Ned Erickson: Simple Gifts

Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Simple Gifts

Lia's family is very generous. But when it comes to gifts, sometimes it's the simple ones that work best. Like when Cara lent us her Wiggly Worm Sprinkler Head on a 97 degree Columbus, Ohio 2nd of July.

Thanks Cara!

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Book List 2021 (* means recommended)

* Prayers from the Heart - Richard Foster
* Garden City - John Mark Comer
* The First 90 Days - Michael D. Watkins
* Beyond Loneliness - Trevor Hudson
* How To Be An Anti-Racist - Ibram X. Kendi
* The Deeply Formed Life - Rich Villados
** The Divine Conspiracy - Dallas Willard
* With All Your Heart - Craig Troxel
** Talking To Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell
* Whiteout - Ken Follett
* The Evening and the Morning - Ken Follett
* Journey with Jesus - Larry Walker
* The Power to Bless - Alan Wright
** A Failure of Nerve - Edward H. Friedman
The Throne of Fire - Rick Riordan
* The Beautiful Community - Irwyn Ince
* The red Pyramid - Rick Riordan
* Beauty of the Cross - Tim Chester
** The Murmur of Bees - Sofia Segovia
* Adulting 101 - Josh Burnette and Pete Hardesty and
* Rooted - Raymond Cannata and Joshua Teitano
* Children of Blood and Bone - Toni Adeyemi
* Storypole Legends - Emerson Matson
** My Utmost for His Highest - Oswald Chambers

Books of 2020 (* means recommended)

* Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi
* the Black Pearl - Scott O'Dell
* Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
* Catalyst for Change - John Bost
* The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
* The Inward Jounrey - Howard Thurman
* The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
* The Negotiators Toolbox - Heribert von Feilitzsch
* The Speed of Trust - Stephen M.R. Covey
* the Gift of Being Yourself - David Benner
Wizard's First Rule - Terry Goodkind
* Oh Fix Me - Dr. Anthony Jones Jr.
** Jesus and the Disinherited - Howard Thurman
* Mindset - Dr. Carol Dweck
* Dream Big - Bob Goff
** Together - Dr. Vivek Murthy
* Overstory - Richard Powers
* The Mystery of Marriage - Mike Mason
* The Why Cafe - John Strelecky
* Life Together - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
* The Very Good Gospel - Lisa Sharon Harper
* All Blood Runs Red - The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard - Phil Keith and Tom Clavin
* Jesus, My Father, the CIA and Me - Ian Cron
* The Future is Faster than you Think - Peter Diamandis and Steve Kotler
* The Power of a Humble Life - Richard Simmons
* The Yadkin Melting Pot - Larry Tise
* The Purpose Linked Organization - Alaina Love
*Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad

Books of 2019 (* means recommended)

** Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Stone Cold - David Baldacci
* I Claudius - Robert Graves
* Shakespeare - The World as Stage - Bill Bryson
* Benjamin Ashwood - AC Coble
* Leadership in Turbulent Times - Doris Kearns Goodwin
** Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
In Shock - Dr. Rana Awdish
** On the Brink of Everything - Parker Palmer
The Book of Fate - Brad Meltzer
* Bread and Wine - Shauna Niequist
* Ready Player One - Earnest Cline
* 7 Lessons from Heaven - Dr. Mary Neal
* Simply Jesus - N.T. Wright
* Hope for the Flowers - Trina Paulus
** The Autobiography of Dr. Martin Luther King
* Simply Christianity - N.T. Wright
* Redwall - Brian Jacques
* Pirate Latitudes - Michael Crichton
* The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
** When the Heart Waits - Sue Monk Kidd
* Hatchet - Gary Paulsen

Books of 2018 (* means recommended)

** Trust in the Age of Arrogance - FitzSimons Allison
Dare to Lead - Brene Brown
Labyrinth - Kate Mosse
* Truly, Madly, Guilty - Liane Moriarty
* Fear, Love and Worship - Fitzsimmons Allison
The Mysterious Affiar at Styles - Agatha Christie
* Botany of Desire - Michael Pollan
* John Adams - David McCullough
* Crazy Rich Asians- Kevin Kwan
* Purpose Driven Life - Rick Warren
* Grace (Eventually) - Anne Lamotte
* The EQ Edge - Steven Stein, Howard Book
* Ben Franklin - Walter Isaacson
Twilight - Stephanie Myers
* Everybody, Always - Bob Goff
* The Afghan - Frederick Forsyth
* Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson
* Change We Can Believe In - Barack Obaama
* The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman
* Defining Decade - Meg Jay
* Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
* Barking at the Choir - Gregory Boyle
* The Way of Kings - Brian Sanderson
* True Self False Self - Basil Pennington
* The Golden Ocean - Patrick O'brian
* The Gospel-Centered Life at Work - Rob Alexander
* It Worked for Me - Colin Powell
Practices of Love - David Kyle Bennett
* Self to Lose. Self to Find - Marilyn Vancil
* Zorro - Isabel Allende
** The Gift of Being Yourself - David Benner
* Wonder - R.J. Palacio

Books of 2017 (*means recommended)

* The Road to Character - David Brooks
* The Incredible Journey - Sheila Burnford
Iron House - John Hart
* When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
Inferno - Dan Brown
* Five for the First Five - Allison McWilliams
* Tattoos on the Heart - Greg Boyle
Valley of Horses - Jean Auel
* Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean Auel
* The Road Back to You - Ian Morgan Cron & Suzanne Stabile
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 - Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves
* The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
* South of Broad - Pat Conroy
** A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towels
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - John Tiffany and Jack Thorne
* The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
* A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engel
* The Worst Class Trip Ever - Dave Barry
* The Maytrees - Annie Dillard
* Creativity, Inc. - Ed Catmull
* Insane City - Dave Barry
* Moby Dick - Herman Melville
** The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe
* Hondo - Louis L'Amour
* The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen Hawking
* The Life and Adventures of Jack Engle - Walt Whitman
* A Man Called Ove - Fredrick Backman
* 1776 - David McCullough
** Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
* Moneyball - Michael Lewis
* SALT: A World History - Mark Kurlansky
* Chop Wood, Carry Water - Joshua Medcalf
* Stepping Up - David Rainey
Serafina and the Black Cloak - Robert Beatty
** Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
The Last Olympian - Rick Riordan
* Present over Perfect - Shauna Niequist
* Some Do Care - Anne Colby and William Damon
* Our Kids - Richard Putnam
* You are What You Love - James K.A, Smith
The Battle of the Labyrinth - Richard Riordan
* Perfect - John Wagner

Book List 2016 *means recommended

* Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
* Cure for the Common Life - Max Lucado
* How Will You Measure Your Life? - Clay Christensen
* Life's Golden Ticket - Brendon Burchard
Strong and Weak - Andy Crouch
* The Happiness Advantage - Shawn Achor
Doing Good is Simple - Chris Marlow
* Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown
* Travels with Charlie - John Steinbeck
The Red Pony - John Steinbeck
* Deliverance - James Dickey
Me Before You - JoJo Moyes
The Lightning Thief - Richard Riordan
The One Thing - Gary Keller
* The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories - Dorothy Sayers
Epic - John Eldridge
* Visions of Vocation - Steve Garber
* Telling the Truth - Frederick Buechner
** The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom
* Desiring the Kingdom - James K. A. Smith
* The Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
* Praus - Hunter Lambeth
* Quiet - Susan Cain
* Every Good Endeavor - Tim Keller
* Within the Walled City - Ginny Evans
* The Half-Blood Prince - JK Rowling

Book List 2015 (* means recommended)

Rising Strong - Brene Brown
Order of the Phoenix - J.K.Rowling
* The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
* The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
* The Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
* King's Cross - Tim Keller
* Being Mortal - Arul Gawande
* Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
* The Prisoner of Azkhaban - J.K.Rowling
* The Chamber of secrets - J.K. Rowling
* All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
* The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
* Learning to Walk in the Dark - Barbara Brown Taylor
** Let Your Life Speak - Parker Palmer
* The Practice of the Presence of God - Brother Lawrence
* The Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling
* Life of the Beloved - Henri Nouwen
* Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
Chasing Francis - Ian Morgan Cron
* Better - Atul Gawande
* The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
Seven Longings of the Human Heart - Mike Bickle and Deborah Hiebert
** Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope

Book List 2014 (*means recommended)

Invited - Roger Wernette
* The Gilded Leaf - Patrick Reynolds and Tom Shachtman
The Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Nietzsche
* Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain
** Daring Greatly - Brene Brown
Spiritual Rhythms in Community - Keith Meyer
Letters to a Young Life Leader - Bob Mitchell
** David v. Goliath - Macolm Gladwell
* Searching for God Knows What - Donald Miller
* Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
* Ruthless Trust - Brennan Manning
*I am Malala - Malala Yousafzai
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
* It's Always Something - Gilda Radner
** Silas Marner - George Eliot
A Loving Life - Paul E. Miller
* Susan Butcher and the Iditarod Trail - Ellen M. Dolan
* Walking with Arthur - Jim O'Donnell
*Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
*Younger Next Year - Chris Crowley and Henry Lodge
When Your Neighbor is the Savior - Botrus Mansour
*Speaking of Jesus - Carl Madearis
7 - Jen Hatmaker

Book List 2013 * means recommended

The Mystic Arts of the Ninja - Stephen K. Hayes
* In the Name of Jesus - Henri J.M. Nouwen
The Wayward Bus - John Steinbeck
* The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Parenting with Love and Logic - Foster Cline and Jim Fay
Wisdom Chaser - Nathan Foster
The Wapshot Chronicle - John Cheever
Sensing Jesus - Zack Eswine
* Unbroken - Lauren Hillenbrand
Paper Towns - John Green
Surfing for God - Michael John Cusick
* The Autobiography of Sir Edmund Hillary
* Palestinian Memories - Alex Awad
* Winnie The Pooh - A.A. Milne
* Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
* Jeruslam - Simon Montefiore
Luck of the Draw - Jack Tupper Daniels
* The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Diaries of Jim Rayburn - edited by Kit Sublett
** Don Quixote - Cervantes
* Love Does - Bob Goff

Book List 2012 * means recommended

Messy Spirituality - Michael Yaconelli
** Jayber Crow - Wendell Berry
* Memory of Old Jack - Wendell Berry
* The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
* Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
* What the Dog Saw - Malcolm Gladwell
* Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Shift - Brian Haynes
* Shrewd - Rick Lawrence
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
** Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Mary Pipher - Writing to Change the World
** The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
** Shane - Jack Schaefer
Humilitas - John Dickson
Chasing Fire - Suzanne Collins
* Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
* One Thousand Gifts - Ann Voskamp
The Afghan - Frederick Forsyth
* Story - Robert McKee
* Sifted - Rick Lawrence
The Lone Star Ranger - Zane Grey

Book List 2011 (In upside-down reading order) * highly recommended (I recommend them all!)

* Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey
* Little Bee - Chris Cleave
What is the Mission of the Church? - Kevin DeYoung and Gary Gilbert
* The Destiny of the Republic - Candice Millard
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
The Testament - John Grisham
* Born to Run - Christopher McDougall
A Slight Trick of the Mind - Mitch Cullin
* The View from Saturday - E.L. Konigsburg
* Dangerous Wonder - Michael Yaconelli
Miracles on Maple Hill - Virginia Sorensen
* A Year Down Yonder - Richard Peck
* The Higher Power of Lucky - Susan Patron
Criss Cross - Lynn Rae Perkins
* River of Doubt - Candice Millard
* The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
Rabbit Hill - Robert Lawson
* The Man Who Was Thursday - GK Chesterton
* Holes - Louis Sachar
Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon - Dhan Gopal Mukerji
* The Giver - Lois Lowry
* The Twenty-One Balloons - William Pene du Bois

Book List 2010 (In upside-down reading order) * means recommended

* Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
Many Waters - Madeleine L'Engle
The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
* Radical - David Platt
Tea with Hezbollah - Ted Dekker and Carl Medearis
The Poor Will Be Glad - Paul Greer & Phil Smith
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
* Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
* The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
* Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
Gentlemen of the Road - Michael Chabon
* Sinbad and other stories from the Arabian Nights - Husain Haddawy
**The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
* A Praying Life - Paul E. Miller
Orient Express - Graham Greene
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction - Eugene Peterson
* Breaking the Rules - Fil Anderson
**All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
Berenice - Ruth Jordan
Culture Clash - Dr. Mark A. Gabriel
* Open - Andre Agassi
* The King Will Make a Way - Lee Giles (My Sister)
* Home - Marilynne Robinson
* China Road - Rob Gifford

Book List 2009 (In upside-down reading order) *means recommended

*Baudolino - Umberto Eco
*The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
*A Single Shard - Linda Sue Park
*Illuminated - Matt Bronleewe
*The Furious Longing of God - Brennan Manning
*Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Two for the Dough - Janet Evanovich
*A Long and Happy Life - Reynolds Price
*Cup of Gold - John Steinbeck
One for the Money - Janet Evanovich
8 Modern Essayists - compiled by William Smart
Wicked - Gregory Maguire
The Copper Scroll - Joel Rosenberg
The Trumpet of the Swan - E.B. White
*Prodigal God - Tim Keller
*Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
Westminster Confession of Faith
*A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
American Lion - John Meacham
*Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
Operating Instructions - Ann Lamott

Book List 2008 (In upside-down reading order) *recommended

*A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
*King of Lies - John Hart
Trevayne - Robert Ludlum
God's Gold - Sean Kingsley
The Walking Drum - Louis L'amour
Wild at Heart - John Eldridge
The Sign and the Seal - Graham Hancock
*The Shack - William P. Young
*Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortnenson and David Oliver Relin
Playing for Pizza - John Grisham
Maybe a Miracle - Brian Strauss
*Prydain Chronicles - Lloyd Alexander
Samson and the Pirate Monks - Nate Larkin
*Mountains Beyond Mountains - Tracy Kidder
Teeth of the Tiger - Tom Clancy
*Second Coming - Walker Percy
*Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
**Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
Come to Grief - Dick Francis
*On Writing - Steven King