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 — Introduction
2:50 — The format: five books each
3:00 — Aaron: Eugene Peterson, The Contemplative Pastor
7:10 — Stephen: John Piper, Desiring God
11:30 — Aaron: Mark Dever and Paul Alexander, The Deliberate Church
16:30 — Stephen: Richard Lovelace, Dynamics of Spiritual Life
22:30 — Stephen: Horatius Bonar, God's Way of Peace and God's Way of Holiness
25:30 — A cheat: Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment
27:30 — Stephen: C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
34:45 — Aaron: J.C. Ryle, Holiness
38:30 — Stephen: Ian Murray, Revival and Revivalism and Evangelicalism Divided
46:10 — Aaron: Edward Fisher and Thomas Boston, The Marrow of Modern Divinity
49:00 — Stephen: Edith Schaeffer, L'Abri
56:30 — Aaron: Harold Senkbeil, The Care of Souls
1:00:00 — An exhortation to read
1:02:30 — Refuge or retreat