My Commonplace Book

Finding the Groove: Composing a Jazz-Shaped Faith” (Robert Gelinas)
Just finished reading Gelinas’ book on a Jazz-Shaped Faith–very provocative. In his chapter on “developing your ear,” he asks:
“What if every moment of life with Christ is pregnant with promise–containing the potential to be a one of a kind masterpiece?”
His book also led me to read Dr. [...]

The UPS guy arrived a couple hours ago. I like him a lot. He brought these four books that I had ordered from Amazon.com:

Wow. Now I’m not kidding. As I was writing the above sentence, I noticed the Fedex guy out my window. I like him too. He brought me the following [...]

Reading the Classics as a Means of Hearing the Holy Spirit
C.S. Lewis once said, “Every time I read a new book, I read an old book.” Lewis feared that Christians only associated with modern sources might be “tempted to think that Christianity is a word of so many meanings that it means nothing at all.” [...]

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look to yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin and decay. But look to Christ and you find Him, [...]

I love to read. I’m learning to be a better reader. Several years ago, I summarized some of Keith Drury’s work on reading. I thot I’d add these posts to mycommonplace.com–since it’s a blog about what I read and like…and now how I’m learning to read.
Before you read, get ready to read. Your ability [...]