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Amy Gannett

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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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    • You know how we do. Happy #sabbath, y’all. 🧀
    • Garden tomatoes wreck you on the store-bought kind. 🍅 Most of my life, I’ve been a store-bought tomato girl. They were good (I thought). They were juicy (they seemed). And then a friend brought me sweet cherry tomatoes picked from her garden early that morning — and I’m never going back. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Exegetical Bible study has been like this in my life. The daily devos I used we’re good (and some were!). The themed studies I did seemed deep (some were!). But when I dove into exegetical Bible study — verse-by-verse study — I knew I had met the real deal. And I’m not going back. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ That’s why I made it my passion project to help everyday believers do exegetical Bible study every day. I wanted to pass on what I learned in Bible school and seminary and invite others into the best, sweetest kind of study I know. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And here is my secret hope (the one I don’t talk about nearly enough): I hope to work myself right out of a job. My deepest desire is that those who join my digital studies are equipped with all the tools to study on their own every day. One day, those in my courses will unsubscribe and it will feel like taking off the training wheels — and I will rejoice and cheer you on all the way! This is the entire goal, and my deepest joy. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you want to learn how to do exegetical Bible study but aren’t sure where to start, I’d love for you to check out my courses. Each goes through a book of the Bible and provides you with the worksheets and guides you need to do things like cultural setting studies, word studies, literary structure analysis, and more. All the while helping you work towards the point of doing it all on your own. Learn more at the link in my bio!
    • Last Sunday was the first ‪Sunday evening‬ meeting for Trinity Church Greenville, the church plant Austin and I are grateful to serve. I had great visions of how our first meeting would go, how prepared I would be, how ordered all the details would look. Particularly, I was excited to be baking a loaf of homemade bread for our first communion together; it felt just perfect and ceremonial enough for this season and this meeting. I fed my starter and smiled to myself; I kneaded the dough and whispered a prayer of blessing. And then I set it on my counter and forgot to bake it until it was too late. The local grocer’s store-brand $1.99 white loaf would have to do. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ With the realization that my plans had failed, I felt the familiar pang of inadequacy and self-disappointment. Why hadn’t I managed my time better? Why did I commit to doing too many things that day? Why am I always like this? Why can’t I be better and do better? ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So many familiar flaws were apparent. My own human brokenness was evident. I am limited, and limited is not what I want to be. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ As we finished our time of study in the Word, Austin rounded the bend to communion. As he recited the familiar words of the apostle Paul, I pulled out the communion plate. A $1.99 loaf of bread, perfectly white, perfectly and commercially formed. Better than I could have done, and yet still a reminder of the things I had left undone. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “This is my body, broken for you.” ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I tore the loaf in two, placing it back on the plate so that it was easy for the church to tear and dip. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And in that crust-cracking moment, I was reminded what the Supper is all about. It's always been about brokenness. It’s never been flashy or sexy or polished. The bread and the wine meal of remembrance has always been about broken things and broken people — His brokenness that meets ours with grace. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I read somewhere in a book about ministry: the grain must be broken so that the bread might be broken to meet our brokenness with the presence of Christ. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Praise the Lord that He doesn’t expect us to come ready, chests-puffed out. ... (read the rest in my stories)
    • Tonight we launched @trinitygreenville’s Core Team meetings on Sunday nights (eeee!). Austin and I drove home in a bit of a holy silence. We’re thankful and tired and full of joy. And even though it’s not a sabbath night for us, we made this board because it’s such a gift and grace. It’s not always prepped and pretty, but we eat with joy and turn our eyes to Christ with gratitude. Happy Sunday, friends. 🧡
    • Name a happier dog. I’ll wait.
    • I love good food. I love small plates of fine foods and big bowls of pasta. I love the unctuousness of quality EVOO, the richness of salted butter on homemade bread, the cold familiarity of ripe watermelon, and the bite of lime squeezed over a taco. I love food. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ But … though this doesn’t happen often, I find myself totally out of sorts when I’m eating alone. Whether Austin is at an elders meeting or traveling for the weekend, I find myself uninterested in sitting down for a meal. When he’s absent, I’m completely unmotivated to make a complete meal, and often opt for boxed Mac n cheese or a handful of grapes. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Austin and I are currently preparing a study through the book of Acts. There are so many things to love about the book of Acts — it’s post resurrection, the disciples are bewildered, everything is happening (and, yet, the disciples think nothing is). The disciples ask good questions about when the Kingdom of God is coming in full form, and Jesus promises them that His plan is better than they could ever imagine. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And during this time, Jesus does something crazy (okay, seemingly crazy). He sits down and eats with them. In His resurrected body, Jesus sits and breaks bread with His friends in a familiar way to assure them that He’s really risen from the dead. Though His resurrected stomach wasn’t growling with hunger, He sits down to eat a meal with them to reassure them: He’s really alive, He’s really with them, it’s all really true. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ When we look ahead to the new heavens and new earth, the book of Revelation reminds us that it will be a feast. But our resurrected bodies, like Christ’s, are going to grumble with hunger. They won’t grow famished, and no bellies will swell with starvation. So, what’s the point of food? What’s the purpose of the feast? ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ To remind us that it’s all true. To remind that Jesus has really risen from the dead. To assure that we are really, actually, truly sitting at a table in the presence of Christ. We eat not out of need, but out of celebration of Jesus’ unhindered presence among us. [Read the rest at the link in my bio] ✨
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