Reviews

We are planning to review music, books, tv shows, movies, cartoons art, and much more. Basically what we feel you might like to know more about with a healthy Christian perspective or view

Why do we read? A question that for many years in my life, 20 to be exact was unanswered. Teacher would say you have to read this. It says this and means this. I just thought it was boring. Now I have learned the love of reading because of what it does for me.

Reading should be selfish. Read for what you can get out of it. Many times I start something and find this is not where I am at right now. Then it is time for a novel or something different. Taking into account that I am a Christian and knowing that you become what you read, my reading material is selected by content value.

The first book I really enjoyed was Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice. It was fascinating, exciting, luring, and I could picture what was going on. This was my sophomore year in college and I still feel today that I have a lot of reading to finish. I remember getting a list from my art professor of the "books you need to read before you die." There are still many on that list I need to read.

I am usually in the middle of 3-7 books. I know at times I shouldn’t be in that many books but most of what I am reading lately is theological text or biographical inspiration. I try to read novels as quickly as I can. So I start them only when I go away or know I have the time to finish them. Many of the texts I read can be put down and pick up later.

I am currently reading Desiring God by John Piper, The Call by Oz Guinness and Acts commentaries. The Call has truly saved my ministry in some ways. I have learned to seek God first and put "my" ministry in His hands. A quote Oz Guinness uses in The Call by Oswald Chambers says "beware of anything that competes with the loyalty to Jesus Christ" and follows with "The greatest competitor of devotion to Christ is service for Him." These phrases stopped me in my tracts. This is where I was for a long time. My faith became what I was doing for God. I stopped reading that book because I needed to digest these pithy words.