City Church seeks to foster an engaged Christian life in a way that is both anchored in the Scriptures and traditions of the church and yet brings those storied foundations into the current context of our lives in Philadelphia. We desire for our lives to not only be Spirit-led, but Spirit-informed.

For this reason, we offer below an on-going list of resources that help to practically elucidate the vision and values of our church. Their purpose is to strengthen and equip our community as we seek to fully engage the questions and challenges that present themselves to anyone seeking to live in the light of God’s good news in Jesus Christ.

Recommended Books:

• Luke for Everyone a concise, accessible commentary for our current sermon series by Tom Wright

• It Takes a Church to Raise a Christian: how the community of God transforms lives by Tod Bolsinger

• The Drama of Scripture: finding our place in the biblical story by Craig Bartholomew and Michael Goheen

• Creation Regained: biblical basics for a reformational worldview by Albert Wolters

• Surprised By Hope rethinking heaven, the resurrection, and the mission of the church by Tom Wright

• Kingdom Come: how Jesus wants to change the world by Alan Wakabayashi

• Simply Christian why Christianity makes sense by Tom Wright

• The Reason for God belief in an age of skepticism by Timothy Keller

• Colossians Remixed: subverting the empire by Brian J. Walsh and Sylvia Keesmaat

• An Introduction to the Old Testament by Ray Dillard and Tremper Longman

• The Moral Vision of the New Testament: community, cross, new creation—a contemporary introduction to New Testament ethics by Richard Hays

• Not For Sale: the return of the global slave trade—and how we can fight it by David Batstone

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