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September 2022 Reading Challenge
September 2022 Reading Challenge Bruchko: The Astonishing True Story of a 19-Year-Old American, His Capture by the Motilone Indians and His Adventures in Christianizing the Stone Age Tribe by Bruce Olson 224 pages Missionary Biography Amazon Link (Available as a print, ebook, and audiobook) Book Summary From Amazon: What happens when a nineteen-year-old boy leaves home and heads into the jungles to evangelize a murderous tribe of South American Indians? For Bruce Olson, it meant capture, disease, terror, loneliness, and torture. But…
August 2022 Reading Challenge
August 2022 Reading Challenge The Discipline of Grace by Jerry Bridges 331 pages Christian Living/Theology Amazon Link (Available as a print, ebook, and audiobook) Book Summary From Amazon: Over 200,000 copies sold You are never beyond the reach of God’s grace―or the need for it. Being a Christian is about more than just accepting salvation―it’s about regularly becoming more like Jesus. This is hard work. As we struggle to become more like Christ, we can easily lose sight of grace in…
July 2022 Reading Challenge
July 2022 Reading Challenge Becoming Elisabeth Elliot by Ellen Vaughn 322 pages Biography Amazon Link (Available as a print, ebook, and audiobook) Book Summary From Amazon: Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a violent Amazonian tribe savagely speared her husband Jim and his four colleagues. Incredibly, prayerfully, Elisabeth took her toddler daughter, snakebite kit, Bible, and journal . . . and lived in the jungle with the Stone-Age people who killed her husband. Compelled by her…
June 2022 Reading Challenge
June Reading Challenge A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World by Paul E. Miller 304 pages Christian Living/Theology Amazon Link (Available as a print, ebook, and audiobook) Book Summary From Amazon: More than 300,000 copies sold! Now updated and expanded! Prayer is hard. Often, unless circumstances demand it―such as an illness or saying grace before a meal―most of us simply do not pray. This kind of prayerlessness can leave us with a distressed spirit and practical…
April 2022 Reading Challenge
April Reading Challenge Is God A Moral Monster by Paul Copan 256 pages Theology Amazon Link (Available as a print, ebook, and audiobook) Book Summary From Amazon: A recent string of popular-level books written by the New Atheists have leveled the accusation that the God of the Old Testament is nothing but a bully, a murderer, and a cosmic child abuser. This viewpoint is even making inroads into the church. How are Christians to respond to such accusations? And how are…