Read Great Christian Authors
- Jerry Witham
- Jan 3, 2009
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READ GREAT CHRISTIAN AUTHORS
Last week I spoke about abiding. This is an urgent need that we must give all to. To abide in Christ and Him in us (John 15.1-11). But we need a plan. To be in the Word, to prayer, to journal and I would also suggest reading great Christian authors.
John Piper says, If you read 15 minutes a day for one year (just 15 minutes, say just before supper, or just before bed), you will read 5,475 minutes in the year. Multiply that by 200 words a minute and you get 1,095,000 words that you would read in a year. Now the average book has about 360 words per page. So you would have read 360 words into 1,095,000, or 3,041 pages in one year. All that in 15 minutes a day.
So you could read 10 or so books. Here are some authors I would suggest…
DA Carson
Tim Keller
Jerry Bridges
Randy Alcorn
John Piper
Richard Foster
Mark Devers
Max Lucado
Wayne Grudem
JI Packer
John Calvin
Charles Spurgeon
Jonathan Edwards
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Henri Nouwen
Jeremy Taylor
Hudson Taylor
Jim Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot
Madame Jeanne Guyon
Leonard Ravenhill
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