Soul Keeping
Read during a COVID quarantine; I'd call it one of the top three most insightful and influential books I've read.
Read the post: “Reflections After Reading the Book Soul Keeping”Bookshelf
Not necessarily a recommended-resources list, but books definitely worth a read. Just the ones that have actually shown up in these writings, and what they were doing there.
The Bruised Reed
A 1630 exposition of Isaiah 42:1-3, just 128 pages on three verses. I called it "absolute riches" and it gave one of my hardest posts its title.
Read the post: “A Bruised Reed He Will Not Break”Spurgeon's Sorrows
Quoted at length while working through grief after my father's death — a book on Spurgeon's own lifelong depression.
Read the post: “Just Some Recent Reflections”The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
Named alongside Soul Keeping as a book by another pastor mentored by Dallas Willard, on the same struggle with pace and rest.
Read the post: “Reflections After Reading the Book Soul Keeping”Confessions
Fourth-century, and he still says it better than I can: what it's like to try to fully express, or "contain," a God who can't be contained.
Read the post: “Nothing Good Falls From Nowhere”