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The location, setting, of books I read in 2024.

A map off all the locations I read about in non-fiction or fiction in 2023.

2022 map of locations of the books I've read. This is always a fun way to sum up a year of reading.

This is one of the most powerful books I've read. He is showing the Biblical path to freedom from bitterness, hatred, anger, and vengeance. It is powerfully Biblically convicting and encouraging. I can't recommend it enough.

Here is a map of countries that I read about in non-fiction books last year.

This is a map of countries that I read about in non-fiction books last year.
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This book has been breathtaking and I’m only about 30 pages in. Do you want to be reminded of the power of Christmas? Of the beauty and depth of the old Christmas carols? That's what those few pages have done for me. I'll keep you updated about the rest.

These are the countries I read about in 2020.

This morning was the first time in a long time that I sang the hymn Let Him Have His Way With Thee by Cyrus S. Nusbaum. The message was so encouraging. If you are tired of trying to live a good life through your own efforts, listen to the words. They so eloquently show Jesus' offer of sanctification.
(Lyrics in the comments.)

This is a short but really good reminder about how we should read any and every book.
Biblical Discernment in Christian Literature

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If I go all the places, see all the sights, fulfill every dream, have all the fame, but haven't Christ's forgiveness for my sin, I'm only a sinner clothed in filthy rags going to hell.
If I fail to go all the places, fail to see all the sights, fail to fulfill my dreams, fail to be known, but have Christ's forgiveness for my sin, I'm a child of God clothed in righteousness going to heaven. Mark 8:35-38

"God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave this Book of God, the grand charter of salvation, one fair reading through."--George Whitefield

Why do the heathen rage, & the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, & vex them in his sore displeasure.

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Did you know that there is an option for reading a negative number of books for the yearly reading challenge? I'm just now setting mine up and discovered that.

Pet peeve... Modern books whose covers are full of glowing praise and biographical sketches, but don't actually tell you what they are about.
Please, please, please if you write a book give us at least a glimpse of what you put between the covers. If I don't know what it's about, I really don't care how good it is.