In the classic The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis, the most important Christian writer of the 20th century, sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor in contemporary society.

SIT 2025
Recommended SIT textbook for Session C.
Truth, Meaning, and the Gospel in the Writings of C. S. Lewis (Dr. Wade Mobley)

Jesus’ final cry on the cross—“it is finished”—captures the theology of Hebrews.

Thomas R. Schreiner clarifies Hebrews’s complex argument by keeping a sustained focus on its logical flow. He interprets Hebrews in light of its prominent structures of promise and fulfillment, eschatology, typology, and the relationship between heaven and earth. Schreiner probes the letter’s unique theological contributions, such as its presentation of Jesus’ divinity and humanity, his priesthood and sacrifice, the new covenant, warnings and exhortations, and the reward for those who persevere in Christ.

SIT 2025
Recommended SIT textbook for Session B.
Studies in Hebrews (Dr. Jarrod Hylden)

Spring '25
Required FLS textbook for Hebrews/Unity of the Testaments course taught by Dr. Jarrod Hylden, Professor of New Testament.

Fall '24
Recommended FLBC textbook for Hebrews course, taught by Pr. Steve Mundfrom, Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History.

One of the most popular and beloved Christian classics ever written, C. S. Lewis provides a powerful, rational case for the Christian faith and helps us to see religion with fresh eyes.

SIT 2025
Recommended SIT textbook for Session C.
Truth, Meaning, and the Gospel in the Writings of C. S. Lewis (Dr. Wade Mobley)

Spring '24
Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
You will need either this or Confronting Christianity or Orthodoxy.
Required FLS textbook for Comparative Symbolics course taught by Pr. Steven Mundfrom, Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History.

Spring '23
Required FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.
You will need either this or Confronting Christianity or Orthodoxy.

Spring '21
Recommended FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.

Fall '20
Required FLBC textbook for Seminar in Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.

Spring '20
Recommended FLBC textbook for Apologetics and Christian Thought course taught by Dr. Wade Mobley.

In the classic Miracles, C.S. Lewis argues that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in miracles as a testimony of the unique personal involvement of God in his creation.

SIT 2025
Recommended SIT textbook for Session C.
Truth, Meaning, and the Gospel in the Writings of C. S. Lewis (Dr. Wade Mobley)

While reading Psalms, it is common for commentaries to focus on Old Testament meaning, without connecting it deeply to Christ’s fulfillment in the New Testament. By studying Scripture this way, believers miss out on the fullness of God’s word. The key to experiencing authentically Christian worship is learning a Christ-focused approach to praying and singing the Psalms.

SIT 2025
Recommended SIT textbook for Session A.
Psalms: Prayerbook of Jesus (Dr. Brad Pribbenow)

Jesus died with a psalm on his lips. For millennia, humans have been shaped by the Psalms. And before the Nazis banned him from publishing, German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer published this book on the Psalms.

What comfort is found in the Psalter? What praise, and what challenge? What threat? In the pages of Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible, discover the richness this book of Scripture held for Bonhoeffer, and learn to pray psalms along with Christ.

First published in 1940, this classic reveals how the Psalms are essential to the life of the believer and offers Bonhoeffer's reflections on psalms of thanksgiving, suffering, guilt, praise, and lament. Now with an introduction by Walter Brueggemann and excerpts from the Psalms, Bonhoeffer's timeless work offers contemporary readers ancient wisdom and resources for the living of these days. Includes a biographical sketch of Bonhoeffer written by his friend and biographer Eberhard Bethge.

Spring '26
Required FLS textbook for Poetical Books course taught by Dr. Brent Olson, Professor of Old Testament.

SIT 2025
Recommended SIT textbook for Session A.
Psalms: Prayerbook of Jesus (Dr. Brad Pribbenow)

Fall '24
Required FLS textbook for Poetical Books course taught by Dr. Brent Olson, Professor of Old Testament.

Fall '22
Required FLS textbook for Poetical Books course taught by Dr. Brent Olson, Professor of Old Testament.

Fall '20
Required FLS textbook for Poetical Books course taught by Dr. Brent Olson, Professor of Old Testament.

Is bigger always better?

It's not often that we hear the virtues of the small. Our culture teaches that bigger is better--and that includes church ministry and preaching, too. But what if rather than swinging for the fences, preachers focused on improving their sermons through small habits, practices, and exercises? What if smaller is better?

In a world where "small" isn't always celebrated, Jonathan T. Pennington provides Small Preaching, a short book of simple tips that can have revolutionary effects over time. Pennington offers preachers 25 words of wisdom that will help shape their preaching for the better.

SIT 2025
Recommended SIT textbook for Session C.
Law and Gospel Preaching (Rev. Sam Wellumson)

Available in July.

This is a book about the preacher’s task and how to perform it written by a fellow practitioner of the craft. What would you say that craft is? What is it that you do for a living, Pastor?

You get paid to tell people what to think.

You tell people what to think while they lie on their death beds. You tell them what to think about God and eternity. You tell jilted wives what to think when their husbands run off. You tell failures what to think about their future. You tell the melancholy what to think about being sad. Folks pile into a building once a week and sit on uncomfortable benches so they can listen to you tell them what to think for 15 minutes. And they put money in a bucket for the privilege.

This is a craft worthy of your best efforts. It is a matter of life and death. It's what you were called and ordained to do.

SIT 2025
Recommended SIT textbook for Session C.
Law and Gospel Preaching (Rev. Sam Wellumson)

When’s the last time you stepped up to the counter and ordered one medium-size Jesus, extra generous, and heavy on the bling? Or maybe you like your Jesus supersized! No? Perhaps you prefer yours extra small, and hold the onion please.

Here’s the same question: When’s the last time you took a hammer and a chisel to the Jesus of the Bible and formed Him into your own personal Jesus?

Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up? not only reminds us who the real Jesus of the Bible is, but it also reveals to us twelve false christs who are embraced, loved, promoted, and revered—even by well-meaning Christians.

SIT 2025
Recommended SIT textbook for Session B.
Who Do People Say That I Am?: Studies in Christology (Dr. James Molstre)