Resource List
The Following is a List of Articles, Books, Audio, and Video that the Elders of 1.21 Church think will benefit you and help you grow. We’ve organized them by various categories. They’ll be updated from time to time.
Please note that suggesting a resource does not imply that we endorse everything written in it.
Systematic Theology (Compiling the Bible’s Teaching on Various Subjects)
Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology (for more advanced readers).
Wayne and Eliot Grudem’s Christian Beliefs (a simplified version of his larger book).
Robert Reymond’s A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith (advanced).
John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion (a free online version of the classic work)
Evangelism and Missions
J.I. Packer’s Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God.
John Piper’s Let the Nations be Glad.
Community
C.J. Mahaney’s Why Small Groups? (free online)
Dietrich Bonheoffer’s Life Together.
Ecclesiology (Doctrine of the Church)
Mark Dever’s Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, and A Display of God’s Glory
Thom Rainer and Eric Geiger’s Simple Church.
Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon’s Resident Aliens.
Marriage, Sex, and Singleness
Gary Thomas’s Sacred Marriage.
Andreas Köstenberger and David Jones’s God, Marriage, and Family.
Douglas Wilson’s Reforming Marriage.
Dave Harvey’s When Sinners Say “I Do.”
Ken Sande and Tom Raabe’s Peacemaking for Families.
Wayne Mack’s Strengthening Your Marriage.
Various Authors’ Love that Lasts.
CCEF’s Mini Books Should We Get Married?, and Marriage: Whose Dream?.
Danny Akin’s Lectures on Marriage
John Piper’s Sermons on Marriage (Pt. 1) and (Pt. 2)
Tim Keller’s Sermons on Marriage (a must listen)
J.D. Greear’s Sermons on Marriage and Singleness
Stanley Hauerwas’s Community of Character (contains interesting insights on Christian singleness)
Danny Akin’s God on Sex
Douglas Wilson’s Fidelity (theology of sex for men)
Lou Paget’s How to Give Her Absolute Pleasure (very frank, non-Christian)
Linda Dillow’s Intimate Issues (theology of sex for women)
Lou Paget’s How to Be a Great Lover (very frank, non-Christian).
Douglas Rosenau’s A Celebration of Sex (practical, number one book to buy. For both to read)
Ed and Gaye Wheat’s Intended for Pleasure (practical. For both to read).
Dan Allender’s The Wounded Heart (for the abused).
Gender Issues (Manhood and Womanhood) (note many resources in the marriage and singleness section deal with these issues as well)
John Piper and Wayne Grudem’s Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.
John Piper and Elisabeth Elliot’s Men and Women, What’s the Difference?
Alexander Strauch’s Men and Women: Equal Yet Different
Parenting
Tedd Tripp’s Shepherding a Child’s Heart.
Paul Tripp’s Age of Opportunity.
Gary Thomas’s Sacred Parenting.
Counseling
Paul Tripp’s Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands.
Paul Tripp and Tim Lane’s How People Change.
David Powlison’s Seeing With New Eyes, and Speaking the Truth in Love.
Culture/Apologetics
C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity.
Cornelius Van Til’s The Defense of the Faith, and Christian Apologetics.
David Wells’s No Place for Truth, God in the Wasteland, Losing our Virtue, and Above All Earthly Pow’rs.
Bible
Norman Geisler’s A General Introduction to the Bible
Gordon Fee and Douglas Stewart’s How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, and How to Read the Bible Book by Book.
Also note, the Bible is treated in some depth by the systematic theologies listed above.
The Christian Life/The Gospel
J.I. Packer’s Knowing God.
John Piper’s Desiring God.
John Stott’s The Cross of Christ.
C.J. Mahaney’s Living the Cross Centered Life.
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Probably not the right place to post this, but I was wondering if the administrators of this site and 121 church could post short biographies of themselves and where they were educated. I think many people who come to this site are interested. Just an idea. Thanks.
Ed…there’s not much to tell.
I’m twenty-six years old, and have been married nearly seven years. God saved me when I was about 16, and I felt led into ministry at about 18. I did my undergraduate work at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (BA, Religious Studies, with a Classics Minor). I did my seminary training at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.Div., with a concentration in biblical counseling). I briefly served a Baptist Church as an associate/youth pastor, and have been at 1.21 since July of 2008. I serve as an elder overseeing the preaching and theology department, with primary emphasis going to corporate worship.
Is that what you’re looking for?
Yes. Thanks. I think short biographies not only give prospective attendees to the church some background on the qualifications of the pastors, but also will be of interest to regular visitors of the site.
Haha, so what was it like being in a Baptist church? Were they yucky dispensationalists?
The Baptist church was full of nice, loving people.
I’m not sure anyone there had a formal biblical theology worked out (dispensational or otherwise).
I have no problem with dispensationalists…I just disagree with dispensationalism.