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| why? because i said so. and because tina has a booklist on her blog that i'm imitating.
so here it is... a reading list whose goal is to be finished by.... the time i graduate college? HAHAHAHA hopefully sooner than that... although may 2010 is creeping up faster and faster!!
1) Knowing God by J.I. Packer (in progress)
2) Decision Making and the Will of God by Garry Friesen (in progress)
3) The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (in progress - thanks beth!)
4) Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
5) Disciplines of a Godly Woman by Barbara Hughes [started but never finished]
6) Battling Unbelief by John Piper [started but never finished]
7) Freakonomics
8) What Jesus Demands of the World by John Piper [thanks sally!]
9) The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
10) Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands by Paul Tripp [thanks justin!]
11) Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood by John Piper and Wayne Grudem
12) Knowing Scripture by R.C. Sproul
and for books i don't own yet...
12) The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
13) anything Charles Spurgeon
14) something Jonathan Edwards? after nelson's ECF sermon... intimidating but challenging
15) biographies!!! maybe esther ahn kim and helen roseveare? =) yay for faithful women & their extraordinary god! haha i loved that book.
16) Living the Cross-Centered Life by C.J. Mahaney
17) The Shadow of the Almighty by Elisabeth Elliot
18) A Chance to Die (amy carmichael) by Elisabeth Elliot
umm... that's all. i will update this list when i have read at least TWO books off of this list. =) hopefully my list will grow shorter before it grows longer.
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| yoinked from clavid's xanga/tabulas:
While away at college, John Wesley wrote
to his mother, Susanna, asking for a list of sins he should avoid. Her
response is a model of biblical wisdom applied:
Whatever weakens your reason,
whatever impairs the tenderness of your conscience,
whatever obscures your sense of God,
whatever increases the authority of your body over your mind,
whatever takes away from your relish for spiritual things,
that to you is sin,
no matter how innocent it is in itself.
what a wonderful definition of sin that is both heart-searching and practical. now to put it into practice... sigh. the difficult part.
on another note, christine, esther and i are serving in Eastbay's new AWANA ministry. whoo hoo! it's so interesting to be serving in an AWANA ministry that is both brand-new and extremely small. we have 7 kids. which is 5 more than we first expected. it's very eye-opening to be a team leader... on the other side of the ministry than when i was in awana from like 2nd - 6th grade. christine and i joked in the car ride back that awana is seriously like pre-mommy training... we're learning the importance of disciplining and teaching kids to listen and obey. and we're learning how to teach for understanding, rather than rote memorization... especially since it's God's Word we're dealing with! much is at stake my friends. =)
on a continued note, i've been learning bible verses from helping my two girls memorize theirs:
The heart is deceitul above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? --Jeremiah 17:9
p.s. 3rd-graders have a hard time with big words like deceitful and desperately. it's so cute. and so cool to see them read through the same words correctly with ease after a few practices. =D maybe i should reconsider teaching? haha
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| "O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and
made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for
further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God,
I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be
made thirsty still."
-AW Tozer, The Pursuit of God.
thank you God for 20 years of faithfulness in my life... thank you God for centuries of faithfulness to preserve the gospel that i might come to hear it and have my soul reconciled to you. nervous about the future, O Lord. please stretch my faith and dependence on You.
thank you for Christ and Your word. thank you for your saints on earth and those who walked before us.
it's been a long time my dear xanga, but i return with a brief message shared on tuesday at morning prayer... what is the gospel? in 3 words...
Jesus is Alive!
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| today is friday.
the rain began on monday. it has not stopped. the rain is forecasted to continue all next week. they think we may have a partly cloudy day on friday. that will be approximately 10 consecutive days of rain.
i miss the sun.
=(
today, i went through 2 pairs of pants, 2 thick overcoats, 2 pairs of vans and my rainboots... all of which became soaking/sopping wet. did i mention 3 pairs of my socks + esther's socks? i am officially out of socks and cannot leave this apartment until i do my laundry so i can have some clean socks to wear.
my rainboots do absolutely nothing. thanks paul frank... you made defective rainboots that crack on the side and let in all the water. that is poopy. i think i will go buy a new pair.
the rain is making me short-tempered and grumpy. and fat. i want to go play tennis... i almost want to go running. almost. maybe i should go to a class at the gym and finally use my membership...
be forewarned that if the sun does not come out on friday... i don't even know what'll happen by then.
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