Tortured for Christ reading schedule (Updated 6/18)

This is the reading schedule for the current book, Tortured for Christ by Richard Wurmbrand. If you haven't received your free copy from Voice of the Martyrs, Amazon also has many used copies. The dates are subject to change. We will likely have cookout sometime during this schedule; date to be determined.

I am looking forward to this study and hope that you will go into it prayerfully. While some of Wurmbrand's criticisms of communism may not be as relevant today as they were when he wrote them (simply because of the Soviet Union's fall), I think the broader insights into persecution and how we can live our faith in the face of monumental, even state-sponsored, adversity are valuable and timeless.

JUNE
25 - No group (VBS block party!)

JULY
2 - Cookout? Details to come...
9 - Chapter 4 (pg. 69-84)
16 - Chapter 5
23 - Chapter 6
30 - Chapter 7 & Epilogue

Tortured for Christ starts tonight 5/21

After taking a week off, we will be getting into our new book tonight--Tortured for Christ by Richard Wurmbrand. Don't worry if you haven't received your copy yet. We will be doing intros to the book, author and one another. I'll post a reading schedule in the next few days. Looking forward to diving into this new study with you!

5/14 Update to an Update

Hey folks. As you may know, our next study is Richard Wurmbrand's Tortured for Christ. Unfortunately, only one person in the group has received their copy so far. So, we won't be meeting tonight, but should be next week. You may want to request your copy again through VOM, just in case, or possibly even order it through a bookstore online. It's a fairly inexpensive book.

DTS So Far

I thought it would be fun to revisit the works we've studied as a group since we began in the fall of 2006. Here they are:

The Books...

How Should We Then Live? by Francis Schaeffer (actually a video series with study guide)

Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis

The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy Sayers

The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

A Practical View of Christianity by William Wilberforce

Experiencing God by Henry Blackaby (an exception to the “dead” theologians rule)

All of Grace by Charles Spurgeon

Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer

And Excerpts From...

Soren Kierkegaard

C.S. Lewis

Flannery O’Connor

Martin Luther

Jonathan Edwards

Thomas Merton

Did I miss any? Let me know.

A.W. Tozer's "Knowledge of the Holy"

Updated (4/19) reading schedule for A.W. Tozer's Knowledge of the Holy (full text in linked PDF):

APR 22* - Chapters 16, 17 & 18
APR 30 - Chapters 19, 20 & 21
MAY 7 - Chapters 22 & 23

*NOTE: This week we'll be meeting on a Wednesday rather than our usual Thursday. Thanks for your flexibility!

All of Grace by Charles H. Spurgeon

DTS is currently reading Charles H. Spurgeon's All of Grace. Our remaining schedule is as follows (updated 1-12-09):

January 15
No meeting
January 22
Ch. 17 The Fear of Final Falling
Ch. 18 Confirmation
January 29
Ch. 19 Why Saints Persevere
Ch. 20 Close

We have no yet decided on the next book to be read by the group. Once we have, that will be posted here along with a tentative schedule.

"Dead" not Dead

To those who kindly stopped by the table at Taste of Small Groups, the random souls who happen upon this site seeking profundity and the friends and family who drop by occasionally to see if I'm in a blogging "groove"...welcome!

For the moment, the blog is functioning as a bulletin board where reading schedules can be posted. Feel free to dig back into the archives if you'd like something more content-rich.

On October 2nd, we'll be getting back into the swing of things. I apologize for the delay and hope that stories and pictures of Africa will make up for the very long intermission. I'd mentioned that we may do a Charles Spurgeon book next, All of Grace. We'll likely decide on the reading and just spend some time catching up and getting to know new folks that day, maybe revisiting the Thomas Merton that we passed over, then diving into Spurgeon the following week.

In the meantime, I covet your prayers. Keep me posted on how I can be praying for you as well. And feel free to leave book study suggestions in the comments. Or poems. Or recipes.