Recommended Books
Kenny Ortiz’s All-Time Favorites
Christian Living & Spiritual Understanding
- What’s So Amazing About Grace (Philip Yancey)
- A Tale of Three Kings (Gene Edwards)
- Experiencing Father’s Embrace (Jack Frost)
- Spectacular Sins (John Piper)
- The Pursuit of God (A.W. Tozer)
- The Knowledge of the Holy (A.W. Tozer)
- Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)
- Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ (John Piper)
- Knowing God (J.I. Packer)
- The Problem With Pain (C.S. Lewis)
- A Grief Observed (C. S. Lewis)
- Ragamuffin Gospel (Brennan Manning)
- Prisoner in the Third Cell (Gene Edwards)
- Radical (David Platt)
- The Treasure Principle (Randy Alcorn)
Books Written By Kenny Ortiz
- Redefined: Discovering and Celebrating What God Really Thinks of You
- Always Choose Life: The Ethics of the Pro-Life Position
Christian Classics
- Institutes of Christian Religion (John Calvin)
- Mortification of Sin (John Owen)
- Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon (ed: Daniel Partner)
- The Imitation of Christ (Thomas à Kempis)
- Pensées (Blaise Pascal)
- Orthodoxy (G.K. Chesterton)
- Valley of Vision (various Puritans, ed: Arthur Bennett)
- Confessions of St. Augustine (Augustine of Hippo)
- City of God (Augustine of Hippo)
- Summa Theologica (Thomas Aquinas)
Inspirational
Theology
- The Great Exchange (Jerry Bridges & Bob Bevington)
- Systematic Theology (Wayne Grudem)
- Christian Theology (Millard Erickson)
- What is Reformed Theology? (R.C. Sproul)
- Everyone’s A Theologian (R.C. Sproul)
- Essential Truths of Christian Faith (RC Sproul)
- God in Dispute (Roger Olson)
- Revelation Made Easy (Kenneth Gentry)
- Historical Theology (Gregg Allison)
- The Potter’s Freedom (James White)
- Rose Guide to End-Times Prophecy (Timothy Paul Jones)
History
- Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari)
- Dead Wake (Erik Larson)
- In The Garden of the Beasts (Erik Larson)
- Christian History Made Easy (Timothy Paul Jones)
- The Story of Christianity, Volume I (Justo Gonzalez)
- The Story of Christianity, Volume II (Justo Gonzalez)
Self-Enrichment
- Thinking for a Change (John Maxwell)
- Who Moved My Cheese (Spencer Johnson)
- Road Back to You (Ian Morgan Cron & Suzanne Stabile)
- Five Love Languages (Gary Chapman)
- Emotionally Healthy Leader (Peter Scazzero)
Worldview & Culture
- How Now Shall We Live? (Chuck Colson)
- Reason for God (Timothy Keller)
- Ethics for a Brave New World (John & Paul Feinberg)
- Awakening the Evangelical Mind (Owen Strachan)
Biographies
- 21 Servants of Sovereign Joy (John Piper)
- The Colson Way (Owen Strachan)
- The Life and Diary of David Brainerd (Jonathan Edwards)
- A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity (Bill O’Reilly)
- Killing Lincoln (Bill O’Reilly)
- Killing Kennedy (Bill O’Reilly)
- A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards (George M. Marsden)
- No Compromise: Life Story of Keith Green (Melody Green)
- Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (John Foxe)
- Spurgeon (Lewis Drummond)
- A Chance to Die: Life of Amy Carmichael (Elisabeth Elliot)
- Through the Gates of Splendor (Elisabeth Elliot)
- John Adams (David McCullough)
- American Lion: Andrew Jackson (Jon Meacham)
- Churchill (Andrew Roberts)
- My Personal Best (John Wooden)
- Cronkite (Douglas Brinkley)
- 50 People Every Christian Should Know (Warren Wiersbe)
- Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (Roland Bainton)
- Seven Men (Eric Metaxas)
- Seven Women (Eric Metaxas)
- Decision Points (George W. Bush)
Politics
Leadership
- Spiritual Leadership (J. Oswald Sanders)
- The Advantage (Patrick Lencioni)
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Patrick Lencioni)
- First, Break All the Rules (Marcus Buckingham & Curtis Coffman)
- Developing the Leader Within You (John Maxwell)
- Leading With a Limp (Dan Allender)
Customer Service
Marriage
Understanding Genders
- Men and Women, Equal Yet Different (Alexander Strauch)
- The Accidental Feminist (Courtney Ressig)
- Designed for Joy (ed: Jonathan Parnell & Owen Strachan)
Sexuality
- Sacred Sex (Tim Alan Gardner)
- The Sexually Confident Wife (Shannon Ethridge)
- What Does the Bible Really Teach About Homosexuality? (Kevin DeYoung)
Fiction
- Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan)
- Animal Farm (George Orwell)
- The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
- Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
- Redeeming Love (Francine Rivers)
- The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
- Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
- Chronicles of Narnia (series) (C.S. Lewis)
- Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
- Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
For Pastors
- The Christian Ministry (Charles Bridges)
- Brothers, We Are Not Professionals (John Piper)
- Lectures to My Students (Charles Spurgeon)
- Biblical Eldership (Alexander Strauch)
- Calvin’s Company of Pastors (Scott Manetsch)
- The Reformed Pastor (Richard Baxter)
- The Pastor as Public Theologian (Kevin Vanhoozer & Owen Strachan)
- Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (Mark Dever)
- Christ-Centered Preaching (Bryan Chapell)
- The Gospel-Driven Church (Jared C. Wilson)
- The Pastor’s Book (R. Kent Hughes)
Bible Helps
Finances & Real Estate Investing
Recommended Books Authored by Podcast Guests
- Never Settle for Normal (Jonathan Parnell)
- Glory in the Ordinary (Courtney Reissig)
- The Accidental Feminist (Courtney Reissig)
- People to be Loved (Preston Sprinkle)
- Overcomer (Aubrey Sampson)
- The Louder Song (Aubrey Sampson)
- Habits of Grace (David Mathis)
- Resurrected! (John Morris)
- Tragedy to Truth (Casey Cease)
- A Simple Marriage Field Guide (Corey Allan)
- Marriage Essentials (Corey Allan)
- Orphanology (Tony Merida & Rick Morton)
- Ordinary (Tony Merida)
- Breathing Room (Josh Reich)
- The Family Life of a Christian Leader (Ajith Fernando)
- One of the Few (Jason Ladd)
- Curious Christian (Barnabas Piper)
- Did Adam and Eve Really Exist? (C. John Collins)
- Navigating Genesis (Hugh Ross)
- The Creator and the Cosmos (Hugh Ross)
- Improbable Planet (Hugh Ross)
- Scientism and Secularism (JP Moreland)
- Mere Hope (Jason Duesing)
- Classic Christian Thinkers (Kenneth Samples)
Got A Question?
Do you have a question you’d like to have answered on the podcast?
Or just want to connect with Kenny Ortiz?
Shoot him a message here!
Or just want to connect with Kenny Ortiz?
Shoot him a message here!