Cultivate Reading List
- The Bookery
- May 7, 2024
- 2 min read
Four books we’re adding to our TBR pile this month!
After a long winter, the world is starting to become a little more vibrant these days. Spring is officially here, and summer isn't far. As the temperatures soar and the flowers start to bloom, we're excited to delve into our spring theme: cultivate. We wouldn’t be The Bookery if delving into that theme didn’t include a reading list, so here are a few books exploring growth and preparation that we’re adding to our reading list this spring.
Collected Insights from A.W. Tozer
At just 160 pages, this book shouldn’t take long to read, and we’re looking forward to dipping into it. Our spring theme is centered on growth and preparation for growth and change, so it makes sense to explore a few books that investigate what it truly means to follow Christ. In Discipleship, the editors have sought to combine many of Tozer’s thoughts and essays on discipleship in one place. It may be short, but we’re expecting to get a lot out of it!
David Mathis
Just as farmers have to till and cultivate the soil in preparation for the growing season, we have to invest in our spiritual growth. Spiritual disciplines are a big part of that. In this book, David Mathis seeks to focus on three core spiritual disciplines and the daily habits we cultivate to enjoy Jesus through these disciplines. This one’s a little longer than Discipleship, but investing in Jesus and building daily habits that allow us to know him better—that’s something we deeply want to invest in!
Glenna Marshall
We’ve had Glenna Marshall’s little book on our list for a while, but in this season of cultivation, it just seems right to focus our attention on cultivating a love for Scripture. For Marshall, memorizing Scripture isn’t a chore or an item on a long list of things you ought to do as a “good Christian.” Instead, it’s a way to focus our hearts and minds on God’s character and a tool that causes us to think deeply about God and invites us to trust him. Scripture, she says, bolsters our faith in seasons of difficulty or trial, helps us grow in discernment and wisdom and calls us to obedience and faith. Another shorter book, we can’t wait to dive in and learn from Marshall’s personal experience.
John Mark Comer
We were a little late to the party on John Mark Comer’s The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry—but not for his latest release, Practicing the Way. In Practicing the Way, Comer posits that we’re formed by everything around us—and if we want to be formed and transformed by Jesus, we need to fill our life with him. The book is a call to become Jesus’ apprentice, as Comer puts it, and develop a set of daily rhythms and practices that help to shape our lives and slow us down so God can do the work in us we so desperately need.
What books are you reading right now? Tell us in the comments!
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