Dickie's Reading List
Dive deeper into your walk with Christ through this curated selection of transformative books. These titles have personally impacted our pastor’s spiritual journey and theological understanding, offering timeless truths for modern life. Explore these pages to find wisdom, encouragement, and new perspectives for your own faith.
Tame Your Thoughts
Max Lucado
Perhaps you’ve felt weighed down by worry, fear, or guilt. In Tame Your Thoughts, Max Lucado shows how our thinking directly shapes our joy and peace, offering three biblical tools to renew the mind and transform life. Science and Scripture agree: managing thoughts leads to real change—“be transformed by the renewal of your mind” (Rom. 12:2). Max applies these tools to common struggles like worry, guilt, and anxiety, reminding us that God designed our brains and can retrain them. You’ll learn to take thoughts captive, test them against Scripture, interrupt negative patterns, and think like Jesus. With God’s help, you can replace fear with power, love, and a sound mind (2 Tim. 1:7), finding hope, peace, and a new way of living.
Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better
Brant Hansen
Unoffendable by Brant Hansen challenges the idea that Christians have a right to anger, urging readers to let go of resentment and embrace radical forgiveness. With humor and honesty, Hansen argues that living unoffended reflects the heart of Jesus and leads to greater peace. Letting go of offense, he says, isn’t weakness—it’s the path to real strength and freedom.
The Global War on Christians
John L. Allen Jr.
John L. Allen Jr.’s The Global War on Christians exposes the widespread and often violent persecution faced by Christians worldwide, especially in regions like the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Drawing on firsthand reporting, Allen argues that Christians are the most persecuted religious group globally and challenges common misconceptions, urging believers across traditions to respond through prayer, advocacy, and unified action.
Seeing the Supernatural
Lee Strobel
We hear stories all the time about the supernatural–miraculous healings, unexplained sightings, near-death experiences–but how do we know what is real? Are rumors of spiritual beings, healings, and prophetic dreams dangerous deceptions, or is there something important for us to explore? Join investigative journalist and former atheist Lee Strobel as he examines the evidence and considers how we should think about the unseen world–and the God who made and rules over it.
I Declare War
Levi Lusko
Levi Lusko candidly shares his struggles with moodiness, bullying, suicidal thoughts, night terrors, and difficulty managing himself. He identifies four weapons you have at your disposal—thoughts, words, behaviors, and power—and illustrates how to use them to achieve ongoing victory.
Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table
Louie Giglio
The Enemy is constantly seeking to fill your mind with destructive and harmful thoughts—whether of fear, worry, insecurity, anxiety, temptation, envy. . . . It’s all too easy for Satan to manipulate his way into a seat at the table intended for only you and Jesus, and to try making himself at home in your mind. It’s an ongoing battle, but one you can win!