Pressing On

I love reading! Everything from books and magazines to competitions and recipes on the side of cereal packets if I am desperate. I see this as a good thing, and being in this role - I find that people are always passing articles and books to me with the recommendation 'You should read this!' Now I read quite widely, but want to focus these thoughts on the nature of Christian books that I have been encouraged to read recently. (I should clarify that these have mostly been in the devotional genre.) These books have been both contemporary and classic - and it is this that I want to reflect on. Most of the contemporary books I have stopped reading after one, perhaps two chapters. This has been for two reasons, both of which increasingly irk me. 1/ The author has said everything they want to say in the first chapter and the rest of the book seems to be restating the same thing in different ways ... Ie - there is a lack of spiritual depth ... Instead we get sound bites! 2/ These book