* I have made an executive decision not to prepare you for this weeks' sermon...I don't think there is anyway possible to do that. You will have to come to find out why. So I have focused my blog on a request from a frequent reader: "A List of My Favorite Books" Devotional & Relationship Builders with God "With" Skye Jethani - (Relating to God) "Knowledge of the Holy" A.W. Tozer - (Considering God) "A Tale of Three Kings" Gene Edwards - (Pleasing God) "Appointments with Heaven" Dr. Reggie Anderson - (Longing for God's House) "The Jesus I Never Knew" Philip Yancey - (Rethinking God) "Walking from East to West" Ravi Zacharias - (God Looks for People from Everywhere) "God Came Near" Max Lucado - (God is Mind Blowing) "Desiring God" John Piper - (Loving God) "The Prodigal God" Timothy Keller - (Being Loved by God) "In His Steps" Charles Sheldon - (Simple Living for God) Apologetics "Making Sense of it All" Thomas Morris - (Wrestling with Pascal) "Is Jesus the Only Savior? James Edwards - (Meeting the Post-Modern Mind) "Mere Christianity" C.S.Lewis - (Classic on Classical Thinking) "Avoiding Jesus" Micheal Green - (Standing Strong as a Christian) "A Pilgrims Regress" C. S. Lewis - (For Philosophical Minds Only) "More Than a Carpenter" Josh McDowell - (A Simple Approach) "God in the Dark" Os Guinness - (Why Christians Must be Comfortable with Doubt) "Can Man Live Without God?" Ravi Zacherias - (God Luck Mr. Atheist being Honest Here) "Reason for God" Timothy Keller - (Kind and Wonderful Thinking) "Is God a Moral Monster?" Paul Copan - (For those who Ignorantly Use the Old Testament) Bible and Theological Wow! "Green Letters" Miles Stanford - (Mind Blowing, Twisting, Refreshing) "On Being a Theologian of the Cross" Gerhard Forde - (Mind Bending, Clean Cutting) "The Epistle to the Romans." Douglas Moo - (Overwhelming) "Orthodoxy" G.K. Chesterton - (Hilarious!) "Don't Stop Believing" Michael Wittmer - (A lot of Theology taught Simply) "Knowing God" J. I. Packard - (Theology taught Clearly) "Let the Nations Be Glad!" John Piper - (What existence is all about) "Prayer" Ole Hallesbey - (Makes Praying Accessible not Guilt Driven) "Trust in an Age of Arrogance" C. Fitzsimons Allison - (High Brow Man who Loves Low Brow Me) "Bondage of the Will" Martin Luther - (Good Luck thinking all old Theologians were Dusty Old Men) Biography "Martin Luther" Martin Marty - (A Dangerous Man) "Bonhoeffer" Eric Metaxas - (A Courageous Man) "Jonathan Edwards" George Marsdan - (A Flawed but Brilliant Man) "John Adams" David McCullough - (A Complex Man) "Hitler's Cross" Erwin Lutzer - (How Easily Duped Mankind can Be) "C. S. Lewis" Alister McGrath - (A Wonderful Mind) "Bird By Bird" Anne Lamott - (A Hilarious Book on the Writing Life) "Francis Shaeffer" Colin Duriez - (An Authentic Man) "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" William Shirer - (I can't leave this out) "Unbroken" Laura Hillenbrand (Wow!) Personal Favorites "Tell No Man" Adela Roger St Johns - (Wierd and Wonderful) "Hobbit/Lord of the Rings Trilogy" J. R. R. Tolkien - (Yep) "God in the Dock" C. S. Lewis - (Love it!) "Bad Religion" Ross Douthat - (Must read for Christians, Catholics, Culture Watchers) "Velvet Elvis" Rob Bell - (Watching A Mind fall off the Cliff: Good mixed with Dangerous) "The Dust of Death" Os Guinness - (I was Born in this, the mess of the 1960's) "Telling the Truth" Frederick Buechner - (So Much Fun!) "Works of Friedrich Nietzsche" Nietzche - (Full Frontal Attack...it forces you to wrestle) "Redeeming Love" Francine Rivers - (It's Not just a woman's book) "A Wolf at the Table" Augusten Burroughs - (I Never want to be this Kind of Dad) There you have it. The secret of Chris' weirdness. buon appetito!
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A Guy
10/27/2014 11:57:05 am
I have been through at least three, Orthodoxy, Rise and Fall, and Knowledge of the Holy with quite a others on my list. When I get I hope I can be smart too,
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Chris
10/27/2014 12:03:20 pm
or crazy!
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Tom D.
10/30/2014 02:58:49 pm
By your suggestion I am reading the book "Prayer" by Philip Yancey. Is the book "Prayer" by Ole Hallesbey similar?
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Chris
10/30/2014 10:03:22 pm
philip Yancey's book answers the philosophical questions like the one that you are wrestling with, "why pray to a Soveriegn God?" Hallesbey book talks about the attitude in prayer, "I'm helpless and I need to let God fix it without worry ....I don't need to be the answer to my own prayer." It really spoke to me....
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Tom D.
10/31/2014 03:37:14 pm
Thank you Chris. I shall read Hallesbey as well. As soon as I finish Yancey.
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