What I read on summer vacation…
Gospel Wakefulness, Jared Wilson
A great read, insightful Bible teaching tied in with real life stories and situations. Read this book if you want to know how to really live out a gospel-centered life.
Christless Christianity, Michael Horton
This book shreds the culturally captivated — relevance is everything — lowest common denominator – don’t offend anyone ever – American church. I wrote “ouch” in the margins. A lot.
Father Hunger, Douglas Wilson
A bold, bracing, rollicking read. Wilson is one of those authors who is sooooo opinionated that nobody would agree with everything he says. But I found what he says here to be challenging, encouraging, and genuinely helpful.
Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
I love this story. I finished it (again) in Lake Tahoe last week.
On his visit to California, Twain wrote this upon viewing Lake Tahoe’s Emerald Bay – ‘At last the lake burst upon us–a noble sheet of blue water lifted six thousand three hundred feet above the level of the sea, and walled in by a rim of snow-clad mountain peaks that towered aloft three thousand feet higher still! As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface, I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole world affords.’