Our Rediscover Reading List
- The Bookery
- Apr 11
- 3 min read
Five books that promote rediscovery, from refocusing on what’s most important to developing deep relationships, becoming more like Christ and more!
“Rediscover” is our Spring 2025 theme here at The Bookery, and we’ll definitely be delving into a few books that help us dig into that idea. While “rediscovery” can mean a lot of things—from finding that missing set of keys to the match to that orphan sock—our focus is rediscovering lost or forgotten truths or realizations that have deep meaning and purpose.
With that in mind, here are a few of the books we’re adding to our reading list this spring.
Bob Goff
In this 2022 release, New York Times bestselling author Bob Goff returns with Undistracted, an examination of all the ways the world distracts us from living with purpose and passion—and invites us to laugh, dream and love with intention. Goff calls us to live with undistracted purpose and encourages us to live attentively by rediscovering our joy and recognizing what’s most important.
Jen Wilkin & J.T. English
This spring is the perfect time to rediscover theology. Like most of us in the pews, you’ve probably said something along the lines of, “But I’m not a theologian.” Well, the fact is, as a Christ follower, you are a theologian. Theology is simply the study of God and his ways–and ss Jen Wilkin and J.T. English posit in You Are a Theologian, the goal of theology is simply knowing and loving God well. Theology doesn’t have to mean reading huge tomes full of big words and ideas you don’t understand. It can start with reading this book and delving into some of the theological questions we all ask and work through as we come to and grow in our faith.
Russ Ramsey
God is a Creator, so somehow, in the act of creation—writing, drawing, designing, bringing something from nothing—we are in some way reflecting his character. Russ Ramsey’s latest, Rembrandt Is In the Wind invites us to take a look at some of the world’s most celebrated artists to discover how their work reveals important truths about God and ourselves. The stories don’t all end happily ever after, but they do encourage us to examine what it looks like to live for our own glory rather than God’s and encourage us to seek and love beauty.
David Brooks
One of our favorite things about God is that he fully knows and sees us for who we are. As humans, that’s our desire, to be fully seen and known, but we often fall short of that goal in our relationships with others. The reality is, you’re not going to develop deep relationships with everyone who happens to cross your path, but you do need some relationships with depth. In this How to Know a Person, David Brooks explores the process and need for making that kind of deep connection, delving into psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, theater and more along the way. This pick is a way for us to rediscover the importance of relationships and create space for those who feel misunderstood, overlooked and forgotten in our lives.
John Mark Comer
As believers, we can easily “hold on to a form of godliness but deny its power,” meaning we appear righteous, holy and religious, but we’re just going through the motions. It’s a dangerous place to be, frankly, but, sometimes, we become so familiar with the activities and actions of our faith that we sleepwalk through them rather than pursuing Christ. Our journeys of faith will have their ups and downs, for sure, but John Mark Comer’s latest, Practicing the Way, invites us to let our lives and hearts be formed by Jesus, rather than the world and its values. Comer focuses on the “Rule of Life,” a set of practices and principles that guided the earliest Christians to see how rearranged our lives and priorities can help us look more like Christ.
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