and if you haven't seen Flight of the Conchords, or heard their song "Business Time", you have no idea what that means. Go to youtube and search the fake band's name, and then find that song. Priceless.
Anyway, I went on a book buying splurge. Here are the books I bought:
- When The Game Is Over, It All Goes Back In The Box by John Ortberg.
I love Ortberg's writing. This should be a good one.
- Secrets In The Dark: A Life In Sermons by Frederick Buechner.
I've always wanted to read his works. I've read through a few of the sermons, and even though they were written several years ago, they are pretty relevant to today's time. It has a recommendation by Rob Bell on the back, good enough for me!
- Hidden In Plain Sight: The Secret Of More by Mark Buchanan.
His book Your God Is Too Safe is one of my favorites, I read it every few months or so. I'm excited to read this one.
- Would You Rather? by Doug Fields.
This is a book for my student ministry, it has a ton of funny and poignant questions to ask students. If you've seen the board game Zobmondo, then it's similar to that.
- Eat This Book: A Conversation In The Art Of Spiritual Reading by Eugene Peterson.
Peterson did The Message bible translation. I have his trilogy on being a pastor, which is an awesome series. I started reading a little bit of this book, and it already got me intrigued.
- Night Watch, Day Watch and Twilight Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.
I've always liked vampire stories, I don't know why. I also like Matrix type movies. I guess the two movies made from the first two novels of this series were amazing. It's a Russian author and Russian movies. Should be interesting.
- In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars by Mark Batterson.
Mark is a church planter, I'm a church planter. Mark's church meets in theaters, the church I helped plant meets in a theater. Mark's blog is awesome, mine is...well, never mind. This is the book I stated reading first out of all of these, because (1) the title is awesome, (2) I'm hoping that it will help me in my journey of this church plant (and it is helping so far), and (3) did I mention the title is awesome?
Well, that's it. It's time to get busy reading.
5 comments:
I love John Ortberg so I'll definitely be getting his new book.
When I was a youth sponsor for Jeff I read a book by Doug Fields...he's great. I've actually done the "Would You Rather" game ...some I would like to say Neither!
I LOVED the title of Mark Batterson's book..I wrote that in my email to you before I read this...how funny...great minds think alike :^P
I've spent some time with Doug Fields, he's a great guy. Very humble.
btw..I did look up the video and it definitely gave me my laugh for the day..
One of my favorite songs of last year, most definitely!
Re: FOTC I'm a particular fan of "Albi the Racist Dragon." The best version is from a live concert. It's a very blue stage. I died laughing.
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