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Average JOES Podcast - Why We Should Read Good Books and a Couple of Top Ten Lists

Why We Should Read Good Books and a Couple of Top Ten Lists

05/05/18 • -1 min

Average JOES Podcast
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In this episode of the Average JOES Podcast, Nathan Brewer, Chris Chambers, Ben Ellis, and Eric Harrough have a conversation about the importance of reading good books in the Christian life. Ben and Eric then give their own top ten lists (Best/most important Christian [and non-Christian] books every Christian should read).

Ben's Top Ten List

  1. Mere Christianity
    by CS Lewis
  2. The Great Divorce
    by CS Lewis
  3. The Cost of Discipleship
    by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  4. Life Together
    by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  5. Ethics
    by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  6. The Institutes
    by John Calvin
  7. Trilogy
    by Francis Schaeffer
  8. No Little People
    by Francis Schaeffer
  9. Genesis and Space and Time
    by Francis Schaeffer
  10. Christian Manifesto
    by Francis Schaeffer

Eric's Top Ten List

  1. Orthodoxy
    by GK Chesterton
  2. Beyond Good and Evil
    by Frederick Nietzche
  3. Theology of the Body
    by Pope John Paul II
  4. Thomas Cranmer
    by Diarmaid MacCulloch
  5. Christianity's First Five Thousand Years
    by Diarmaid MacCulloch
  6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams
  7. The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway
  8. The Lord of the Rings
    by JR Tolkien
  9. The Brother's Karamazov
    by Dolstoevsky
  10. The Man Who Was Thursday
    ​by GK Chesterton
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why_you_should_read_good_books_and_top_ten_lists_-_050518.mp3File Size: 120664 kbFile Type: mp3Download File
In this episode of the Average JOES Podcast, Nathan Brewer, Chris Chambers, Ben Ellis, and Eric Harrough have a conversation about the importance of reading good books in the Christian life. Ben and Eric then give their own top ten lists (Best/most important Christian [and non-Christian] books every Christian should read).

Ben's Top Ten List

  1. Mere Christianity
    by CS Lewis
  2. The Great Divorce
    by CS Lewis
  3. The Cost of Discipleship
    by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  4. Life Together
    by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  5. Ethics
    by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  6. The Institutes
    by John Calvin
  7. Trilogy
    by Francis Schaeffer
  8. No Little People
    by Francis Schaeffer
  9. Genesis and Space and Time
    by Francis Schaeffer
  10. Christian Manifesto
    by Francis Schaeffer

Eric's Top Ten List

  1. Orthodoxy
    by GK Chesterton
  2. Beyond Good and Evil
    by Frederick Nietzche
  3. Theology of the Body
    by Pope John Paul II
  4. Thomas Cranmer
    by Diarmaid MacCulloch
  5. Christianity's First Five Thousand Years
    by Diarmaid MacCulloch
  6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams
  7. The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway
  8. The Lord of the Rings
    by JR Tolkien
  9. The Brother's Karamazov
    by Dolstoevsky
  10. The Man Who Was Thursday
    ​by GK Chesterton

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Eric Harrough

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In this episode of the Average JOES Podcast, Nathan Brewer, Ben Ellis, and Chris Chambers have a great conversation with one-time atheist turned lover of Christ, Eric Harrough. Though Eric is still very young, his love of Jesus is evident and his study of God's Word is deep. Eric tells of his journey from atheism to Christianity. He tells of the influence his parents' walk with the Lord had in his personal transformation. He loves of music is very diverse as he enjoys listening to Bach, disco, Lecrae, and Barry White.

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