Gospel Culture: Living Out Our Church Values – Resources

02|2025

As we progress through our current sermon series on living out our church values, we would like to provide some helpful resources that touch on each of the values. The books, articles, sermons and podcasts below are by no means an exhaustive list, but are hopefully just a primer to get your study going. If we truly want to cultivate these values and experience the life-changing, Gospel-fueled joy that our hearts long for, then we must not content ourselves with hearing a sermon on Sunday morning and hope that will be enough to cause us to thrive. In addition to the daily inflow of God’s Word and outflow of prayer, these supplemental resources can be helpful as well as we “set our minds on things above” as Colossians chapter three instructs us to do. A healthy “Gospel Culture” in both our personal and corporate Christian lives will not happen by accident, so let’s encourage one another in the grace of God to live out our church values in the power of the Holy Spirit to the glory of God!

Prayerful: An abiding recognition of our dependence on Jesus for our life and effectiveness in ministry (John. 15:4-5).
– Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God book by Tim Keller
– What is the Prayer of Faith article by Sinclair Ferguson
– A Praying Life book by Paul Miller
– Praying the Lord’s Prayer book by J.I. Packer
Fruitful: Relying on the Holy Spirit to produce in us the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Gal. 5:22-23).
– The Fruitful Life: The Overflow of God’s Love Through You book by Jerry Bridges
– Fruitful: Cultivating a Spiritual Harvest That Won’t Leave You Empty book by Megan Hill & Melissa Kruger
– How Do We Walk By the Spirit? interview with John Piper
– The Fruit of the Spirit sermon by R.C. Sproul
Holy: A lifestyle that reflects the character and beauty of our Savior (Col. 1:10).
– Holier Than Thou book by Jackie Hill Perry
– The Pursuit of Holiness book by Jerry Bridges
– The Hole in Our Holiness book by Kevin DeYoung
– Holiness Begins in Intimacy with Jesus article by Scott Hubbard
Humble: Pursuing a teachable, others-centered posture in all of our interactions (Phil. 2:1-11).
– Humility: The Joy of Self-forgetfulness book by Gavin Ortlund
– The Blessing of Humility book by Jerry Bridges
– The Freedom of Self-forgetfulness book by Tim Keller
– Pride and Humility article by Thomas A. Tarrants
Honest: Walking in the light, with nothing to hide and no one to impress, as the foundation for our relationships with one another and our Savior. (1 John. 1:7).
– You’re Not Crazy Staying Honesty, Showing Honor podcast by Ray Ortlund and Sam Allberry
– No Greater Love book by Rebecca McLaughlin
– Awaken: Honesty sermon by David Platt
Generous: Walking in the light, with nothing to hide and no one to impress, as the foundation for our relationships with one another and our Savior. (1 John. 1:7).
– Big Hearted: Are You Giving Happily or Hesitantly? book by Joel Morris
– Gospel Generosity – a book review by Tim Challies
– Act of Grace: The Power of Generosity to Change Your Life, the Church, and the World book by James C. Petty
– Any Christian Generosity Is Beautiful to God podcast by John Piper

Finally, you can always go back and listen to sermons from this series on the missio Dei: Falcon website here.

*Please note a variety of online book vendors have been linked above in order to expose you to many options to find good books. Inclusion of any vendor is not intended to be an endorsement of a specific vendor or of all of the content they offer.