This is a good one:
The book title is "Radical" by David Platt. The subtitle is 'Taking back your faith from the American Dream'. Really good read. It's worth the time, and it doesn't take that long to read. The author is quite humble and wrestles with the conflict of being a pastor of a mega church yet following a leader of a mini church. At the end of the book he gives five different challenges to the reader; challenges that will change lives, world views and faith.Here's another good book, well, actually it's a bible:
Biblica came out with a TNIV (Today's New International Version) bible with no chapter headings, no verse numbers. It's just the text. And the books
are arranged in a chronological (when they were written) fashion. They are also grouped together according to the author. Joel and I have only experienced the New Testament version so far. But I've really enjoyed it. It's like reading a book, you just read it.
The downside: It's hard to find a specific passage or book.
A friend gave this one to me:
I've been drooling (well, ok, eyeing it) over this one for awhile.This book will tell you how to live off the land, raise cows and other livestock, grow a veggie garden, live without electricity, make candles, have a bee farm, how to cook, and so much more. It's title? The Encyclopedia of Country Living. Here's the blog.
What about kids' books? Yes yes, we've been reading those too. Here is one of my favorites right now:
The Llama Who had No Pajama. The book contains 100 poems. 99 of them are great! Well written poems that are easy to understand and talk about things that children are familiar with. There is one poem that I would caution about. But it provided a spring board for discussion about evolution. So maybe it's not all bad! Always learning, even about things we don't agree with.
This has been Madelynn's favorite book right now:
I think the title explains it. :)
The country living book looks really interesting.. i think i might see if we have one at our library.
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