Books to read

What I have learned from [years] of serious reading is this. It is sentences that change my life, not books. What changes my life is some new glimpse of truth, some powerful challenge, some resolution to a long-standing dilemma, and these usually come concentrated in a sentence or two. (Quantitative Hopelessness and the Immeasurable Moment)

And sometimes this "sentence or two" is found in a short book. In fact, there's quite a collection of short books that are chocked full of insight. So we compiled a list: 12 books less than 150 pages that we think are some of the best short books out there. These books are small, but the hope is that you'll come away from them having learned a great deal.

Bible and Mission, Richard Bauckham

Children of the Living God, Sinclair Ferguson

Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die, John Piper

Holiness, John Webster

Preaching and Biblical Theology, Edmund Clowney

Redemption Accomplished and Applied, John Murray

Resurrection and Redemption, Richard Gaffin

Spectacular Sins: And Their Global Purpose in the Glory of Christ, John Piper

The Cross and Christian Ministry, D. A. Carson

The Cruciality of the Cross, P. T. Forsyth

The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God, D. A. Carson