Recommended Books — Heart for the City

Below are additional reading materials to help you as you engage with your community.

10:10: Life to the Fullest

By Daniel Hill

When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself

By Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert

Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work

By Timothy Keller

Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help, And How to Reverse It

By Robert D. Lupton

Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life: Rethinking Ministry to the Poor

By Robert D. Lupton

Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just

By Timothy Keller

Making Neighborhoods Whole: A Handbook for Christian Community Development

By Wayne Gordon, John M. Perkins

The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith

By Mark A. Noll

The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence

By Gary A. Haugen, Victor Boutros

Just Courage: God's Great Expedition for the Restless Christian

By Gary A. Haugen

Deepening the Soul for Justice (Urbana Onward)

By Bethany H. Hoang

The Justice Calling: Where Passion Meets Perseverance

By Bethany Hoang, Kristen Deede Johnson

The Poverty of Nations: A Sustainable Solution

By Barry Asmus, Wayne Grudem

The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change Leads to Social Change

By Brenda Salter McNeil, Rick Richardson

The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us? The Answer That Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World

By Richard Stearns

A Theology as Big as the City

By Raymond J. Bakke

With Justice for All: A Strategy for Community Development

By John Perkins

Who Is My Neighbor?: Lessons Learned From a Man Left for Dead

By Wayne Gordon

Ministries of Mercy: The Call of the Jericho Road

By Tim Keller

Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City

By Timothy Keller

The Just Church: Becoming a Risk-Taking, Justice-Seeking, Disciple-Making Congregation

By Jim Martin