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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.