As we enter 2011, we come with thoughts of a better year than 2010. This brings to my mind 1 Corinthians 2:9: “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him (KJV).” Yet in order to see and comprehend what God is doing and has done, we need to step outside of our little world.

    For the past two years, I have asked you to do two things, which are:

1) The Living Worship Challenge
2) A Journey through Proverbs

    Now I am asking you to take the next step in being what God has called us to be, the light and salt in our Families and communities. I am asking you to read these special books and see how God used the authors to effect their communities and generations. You see, if you have been working on those things that you were assigned to do for the last two years, you have a lot of God in you which needs to come to the world.

    As you read the works of these authors, ask yourself some questions about them and seek answers to them:

    When did they live?

    What were their lives like?

    Why did they move people?

    Here is one of the authors that you will read, C.S. Lewis.

    C.S Lewis was born Clive Staples ("Jack") Lewis in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on November 29, 1898. His mother died when he was 10 years old. To cope with tragedy, Jack began to write stories and to study. C.S. Lewis had been a Christian and baptized as a child. He would turn to atheism until his conversion to Christianity at the age of 33, in September 1931. He devoted the rest of his life to writing about faith and the Christian experience. His most famous work is the 7 volumes of the "Chronicles of Narnia," published between 1950 and 1956. C.S. Lewis has “…had an enormous impact on more than a generation of readers who sought wisdom, accessible theology, practical logic and imagination (Christian Book Distributor.com).”

    The Reading List

A.W. Tozer’s books	E. M. Bounds	C.S. Lewis’s books	John Bunyan’s Books
And He Dwelt Among Us	The Necessity of Prayer	Mere Christianity	Pilgrim’s Progress (in Modern English)
Attributes of God Volumes 1 & 2	The Essentials of Prayer	Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship	Works of John Bunyan
Best of A.W. Tozer Volumes 1 & 2	The Possibilities of Prayer	The Four Loves	Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
Born after Midnight	The Reality of Prayer	The Screwtape Letters	Christian Behavior
Christ Eternal Son	Purpose in Prayer	Till We Have Faces	Advice to Sufferers
The Counselor	The Weapon of Prayer	God in the Dock	The Fear of God
Early Tozer; A Word In Season	Power through Prayer	Surprised by Joy	Heart’s Ease in Heart Trouble
Echoes of Eden	Prayer and Praying Men	Christian Reflections	Prayer
Faith Beyond Reason	The Complete works of E. M. Bounds on Prayer (contains the above 8 books)	The C.S. Lewis Signature Classics (contains 7 works) Mere Christianity The Screwtape Letters The Great Divorce The Problem of Pain A Grief Observed Lewis’s prophetic examination of universal values The Abolition of Man	The Pharisee and the Publican
God Tells The Man Who Cares====	A Place Called Heaven	Reflections on the Psalms	All Loves Excelling
God’s Pursuit of Man	Prayer and Spiritual Warfare: Receiving Answer to your Prayers	Words to live By: A Guide for the Merely Christian	The Holy War (in Modern English)
I Call It Heresy!	Guide to Spiritual Warfare	The Chronicles of Narnia	Light for Them That Sit in Darkness
I Talk Back to the Devil			The Greatness of the Soul
Jesus Author of Our Faith			The Acceptable Sacrifice
Jesus Is Victor
Jesus Our Man in Glory
Keys to The Deeper Life
Knowledge of the Holy
Life In The Spirit
Living As A Christian
Man The Dwelling Place of God
Men Who Met God
Next Chapter After Last
Of God and Men
Paths To Power
Price of Neglect
Purpose of Man
We Travel an Appointed Way
Root Of The Righteous
Rut Rot or Revival
Who Put Jesus on the Cross?
The Warfare of the Spirit
The Size of the Soul
The Pursuit of God The Thirst for the Divine
This World: Playground or Battleground?
Wingspread
That Incredible Christian
Success and the Christian
Reclaiming Christianity
Radical Cross
Set of Sail

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