But there is more to reading than the Word alone. There is the very discipline of reading and, I might add, what we read. I am a writer and I have some deep struggles in the Christian faith. It is not with my faith, but with the way I see it abused and, if you will, treated as something trite and shallow by those who claim to be believers. There are books by the score on the shelves of Christian bookstores. Check them out. What do they point to? Is it to the nobler and higher and richer truths of God, or is it to more of ourselves? Thankfully the nobler and higher truths are there, but for the
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