Blog Open Thread: What Books Are You Reading for Lent 2009?

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40 comments on “Blog Open Thread: What Books Are You Reading for Lent 2009?

  1. more martha than mary says:

    “The Gospel According to Job” by Mike Mason

  2. Philip Snyder says:

    “Death by Love: Letters from the Cross” by Mark Driscoll
    “The Prodigal God” by Timothy Keller
    “Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace” by Miraslov Volf

    YBIC,
    Phil Snyder

  3. Patti says:

    “Crazy Love” by Francis Chan
    “Respectable Sins” by Jerry Bridges (church Lenten book study)

  4. Dan Crawford says:

    “Surprised by Hope” and “Christians at the Cross”, both by N.T. Wright.

  5. Posse Rider says:

    “The Bible, Rocks, and Time: Geological Evidence for the Age of the Earth,” Davis A. Young and Ralph F. Stearley

  6. Dana Henry says:

    “Walking with God” by John Eldredge

  7. William P. Sulik says:

    “The Story About Ping” by Marjorie Flack.

  8. Chazaq says:

    “The Lenten Spring: Readings for Great Lent” by Thomas Hopko

  9. Eastern Anglican says:

    “The Way of the Heart” by Henri Nouwen
    “First Fruits of Prayer: A Forty-day Journey Through the Canon of St. Andrew” by Frederica Mathewes-Green.

  10. The_Archer_of_the_Forest says:

    I just finished the last two Dune postquels. I guess that is not exactly what you had in mind with Lenten reading.

  11. Phil says:

    “Great Lent,” Fr. Alexander Schmemann.

  12. Karen B. says:

    I’ll mostly be focusing on John Stott’s The Cross of Christ, re-reading it for the first time in 15-20 years.

    I’ll also be dabbling in two books by John Piper: A Hunger for God and His series of 50 meditations on Christ’s Passion: Why Christ Died.

    (I believe that latter one is available free online)

  13. evan miller says:

    I’ve just finished reading through Mark’s Gospel in one sitting, and am now starting with Matthew and re-reading all of the Gospels, seeking to know Christ more fully through them.
    I’m also reading a delightful book called “In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborad Devonshire (the Duchess of Devonshire) and Patrick Leigh Fermor (one of the greates writers in the English language).

  14. evan miller says:

    Forgot to include “Needs Based Evangelism: Becoming a Good Samaritan Church” by Robert D. Pierson. Only on Chapter 3, so the jury’s still out. So far, some good stuff and some not so good.

  15. vulcanhammer says:

    Just finished re-reading St. Augustine’s [i]City of God[/i]. Have been putting quotes from it for sometime, [url=http://www.vulcanhammer.org/2009/03/04/book-review-st-augustines-city-of-god/]my review for it is here[/url].

  16. Helen says:

    [i]Three Cups of Tea[/i] by Greg Mortenson. He is not necessarily a Christian, but he’s doing great work for the Kingdom anyway!

  17. Jeff Thimsen says:

    “The Gospel and the Catholic Church” by the former ABC Michael Ramsey

  18. felix hominum says:

    Dante’s Inferno.

  19. Frances Scott says:

    Hebrews and related background materials, mostly in preparation for the Adult Bible Class I am teaching.

  20. Brien says:

    Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way (KSH recommended at conference in S.C.)
    F.E. Peters, The Children of Abraham

  21. Irenaeus says:

    [i]New Seeds of Contemplation[/i] by Thomas Merton. I read it daily year-round, and it’s as timely now as ever.

  22. Bruce806 says:

    “The Road to Cana” by Ann Rice

  23. Branford says:

    The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  24. Katherine says:

    The entire New Testament, following a schedule from Bill Dickson+ available at the website of St. Andrew’s, Ft. Worth.

  25. Carolina Anglican says:

    Trinity School for Ministry’s [i]Lenten Devotional[/i]
    http://www.tsm.edu/Online_Media/Lenten_Devotional.html

  26. Luminous Darkness says:

    Tokens of Trust by Rowan Williams

  27. MattJP says:

    Finally Alive by John Piper

  28. Undergroundpewster says:

    “The Cruelty of Heresy” by +Fitz Allison.

  29. Old Soldier says:

    A reread as I do most Eastertides, Death on a Friday Afternoon:
    Meditations on the last Words of Jesus from the Cross by the late
    Fr Richard John Neuhaus.

  30. libraryjim says:

    I’m re-reading “The Celtic Way of Prayer” by Esther De Waal.
    My wife is reading “Streams of Living Water” by Richard J. Foster.

  31. Akinola Robinson says:

    “Face Your Fear” by Rabbi Schmuely Boteach

  32. dwstroudmd+ says:

    CHRIST IN THE PASSOVER by Ceil and Moishe Rosen
    The Gospels – Jerusalem Bible

  33. libraryjim says:

    DWS:

    “Christ in the Passover” is an amazing book, it really opens the picture up in terms of the Jewishness of the Last Supper and the sacrificial death of Jesus.

    Have you had a chance to see the presentation Jews for Jesus does on this? It’s also amazing!

  34. The Rev. Father Brian Vander Wel says:

    “The Way of Jesus” by Eugene Peterson: 4 pages at a time, like medicine every night.

  35. Jill C. says:

    Reading and “doing” “The Love Dare” (as featured in the movie, “Fireproof”) by Kendrick and Kendrick; and “Mad Church Disease: Overcoming the Burnout Epidemic” by Anne Jackson.

  36. Jill C. says:

    PS: Also listening to on CD the four Gospels (translated into Scots by William Laughton Lorimer) and read by Tom Fleming. Just finishing Matthew today.

  37. optimus prime says:

    1. Richard Hooker “The Laws” Books I and III mostly
    2. Ockham and Political Discourse in the Late Middle Ages
    3. Nominalisme au XIVe Siecle
    4. The Harvest of Medieval Theology
    5. Dionysius “Divine Names” and “Mystical Theology”
    6. Von Balthasar “The Realm of Metaphysics in the Modern Age”
    7. Nicholas of Cusa “The Catholic Concordance” and some sermons
    8. Rowan Williams “A Margin of Silence”
    9. Of course first and foremost the daily office lectionary.

  38. Sick & Tired of Nuance says:

    “How the Irish Saved Civilization” by Thomas Cahill

    “Washington’s Crossing” by David Hackett Fischer

    Memorizing Psalm 103

  39. RichardKew says:

    ‘Tell it Slant’ by Eugene Peterson
    ‘The Cast of the Kingdom’ Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Lent Book

  40. dwstroudmd+ says:

    libraryjim, Yes. I have the DVD presentation and the Messianic Family Haggadah. I have also just read the JPS HAGGADAH.
    Getting ready for Maundy Thursday/Passover conjunction this year!
    Yeshuah haMashiach!