You doing much reading?

So I decided that my reading was slipping …..reading to preach but not reading to study.
So I’m on this 100 pages a day pledge. But here’s what I’m observing – I’m more confused than most folk already thought I was.
On my desk being read at the same time are the following books and authors:

The Atonement Debate: Papers from the London Symposium on the Theology of Atonement, edited by Derek Tidball with contributions by Steve Chalke, I Howard Marshall, Joel Green and several others. A worthy read on the atonement debate sparked by Chalke’s earlier book.
Reforming The Doctrine of God @ F. LeRon Shults. This guy is the premier Emergent movement theologian. He penned the Emergent Village’s anti-statement of faith back in 2006.
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now To End World Poverty @ Peter Singer. He’s a mad Princeton bioethicist who advocates infanticide while at the same time wants to eradicate poverty.
Death by Love: Letters From the Cross @ Mark Driscoll – Reformed pastor who loathes the emergent guys.
The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing And Why @ Phyllis Tickle …who Driscoll would strongly disagree with. Actually a very weak book – not worth buying.
Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church @ Michael Horton – editor in chief of Modern Reformation and host of The White Horse Inn radio broadcast who frequently questioning many of the authors above, including strongly questioning my next author.
Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God @ Gregory Boyd. A strongly criticized Openist who had hundreds leave the church he pastors over his insightful book The Myth of a Christian Nation.
Add to this some interesting global reading We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work @ Jimmy Carter – and excellent read similar building on his earlier book Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. Really appreciate his knowledge of the key players in this conflict.
The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier @ Tony Jones – wild Emergent Village guy.
Being Well When We’re Ill: Wholeness and Hope in Spite of Infirmity @ Marva Dawn – writer and theologian often known to speak out against modernized, seeker type churches – famous for her books critiquing the church worship wars of the past decades.
Prayer Coach: For All Who Want To Get Off the Bench and Onto The Praying Field @ James L. Nicodem. A helpful read for people who want to pray more.
The Principle of the Path @ Andy Stanley …..easy read, one of these ‘duh’ moment books worth running through.
Add in another great Tim Keller book , Brennan Manning’s latest and Michael Frost’s latest, not forgetting the Total Church book by the British guys Tim Chester and Steve Timmis …….am I mixed up or what?

…..and then been sharpening my leadership thinking by reading a leadership a week:

The One Thing You Need To Know….About Great Managing, Great Leading and Sustained Individual Success @ Marcus Buckingham
E-Myth Mastery @ Michael Gerber
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling @ Andy Crouch
Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration @ Warren Bennis
Intuitive Leadership: Embracing a Paradigm of Narrative, Metaphor, and Chaos @ Tim Keel

And then just for fun The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara & Lenin Play Chess @ Andrei Codrescu

Each book has something interesting to say and something necessary for me to edit and process.
Sharpens the mind ….but is always secondary to God’s Word.

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