What
a promise for this dry, hot season! The Israelites were way ahead of us, even
southerners, with their desert climate. how wonderful that Adonai promised
endless refreshment.
Let’s
not be “out of the habit” of the WORD, & nourishing ourselves with
feeding from saints of the past~ through great reading all summer!
Below
is a booklist a lot of us are working our way through!
Meanwhile
STAY TUNED for a WOW MEET N’ GREET, to
relaunch our FALL 2017 year (Probably 8/28 Monday Evening~ food &
fellowship)
Then
CLASS BEGINS 9/18/17 for HEBREWS, Mondays 6:30-8:15, Until
Mid-May, 2018. What
a Journey! CHRIST IS BETTER, is the theme of this awesome book, with the best of both
Old and New covenants explained and unpacked.
Also,
it’s a book about RESTING IN HIM, and all of us need that message!
I
pray a summer of rich refreshment in Him, no matter the “season” of your life~
Warmly
DR A
Dr Alison Littauer Brown
Teaching Director
Women of the WORD, Charlotte
SUMMER BOOKLIST 2017
Dr Al & Women of
the WORD
Tim
Keller:
The
Meaning of Marriage
The
Reason for God
Making
Sense of God (prequel?)
The
Freedom of Self-forgetfulness
Best
CLASSICS you might not have read:
The Cross of Christ, John Stott.
Humility, Andrew Murray.
A Path Through Suffering, Elisabeth Eliot.
The Cross of Christ, John Stott.
Humility, Andrew Murray.
A Path Through Suffering, Elisabeth Eliot.
IF by Amy Carmichael.
The Pursuit of God, by A W Tozer.
The Cost of Discipleship, by Bonhoeffer.
The Joy of Fearing God, Jerry Bridges.
New
by amazing authors:
STAND,
A Call for Endurance of the Saints, Piper & Taylor
Counter
Culture; Following Him in an Anti-Christian Age, by Platt.
You
Are What you Love, by Jamie Smith.
Rejoicing
in Christ, by Michael Reeves.
Onward;
Engaging the Culture w/out Losing the Gospel. Al Mohler.
CLASSICS:
A
W Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy.
Mere Christianity, by C S Lewis (& anything else he writes !)
Mere Christianity, by C S Lewis (& anything else he writes !)
The
Pleasures of God, by John Piper
My
Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers.
Union
with God, Madame Guyon.
A
Seeking Heart. By Fenelon
***After
You Believe., N T Wright.
The
Holiness of God, by R C Sproul.
Church
History:
The Monk & the Mallet (in honor of Luther’s 500th! 10/31) Stephen Nichols
The Monk & the Mallet (in honor of Luther’s 500th! 10/31) Stephen Nichols
7
men/7 women by Eric Metaxas (or Bonhoeffer****)
**Religious
Affections, by Jonathan Edwards}
God’s Passion for His Glory (Piper does Edwards) J
God’s Passion for His Glory (Piper does Edwards) J
The
Life of God in the Soul of Man, by Henry Scougal (1700)
David
Brainerd’s Diary. By Jonathan Edwards.
***”Textbook,
Bruce Shelley, Church History in Plain Language
**Workbooks
for summer ~ Navigators, Intervarsity Press, Beth Moore ,John Stott
