These are the books I read through the month of January, along with a few thoughts.
The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle
by Steven Pressfield | 3 of 5 stars
This is a short, quippy book that asks us to wrestle with the force of Resistance that prevents us from being the people and creators we were meant to be. I found it fascinating that the initial push in Pressfield’s treatise on creativity was about the demon of procrastination. It is procrastination, Pressfield says, that is truly bore out of fear–not of what we would create, but of how our creations would be received by others. Pressfield peels away layer after layer of what prevents us from being our true creative selves landing on the assumption and even the charge to create, not only because it is what we were created to do, but because it is through our creation that we regenerate the world bit by bit.
Pressfield makes a good case, and for every creative type, this is a good read.
Counterfeit Gods
by Tim Keller | 5 of 5 stars
This is a short book packed with tremendous insight into the very core of humanity. Keller reaches across the spectrum of human existence and experience in laying before us the depths of human brokenness and our search to fill the cracks with anything. Ultimately, these fill-ins only provide us with a temporary and unsatisfying relief. Keller walks us through entire books of the Bible as well as familiar stories of Scripture that highlight and reveal the greater issues of self that continue to hold us captive.
Keller’s points are not to be missed, and Counterfeit Gods is a tremendous book to guide us along in weeding out the issues that keep us separated from truly forming into the likeness of Christ.
Small Faith, Great God
by NT Wright | 3 of 5 stars
Wright does a great job of balancing his writing between academia and accessibility. This is on of his more accessible books on the subject of faith and it’s profound implications on our entire theological perspective. Wright lays out a beautiful systematic theology throughout this book, and creates a great entry point for anyone wanting to learn about Wright’s perspectives on the way of Jesus.
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You have put me to shame once again. Even with my kindle, the end of books are still an elusive nemesis in my life.