Well, many of you know I love to read books so much so that I wrote a whole book about reading

books.

And I'm always encouraged to hear from readers who have put new emphasis on the priority

of book reading in their own lives because of the book that I wrote.

It's a powerful discipline in the Christian life, as you know, Pastor John.

And I'm reminded of an episode we did this spring about how 1% of a book can change your

life.

The title of APJ in 1910, books have played a huge role in your development and I know this

Pastor John because every once in a while I get to study a book from your library.

I get to borrow it and take a peek at how you marked it up.

Most recently I looked through your copy of Mortimer Adler's Classic, How To Read A Book

because I was working on another project in the works, actually a book about this podcast

actually.

It's getting too complex with books.

I'll talk about that later.

But just being able to thumb through your own book was really instructive to see what

sentences you underlined in what sections you marked up and how you draw the down notes

in the front and back of the book.

And perhaps maybe we can talk about how you mark up your books in the future.

I think that would be really fascinating to hear.

But this week for these next two episodes, I want you to explain to us why.

Why do you read books?

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