ThoughtCoffee - Mark Burleson » goals http://www.thoughtcoffee.net/blog Thoughts of God, Tech, and whatever else comes up Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:08:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Book Updates http://www.thoughtcoffee.net/blog/2007/12/14/book-updates/ http://www.thoughtcoffee.net/blog/2007/12/14/book-updates/#comments Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:21:05 +0000 mburleson http://www.thoughtcoffee.net/blog/2007/12/14/book-updates/ I have finished In a Pit With a Lion On a Snowy Day by Mark Batterson.  I found that book to be absolutely amazing.  It is a recommended read to everyone.  Mark challenged me to assess what I was doing and my thoughts on what I wanted to do versus what I felt I can do.  

I had a whole bunch of thoughts and quotes I wanted to put up on a post, but due to the recent winter weather mayhem, the craziness of recovery at work and the lack of immediate access to a working computer, with free time, when I needed it, I lost all the thoughts I had.  So you get a condensed version.

There have been a few things on my list that I’ve always thought about doing, but always kind of shrugged them off as nothing more than a mere whim.  After reading the book and what it had to say, I have come to the internal conclusion that they are, in fact, God inspired.  I’ve mentioned one of the thoughts to a few close friends, as I do not feel it is the time to publically discuss them, though I cannot promise they won’t be influencing my future posts.

As for the other books, I have tentatively placed Going All the Way by Craig Groeschel on hold.  I just don’t feel that I can commit the time to read and post on it adequately with everything going on; work, storm clean up, and Christmas stuff.  I will pick it back up. 

Instead, I have started reading Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens by Neil Cole and The Big Idea by Dave Ferguson.  I think both will be good reads.  

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