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Learning to pray — and to keep praying. The classics on the inner life of prayer, from the secret place to prevailing intercession.

The Spirit's baptism, indwelling and work — the promised power for the Christian life.

Holiness, surrender and the abundant life hidden with Christ — books for going further in.

The unfailing grace of God and his comfort in every trial — good news for the weary.

Lives poured out for the gospel, and seasons of awakening — fuel for a burning heart.

Trusting God for daily bread, direction and every promise — walking by faith, not sight.

The oldest invitation there is — come, repent, believe. Preachers pleading with the unconverted, and the testimony of grace found by the chief of sinners.

The books that have walked with pilgrims for centuries — Augustine's confession, Bunyan's dream, the counsel of à Kempis — the old paths, still good.

Set apart for God — the commandments searched, perfection honestly pursued, and the affections of the heart tried and found true.

Great preaching on the page — Whitefield and Wesley in full voice, Spurgeon among his farmers — and Baxter's charge to every shepherd of souls.

The person and work of the Saviour — the Lamb slain, the shame and triumph of the cross, the excellency of Christ, and the empty tomb.

The plain, searching divinity of the Puritans — Bunyan's pilgrim, Owen on the sin within, Watson's warmth and Edwards' fire — doctrine pressed home upon the heart.

The branch in the Vine — union and communion with the Lord Jesus, and the life that flows from no other source than staying near him.

Mothers, missionaries and mystics — the faith of women who prayed, suffered and dared, from Guyon's cell to the freed slave's pulpit.

The faith of the first centuries in its own words — Augustine's heart laid bare, Athanasius on the Word made flesh, and the letters of martyrs and shepherds.

A reading for the morning and the evening — daily bread to keep the soul fed, from Spurgeon's beloved classics to the books of the quiet hour.

Tukutendereza Yesu — the awakening that ran from a Kampala hillside through six countries and most of a century, and the walk in the light it taught.

The old road has living guides — present-day teachers writing for East Africa and beyond, meeting the disciple where the questions are now.

The path that turns inward — à Kempis, Law and Guyon, the love of God and the shut door of the secret place, the soul alone with him.

The preaching that shook two continents — Whitefield and Wesley in the open air, Edwards among his people, Finney on revival — and the doctrine beneath the flame.

The church as a living whole — members of one another, joined to the Head, and the service and shepherding that flow from it.

A charge to shepherds and soul-winners — the pastor's care, the preacher's power in prayer, and how to bring men to Christ.

The awakening that became a movement — John Wesley's sermons and plain account, the mother who shaped him, and the fervour that followed.

The old doctrines, plainly held — the incarnation, the grace and will of God, the commandments and the fundamentals once for all delivered.

The gospel carried in Black voices — Richard Allen and the freeborn preachers, the holiness women who would not be silenced, and Crowther on the Niger.

Grace from first to last — free, sovereign and sufficient, abounding to the chief of sinners and holding the weakest saint.

The inward fight for holiness — mortifying sin, purity of heart, the affections set in order, and the way into the holiest.

The missionary journals — Brainerd in the forests, Taylor in China, Carmichael in India, Crowther on the Niger — the gospel carried at any cost.

Taking God at his word — Müller's orphans fed by prayer alone, the grace of waiting on him, and the bank of faith that never breaks.

A call to the men — to pray, to lead, to give everything and to tend the flock — lives of courage for the sons of God.

Faith for the teenage years — coming to Christ, belonging to his people, and the courage to follow. Short, plain, honest books, and true stories of lives that were spent for him, written for or well within reach of younger readers.

They that wait upon the Lord renew their strength — the classics on drawing power from God when your own is spent. Books for the weary: to wait, to rest, and to mount up again on eagles' wings.

The faith, told simply, for children and those who read with them — the great story of the journey home, in language a child can follow. A shelf that grows as more is retold and written for the young.