It’s been a good year of reading for me. I thoroughly enjoyed Tolkien’s books and am looking forward to starting the third book of the LotR trilogy in 2015. My seminary class load dictated that I put some of my pleasure reading on hold in order to read all the required texts for class, but many of them were quite enjoyable and I am glad that I read them. I managed to read Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, by Donald S. Whitney twice this year; once in the first printing and then I read the new, revised edition this fall. Here’s my list. Keep reading, friends.

• The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Daniel Plan, by Rick Warren
• Transformational Church, by Ed Stetzer and Thom Rainer
• Manhood Restored, by Eric Mason
• Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, by Donald S. Whitney (read twice)
• Found: God’s Will by John F. MacArthur
• Five Points by John Piper
• What is Biblical Theology? by James M. Hamilton, Jr.
• I Am a Church Member, by Thom S. Rainer
• David and Goliath, by Malcolm Gladwell
• A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 by Phillip Keller
• Conviction to Lead, by Dr. Albert Mohler
• Overcoming Walls to Witnessing by Timothy K. Beougher
• Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God by J.I. Packer
• Between Two Worlds by John Stott
• What is the Gospel by Greg Gilbert
• The Great Commission Resurgence by Chuck Lawless and Adam Greenway
• Tactics by Gregory Koukl
• The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
• The Purity Principle by Randy Alcorn
• A History of the Baptists by Roger Torbet
• Baptist Confessions of Faith by William Lumpkin
• Polity: Biblical Arguments on How to Conduct Church Life by Mark Dever
• George Muller: Delighted in God by Roger Steer
• A Foundation for the Future by Thomas Nettles
• Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900 by Gregory Wills
• Differences in Judgment About Water Baptism No Bar to Communion, by John Bunyan
• A Sober Discourse Of Right to Church Communion, by William Kiffin
• Preaching with Bold Assurance by Hershael York and Bert Decker
• Christ Centered Preaching by Bryan Chapell
• A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
• The Bible, English Standard Version 
• The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien