What I Am Reading
- Finished reading the Bible in May and began again in Genesis, Psalms, Matthew and Acts.
- Poking Holes in the Darkness by Jaki Parlier - She grew up in Newark, NJ and she & her husband who was from Tennessee moved to Papua New Guinea (from a skyline view of Manhattan to the jungle) to translate the Bible for the Managalasi language group.
- When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight For Joy by John Piper - I'm not too far into this book, but I find these ideas: We are commanded to joyfully desire God. We cannot produce this joy on our own. It is like gardening. We dig and weed and plant and water, but God grows the seed. Comforting. One thing I know how to do is keep putting one foot in front of the other.
- I am reading for 3 lesson preparations a week: Sunday School - the Harmony of the Gospels. We are just finishing the crucifixion. Then we go onto Proverbs which I am studying for now. Then there is my small group studying Colossians. And I am presenting a short teaching to our one youth each week. We finished the book of Esther, talked about the war between the flesh and the spirit and will attempt to answer the question, "Why d0es my haste and anger not work the righteousness of God?"
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That's quite an array of books. It seems the stack may be getting smaller.
The only thing I am reading right now is An Arrow Pointing To Heaven, which is a biography of Rich Mullins. I have Chasing Daylight by Erwin McManus on the shelf waiting. Probably I will never make it around to Joel Osteen's Your Best Life Now. Especially not after reading about Rich Mullins. He was crazy.
I have however been wanting to share somewhere all the music in my CD player in my truck right now. Here is the list.
1. Caedmon's Call - Overdressed
2. Willie Nelson - an album I got at Starbucks with classic Willie
3. Relient K - Hmmmmmm
4. Derek Webb - She Must and Shall Go Free
5. Ross King - And All the Decorations Too
6. Ross King - To Make God Famous Vol. 2
What does the music we listen to or the stuff we read say about us?
I would say that what we read and listen to says something about us depending on how we listen. Mindless listening and reading or doing anything else mindlessly is the problem. An example of mindless reading: You get a forward that has some little heartstriing tugging end and think it might be immportant that your forward it a zillion people, write down the time you read it and send it back to the person who forwarded it to you. That is mindless reading!!
Mindless listening is easier to understand I think.
I started reading The Book of Buddha one time. My mind didn't get very far. It was more unbelieveable than the virgin birth.
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