Reads.
Quick post for this evening, since I was out at a meeting at church and got home a little more than an hour ago.
I have two questions to ask, both of which have been asked in the past:
1) What book or books are you currently reading?
2) What translation of the Bible are you currently using - or are you using more than one version?
My answers:
1) Where God Was Born, Bruce Feiler
2) ESV for daily reading, TNIV/Message Parallel Bible at church.
Your turn.
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By jesuspunx, September 5, 2007 @ 3:00 am
1) What book or books are you currently reading?
Systematic Theology - Wayne Grudem
Systematic Theology - Louis Berkhof
The Person of Christ - Donald Macleod
The Work of Christ - Robert Letham
2) What translation of the Bible are you currently using - or are you using more than one version?
ESV
KJV
By Dustin, September 5, 2007 @ 5:04 am
1) Um, I’m reading several (for seminary that is), but one I’m reading on my own is The Imitation of Christ — Thomas a Kempis
2) I regularly use TNIV, but I have been using the NRSV recently. However, I have all the “major” translations on my shelf.
By R. Sherman, September 5, 2007 @ 5:34 am
1. Last Stand Of The Tin Can Sailors by Hornfisher about the Battle Of Samar during the Leyte Gulf invasion.
2. KJV for everything.
Cheers.
By Roseuvsharon, September 5, 2007 @ 7:06 am
They Found the Secret by V. Raymond Edman (20 Transformed Lives That Reveal a Touch of Eternity)
NKJV is what I use most often, but I also like paraphrases and my husband’s NASB with the Greek/Hebrew Lexicon. I don’t care too much for the NIV since it takes liberties and adds things that weren’t in the original at all (not just a translation or modernizing issue but a really changing of the essence of the text).
By praterdon, September 5, 2007 @ 11:52 am
Book- The Seven Principals of Golf
Version - NIV
Man I’m simple…
By John, September 5, 2007 @ 11:56 am
1. Right now I’m on the last few pages of “Searching For God Knows What.” by Donald Miller, I just finished “The Epic of Gilgamesh,” and I’m still in the middle of “The Devil in Connecticut” by Gerald Daniel Brittle. I’m also reading various stories in David Madden’s “A Pocketful of Prose: Vintage Short Fiction” for my creative writing class, as well as Stephen King’s “On Writing.” Oh, and I’m also making my way through Philip Toshio Sudo’s “Zen Guitar.” …I think that’s all of it, if you exclude all of the textbooks I’m working through, lol.
2. The Bible I have in my room says “The New American Bible” on the side of it.
By peter burch, September 5, 2007 @ 6:37 pm
Book: Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
Translation: Holman Christian Standard Bible (our pew Bible)
By Uncle Ben, September 5, 2007 @ 7:33 pm
#1
-Where God Meets Man - Gerhard Forde
-The Cost of Discipleship - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
-The Institutes (Compend) - John Calvin
-The Freedom of a Christian - Martin Luther
-Prayer - Miles Munroe
#2
I mainly use the NIV, but have used the NRSV quite a bit since it’s so common in the ELCA.
By Andy, September 5, 2007 @ 7:48 pm
Wow! Thanks for participating, all! Definitely a wide range of reads and translations.
This definitely was an opportunity to get ideas on what else to read (once my own bookstack decreases). And it’s interesting to see what translation you all are reading…
By literary miz, September 9, 2007 @ 5:13 pm
1) What book or books are you currently reading?
** Reading “PASSAGE” by Connie Willis (about Near Death Experiences … fiction).
*** Just starting –for Church study– “JUST WALK ACROSS THE ROOM” by Bill Hybels (have you read this, Andy??? You’d love it!)
2) What translation of the Bible are you currently using - or are you using more than one version?
*** For my daily reading, I’m using The Message: “Through the Bible in One Year” (or something like that).
** But, I still like my New Living Translation for everyday look-ups, etc.
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