Top 10 Books on my reading radar:
- Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible – Steven Furtick
- Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality – Donald Miller
- Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit – Francis Chan
- Radical – David Platt
- The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn’t Exist
- Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis
- The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
- Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road – Donald Miller
- A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life – Donald Miller
- Chazown: Define Your Vision. Pursue Your Passion. Live Your Life on Purpose. – Craig Groeschel
You are going to love Screwtape Letters. First book that enlightened me about spiritual warfare. #2 and #3 sound incredible. After I finish reading astronomical amounts of books for JBU, I might read those. I also recommend C.S. Lewis’ “The Great Divorce.” It’s an allegory (I think?). One book from this semester that I really enjoyed was Walt Mueller’s “Engaging the Soul of Youth Culture.” It was super informative.
You need to make other lists too…
Started screwtape this summer and liked what little bit of it I read. The Great Divorce is actually one of my favorite books. You should definitely check out my top 3 books on this list. I too am excited to be finished w/ JBU reading, but I have a feeling I won’t see the end for a while. What other lists would you like to see?
Read “Blue Like Jazz” and “A Thousand Miles in a Million Years” back to back. Holler at me whenever you do that. I’d like to hear your thoughts on them. I’d also like to suggest “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Dr. Victor Frankle. He was a Jewish psychiatrist and went to Auschwitz during world war II and made it out alive. What he made out of his horrendous experience is extremely profound and it resonated with me more than any other book I’ve read.