Books for 2025

Each year I have a goal of reading over 40 books (it used to be 50 and I did so in 2023, but….life). I just hit 39 for the year yesterday afternoon, and I’m going to squeeze in 1 more before the New Year.

Here are my top 15 favorites for the year (in no particular order):

1. The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt, 2024 (295 pages)

2. How to Read the Bible for All It’s Worth, Fourth Edition, Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart, 2014 (290 pages)

3. De-Sizing the Church, Karl Vaters, 2024 (211 pages)

4. No God But One: Allah or Jesus?, Nabeel Qureshi, 2016 (296 pages)

5. The Other Half of the Church, Jim Wilder and Michel Hendricks, 2020 (229 pages)

6. Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family, Paul David Tripp, 2016 (209 pages)

7. Knowing God, JI Packer, 1973 (317 pages)

8. Experiencing God, Henry and Richard Blackaby, 2008/2021 (351 pages)

9. Practicing the Way, John Mark Comer, 2024 (232 pages)

10. Descending to Glory: The Joy of Humiliation in Christ, Adam Callis, 2025 (130 pages)

11. A Fellowship of Differents, Scot McKnight, 2014 (248 pages)

12. The Blue Parakeet, Scot McKnight, 2008 (229 pages)

13. A Praying Life, Paul Miller, 2009/2017 (279 pages)

14. The Kingdom of the Cults, Sixth Edition, Walter Martin, 2019 (740 pages)

15. The Church and the Surprising Offense of God’s Love, Jonathan Leeman, 2010 (362 pages)