Category: Book Bites
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The Dangers of Seminary and Some Post-Graduation Pastoral Solutions
A while back, I mentioned that Paul Tripp’s Dangerous Calling is a book for people who like lists. We looked at his diagnosis of how a pastor descends into disaster. In the third chapter of the book, Tripp presents several downsides of “academized Christianity” which is an unnecessary byproduct of getting a thorough seminary education.…
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8 Criteria For Worldview Evaluations
In his Christian Apologetics (which remember is under $5 on Kindle), Douglas Groothuis presents 8 criteria for evaluating worldviews. Though not a presuppositionalist himself, and he explains (unconvincingly) why on 62-64, this kind of worldview evaluations is very presuppositional. According to Groothuis, “the best method of apologetic reasoning is hypothesis evaluation and verification” (49). Toward that…
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9 Reasons We Need The Gospels
If you remember, I used my Westminster gift certificate to order Jonathan Pennington’s Reading The Gospels Wisely: A Narrative and Theological Introduction (along with these others). In chapter 3, “Why Do We Need The Gospels? (or Why Saint Paul Is Not Enough)” Pennington gives us 9 reasons we need the Gospel narratives (38-48): They have been…
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Narnia, Muggles, and Hobbits, Oh My!
Consider this a kind of counterpoint to yesterday’s post. To keep my reading well balanced and enjoyable, I’m also reading several fiction classics. Rather than do that alone, I’m part of a Facebook group put together by Mathew Sims (that shares a name with this post’s title) that is reading The Chronicles of Narnia, The…
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6 Big Books I’m Plodding Through This Year
I learned my lesson from last year. Instead of 13 books I’m planning to read through, here are 6 books on the larger side that I’m “plodding” through: Foundations of Soul Care: A Christian Psychology Proposal by Eric L. Johnson A Puritan Theology and Meet the Puritans Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith…
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Reading Theology Together: The Holy Trinity
If you remember this time last year, we started reading John Frame’s Doctrine of The Knowledge of God in my trial run of a Marturo Reading Group. Now that the New Year is upon us, it’s time to start a new book and this time we’re reading Robert Letham’s The Holy Trinity: In Scripture, History,…
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Zondervan Counterpoints eBook Sale: Everything Under $7
Because you’ve probably got Christmas money that needs to be put to use, Zondervan has all of their Counterpoints series on Kindle for under $7: Four Views on Moving Beyond the Bible to Theology Are Miraculous Gifts for Today?: 4 Views Five Views on Law and Gospel Three Views on the Millennium and Beyond Three…
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The 12 Books I Planned To Read in 2012 And The Lesson Learned
About a year ago, I let you know about 12 books I planned to read in 2012. All of them were rather substantial 500+ page works, and in hindsight, it was a bit aggressive to plan so far in advance. In case you forgot the original list, here it is again: The Theology of Jonathan…
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The Top 12 Posts of 2012
Tuesday, I shared the 12 best books I read in 2012. As the year winds down, it seems about the right time to share what the 12 top posts of 2012 were. After screening out static pages and pages that were clearly being accessed by my students for class materials, here’s what was most visited:…
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The 12 Best Books I Read In 2012
In case you haven’t been paying attention, I’ve done quite a bit of reading this past year. Just how much, you might ask. Well, unlike last year, I didn’t put together a comprehensive list. I did however, pick my 12 favorite reads. I’ve seen some other lists floating around online (like here, here, and here), but my list…