Read like a Christian

[Matthias]

 

[Matthias]

Her seven:

1. Knowing God, written by J.I. Packer. (I haven’t read it all the way through. It’s on my TBR list.)

2. A Gospel Primer for Christians, written by Milton Vincent. (I don’t know anything about the book.)

3. Consider the Lilies, written by Johnny Ardavanis. (I’ve never read it and currently have no plans to.)

4. Godly Ambition, written by Kuslan KD. (I’m very unlikely to read this one.)

5. Tactics, written by Greg Koukl. (This one is on my TBR list for 2026.)

6. Another Gospel?, written by Alisa Childers. (I haven’t read this book but might look further into it.)

7. Praying with Paul, written by D.A. Carson. (This one is also on my TBR list for 2026.)

 

[Behold]

I’ve recently been involved in casual conversation about what Christians should / shouldn’t read. Some Christians in these conversations have been broad-minded. Some Christians in these conversations have been narrow-minded.

Reader,

Reading materal, can be time well spent, or time well wasted.
We get to choose what we do with our time, and Paul says we are to "redeem" our time........which means to spend it wisely realizing that Time is Life. So, what you do with your time, is defining your purpose and your life.

Do you feel that you should give God your life?
If so, then this means to give God your time.

And remember, God created laughter and God understands that we need to have some FUN, as if life is only work and struggle then we burn out.
We need to be refreshed by the Joy of the Lord and also by just having some fun, some good times that are best found with people we love.....but alone time can also produce wonderful fruit and refreshing within our lives.

 

[amigo de christo]

Reader,

Reading materal, can be time well spent, or time well wasted.
We get to choose what we do with our time, and Paul says we are to "redeem" our time........which means to spend it wisely realizing that Time is Life. So, what you do with your time, is defining your purpose and your life.

Do you feel that you should give God your life?
If so, then this means to give God your time.

And remember, God created laughter and God understands that we need to have some FUN, as if life is only work and struggle then we burn out.
We need to be refreshed by the Joy of the Lord and also by just having some fun, some good times that are best found with people we love.....but alone time can also produce wonderful fruit in our lives.

Purpose driven life , TIME WASTED , heed it not . BIBLE VERY GOOD invest time reading THIS BOOK .
circle makers , TIME WASTED , heed it not . BIBLE VERY GOOD invest time reading THIS BOOK .
And beleive me when i say this list can get very and i do mean very and even very very long .
BUT the same answer will be READ BIBLE VERY GOOD FOR US .
GET THEM IN THE BIBLE again men are fleecing every last one of us .

 

[RepentingChristian]

I’ve recently been involved in casual conversation about what Christians should / shouldn’t read. Some Christians in these conversations have been broad-minded. Some Christians in these conversations have been narrow-minded.

”Have you ever wondered what it means to read like a Christian? Surely it means more than being a Christian and reading. There are precious realities that shape and season what and how we read. Let me commend five principles that help and challenge me to read like a Christian.”

(Samuel James, “Read Like a Christian: Five Principles for What and How”)

Read Like a Christian: Five Principles for What and How

Not all reading is Christian reading — even when the books are about Jesus. So, how might we bring our literary lives under the lordship of Christ?

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Some would be shocked to know of the message boards that I have visited in order to share the Word of God.

 

[amigo de christo]

Some would be shocked to know of the message boards that I have visited in order to share the Word of God.

So long as we are INDEED BRINGING THEM THE WORD OF GOD . if not its all in vain .
GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD . BUT MAKE DARN SURE ITS THE WORD and yes words OF GOD you are sharing .
MAKE certain its the love of GOD you are sharing and not as many
who are now sharing the love of a harlot that will be their end and all who heed its love .
Just a reminder for us all .

 

[Marilyn C]

I love C.J. Rolls 5 books about the Lord Jesus Christ. I found them on a second hand store on line. I hold them next to my Bible as he opens up God`s word about the Lord A - Z.

 

[Matthias]

Her seven:

1. Knowing God, written by J.I. Packer. (I haven’t read it all the way through. It’s on my TBR list.)

2. A Gospel Primer for Christians, written by Milton Vincent. (I don’t know anything about the book.)

3. Consider the Lilies, written by Johnny Ardavanis. (I’ve never read it and currently have no plans to.)

4. Godly Ambition, written by Kuslan KD. (I’m very unlikely to read this one.)

5. Tactics, written by Greg Koukl. (This one is on my TBR list for 2026.)

6. Another Gospel?, written by Alisa Childers. (I haven’t read this book but might look further into it.)

7. Praying with Paul, written by D.A. Carson. (This one is also on my TBR list for 2026.)

 

[Matthias]

“In short, we read Christian books to grow in Christlikeness.

1. Formation: the process of reading shapes how we think and process information

2. Formulation: the purpose of reading helps us in developing ideas and convictions

3. Fructification: the product of reading brings forth transformation, which bears fruit“

(Steven Stanley, “Beyond Shame and Showmanship: Why You Should Read Christian Books”)

Beyond Shame & Showmanship: Why You Should Read Christian Books

Looking to start a habit of reading? Don't do so for the wrong reasons. Establish the right motivations for reading that bears fruit.

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[Matthias]

“I recently read J.C. Ryle’s Practical Religion which was originally published in 1878. One of the chapters in this book is on Bible Reading. This chapter is wonderful: challenging and inspiring. Here is how Ryle concludes his chapter,

’Let us resolve to read the Bible more and more every year we live. Let us try to get it rooted in our memories, and engrafted into our hearts. Let us be thoroughly well-provisioned with it, against the voyage of death. Who knows but we may have a very stormy passage? Sight and hearing may fail us, and we may be in deep waters. Oh, to have the Word “hidden in our hearts” in such an hour as that! (Psalm 119:11.)

Let us resolve to be more watchful over our Bible reading every year that we live. Let us be jealously careful about the time we give to it, and the manner that time is spent. Let us beware of omitting our daily reading, without sufficient cause. Let us not be gaping, and yawning, and dozing over God’s book, while we read. Let us read like a wife reading a husband’s Letter from a distant land.

Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or tract, or friend - above the Word. Cursed be that book, or tract, or human counsel - which creeps in between us and the Bible, and hides the Bible from from our eyes! Once more I say, let us be very watchful. The moment we open the Bible - the devil sots down by our side. Oh, to read with a hungry spirit, and a simple desire for education!

Let us resolve to honor the Bible more in our families. Let us read it morning and evening to oir families, and not be ashamed to let others see that we do so.

Let us not be discouraged by seeing no good arise from it. The Bible-reading in a family has kept many a one from the jail, the workhouse, and the hospital - if it has not kept him from Hell.

Let us resolve to meditate more on the Bible. It is good to take with us two or three texts when we go out into the world, and turn them over and over in our minds whenever we have a little leisure time. It keeps out many vain thoughts. It clenches the nail of daily reading. It preserves our souls from stagnating and breeding corrupt things, It sanctifies and and quickens our memories; and prevents them becoming like those foul ponds where the reptiles live, but the fish die.

Let us resolve to talk more to believers about the Bible when we meet them. Alas, the conversation of Christians, when they do meet, is often sadly unprofitable! How many frivolous, and trifling, and uncharitable things are said! Let us bring out the Bible more, and it will help to drive the devil away, and keep our hearts in tune. Oh, that we may all strive so to walk together in this evil world; that Jesus may often draw near, and go with us, as He went with the two disciples journeying to Emmaus!

Last of all, let us resolve to live by the Bible more and more every year we live. Let us frequently take account of …
all our opinions and practices,
all our habits and tempers,
all our behavior in public and in private - in the world, and by our own firesides.

Let us measure all by the Bible, and resolve, by God’s help, to conform to it. Oh that we may learn increasingly to “cleanse our ways” by the Word! (Psalm 119:9.)

I commend all these things to the serious and prayerful attention of every one into whose hands this paper may fall. I want the ministers of my beloved country - to be Bible-reading ministers; The congregations - to be Bible-reading congregations; and the nation - to be a Bible reading nation.’”

Resolution Tips from J.C. Ryle

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[Matthias]

1. Knowing God, written by J.I. Packer. (I haven’t read it all the way through. It’s on my TBR list.)

Done. It’s a good book. I benefited from it and enjoyed reading it, but I wouldn’t recommend it for / to a newbie.