Formation A Praying Church Paul E. Miller Formation Practicing the Way John Mark Comer Hospitality The Gospel Comes with a House Key Rosaria Butterfield Presence Life of the Beloved Henri J. M. Nouwen Formation A Long Obedience in the Same Direction Eugene Peterson Community Life Together Dietrich Bonhoeffer Creative Witness Culture Making Andy Crouch
Books We Recommend
Resources for open doors to grace, open spaces for formation, and open tables of renewal in our neighborhoods.
How to use this list: Start with the movement that fits your current season. Open Door books help people encounter Jesus and explore faith. Open Space books help us be formed in the way of Jesus. Open Table books help us live as a faithful presence for the renewal of our neighborhoods.
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The Prodigal God
A clear, beautiful invitation into the grace of the Father and the surprising heart of the gospel.
Spiritual Formation
View on AmazonJesus the King
A compelling walk through the Gospel of Mark that helps readers encounter Jesus personally.
Spiritual Formation
View on AmazonMaking Sense of God
A thoughtful book for skeptics, seekers, and friends asking whether faith still makes sense in a secular age.
View on AmazonGentle and Lowly
A deeply comforting book on the heart of Christ for sinners and sufferers.
Spiritual Formation
View on AmazonLife of the Beloved
A tender invitation to receive our identity as beloved by God and live from grace rather than performance.
Intentional PresenceSpiritual Formation
View on AmazonA Praying Church
A practical and deeply needed resource for becoming a people who depend on God together, not just privately.
Spiritual FormationCollective Impact
View on AmazonPracticing the Way
A simple and practical invitation to be with Jesus, become like Jesus, and do what Jesus did.
Spiritual Formation
View on AmazonThe Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
A needed word for an anxious, hurried age, helping us slow down enough to be present to God and others.
Spiritual FormationIntentional Presence
View on AmazonA Long Obedience in the Same Direction
A classic for patient discipleship, helping us embrace the slow, steady road of faithfulness.
Spiritual Formation
View on AmazonLife Together
A classic on Christian community, shared life, confession, prayer, and the gift of belonging to one another in Christ.
Spiritual FormationIntentional Presence
View on AmazonEat This Book
A rich guide to reading Scripture as communion with God rather than mere information.
Spiritual Formation
View on AmazonPrayer
A strong and accessible guide for learning communion with God through awe, intimacy, struggle, and dependence.
Spiritual Formation
View on AmazonEmotionally Healthy Spirituality
A helpful resource for integrating emotional maturity, spiritual practices, and life with God.
Spiritual Formation
View on AmazonHow People Change
A gospel-centered guide to how real transformation happens in the heart, in suffering, and in community.
Spiritual Formation
View on AmazonYou Are What You Love
A powerful book on how desires, habits, worship, and daily rhythms shape who we become.
Spiritual Formation
View on AmazonLiturgy of the Ordinary
A beautiful book for seeing ordinary life-waking, eating, working, waiting, and resting-as the place of formation.
Spiritual Formation
View on AmazonWater from a Deep Well
A sweeping introduction to the history of Christian spirituality and the deep tradition we receive as disciples.
Spiritual Formation
View on AmazonThe Gospel Comes with a House Key
A flagship hospitality book about ordinary homes becoming places where strangers become neighbors and neighbors encounter Jesus.
Contagious HospitalityIntentional Presence
View on AmazonA Meal with Jesus
A biblical theology of meals, mission, grace, and community-an excellent fit for life around the table.
Contagious HospitalitySpiritual Formation
View on AmazonThe Art of Neighboring
A practical book for moving from abstract mission to actual love for the people who live near us.
Intentional PresenceContagious Hospitality
View on AmazonSurprise the World
A short, practical book on missional habits that help ordinary people live as a faithful witness in everyday life.
Creative WitnessIntentional Presence
View on AmazonThe Simplest Way to Change the World
A practical guide to ordinary hospitality as a way of life and mission.
Contagious Hospitality
View on AmazonCenter Church
A substantial resource for gospel-centered ministry, contextualization, city renewal, and forming a church for the good of a place.
Collective ImpactCreative Witness
View on AmazonEvery Good Endeavor
A rich theology of work for artists, entrepreneurs, professionals, students, and neighbors who want to see daily labor as part of God's renewal.
Creative Witness
View on AmazonCulture Making
A foundational book for Christian creativity, culture, vocation, and faithful participation in the life of the world.
Creative Witness
View on AmazonWhy these books?
Redeemer Fellowship is being shaped around contagious hospitality, spiritual formation, intentional presence, creative witness, and collective impact. These resources help us become a people who are open to Jesus, formed in His ways, and sent to set open tables of renewal for our neighbors.
Read slowly. Read prayerfully. Read with others around the table.