If you’re like me and like reading lists of books others are reading:
These aren’t as scholarly as Mike’s but for what it’s worth I thought I would mention mine and see how far I’ve gotten at the end of the year.
- Ephesians by O’Brien (finishing as of now)
- The Truth of the Cross by Sproul
- Paul’s Letter to the Philippians by Fee
- Running Scared by Welch
- Colossians & Philemon by Lucas
- Polishing God’s Monuments by Andrews
- 1-2 Thessalonians by Beale (not set on that one yet)
- Suffering and the Sovereignty of God by Piper et. all
- First and Second Timothy, Titus & Philemon by McGee (not sure about that one but I already own it)
- The Epistle to the Hebrews by Bruce (not set on that one)
- I Will Follow Thee O God by Bridges
- The Letter of James by Moo
To get in some Old Testament I’ve been reading a Psalm a day and will be finishing that in a week. Then will read a chapter of Proverbs a day during May. Then possibly Ecclesiastes and Daniel after that.
This is sort of an update to a previous post. I’ve read five of the ten mentioned there and added some new ones here.
Looks like a good list to me! Just about any list of books is by definite a good list…unless its full of Christian fiction…
There’s too much I want to learn to read fiction although I’ve heard from sources close to me that they learn some things here and there from good Christian fiction.
Jeff
Yes, there is good Christian Fiction – it was written by people who are dead now. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Graham Greene, Lewis, Tolkien.
But they’re all dead. Dead fiction is really the only fiction worth reading…
Although not fiction, this reminds me of the book Reading the Bible With the Dead: What You Can Learn from the History of Exegesis That You Can’t Learn from Exegesis Alone.
Dead composers (music) are pretty good too.
Hey Jeff,
I concur with Mike, this sounds like a really good list. I read Suffering and the Sovereignty of God awhile back. It was an incredible book. Reading Steve Saint’s chapter was like a punch to the gut. I’d be interested in hearing what you think of Sproul’s book as I’ve been thinking about picking it up.
Hi Bryan,
Sproul’s book is a deal where they send you a PDF of one of their books and if you review it on your blog they will then send you the book. So I will have a review of the book here after I read it. Problem is I don’t want to print out the PDF and can only read so much on the computer at a time. It’s relatively short though.
Jeff, I’m review “Truth of the Cross” as well. I’ve found it to be a rich read.