I have been thinking about this post as soon as I started this Substack in January 2025. I went ahead and made a post about the best Christian books I read in 2024, but I also wanted to go back and look through all the books I’ve read since the first year I started keeping track and pull out the books that have had the greatest impact on my spiritual growth. Making this list was hard—on my first pass through, I had more than 40 books that I marked. I kept cutting books, not because they weren’t good, but because they got beat out by the books on this list.
My criteria for these books is both objective and subjective. On a theological level, these books are solid and I would recommend them to any Christian. They are well-written and the authors are men and women who continue to be faithful followers of Jesus or who have already passed away and left a lasting legacy with their writing.
But on a subjective level, these books changed me. In almost every case, I can remember exactly what I…
