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One of the many benefits of living in the day-and-age we do is how easy and convenient it is to feed on God's Word.  Each Christ-follower is responsible for their own spiritual walk with Christ and for their own growth.  This means we need to be a people of the book beyond just Sundays or at small group.

So the starting point for each of us is a daily routine of time spent reading God's Word - the Bible - and time in prayer talking with the author of the book - Jesus Christ.

After you have disciplined yourself to a regular daily routine of reading the Bible and praying I would encourage you to begin to look for ways to grow your spiritual health with more of God's Word. 

We would recommend a number of ways to do this and in association with this we would recommend a number of pastors/preachers who you can trust in terms of their commitment to God's Word and their faithfulness to a Biblical theology.  Their are others as well but this is sort of our top 10 list.  We have added links to their websites where you can find their material. 

Want to be healthy spiritually?  Then eat good spiritual food regularly!

1. Visit our resource table in the lobby on Sundays.  We have a great assortment of solid material to help you grow in your walk.  You can 'rent' a CD sermon series from Walk in the Word at our table for a nominal cost.  You can pick up some great books at cost and these are all books which you can trust in terms of their faithfulness to Scripture. 
2. Buy your own material from Walk In The Word, visit their website to see what is available - www.walkintheword.com
3. Last year Grace To You made all John MacArthur's sermons available for download for free.  This is an amazing wealth of exposition of God's Word - over 40 years worth.  You can visit their site called www.gtycanada.org to see all that is available (downloads are free or you can buy CD sets). 
4. One of the most popular and longtime preachers is Dr. Charles Stanley - you can see all his material at his site - www.intouch.org.
5. Another source of some amazing preaching all for free is Alistair Begg's site - www.truthforlife.org.
6. Want more good free sermons?  Then you must visit John Piper's website as all his sermons, both in transcript and mp3 format, are available for free.  Decades of great preaching for free!  Visit - www.desiringgod.org.
7. One of evangelicals best minds is Dr. Albert Mohler who is the president of the Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville Kentucky. Dr. Mohler is a gifted preacher and writer and has a radio program which deals with many current events and issues.  His website and blog are a great source of solid theological assessment of everything current - www.albertmohler.com. 
8. Another huge resource base for books, sermons and conferences is the Sovereign Grace Ministries site - www.sovereigngraceministries.org.  This organization is led by C.J. Mahaney.  All sermons by him, by Joshua Harris or anyone else are their site would be fully recommended by us.
   
9. For the younger generation in the church - college age and down - another great resource is Mark Driscoll.  He is the pastor of Mars Hill Church in Washington state (don't mix this up with Rob Bell and Mars Hill church in Michigan as we can no longer recommend Rob Bell due to his disappointing shift in theology).  Some of you 'old people:)' may enjoy Mark as well  His website is - www.marshillchurch.org.  One WARNING with Mark is that he can be a little 'crass' in his vocabulary and at times too graphic in his topics for our full recommendation.  We so wish he would pull back from this but at this point he has not - so a caution here - but solid theology and some great preaching. 
10. One final recommendation would be Greg Laurie.  Great preacher, solid theology, interesting style, very evangelistic - we think you will be well fed by listening to Greg's preaching at - www.harvest.org (Greg's church is also called Harvest but is not directly associated with our Harvest circle of churches although Greg and James are good friends).
    

There are so many others we could recommend as well, preachers like Chip Ingram, Chuck Swindoll, Erwin Lutzer, Jack Graham, David Jeremiah, R.C. Sproul, Bob Coy, Ravi Zacharias, Dennis Rainey, etc..  And unfortunately there are many preachers available via the web, TV and through their books who we would not recommend but we will not get into that list but do strongly encourage you to be discerning about who you are listening to.  Just because they talk about God and the Bible does not mean they are preachers or teachers who you should be allowing to place ideas and teachings into your heart and mind.  Be cautious about who has influence in your life. 

For women who would love to be taught by another woman we would recommend; Beth Moore, Elizabeth George, Elisabeth Elliott, and Jill Briscoe as our top picks.   

Take advantage of the era God has placed you in and feed your soul on His word daily, feast fully and regularly on healthy spiritual food and you will discover God at work in your life in ways you never imagined possible.

Harvest Staff

PS.  Here is where you can find the 3 John MacArthur sermons Norm mentioned that he listened to and borrowed from regarding the sermons on the prodigal son from Luke 15:11-32.  AND they are FREE to download so just click on the sermon title and you can then click download.  If you want to buy the CD it will cost you $5.