It is challenging to find a modern work on the topic of demons, Satan, and angels that doesn’t seem like it’s been written by someone who is obsessed with horror films like the Exorcist. Cole’s book on this topic is grounded firmly in the text of Scripture, and is a serious exploration of this important topic. If anyone has a difficult question for me on the nature of angels or demons, this book is often the first one I reach for to have my memory jogged or a hard question answered.

Gurnall’s masterpiece has been called the single greatest book on the topic of spiritual warfare. Centered around Paul’s words in Ephesians 6:10-20, Gurnall is missing the fanciful mysticism that is so common today when the topic is often taught on. Gurnall takes the Christian’s enemies the world, the flesh, and the devil seriously and literally, but also says that God has given the Christian all the necessary means to overcome those enemies.