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    My 2018 & 2019 Reading Lists

    December 18, 2018December 18, 2018

    There are few things I love more than books. They’re my favorite gift to give and receive, and this season I have had absolutely the most fun giving away some of my favorites. As the year draws to a close, I want to share a few of the books I have read in the last

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    • Sunburned, sore, and so happy. ☀️⛷
    • We are just loving our time with these friends. To be honest, three years ago I would have told you that lifestyle was one of the most important aspects of life. That you can – and that you should – choose it, and choose well. For me, that means curating a lifestyle of outdoor activities with one adventure after the other. But what I totally missed is that you can have the curated life you “intentionally chose,” but without deep, Christ-centered community, it doesn’t matter one bit. And so God took away everything I thought I wanted and gave me what is much better: the community I needed and wanted and couldn’t have hoped for. This weekend we’re skiing with some of these people and it’s like God gave back some of the things I originally thought I wanted, this time with more joy and fullness and grace because of the people we share it with. This is grace. This is the church.
    • Just a couple of kids, pretending to know how to ski, praying we don’t get seriously injured. ❄️
    • Early morning drive to Raleigh with my guy. A whole day of church planting and partnership meetings ahead, and I can’t help but look at the sunrise and remember how faithful God is. It’s not cool to say, but we don’t know how God is going to provide for or build this church in Greenville, NC. But we look out the early-morning window of this little car and know He will. He promises new mercies, and He gives them — just like He gives us brighter skies every morning. Promise kept after promise kept leads me to believe that though we have no idea how He will provide, we rest in confidence that He certainly will. 🌅
    • We are so tired tonight. This week has been oober busy for me (last few weeks of work overlapping with the first few weeks of church planting 😅), and while it’s busy with wonderful stuff it means we found ourselves at the grocery store at 5pm, in the cheese section, trying to figure out how we forgot to buy cheese for our board. We’ve never done that. It’s our tradition. But here we are, tired and traditioned and thankful. So thankful. Happy sabbath, everyone. P.S. 👉🏼 to see how we’re keeping in real tonight. #boujee
    • Instagram is full of beautiful images, and sometimes they are so beautiful they deceive. And I’m not just talking about gorgeous influencers who show you the best aspects of their picture-perfect lives (another topic for another time). I mean the pictures that look so good, so ideal, so alluring that we forget to be thinking Christians with a watchful eye. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This is a stock picture I came across while looking for a blog post photo. It’s dreamy right? And I instantly thought: what a perfect Saturday morning this must be. But look closer ... do you see the title of this book? Between the indigo linen duvet and drool-worthy natural light I almost missed the title: Wild at Heart. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This book grew crazy popular in its day, and, in my opinion, did some damage. I don’t want to make it a punching bag, but I found the book to have more culturally-constructed boxes for men and women, and it made me bristle. I found it‘s theology shallow and it’s hermeneutic flawed. It takes Scripture out of context, and you’re not super likely to find me liking it’s portrait. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Except that I almost did. The coffee did me in and the duvet distracted me. In the allure of the stock image, I neglected discernment, forgot wisdom and failed to look deeper. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ My point is NOT that this book is no good (edited to add: I actually think some people can find practical help in it, though the hermeneutical approach is flawed). My point is this: we all scroll. (Even though 90% of us probably had NY resolutions to do it less) But we cannot turn off our minds. We can’t succumb to mindless consumption because God calls us higher. He calls us deeper. He calls us to think theologically and employ Christian discernment. And He delights in us using our minds to parse through the picture-perfect images and see what’s underneath all that natural lighting. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So as you scroll today, think. To God’s glory and your good, look deeper, think harder, discern what is better. You won’t be sorry.
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