Summer is a great time to catch up on reading. So this is what I’m working on this summer (in addition to the Ruth commentaries for the summer sermon series):

Books I have started, are close to done and should be finished:

J.R. Daniel Kirk, Unlocking Romans

Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

Phil Zylla, The Roots of Sorrow: A Pastoral Theology of Suffering

Darrell Johnson, Discipleship on the Edge: An Expository Journey Through the Book of Revelation

Frank Matera, God’s Saving Grace: A Pauline Theology

N.T. Wright, The New Testament and the People of God

Preston Sprinkle, Fight

Some stuff that on the go, that I will be on the go for the foreseeable future, but I’d like to make some progress in:

N.T. Wright, Jesus and the Victory of God & Paul and the Faithfulness of God

E.P. Sanders, Paul and Palestinian Judaism

Michael P. Knowles, We Preach Not Ourselves: Paul on Proclamation 

And some stuff I’ve added to my library which I’d like to start into:

Michael Gorman, Reading Revelation Responsibly

Richard Hays, The Moral Vision of the New Testament

Brian Zahnd, A Farewell to Mars

And the introductions to my commentaries on James (Moo, McKnight, Davids, & Johnson) in preparation for the fall’s sermon series