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  • Want A Free Copy of Gospel Fluency? Join CaPC

    At the end of February, Jeff Vanderstelt’s follow up to Saturate was released. The book, Gospel Fluency, might seem to be yet another “gospely” book in an otherwise saturated market (sorry). However, as a reviewer at TGC noted, “Gospel Fluency is the book we didn’t know we were missing from the gospel-centered canon.” The subtitles…

  • 2017 Reading Challenge: January Update

    It’s hard to believe we are already a month into 2017. Time flies when you’re having fun I guess. Unlike last year, I’m not going to reproduce the entire list of the 2017 Reading Challenge each month. Instead, I’ll just offer a quick blurb on each book I read. I’ll also note whether the book…

  • 4 Steps to a Well-Educated Mind

    One of the most influential books I read is Susan Wise Bauer’s The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to The Classical Education You Never Had.* It’s been about 10 years since I read the first edition, and now there’s a slightly updated and expanded version.** I decided to revisit this newer version and will post some…

  • 2016 Reading Challenge: October Update

    October was a month about getting back in the groove. It took the better part of the month, but I think I’ve finally gotten into a good flow. In a rare turn of events, I even had an entire weekend where I was mostly at home and mostly reading. It was also almost fall for…

  • Reading Roundup: Reformation, Temple, Art, and Anti-Christian Bias

    Tim Challies used to introduce his New Books of Note posts with a brief disclaimer about receiving many books from publishers and not having time to review them all. Consider this a similar intro, and will probably appear at the beginning of each post in this series. I decided I’m going to do these in batches…

  • 2016 Reading Challenge: September Update

    September turned into a busier and more distracting month than I anticipated. I still read a fair amount, finishing the books listed below and making progress on several others for the Tim Challies Reading Challenge. I’m working toward being more focused in general for my reading (pretty sure I said that last month too). I’m behind…

  • Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

    On Saturday, I did something I haven’t done in a while. I started a decent size book (250+ pg), and finished it the same day. I started off doing my usual, which is to say, reading a chapter in about 5-6 different books. But, when I started the chapter in Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a…

  • Thomas McCall’s Response to EFS and 15 Theses on Trinitarian Theology

    Shortly before there was a sudden resurgence of interest in Trinitarian theology, I had been reading Thomas McCall’s Which Trinity? Whose Monotheism? Philosophical and Systematic Theologians on the Metaphysics of Trinitarian Theology. You know, just light beach reading. The book covers a lot of ground in its 250 or so pages. The first section gives…

  • Zondervan Gospels eBooks Sale Through Thursday

    Every now and then, I’ll agree to do a post like this. Rather than noticing this sale on my own, I was told about in advance and received a few books in exchange for taking some time to tell you about this pretty stellar deal. That’s a pretty fair deal when it comes right down…

  • What Christians Ought to Believe and Analytic Christian Theology

    Well, Mike Bird has done it again. “It” meaning “written a book.” This time it is a primer on The Apostles’ Creed, aptly title What Christians Ought to Believe, and Zondervan was kind enough to send me a copy. In just over 200 pages Bird introduces readers to the creed, explains why you need it,…