12 Books to deepen your faith in 2025: Take the challenge!
Written by Melissa Jenkins

Are you busy thinking about the hope and promise that a new year holds? Are you planning for ways that you can challenge yourself and grow in 2025?

How about reading? Whether you’re an avid reader or an “I never read” kind of reader, the Adult Discipleship committee is challenging you to grow spiritually in 2025. We’ve already highlighted the daily devotional “Everyday Gospel” by Paul Tripp as a great follow-up to the Plotline series that just concluded. What if you took it a step further? In the same way that you need physical exercise, your heart and mind need to be challenged regularly to dig a little deeper. What better way to do that than to commit to reading for your faith a few minutes every day?

Our church library has hundreds of books that can help you do just that. To get you started, we’re providing some suggested topics and titles. We’ve included 12 topics, or one per month. (Good news! All of the titles we’re suggesting can be found in the church library.) Happy reading!

  • A book on prayer (Prayer: Does it Make a Difference? by Philip Yancey)
  • A classic Christian title (Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis)
  • A holiday-themed book (He Chose the Nails by Max Lucado)
  • A book your pastor recommends (Go ask them!)
  • A book about church history (Church History in Plain Language by Bruce Shelley)
  • A biography (Mrs. Oswald Chambers by Michelle Ule)
  • A book about parenting or grandparenting (Parenting is Heart Work by Scott Turansky)
  • A book about managing your tech in a God-honoring way (12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You by Tony Reinke)
  • A book about suffering or grief (Walking with God through Pain and Suffering by Tim Keller)
  • A book about spiritual disciplines (Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life by Donald Whitney)
  • A book that digs deeper into one book of or person in the Bible (David by Charles Swindoll)
  • A book about apologetics (Defending Your Faith by R. C. Sproul)