October's Readings

The Camel Method by Kevin Greeson- This is a book written on an evangelism method that uses the Quaran as a bridge to the Gospel. It uses the commonalities of the Chosen Christ, Angels announcing the birth, the Miracles of Jesus, the Eternal Life Jesus offers that both the Quaran and the Bible speak of. It was a great shot in the arm to read such terms as reproducible, culturally acceptable, and church-planting movement again outside of training courses. 

The Beloved Disciple by Beth Moore This is a study/devotional book based on the writings of John. John has always been my favorite account of Jesus, and this Beth Moore in depth look is really educational and edifying. I am learning and having my heart worked on at the same time. 

Blink of an Eye by Ted Dekkar-this is an adventure-romance novel that takes place partly in the US and partly in Saudi Arabia.  It deals a tiny bit with Christian-Muslim relations, and Middle Eastern culture, I found those parts really interesting. The whole story is interesting though, it was a page turner, I finished it in a weekend! 

Forks Over Knives-The Cookbook by Del Sroufe I watched the documentary by the same name on netflix and was really impressed with it. The whole concept is basically preventative medicine-here is a quote from the back- “if you want to lose weight, lower your cholesterol, and prevent (or even reverse!) chronic conditions such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes, the right food is your best medicine.” So this cookbook has over 300 recipes of dishes based on fruits, veggies, whole grains, tubers and legumes. So yeah, no meat or dairy-I have not gone this far myself, but am trying to include more of the above and living here just automatically cuts out a lot meat. I am learning some new eggplant recipes- which is good because eggplant is one of the few vegetables we can count on being at market every week without fail. 

The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good by Peter Greer This title caught my attention on amazon when I was book shopping. Greer is the CEO of Hope International and has experience in humanitarian/missions work in difficult places in the world. He is also transparent and  very humble in his warnings of the common pitfalls of this line of work: doing the work to please others or make yourself look better to God, judging our brothers and sisters who are living in America too harshly, putting work above family, putting “sacred’ occupations over “secular” ones, etc. I would recommend this book to anyone working in missions or humanitarian work.