I know I can become prideful because I have read all thinkers Kersh mentioned and more. I’ve never read Young or Drucker but I’ve read others that fit into that category.

I have never confessed this outloud but somewhere along the line it became a matter of pride that “I have never read a Max Lucado book.” Don’t think I have ever read Charles Stanley or Chuck Swindoll either. Somewhere along the way I got it in my head that those guys books were ‘theology lite.’ and I was above/beyond/better than that.

I take my rebellion to the ‘Christian subculture’ to the extreme sometimes which only serves as a disservice to my own spiritual growth.

Sometimes we all need to lighten up, myself included. I try not to take myself to seriously but my hSELF/FLESh doesn’t always let that happen. It creeps in slowly though and it’s not until someone else speaks into my life and points out “Hey, your a creep!” do I realize it’s happened yet again.

Spiritual giants of the past read great scholarly works form all fields and genres. Today’s leaders inbreed their minds by reading each other’s workd and no new thinking skills or patterns develop.

Personally, it is hard for me to take a person serious is they refuse to have a grasp of the great philosophers like Renee Descartes, Tyler Durden, Emmanual Kant, Aristotle, Mark Twain, Johnathan Edwards and John Locke.

When anyone tells me he has finished reading the Daddy’e boy from Houston or the Peter Drucker marketer with a purpose, I automatically send them back to the same catagory as milk drinkers and pabulum eaters, not spiritual giants.

My Rant for the Day.