RECOMMENDED READING

Check out the list below of books that the pastoral staff currently recommend. A few copies of each book are available in the Fireside room to borrow. Please use the check-out sheet provided in the blue folder.
If you read a recommended book, let us know how you liked it!

"Taking and eating what was prohibited by God led to judgment for Adam and Eve, but taking and eating of God's provision of Christ leads to salvation for all who will feast on the fruit of the cross of Christ." (Nancy Guthrie) 

"My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?" (C. S. Lewis) 

"For a painless introduction to the historical context of early Christian life in Asia Minor, this is the book to get ... Longenecker uses the fictitious correspondence as a way of informing the modern reader about everyday life in these ancient times. He composes these letters with skill and helps bring alive - and with great historical accuracy - the conditions under which the earliest Christians lived their faith." (Donald Senior, The Bible Today) 

"Friendship should be more like a submarine, holding few and going deep. But we’ve made it more like a cruise ship, filled with lots of nice people whom we don’t know well at all." (Drew Hunter) 

"The theology that matters is not the theology we profess but the theology we practice." (Francis Chan) 

"So go marry someone, provided you're equally yoked and you actually like being with each other. Go get a job, provided it's not wicked. Go live somewhere in something with somebody or nobody. But put aside the passivity and the quest for complete fulfillment and the perfectionism and the preoccupation with the future, and for God's sake start making some decisions in your life." (Kevin DeYoung) 

"We live forward. Ecclesiastes teaches us to live life backward. It encourages us to take the one thing in the future that is certain—our death—and work backward from that point into all the details and decisions and heartaches of our lives, and to think about them from the perspective of the end. ... Ecclesiastes invites us to let the end sculpt our priorities and goals, our greatest ambitions and our strongest desires." (David Gibson)