Finished this month:
What Is A Healthy Church Member? by Thabiti Anyabwile
Excellent book! If you want to grow as a Christian you need
to grow as a member of the body of Christ! Many of us think we are doing just
fine, but in reality we need to grow so much more! This book will probably be
convicting, but I hope it will inspire you to grow in Christlikeness!
“A growing church member is someone who looks more and more
like Jesus in attitude of heart, thought, speech and action. That’s what we
long to be and long for our churches to be.” (p. 89)
Spurgeon on Prayer and Spiritual Warfare by C.H. Spurgeon
Yes! Finished! It’s a big one, but yes, really good!!! So
many gems in this book, encouraging, inspiring, convicting…. There’s one
section which is all just prayers from Spurgeon and they are so inspiring! I
have been reminded of the call we have to prayer, to trust in the attributes
and promises of God that He will answer. He writes that the attendance at
prayer meetings is in decline and “in many cases the prayer meeting is
despised. It is looked down on as a sort of second-rate gathering.” But “The
prayers of the church measure its prosperity. If we restrain prayer, we
restrain the blessing.” (see p. 121). A lot of good teaching and encouragement
in this book!
“Who are we that, by our narrow expectations, we limit this
Holy One of Israel?... Let us grasp at greater things, for it is reasonable,
with the Lord to trust in, to look for greater things…Why not? Who can justify
the absence of the strongest hope since He is able to do exceedingly abundantly
above what we ask or think.” (p. 332)
“It is worthwhile to live the most afflicted and tried life,
as long as we know God and taste His love. Let Him do what seems good to Him,
as long as He will but be God to us and permit us to call Him our Father and
our God.” (p. 479)
Currently Reading:
Abraham’s Four Seeds
by John G. Reisinger
A Hunger for God by
John Piper (2nd time reading)
Additional books I
want to finish this month:
Hoping to get through all these! Continuity and Discontinuity: Perspectives on the Relationship Between
the Old and New Testaments (various writers) and Robert Chapman: Apostle of Love by Robert Peterson
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