My birthday was last week. And, as birthdays go, I got some pretty decent birthday money. So, what did I do with it? Buy an iPod? Surround sound? A bluetooth earpiece? Heck no. I bought some books. And they are:

• The Mediation of Christ by Thomas Forsyth Torrance
• Principles of Lutheran Theology by Carl E. Braaten
• A Community Called Atonement by Scot McKnight
• Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense by N.T. Wright
• Systematic Theology: Volume 1: The Triune God by Robert W. Jenson
• The Peaceable Kingdom by Stanley Hauerwas
• Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith by Rob Bell
• The Resurrection of the Son of God by N. T. Wright
• The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann
• Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work by Eugene H. Peterson
• The Gospel in a Pluralist Society by Lesslie Newbigin

Of course, I didn’t spend all my birthday money on books. I guess I could though…