So I’m going back to school. Yeah I know, my life is crazy enough already, with a wife, a 2 year old, a baby on the way, a puppy and youth ministry. I’m going to add one more thing Grad School. Kathy and I talked and prayed about this, and we figured there really never is a good time to improve yourself. There’s never a good time to go to the gym, there’s never a good time to read that book, there’s never a good time to take a sabbath. So you just need to do it.
With that said I will be taking 2 courses this fall, and I was emailed my reading lists for those two classes. So my new years resolution of reading one book at a time will have to come to an end soon. Here are the books that I will be reading.
For Meaning of Christian Community
- How Your Church Family Works: Understanding Congregations as Emotional Systems
- Lectures on Calvinism
- Life Together and Prayerbook of the Bible (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works)
- An Introduction to Ecclesiology: Ecumenical, Historical & Global Perspectives
- Worship, Community & the Triune God of Grace
- Leading the Team-Based Church: How Pastors and Church Staffs Can Grow Together
- The Shaping of things to Come (I’m already reading this.)
- Created for Community (I’ve already read this so I will be reviewing)
For Theology and Contemporary Media
- Sanctuary Cinema: Origins of the Christian Film Industry
- Christ and Culture
- Film Art: An Introduction
- Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue
- Art And the Bible: Two Essays (Ivp Classics)
- Plowing in Hope: Towards a Biblical Theology of Culture
- Eyes Wide Open: Looking for God in Popular Culture
- Understanding Evangelical Media: The Changing Face of Christian Communication
So I’ll be pretty busy with reading in the future.
