Featured Favorite/most challenging book you have read?

Thats a bad question. The question should be What did Jesus do?

 

A very good list.

 

Piper is a deep thinker no question about it. However I'd wish he'd knife to the point sometimes. Paul Washer does a better job at being bold, direct, and clear.

 

Did you ever get the book The Way of the Modern World?

 

Three other books that I liked:

1. The Shaking of the Foundations
2. A Shepherd Looks at the 23rd Psalm
3. The Taste of New Wine

 

I see you want to get the merry go round going again. Grow up just a little bit.

 

You'll be blessed. Even though it was written by his son, it still shows Judson's weaknesses and difficult moments. He and his family went through incredible hardships to spread the Gospel. So much from that book has remained in my memory, such as Judson digging a grave in the woods and wishing he were in it; Judson imprisoned and using the manuscript of his Bible translation for a pillow; Judson having to learn the language from scratch, and writing the first grammar book and dictionary ever in the language.

 

All this says to me is that you've never read the book. Give it a try--it's an easy read and a Christian classic.

 

Don't get these books, Jordan. :smilewinkgrin:

 

Critics multiply like rabbits around here!

 

This one?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1619492660/?tag=baptis04-20

 

That's the one. Would that everyone on the BB would read it.

 

Challanging book. I have it heard it criticised as some sort of 'good living without the gospel' treatise, but I did find it helpful and thought provoking.

I really wouldn't know where to start so I will just give my most recent favourite - 'Holiness' by J.C. Ryle. It is available for only 99c in Kindle format.

OK, a couple more

Believe it or not, I really am blessed and challenged by 'Pilgrim's Progress.'

You may be surprised about this, but a wonderful book about how a believer should learn to live a contented life is an unabridged and unedited copy of 'Robinson Crusoe.' Crusoe's salvation is a blessed account as God takes the natural revelation of creation and then applies the special revelation of His word to see Crusoe saved. He then learns to stop pining for what he doesn't have and be grateful to God for what he does have. When Friday arrives Crusoe leads him to Christ and teaches him how to go back to his people with the gospel.

 

If you like Ryle on Christian leaders I have a digitised copy of his little known 'The Bishop, The Pastor, and the Preacher' I can email you. I found a hard copy of the book which only had one edition published. And it was on a free book table

PM an address if you want a kindle formatted copy.

 

Everyone ought to read these two at least once in a lifetime.

 

Christian's Secret to a Happy Life by Hannah Whitall Smith

You can download it free from:

http://www.ccel.org/browse/bookInfo?id=smith_hw/secret

 

No offense, but I really don't think Jordan, our OP writer, will go for anything by HWS.

She was a woman preacher, a believer in the mistaken sanctification of the Holiness movement, a mystic, abstinent towards her husband (who had a "nervous breakdown"), and a universalist. These things are well documented, but see a discussion here: http://www.pfo.org/hwsmith.htm

 

"Thrive" by Casting Crown's Mark Hall. Challenging is too little a word for it. We don't live just to "know." We live to both "know" and "do" for Him.