May Reading

1. A Confession - Leo Tolstoy
2. The 20 Essential Qualities of an Authentic Christian - Warren W. Wiersbe
3. The Table Talk of Martin Luther
4. Heaven's War - Micah Harris
5. The Golden Key - George MacDonald
6. Father Brown and the Ten Commandments - G. K. Chesterton
7. War in Heaven - Charles Williams
8. From the Library of C. S. Lewis - James Stuart Bell
9. Surprised by Joy - C. S. Lewis
10. A Family Guide to Prince Caspian - Christin Ditchfield
11. Robert Falconer - George MacDonald
12. The Air Freight Mystery - W. E. Butterworth

July Reading

1. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce
2. A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemmingway
3. 4.50 From Paddington - Agatha Christie
4. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - T. S. Eliot
6. 84, Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
7. Playing for Pizza - John Grisham
8. The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin
9. Biblical Preaching - Haddon W. Robinson
10. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - Katarina Bivald
11. The New City Catechism

April Reading

1. 1 Peter: Message of Encouragement - John H. McClanahan
2. The NIV Application Commentary: 1 Peter - Scot McKnight
3. Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
4. The Most Reluctant Convert - David C. Downing
5. C. S. Lewis: Images of His World - Douglas Gilbert & Clyde S. Kilby
6. Letters of C. S. Lewis - W. H. Lewis & Walter Hooper (editors)
7. Reading Spenser: An Introduction to The Faerie Queene - Roger Sale
8. Mere Christianity - C. S. Lewis
9. Jane Austen - Peter Leithart
10. Preparing for Easter: Fifty Devotional Readings - C. S. Lewis
11. Lilith - George MacDonald
12. Spirits in Bondage - C. S. Lewis
13. Spenser's Images of Life - C. S. Lewis with Alastair Fowler

Top Twenty Books by C. S. Lewis Read This Year

A good portion of the 132 books I've read this year have been by C. S. Lewis, so I decided to do a list dedicated just to those.  Of course, who can really rank Lewis' books?  But everyone has his or her favorites.  Here is how I decided to do this one: I will rank each book according to how much I enjoyed reading it.  Certainly, I would recommend all of them.

1. Mere Christianity
2. The Great Divorce
3. Surprised by Joy
4. Out of the Silent Planet
5. Of Other Worlds: Essays & Stories
6. Miracles
7. Letters to an American Lady
8. An Experiment in Criticism
9. The Abolition of Man
10. Perelandra
11. Reflections on the Psalms
12. A Preface to Paradise Lost
13. That Hideous Strength
14. The Screwtape Letters
15. Till We Have Faces
16. Narrative Poems
17. The Problem of Pain
18. Christian Reflections
19. Letters to Children
20. A Grief Observed

October Reading

• The MacArthur New Testament Commentary: Philippians - John MacArthur
• Exploring Ephesians & Philippians: An Expository Commentary - John Phillips
• The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
• Christ-Centered Exposition: Exalting Jesus in Philippians - Tony Merida & Francis Chan
• Be Joyful: Even When Things Go Wrong, You Can Have Joy - Warren W. Wiersbe
• The Monkey and the Fish: Liquid Leadership for a Third-Culture Church - Dave Gibbons
• Aslan's Call: Finding Our Way to Narnia - Mark Eddy Smith
• The Art of Preaching Old Testament Narrative - Steven D. Mathewson
• Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories - C. S. Lewis
• The Quotable Chesterton - Kevin Belmonte
• The Visionary Christian - C. S. Lewis
• Perelandra - C. S. Lewis
• Mere Christianity - C. S. Lewis
• The Warden - Anthony Trollope
• Lessons from the Ladder - Neil Joiner
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
• Things That Cannot Be Shaken - K. Scott Oliphant & Rod Mays

Top 20 Books Read for 2015

1. Evangelism: How the Whole Church Speaks of Jesus - J. Mack Stiles
2. The Pastor As Public Theologian: Reclaiming a Lost Vision - Kevin J. Vanhoozer & Owen Strachan
3. Mere Humanity: G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien on the Human Condition - Donald Williams
4. The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Volume II: Books, Broadcasts, and the War 1931-1949 - Walter Hooper, Editor
5. Tolkien: How an Obscure Oxford Professor Wrote the Hobbit and Became the Most Beloved Author of the Century - Devin Brown
6. Why Church Matters - Joshua Harris
7. The Spiritual World of the Hobbit - James Stuart Bell
8. The Princess and the Goblin - George MacDonald
9. On the Incarnation - Athanasius
10. Preach: Theology Meets Practice - Mark Dever & Greg Gilbert
11. Bedeviled: Lewis, Tolkien and the Shadow of Evil - Colin Duriez
12. How to Be Rich - Andy Stanley
13. The Knowledge of the Holy - A. W. Tozer
14. Literature: A Student's Guide - Louis Markos
15. Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
16. Gorgias - Plato
17. Four Faultless Felons - G. K. Chesterton
18. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
19. Credo: Believing in Something to Die For - Ray Pritchard
20. Strange Fire - John MacArthur

This list of 20 books was compiled after reading 68 books this year.  As always, if you're only going to read one book, make sure it is the Bible.

Worldviews

Search the world over, and you find basically seven major worldviews.  Each of those seven worldviews are intrinsically different.  Each one as something that drastically separates it from the other six.  The seven big worldviews are theism, atheism, pantheism, panentheism, deism, finite godism, and polytheism.
You may think, "Big deal!  So there's different beliefs out there.  It doesn't really matter what you believe as long as you sincerely believe it.  Their all equally valid and true.  Right?"  WRONG!
Logically, only one worldview can be true, which means the other six must be false.  You may interject at this point, "Wait a minute.  Who cares about logic?"  Well, if you're not interested in what's logical you may as well start talking about a square circle or a one-end stick.  Actually, forget about communication at all because all language is based on logic.
Now, let's delve into the seven worldviews and briefly define and describe them.

Theism
Theism is the belief that an infinite personal God exists (theos=god).  Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are great examples of theistic worldviews.

Atheism
Atheism says that no god exists (a=no, theos=god).  This universe is all that there is; there is nothing beyond.  Some famous atheists include Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzche, and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Pantheism
Pantheism claims that the universe is god, and god is the universe (pan=all, theos=god).  There is no separation from creator and creation; it's one and the same.  Hinduism, Zen Buddhism, Christian Science, and most New Age religions fall into this worldview classification.

Panentheism
Panentheism simply says that god is in the universe, kind of like a brain is in a body.  So the universe is god's body.  Panentheism also claims that god is in the constant process of changing., which is sometimes referred to as process theology.  Some notorious panentheists are Alfred North Whitehead, Charles Hartshorne, and Schubert Ogden.

Deism
Deism is the view that holds that god is beyond the universe, but not in it.  Miracles are denied.  A god created the universe, but then he left it to manage itself.  Sometimes this is described as the clock-maker religion: god wound up the clock and just let it run on its on.  Some well-known deists include Francois Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine.

Finite Godism
Finite Godism is similar to Deism in that it claims a god outside of the universe, but he is also involved in the universe.  However, as Deism would say that god is infinite, Finite Godism says that he is limited in his nature and power.  Miracles are denied.  Some who have held this belief are John Stuart Mill, William James, and Peter Bertocci.

Polytheism
Polytheism says that there are many gods, but they are finite or limited in their nature and power.  The gods are active in this world.  Some well-known representatives in this camp are the ancient Greeks, Mormons, and Wiccans.

I know I have been very brief in the descriptions, but I want to emphasize the major differences in the worldviews.  If Theism is true, then logically the other six must be false.  For example, God cannot both be infinite and finite at the same time.  That violates the law of non-contradiction.  He can't be both personal and impersonal, involved and uninvolved, beyond the universe and not beyond the universe, able to perform miracles and not able to perform miracles, changing and immutable.  All worldviews cannot be true.