What's in My Library?...Continued from page 1

And that leads me to the question, What’s in my library? At the moment I have two small bookcases near my desk, each with five shelves. Roughly speaking, here is what I’m reading at the moment. The top shelf of the bookcase nearest my desk contains books about the Civil War and about American history in general. The next shelf is entirely eclectic, containing books I have purchased (or been given) in the last several years. It runs the gamut from Anne Lamott to Anne Rice to Ann Coulter to an old book of sermons by Sam Jones, biographies of Stephen Olford and John Nelson Darby, “Ten Passions of a Man’s Heart,” “The Musclehead Revolution,” “Epicenter,” “Thrill of the Chaste,” “Pushing the Limits,” “One Nation Under Therapy,” a book on Christology in the early church, and so on. Then there is an entire shelf of books about preaching and pastoral ministry followed by another shelf given over to books about business leadership, including “Making It Stick” and ”The Speed of Trust” (both well worth reading), “Be Nice or Else” and “Never Eat Lunch Alone.” That shelf also includes the two-volume biography of Martyn Lloyd-Jones plus “Miles Gone By” by William F. Buckley, “Renovation of the Heart” by Dallas Willard, and “The World is Flat (Version 3.0)” by Thomas Friedman. The bottom shelf contains study Bibles.

The bookshelf by the closet has an entire shelf of books on China plus a few historical books on the Holy Land, Then there is a shelf of commentaries on Romans plus Wayne Grudem’s “Systematic Theology” and Calvin’s “Institutes of the Christian Religion” plus Wilbur Smith’s “The Biblical Doctrine of Heaven” and a Brethren hymnal called “Hymns of Worship and Remembrance.” I also have a shelf of books on spiritual warfare plus a book on prayer by Philip Yancey and another one on prayer by J. I. Packer and Carolyn Nystrom, and more books on China.

That’s my current reading at the moment. And those books indicate the range of my interests at the moment–the Civil War, American history, preaching and pastoral ministry, business leadership, Bible study, theology, and of course, China.

That leads me to ask . . . What’s in your library right now? What books are you reading at the moment? Click here to offer your comments.

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