Suggestions for a Good Read

These are the books we are recommending for 2008 and may be used for the Women in Focus Reading Course. Most of these books are available through your local book stores.

1. Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
by Peter Scazzero:

Pastor Scazzero witnesses to a spirituality that gives attention to our past without allowing us to remain perpetual victims. He offers us disciplines for our future that can shape our lives and make room for the abundance that Jesus promised.

This is a powerful yet accessible study of the theology of the Trinity that has the potential to change how we perceive God’s presence and participation within our lives.

Yes, we know that God loves us, but do we know it at the core of our very being that we are accepted and embraced and delighted in by our Creator.  The story of an alcoholic priest brings this message home like no other.

Almost nobody ever admits to going through doubt or spiritual dryness right now. Because Connie speaks out of her own ten–year struggle, readers can trust her to lead the way on a step–by–step path out of the wilderness.

5. Searching for God Knows What
by Donald Millar

If you want to know what the emerging generation is thinking and working through with their understandings of God and church and living like Jesus, then this is the book.

6. The Shack
by William P. Young

A novel that explores our perceptions of God like no other.  You will love it or hate it, but you must read it.