Fall 2025 Textbooks

We recommend that you have the textbooks on the first day of class. If you have any questions, please contact your professor.

Items marked with an asterisk (*) are purchased from the CoA online bookstore and will be provided to you at your first class meeting.

 BA 410/610 Business as Mission I 

       1. Larry Sharp, Missions Disrupted: From Professional Missionaries to Missional Professionals, Hendrickson, 2022. ISBN: 9781496471598. $24.95. 

       2, Michael R. Baer, Business as Mission: The Power of Business in the Kingdom of God, YWAM Publishers, 2006. ISBN: 9781576583883. $13.99. 

       3. Mark L. Russell, The Missional Entrepreneur: Principles and Practices for Business as Mission, Iron Stream, 2010. ISBN: 9781596692787. $24.99. 

BS 102/502 Old Testament Survey  

        1. Bill T. Arnold and Bryan E. Beyer, Encountering the Old Testament: A Christian Survey, 4th ed., 2024. ISBN: 9780801049538. $59.99.  

        2. Ellen F. Davis, Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament, 2001. $17.95. ISBN: 978156101197 

CC 301/501 Psychology & Theology 

        1. Jim Wilder, Renovated: God, Dallas Willard, and the Church That Transforms, NavPress, 2020. ISBN: 978-1641581677. $17.99. 

       2. Barbara Moon, Joy-Filled Relationships, CreateSpace, 2012. ISBN: 978-1480068612. $13.99. 

       3. Barbara Moon, Reframing Your Hurts: Why You Don’t Have to Fear Emotional Pain, CreateSpace, 2015. ISBN: 978-1519176950. $10.00. 

CS 204/507 Discipleship Coaching II 

        1. Marcia Wilbur, The Power & The Purpose. ISBN: 9798886276213. $14.95. Please purchase directly from the CoA Bookstore: https://coa.populiweb.com/router/bookstore/orders/cart?add_item=227424 

CS 315/515 Christian Philosophy 

       1. Craig Bartholomew, and Michael Goheen, Christian Philosophy: A Systematic and Narrative Introduction, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2013. ISBN: 0801039118. $30.00. 

       2. Douglas Groothuis, Philosophy in Seven Sentences: A Small Introduction to a Vast Topic, Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2016. ISBN: 0830840931. $18.00. 

CS 331/531 Church History 

        1. Mark A. Noll, David Komline, and Han-luen Kantzer Komline,Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity, 4th ed., Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2022. ISBN: 978-1540964885. $29.99. 

        2, Donald Fairbairn and Ryan M. Reeves. The Story of Creeds and Confessions: Tracing the Development of the Christian Faith, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2019. ISBN: 9780801098161. $38.00. 

EN 101 English Composition 

1. John H. Timmerman and Donald R. Hettinga, In the World: Reading and Writing as a Christian, 2004, Baker Academic, 2nd ed. ISBN: 0801027535. $38.00. 

       2, C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.  Any edition will work.

MA 150 Quantitative Reasoning 

1. Jeffrey Bennett and William Briggs, Using & Understanding Mathematics: A Quantitative Reasoning Approach, 8th Edition. Pearson Education, 2023. ISBN: 978-0137575336. $84.99. Recommended to rent the eTextbook through the publisher’s website (Using & Understanding Mathematics: A Quantitative Reasoning Approach): $9.99/month for 6 months.