You will notice a decent number of education related books on this list. That is largely because I am haunted by the question how I can best use the next ten years to equip my seven-year-old for whatever the world looks like in 2035. The vision that Clark and Jain set forth is the best answer to that question that I have found, which is that a Classical Christian education focuses on the liberal arts but is rooted in piety and governed by theology.

See also: A Catechism for Classical Christian Education

This first volume (of four) focuses on the topics of God and Revelation. I am fully convinced that this set will be considered one of the great works of systematic theology of our day. It is saturated with Scripture, diligent with history, and always concludes with practical application.

I stumbled onto a set of The Great Books of the Western World, and this is the first volume, which serves as an introduction and apology for the set. I certainly agree with Hutchins argument that our society is hindered by its wide-spread ignorance of the great books.

Much of whatever spare time I have over the past year has been given to learn Greek and Latin. I intend to put together a list of resources, either to teach yourself or to teach your children, but in the meantime, this is a resource book worth having on your shelf.

This is a behemoth of a book, but since I spread my preaching of Exodus out over three years, I had that same time-frame to read it. I will forever be gratefully for Ryken walking (literarily) through Exodus alongside me.

Brown’s commentary on Hebrews was one of my surprise favorites from last year, so it has been a joy to continue reading his insights through his commentary on Galatians.

Over the past year, I have heavily leaned on Lewis’ lectures and essays to serve as my guide through reading the great works of antiquity. These lectures to Milton’s poem are greatly insightful.

This small book was published by the North American Mission Board, which is a Southern Baptist missional organization. While I love their vision of every church also becoming a school, I mostly appreciate how the authors advocate for churches to simply take an active role in education.

When I heard James on a podcast last year talking about Neil Postman, I assumed that I would appreciate his book, and I wasn’t wrong. This is a must-read for helping to understand how our technology is changing us.

I read through this little book while preaching a series on baptism, and it is a great (and brief) theological argument against infant baptism and for believer’s baptism.

After diving head-first into learning Latin, I stumbled upon Campbell’s book, and he affirmed what I finally beginning to realize: Latin ought to have a primarily place in classical education. His suggested scope and sequence is also worth the purchase of the book alone.