Seven Book Recommendations for Pastors | Desiring God

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1. Charles Bridges, The Christian Ministry

2. Jonathan Edwards, End for Which God Created the World

3. David Daniell, William Tyndale

4. Joel Beeke, A Puritan Theology

5. Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

6. G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

7. Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

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