Do you belong to a book club? There are lots around. Their goal is to read worthwhile novels and then meet to discuss important themes and ideas brought to life through such books.  Libraries, including Cloverdale Public Library, cater to such groups, making kits available. You can sign them out, sharing the books with your club members. Everyone reads and once a month or so the group meets for a lively, in-depth discussion.

Book clubs are helping to revive interest in worthwhile literature. Thankfully, such books are still being written today. And these clubs can always return to the Classics and challenge their members to read the books they’ve always meant to read, but never did—books such as The Brothers Karamozov  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky or The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

I’m all in favour of reading good books, but I’m convinced that the very best thing we can all do is read the best book, The Bible. You don’t need to read it by yourself. Come to church, where every Sunday this life-giving Book is explained and proclaimed in all its power and glory. There you can join a “book club,” a Bible study group that will help you understand what God is saying to you. It will be a life changing experience--guaranteed.

But these [words] are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name (John 20:21).

                                                                                                by Sarah Vandergugten