ONE WEEK 365 // Week 41, Book 26

I love reading books on creation care....

Gardening Eden: How Creation Care Will Change Your Faith, Your Life, and Our World
By Michael Abbate
Colorado Springs, CO: WaterBrook Press, 2009

This book is comprehensive. It's a great combination of theology of creation, research on the environment, and practical ways to "garden" our planet today.

I really enjoyed it from start to finish, but I'm also a nerd for anything that has to do with creation care. That's why I'm a strict vegetarian, recycle, buy local as much as possible, use as little energy and water as possible.

If you're just starting out in educating yourself about creation theology and creation care, I would recommend this one.

ONE WEEK 365 // Week 39, Book 25

I'm part of a book club of sorts, for work. A few of us read a book about unreached people groups and get together to discuss it over lunch once a month. In September we read this one....

Bruchko
By Bruce Olson

This is the story of a 19-year-old American, Bruce Olson, who feels the call to work among the unreached Motilone Indians in South America. So he packs up and goes. Without a missions board, without raising support, without knowing anyone who even lives anywhere near South America.

It's a crazy, inspiring story how he finds this unreached people group in the mountains in South America and comes to live among them and see them reached with the gospel.

The writing is vivid and graphic in places (like the foot-long parasite that he pulls from his mouth) but the narrative of his story is so good that I survived the gross parts.

I highly recommend if you're looking based-on-a-true-story story.

ONE WEEK 365 // Week 34, Book 24

I read Anne Lamott's Traveling Mercies a few years ago and I found this copy of Plan B at a used bookstore in Pentwater, MI last summer. Finally getting around to reading it....

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
By Anne Lamott
New York: Penguin, 2005

I might not always agree with Anne's stance on certain things but I do agree with her honesty. Oh, that more people would be this honest. I guess that's what I like so much about her -- there might be differences between her views on life and mine but I still feel like we're working towards the same goal.

Also, there were plenty of laugh-out-loud moments. I do like books that can both make me laugh and make me think.