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Mark Driscoll out of Mars Hill Church in Seattle recently came out with a book series called A Book You’ll Actually Read. These books are all under 100 pages and as the title says, you will actually read these books without tearing your eyes out. Currently there are four books in the series, but I believe he is going to expand them to more topics. The current ones are A Book You’ll Actually Read: On Who Is God, On The Old Testament, On The New Testament, and On Church Leadership. I own and have read all of them but the one on church leadership and they are written extraordinarily well.

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Driscoll’s writing style is very easy to read while at the same time he drops tons of knowledge on the reader. These books give basic surveys on the topic and systematically answer some of the most common and controversial questions on the topic. Driscoll also gives a look into apologetics in these books and has even showed me some very interesting things on topics I thought I understood fairly well. These books are great for new or uninformed believers as well as the non-believer and seasoned believer. One of my personal favorite parts of these books is in the Appendices where Driscoll recommends his top 50 or so books on various theological topics and gives links to various free internet resources. As a young person who doesn’t know a great deal about most authors out there, this gave me a good place to start for buying more theological literature.

If you know anyone who has questions on these topics or if you yourself have questions on these topics you should definitely pick these up (or borrow them from me).

I know this review wasn’t that great or wasn’t in depth, but I’m tired and these books are very straightforward. Go buy them now. These books can be purchased at Crossway.org and you can also view PDFs of the first chapter or so of each book on Crossway.org. Do it.