I have joined scott in this literary adventure this summer, but seeing as I am in the process of moving twice in the span of one month many of my unread books are in storage. So at this moment I am not able to present my completed 15 in 15 list, but I will let you know book one! I am going to start with John Piper's Spectacular Sins It's a thin book but I've heard very good things about it and I've had it on my shelf since christmas. So there it is. Scott's review should be up soon. Then mine! Enjoy!
-Claire
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
First post! Welcome!
Hello every one and welcome to my summer project: 15 in 15.
Essentially this project came about in my quest to keep my mind from stagnation as the summer was approaching. Since I wasn't taking summer school and instead just working alot, I began to think about what I could do to keep my mind sharp. The answer: try to read 15 books in 15 weeks. I was encouraged by the examples of people like my sister, my mom, and "bloggers" like Tim Challies who seem to read books, big and small, through discipline and then share their experiencing of those books with others. I like books alot, so I figured, hey why not? As I told my friends Brent and Claire about it, they seemed to be into the idea as well and decided to go along with me as well. So really, (Lord willing) at the end of the summer it won't be 15 books in 15 weeks, it'll be 45 books in 15 weeks!
For starters, here's my list...
-9 Marks – Mark Dever
-Dug Down Deep – Josh Harris
-Muslims, Christians, and Jesus – Carl Medearis
-Reformation of the 16th Century - Bainton
-The Reason For God – Tim Keller
-A Little Exercise For Young Theologians – Helmut Thielke
-John Knox – Rosalind Marshall
-Adopted For Life – Russell Moore
-What is the Gospel? – Greg Gilbert
-Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God – JI Packer
-Addictions: A Banquet in the Grave – Edward Welch
-Wesley & Men Who Followed – Iain Murray
-Radical – David Platt
-Perelandra – CS Lewis
-Leaders Who Last – Dave Kraft
(Please note: this is subject to change depending on a few factors, however, if something changes, a note will be made by review time.)
The hope is that when we're done reading a book, we can write a small review about it if you were ever intending on buying such a book for yourself. I've tried to get theological, Christian life, historical, etc. books to change things up continually.
What we will NOT be doing is disregarding the reading of Scripture. That seems to be a first question when I tell people about the idea, and just know now, it isn't a dichotomy type deal where we only read one or the other. We simply just won't be talking about reading the Bible.
Sorry, that was just kind of a quick fly-by because I wanted to go ahead and make the first post. My first review should be coming very soon.
-Scott
Essentially this project came about in my quest to keep my mind from stagnation as the summer was approaching. Since I wasn't taking summer school and instead just working alot, I began to think about what I could do to keep my mind sharp. The answer: try to read 15 books in 15 weeks. I was encouraged by the examples of people like my sister, my mom, and "bloggers" like Tim Challies who seem to read books, big and small, through discipline and then share their experiencing of those books with others. I like books alot, so I figured, hey why not? As I told my friends Brent and Claire about it, they seemed to be into the idea as well and decided to go along with me as well. So really, (Lord willing) at the end of the summer it won't be 15 books in 15 weeks, it'll be 45 books in 15 weeks!
For starters, here's my list...
-9 Marks – Mark Dever
-Dug Down Deep – Josh Harris
-Muslims, Christians, and Jesus – Carl Medearis
-Reformation of the 16th Century - Bainton
-The Reason For God – Tim Keller
-A Little Exercise For Young Theologians – Helmut Thielke
-John Knox – Rosalind Marshall
-Adopted For Life – Russell Moore
-What is the Gospel? – Greg Gilbert
-Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God – JI Packer
-Addictions: A Banquet in the Grave – Edward Welch
-Wesley & Men Who Followed – Iain Murray
-Radical – David Platt
-Perelandra – CS Lewis
-Leaders Who Last – Dave Kraft
(Please note: this is subject to change depending on a few factors, however, if something changes, a note will be made by review time.)
The hope is that when we're done reading a book, we can write a small review about it if you were ever intending on buying such a book for yourself. I've tried to get theological, Christian life, historical, etc. books to change things up continually.
What we will NOT be doing is disregarding the reading of Scripture. That seems to be a first question when I tell people about the idea, and just know now, it isn't a dichotomy type deal where we only read one or the other. We simply just won't be talking about reading the Bible.
Sorry, that was just kind of a quick fly-by because I wanted to go ahead and make the first post. My first review should be coming very soon.
-Scott
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