Mt. Sophia Ideas

Last spring, Mt. Sophia’s staff read the book “Good to Great in God’s Eyes” by Chip Ingram. One of the ideas that Ingram suggested is that if we want to become great Christians, we should develop ourselves by reading great books. When we went on a retreat together we compiled a list of books that have been influential in our lives lately.

Here is the Mt. Sophia Staff’s Great Books list:

Daily Bible

Randy Alcorn- Heaven

Ross Campbell- How to Really Love Your Child

How to Really Love Your Teen

Oswald Chambers- My Utmost for His Highest

Tony Dungy- Quiet Strength

John Eldredge-  Waking the Dead

Captiviation

Wild at Heart

Sacred Romance

Richard Foster- Prayer

Streams of Living Water

Celebration of the Disciplines

Kenneth Hagin- The Art of Intercession

Hannah Hurnard- Hinds Feet on High Places

Bill Hybels- Holy Discontent

Brother Lawrence- The Practice of the Presence of God

CS Lewis- Screwtape Letters

The Weight of Glory

Space Trilogy

Till We Have Faces

Mere Christianity

Karen Mains- Open Hearth, Open Home

Og Mandino- The Greatest Story Ever Told

John C. Maxwell- Leadership 101, etc

Gordon McDonald- Who Stole My Church?

Josh McDowell- Evidence That Demands a Verdict

More Than a Carpenter

Irwin McManus- The Barbarian Way

An Unstoppable Force

Joyce Meyer- Me and My Big Mouth

The Power of Simple Prayer

Battlefield of the Mind

Andrew Murray- With Christ in the School of Prayer

Holiness

Terry Nance- God’s Armor Bearer

Stormie Omartian- The Power of a Praying Parent

The Power of a Praying Husband/Wife

Frank Peretti- This Present Darkness

Piercing the Darkness

Winkie Pratney- Revival

Tim Riter- Not a Safe God

Huston Smith- The World’s Religions

Andy Stanley- Margins

Kyle Stroebel- Metamorpha

Lee Stroebel- The Case for Christ

Richard Swenson- Margin

CorrieTen Boom- The Hiding Place

Theresa of Avila- Interior Castles

AW Tozer- That Incredible Christian

Knowledge of the Holy

Dallas Willard- Renovation of the Heart

Spiritual Disciplines

NT Wright- Simply Christian

Philip Yancy- What is so Amazing About Grace?

The Jesus I Never Knew

William Young- The Shack

Ravi Zaccharias- Deliver Us from Evil

Biographies- Voice of the Martyrs, Amy Carmichael

Poetry- Gerard Manley Hopkins, e.e. cummings, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, William Cowper

Oxford Book of English Verse

Humorous Books

Dave Barry- Dave Barry’s Greatest Hits

Barbara Johnson- Normal is Only a Setting on Your Dryer

Get the Hammer, Mom, There’s a Fly on Daddy’s Head

God Uses Cracked Pots

Becky Freeman Johnson- Worms in my Tea

Patrick McManus- Never Sniff a Gift Fist

The Night Bear Ate Goombaw

PG Wodehouse- Leave it to P. Smith

Right Ho, Jeeves (and all the Jeeves and Wooser books)

Cultural Literature

JD Salinger- Catcher in the Rye

William Golding- Lord of the Flies

Alexander Solsenitzen- The Gulag Archepelago

Elie Weisel- Night

Madeline L’Engle- A Winkle in Time

JRR Tolkein- Lord of the Rings

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