Books 2010 (in case you missed it)

I added a new page to my site. I know a lot of people just use readers these days, so I thought I’d officially “announce” it. The page explains itself for the most part. It has two sections: 1) Books I’m currently reading; 2) a rolling list of books I’ve finished in 2010. In section 2, the most recent book will always be on top, but I am keeping them numbered as well. In currently reading, I will have no more than TWO books listed for personal reading, plus whatever books I know I have to read cover to cover for school. School textbooks that will not require exhaustive reading will not be listed. For example, in Synoptic Gospels, one required text is A Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels. It is a reference book with 900 pages of various articles. I know we are not going to read many of them, so I’m not counting that as a “reading” or ”completed” book in 2010.

The other books will fall into several categories: Spiritual Formation, Memoirs/Story Telling, Ministry, Vision Casting, General Christian Living, Leadership, and so on. I want to focus on the books that I think will enhance the vision for ministry that God is working/transforming in my heart. Maybe, just maybe, you can start to get a clue as to what that is by watching what I’m reading…

I finished three books in the first 10 days of 2010. At that rate, I’ll read roughly 110 books this year… NOT GONNA HAPPEN! I knew school was starting up so I kicked it into gear to read a few that were sitting on my “to read” shelf, but I do hope to continue a trend I implemented midway through November… very little TV, very little Xbox360, very much purposeful personal/familial growth in the evenings. If I had to set a goal, I am still hoping for a rate of one book per week. But I have yet to see how much time I will need to focus on school work, so it may end up at even a much lower rate than that.