Nate's Book List

Title	Author	Date	Genre
Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy	2004	Classic
New Spring	Robert Jordan	2004	Fantasy
The Abolition of Man	C.S. Lewis	2004	Apologetic
Murder on the Orient Express	Agatha Christie	2004	Mystery
The Man Who Was Thursday	G.K. Chesterton	2004	Fantasy
Intercessory Prayer	Dutch Sheets	2004	Christian
Crossroads of Twilight	Robert Jordan	2004	Fantasy
Teeth of the Tiger	Tom Clancy	2004	Fiction
When Character Was King	Peggy Noonan	2004	Biography
The Da Vinci Code	Dan Brown	2004	Fiction
Light in the Shadow of Jihad	Ravi Zacharias	2004	Apologetic
God’s Gift to Women	Eric Ludy	2004	Christian
The Poet’s Homecoming	George MacDonald	2004	Fiction
Angels & Demons	Dan Brown	2004	Fiction
With Fire and Sword	Henryk Sienkiewicz	2004	Historical Fiction
The Professor and the Madman	Simon Winchester	2004	History
The Purpose Driven Life	Rick Warren	2004	Christian
A Grief Observed	C.S. Lewis	2004	Apologetic
The Deluge (Volume I)	Henryk Sienkiewicz	2005	Historical Fiction
Red Rabbit	Tom Clancy	2005	Fiction
A Farewell to Arms	Ernest Hemingway	2005	Classic
The Deluge (Volume II)	Henryk Sienkiewicz	2005	Historical Fiction
The Jungle	Upton Sinclair	2005	Classic
The Hound of Baskervilles	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	2005	Mystery
Who Put Jesus on the Cross	A.W. Tozer	2005	Apologetic
Redeeming Love	Francine Rivers	2005	Fiction
Orthodoxy	G.K. Chesterton	2005	Biography
Prince Caspian	C.S. Lewis	2005	Fantasy
Peace Like a River	Leif Engel	2005	Fiction
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	2005	Classic
I, Isaac, Take Thee Rebekah	Ravi Zacharias	2005	Apologetic
When Dreams Come True	Eric and Leslie Ludy	2005	Christian
The First American	H.W. Brands	2005	Biography
Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret	Mrs. Howard Taylor	2005	Biography
What’s So Great About America	Dinesh D’Souza	2005	Apologetic
Redwall	Brian Jacques	2005	Fantasy
Deliver Us From Evil (Audio Book)	Sean Hannity	Jan-06	Apologetic
Through Gates of Splendor	Elisabeth Elliot	Jan-06	History
In the Meantime	Rob Brendel	Mar-06	Christian
Blue Like Jazz	Donald Miller	Mar-06	Apologetic
Wizard’s First Rule	Terry Goodkind	Apr-06	Fantasy
J.R.R. Tolkien: A biography	Humphrey Carpenter	May-06	Biography
They Killed My Father First	Loung Ung	May-06	History
Prison to Praise	Merlin Carouthers	Jun-06	Christian
The Hiding Place	Corrie Ten boom	Jun-06	Biography
Slight Edge	Jeff Olson	Jun-06	Self-Help
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership	John C. Maxwell	Jul-06	Self-Help
Affabel (Audio Book)	John Bevere	Jul-06	Fantasy
Thunder of Heaven	Ted Dekker	Jul-06	Fiction
Cheese, Art and Beyond: A Novel of Brazil	Carl G. Thor	Aug-06	Fiction
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Audio Book)	Stephen R. Covey	Aug-06	Self-Help
The Martyr’s Song	Ted Dekker	Aug-06	Fiction
Life Unlimited	John Bolin	Aug-06	Apologetic
The Lady’s Confession	George MacDonald	Oct-06	Fiction
Fight Like A Girl	Lisa Bevere	Nov-06	Apologetic
A Voice in the Wind	Francine Rivers	Nov-06	Fiction
Captivating	John & Stasi Eldredge	Nov-06	Apologetic
The Rule of Four	Caldwell & Thomason	Dec-06	Fiction
An Echo in the Darkness	Francine Rivers	Dec-06	Fiction
Thre3	Ted Dekker	Dec-06	Fiction
Don’t Waste Your Life	John Piper	Jan-07	Apologetic
David Livingstone: From Africa to Eternity	Sam Wellman	Jan-07	Biography
How to Win Friends and Influence People	Dale Carnegie	Jan-07	Self-Help
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt	Edmund Morris	Jan-07	Biography
The Tipping Point	Malcom Caldwell	Feb-07	Economics
Lincoln on Leadership	Donald T. Phillips	Feb-07	History
Today Matters	John C. Maxwell	Mar-07	Self-Help
Boy Meets Girl	Joshua Harris	Mar-07	Christian
Theodore Rex	Edmund Morris	May-07	Biography
The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World	Stephen J. Nichols	May-07	History
Rich Dad, Poor Dad	Robert Kiyosaki	Aug-07	Business
Les Miserables	Victor Hugo	Aug-07	Classic
The Prince	Niccolo Machiavelli	Aug-07	Classic
The Invisible Man	H.G. Wells	Aug-07	Classic
The Iliad	Homer	Aug-07	Classic
The Stone of Tears	Terry Goodkind	Sep-07	Fantasy
A Severe Mercy	Sheldon Vanauken	Nov-07	Biography
Blood of the Fold	Terry Goodkind	Dec-07	Fantasy
Temple of the Winds	Terry Goodkind	Dec-07	Fantasy
Freakonomics	Steven J. Levitt	Jan-08	Economics
In, But Not Of	Hugh Hewitt	Jan-08	Self-Help
In God’s Underground	Richard Wurmbrand	Feb-08	Biography
Courage that Changed the World	Rick Joyner	Mar-08	History
The Crusades	Franklin Hamilton	Mar-08	History
Charles Dickens, The Last of the Great Men	G.K. Chesterton	Mar-08	Biography
The Gift of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels	Thomas Cahill	Mar-08	History
Gates of Fire	Steven Pressfield	Mar-08	Historical Fiction
In the Name of Jesus	Henri J.M. Nouwen	Mar-08	Christian
Revolution	George Barna	Mar-08	Christian
Soul of Fire	Terry Goodkind	Apr-08	Fantasy
How the Irish Saved Civilization	Thomas Cahill	May-08	History
A History of the English Speaking Peoples: The Birth of Britain	Winston Churchill	Jun-08	History
Faith of the Fallen	Terry Goodkind	Jun-08	Fantasy
Mere Christianity	C.S. Lewis	Jun-08	Apologetic
Leading with a Limp	Dan B. Allender, PhD.	Jul-08	Apologetic
No Doubt About It	Winfried Corduan	Jul-08	Apologetic
Knowing God	J.I. Packer	Jul-08	Apologetic
The Gospel According to Jesus	John F. MacArthur, Jr.	Jul-08	Apologetic
One Thing You Can't Do in Heaven	Mark Cahill	Oct-08	Christian
The Four Loves	C.S. Lewis	Oct-08	Apologetic
You Are the Message	Roger Ailes	Nov-08	Self-Help
The Victors	Stephen Ambrose	Nov-08	Audiobook
The Horse and His Boy	C.S. Lewis	Nov-08	Fantasy
The Last Jihad	Joel C. Rosenberg	Dec-08	Fiction
Two Nations Under God	Tom Doyle	Dec-08	Current Affairs
Epicenter	Joel C. Rosenberg	Jan-09	Current Affairs
The Last Days	Joel C. Rosenberg	Jan-09	Fiction
A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity	Bill O'Reilly	Jan-09	Autobiography
The Children of Hurin	J.R.R. Tolkien	Jan-09	Fantasy

A Black & White Reflection

The snow is blowing outside and the house creaks with each gust that sweeps across the western plain. My family left a few minutes ago, bundled securely into the blue 15-passenger van as they vanished into the white.

A quiet house, a snow storm, and the promise of prolonged solitude. This is a heavenly recipe for me to rendezvous with my Savior and my God...

An unfamiliar song plays over the laptop on the oak desk in the corner... "...MY love is over... it's underneath... it's inside... it's in between... the times you doubt ME, when you cant hear, the times that you question 'is this for real?', the times you're broken, the times you mend, the times you hate ME and the times you bend..." (Tenth Avenue North)

The house has a chill to it that makes me glad of my long underwear and wool pants. My socks have long since been discarded in the middle of the room. I've a pile of books waiting to be read and much I look forward to doing over the next 24 hours.

I wandered across the living room to stand for a bit at the fireplace. I've only been home for a few hours, but I've made this trip at least a dozen times already to warm up my extremities. This time it was different...

In the middle of the mantle I found myself looking at a family, not unlike my own. A family inseparably knit, intricately woven with my own.

It took me a few moments to sift through the cobwebs of my memory to recall who it was staring back at me, captured in black and white upon the mantle piece. They appeared so real... I am sure they could see me just as I saw them. They are watching me from across the room even now. I felt that if I could get around the edge a bit, I'd be able to see into the room in which they sat...

My first thought was probably this, that "these people are all dead." It's a humbling thing to look into the eyes of a young family, the three small children bracketed by a young husband and wife, the wife as lovely as her husband handsome. A good looking bunch. Smooth skinned all. In fact, but for a few points of style in what they were wearing and the father's prodigious mustache they might have been our neighbors here in the 21st century. The kids could have been friends with Samuel and Macy. Right there in front of me.

I wonder what the mother and father were thinking about as the bulb flashed and my window into their lives snapped shut? What did the kids do after the camera was no longer trained on them? Were they hungry? What issues were pressing in their lives? Concerns? What did they have going on that afternoon? What were you speaking to them, O God? Did they hear you? What was the weather like? What made them laugh? What made them cry? What did they burn for?

The little round cheeked girl on the left, leaning on her daddy's strong right shoulder. That is Great Grandma Evelyn. Born in 1900, she might be two in the photograph. I'm dating the picture at about 1902. When she passed away a few years ago, she was 104, the last person in the photograph now gone.

The painting that hangs on the wall above the photograph is that of God's hand reaching out to Adam, a recreation of Michelangelo's masterpiece on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel...

Grandpa Gene looks at my on the wall above this laptop. His life has been spent. He now celebrates his 3rd year in eternity.

Man searches for significance and meaning in this breath of a life he is given.

What is the measure of a life well lived? God, help me to live my zero life in such a way as to bring You glory.