Books That Shaped Us

In our fourth episode, Stephen Baker and Aaron Prelock take turns naming the five books each of them would call life-changing. Books worn through. Books read more than once. Books given away, replaced, and underlined cover to cover. Aaron and Stephen talk about why the relationship between justification and sanctification keeps surfacing in the books that mattered most to them, why good fiction belongs on a pastor's nightstand, and why the man who only reads what was assigned to him in seminary has already stopped growing. Reading is good for the soul.0:00 — Introduction2:50 — The format: five books each3:00 — Aaron: Eugene Peterson, The Contemplative Pastor7:10 — Stephen: John Piper, Desiring God11:30 — Aaron: Mark Dever and Paul Alexander, The Deliberate Church16:30 — Stephen: Richard Lovelace, Dynamics of Spiritual Life22:30 — Stephen: Horatius Bonar, God's Way of Peace and God's Way of Holiness25:30 — A cheat: Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment27:30 — Stephen: C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength34:45 — Aaron: J.C. Ryle, Holiness38:30 — Stephen: Ian Murray, Revival and Revivalism and Evangelicalism Divided46:10 — Aaron: Edward Fisher and Thomas Boston, The Marrow of Modern Divinity49:00 — Stephen: Edith Schaeffer, L'Abri56:30 — Aaron: Harold Senkbeil, The Care of Souls1:00:00 — An exhortation to read1:02:30 — Refuge or retreat