Internship book list

The interns write about 100 papers during their 5 months at CHBC on the following books, as well as on sermons and other articles.

The following is taken directly from CHBC's website:

• When People are Big and God is Small, Ed Welch
• Humility, C.J. Mahaney
• Theology of the Reformers, Timothy George
• “Church History Lectures,” delivered by Michael Lawrence
• “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” (sermon), Harry Emerson Fosdick
• “Christianity and Race Prejudice” (sermon), Francis Grimke
• What Is a Healthy Church?, Mark Dever
• What Is a Healthy Church Member, Thabiti Anyabwile
• A Display of God’s Glory (booklet), Mark Dever
• By Whose Authority? (booklet) Mark Dever
• The Reformation of the Church, Iain Murray
• The Christian Ministry, Charles Bridges
• Polity, Mark Dever ed.
• Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Mark Dever
• The Deliberate Church, Mark Dever and Paul Alexander
• Stop Dating the Church, Josh Harris
• The Bruised Reed, Richard Sibbes
• Infant Baptism and the Covenant of Grace, Paul Jewett
• Believers’ Baptism, Tom Schreiner and Shawn Wright
• The Gospel and Personal Evangelism, Mark Dever
• Biblical Foundations for Baptist Churches, John Hammett
• “Caring for the Poor,” CHBC elders
• “Regaining Meaningful Church Membership,” Mark Dever, in Restoring Integrity in Baptist Churches
• Worship by the Book, Don Carson
• Give Praise to God, edited by Phil Ryken et al (selected chapters)
• Engaging with God, Eugene Peterson
• Perspectives on Christian Worship: 5 Views, ed. by J Matthew Pinson (selected chapters)
• “Ecclesiology” chapter by Mark Dever in A Theology for the Church, ed. by Danny Akin
• Why We’re Not Emergent, Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck
• Evangelicalism Divided, Iain Murray

Two or three additional books to be selected by Mark Dever during the internship
Every week, Senior Pastor Mark Dever reads the reflection papers written in response to the above reading. All the interns and most of the pastoral staff then join him for three hours on Thursday morning to discuss and defend their papers. Pastor Dever will highlight a number of aspects from those papers and allows the interns to critically discuss the matters among themselves and present pastoral staff.
Additionally, each intern is required to complete three sermon comparisons, each of which involves comparing two, pre-approved sermons based on the same biblical text.