In the Library: Books and Reading with Ray Galea

Ray Galea

Ray Galea is the Lead Pastor at St Alban’s Multicultural Bible Ministry in Rooty Hill. Ray loves his wife, Sandy, his three children, eating Middle Eastern food, listening to Bob Dylan, and watching films set in New York. And he especially loves being reminded that God is enough.

TGCA – What books are currently on your bedside table?

The Story of Christianity Vol 1, Justo L Gonzalez

The Love of God, Gerald Bray

TGCA – What was the last book you left unfinished?

Total Truth Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity, Nancy Pearcey

TGCA – What’s a book you feel guilty for not reading?

Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

TGCA – Do you read commentaries straight-through or dip-in?

Section by section

TGCA – What’s a book that someone needs to write?

The Relationship between Wisdom and wisdom

TGCA – What books did you/do you read to your children?

The Bible, Narnia, Where the wild things are.

Tugutil

TGCA – What was the last book you gave as a present?

Tugitil, John Sharpe

TGCA – What book made a big impact on you during adolescence?

Serpico, Peter Maas

TGCA – Best biography you’ve read?

Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas

TGCA – What 10 books would you take to a desert island?

Bible
How Long O Lord, D.A. Carson
A Call to Spiritual Reformation, D.A. Carson
Knowing God, J.I. Packer
The Cross of Christ, J. Stott
Institutes, Calvin
A Theological dictionary
Dictonary of NT theology Vol 1-3, ed. Brown
Desiring God, J. Piper
The Everlasting God, B. Knox

TGCA – What was the last book that made you angry?

The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins

TGCA – Is there a book that you wish you’d written?

The Cross of Christ, John Stott

TGCA – Most overrated book?

The God Delusion, Dawkins

TGCA – What’s your favourite time and place to read?

Day off; morning; at Macdonalds.

TGCA – What’s your favourite poem?

Creed, by Steve Turner

TGCA – What’s a book on church leadership you think everyone should read and why?

Wisdom in Leadership, Craig Hamilton

TGCA – Which book, apart from the Bible, has most shaped your approach to ministry?

How Long O Lord, D.A. Carson

Ray Galea is pastor of the Multicultural Bible Ministry (MBM) Rooty Hill and married to Sandy with three children. He came to Christ in 1980 at age 20 and went from altar boy of the Catholic Church to pastor of the Anglican Church down the road in Rooty Hill. He worked as a marriage and family therapist before entering Moore Theological College and church planted and pastored MBM since leaving college.