Dear Friends,Check out this post on the great value of reading for Christians, from the desiring God web site today.  I’ll put the article below too, for faster access….Pastor David  

On Reading,  July 17, 2007 | By: Josh

Christians are people of the book: God purposely chose the medium of typography to deliver his revelation to us. In that book, we are commanded to love God with our hearts and our minds (Matthew 22:34-40). This gives Christians a clear command to use their intellects — to be, in other words, a kind of intellectual.Reading is one of the best ways to develop our minds. It can help us to know God and ourselves, gain vicarious experience, increase our perception and imagination, train our minds to think critically and logically, and teach us self-discipline. (For more on this, see Neil Postman’s excellent Amusing Ourselves to Death.) Continue reading →