My Top Five Favorite Books of 2022
I often write about profound concepts or overt topics I am walking through in my personal life — today, I wanted to break that mold and share my top five favorite books from 2022. Someone once said, “Drink tea, read books, and be happy,” you know what? I agree. With a cappuccino in one hand and a book in the other, here are my top five favorite books I’ve read this year. Trust me; you want to read these books.
“You don’t need to unburden or collect yourself and then come to Jesus. Your very burden is what qualifies you to come. No payment is required; he says, “I will give you rest.” His rest is a gift, not a transaction. Whether you are actively working hard to crowbar your life into smoothness (“labor”) or passively finding yourself weighed down by something outside your control (“heavy laden”), Jesus Christ’s desire that you find rest, that you come in out of the storm, outstrips even your own.”
2. A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson, Translator of The Message — Winn Collier
“An accomplished pastor once explained to Eugene how he was trying to “reproduce himself in the younger generation.” Eugene’s response: “Isn’t one of you enough? Why don’t you nurture what is uniquely them?”
3. Open and Unafraid: The Psalms as a Guide to Life — David Taylor
“What the psalms offer us is a powerful aid to un-hide: to stand honestly before God without fear, to face one another vulnerably without shame, and to encounter life in the world without any of the secrets that would demean and distort our humanity”
4. Courage, Dear Heart: Letters to a Weary World — Rebecca Reynolds
“I used to think of the Christian life as a sort of achievement test in which we were supposed to hurry to figure out all the right answers, but I’m starting to wonder if these slow, hard days of growth help transform us into our eternal form, and therefore are crucial. God lets us live out our belief (and our unbelief) in such a way that the truth of ourselves rises to the surface. Sincere doubt and deflective doubt are divided. What we love most is exposed by our long days of chasing. We are shown ourselves so that we can resign more and more to the indwelling God. Those who love the light pursue the light, and those who love the darkness of self-deification are allowed to feel the gravity of this choice while time remains to make new choices.”
5. The Christ Key: Unlocking the Centrality of Christ in the Old Testament — Chad Bird
““In the Beginning, that is, in Wisdom who is the Son of God, the Father made the heavens and the earth.” From the very opening word of Scripture, Christ is on our lips.”
Here are the books I plan to read in 2023, https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/AHA0OSNOT9SB...
