Summer Reading List

Killing Christians | David W. Jones’ Summer Reading Recommendations

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As summer begins, we want to help you craft the perfect Summer Reading List. We asked Southeastern Seminary professors what books they would recommend, and we’ve been sharing their recommendations.

Today, Dr. David W. Jones recommends books for your summer reading list.

Christians in different contexts experience Christian living in dramatically different ways.

Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where It’s Not Safe to Believe
by Tom Doyle and Gref Webster (Thomas Nelson, 2015)

Sometimes it is easy to forget that Christians in different contexts experience Christian living in dramatically different ways. In this book, Doyle and Webster assemble real-life narratives to explain how believers in the Middle East live out their faith in ways that are extremely costly—even sometimes requiring their own lives on account of the gospel message.

A Pilgrim Path: John Bunyan’s Journey
by Faith Cook (Evangelical Press, 2017)

Many people are familiar with John Bunyan’s classic book Pilgrim’s Progress, but fewer people know the story of the life of Bunyan. In this well-researched book, biographer Faith Cook tells the story of John Bunyan from his birth, to his conversion, to his later ministry. This book helps readers to see that in many ways, Pilgrim’s Progress is the story of Bunyan’s own life journey.

Three Views on Israel and the Church: Perspectives on Romans 9–11
edited by Andrew Naselli and Jared Compton (Kregel Academic, 2019)

In light of the recent conflict in the Middle East involving Israel, many Christians have been moved to think more deeply about the relationship between Israel and the church. In this book, Naselli and Compton assemble Christians with different perspectives on this important issue, each of whom explains their view and then dialogues with other perspectives in this volume.

Discontinuity to Continuity: A Survey of Dispensational and Covenantal Theologies
by Benjamin L. Merkle (Lexham, 2020)

At first glance, the question of how the law relates to the gospel may seem like an obscure issue. Yet, as Merkle shows in this book, how one views the relationship between the Old and New Testaments not only has implications for one’s larger theology, but also it affects one’s beliefs about the identity of the people of God, one’s hermeneutical method, eschatology, and the like.

David Livingstone: Missionary, Explorer, Abolitionist
by Vance Christie (Christian Focus, 2023)

David Livingstone is one of the more well-known names among Protestant missionaries. While many have written biographies about Livingstone, this volume is the newest and arguably most thorough account of the life of David Livingstone. Readers of this book will be encouraged and challenged by Livingstone’s example as a Christian, a missionary, and an explorer in Africa.

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David W. Jones

Dr. Jones is a Professor of Christian Ethics and serves as the Associate Dean of Theological Studies and Director of the Th.M. Program at Southeastern Seminary. He is the author of many books, including Every Good Thing, An Introduction to Biblical Ethics and is the co-author of Health, Wealth, and Happiness. He comments on the Bible over at redeemedmind.com.

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