Books that stick with Pastor Laura

Join Pastor Laura each month for a conversation around books that have stuck with her. The date and time for these gatherings, as well as the book genre, will vary each month.

March 29th- Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.”
―Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

April 26th – Practice Resurrection, Eugene Peterson
Though bringing people to new birth in Christ through evangelism is essential, says Eugene Peterson, isn’t growth in Christ equally essential? Yet the American church by and large does not treat Christian maturity and character formation with much urgency.
In Practice Resurrection Peterson brings the voice of Scripture — especially Paul’s letter to the Ephesians — and the voice of the contemporary Christian congregation together to unpack the crucial truth of what it means to fully grow up to the “stature of Christ.”

May 17th- The Power of Fun, Catherine Price
If you’re not having fun, you’re not fully living. The bestselling author of The Amazing Generation and How to Break Up with Your Phone makes the case that, far from being frivolous, fun is actually critical to our well-being—and shows us how to have more of it.
“This delightful book might just be what we need to start flourishing.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Grant
Journalist and screen/life balance expert Catherine Price argues persuasively that our always-on, tech-addicted lifestyles have led us to obsess over intangible concepts such as happiness while obscuring the fact that real happiness lies in the everyday experience of fun. We often think of fun as indulgent, even immature and selfish. We claim to not have time for it, even as we find hours a day for what Price calls Fake Fun—bingeing on television, doom scrolling the news, or posting photos to social media, all in hopes of filling some of the emptiness we feel inside.

Read the books if you have time, or just join us each month for the conversation! We will meet from 5-6:30 pm in Room 101/103 across from the kitchen.