14 Books to Change 2014

This is it, girls. The last day of 2013! I've finished RBMW for this year. If you haven't, just hunker down and plow through it to start off the new year. If you feel like you're not ready for it, or it's hard to understand, put it aside for a few months while you read other stimulating Christian discipleship literature, then try it again. For 2014, I recommend reading your Bible every day, and reading God, Marriage, and Family by Andreas Kostenberger, which I've already begun. :)

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It's been quite a year.

For the new year I have one resolution:

~to desire God more~


.....which is not a resolution I can pull off on my own. He will finish his good work in me, and I am ready for whatever that takes.

I've been weak in soul nourishment this past year. I feel it. I hate entering a new year feeling spiritually anemic, but it's my own fault. By the grace of God, I've worked out a reading plan for the next year to arrive at this place next year perhaps a little wiser than I am now. There are fourteen books I'm resolving to read; books I've read in the past, books I have yet to read, books who've influenced people for decades and radically changed lives. Here's the plan so far:


Daily:
--Bible (4 chapters daily=through the Bible in 1 year)
--My Utmost for His Highest (Oswald Chambers) (daily entry, about 1 page)
--Systematic Theology (Wayne Grudem) (3-4 pages per day)                                                     (1264 pages)

Other books to work through:

--God, Marriage, and Family: Rebuilding the Biblical Foundation (Andreas Kostenberger)               (399 pages)
--Humility: True Greatness (C.J. Mahaney)                                                                                      (176 pages)

--Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith (Michael Reeves)                            (145 pages)

--Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist (John Piper)                                                     (368 pages)

--Why Revival Tarries (Leonard Ravenhill)                                                                                       (176 pages)

--Foxe's Book of Martyrs (John Foxe)                                                                                              (442 pages)

--The Cost of Discipleship (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)                                                                               (320 pages)

--Knowledge of the Holy:The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life (A.W. Tozer)    (128 pages)

--Humility (Andrew Murray)                                                                                                             (95 pages)

--Holiness (J.C. Ryle)                                                                                                                       (298 pages)

--Knowing God (J.I. Packer)                                                                                                            (312 pages)

total.................................................................................................................................................2,859 pages = 8 pages per day

I don't know about you, but 4 chapters from the Bible and *only* 13 pages of other reading per day sounds pretty do-able. Let's do it.

2014 = Soli Deo Gloria!

Grace and peace,

Brenna