Comments on: ★ Book Recommendations?

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:57:16 +0000

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

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:45:46 +0000

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

By: David Congdon

David Congdon — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:55:29 +0000

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.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:10:18 +0000

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.

By: David

David — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:46:45 +0000

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).

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:41:17 +0000

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!

By: Rick Meigs

Rick Meigs — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:41:20 +0000

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

By: Ginger Ware

Ginger Ware — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:09:32 +0000

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

Ginger

By: bill

bill — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:02:44 +0000

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.

By: Daniel Kirk

Daniel Kirk — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:46:22 +0000

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.