Needed Resources

The following is a list of resources that we wish to acquire for future students and for ministry purposes. Please consider donating towards the purchase of any of these. If you wish to donate any resources directly we can issue you a tax-deductible receipt for those items.  Books, software, or checks can be mailed to:

Compassion Connection
48755 Southview Place
Indio, CA 92201

or donate online [donate]

Ecuadorian Bible School (IBCI)

Mp3 players (for required lectures for home study) – approx $30 each
Bible study helps in Spanish:
Comentario Bíblico Conciso- Holman
Diccionario Bíblico Conciso- Holman
Nueva Concordancia Exhaustiva de la Biblia- Strong’s
Paperback Spanish Bibles
Children’s Spanish Bibles
Blank CD-R, or CD-RWs (for Bible training)
White/Clear Double sided soft plastic CD envelopes
Address labels: 1 x 2 5/8 inch
Dynamo Label Maker Tape: Dynamos White Label Tape

Potter’s Wheel (English) Bible study helps:

- Any exhaustive concordances
- Bible atlases
- The IVP New Testament Dictionary set (4 volumes)
- Illumina on CD-ROM
- Designed for Discipleship (the Navigator Series)

Theology:

- New Dictionary of Theology (Ineter-Varsity Press)
- Systematic Theology - an Introduction to Biblical Doctrine (by Wayne Grudem, Inter-Varsity Press)
- Systematic Theology (4 volumes by Norman Geisler)
- Theissen’s Systematic Theology
- Gruden’s Systematic Theology

Commentaries:

- Everyman’s Bible Commentary (various authors, Moody Press)
- Tyndale New Testament Commentaries (General Editor Leon Morris, Inter-Varsity Press)
- Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (General Editor D.J. Wiseman, Inter-Varsity Press)
- The Gospel and Epistle of John (F.F. Bruce)
- The Teacher’s Commentary (L. Richards)
- The Expositors Bible Commentary (12 books or CD-ROM)
- Word Bible Commentary (CD-ROM)

Various:

- Why Revival Tarries (Leonard Ravenhill)
- Let the Nations be Glad (John Piper)
- Life Together (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
- The Cost of Discipleship (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
- The Raggamuffin Gospel (Brennan Manning)
- Knowing God (Packer)
- Knowledge of the Holy (A.W. Tozer)
- Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)
- Eternity in their Hearts (Don Richardson)
- The Pursuit of God (A.W. Tozer)
- The Practice of the Presence of God (Brother Lawrence)
- Orthodoxy (G.K. Chesterton)
- Can Man Live Without God? (Ravi Zacharias)
- Operation World (multiple copies)
- The Baker History of the Church (4 volumes)
- Christianity: the First Two Thousand Years (A&E DVD’s)
- Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith (Rob Bell)
- Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die (John  Piper)
- Don’t Waste Your Life (John Piper)
- Made for His Pleasure: Ten Benchmarks of a Vital Faith (Alistar Begg)
- Lost in the Amazon: The True Story of Five Men and Their Battle for Survival (S. Kirkpatrick)
- God’s Empowering Presence (G. Fee)
- The Complete Works of Francis Schaeffer

Practical issues:

- Where There is No Doctor
- Friend Raising (Betty Barnett)

Various biographies and missionary stories:

- The Narrow Road (Brother Andrew)
- Bruchko (Bruce Olson)
- No Compromise (Keith Green)
- Soul Winner (Charles Spurgeon)
- Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret (Taylor)
- Daring to Live on the Edge (Loren Cunningham)
- Through Gates of Splendor
- Shadow of the Almighty (Elisabeth Eliot)
- Out of the Comfort Zone (Ray Comfort)
- I Just Saw Jesus (Eshmann)
- Peace Child (Don Richardson)
- Jesus Among Other Gods (Ravi Zacharias)

Apologetics:

- How to Win Souls and Influence People (Ray Comfort)
- The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud debate God, love, sex and the meaning of life (DVD PBS Home Video)
- The Master’s Way of Personal Evangelism (Robert E. Coleman)
- When Critics / Skeptics / Cultists Ask (3 volumes by Norman Geisler)
- Encyclopedia of Apologetics (Ed Geisler)
- Faith has its Reasons: an Integrative Approach to Defending Christianity (K.D. Boa)

Magazine subscriptions / back issues:

- Christianity Today
- World Magazine

World view / culture:

- How Now Shall We Live? (Colson and Pearcey)
- Time for Truth: Living Free in a World of Lies, Hype and Spin (Oz Guiness)
- Culture Wars. The Struggle to Define America (J.D. Hunter)
- The Abolition of Man (C.S. Lewis)
- Hollywood vs. America. Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values (M. Medved)
- Love Your God with All Your Mind (J.P. Moreland)
- The Age of Reason (T. Paine)
- Feminism: Mystique or Mistake (D. Passno)
- Amusing Ourselves to Death (N. Postman)
- The Great Evangelical Disaster (F.A. Schaeffer)
- The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog (J.W. Sire)
- Postmodern Times; a Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture (G.E. Veith)
- The Postmodern World (M.J. Erickson)
- Come Let Us Reason: An Introduction to Logical Thinking (Geisler & Brooks)
- World Religions: A Guide to the Essentials (book and CD-ROM)
- Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity (N. Pearcey)

- Good Spanish / English dictionaries
- 501 Spanish Verbs (Christopher Kendris, Barron’s Educational Series)