  Westchester, IL:

Crossway Books, 1988.

Lea, Larry.  Could You Not Tarry One Hour.  Altamonte Springs, FL: Creation House,

1987.

Manuel, David & Peter Marshall.  From Sea to Shining Sea.  Grand Rapids, MI:  Fleming

H. Revell, 1986.

Manuel, David & Peter Marshall.  The Light and the Glory.  Grand Rapids, MI:  Fleming

            H. Revell, 1977.

Manuel, David & Peter Marshall.  Sounding Forth the Trumpet.  Grand Rapids, MI: 

Fleming H. Revell, 1997.

MacDonald, Gordon.  Ordering Your Private World.  Nashville:  Oliver Nelson, 1984.

MacDonald, Gordon.  Renewing Your Spiritual Passion.  Nashville:  Oliver Nelson,

1986.

McCasland, David.  Abandoned to God: The Life Story of the Author of My Utmost

for His Highest.  Grand Rapids, MI: Discovery House Publishers, 1993.

Murray, Andrew.  Absolute Surrender.  Chicago: Moody Press.

Murray, Andrew.  Humility.  Cleveland, TN: Published in a restructured form by the

Church of God of Prophecy, ABM-Department of Pastoral Care, 1987.  Also

published in a non-restructured form by Fleming H. Revell Co.

Pruitt, Raymond M.  Fundamentals of the Faith.  Cleveland, TN: White Wing

Publishing House and Press, 1981.

Snyder, James L.  In Pursuit of God: The Life of A. W. Tozer.  Camp Hill, PA: Christian

Publications, 1991.

Tenney, Tommy.  The God Catchers.  Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2000.

Tenney, Tommy.  The God Chasers.  Shippensburgh, PA: Destiny Publishers, Inc., 1999.

Tozer, A.W.  The Pursuit of God. Camp Hill, PA: Christian Publications, Inc., 1982.

Tozer, A.W.  Whatever Happened to Worship.  Camp Hill, PA: Christian Publications,

1985.

Tuttle, Robert G., Jr.  John Wesley: His Life and Theology.  Grand Rapids, MI: Francis

Asbury Press, 1978.