Puritan Challenge - Update

So, it's almost the end of March and how is the puritan challenge going? Well, if you were to base your impression solely on my blog posts, you would assume not very quickly. And you would be right.

I definitely fell off track in regards to my reading. This was for numerous reasons but mostly poor time management (i.e. video games) and laziness in taking notes or posting about what I was reading. So, it's the end of the third month of the challenge and I only have one book done. Now in fairness, I didn't start until the end of January, so I am really only a month behind. However, I haven't really posted on or fully digested even the first book I read, "The Bruised Reed". Things certainly are not going to get easier either as I start up grad class again next week at Drexel.

So, the current plan is to start the book for next month at the beginning of the month, and as time allows to finish processing the first book. I hope to make these puritan paperbacks the focus of my self-organized reading and not to get distracted with other unread books on my shelf. Also, I will probably be switching up my posting style as well. Trying to write a comprehensive summary on every chapter is daunting and time consuming. Instead, I will be aiming to grab an applicable point or thought from a chapter, a supporting quote and Scripture, a quick summary and a question or point of application for myself.

This should make the posts easier to digest and to write and should make them more attractive and helpful for me to review at a later date.

Edit: Update - To clarify, the next book in the Puritan Challenge is "The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment" by Jeremiah Burroughs. This is a change in the reading schedule I posted a month ago which came about because the original book scheduled for April was widely out of stock for awhile.