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  • 3 Types of Book Reviews

    Up until now, I’ve mainly only done two kinds of reviews. Originally it was only one, but it slowly evolved into two, and so it’s only natural to move on to a third category. Here’s the rundown on what I’ll be doing from now on. Critical Reviews My initial foray into reviews was primarily critical…

  • How Goodreads Meddles With My Reading Habits

    If you’re like me, you’re a list maker. Also, you like to read. Given those two attributes, you naturally probably use Goodreads. Right now, I predominantly use it to track my reading. I will also occasionally blurb a review on there when I finish a book that I don’t plan on fully reviewing here. And…

  • Philosophy: A Student’s Guide

    Recently, I’ve been killing it with eBooks. Like I commented on Twitter, I’m usually feast or famine. If I’m reading 1 eBook (using the Kindle app on my iPad) then I’m probably reading a dozen. I had the idea that instead of reviewing the books as I finish them (since I usually only review print…

  • Hearing The Message of Scripture: A Commentary on The OT

    Not too long ago, but in various times and various ways, I lamented that there was no Old Testament counterpart to Zondervan’s Exegetical Commentary on the NT. There are good commentaries from a technical point of view and good commentaries for application, but there wasn’t really anything on par with the ZECNT series. That is,…

  • On The Reading and Reviewing of Books (There is No End)

    Over the next several weeks, I’m going to be posting occasional thoughts on the art of reading and reviewing. Lately, I’ve been using the Drafts app on my iPhone to capture short ideas that I have for blog posts. As I’m looking through them, I see that many cluster around how I approach reading and…

  • Why I Don’t Give Many 5-Star Ratings

    Earlier in the week, I thought now would be a good time to explain why I don’t rate more books 5-stars. I mean read a lot. And because I track my reading with Goodreads,[ref]Though useful, I actually don’t really like Goodreads as a reading tool. I’ll have to explain this in another post[/ref] almost every…

  • Building A Theological Library: The Gospels and Acts

    Last week, I introduced the New Testament portion of the Building A Theological Library series. Just to reiterate, these are my preferences and what make up my library (for the most part). There are definitely some great resources I’ve overlooked. What I’m trying to do here is give you what I typically look for, and in…

  • Building A Theological Library: New Testament Commentaries

    Several months back, almost 6 to be precise, I finished up a series on building a theological library focused on Old Testament commentaries. I had meant to carry right on to the New, but one thing lead to another, and well here we are picking up the NT many months later. Much like I did…

  • Summer Books for Sale

    It’s that time of year. The time when you look at your book shelves and think, “I need to make some room for some new books!” Actually, it’s more, “Hey, there’s a bunch of books here that I don’t need/want, maybe I should liquidate them” (and maybe buy some new books). In all seriousness, I…

  • An Adjustment To My Kingdom Through Covenant Review

    A while back, I posted a review of Peter Gentry and Stephen Wellum’s Kingdom Through Covenant. Dr. Gentry actually responded to me via e-mail inquiring about my review and about the evidence I had in favor my assessment that he was “almost entirely wrong” when it came to the ritual in Genesis 15. Here is…