Chi Alpha Book Recommendations

Welcome to VTXA book recommendations! Below you can find a number of books in different areas that may help you on your walk with Jesus!

Apologetics and Evangelism

Leading Muslims to Jesus

Christi Trimbur
This book is a practical guide geared at helping women and men lead Muslims to Jesus wherever they live.
Drawing on her experience in the Arab world, the author gives simple, doable advice on how we can lovingly invite Muslims to be freed from sin and assured of their heavenly home.

Devotionals

Missionary God, Missionary Bible

Dick Brogden
A one-year devotional based on a chronological reading of the Bible. Each day author Dick Brogden builds the case and the message is reinforced: He who is holy delights to be our God. We are to be His holy people that He might dwell among us. His glorious presence will wholly bless us in order that all nations, every distinct people group, might be likewise blessed. This grand plan, centered on and culminating in Jesus as Savior, Lord, and eternal King over all nations, is what our faith, our Father, and our future is all about. 

Secrets of the Secret Place: Keys to Igniting Your Personal Time with God

Bob Sorge
This is a timeless classic on our devotional prayer life. It's unparalleled in fueling passion for our quiet time with God. It defuses common struggles, equips, and inspires fervency for Jesus. 52 short chapters. This Legacy Edition is rewritten and polished for posterity. Even if you have the first edition, get this one!

Personal Development

Soul Care: 7 Transformational Principles for a Healthy Soul

Rob Reimer
Brokenness grasps for the soul of humanity. We are broken body, soul, and spirit, and we need the healing touch of Jesus. Soul Care explores seven principles that are profound healing tools of God: securing your identity, repentance, breaking family sin patterns, forgiving others, healing wounds, overcoming fears, and deliverance.

Worship Matters: Leading Others to Encounter the Greatness of God

Bob Kauflin
Nothing is more essential than knowing how to worship the God who created us. This book focuses readers on the essentials of God-honoring worship, combining biblical foundations with practical application in a way that works in the real world. The author, a pastor and noted songwriter, skillfully instructs pastors, musicians, and church leaders so that they can root their congregational worship in unchanging scriptural principles, not divisive cultural trends.

Spiritual Disciplines

Why Revival Tarries

Leonard Ravenhill
This is a no-compromise call to biblical revival and spiritual excellence that expounds on the disparity between today's church and the church of Acts.

Theology and Bible Study

Bible Doctrines: A Pentecostal Perspective

William Menzies and Stanley Horton
Examines sixteen major Bible doctrines substantiated with numerous Scripture references. Topics include the inspired Scriptures, one true God, deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, divine healing, salvation of man, fall of man, baptism in the Holy Ghost, and new heavens and new earth.

The Old Testament Speaks

Samuel Schultz
The Old Testament Speaks contains all the relevant material -- biblical and nonbiblical -- necessary for classroom use or personal study of the Old Testament. Schultz provides outlines that reflect the historical background and summarize the contents of each biblical book, as well as charts and maps to help visualize the biblical narrative. He has also revised and updated the biblio-graphies at the end of each chapter.

Ephesians

Francis Foulkes
Unlike Paul's letters to the Galatians or the Corinthians, the letter to the Ephesians contains almost no clues about the situation and issues its recipients faced. Nevertheless, the letter vividly depicts how God's will revealed in Christ reorients believers' lives toward unity, mutual respect, submission and love--in short, new life in Christ. Francis Foulkes expounds with clarity and ease the letter's central themes and emphases. The original, unrevised text of this volume has been completely retypeset and printed in a larger, more attractive format with the new cover design for the series. 

New Testament Survey

Merrill C. Tenney
Written in a clear, nontechnical style, New Testament Survey begins with a survey of the social, political, economic, and religious background of the New Testament, and then goes on to examine the various groups of New Testament books, which are considered in their historical settings. The book concludes with a penetrating study of the New Testament canon.

Father God: Daring to Draw Near

Dave Patty
God uses many words to describe himself, but one is stunningly personal—Father.
This is thrilling… and problematic. You don’t have another Jesus, or another Holy Spirit, but you do have another father, and your experience with him changes the way you see God.

Sit, Walk, Stand

Watchman Nee
An inspiring look at Ephesians and the believer's association with Christ, the world, and Satan.

Want More? Experience Greater Spiritual Intimacy and Power Through the Holy Spirit Baptism

Tim Enloe
Want More? presents the baptism in the Holy Spirit in a biblically clear and uncomplicated way while using language that targets our post-modern culture. Special attention is given to disarming faulty pre-conceived ideas about the Spirit and His work and to the actual process of receiving. This book is used as a text for small groups and Sunday schools across North America; it is easy to follow and its principles are extremely easy to teach. Many have received while reading! 109 pages. Back cover reads: "God wants to saturate you in His Holy Spirit! Do you desperately want more of God?

Revelation: Four Views - A Parallel Commentary

Steve Gregg
Four Views of Revelation: A Parallel Commentary covers the traditional views in an even-handed fashion. Four parallel columns present the information you need on these key views, and inform you about outstanding commentators on the book of Revelation. No other book gives such extensive coverage of how the church has understood Revelation over the centuries. The four-column format makes this an easy read for lay people, pastors, and scholars alike. This is a wonderful addition to any Bible study resource library.

Chi Alpha Intern Books

These are the books that our interns read to help them grow in theology and their relationships with God!

Apologetics and Evangelism

Leading Muslims to Christ 

Christi Trimbur
This book is a practical guide geared at helping women and men lead Muslims to Jesus wherever they live. Drawing on her experience in the Arab world, the author gives simple, doable advice on how we can lovingly invite Muslims to be freed from sin and assured of their heavenly home.

Spiritual Disciplines

Why Revival Tarries

Leonard Ravenhill
This is a no-compromise call to biblical revival and spiritual excellence that expounds on the disparity between today's church and the church of Acts.

Theology and Bible Study

Bible Doctrines: A Pentecostal Perspective

William Menzies and Stanley Horton
Examines sixteen major Bible doctrines substantiated with numerous Scripture references. Topics include the inspired Scriptures, one true God, deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, divine healing, salvation of man, fall of man, baptism in the Holy Ghost, and new heavens and new earth.

The Old Testament Speaks

Samuel Schultz
The Old Testament Speaks contains all the relevant material -- biblical and nonbiblical -- necessary for classroom use or personal study of the Old Testament. Schultz provides outlines that reflect the historical background and summarize the contents of each biblical book, as well as charts and maps to help visualize the biblical narrative. He has also revised and updated the biblio-graphies at the end of each chapter.

Ephesians

Francis Foulkes
Unlike Paul's letters to the Galatians or the Corinthians, the letter to the Ephesians contains almost no clues about the situation and issues its recipients faced. Nevertheless, the letter vividly depicts how God's will revealed in Christ reorients believers' lives toward unity, mutual respect, submission and love--in short, new life in Christ. Francis Foulkes expounds with clarity and ease the letter's central themes and emphases. The original, unrevised text of this volume has been completely retypeset and printed in a larger, more attractive format with the new cover design for the series.

New Testament Survey

Merrill C. Tenney
Written in a clear, nontechnical style, New Testament Survey begins with a survey of the social, political, economic, and religious background of the New Testament, and then goes on to examine the various groups of New Testament books, which are considered in their historical settings. The book concludes with a penetrating study of the New Testament canon.

Father God: Daring to Draw Near

Dave Patty
God uses many words to describe himself, but one is stunningly personal—Father.
This is thrilling… and problematic. You don’t have another Jesus, or another Holy Spirit, but you do have another father, and your experience with him changes the way you see God.

Sit, Walk, Stand

Watchman Nee
An inspiring look at Ephesians and the believer's association with Christ, the world, and Satan.

Want More? Experience Greater Spiritual Intimacy and Power Through the Holy Spirit Baptism

Tim Enloe
Want More? presents the baptism in the Holy Spirit in a biblically clear and uncomplicated way while using language that targets our post-modern culture. Special attention is given to disarming faulty pre-conceived ideas about the Spirit and His work and to the actual process of receiving. This book is used as a text for small groups and Sunday schools across North America; it is easy to follow and its principles are extremely easy to teach. Many have received while reading! 109 pages. Back cover reads: "God wants to saturate you in His Holy Spirit! Do you desperately want more of God?

Revelation: Four Views - A Parallel Commentary

Steve Gregg
Four Views of Revelation: A Parallel Commentary covers the traditional views in an even-handed fashion. Four parallel columns present the information you need on these key views, and inform you about outstanding commentators on the book of Revelation. No other book gives such extensive coverage of how the church has understood Revelation over the centuries. The four-column format makes this an easy read for lay people, pastors, and scholars alike. This is a wonderful addition to any Bible study resource library.

Personal Development

Soul Care: 7 Transformational Principles for a Healthy Soul

Rob Reimer
Brokenness grasps for the soul of humanity. We are broken body, soul, and spirit, and we need the healing touch of Jesus. Soul Care explores seven principles that are profound healing tools of God: securing your identity, repentance, breaking family sin patterns, forgiving others, healing wounds, overcoming fears, and deliverance.

Worship Matters: Leading Others to Encounter the Greatness of God

Bob Kauflin
Nothing is more essential than knowing how to worship the God who created us. This book focuses readers on the essentials of God-honoring worship, combining biblical foundations with practical application in a way that works in the real world. The author, a pastor and noted songwriter, skillfully instructs pastors, musicians, and church leaders so that they can root their congregational worship in unchanging scriptural principles, not divisive cultural trends.

History

2000 Years of Charismatic Christianity

Eddie Hyatt
2000 Years of Charismatic Christianity offers convincing evidence that the modern Pentecostal and Charismatic movements are rooted in the two-thousand-year history of the church. Those who identify with these movements will be affirmed in the experience of the Holy Spirit and will gain a new respect and appreciation for the movement of which they are a part.  Those outside the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements will also benefit by reading this volume in that they will gain an understanding of this movement that Harvard professor Dr. Harvey Cox says is "reshaping religion in the 21st century."

People of the Spirit: The Assemblies of God

Gary B. McGee
Who were the men and women who laid the foundation of The General Council of the Assemblies of God? They were ordinary people, many with little or no ministry experience or formal training, yet they were the raw material God used in the modern Pentecostal movement. Shaped by the Holy Spirit, they became His instruments of vision and revival—from generation to generation.

Devotionals

Missionary God, Missionary Bible

Dick Brogden
A one-year devotional based on a chronological reading of the Bible. Each day author Dick Brogden builds the case and the message is reinforced: He who is holy delights to be our God. We are to be His holy people that He might dwell among us. His glorious presence will wholly bless us in order that all nations, every distinct people group, might be likewise blessed. This grand plan, centered on and culminating in Jesus as Savior, Lord, and eternal King over all nations, is what our faith, our Father, and our future is all about.

Secrets of the Secret Place: Keys to Igniting Your Personal Time with God

Bob Sorge
This is a timeless classic on our devotional prayer life. It's unparalleled in fueling passion for our quiet time with God. It defuses common struggles, equips, and inspires fervency for Jesus. 52 short chapters. This Legacy Edition is rewritten and polished for posterity. Even if you have the first edition, get this one!