Pastor's Reading List 2009

Reading for me is a spiritual discipline, and a way to keep fresh. It is also an obsession. So this is my reading from Feb. 2009 through Jan. 2010.


Pastor’s Annual Reading List Pastor Harley Wheeler
February 2009-January 2010 Thompson UMC, Thompson, Ohio

Biblical Studies/Theology
The Bible – (read straight through)
Zephaniah Commentaries(short) by David W. Baker, S.L. Edgar, and Peter C. Craigie
The Narrative Unity of Luke-Acts Vol. 1 – Robert Tannehill
Responsible Grace – Randy L. Maddox
Ancient Aramaic and Hebrew Letters 2nd ed.– James A. Lindenberger
Risen Indeed – G.D. Yarnold
The Paranoid Prophet (on Jonah)– William Backus
The Word Made Strange – John Milbank
Commentary on Zephaniah – John Calvin
The Meaning of Revelation – H. Richard Niebuhr
Commentary on Ephesians Chapters 1-3 – Markus Barth
Commentary on Ephesians Chapters 4-6 – Markus Barth
The Imitation of Christ – Thomas A Kempis
An Introduction to the New Testament – Raymond Brown
The Last Days According to Jesus – R.C. Sproul
The Spiritual Man – Watchman Nee
Honor, Patronage, Kinship and Purity, Unlocking New Testament Culture – David DeSilva
Lectures on Galatians 1-4 – Martin Luther
The Golden Bough – James George Frazer
Works of John Wesley Vol. 26 Letters II 1740-1755 – John Wesley
The Birth of the Messiah - Raymond Brown
Works of John Wesley Vol. 24 Journals and Diaries VII 1787-1791 – John Wesley
Song of Songs Commentary and Interpretation - Watchman Nee



Current Christian Thought: Apologetics, Ministry, Sermons and Devotional Literature
Dinner With a Perfect Stranger – David Gregory
Christians in Japan – Carolyn Bourn Francis and John Masaki Nakajima
The Passion Pilgrimage - Erwin Kurth
Love Yourself – Walter Trobish
Love and Respect – Emerson Eggerichs
The Cherry Log Sermons – Fred Craddock
A Portrait of Jesus – Joseph Girzone
Love in a Fearful Land – Henri Nouwen
The Miracle of Easter – sermons ed. by Floyd Thatcher
Memory and Identity – Pope John Paul II
History and Christianity – John Warwick Montgomery
A Layman Looks at the Love of God – W. Phillip Keller
The Celtic Way of Evangelism – George C. Hunter III
Steps to Christ – Ellen G. White
Is Believing in God Irrational? – Amy Orr
The Right Questions – Phillip E. Johnson
Widening the Horizons – Charles Gerkin
Telling the Truth; the Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy and Fairy Tale– Frederick Beuchner
The Pastor’s Wife – Sabina Wurmbrand
Walking With God – W. Phillip Keller
Mark My Words – Kenneth L. Pike
Solving Marriage Problems – Jay Adams
From Forgiven to Forgiving – Jay Adams
Insight and Creativity in Christian Counseling – Jay Adams
Sticky Church – Larry Osborne
Lion and Lamb – Brennan Manning
The Seven last Words of Christ – Shane Stanford
Mission to the Headhunters – Frank and Marie Brown
Compassion - Chuck Swindoll
New Age Masquerade – Eric Buehrer
Please Give a Devotion – Amy Bolding
All of Grace – Charles Spurgeon
Prison Letters – Corrie Ten Boom
365 Windows – Halford Lucock
China Cry – Nora Lam
Daily Strength For Daily Needs – Mary W. Tilson
500 Things Your Sunday School Teacher Tried to Tell You – Arlen Price
If – Amy Carmichael

Classics, Period and Curiosity Literature
The Prince – Nicolo Machievelli
The Mabinogion – Welsh Mythological Stories
Metamorphoses - Ovid
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Odyssey - Homer
The Little House Series – Laura Ingalls Wilder
An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity – Johnathan Swift
Rainbows on the Road – Esther Forbes
The Iliad – Homer
The Fall – Albert Camus
Emma - Jane Austen
The House of the Dead – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Tales and Plays of Robin Hood – Eleanor Skinner
Exile and Kingdom – Albert Camus
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Life of Johnson – Macaulay
The Bhagavad Gita (Hindu Scriptures)
The Koran - Mohammed
The Book of Mormon – Joseph Smith
The Death of Ivan Ilytch – Leo Tolstoy
The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
Tales of Belkin and Other Writings – Pushkin
Samuel Johnson’s Insults – ed. by Jack Lynch
The Voyage of the Argo – Apollonius of Rhodes
The Tao Te Ching – Lao Tse
Father Sergius and Other Stories – Leo Tolstoy
The Art of War – Sun Tzu
The Grand Inquisitor – Dostoyevsky (with Critical Essays)
Merry Men and Other Stories – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
Fifty-One Tales - Lord Dunsany
Time and the Gods – Lord Dunsany
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
The Anne of Green Gables series – L.M. Montgomery
The Man Who Was Thursday – G.K. Chesterton
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Moralia - Plutarch

Contemporary Authors, Fiction, Humor and Drama
Shut-Eye for the Time Broker – Paul Di Filippo
Peter and the Starcatchers – Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Honey, the Carpet Needs Weeding – Martha Bolton
Lost City Radio – Daniel Alarcon’
Never Let Me Go – Kashuo Ishiguro
The Dilbert Future – Scott Adams
The Final Beast – Frederick Beuchner
The Mating Season – P.G. Wodehouse
Big Trouble - Dave Barry
A Far Country – Daniel Mason
The Uncommon Reader – Alan Bennett
A Wodehouse Bestiary – P.G. Wodehouse
The Bunnicula Series and Eat Your Poison, Dear – James Howie
The Stars Like Dust – Isaac Asimov
Dave Barry is from Mars and Venus – Dave Barry
The Prophet of Zongo Street – Mohammed Naseehu Ali
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie – Alan Bradley
The Chosen – Chaim Potok
The Dilbert Principle – Scott Adams
Invitation to a Beheading – Vladimir Nabokov
Dirk Gentley’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
The Secret of Lost Things – Sheridan Hay
Summer Crossing – Truman Capote
In the First Circle – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Ah, But Your Land is Beautiful – Alan Paton
The Poet and the Lunatics – G.K. Chesterton
Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather
The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown – G.K. Chesterton

Biography, History, Sciences, Social Science, Philosophy, Politics
Lord, He Went, Remembering William Hinson – Stanley R. Copeland
Not for Sale – Daniel Batstone
Population Control; Real Costs, Illusory Benefits – Steve Mosher
Finding the Love of Your Life – Neil Clark Warren
Homer’s the Iliad and the Odyssey, a Biography – Alberto Manguel
Infinite in All Directions – Freeman Dyson
A World Split Apart – Alexzander Solzhenitsyn
And there Was Light – Jacques Lusseryan
The Virtues - Peter Geach
Ethics – Deitrich Boenhoffer
Islam Unveiled – Abdullah Al- Araby
The Voice of the Master – Kahlil Gibran
Thoughts and Meditations – Kahlil Gibran
Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe – R. Dale Guthrie
Overcoming Life’s Disappointments – Rabbi Harold Kushner
Founding Father – Richard Brookhiser
Night – Elie Wiesel
Tears and Laughter – Kahlil Gibran
The Victors – Stephen Ambrose
The Faber Book of Science – Ed. By John Carey
The Oak and the Calf – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Romantic Manifesto – Ayn Rand
The World of Herodotus – Aubrey de Selincourt
The Crimes of England – G.K. Chesterton
A Perfect Mess – Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman
Eugenics and Other Evils – G.K. Chesterton
The Professor and the Madman – Simon Winchester
You are the One You’ve been Waiting For – Richard Schwartz
The Gulag Archipelago – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Written in Secret – The Nobel Prize Lecture – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Private Lies – Frank Pitman
Why Marriages Succeed or Fail – John Gottman
The Presence of Grace – Flannery O’Conner
As I Lay Dying – Richard John Neuhaus

Poetry
Sonnets from the Portuguese – Elizabeth Barret-Browning
Fifty Poems – Emily Dickinson
Song of Myself – Walt Whitman
Not Yet the Dodo – Noel Coward
The Princess – Alfred Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam – Alfred Lord Tennyson
Collected Poems - Alfred Lord Tennyson
A Penny Saved is Impossible – Ogden Nash
The Sonnets, Venus and Adonis, the Rape of Lucrece and other poems – William Shakespeare
Eugene Onegin – Pushkin
Sigurd and Gudrun – J.R.R. Tolkien
Narrative, Lyric and Polemic Verse – Pushkin
Chesterton’s Early Poetry and Greybeards at Play – G.K. Chesterton
The Ballad of the White Horse – G.K. Chesterton
The Poet’s Corner – ed. By John Lithgrow


Periodicals:
Each Issue of: “Good News”,”Scientific American”,” The Interpreter”,” East Ohio Joining Hands”,” “The City”(Houston Baptist University),”HSLDA Newsletter”,” Lifewatch Journal” ”The Catalyst” from AFTE , The Kingdom Connection, OCC Legislative Brief

Individual Issues of: Astronomy Magazine, April and July 2009, Zone 3 Spring/fall 2004 vol. XIX No.s 1&2 The Catholic World Report –Feb 09