Leonard Ravenhill Archive

Book Recommendations

These are Leonard Ravenhill’s most recommended books

1. Atonement – Albert Barnes (1860 exposition)

2. Autobiography of Richard Baxter 

3. Azusa Street – Frank Bartleman (eyewitness account)

4. Better Things From Above – Gregory Mantle 

5. Beyond Humiliation: Way of the Cross – Gregory Mantle 

6. Bible Characters From the Bible – Alexander Whyte

7. Broken Bread – John Follette

8. Christian in Complete Armour – William Gurnall

9. Counterfeit Christ & Other Sermons -Gregory Mantle 

10. Deeper Experiences of Famous Christians – James G. Lawson

11. Explore the Book – J.S. Baxter

12. Fair Sunshine – Jock Purves 

13. Heart Talks on Holiness – Samuel Logan Brengle

14. Helps to Holiness – Samuel Logan Brengle

15. Hidden Life of Prayer – David MacIntyre

16. Historical Collections of Accounts of Revival – John Gillies 

17. In the Footprints of the Lamb – G. Steinberger 

18. Into His Presence(formerly titled: Practical Prayer Portions) 

19. Invasion of Wales by the Spirit Through Evan Roberts – James A. Stewart

20. Knowing God – James I. Packer 

21. Knowledge of the Holy – A. W. Tozer

22. Life of David Brainerd – Jonathan Edwards

23. Life of God in the Soul of Man – Henry Scougal (this book changed George Whitefield’s life)

24. Looking Unto Jesus – Isaac Ambrose (written in the 1600s) 

25. Martyrs Mirror – T. S. vanBraght (better & bigger than Foxe’s book)

26. Mighty Prevailing Prayer – Wesley Duewel (“superb manual”)

27. Milestone Papers: Doctrinal, Ethical…on Christian Progress – Daniel Steele 

28. New Testament Holiness – Thomas Cook 

29. Path of Prayer – Samuel Chadwick (great teacher)

30. Protestant Saints – Ernest Gordon (60 valiant souls; followed whithersoever)

31. Refiner’s Fire – Leonard Ravenhill (2 volumes) 

32. Reformed Pastor – Richard Baxter (should be required reading for all pastors)

33. Samuel Morris – Lindley Baldwin (GREAT BIOGRAPHY)

34. Soul of Prayer – P. T. Forsyth (“this book is always near and available”)

35. The Stundists (Persecution of Believers in Russia)-C.A.W.

36. “Take Your Glory, Lord” – William Duma (great biography from Africa) 

37. They Knew Their God – E. & L. Harvey (good biographies) (6 volumes)

38. Way to Pentecost – Samuel Chadwick (GREAT practical teaching on revival)

39. Works of E. M. Bounds (8 volumes in 1 book)

40. Works of Edward Payson (3 volumes) (know as “Praying Payson of Portland”, the father of Elizabeth Prentiss)

41. Worldly Saints: Puritans As They Really Were – Leland Ryken