Friday, 11 July 2014

Reading Record

2024
  1. Empire - Conn Iggulden
  2. Testosterone - Carole Hooven (audible)
  3. Sure I'll Join Your Cult - Maria Bamford (audible)
  4. A Brief Theology of Periods - Rachel Jones
  5. Any Human Heart - William Boyd
  6. Dominion and Dynasty - Stephen Dempster
  7. 4000 Weeks - Oliver Burkemann (audible)
  8. Three or More, Grove Booklets - Andrew Bunt
  9. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
  10. 3-2-1 - Glen Scrivener
  11. Bad Therapy - Abigail Shrier (Audible)
  12. The Truth About Lies - Mack Stiles
  13. Visible Grace - Caleb Butcher 
  14. The Message of Hosea - Derek Kidner
  15. The Making of Biblical Womanhood - Beth Allison Barr
  16. Politics On the Edge - Rory Stewart
  17. Like or Follow - Mike
  18. Munich Wolf - Rory Clements
  19. Song of Songs - Charlie Cleverley
  20. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
  21. The Anxious Generation - Jonathan Heidt
  22. Feminism Against Progress - Mary Harrington
  23. 'Tis Mercy All - Natalie Williams
  24. The Jesus Prayer - Timothy Ware
  25. On the Aquisition of the Spirit - St Serphaim of Sarov
  26. The Orthodox Church - Timothy Ware
  27. Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
  28. You Are Mine - Sister Anastasia 
  29. A Brief History of Thought - Luc Ferry
  30. Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austin
  31. One - 
  32. Return to Roar - Jenny McLachlan
  33. Thank God It's Monday - Mark Greene
  34. Christianity's Dangerous Idea - Alister McGrath
  35. Dethroning Race - Ryan Saville
  36. Everything Sad Is Untrue - Daniel Nayeri (audible)
  37. Living In Wonder - Rod Dreher
  38. Practising the Way - John Mark Comer
  39. Metamorphosis  - Matt Hatch
  40. Billy No Mates - Max Dickens (audible)
  41. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  42. The Parastic Mind - Gad Saad (audible)
  43. The Battle For Roar - Jenny McLachlan

2023
  1. Alexander the Great - Dominic Sandbrook
  2. Powerful Leaders? - Marcus Honeysett
  3. The Fury of the Vikings - Dominic Sandbrook
  4. False Alarm - Bjorn Llornberg (audible)
  5. Dune - Frank Herbert (audible)
  6. Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis
  7. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
  8. Gender Quality - Stef Liston
  9. Two Views on Women in Ministry - Keener, Blonberg, etc.
  10. The Gates of Rome - Conn Igguldenn
  11. It Takes a Church to Raise a Parent - Rachel Turner
  12. Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools - Tyler Stanton (audible)
  13. God Has a name - John Mark Comer (audible)
  14. Guernica - Dave Boling
  15. The Air We Breathe - Glen Scrivener
  16. The Secret Place of Thunder - John Starke
  17. The Meaning of Singleness - Danielle Treweek
  18. Lion - Conn Iggulden
  19. The First World War - Dominic Sandbrook
  20. 1776: Remaking the World - Andrew Wilson
  21. The Toxic War on Masculinity - Nancey Pearcey
  22. The Game of Thrones - Audible
  23. Animal Farm - George Orwell
  24. When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalinisi
  25. A Praying Church - Paul Miller
  26. Never Split the Difference - Paul Voss (audible)
  27. Women In the Church - Tom Schreiner & Andreas Kostenberger
  28. The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel Van Der Kolk (audible)
  29. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
  30. Adventures in Accountant - Andrew Meggs
  31. Nine O'Clock in the Morning - Dennis Bennett
  32. This Side of the Door - John Hosier

2022
  1. Abortion - Dr Lizzie Ling
  2. God's Sketchbook - Jake Goodison
  3. Gods of War - Meic Pearse
  4. Return to Roar - Jenny McLaughlin
  5. Born to Run - Chris McDoughall (audible)
  6. Stolen Focus - Johann Hari
  7. Gay Girl, Good God - Jackie Hill Perry (audible)
  8. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - J. R. R. Tolkein
  9. The Intentional Father - Jon Tyson (audible)
  10. The Christbook Matthew 1-12 - Dale Bruner
  11. Why Does God Allow War? - Martyn Lloyd Jones
  12. The Gates of Athens - Conn Iggulden
  13. Is Atheism Dead? - Eric Metaxes (audible)
  14. The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self - Carl Trueman
  15. Beautiful Resistance - Jon Tyson (audible)
  16. Adam's Return - Richard Rohr
  17. The Power of Moments - Chip Heath & Dan Heath (audible)
  18. Fully Human - Steve Biddulph
  19. 1 Corinthians For You - Andrew Wilson
  20. Multiplanting - Colin Baron
  21. A Non-Anxious Presence - Mark Sayers
  22. Scars Across Humanity - Elaine Storkey
  23. I Am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes
  24. How To Hear God's Voice - Pete Greig (audible)
  25. Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
  26. Live No Lies - John Mark Comer (audible) x 2
  27. The Bethlehem Story - Andy McCullogh
  28. The Story of Christianity - David Bentley Hart
  29. Making Faith Magnetic - Dan Strange
  30. The Lion, The With & the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
  31. The Cross & the Lynching Tree - James Cole


2021
  1. Gentle & Lowly - Dane Ortland
  2. Darien - Conn Iggulden (audible)
  3. Marie Durand - Simonetta Carr
  4. The Gates of Athens - Conn Iggulden
  5. Letter From Birmingham Jail - Martin Luther King, Jr.
  6. When Father's Ruled - Steven Ozment
  7. American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins
  8. The Promised Land - Barak Obama (audible)
  9. Easy Peasy Puppy Squeezy - Steve Mann
  10. Culture Care - Makoto Fujimura
  11. George Muller - Roland Miller
  12. Grace-Filled Marriage - Claire & Steve Musters
  13. Greenlights - Matthew McCougnay (audible)
  14. Identity - Francis Fukyama
  15. The Battle for Christian Britain - Callum Brown
  16. Walking with God through Pain and Suffering - Timothy Keller
  17. Dominion - Tom Holland
  18. Unspoken - GuvnaB
  19. The Eye of the Needle - Ken Follett
  20. In Order to Live - Yeonmi Park
  21. Shiang - Conn Iggulden (audible)
  22. The Sword Saint - Conn Iggulden (audible)
  23. The Atomic Power of Habits - James Clear (audible)
  24. People Not Pronouns - Andrew Bunt
  25. Boys, God & the Church - Nick Harding
  26. 12 More Rules For Life - Jordan Peterson
  27. How the West Really Lost God - Mary Eberstadt
  28. That Hideous Strength - Melvin Tinker
  29. The Boy Crisis - Warren Farrell
  30. The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell (audible)
  31. The Land of Roar - Jenny McLaughlin
  32. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - J. R. R. Tolkien 
  33. Jesus Revolution - Greg Laurie & Ellen Vaughn
  34. There is Always Enough - Roland & Heidi Baker
  35. Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Eric Metaxes (audible)

2020

  1. A Meal With Jesus - Tim Chester
  2. How to Pray - Pete Greig (audible)
  3. The Boy, the Horse, the Fox and the Mole - Charlie Macksay
  4. The Pastor - Eugene Peterson
  5. Falcon of Sparta - Conn Iggulden
  6. Global Humility - Andy McCullogh
  7. The Unseen Realm - Michael Heiser
  8. Fly on the Wall - John Woods
  9. A Better Story - Glynn Harrison
  10. Job - Christopher Ash
  11. The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R Tolkien
  12. A Time to think - Nancy Kline 
  13. Garden City - John Mark Comer
  14. We Need to Talk About Race - Ben Lindsey
  15. The Beekeeper of Aleppo - Cristy Lefteri
  16. The Tattowitz of Auschwitz - Heather Morris
  17. On the Incarnation - St Athanasius
  18. The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz - Jeremy Dronfield
  19. Guns, Germs & Steel - Jared Diamond
  20. The Choice - Edith Eger
  21. The Big Ego Trip - Glynn Harrison
  22. Where is god in suffering - AMY Orr-Ewing 
  23. I’m ok you’re ok - Thomas Harris 
  24. Games people play 
2019

  1. Understanding and Treating Sex Addiction - Paula Hall
  2. Perfectionism - Will Van Der Hart
  3. A War of Loves - David Bennett
  4. Playing God, Redeeming the Gift of Power - Andy Crouch (audible)
  5. iGen - Jean Twenge
  6. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
  7. 3 Theories of Everything - Ellis Potter
  8. Forgotten God - Francis Chan (audible)
  9. Stumbling Along with God - Ellis Potter
  10. How Do You Know That? - Ellis Potter
  11. If I Perish - Esther Ahn Kim
  12. Confronting Porn - Paula Hall
  13. Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert - Rosaria Champagne Butterfield (audible)
  14. The Hobbit - J. R. R Tolkien 
  15. Beyond The Ranges - Geraldine 
  16. Love Thy Body - Nancy Pearcey
  17. The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry - John Mark Comer

 2018

  1. 12 Ways to Your Phone Is Changing You - Tony Reinke
  2. None Like Him - Jen Wilkens
  3. Who You Are When No One's Watching - Bill Hybels
  4. Cold - Ranulph Fiennes
  5. 12 Rules For Life - Jordan Peterson
  6. The Empty Self - Jeffery Satinover
  7. Bad Dad - David Walliams 
  8. Ministering With Emotional Intelligence
  9. Disappearing Church - Mark Sayers
  10. Dirty Glory - Pete Greig
  11. Dunstan - Conn Iggulden
  12. The Hiding Place - Corrie ten Boom
  13. Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis (audible)
  14. Letters to the Church - Francis Chan
  15. What Good Is God - Philip Yancey
  16. 'Til We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis (audible)
  17. Fools & Mortals - Bernard Cornwell
  18. Foolishness to the Greeks - Leslie Newbigin
  19. The Abolition of Man - C.S. Lewis
  20. The Problem of Pain - C.S. Lewis (audible)
  21. The Coddling of the American Mind - Jonathan Haidt (audible)



 2017
  1. Who Is This Man - John Ortberg
  2. True Grit - Bear Grylls
  3. Future Men - Douglas Wilson (unfinished)
  4. Shame & Honour - Roland Muller
  5. Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall
  6. Nomad - Alan Partridge (audible)
  7. Getting Things Done - (audible)
  8. Start With Why - Simon Senik (audible) 
  9. Humble Roots - Hannah Anderson
  10. The Power of Habit - (audible)
  11. Twelve Brain Rules - John Medina (audible)
  12. The Day the Revolution Began - Tom Wright
  13. Kingdom, Hope and the End of the World - Ian Paul
  14. Things of the Earth - Joe Rigney
  15. Ravenspur - Conn Iggulden 
  16. Making Sense of God - Tim Keller
  17. Reaching Muslims - Nick Chatrath
  18. The Quest for Perfection - Rhonda Knight
  19. The Unquenchable Flame - Mike Reeves
  20. The Bruised Reed - Richard Sibbes
  21. The Shantung Compound - Langdon Gilkey
  22. Small Town Jesus - Donnie Griggs
  23. Daring Greatly - Brene Brown
  24. Endurance - Alfred Lansing


 2016

  1. Living a Life of Fire - Reinhard Bonke 
  2. Center Church - Tim Keller
  3. A Short Life of Cotton Mather
  4. Trinity - Conn Igguldenn 
  5. Encounters With Jesus - Tim Keller
  6. How Not To Be Secular - James Smith
  7. Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
  8. Two Years, eight months and twenty eight nights - Salmon Rushdie Not finished
  9. Gospel Powered Parenting - William Farley Not finished
  10. The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment - Jeremiah Burroughs NtF 
  11. The Magicians' Nephew - C.S. Lewis 
  12. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis 
  13. That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis 
  14. You Are What You Love - James Smith
  15. Gospel-Centered Family - Tim Chester 
  16. Chav Christianity - Darren 
  17. The Churchill Factor - Boris Johnson
  18. Emotional Intelligence - Not finished
  19. The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Heidt (Audible)
  20. Everyday Supernatural - Mike P 
  21. Unapologetic - Francis Spufford (Audible)
  22. The Happiness Hypothesis - Jonathan Heidt (Audible)
  23. How To Win Friends And Influence People - Dale Carnegie
  24. Fit To Burst - Rachel Jankovic
  25. Paths to Glory - Jeffery Archer
2015
  • Prayer - Tim Keller
  • Loving the Little Years - Rachel Jankovic
  • The Wisdom House - Rob Parsons
  • Father Hunger - Doug Wilson
  • Home For Good - Krish Kandiah Not finished
  • The Triumph of Christianity - Rodney Stark


 2014

 Simon Holley - Sustainable Power completed

 Comments: Excellent book. A great encouragement to action in praying for the sick and pursuing acts of courage.
Take homes off the top of my head: 
  • persevere with praying for the sick. Stories told of a man who committed to praying every week for a 1.5yrs for a woman who was sick, she recovered and he learnt a lot about the nature of persevering prayer.
  • praying for the sick. Ask people to 'test it' if they can, ask how much pain they're in 'out of 10?'
  • stories really build faith and expectancy
Alec Motyer - Preaching part through

 Bill Johnson - The Supernatural Ways of Royalty started

Conn Iggulden - Quantum of Tweed (fiction) completed

Paul Copan - Is God a Moral Monster part through

 Alister McGrath - Doubting Completed

 Comments: Loved it. The book I've been wanting to read for a long time!
Take homes off the top of my head:
  • Faith deals in worldviews and ideas which by their very nature we can never be 100% certain about. The person committed to any kind of -ism has to learn to live with doubt. 
  • Doubt is a normal part of the life of faith.
Paul Miller - A Praying life completed

Comments: A great book. Any book that gives me an increased desire to pray is a well-received book and gift to my Christian life. I'm going to write a review alongside some of the quotes to add further comments to what I thought of the book. Initial take homes:

  • Seeing the 'fingerprints' of God over all of my life. Learning to spot how God is at work in the world.
  • The book was good at emphasising: 'God is a person' and the fact that we are to develop a relationship with him, a person.
  • 'If we approach prayer thinking all the while about prayer then we'll struggle, rather like driving and focusing on the windscreen makes driving difficult.'
Conn Iggulden - Blackwater (fiction) Completed

 Michael Reeves - Enjoy Your Prayer Life Completed

 Great book. Short book with plenty to re-read and quote. One of the things that initially made an impression on me was:
Prayerlessness is functional atheism. 
That's powerful, right there!

Tom Wright - How God Became King half way

John Stott - Galatians Completed

 Tom Wright - Galatians For Everyone Completed

 GK Chesterton - Orthodoxy half way

 Steve Bidulph - Raising Boys Completed

 Ed West - The Silence of Our Friends Completed

 Andy Stanley - Deep & Wide Completed

 Great book! Lots of really helpful stuff about the importance and strategy of reaching unchurched people with the gospel and building churches that unchurched people love to attend.

Great insight as well on what makes people grow in God, something around which they have then built their small groups:
P - Private disciplines
P - Practical teaching
P - Personal ministry
P - Providential relationships
P - Pivotal circumstances
That'll stay with me for sure.

 James Emery White - The Rise of the Nones Completed

 Good book. Good stuff on cultural trends, Christian spiritual narcissism and a memorable section about the words taken out of the dictionary...

 Larry Osborne - Sticky Church Started

 Shepherding a Child's Heart - Ted Tripp Completed

Follow Me - David Platt Completed

Stormbird - Conn Iggulden Completed

Enders Game - Completed

The Maze Runner - James Dashner Completed

Christ Our Life - Mike Reeves Completed

Unbreakable - Andrew Wilson Completed
The Blessed Life - Robert Morris 





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