Students in our Form 4 classes at STAR read all of the following books, and so they receive a reading plan with each resource below listed on it. You may choose to have your student read all of the following books, or you may choose individual books from this list.
There are currently only two reading plans for Form 4 Apologetics, so the reading plans for Cycles 1 and 3 are the same, and so are the plans for Cycles 2 and 4, with one exception: the topics in Fearless Apologetics. The apologetics reading schedules really take every Form through the same apologetics question at the same time, but using books at their own level. Fearless Apologetics is the core text that Form 4 and 5 students will use every year to get through these topics.
Students will come across a topic more than once over their education, but they will use different resources, and the hope is that their own brain would begin to make some beautiful connections.
Scroll down to see the list of books, and download the pdf for the reading schedule.
Fearless Apologetics by Chap Bettis
This is a great resource for the whole family and is a required resource for Form 4 and 5 students at STAR and will be used each year for these Forms.
The book contains apologetics topics and questions, and then resources and Scripture references for each question. There is a different set of questions from this book for every cycle.
This reading schedule is for the 2022 edition and will be updated if a new version is printed.
Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper
This book is scheduled, at one or two chapters per week, for the first six weeks of the term.
How to Be Your Own Selfish Pig: And Other Ways You’ve Been Brainwashed by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
This book is scheduled at one chapter per week for the first eleven weeks.
The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel
This is book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week, starting in Week 7 and ending in Week 17.
The Grace and Truth Paradox: Responding with Christlike Balance by Randy Alcorn
This short book is scheduled at a pace of three chapters per week during weeks 12, 13 and 14.
Seven Men and the Secret of Their Greatness by Eric Metaxas
This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week during weeks 15 through 21.
Follow Me by David Platt
This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week during weeks 19 through 28.
7 Women and the Secret of Their Greatness by Eric Metaxas
This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week during weeks 22 through 28.
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