Summer Reading
This summer I’ll be taking a break from my counseling classes. However, I intend not to stop learning. One thing that I enjoyed from my classes was that they forced me to read. This summer I plan on reading two books. The first is titled “CrossTalk Where Life & Scripture Meet” by Micahel R Emlet. This book was recommended to me by my counseling course TA. We learned about giving homework assignments in our counseling course. The purpose of the homework is to have the person study a passage of scripture that relates to the issue they are going through. It should expose their heart and show them an applicable aspect of God and how he works in such situations. I made a comment about how I feel like it is difficult for me to do this even though I’ve read through the Bible multiple times. It’s one thing to read the Bible and another to know how to apply various passages to various situations that people go through. My TA told me that this is a great book and resource to aid me in this aspect of my ministry. Thus, I shall read this book and learn.
The next book is “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy” by Eric Metaxas. Last year I read the book “The Cost of Discipleship” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I read the introduction about the author and just fell in love with Bonhoeffer. That brief snippet of his life and what he did enthralled me. Almost a month ago, a blogger that I follow, Tim Challies, did a review on this book claiming it was one of his top 10 biographies. I decided this summer that I’d read one “Christian” book and another book. I choose a biography and picked Bonhoeffer over John Calvin. Maybe next year Calvin.
Combined the books are 721 pages long. I’m a slow reader. Hopefully, while the Starcraft2 Beta is offline I’ll be able to crank through these books. I plan on writing book reviews for these so hopefully you’ll see them soon.