You're listening to the Hard Men Podcast, reclaiming biblical masculinity in a world of soft.

Well, welcome to this episode of the Hardman Podcast.

In this episode, I want to start a new series that I am calling top shelf. This series will feature reviews. It's going to feature

in-depth discussion by yours truly about the books that go on my top shelf.

Now these are the books that I read and often that go on my top shelf.

Now these are the books that I read and often reread each year

and they provide much of the fuel for my life,

my thought life, and how that shapes my work. So like top shelf beverages, right? These are

the Premier Written Works I keep returning to for refreshment, for encouragement, and for continual instruction.

They're sort of like the Macallin 18 or the Ardbegug doll.

They never disappoint, at least not for me.

Likewise, these works represent the cornerstone books that have shaped and continued to shape

my thinking and my life.

If you want to be a great thinker,

you want to have interesting thoughts,

then you need to read great books.

It was helpful for me.

One year I read Martin Lloyd Jones

and he said books are really just guided meditations, right?

You're reading the thoughts of the author and so that shapes your thinking and you get to see

the world hopefully in a new way it makes you more productive

happier joyful and more faithful as a Christian these are these are good things so I hope

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