2007 was a landmark year for me as a reader. I finally accomplished my goal of reading 100 books in a year. I reviewed the majority of these books here at Kingdom People. In case you’d like to catch a quick glimpse of the books I read and reviewed in 2007, here’s the list. Tomorrow, I’ll list my Top Ten Favorite Reads of 2007.
10 Things I Wish Jesus Never Said – Victor Kuligin
3:16 – The Numbers of Hope - Max Lucado
A Community Called Atonement – Scot McKnight
A Concise History of Christian Thought – Tony Lane
A Mind for God – James Emery White
A Reformation Debate – John Calvin, Jacopo Sadoleto
A Reformation Reader – Dennis Janz
A.D. 33 – The Year that Changes the World – Colin Duriez
Advanced Strategic Planning – Aubrey Malphurs
Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World - Robert Webber
The Apocalypse Code – Hank Hanegraaff
Baptist Sacramentalism – Anthony Cross, editor
Believer’s Baptism – Thomas Schreiner, Shawn Wright, others
Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
By Faith Alone: Answering the Challenges to the Doctrine of Justification – Guy Waters, Gary Johnson
Calvin for Armchair Theologians – Christopher Elwood
Calvinism in the Las Vegas Airport – Richard Mouw
The Chamber – John Grisham
Christ-Based Leadership – David Stark
The Christian and the Pharisee – R.T. Kendall, David Rosen
Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire – Brian Walsh & Sylvia Keesmaat
Confessions – Augustine (Summary Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)
Disciplines of a Godly Man – R. Kent Hughes
Empowered Church Leadership – Brian Dodd
Engaging Unbelief: A Captivating Strategy from Augustine to Aquinas – Curtis Chang
The European Reformations – Carter Lindberg
Evangelical Feminism: A New Path to Liberalism? – Wayne Grudem
Evil and the Justice of God – N.T. Wright
The Future of Justification: A Response to N.T. Wright – John Piper
God’s Big Picture: Tracing the Storyline of the Bible – Vaughan Roberts
The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus – Marvin Meyer
Great Leader, Great Teacher – Gary Bredfeldt (Review Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)
Inside Narnia – Devin Brown
The Irresistible Revolution – Shane Claiborne
Is Belief in God Good, Bad, or Irrelevant? – Preston Jones, editor
Is Jesus the Only Savior? - Ronald Nash
Jesus Mean and Wild – Mark Galli
Judas and the Gospel of Jesus – N.T. Wright
Leading from the Second Chair – Mike Bonem, Roger Patterson
Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches – Mark Driscoll, Dan Kimball, others
Liturgical Theology: The Church as Worshipping Community – Simon Chan
Love is All Around: The Making of the Mary Tyler Moore Show – Robert Alley
Love Your God with All Your Mind – J.P. Mooreland (Review Part 1, Part 2)
Martin Luther’s Basic Theological Writings – Timothy Lull
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War – Nathaniel Philbrick
The Narrated Bible in Chronological Order
Night – Elie Wiesel
Our Sufficiency in Christ – John MacArthur
The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House – Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy
Readings in the History of Christian Theology: Volume 1 – William Placher
The Secret Message of Jesus – Brian McLaren
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ - John Piper
Set Apart: Calling a Worldly Church to a Godly Life – R. Kent Hughes
Simple Church – Thom Rainer & Eric Geiger (Review Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)
The Soul of Christianity – Huston Smith
Spiritual Leadership – J. Oswald Sanders
The Story of Christianity – Justo Gonzales
Suffering and the Sovereignty of God – John Piper, Justin Taylor, others
Surprised by Jesus – Tim Stafford
Taken By Communion: How the Lord’s Supper Nourishes the Soul - Dan Schmidt
Theologians of the Baptist Tradition – David Dockery, Timothy George
Theology of the Reformers – Timothy George
Tozer on Worship and Entertainment - A.W. Tozer
Understanding Four Views on the Lord’s Supper – Counterpoints series
The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism – Carl F.H. Henry
What Do They Hear? Bridging the Gap Between Pulpit and Pew – Mark Allan Powell
What is a Healthy Church? - Mark Dever
When God Builds a Church – Bob Russell
Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know about Writing - Patricia T. O’Conner
Worship Seeking Understanding – John Witvliet
Hey Trevin! Awesome goal to have and to have accomplished! Tell me, how did you do it? Any pointers on what you did that helped you be successful (assuming that self-discipline is required)? As a husband, dad of three, full-time worker, and seminarian, 100 books in a year may be a bit too much for me, but the idea is something I can tweak. So, share your secrets, man!
Comment by Danny — December 26, 2007 @ 12:29 pm
Hey Danny,
Look for me to post on this some time next week. I’m going to try for 100 in 2008 too and thought I’d give some tips for those who might want to try it with me. I’m a full-timer, seminarian, and a dad too… so I know what you mean!
Comment by Trevin Wax — December 26, 2007 @ 12:45 pm
I’m with Danny. Share those secrets! Do you speed read?
Comment by Mark Goodyear — December 26, 2007 @ 5:49 pm
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You are a prolific reader. I think you would enjoy Amazing Grace, the biography of Wilberforce.
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