“The Message” (the Bible in contemporary language)
I truly love the Bible, but for reasons different than one might think. While it is the narrative foundation for my convictions and beliefs, I …
2011 Reading List
“Landmines in the Path of the Believer” – Charles Stanley
First, this is not among my favorite of Stanley’s books. I found it to be somewhat dull and overly simplistic. Second, I do not like …
“Thank You Power” – Deborah Norville
This book is a collection of somewhat-interesting to not-interesting-at-all stories about people who have had some level of success in some area of life who, …
“Love Wins” – Rob Bell
A Book about Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived While I like the book’s title, its subtitle is what actually …
“Till We Have Faces” – C.S. Lewis
“In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses – one beautiful and one unattractive – Lewis reworks the classical myth of Cupid and Psyche into …
“The Social Animal” – David Brooks
“Most of what we think and believe is unavailable to conscious view. We are our own deepest mystery.” Thoughts: The Social Animal is the most …
“A Scandalous Freedom” – Steve Brown
Thoughts: Most people who find freedom through a personal relationship with Jesus also find, shortly thereafter, a greatly restricting bondage of legalism and guilt imposed …
“The Grace of God” – Andy Stanley
Stanley takes on a whole knew style of writing in this work. The topic is grace. The point is grace. The meaning is grace. The …
“The Reformed Faith” – Loraine Boettner
While I do not think it is possible to completely resolve matters of free-will and sovereignty solely on an intellectual basis, this short book does …
“Moral Earthquakes and Secret Faults” – O.S. Hawkins
The earth is made up of continually moving plates, somewhat like a massive 3-d jigsaw puzzle. The points of connection between the puzzle pieces are …