Well the storm has blown out to sea and remains a sharknado out there, but for the rest of us we've returned to life 'as normal'. With that we are re-starting our routine while on sabbatical, Shonet is teaching the kids at the cottage whilst I pack up some Kickinghorse coffee (brought from home) and a bag full of books and look for somewhere quiet with no mosquitoes or iguanas.
My mornings are spent reading both introspective and more thought provoking material, I'll rotate through these in particular:
Jordan Peterson: 12 Rules for life. His opening chapter is worth the price of the book.
Nancy Pearcy: Love thy body. An intense read, systematically looking at how the west has embraced a disregard for the human body and has embraced 'the cult of the young and healthy'. Wrestling through subjects of bioethics, abortion, euthanasia, transgenderism and a few other critical issues. A must read for Christians today.
Lance Witt: Replenish. This came recommended from the Kirith Retreat folk--basically a book written for those in ministry to develop patterns for spiritual and emotional health.
David Powslison: How does Sanctification Work? He looks at how God changes us through His word, other people, and through suffering.
Whereas in the afternoon I am reading more intentional material on the church itself:
Tim Keller: Center Church, this is basically a textbook for churches working in the inner city...its incredibly dense, pastoral and packed with classic Keller guiding principles. I've read it before but a refresher is needed.
Peter Scazzero: The Emotionally Healthy Church. A great read for churches and Christians that are good at playing church/Christianity and yet are incredibly frail emotionally--they have few friends, are often paralyzed with insecurity, believe God loves them for what they do rather than who He is and who we are, are unable to take criticism (and can't give it without tearing a strip off someone or manipulating them).
Mark Dever: Preach. Because I preach a lot I need to read about it a lot or I won't be good at it a lot.
Alec Moyter: Preaching. As above.
Andrew Davis: Revitalize--about revitalizing churches, a great resource and quite helpful for me right now.
For fun I brought Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings...Frodo just got stabbed in the dark.
Morning devos include:
Tim Keller's Proverbs (a GREAT find!)
The Gospel of John (chapters 12-17)
The Valley of Vision (a prayer book).
Shonet is reading:
Eric Metaxas biography of Martin Luther
Tim Keller's reflection on the Psalms
With the kids we are reading:
C.S. Lewis--Chronicles of Narnia (again)
Irene Howat: 10 Girls who made History
" " : 10 Boys who changed the World
Marty Machowski: Long Story Short (we're following what our church is doing back home)
Daniel Dafoe: Robinson Crusoe (because we are kind of stuck on a sandy island)
The Action Bible.
My mornings are spent reading both introspective and more thought provoking material, I'll rotate through these in particular:
Jordan Peterson: 12 Rules for life. His opening chapter is worth the price of the book.
Nancy Pearcy: Love thy body. An intense read, systematically looking at how the west has embraced a disregard for the human body and has embraced 'the cult of the young and healthy'. Wrestling through subjects of bioethics, abortion, euthanasia, transgenderism and a few other critical issues. A must read for Christians today.
Lance Witt: Replenish. This came recommended from the Kirith Retreat folk--basically a book written for those in ministry to develop patterns for spiritual and emotional health.
David Powslison: How does Sanctification Work? He looks at how God changes us through His word, other people, and through suffering.
Whereas in the afternoon I am reading more intentional material on the church itself:
Tim Keller: Center Church, this is basically a textbook for churches working in the inner city...its incredibly dense, pastoral and packed with classic Keller guiding principles. I've read it before but a refresher is needed.
Peter Scazzero: The Emotionally Healthy Church. A great read for churches and Christians that are good at playing church/Christianity and yet are incredibly frail emotionally--they have few friends, are often paralyzed with insecurity, believe God loves them for what they do rather than who He is and who we are, are unable to take criticism (and can't give it without tearing a strip off someone or manipulating them).
Mark Dever: Preach. Because I preach a lot I need to read about it a lot or I won't be good at it a lot.
Alec Moyter: Preaching. As above.
Andrew Davis: Revitalize--about revitalizing churches, a great resource and quite helpful for me right now.
For fun I brought Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings...Frodo just got stabbed in the dark.
Morning devos include:
Tim Keller's Proverbs (a GREAT find!)
The Gospel of John (chapters 12-17)
The Valley of Vision (a prayer book).
Eric Metaxas biography of Martin Luther
Tim Keller's reflection on the Psalms
With the kids we are reading:
C.S. Lewis--Chronicles of Narnia (again)
Irene Howat: 10 Girls who made History
" " : 10 Boys who changed the World
Marty Machowski: Long Story Short (we're following what our church is doing back home)
Daniel Dafoe: Robinson Crusoe (because we are kind of stuck on a sandy island)
The Action Bible.
Glad to hear that you are taking time to be refueled, inspired thru books. I've recently heard about the valley of vision, cool stuff!
ReplyDeleteGreat choices! I look forward to hearing your thoughts about them.
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