VOX Mini - What Are Your Favorite Books?
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🗓️ 9 September 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
What books have most influenced your faith, theology, and spiritual growth? In this first installment of a new Listener Q&A mini-series, Mike, Tim, and Bonnie answer a listener question about the books that have made the biggest impact on their spiritual formation. From classics like C.S. Lewis to modern voices like Rachel Held Evans and Tim Keller, you'll walk away with a fresh stack of reading recommendations—plus a few laughs about tattoos, Harry Potter, and the occasional theological rabbit trail.
This quick-hit episode packs deep insight and personal storytelling into just 20 minutes, reflecting on the kinds of books that changed how the hosts pray, think, and follow Jesus—and why some books just keep speaking across seasons.
Key Takeaways: • The top spiritual books that shaped Mike, Tim, and Bonnie's faith journeys—including both popular and more scholarly reads. • How Dallas Willard's The Divine Conspiracy and Foster's Celebration of Discipline redefined discipleship and spiritual practice. • Why C.S. Lewis remains timeless, from The Screwtape Letters to A Grief Observed and Mere Christianity. • Books that help process church hurt, grief, and doubt—like Searching for Sunday and A Grief Observed. • The blend of humorous and heartfelt storytelling that makes faith exploration a little more human.
Book Highlights: • The Divine Conspiracy – Dallas Willard • Celebration of Discipline – Richard Foster • The Screwtape Letters & Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis • A Grief Observed – C.S. Lewis • Searching for Sunday – Rachel Held Evans • Surprised By Hope – N.T. Wright • The Prodigal God – Tim Keller • The Cost of Discipleship – Dietrich Bonhoeffer • Blue Like Jazz – Donald Miller • The Blue Parakeet – Scot McKnight • Breakthrough – Derek Morphew • Reappearing Church – Mark Sayers • Reframeation – Alan Hirsch & Mark Henderson • Her Gates Will Never Be Shut – Brad Jersak
Resources Mentioned: • C.S. Lewis collection – cslewisinstitute.org • Celebration of Discipline – InterVarsity Press • Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright – Amazon • The Voxology Non-ference and community resources – voxologypodcast.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Mike, Tim, and Bonnie here from the Vox podcast. Welcome to the show. We're |
| 0:09.3 | going to try something a little different. We get a lot of feedback and questions emailed into us or, |
| 0:18.1 | you know, tweeted to us or whatever. And, um, and so usually what we do is we |
| 0:23.7 | kind of do a, we call it a mailbag episode where it's us just plowing through questions. And it's |
| 0:30.4 | three or four at a time or whatever. But we thought we would break these up into like just question |
| 0:36.2 | specific episodes and release, try to release one a day. |
| 0:40.3 | So instead of being an hour and a half of us wrestling with three questions, we're going to |
| 0:45.1 | try to get through five questions over the next five episodes. |
| 0:50.3 | And they're really, we won't count them as episodes per se, but they'll be probably 10 to 15 minutes each, hopefully if Bonnie and Tim don't talk too much. |
| 0:58.1 | Especially Tim. |
| 0:59.5 | Yes, especially. |
| 1:00.8 | I've got a lot to say. |
| 1:03.3 | But before we dive in, Tim, Tim is sporting. |
| 1:07.4 | I mean, I just wish, I mean, seriously, you could be a model for LL Bean. |
| 1:12.0 | Tim looks really good today. |
| 1:14.1 | LL Bean. |
| 1:15.8 | Yep. And we're, and I think, and I think, I like the way you said that, Bonnie, because it's surprising. |
| 1:21.2 | There was some surprise in your voice. |
| 1:24.5 | I didn't mean it like that. I meant. |
| 1:26.9 | That's how it came out. I out. Tim looks all right today. |
| 1:30.0 | Yep. Yep. Yep. Now, Bonnie, you have some big news because what is today? Today is tattoo day. |
| 1:40.0 | Tattoo day. Yes. Now, Bonnie, there is a specific Levittical prohibition. |
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