Top 5 Books you should be reading
Yeah, I know, this could seem a little bit presumptuous, but trust me, these books more than make up for it. Some of them you will have heard about, others you don't even know they exist... but all of them are worth dropping what you're doing right now and finding a copy as fast as you can.
Here they are, in no particular order... the Top 5 Books you should be reading.
1. "Velvet Elvis" by Rob Bell. (ISBN: 031026345X) A re-imagining, if you will, of the Christian faith. Rob Bell, the featured speaker in the NOOMA videos takes us through several movements in which he explores our previous conceptions about Christianity and bravely challenges the reader to "work out their faith."
2. "Identity Crisis" by Brad Meltzer, Rags Morales & Michael Bair. (ISBN: ) A careful character study of DC Comics' major heroes, revealing that even those we consider heroes experience moments of moral ambiguity. Truly a well-done morality tale wrapped up in a clever whodunit murder mystery that actually makes you care.
3. "The Visitation" by Frank Peretti. (ISBN: ) Possibly the best novel ever written by this author, he very effectively unpacks the supernatural and practical sides of vocational ministry in a nicely-paced spiritual thriller.
4. "Chasing Daylight" by Erwin Raphael McManus. (ISBN: 0785281134) McManus takes us for a ride, laying out the direct relationship between passion and initiative. He lays out questions like, 'why do some of us realize our dreams and advance forward while others timidly sit back and watch from the sidelines' and provides Biblical proofs for the need to live life with a healthy sense of urgency.
5. "The Word on the Street" by Rob Lacey (ISBN: 0310922682) The back of this book starts with this sentence... "For those who've never read the Bible, and for those who've read it too much." Pretty interesting lead-off, isn't it? The book is no less direct and intriguing as we're subjected to Lacey's radical paraphrasing of Scripture into today's vernacular.