Turn off Netflix; not forever,
but for now. Disney Plus. Hulu. HBO Max. Pluto TV. Plain, old cable or satellite.
Turn it off, unplug, and sit down in a comfortable chair with a nice mug of cocoa
and a good book. You know, the kind you hold in your hands. Losing yourself in a book is a lost art that our technology-crazed
culture needs to rediscover.
I hope to help with this. To
begin 2022, I am offering a daily book recommendation. I’ll do this
Monday-Friday, throughout January. It will be posted on my blog, my Facebook
and twitter pages, and I will post it on the Hillside church twitter page
(daily) and Facebook page (each Friday).
I read a lot of books. I
don’t read through an entire book every day, but I read often. If you trusted
me so much you went ahead read all the books I recommended, that would end up being
21 books – less than two books a month for 2022! Whether you read any of my
recommendations, or read your own books, please, READ! Engage your mind in the
activity of recognizing words on a page that then stimulate your imagination in
order to wrestle with concepts, or walk in new stories. READ!
We have such a gift. God’s
holy word is available to us in the Bible and in America, there are Bibles
aplenty. A Christian could easily benefit from the countless study Bibles that
are available. But, we need to read well.
We become better Bible
readers as we improve as readers in general. And the stories and ideas we glean
from our reading (poetry, novels, commentary, history, plays, short stories,
inspirational literature, etc) awaken our minds to the endless possibilities
that come from scripture. With illumined reading eyes, we see so much more in
the Bible. So, I hope you’ll join me on a beautiful journey of reading through
2022. Watch for the first recommendation today!
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