Reading List 2021

2020 is well, 2020.  My goal this year is 12.  I’m sure the list may change as the year goes but here it is as of right now:

  1.  A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael – Elliot
  2. From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya – Tucker
  3. No God, But One – Nabeel Qureshi
  4. Miraculous Movements – Jerry Trousdale
  5. Here I Am Lord, Send Someone Else – Briscoe
  6. Growing Up: How to be Be a Disciple Who Makes Disciples – Gallaty
  7. The Forgotten Jesus – Robby Gallaty
  8. When Everything is Missions – Denny Spitters & Matthew Ellison
  9. Introduction to Global Missions – Pratt
  10. The Unlikely Missionary – King
  11. Adoniram Judson – Duesing
  12. Disciples that Make Disciples – Wyrostek
  13. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life – Whitney

Reading List 2019

Grad school took up a lot more time than I expected and just like when I graduated almost 30 years ago from college, it took many years to get back to reading like I used to.  I may have read one book in 2017.  In 2018, I felt God calling me to read the Bible in one year and so I did.  I finished up today using the Bible App.   I also read The Insanity of God, again.

So in 2019 I am ready to tackle a list of books.  My goal this year is 12.  I’ll build the list as I choose books, but here is what I am planning for now:

  1.  Anything – Jennie Allen
  2. Didn’t See It Coming – Carey Nieuwhof
  3. No God, But One – Nabeel Qureshi
  4. Miraculous Movements – Jerry Trousdale
  5. The Marketspace – Larry McCrary
  6. Letters to the Church – Frances Chan
  7. The Forgotten Jesus – Robby Gallaty
  8. When Everything is Missions – Denny Spitters & Matthew Ellison
  9. Loving the City – Tim Keller

Reading List 2016

I’m not setting a goal this year.  With starting Grad school in January I am sure I will be reading textbooks more than anything, but I hope to squeeze in a few in between terms.  Here is the list to get started…

  1. What Women Fear: Walking in Faith that Transforms – Smith
  2. The Insanity of God – Ripken
  3. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking – Cain
  4. When Missions Shapes the Mission: You and Your Church Can Reach the World – Horner

Reading List 2015 – Goal 20

1. Unstoppable – Caine (done)
2. Own Your Life – Clarkson (done)
3. Keep it Shut – Ehman (done)
4. Counter Culture – Platt (done)
5. Tradecraft: For the Church on Mission – McCrary (done)
6. Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus – Qureshi (done)
7. The Meeting of the Waters – Kling (done)
8. Taming the To-Do List – Whitwer (done)
9. From Good to Grace – Hoover (done)
10. For the Love – Hatmaker (done)
11. I Will – Rainer (done)
12. Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World – Freeman (done)
13. Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds – Wilkin (done)
14. The Beginning (The Bridge) – Kingsbury (done)
15. The Bridge – Kingsbury

Reading List 2014

The year is almost over and here is where I stand. I won’t hit my goal of 20 books but 18 is not bad and it looks like I will finish the whole Bible by the end of the year. Does the Bible count as 2 books??

1. The Great Omission – Saint
2. Mended – Smith
3. Insanity of God – Ripken
4. Chasing God – Smith
5. Insanity of Obedience – Ripken
6. The Antelopein the Living Room – Shankle
7. God is Able – Shirer
8. Notes from a Blue Book – Oxenreider
9. A Confident Heart – Swope
10. Autopsy of a Deceased Church – Rainer
11. Any 3 – Shipman
12. The Best Yes – Terkeurst
13. Forgotten God – Chan
14. Life on Mission – Wilis/Coe
15. The Greatest Gift – Voskamp
16. The Bible
17. Interrupted – Hatmaker
18. Insanity of God – Ripken (2nd reading)

Reading List 2013

Greater (Furtick) – Done
Let It Go (Ehman) – Done
Stressed-Less Living (Miles) – Done
What Happens When Women Say Yes to God (Terkeurst) – Done
Captive in Iran (Rostampour & Amirizadeh) – Done
Sparkling Green Earrings (Shankle) – Done
The In-Between – Goins – Done
If the Shoe Fits – Bricker – Done
I Am A Church Member – Rainer – Done
The Hole in Our Gospel – Stearns – Done
Let the Nations Be Glad – Piper – Done
The Greatest Gift – Voskamp – Done
The Women of Christmas – Higgs – Done
Crazy Busy – DeYoung

Reading List 2012

So I Used to be so Organized (Whitwer) – Done
Unglued (Terkuerst) – Done
Undaunted (Caine) – Done
The Millenials – Rainer & Rainer
The Life Ready Woman – Feldhahn & Lewis
One Bite at a Time – Oxenreider
Organized Simplicity – Oxenreider
Miss Minimalist – Jay
Simple Blogging – Meeks
Resolution for Women – Shirer

Reading List 2011

My expectations were much lower this year for some reason

Crazy Love – Frances Chan
Radical – David Platt – complete

Not on the original list…

The Help – Kathryn Stockett – complete
Life Interrupted – Priscilla Shirer – complete
1000 Gifts – Ann Voskamp – complete

Reading List 2010

Five Love Languages of Children – Chapman
Have a New Kid by Friday – Leman
90 Minutes in Heaven – Piper
What Every Christian Ought to Know – Rogers
Simplify Your Life – Ramsland
Simplify Your Time – Ramsland – Complete
Master Leaders – Barna
The Messies Manual – Felton
Organizing for Life – Felton
Organizing Your Day – Felton
Organizing Magic – Felton
Breathe – Kent
The Worn Out Woman (When Life is Full and Your Spirit is Empty) – Stephens & Gray – Complete
Give God A Year – Lewis – Complete
So Long Insecurity – Moore – Complete
The One Year Bible for Women (NLT)

Not on the original list…but completed
Surprised By Worship – Travis Cottrell
On Christmas Eve – Thomas Kincaid
On Strike for Christmas – Sheila Roberts
Foreign to Familiar – Sarah Lanier
I Danced in Africa – Elizabeth Marshall – twice