{"id":31954,"date":"2022-09-10T15:50:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T20:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/5-books-to-read-on-your-vacation\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T15:50:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T20:50:33","slug":"5-books-to-read-on-your-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/5-books-to-read-on-your-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Books to Read on Your Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Ben White on Unsplash <\/p>\n

By Craig Thompson<\/em><\/p>\n

Summer is a season for reading. There\u2019s little I enjoy more in the world than sitting on the beach with a good book.<\/p>\n

As many of you reading this know, it\u2019s not easy to read on vacation with children who want to build sandcastles and play in the ocean. However, I still find time to steal a few minutes here and there to enjoy brushing the salt and sand off of my pages as I leaf through the thoughts of another.<\/p>\n

I hope you\u2019ll find or make time to read this summer. As you search for the perfect read, I want to suggest five kinds of books you should set time aside for this summer.<\/p>\n

1. Read something old.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

How old? The older, the better. Go back thirty, forty, or fifty years, or even a hundred or fifteen hundred years. Read Henry, Machen, Pascal, Aquinas, or Augustine.<\/p>\n

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Old books have a different worldview to offer and provide a different vocabulary. Old books enrich you with older ways of thinking, speaking, writing, and listening.<\/p>\n

Suggestion: Augustine: Confessions & City of God<\/em><\/p>\n

2. Read something new.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

As pastors, one way we keep in touch with culture is to read the books being published right now. Read something published in the last two years to help you take the pulse of current publishing trends. It could be theology, history, psychology, or fiction.<\/p>\n

Suggestion: Running From Mercy<\/p>\n

3. Read something the requires hard thinking.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

These kind of books can be long or short\u2014but if you\u2019re trying to read on vacation, you might want to make it short. Maybe it\u2019s philosophy, physics, apologetics, or cellular biology. Whatever it is, try to find something you can and will finish even if you don\u2019t fully understand all of it.<\/p>\n

Suggestion: The Saints of Zion<\/p>\n

4. Read something historical.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Maybe it\u2019s a biography, history, or something fun in between like historical fiction. You can read the diaries of men and women in history, the constitution, a history of a language, a history of the Super Bowl, or the history of Dodge City.<\/p>\n

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Suggestion: Steal Away Home<\/em><\/p>\n

5. Read something fun.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Remember reading shouldn\u2019t be drudgery. I love a good whodunit or cheap fiction. Just because a book won\u2019t make anyone else\u2019s book list doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t or shouldn\u2019t enjoy it.<\/p>\n

Browse the book racks at Target, Walmart, the Dollar Store, or Goodwill. Borrow something from your local library or the Kindle Owners\u2019 Lending Library.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re aren\u2019t any fiction titles on this list is because I limit my fiction intake in order to keep from robbing myself of sleep to finish a good novel. Vacation, however, makes a great time to steal away time to finish a fun book\u2014fiction or nonfiction.<\/p>\n

Suggestion: How to Be a Perfect Christian<\/em><\/p>\n

There are lists you can find all over the internet, and some are better than others. Just make sure that as you search for the right book(s) for your summer vacation, you find books you enjoy.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a vacation, and there\u2019s no reason to spend it suffering through a bad book. Your reading will enhance your preaching and ministry, and\u2014maybe just as important\u2014your vacation reading will help you relax and be refreshed.<\/p>\n

CRAIG THOMPSON (@craig_thompson)<\/strong> is the husband of Angela, father of four, and senior pastor of Malvern Hill Baptist Church in Camden, South Carolina.<\/em><\/p>\n

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