Blog Review
I'm going to start a new feature on evotional.com. I'm going to do an occasional blog review of a book. I started last week with Chazown by Craig Groeshel.
I've been addicted to books since my senior year of college. It started, believe it or not, with an 800-page biography of Albert Einstein. I picked up the book on one of our basketball roadtrips. And I never put it down!
I read for lots of reasons. I think leaders are readers. Books keep me from becoming a closed-system. I think it's a stewardship issue. Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "A mind stretched by a new idea never returns to its original shape."
I've read that it takes the average author approximately two years to write a book. That means if you read 100 books you've gained 200 years of life experience! I used to read 150-200 books per year. That pace has slowed down to about 100 books per year. But I still think I'm one of Amazon.com's best customers :)
Long story short, I want to be a little more intentional about recommending books so I'll occasionally do a blog review of a book that I find particulary helpful or insightful.
Here's my latest read. It's titled elements by Bob Franquiz.
Bob Franquiz pastors Calvary Fellowship in Miami Lakes, Florida. I've never met Bob, but he is the kind of guy you like just by reading what he is writing! Plus he wears his hat backwards. I trust pastors that wear backwards baseball caps!
I've always felt like someone needs to write a book on John the Baptist. He was such an enigma! And talk about buzz agent :)
elements is it! It's a great book about John the Baptist and his revolutionary lifestyle. It gets the adrenaline going!
Here's an amazon link.
I've been addicted to books since my senior year of college. It started, believe it or not, with an 800-page biography of Albert Einstein. I picked up the book on one of our basketball roadtrips. And I never put it down!
I read for lots of reasons. I think leaders are readers. Books keep me from becoming a closed-system. I think it's a stewardship issue. Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "A mind stretched by a new idea never returns to its original shape."
I've read that it takes the average author approximately two years to write a book. That means if you read 100 books you've gained 200 years of life experience! I used to read 150-200 books per year. That pace has slowed down to about 100 books per year. But I still think I'm one of Amazon.com's best customers :)
Long story short, I want to be a little more intentional about recommending books so I'll occasionally do a blog review of a book that I find particulary helpful or insightful.
Here's my latest read. It's titled elements by Bob Franquiz.
Bob Franquiz pastors Calvary Fellowship in Miami Lakes, Florida. I've never met Bob, but he is the kind of guy you like just by reading what he is writing! Plus he wears his hat backwards. I trust pastors that wear backwards baseball caps!
I've always felt like someone needs to write a book on John the Baptist. He was such an enigma! And talk about buzz agent :)
elements is it! It's a great book about John the Baptist and his revolutionary lifestyle. It gets the adrenaline going!
Here's an amazon link.
2 Comments:
um, 150-200 books a year...wow! I'm assuming you speed read. I make my way through maybe 15-20 or so at the most.
I'm really glad that you like to read so much.
Remember, that is a preacher's diet :) And I'm not prescribing that for everyone. I have two focus days a week where I'm preping for messages and alot of that is reading time. But some of it is just good time stewardship. I never go anywhere without a book.
For starters, everyone ought to be put a book in their bathroom :)
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