I shall be aliterate no more

I thought I'd provide you with resources so you may research for yourself some of those who are informing my  thoughts here.  These are amazing provocative pieces.  I am providing multimedia links in the hopes that these "teasers" will encourage you to  join me in resuming literary habits.  It's great, in this day and age, that there are so many means to appeal to multi-sensory input. If you simply cannot make time to read, at least there are audio/visual options to engage in learning and spiritual formation.  But, in my opinion, we ought to maintain the discipline of reading good books and engaging in critical discussion of ideas. 

I have been reading some really different kinds of books by people who are asking questions about the best way to follow Jesus in today's culture.  Check out the links below:
 
Skye Jethani, The Divine Commodity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV9Da5-DNwM

Francis Chan, Crazy Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvtNTUV9O50

David Platt, Radical Together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZfC7vAbte4

Philip Yancy, The Jesus I Never Knew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_2bFNISlVc

David Murrow, Why Men Hate Going to Church
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEGIy_Ms50I

John Eldredge, Wild at Heart (I apologize about the audio on this one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBEgrU90tbw

Henri Nouwen, The Wounded Healer
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004CWKKX4/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_3?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0232521026&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1Z96GY1F5QGY5G2ZFB7H

AW Tozer, The Pursuit of God
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocfm497wxKE