Currently reading?

Thomas a Kempis "Imitation of Christ" came up in another thread as a favorite, and I happened to have it on order.

I have like 4 pages left now, I would rate it "good," but not great.  It feels VERY heavy on works/behavior and light on grace, which in some ways can probably be a good corrective to much of our "modern" feel-good no-nothing theology, but still a little off centered to me.  I also more or less tried to read it straight through, which I think was a mistake.  I would guess the best way to profit from a book like this would be to read one little "chapter" a day in concert with regular scripture reading, which I might try again someday.  Again, complaints notwithstanding, I'd give it a "good," certainly it's a long way from "bad."  (And I've read plenty of bad!)

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King.

The Water Keeper - Charles Martin

Just finished Doctor Sleep and wow, what a good book. Moves fast too, for a book with 500+ pages. Now that I've read both Shining books, time to check out the movies and see what they changed and what stayed the same and what was improved upon.

Now I'm reading Doomsday Clock (the sequel to Watchmen).

A Dream Within A Dream - Mike Nappa & Melissa Kosci

I finished reading I am the LORD, your God (translated from the Dutch title) by Ebenezer Erskine, a very helpful short book with overall the same theology that I was raised with, but with a section answering the foundational questions I had from that theology. That part I was not raised with, unfortunately. But all's well that ends well.

Now I'm into more popular and lighter stuff, at the moment I'm reading Atomic Habits by James Clear.

Nine by Rachel Dekker

Amazing Spiderman Omnibus Vol. 2, J. Michael Straczynski.

CrimsonWarrior wrote:I'd prefer not to say my university. I'm not ashamed of it or anything like that; it's just for privacy reasons. I try not to give away too much about who I am.

Good wisdom,  bro.  The same reason I never reveal my precise location.

Rejoice & Tremble by Michael Reeves. It's about how we as Christians should rightly - and joyfully - fear God. This is the next book our church's men's group is going through starting tonight. I got volunteered to lead the study so I gotta really stay on top of the reading hahaha. I'm about halfway through the book and so far it's pretty good.

Haven't been in here in a while, but haven't been reading as much, either.

Just finished a trilogy called "The Celtic Crusades" by Stephen Lawhead.  He's a Christian and they're not quite "Christian" books but his perspective is pretty clear.  I'd read another series by him back in my college years called The Song of Albion and remembered thinking they were surprisingly good, so I thought I'd give these a read.  Good stories (Crusade-era historical fiction/adventure with slight fantasy elements), although he gets ridiculously wordy IMO.  Not bad, but I didn't like them as well as the Albion books (25 years ago anyway!).  Hey, if anybody's interested, I'll sell them the whole trilogy for a great price!

Check out Lawhead's Dream Thief. It's a very good sci-fi yarn.

Kerrick wrote:Rejoice & Tremble by Michael Reeves.  It's about how we as Christians should rightly - and joyfully - fear God.  This is the next book our church's men's group is going through starting tonight.  I got volunteered to lead the study so I gotta really stay on top of the reading hahaha.  I'm about halfway through the book and so far it's pretty good.

I would like to read that myself!

Gospel Over Gods- Tyler Gilreath

The Dead Don't Dance - Charles Martin

I got to start reading in Fault Lines by Voddie Baucham. Never got far since I either had my mother or my kids around over the past few weeks; I might have to start over

Jules Verne - Around the World in 80 Days.
St. John of the Cross - Dark Night of the Soul.
Still picking away at The Complete Works of Josephus.

J.R.R. Tolkien - Unfinished Tales

I haven't started it just yet, but the next book our church's men's group is going to go through is Christ Set Forth by Thomas Goodwin.  These old puritan books are great; I'm looking forward to this one.

I'm usually reading multiple books at one time, but my current one that I'm reading most frequently/focusing on is Stephen Nichol's RC Sproul: A Life. It's excellent so far.

alldatndensum wrote:

Kerrick wrote:Rejoice & Tremble by Michael Reeves.  It's about how we as Christians should rightly - and joyfully - fear God.  This is the next book our church's men's group is going through starting tonight.  I got volunteered to lead the study so I gotta really stay on top of the reading hahaha.  I'm about halfway through the book and so far it's pretty good.

I would like to read that myself!

The Forgotten Fear by Albert Martin is a good one on this subject.

Pethead wrote:

alldatndensum wrote:

Kerrick wrote:Rejoice & Tremble by Michael Reeves.  It's about how we as Christians should rightly - and joyfully - fear God.  This is the next book our church's men's group is going through starting tonight.  I got volunteered to lead the study so I gotta really stay on top of the reading hahaha.  I'm about halfway through the book and so far it's pretty good.

I would like to read that myself!

The Forgotten Fear by Albert Martin is a good one on this subject.

I'm not familiar with that one but will have to check it out!

Alldat, it was a good book but there are probably better on the subject (perhaps Pethead's recommendation above).  It's a pretty easy read and the content was good, but could have been consolidated to be much more concise.  The author referenced John Bunyan's Treatise Of The Fear Of God quite a bit which may be a good place to start too.

Dean Koontz - Innocense