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  1. rsr

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    Yes, Jim, it was a sad day when I heard he had died. He had a wonderful, and unique, talent in describing his region and the people who live there. Every place should have the blessing of a James Herriot to explain you to the outside world.

    I was re-reading "All Things Wise and Wonderful" a couple of weeks ago, and I can't help but laugh at some stories even though I've read them a dozen times.
     
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    Anecdotes always raise the eyes of the listener, alert the mind, and the reader catches more attention.

    When I am going to preach in a new area, I always try to find some local anecdote that I can use in my sermon.

    We can learn so much from books like Herriots, and make our preaching more effective. I love to watch the people when I preach.

    There is the story about the young preacher who complained that his congregation were always nodding off during the sermon. He asked the homiletics professor what he should do. The answer came quickly, "You put them to sleep; you best wake them up!"

    Cheers,

    Jim

    PS. I read somewhere that Alf's son was planning to pick up where his father left off.
     
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    The Last Full Measure story of the First Minnesota Infantry Regiment during the late great unpleasantness. Rereading it as it shares a level of honor and commitment and character that I surely wish I possessed.

    Also, Thucydides and the History of the Pelopenseus from the Greek (classical greek, not koine, so helping my vocabulary).

    Wife bought me the Iliad and the Odyssey in Latin, so that is staring me in the face but a daunting task!

    I have trouble enough with KJV English! :eek:
     
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    "A Time to Kill" by Grisham

    "Revelation: Four Views" by: Steven Gregg

    "A History of Israel" by: John Bright

    "The Book of Jesus" by: Calvin Miller

    "Star Wars: Vector Prime" by: R.A. Salvatore

    "And the Word Came With Power" by: Joanne Shettler

    "No Compromise" by: Melody Green
     
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    I forget the name of it, but CS Lewis.
    Man, my memory gets worse every day! :rolleyes:
    I love Eardman's handbook to the bible, just to sit there and read through all the stuff. It just explains all kinds of stuff! Trees, birds, what things were used for, what people ate, who people were.
    Another favorite is encyclopedias. It's fun to just sit and flip through them and read whatever catches my eye. I need a set of big people ones! I bought my kids children's ones. They get well used. [​IMG]
    Gina
     
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    The Great Books of the Western World you will not find any better.

    Without trying to list the individual works I'll just list some of the authors:

    Homer, Plato, Aeschylus, Plutarch, Aristophanes, Herdotus, Sophocles, Thucydides, Aristotle, Lucretius, Euripedes, Virgil, Tacitus, Epictetus, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Rabelais, Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Cervantes, Descartes, Pascal, Milton, Machiavelli, Montaigne, Bacon, Hume, Kant, Spinoza, Austine, Locke, Rousseau, Hobbs, Leibniz, Swift, Hawthorne, Eliot, Adam Smith, Tolstoi, Hegel, Melville, Marx, Twain, Kierkegard, Wagner, Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, The Federalist Papers, Tocqueville, Faulkner, James, Freud, O'Conner, and Heidegger.

    I have spent the last 4 years reading through these authors.

    [ November 18, 2002, 05:23 AM: Message edited by: BibleboyII ]
     
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    Locke-EXCELLENT choice. [​IMG]
    Gina
     
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    Gina, tell us what the book is about; there are enough C.S. Lewis fans here that we can probably figure it out.

    Stephen
     
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    Keep it up, BibleBoy. That's a great list.
     
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    Ok, the guy is kidnapped, taken to another planet, escapes, and it's very descriptive about his surroundings, the beings there are made of light? Somehow representive of our consciences or something.
    I was a kid when I read it so I might be off a little. (or a lot)
    I want to read the one where he's a Christian, goes atheist, then returns to Christianity.
    But first I want to red The Great Divorce. I'll probably would read it first anyhow since it's the only one that I remember the title! [​IMG]
    Gina
     
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    Gina, I think it's "Out of the Silent Planet," part of Lewis' Space Trilogy. The others are "Perelandra" and "That Hideous Strength."

    The second one is, I think, "Surprised by Joy," which is his autobiography.

    Try "The Screwtape Letters," "Mere Christianity" and "God in the Dock." Just to name my favorites.
     
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    Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove
     
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    Any Louis L'Amour fans on board? [​IMG]
     
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    non-fiction:

    The God of promise and the life of faith: Scott Hafemann
    Anything by Spurgeon

    Fiction:

    Foundation Triology: Issac Asimov
    Dune: Frank Herbert
    Ender's Game: Orson Scott Card
    Permutation City (at least the first half) : something Egon
     
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    Thanks rsr, that was it. I read all three. [​IMG]
    I'll check out the other ones!
    Gina
     
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    Rev. G, I admit I have never read a Louis L'Amour novel.

    But I have enjoyed the TNT TV adaptations; they're as good as any that have been on the big screen. (Seleck makes a great cowboy, and Elliot was born to be one.)
     
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    Jane Eyre,by Charlotte Bronte

    It's got just about everything...an underdog protagonist who triumphs over injustice,a dark and enigmatic hero,a lifechanging mystery,true love,and a rags-to-riches twist. Set the standard for the Gothic romance. [​IMG]

    Amazing that it was written by a smalltown English minister's daughter who had scarcely ventured out of her father's North of England parish.
     
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    Some recent favorites:

    Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire by Jim Cymbala
    Pursuit of Holiness
    The Family by Dr. Dorothy Patterson
    Calm My Anxious Heart
    Angela's Ashes
    1000 Extra-Ordinary Objects

    My last job was at a library and I was constantly reading all our new books. Since then, I have been in reading withdrawal.
     
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    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith.
    Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher
    A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford.

    I hear War and Peace is wonderful and have bought it because it has been called someone's favorite book...so, we'll see.
     
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