From the Desk of the Editor...

onfireforgod:

Without the impending pressure of exams, at least until June, I’m free to read all the books I’ve been meaning to read.

• ‘Redemption: Freed by Jesus From The Idols We Worship and The Wounds We Carry’ by Mike Wilkerson
• ‘God’s Lavish Grace’ by Terry Virgo
• ‘Fathered by God’ by John Eldredge
• ‘Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist’ by John Piper
• ‘Godstories: Explorations in the Gospel of God’ by Andrew Wilson

In that order. I would start with good ol’ Terry, but I need to give back ‘Redemption’ to my church, and I’ve had it for months and still not read it all!

And over Lent I’ll be reading ’Hymns of The Passion’ by Hallgrímur Pétursson. I’ll probably post them on here each day as well.

And Jekyll and Hyde for school. I’ve read a bit of it so far and it’s so well written!

I also want to read ‘The Spirit-filled Church’ by Terry Virgo. And ‘Purpose Driven Life’ by Rick Warren - I’ve heard good about it, and I’ve also heard people incinerate it with criticisms, so I want to see what the fuss is about. And ‘Erasing Hell’ by Francis Chan.

“Fathered by God” is great, and I would advise checking out “Wild at Heart” around the same time as reading it.  The main problem with “Purpose Driven Life” is the dogmatic approach so many people take to it.  It isn’t necessarily a bad book, it’s just very easy to focus so much on it that many seem to forget that it isn’t a new Bible, because it advocates an entire restructuring of lifestyle and outreach that seems to assume the reader will take it very, very seriously.