Book Recommendations?

July 27, 2007

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I have a gift certificate to amazon.com that I am itching to spend. Anyone have any book recommendations that they want to share? What books have had big impact on you? What books did you find enjoyable. Either fiction or non. Can be Church related or not.

Ok. let me know in the comments.

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  • Tim Etherington said...

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    07/27/07 11:06 AM | Comment Link |

    EM Bounds, “Power Through Prayer” had a huge impact. Especially for someone with a preaching ministry, it is a must read.

  • Daniel Kirk said...

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    07/27/07 12:46 PM | Comment Link |

    If you don’t have The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor, either use your gift cert. or sell your Bible to get the cash to by it.

    Also, I’m not sure how up you are on your Newbigin, but I’ve been recently enjoying The Open Secret.

  • bill said...

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    07/27/07 1:02 PM | Comment Link |

    Todd,

    Here is a shameless plug, you can visit my Amazon affiliate store and browse, and meanwhile you are helping to send my kids through college, one nickel at a time.
    http://astore.amazon.com/provocchurch-20

    here are some recommendations:
    Divine Nobodies, Jim Palmer
    Surrender to Love, David Benner
    in theology, anything and everything Graeme Goldworthy, his stuff is dynamite!

    Eugene Peterson series of book on Pastoring, Working the Angles, etc…

    Devotional, Valley of Vision, love these Puritan prayers

    that is just a sample.

  • Ginger Ware said...

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    07/27/07 1:09 PM | Comment Link |

    Todd,
    When exactly do you think you’re going to have time to read? (new kid, remember?)

    Ginger

  • Rick Meigs said...

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    07/27/07 6:41 PM | Comment Link |

    If you like SciFi in the vain of Isaac Asimov, try anything by Jack McDevitt.

  • Tim said...

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    07/27/07 10:41 PM | Comment Link |

    Dude -

    Renegotiating the Church Contract: The Death and Life of the 21st Century Church

    by James Thwaites

    You could probably get this book and have some money left over for another book!

  • David said...

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    07/29/07 3:46 PM | Comment Link |

    I have been enjoying “Serve God, Save the Planet” by J. Matthew Sleeth. This book makes saving our environment feel doable (is that a word).

  • mark said...

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    07/29/07 7:10 PM | Comment Link |

    i agree about flannery o’connor. but you could just borrow it from me.

    i say the journal of john woolman. or the complete farside anthology. or anything dostoevsky. or anything george macdonald. wait a minute… this is starting to sound like my wish list.

  • David Congdon said...

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    07/30/07 8:55 PM | Comment Link |

    Here are the most important books that shaped me:

    1. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

    2. G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

    3. Augustine, Confessions

    But I have to second the suggestion of Flannery O’Connor’s complete stories. You can’t get much better than O’Connor.

  • Todd said...

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    07/31/07 5:45 AM | Comment Link |

    You guys have given me WAY too much to think about here…

    but, strangely nothing strikes me and says “buy me now”

    i’m going to add a bunch of these to my wish list though

  • Tim said...

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    07/31/07 10:57 AM | Comment Link |

    “Don’t waste your life” by John Piper.

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