Want to be sure you make a good use of your summer? Rather than sitting around re-reading old comic books or watching TV, how about using your summer to grow in your understanding of God’s Word and His holiness? Last summer, we tackled John Owen.

Saturday night, I announced that this summer, we dive into two Sproul classics: Knowing Scripture and The Holiness of God. Here’s how this works: take up my challenge by reading the assigned books, turn in your completed reading plan by the retreat, and you will earn the item of your choice from our bookstore. That’s a pretty sweet deal.

You won’t find many books that make it easier to understand how to read and interpret God’s Word than Knowing Scripture. In it, Sproul says: “If I were the Devil, one of my first aims would be to stop people from digging into their Bible.” Let’s dig in together this summer, shall we?

And you won’t find many books that do a good job making a very deep and very important theological concept very clear. That’s part of why The Holiness of God is such a valuable book. If God tells us in the book of 1 Peter that, “You shall be holy, as I am holy,” then we need to know what that means!

Parents, I want to issue you a Summer Reading Challenge as well. You have options. You can either read along with your teens, or you can read Paul Tripp’s Lost In The Middle. Lost In The Middle is a wonderful book about the opportunities and the temptations of mid-life. I finished reading it about a week ago, and I think it is one of the best books I’ve ever read; just stuffed with the grace and the gospel. Same deal for you: do the reading by the retreat, turn in your form, and earn the item of your choice from the bookstore!
You can download the Summer Reading Plan here: 2006 Summer Reading Challenge.doc.

So, who’s in?

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