Planting ain't for no yuppie

well tree planting isn't for yuppies, but you would think after 8 years I would have enough evidence for my non-yuppies status, and yet I stumble on. Things have been well, crazy busy but well. My crew is making good money, the weather is atrociously hot, the food to die for (thanks to my wife) and the counter is ticking to bring us back to sunny and beautiful victoria. Now back to reading Calvin Miller for the last course that I will be taking from Briercrest for a very long time. see you soon.

List of books to read

Some of these I have read and others I am working on and others I have not touched. Just some ideas for places to look for new and old thoughts about true ways to see and think about the world.

1. David E. Fitch- The Great Giveaway
2. Gary- Good news about injustice
3. Hunter III, George G- The Celtic Way of Evangelism
4. Miller, Don- Blue like Jazz
5. Brueggemann- Walter, The Prophetic Imagination
6. George Eldon Ladd- The Presence of the Future
7. McKnight, Scot- Turning to Jesus- The Sociology of Conversion?
8. Rick bundshue- Passed through the fire
9. Paul D. Stanley Connecting- (book on mentoring)
10. Brad Kallenburg- Evangelism in a post modern world
11. Gibson- Preaching to a shifting Culture
12. George Barna- Revolution
13. Eddie Gibbs Emerging Churches
14. Rick Mckinley- Jesus in the margins
15. The Ragamuffin Gospel
16. Gordon T. Smith- The Lord's supper in the life of the church
17. Marva Dawn- Talking the Walk: Letting Christian Language Live again
18. M. Luther The Bondage of the Will-
19. Sheldon Vanauken- A Severe Mercy
20. Lauren Winner- Real Sex
21. Ivy Beckwith- Post-Modern children's Ministry
22. Dr. Emerson Eggerichs- Love & Respect
23. Ken Bain- What the Best College teachers do
24. Imagining sermons- Logosomatic text.
25. Bueachner- Telling the Truth
26. Robinson- All in How you tell it
27. Patricia Pitcher- Artists, Craftsmen, and Technocrats
28. Kiaus Bockmuehl- The Unreal God
29. Ludwig- Essence of Christianity
30. The whole gospel to whole people by whole people
31. Joseph, Myer
32. Gottman- Psychology "Why Marriages Succeed or fail"
33. Miller, Rex- The Millennium Matrix: Reclaiming the Past, Reframing the Future of the Church. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2004.
34. Webber, Robert- The Younger Evangelicals
35. Kimball, Dan- The Emerging Church: Vintage Christianity for New Generations.
36. Dunn, Richard R- Shaping the Spiritual life of Students
37. Buechner, Frederick- Godric
38. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor- The Brothers of Karamazov
39. Coupland, Douglas- Generation X- Life after God
40. Maclaren, Brian- A new Kind of Christian
41. Manning, Brennan- The Ragamuffin Gospel
42. Bonhoeffer, Dietrich- Letter and Papers from Prison
43. Tomlinson, Dave- The Post-Evangelical
44. Schaeffer, Franky- Addicted to Mediocrity
45. Wallis, Jim- The Soul of Politics
46. Cahil, Thomas- How the Irish Saved Civiliation
47. Dobson, Ryan- Be Intolerant.
48. Adams, Michael- Fire and Ice
49. Myers, Joe- Search to Belong
50. Cooper, Jordan
51. Grenz, Stan- Beyond Foundationalism
52. Bruce, F.F.- Training the 12
53. Cymbala, Jim- Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire
54. Coleman, Robert E- The Master Plan of Evangelism
55. Hornsby, Billy- The Cell-Driven Church
56. Rushty, Salmon,
57. B something- Virtual Faith
58. Clapp, Rodney- A Peculiar People
59. Mark Knoll- America?s God- slavery supported and defied by Biblical text: interpretation?
60. Charter of Rights and Freedoms
61. Red Earth and White Lies- Vine Deloria
62. B.B. Warfield
63. J. I. Packer- Evangelical Anglican problem of identity
64. Guns, Germs, and Steel- book about American evolving.
65. T. S. Elliot- the Wasteland- devastation of western society morally.
66. Thomas Kuhn- Scientific Revolution-
67. Toqueville- Democracy in America
68. Susan Neylan- The Heavens are Changing
69. Barbara Walter- The role of women in the 1960s.
70. Rich Dad, Poor Dad- people willing to believe extreme lies if it will save them money.
71. Marva Dawn- Talking the Walk: Letting Chritian Language Live again

Well here is my first Post

I'm new at this blog thing, but I have enough questions about the world that I have finally given in and started on this somewhat pathetic cyber journey, but hey, I can't be in physical vicinity with everyone so this is a major compromise. I will guarantee you that for every post on this blog there is 100 conversations behind it, so please, may this be a way for us to grow and think together. till later.